phatfarmlines wrote:The U.K. doesn't do exit passport control anymore right, aligning with U.S. policy?
You think Aeromexico could try the Bolivian market? i know Delta or United would be pretty much out of the question since American and Boliviana are more than enough on the Bolivia-US market..also Cubana is a shell of what it used to be fleet-wise anyways. It could work as a once or twice a week ty...
Jump to postty97 wrote:I'm just happy if I arrive/depart at an actual gate (jet bridge) in Europe.
Usually airport fees/charges tend to be 'cheaper' for bus gates/disconnected stands as opposed to connected gates with a fixed jetway This is true, Easyjet and Ryanair will often use stairs even if the stand has an airbridge. Also in Europe most airlines will have regular stands, so there may be si...
Jump to postIn the US there are no bus gates in a large majority of airports, even in small one such as TUL, SBN or GRB to name a few. In Europe, there are no bridges for anything smaller than an A220 (ERJs, CRJs, etc), bus gates in major airports are extremely common specially at CDG and FRA but also at LHR, M...
Jump to postNew Allegris cabin product is now delayed again and won't arrive before 2024. First aircraft with the new cabin will be a factory new Boeing 787-9 in early 2024, which will be delivered in three class configuration without First Class. The first A350 with the new F are expected in 2024 as well. htt...
Jump to postWell there is SDR one hour away from Bilbao which serves as “Bilbao West”. Most Ryanair routes out of SDR (and Ryanair doesn’t serve BIO) are clearly targeted to the Bilbao market and are quite complementary to the BIO offer. For instance things like Santander-Birmingham or Santander-Edinburgh (BIO...
Jump to postEssentially what happens when an international flight diverts to the United States that was just overflying the US, customs and border protection has three hours to either have passengers deplaned to a secure area or for the airplane to depart. Every airport in the United States (even general aviat...
Jump to postAir Nostrum drops BIO-VGO, an “historic” route. I remember in the electoral debate ahead of the July general election, the speaker of the Basque Nationalist Party PNV said that the Cantabrian Coast (From Portugal to The Pyrenees) was losing air connectivity. BIO-VGO is an example. He specifically c...
Jump to postAA adding daily DFW-BCN next summer, that would be 5 US gateways out of BCN for AA. JFK, MIA, ORD, OHL and DFW I know there are 2 complete different markets and different airlines but anyway I'm puzzled to see AA adding more and more service to BCN (100% O&D on BCN end) and AR giving up on BCN-E...
Jump to postRed recently MAD-BOG is up to 5xdaily this summer with AV+UX+IB combined, plus CLO-MAD, MDE-MAD and CTG-MAD all 1x. AV even running a daylight eastbound and a redeye westbound. Is Colombia-MAD so huge to sustain 2500+seats a day give or take? It's even more. BOG-MAD is up to 8x daily this summer wi...
Jump to postRed recently MAD-BOG is up to 5xdaily this summer with AV+UX+IB combined, plus CLO-MAD, MDE-MAD and CTG-MAD all 1x. AV even running a daylight eastbound and a redeye westbound.
Is Colombia-MAD so huge to sustain 2500+seats a day give or take?
4Y focuses on leisure, and SLC seems to be a healthy market for german leisure so expect them to be back S23. Don't see LH in SLC any time soon, too small of a market with no connectivity at SLC end. With traffic restrictions and more taxes coming to AMS you may see a shift to CDG as the connecting ...
Jump to postYikes. I wonder at this point whether passengers rebook with AA/DL/UA to complete their journey. Assuming most passengers are on this flight for leisure travel, I wouldn't want such a delay to eat away at vacation time or delay returning home after a TATL trip. Imagine a bunch of Portuguese and San...
Jump to postMAD-BCN has been a shuttle service for decades although weakened in the last 15 years by the HSR connection. Used to be 25+
You can show up 20 minutes before departure on a "come and fly" basis
AA can fill a flight from DFW to any city , Finnair will find Dallas surprisingly positive. Just because it is an one world hub means little; only if there is a good code share and/or competitive inter line fares. Plus the late evening arrival limits connections to only a few cities. Otherwise, any...
Jump to postAF can still offer CDG-LYS to transfer pax.... they just can't offer it to non-transfer pax I guess we shall see what impact this has on service on this route and others. Typically cutting away even a fraction of the traffic can have some dramatic impacts on which routes are viable or which aircraf...
