https://italiavola.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2692ef6a-644d-40a9-a843-d603990f8b39.jpeg?w=1024 The route that exceeded expectations for AM in 2023, was FCO! The airline reported an overall 81% LF for 2023 - its first year of operation. Due to its high seasonality nature, the route goes up to 90...
Jump to postWhy? Several reasons. Chile's market is just smaller in general. The SCL-MEX flight is more sales-heavy from the Chilean side and thus LATAM tends to be the stronger of the two carriers. Chile's economy has been through many shocks recently: social shocks (pre-pandemic); the pandemic; and high infl...
Jump to postFor the second year in a row, Aeromexico will suspend its operations at SCL during the southern winter. Last flight out (AM011) will depart on 16APR with operations returning on 27OCT. AM needs more B787's, more crew and more everything! What a shame to see it go again! So unstable operation and SC...
Jump to postIt's sad to see AR retreat so much from its long-established routes like JFK, but it is back to reality as its future is no longer guaranteed. https://fullfatthings-keyaero.b-cdn.net/sites/keyaero/files/styles/article_body/public/imported/2020-09-09/img_40-33.jpg?itok=6B9pIsFi AR will also cut FCO i...
Jump to postAnother Mexican regional carrier ran flights into TEXAS ... it did not end well for them, they placed the blame on their demise to COVID ... they were running ATR'S and CRJ 200's and enjoyed and Alliance with CO/UA and AC among others ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeromar They had what appeared...
Jump to postAnother Mexican regional carrier ran flights into TEXAS ... it did not end well for them, they placed the blame on their demise to COVID ... they were running ATR'S and CRJ 200's and enjoyed and Alliance with CO/UA and AC among others ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeromar They had what appeared...
Jump to postIberia increase its services to Argentina in 2024. The airline will have 17x weekly service to Buenos Aires effective April of 2024 with 21x weekly as of November of 2024. The highlight is that IB will be going up to 3x daily on its MAD-EZE route starting in November 2024. IB 101 MAD 23:59 – 08:30 (...
Jump to postAccording to IB's timetable from 1984, Iberia operates from Madrid to several destinations via a stop from San Juan, PR. These include San Jose, CR; Bogota, Colombia, Guayaqui, and Quito in Ecuador, and Lima, Peru. From Santo Domingo, it serves several Central American destinations such as Managua, ...
Jump to postAccording to IB's timetable from 1984, Iberia operates from Madrid to several destinations via a stop from San Juan, PR. These include San Jose, CR; Bogota, Colombia, Guayaqui, and Quito in Ecuador, and Lima, Peru. From Santo Domingo, it serves several Central American destinations such as Managua, ...
Jump to posthttps://elevatebur.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/airport-layout-plan-P4.pdf New terminal located east of Rwy 15/33, Looks like 14 gates, pretty much same as today. Thanks for posting that link. I was trying to figure out where the new terminal would be located since a lot of the areas where the Lo...
Jump to postToo bad LATAM Paraguay won't have a special livery, but the paraguayan market is so small that they don't have domestic flights. Guess they could play it off as it being the same color as the Chile flag. Although they did 2 versions for Colombia/Ecuador. I think it was kind of rude of them not to i...
Jump to postLATAM has opened for sale its new SCL-BOG-MAD service, effective 03JUL24 with 787-8 daily service operated by LATAM Chile with 5th freedom traffic rights on all legs. LA710 SCL 15:30 BOG 20:25 - 22:50 MAD 15:40+1 D 788 LA711 MAD 17:25 BOG 20:40 - 23:10 SCL 06:00+1 D 788 How many flights does LATAM ...
Jump to postWas KE very big in LAX? I remember in the 90s, I saw a big hanger with the words Korean Air on it. Does that facility still exist today? Korean Air has always been pretty prominent in LA. At its height it had 4-5 dailies to Seoul, including the flight that stopped at Narita and service to Sao Paolo...
Jump to postMany moons ago, I had Reader's Digest Today's Best Nonfiction, Volume 35 which included Skygods. I lost the book and wish I had kept it. The ending where Gandt writes about the logo on top of the Pan Am Building getting replaced with the MetLife logo encapsulated the finality of Pan Am's slow, agon...
Jump to postI have wondered where the dividing line was between the Pan Am Atlantic & Pacific divisions, particularly regarding India since Pan Am flew around the world. From this it sounds like India was with Atlantic since it went to Delta. The next stop east was Bangkok, which I assume was Pacific and s...
Jump to postPan Am's Bombay and New Delhi crew bases transferred over to Delta Air Lines in early November of 1991 as part of the Europe/Frankfurt hub purchase. These employees were offered jobs with Delta as part of the purchase in August of that year. Delta continued with the crew bases until they closed down...
