Manilaboy40 From Philippines, joined Jun 2008, 6 posts, RR: 0 Posted (3 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2264 times:
" Should Asias 1st and most experienced airline upgrade it's Las Vegas fleet to the current A340-300 to an A340-500...I think so, given the huge amount of passengers that it carries on it's 4 day a week flight from Manila via Vancouver...It should also increase it's flight to at least 5X a week..."
AirAmericaC46 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 590 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (3 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2209 times:
I would like to see PR 747-400 to LAS. Is PR substituting 744 to LAS when A343 is on maintenance?
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 18460 posts, RR: 17 Reply 2, posted (3 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2194 times:
Quoting Manilaboy40 (Thread starter): Should Asias 1st and most experienced airline upgrade it's Las Vegas fleet from the current A340-300 to an A340-500...I think so, given the huge amount of passengers that it carries on it's 4 day a week flight from Manila via Vancouver...It should also increase it's flight to at least 5X a week..
I believe PR's MNL-YVR-LAS sesrvice is already 5 per week and has been for quite a while. At least that's what Amadeus currently shows.
Manilaboy40 From Philippines, joined Jun 2008, 6 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (3 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 2179 times:
"As far as I know there is only 4X a week, which is tue.,thur., sat. and sunday...Also, I have not see a Boeing 747-400 used on PR 106 or PR 107 flights...They have a fleet of about 6 of these type I think, so they just rotate them when one is on maintenance, hope this answers the question..."
Manilaboy40 From Philippines, joined Jun 2008, 6 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (3 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 2131 times:
"They do have the Boeing 777-300ER on order, but I'm not sure if it will be used for the Las Vegas route...I think it's more for the SFO/LAX route to alternate with the 747-400!"
StarAlliance38 From United States of America, joined Jan 2008, 1445 posts, RR: 4 Reply 6, posted (3 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 2121 times:
When will PAL come to JFK or something? I hope they'll come to the east coast soon . Kinda wanna go back home
Burnsie28 From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 7216 posts, RR: 10 Reply 7, posted (3 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days ago) and read 2119 times:
Quoting Manilaboy40 (Thread starter): Las Vegas fleet to the current A340-300 to an A340-500...I think so, given the huge amount of passengers that it carries on it's 4 day a week flight from Manila via Vancouver
1. they don't have any A345's
2. I have flown this route a couple years ago, most of the passengers between LAS and YVR are either Canadians or American's. The stop over allows them to sell seats between YVR and LAS.
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Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 18460 posts, RR: 17 Reply 8, posted (3 years 11 months 2 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 2110 times:
Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 2): Quoting Manilaboy40 (Thread starter):
Should Asias 1st and most experienced airline upgrade it's Las Vegas fleet from the current A340-300 to an A340-500...I think so, given the huge amount of passengers that it carries on it's 4 day a week flight from Manila via Vancouver...It should also increase it's flight to at least 5X a week..
I believe PR's MNL-YVR-LAS sesrvice is already 5 per week and has been for quite a while. At least that's what Amadeus currently shows.
Quoting Manilaboy40 (Reply 3): As far as I know there is only 4X a week, which is tue.,thur., sat. and sunday...
Even PR's own website shows 5 per week, the days you mention plus Friday.
And likely won't given that other carriers are disposing of theirs due to those being uneconomical. Still, it's intriguing to think about how cheap an airline should/could acquire a used frame (say from TG).....
.....and the required load factor, for it to be a viable proposition during these crazy fuel price escalation times. I too, don't think a LAS-MNL nonstop would be profitable. Firstly, does PR have the werewithal? Then, there's the Cat II downgrade to tackle.
Leskova From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 6075 posts, RR: 77 Reply 11, posted (3 years 11 months 2 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 2071 times:
Quoting HOONS90 (Reply 10): Wouldn't an A340-500 carry the same (or possibly even less?) amount of passengers as an A340-300?
The -500 is slightly larger than the -300 (67.9m compared to 63.6m), so it should be capable of, at the very least, flying a larger amount of passengers over the same distances... though I'd be extremely surprised if it couldn't carry that larger amount of passengers over larger distances as well.
Rockinflyer From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 216 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (3 years 11 months 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2046 times:
Has anyone got any updates on when the service to SAN may begin. I've read its basically a done deal, but when?
StarAlliance38 From United States of America, joined Jan 2008, 1445 posts, RR: 4 Reply 15, posted (3 years 11 months 2 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 1990 times:
Quoting DEVILFISH (Reply 14): Quoting Manilaboy40 (Reply 13):
"What's SAN? not sure what airport code is that...
Seriously? Put your cursor over the underlined code and you'll see.
San Diego?! Really! Why SAN. They should try for SFO, or better yet, somewhere on the East Coast! I would like to see PAL in IAD . If they do get to the east coast. their best bet might be JFK, but its so congested. I wouldn't mind seeing PAL in ORD either. There are mnay Filipinos (like myself) that would like to go back home and normally, its by NWA. I love NWA, but if PAL somes into play, many people might opt PAL instead. If you take NWA, the gateway cites are mainly DTW, MSP, MEM, and I've seen some ORD flights for Asia. Normally, you would then connect in NRT or KIX. While other passengers connect to other flights, most of the pax stay around the gate area because they use the same plane to proceed unto MNL. If PAL comes to the east coast, it would probably direct to MNL. There are many Filipinos in NYC, Florida, DC/MD/VA area, and ORD that would be a propective market if PAL comes on this side.
Manilaboy40 From Philippines, joined Jun 2008, 6 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (3 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1906 times:
"Nice shot of the A340-300 LAS 1930 departure on tuesday, June 10th...For some reason, PR 107 is the only airline that gets send to this runway so I'm always alone here when I take the pictures...!"
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