Jump to postUA 200
AA 100/200
PA 100/200
AV 200
IB 300
BA 400
KL 400/400M
AF 200/400
LH 400/8
The whole KLM-Alitalia combi would not have made it as neither airline was profitable at the moment. They might have been acquired by some other airline (Air France, British Airways or Lufthansa), but this is far from certain. KLM needed a profitable airline to partner with to become profitable its...
Jump to postHighly doubt it, if anything MAYBE PHL-GRU. Before any of that happens, I imagine AA would bring back CLT-GRU first before looking at PHL-GRU. But AA wants pax connecting to GRU flying through MIA/DFW, so it doesn't seem very likely that they'd do the exact same thing at PHL. CLT-GRU is more likely...
Jump to postI'm researching products in this post-COVID world of my upcoming trip to Europe. British Airways has only twin jets now with 1-2-1 config on the new A350 and 787 and 2-2-2 on the older 777 which is being retrofited with 1-2-1 (from 2-2-2). Iberia has 1-2-1 across its entire fleet. Air France has th...
Jump to postWould't it be easier for a pax living in BOS would to connect through PHL instead of JFK or MIA as JFK is too congested and delay prone and MIA is far away? How much BOS-GRU/EZE traffic do you think there is to warrant this? Let's say how much New England-GRU-EZE traffic? That ammount of traffic co...
Jump to postWhat connections does PHL add that aren't already well-served via MIA or DFW? My guess would be few if any. Would't it be easier for a pax living in BOS would to connect through PHL instead of JFK or MIA as JFK is too congested and delay prone and MIA is far away? How much BOS-GRU/EZE traffic do yo...
Jump to postPolot wrote:
Airbus already has a ~200 seat medium range aircraft in the pipeline. It’s called the A321XLR.
I'm not 100% sure if it got to be a firm order but I recall VA (Viasa) discussing an MD11 order to replace their DC10
Jump to postI disagree on the B777-300ER withdrawn. Maybe B777-300A but not B777-300ER. There is still a chance that a vaccine to be ready by Spring 2021 and still a chance of Tokyo Olympic happening in 2021 summer/autumn. It would be an unwise decision to withdrawn the B777-300ER while there are other older a...
Jump to postCirca 2008 had David Beckham and family taking all of F in BA's 744 LHR-LAX, remember David, Vic, kids and babysitters being escorted through the gate hall by a ton of security.
Jump to post...Lufthansa will also keep the 747-400. The A346 & A380 are in long term storage and will only come back if there is an unexpected return in demand... Funny thing, to keep a 744 when you have a 346. Is this a type commonality thing? Agreed. And why keep the A343s going when you park A346s? Isn...
Jump to postFew years ago was booking FRA-LAX in J. Cheapest one was FRA-PTY-LAX on CM/LH. Almost booked but ended up paying USD600 more to fly LX's FRA-ZRH-LAX.
Has never again been offered such routing or similar on any booking engine on TATL.
DL and UA, before the pandemic, had profit making domestic operations. their competition is other airlines aside of few routes. Lufthansa has Rail and Car as competition, putting a fairly hard ceiling on domestic prices. best regards Thomas In this context, domestic means short-haul flying all acro...
Jump to postDidn't they announce last week that the entire A380 fleet was leaving permanently now? The 17 A340-300 are still there, and will probably soldier on until replaced by more A350-900s and the 787-9. 6 frames are retiring permanently, remaining 8 frames are going into log-term storage and will be brou...
Jump to postLH's 346s are not much older than BA's, KL's or AF's 77Es. With oil trading below 50USD operating cost of a 4-engine gets close to that of a 2-engine, that's why LX is keeping their 343's on the air. LH simply had too many 4-engine types so they had no choce than to ground most of them. The Lufthan...
Jump to postTo start with, I believe they are just ahead of all the rest when coming to admit how bad this crisis is for aviation. The others are still wishfully hoping that the cuts they already made will be enough. The other airlines will eventually have to make the same cuts. Another factor is that Lufthans...
Jump to postAs others have said, TP and IB will stay in CCS. There is little demand but there is so little offer that they can charge whatever they want. Lots of VFR traffic Europe-Caracas, Venezuelans based in Europe are paying up to 1400EUR R/T in Y, to have relatives spending time with them. J seats are fill...
