B707Stu From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 918 posts, RR: 4 Posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2390 times:
AA5306 is showing diverting today to BGR, Why? It's a STL-EWR flight, very odd and in light that BGR is used for potential 'security' issues, WHY is this flight showing diverted to BGR?
Airport: St Louis, MO Newark, NJ
Diverted to BGR
Scheduled Time: 7:00 AM, Jun 05 10:23 AM, Jun 05
Actual Time: 7:24 AM, Jun 05 (Estimated) 11:16 AM, Jun 05 (Estimated)
Status: Delayed
Please contact airline for additional information.
Equipment: E135
B707Stu From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 918 posts, RR: 4 Reply 1, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2382 times:
Now something even stranger. It's show back to EWR, just 5 minutes later.
What happened here?
Airport: St Louis, MO Newark, NJ
Scheduled Time: 7:00 AM, Jun 05 10:23 AM, Jun 05
Actual Time: 7:24 AM, Jun 05 10:14 AM, Jun 05 (Estimated)
Status: In air at an altitude of 37000 feet with a ground speed of 465KTS
Equipment: E145
TymnBalewne From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 912 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2334 times:
** AA - AMERICAN AIRLINES **
AA5306/05JUN
CHAUTAUQUA AIRLINES
STL 0700 C17
EWR A 34 1023
4STL/OUT0705 OFF0723 *0729
2EWR/ETA1034 *0729
Perhaps a glitch of some sort...AA flifo doesn't seem to show any diversion.
B707Stu From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 918 posts, RR: 4 Reply 3, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2330 times:
Now it's showing diverted again! What is going on here?
American Airlines flight number 5306 (AA5306) This flight is diverted.
Departure Arrival
Airport: St Louis, MO Newark, NJ
Diverted to BGR
Scheduled Time: 7:00 AM, Jun 05 10:23 AM, Jun 05
Actual Time: 8:38 AM, Jun 05 12:15 PM, Jun 05 (Estimated)
Status: In air with a ground speed of 429KTS
Equipment: E135
B707Stu From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 918 posts, RR: 4 Reply 4, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2323 times:
EMBQA From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 9286 posts, RR: 13 Reply 5, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 2319 times:
One of three things....,
.....one would be a maintenance issue. They would divert into BGR as it has a big American Eagle Maintenance base.
.....or weather in the New York area. When I was based at BGR often we would get weather diversions from the New York area.
.....or it could have just been a ground stop for traffic. They would go up to BGR (as it is a MX base) to wait out the delay.
Update-
Another flight tracker is showing it under a different number and running non stop to BGR. My guess, EWR was an alternate and the information was entered into the computer wrong. This could also just be a MX ferry.....
[Edited 2005-06-05 16:10:59]
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog"
B707Stu From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 918 posts, RR: 4 Reply 6, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 2317 times:
AA flifo never shows air interruptions, they only keep that internal.
B707Stu From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 918 posts, RR: 4 Reply 7, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 2312 times:
EMBQA From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 9286 posts, RR: 13 Reply 8, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 2278 times:
Then I would lean toward a maintenance issue...... Now we just wait and see if it's big enough to make the news, or just one of the dozens every week that we never hear about.
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog"
B707Stu From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 918 posts, RR: 4 Reply 9, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 2170 times:
Apparently not, it landed at 10:30 at EWR. One of the oddest typos I've ever seen on behalf of AA operations I guess. Maybe the aircraft will be ferried up to BGR after EWR.
EMBQA From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 9286 posts, RR: 13 Reply 10, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 2139 times:
...and Flytecomm shows AE306 landing in at 1205p in BGR..
B707Stu From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 918 posts, RR: 4 Reply 11, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 1933 times:
That's the same trip. Now I really don't get it. Can anyone from AA or Eagle fill us in here?
EMBQA From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 9286 posts, RR: 13 Reply 12, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1829 times:
No, it's two completely different airlines and different aircraft. They just shared a simular flight number that day
Chautauqua......5306..EMB-145..STL-EWR..departed 0724
American Eagle...306..EMB-135...STL-BGR..departed 0823
..and being a weekend and there is an American Eagle MX base in BGR it was just a normal reposition for MX.
[Edited 2005-06-07 04:03:04]
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog"
ChrisNH From United States of America, joined Jun 1999, 3807 posts, RR: 2 Reply 13, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1803 times:
Why is there an American Eagle MX base in Bangor? Is it a 'cheap-labor' thing? No one would consider BGR to be 'centrally located' within any route structure, but maybe that's not really a consideration.
PWM2TXLHopper From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 1218 posts, RR: 1 Reply 14, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1771 times:
ChrisNH,
"Why is there an American Eagle MX base in Bangor? Is it a 'cheap-labor' thing? No one would consider BGR to be 'centrally located' within any route structure, but maybe that's not really a consideration."
I'm not completly sure I'm right on this, but my guess as to why there's an MX base for Eagle at BGR, goes back to The Business Express-BEX days. Before the were bought out by Eagle in either 1999 or 2000, BEX had long operated an MX base there for its fleet of SF-340's.
EMBQA From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 9286 posts, RR: 13 Reply 15, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 1653 times:
Yes, Business Express opened BGR as a MX base back in...I want to say fall of 1996. When Eagle took over BEX in 2001, it changed to an Eagle base. With the complete butchery of the old BEX route system that Eagle has done in the northeast, I'm not suer how long BGR will be around.
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog"
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