Jump to postI had no idea Plus Ultra was flying TFN-CCS, I'm guessing that's the highest frequency the market can handle (there must be 0 premium traffic on the route). Wonder if SCQ-EZE/CCS will be explored by Plus Ultra at some point. Yes, Plus Ultra flies CCS-TFN on Saturdays and returns as TFN-CCS on Sunda...
Jump to postPlus Ultra continues to fly TFN-CCS 1x weekly. The market on this route has expanded recently with people migrating out of Venezuela, 5% of the population in Tenerife Island is Venezuelan. I had no idea Plus Ultra was flying TFN-CCS, I'm guessing that's the highest frequency the market can handle (...
Jump to postI'm surprised that IB doesn't fly to more destinations within Mexico like MTY, GDL, CUN. MID ect.. And some of those cities have bigger populations than SAL or GUA. While the cities you mention may be powerhouses within Mexico in their own right, they probably lack the premium traffic that an airli...
Jump to postHere's a Plus Ultra A340-300 flying Madrid - Santiago de Cuba. I'm assuming its flying on behalf of Cubana de Aviacion flying its regularly scheduled 1x - MAD-SCUI-HAV-MAD route. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQf1WYaUwgI I'm glad to see Cubana de Aviacion alive and kicking despite the challenges i...
Jump to post1985-1988 were scary years for flying. I certainly remember PA73 where over 20 pax and crew were killed, and around 150 injured. Maybe because I was living in the UK at the time and there were several British pax aboard? What with TW847, the TW840 bombing, the Rome and Vienna airport attacks mainly...
Jump to postI do not recall any hijackings in the USA in the 80's ... I do fondly remember when there was no TSA or security in the early 1970's ... one could show up 3 minutes before the the flight left and still get aboard ... 3rd world countries are a different story ... I always remember PSA 1771: https://...
Jump to posthttps://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/DAEC/production/_129544065_gettyimages-172809878.jpg.webp Growing up in '80s, being a kid already fascinated by aviation, I remember the news stories on TV of airplane hijackings. There was always a hijack or an airplane incident on the news. Pan Am, Flig...
Jump to postI don't know if you were limiting this to TATL, but I flew TW flights 1 and 2, 747-100, STL-HNL-STL in 1988. I didn't remember if the 747s were flying to HNL in the 1980s from STL so I left them off my list. But cool to know they indeed were. Were there any other 747 routes from STL? I only ever go...
Jump to postJust a correction on a fact, AV flew BOG-ALC to have extra frequencies to BCN as the bilateral was limited back then. Once skies were liberalized the ALC stop was eliminated. However I would say VLC/ALC to BOG or the Canaries to Venezuela or Galicia-Argentina could come back as seasonal routes in t...
Jump to postI can't find accurate sources to prove the following statement: IB served Managua with DC-10 equipment, maybe in the late 80s. Regards. Late '80s, I believe only Aeroflot was serving Managua to Europe via Havana. https://www.alamy.com/managua-nicaragua-elections-june-1986-an-old-bus-and-a-private-c...
Jump to postEff 15JUL23 Air Europa is discontinuing its MAD-ASU-COR route and replacing it with 2 separate, stand alone flights to ASU and COR, as both destinations have enough demand to warrant their own flights. Initially, ASU will be served 4x w and COR 3x w, both nonstop from MAD. https://www.aviacionline....
Jump to postEff 15JUL23 Air Europa is discontinuing its MAD-ASU-COR route and replacing it with 2 separate, stand alone flights to ASU and COR, as both destinations have enough demand to warrant their own flights. Initially, ASU will be served 4x w and COR 3x w, both nonstop from MAD. https://www.aviacionline....
Jump to postInteresting It could simply be PTY being replaced with CTG or BAQ on the current routing IST-BOG-PTY-IST as PTY is now also being served with a dedicated flight some days a week -but will undoubtedly grow. Precisely last a TK B789 doing IST-PTY and a TK 777W doing BOG-IST turner up at MDE one after...
Jump to postLooks like Turkish Airllines is adding another Colombian destination to its network in 2024. Already flying 7x weekly IST-BOG-PTY. https://www.aviacionline.com/2023/06/turkish-airlines-sumara-nuevos-destinos-en-mexico-y-colombia-pero-descarta-por-ahora-chile-y-paraguay/ Interesting It could simply ...
Jump to postLooks like Turkish Airllines is adding another Colombian destination to its network in 2024. Already flying 7x weekly IST-BOG-PTY.
https://www.aviacionline.com/2023/06/turkish-airlines-sumara-nuevos-destinos-en-mexico-y-colombia-pero-descarta-por-ahora-chile-y-paraguay/
https://i.redd.it/antigua-publicidad-de-las-l%C3%ADneas-a%C3%A9reas-filipinas-v0-0rn0adba38ea1.png?s=19868283d2a22b19451b38dded0acd09758e4cbd I found this old video that I thought I would share here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9x0-vbKI7g An old film from 1949-50 of Madrid's Barajas airport' s...
