Isitsafenow From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4984 posts, RR: 26 Reply 6, posted (5 years 9 months 4 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 7959 times:
Also at Narita, NW had 727-200s in the 90's and now a few A320's....or did a year ago.
[Edited 2007-08-27 03:26:18]
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EWRCabincrew From United States of America, joined May 2006, 5522 posts, RR: 57 Reply 8, posted (5 years 9 months 4 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 7863 times:
COSPN From Northern Mariana Islands, joined Oct 2001, 1480 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (5 years 9 months 4 weeks ago) and read 7465 times:
"what is a Coontinental 737-800 doing at NRT?"
I like how this keeps comming up... everyone in the "Mainland USA" forgets about Guam and the CO mini Hub there...so the 737 goes to HKG, MNL, CNS, DPS, to support Guam Tourists and residents and North South connects from Japan..the 737 is CO 6/7 (737-777-737) GUM-NRT-IAH-SAT RT
Centrair From Japan, joined Jan 2005, 3597 posts, RR: 21 Reply 13, posted (5 years 9 months 4 weeks ago) and read 7394 times:
Air Mike serves more destinations in Japan than any other US carrier.
AA: NRT
UA: NRT, NGO, KIX
NW: NRT, NGO, KIX
CO/CS: NRT, NGO, KIX (seasonal), CTS, SDJ, KIJ, OKJ, HIJ, FUK
CO/CS serves Japan from IAH, EWR, HNL, SPN and GUM.
As a result of this network, CO/CS serves more locations in South Pacific Islands than any US carrier.
Quoting N751PR (Reply 10): Indeed they do, operating to GUM, PUS, CAN, and NGO-SPN.
I have been told that these routes have done well for feeding back to the main network. NGO-SPN starts in NRT so that those needing to get to NGO can either fly DTW-NGO non-stop but if the flight is full, which it is frequently, then one can fly via NRT and connect to NGO that way. Also those flying on DTW-NGO can connect to NGO-SPN or NGO-GUM (CO). I have met many people on DTW-NGO going on to GUM or SPN.
NW's Asia based 757s
Yes...I am not a KIX fan. Let's Japanese Aviation!
RFields5421 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 6191 posts, RR: 25 Reply 17, posted (5 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 7218 times:
Quoting Centrair (Reply 16): Do they have a different layout than the domestic ones?
Not anymore.
Though some of the B738 aircraft, maybe all the CMI birds, probably have internal air stairs for the remote airports without jetways or even external stairs.
When they are rotated back to the US for maintenance checks which cannot be done in Guam or Honolulu, a regular mainline aircraft will be brought out to fill the fleet.
I flew on the Combi B727 and the DC-6 in the early 70's, but by the early 80's NRT-GUM and all the Guam based aircraft were regular mainline aircraft.
In 1974 when the combi B727 had to go back for maintenance, they brought out a regular Continental B727 - only modifying it with rock guards for the gravel runways. They had to fly the DC-6 for the cargo parts of the runs.
Centrair From Japan, joined Jan 2005, 3597 posts, RR: 21 Reply 18, posted (5 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 7082 times:
Quoting RFields5421 (Reply 17): When they are rotated back to the US for maintenance checks which cannot be done in Guam or Honolulu, a regular mainline aircraft will be brought out to fill the fleet.
I would think they would rotated to HKG where CO has some of their other MX done.
Yes...I am not a KIX fan. Let's Japanese Aviation!
RFields5421 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 6191 posts, RR: 25 Reply 19, posted (5 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 7049 times:
They might - I haven't been to that region for several years
EA772LR From United States of America, joined Mar 2007, 2836 posts, RR: 10 Reply 20, posted (5 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 6703 times:
Are these 738's ETOPS certified since they fly over parts of the Pacific?
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EWRCabincrew From United States of America, joined May 2006, 5522 posts, RR: 57 Reply 21, posted (5 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 6574 times:
Quoting EA772LR (Reply 20): Are these 738's ETOPS certified since they fly over parts of the Pacific?
CoolGuy From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 410 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (5 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 6574 times:
Easy question: how does a 738 get from the continental United States to Asia? Is SEA-ANC-NRT possible?
EWRCabincrew From United States of America, joined May 2006, 5522 posts, RR: 57 Reply 23, posted (5 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 6482 times:
Quoting CoolGuy (Reply 22): Easy question: how does a 738 get from the continental United States to Asia? Is SEA-ANC-NRT possible?
RFields5421 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 6191 posts, RR: 25 Reply 24, posted (5 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 6393 times:
Quoting CoolGuy (Reply 22): Easy question: how does a 738 get from the continental United States to Asia?
The Pacific isn't as big as it seems some times.
The US to Hawaii leg is the longest.
Air Mike flies a regular roundtrip route twice a week from Guam to Honolulu in the B738
PGUM-PTKK-PTPN-PTSA-PKWA-PKMJ-PHNL
On some flights they might skip one of the islands.
The US Army used to fly King Air (RC-12) aircraft Adak-Midway-Wake-Guam-Okinawa-Korea - 1500 nm was the longest leg.
25 RafflesKing: Somewhat off topic, but why no direct service from continental US to Guam? According to Wikipedia, through HNL would be the only option. I'd imagine G
26 EWRCabincrew: Flight 6 is direct service. IAH-NRT-GUM (change of aircraft in NRT).
27 CALPSAFltSkeds: CO 1 operates 1-stop IAH-GUM via HNL with a 764 and the return is CO 2. Flight 7 is the westbound change of gauge via NRT and the eastbound is Flight
28 Zrs70: Have a great time! I did this a couple of years ago. Check out my report: RE: RTW: *A And CO In C, Including Island Hopper (by Zrs70 Jan 26 2005 in T
29 A340Spotter: Yes. These are maintained with 180 minute ETOPS unlike the mainland ones which are 75 minutes. Different MEL/CDL codes as well (slightly different su
30 OzarkD9S: Lucky! I've wanted to do that for years.
31 Bok269: THanks for the info. Do the 764s make it back to the mainland?
32 A340Spotter: Every day...They get rotated through HNL, LAX, IAH, EWR and even make it over to European destinations sometimes when the loads and rotations allow.
33 ATCT: They Operate GUM-HNL-IAH (Houston-Intercontinental) everyday. ATCT
34 Bok269: Thanks. Anyshot that the CM 764s operate CO14 HNL-EWR?
35 EWRCabincrew: For September, according to our bid packet, the CMI (also known as the 76H (or Hawaii) configuration (20/236) aircraft operate flight 14 (HNL-EWR) on
37 Carpethead: Are you 100% certain of this? I'll have to check my reg book, but I am certain to have seen one of those ETOPS 738s on the mainland.
38 EWRCabincrew: All of our 738s are ETOPS. They are Air Mike dedicated. The closest they go to the mainland US is HNL.
39 ThePalauan: Only the 727s had them but eventually, all the Pacific islands gained airstairs. Out of the ones still using the stairs, ROR updated to a jetway thou
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