Jump to postDefinitely legacy. Regular commuting on a route is where frequent flyer benefits like security fast-track, lounge and priority boarding start coming into their own. Frequent flyer miles also rack up quickly, even on intra-European flights. You said....FF miles rack up quickly if you are a regular c...
Jump to postWhen I pay I always fly Y therefore I go for the cheapest "reasonable" option out there, except for FR. I don't fly FR anymore as I don't like their way of doing business. "Reasonable" means to me that I don't go for the absolute cheapest fare, I weigh in fares, schedule, number ...
Jump to postThread starter seem to believe Atlanta is the center of the universe. Your assumptions means there is no inbound traffic into Atlanta. AC don't have a loyal customer base all across Canada, same thing for Star (LH/TK) and OW (BA/QR) across Europe and Asia. Atlanta is not the center of the universe b...
Jump to postjimmy9irons wrote:Where are the B744s stored?
It seems to make sense. Not sure I agree with this. So you land at 4 a.m. and then what? Take a taxi to your hotel where you can't check in until 3:00 p.m.? Go to your office where you'll be running on 2 hours of sleep and none of your co-workers or clients will be there for several more hours? Thi...
Jump to postOn my February itinerary from EWR to BCN (via ZRH on UA and LX) I had no idea that LX scheduled me for just a 40 minute connection, despite having to go through customs and re-enter security! Needless to say, I didn’t make it. Why do airlines do this? And what is the worst experience you have had w...
Jump to postVery unlikely BA would open a regular scheduled route to Georgetown instead of just the odd charter. BA willbe focussing on reopening routes to N.America and all other suspended route fitst. Port of Spain is good enough as a transfer hub for the demand that exists I find it odd that BA will in the ...
Jump to postWelcome to the next weekly installment of Which 747-8Is are Still Flying in 2020? The data for which aircraft are active is taken from Planespotters.net, cross-referenced with Flightradar24 and any comments posted on this thread. Aircraft which are listed as active will be illustrated with the most...
Jump to postLet me be clear, I think demand will recover soon enough for IB to resume long haul only to some extent. I'm not thinking IB will be 3xdaily to EZE, or 2xdaily to BOG and MEX, or will resume BOS or LAX any time soon, but I think 1xdaily to their largest markets in LatAm and US will be back as soon ...
Jump to postAnd 6 to 8 frames for four non daily routes to Central America and the Caribbean is also more than needed. Depending on frequency you need 3 to 4 frames maximum. Well, I'm not an airline scheduler but my point is that demand will pick up soon enough to see IB bringing back some of the A346's. I see...
Jump to postDo you really need 3 frames for a daily service to MEX or BOG? Is not more 2 frames for a daily flight on these routes? I would think 2 could likely do as well, especially since part of their network sees morning departures and some evening so they can rotate aircraft etc. And 6 to 8 frames for fou...
Jump to postIt isn't a matter of A359 vs. A346 capabilities but about how quick the recovery is, If it is quick enough to restablish at least 1xdaily service to IB's primery markets in US & LatAm, 28 frames won't be enough. As said in my first post, 28 frames is roughly what's needed for one daily EZE,LIM,...
Jump to postWhat are the rules now? I mean if a flight was to be routed NRT-ANC-JFK or for example SYD-LAX-JFK would/do pax clear customs and immigration at the first point of arrival into the USA? Yes....no transitting or tech-stopping in the US without full customs / immigration wherever the first landing is...
Jump to postThat is going to badly hurt EW operations at DUS and will probably create a huge boom for DTM. People in the Ruhrgebiet will rejoice to have another choice to avoid the LH group airlines when flying. Do you really think 42 weekly W6's flights will "badly" hurt EW ops at DUS? Will really c...
Jump to postThey might be counting on the UX takeover adding some new 789's although my bet is that we'll see some A346's back to serve hot/high airports such as MEX, UIO and BOG. Pre-covid IB was planning on shifting the daily BOG flight to the A350 later this year (the start date kept on getting push back, I...
Jump to postTo summarize, Iberia long haul fleet will be after the A346 leaves: A330s: 20 units, 4 of them flying under the LEVEL brand in Barcelona, same AOC. A350s: 8 units, of a total order of 20 (up from 16 initially). No news regarding the A321XLR Those 8 to 12 frames of the A350 yet to be deliverd will o...
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