Jump to postI'm going through some of the MAD to Latin America schedules and BOG has up to 9 flights a day to MAD on 4 different carriers.. Stunning when you consider the traditional big boys of MEX and EZE are no more than 6 daily any given day. How BOG is pushing this much volume is truly amazing, it's not l...
Jump to postBoliviana de Aviacion is introducing a 4th weekly frequency between Santa Cruz VVI and Madrid MAD, returning to Cochabamba CBB on the inbound leg. OB772 VVI 18:00 MAD 11:45+1 2 OB773 MAD 14:14 CBB 20:00 3 Currently the 3 weekly frequencies to Madrid are being covered by a wet leased Wamos Air A332,...
Jump to postall Latin American countries will be served from Madrid, except Nicaragua. I can't find accurate sources to prove the following statement: IB served Managua with DC-10 equipment, maybe in the late 80s. Regards. Late '80s, I believe only Aeroflot was serving Managua to Europe via Havana. https://www...
Jump to postWhen you think about it, United really needed that Pan Am talent. United Airlines circa 1983/5 was primarily a domestic operation flying internationally to Cancun and the Bahamas and had just started service to two destinations in Asia. albeit with a decent size of widebodies 747s, DC-10s, and 762s ...
Jump to postNot sure about now, but when I started in 2019 I would see a few former PA flight attendants in SFO. I was with United when the Pan Am Pacific division ame to United and I got to meet quite a few of the Pan Am people who came with the airplanes some were L1011-500 types and quite a few were 747 typ...
Jump to postAeromexico has extended the suspension of its MEX-ICN route until 30MAR2024. https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/230330-amicn They don't seem to care too much to make a technical stop at MTY or TIJ in order to resume service to Seoul. Meanwhile, Hainan Airlines has announced to the airport authorities i...
Jump to postThis weekend Aeromexico will return to 2 important international destinations from its MEX base: * Tokyo Narita returns on 25MAR after a 3-year long suspension. Operates dally with 787-8. * Rome Fiumicino also returns on 25MAR after more than a decade long suspension. Flights will initially operate...
Jump to postAlong the same line regarding US taking back the Trump Shuttle 727's. How long did it take US to reconfigure the Trump 727? I recall the Trump 727's had real marble in the bathrooms, which increased the weight big time on the planes. Would be interesting to see what work US had to do to the planes ...
Jump to postLATAM Group is back in the black, registering a seemingly generous 4th quarter $2.5 billion profit, mainly accounting paper profits related to Chapter 11 restructuring. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/latam-airlines-posts-25-bln-profit-after-emerging-bankruptcy-2023-03-09/ This an...
Jump to postWow - I really thought they would go under soon. I wonder what their strategy is given that they've been busy buying troubled airlines in the past two years, including Amazonas in Bolivia. Their strategy is money laundering. Ah.... I guess it makes sense. I was getting excited when I read that they...
Jump to postWow - I really thought they would go under soon. I wonder what their strategy is given that they've been busy buying troubled airlines in the past two years, including Amazonas in Bolivia.
Jump to postPlus Ultra Lineas Aereas has announced its third route to Venezuela from Spain. The airline will operate Madrid - Porlamar (Margarita Island) once every 10 days starting in October. https://www.aviacionline.com/2023/01/plus-ultra-plans-to-fly-between-madrid-and-porlamar/ Good news for Venezuelan tou...
Jump to postPoor Latin America, its big economic potential is eclipsed by politicians. The mexican market is crowed with many airliners and a government-funding Mexicana may gain privileges than others private companies. By the way, is Mexicana MRO active? Mexicana MRO is doing very well, and business has been...
Jump to postPoor Latin America, its big economic potential is eclipsed by politicians. The mexican market is crowed with many airliners and a government-funding Mexicana may gain privileges than others private companies. By the way, is Mexicana MRO active? Mexicana MRO is doing very well, and business has been...
Jump to postI wonder why AA serves CUL from PHX, seems a little odd. American Eagle serves from PHX as well as Volaris. Not odd at all, there are many Mexicans from that area living in California, Nevada, and Arizona. It's still minimal as other cities in Northern Mexico get more service to the US, in particul...
Jump to postWhy would they have a civilian flight taking off so closely behind the Air Force 738 knowing they were transporting a very dangerous person in a very dangerous area? Seems like some minor precautions could have been taken resulting in very minor inconvenience. According to this news report (in Span...
Jump to postI’ll have what Air France are having, but want it for half the cost Someone at BA, probably. It was more like: I'd like to downgrade to what Ryan Air is having, and then can you please add some Political Correctness with a blend of generic because this BREXIT thing was truly a mistake! :cry2: Serio...
Jump to postMe now - trying to cover the new uniforms from people's eyesight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78CqcbwFeBA
Cheap and tasteless fashion. Spare me the video about redefining British national values using ultra-low-cost fashion trends.