The airport in Valdosta, Georgia is looking at a new airline... looks to be avelo or breeze https://www.walb.com/2021/01/27/new-air ... l-airport/ Did you even read the article? Neither airline was mentioned. How on earth did you come up with the idea either airline was looking at Valdosta???? The ...
Jump to postas a retiree i have considered RR preferably at TVC. I have worked ground and CSA before, but this was back in the 80's and 90's. COVID and cancel culture with videos has cured me ,now, of the excitement of the travel industry once and for all, LOL! But it seemed to be a good program for me when I ...
Jump to postInteresting B6 followed them in...and then AA apparently retaliated. But is that really what happened? I know that they can't collude on routes or pricing, but who's to say that there wasn't some kind of "understanding" to mix fleets in these markets? It could be a first move. Who's to sa...
Jump to postI was at EWY on Monday and a bunch of suits with JetBlue tags around their necks were walking around with presumably airport management. That little terminal is going to get even more packed. Haven't been down there since this time last year. Mid-afternoons were insane last year. We came in from OR...
Jump to postflyfresno wrote:EYW is on the 319 now I believe...didn't they retire all their -700s?
bpat777 wrote:10 or more daily fights requires WN staff
How many flights per day (or week) does WN's labor contracts require in order to staff the stations with WN employees? I'm curious if any of these new cities will be contract ground handling or mainline.
Jump to postThe numbers for DCA, DFW, and LGA are correct however ORD and PHL are not. Per AA.com this is the Feb 11 schedule: DAY-ORD will have one flight daily ex Sat.(not 0.1) DAY-PHL will have one daily (not 0.5) About 5 flights per day average for DAY. Thanks for clarifying. 5 flights per day is still rea...
Jump to postTwo or three years ago I spoke to some NK FA's that had said NK was planning to start service to BNA, SAC and ELP. Pre-COVID NK did start service at the first two. I wonder if post-COVID NK may enter ELP after all? If so to where? I'm hoping for ELP-some East coast city. Sounds legit. It's well kno...
Jump to postAA DAY-DCA FEB 2>0.4[3] AA DAY-DFW FEB 3>1.4[4] AA DAY-LGA FEB 1.5>0[3] AA DAY-ORD FEB 1.6>0.1[4] AA DAY-PHL FEB 1.8>0.5[4] So AA has essentially gutted DAY if I am reading this correctly. DAY always seemed to punch above its weight. But both PSA and Envoy have MX hangars there, plus PSA crew bases...
Jump to postQantas has confirmed it will retrench another 2000 workers and outsource all ground handling work at major Australian airports. Affected airports are Adelaide, Alice Springs, Brisbane, Cairns, Canberra, Darwin, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Townsville. Other airports had already been outsourced. The ...
Jump to postThese are proposed as PPE freight and passenger repatriation flights so time-efficient non-stops really aren't required: SpiceJet plans to start operating charters carrying COVID19 PPE cargo, and repatriation passengers between Delhi, India and New York JFK International Airport as soon as possible...
Jump to postDoes the Positive Space Commuting also apply to the branded regionals? If you remember, this has been kind of a big deal in the year leading up to COVID. There have been several incidents regarding bounced pax for must rides. Is there a listing time notice required? I can just see a bunch of now-mu...
Jump to postThey won’t have to negotiate a new contract. Changing unions doesn’t mean that. The new union takes over the existing contact. The AA CBA isn’t amendable. I'm no expert, but the cover of the agreement book says that it's an agreemtn between the company and the union. Specifically the IAM/TWU in thi...
Jump to postEven if the mechanics are unhappy members of The Association, what kind of improvements could they possibly hope to gain in this current environment? The current (2020) agreement preserved jobs and the Cadillac medical benefits on the LUS side. There were significant increases in holidays and pensio...
Jump to postif not better on the CRJ550. I'd imagine DL/AA will eventually take a look at the 550. The CRJ550 is United's solution to a United scope problem, plain and simple. The plane makes even less sense than it did when it was introduced. It's premium heavy, catering to business travel. Business travel is...
Jump to post**DL EYW-LGA DEC 0>0.5[0] JAN 0>1.0[0] FEB 0>1.0[0.1] MAR 0>0.9[0.2] Interesting to see DL finally trying something besides ATL again. Looked like AA had a lot of success at EYW. DFW went from seasonal Saturdays to daily mainline, ORD and PHL also went to daily as well/ They all stayed year round, ...
Jump to postAS has above-wing in almost every airport in the West that sees Mainline service multiple times per day and as far as I know, their #s also include QX employees which is a little different than outsourcing the jobs. If QX employees are included, than these numbers may not be accurate. Are all wholl...
Jump to postWouldn't surprise me to see any city that's not a hub or focus city be farmed out to either Envoy or Piedmont to handle both above and below wing as a cost savings measure. You have to think that Doug and Robert have this idea on the table. How to execute it is another story. You'd have to start wi...
Jump to postI've done SGU-PHX (or reverse) 3x since Covid and every flight is at or near 100% full, it was actually the first full flight I had in my post-covid travels. Because of a crew base and Skywest corporate HQ in SGU, I highly doubt your flights were full of revenue travellers. There's probably a good ...
Jump to postMIflyer12 wrote:Where will the LGA slots go?
Oh, don't you worry. I do realize. Did you read the beginning of my post. I didn't say the furloughs we're Doug's fault. Did you see that? Perhaps you didn't. My suggestion would be you simply read next time. You mean the part where you said Doug was only concerned about himself? Yeah I read it. I ...
Jump to postThe thing about Doug is that he is willing to say anything just to keep things moving forward. I don't understand how back in May and June you go from a stance of "we are going to do everything in our power to avoid having to involuntarily furlough anyone" to "we are overstaffed in s...
Jump to postDaCubbyBearBar wrote:DL has a freight hub in IND?
This makes me wonder why UA didn't broker some sort of "shotgun marriage" merger between the two E145 operators, then work out how much service they would have going forward. As it was, UA forced a "face off" between the two where the cheapest was the winner. But as we usually f...
Jump to postJustjoshua wrote:Has construction started on the new southwest hangar in PHX?
I’ve heard that express jet might be partnering up with another airline. Has anyone heard anything? Do you have ANYTHING to back up what you've "heard". If so post it. I seriously doubt that you "heard" this anywhere. Nobody, and I mean no-body needs additional regional capacity...
Jump to postDL took over the route from Pan Am in 1991 - CLE-DTW-LGW with a A310 - switched soon after to a L1011, the route was distinctive in that the flight would park at the Berry terminal whereas DL departed from the Smith terminal C concourse. The flight only parked at the Berry terminal on the LGW-DTW-C...
Jump to postAn old buddy of mine is left seater for Expressjet. When I looked at his Facebook page it was as if he had passed away. Fact is, it's just a job, people. It's also the mortgage payment. And healthcare. Just for starters. 5 years becomes 10 when you lose your house to the bank, etc... Have a modicum...
Jump to postI Certainly do NOT think that is an ignorant statement. ExpressJet at one time flew nearly 5,000 flights daily. It was one of the largest airlines in the world based on departures The ONLY hull loss accident ExpressJet had was in the 90's, while they were TRAINING on it and that aircraft is even st...
Jump to postThose massive resources led to massive per passenger costs at PIT. It's a smaller O&D market. That in itself isn't a deal breaker. But CLT and SLC are also small O&D markets with much more cost effective airports. I want to say that PIT had a PPE of around $25, while CLT was around $5. Huge ...
Jump to postDidn't CommutAir Crash? Like where the captain couldn't see the runway, and just put it down anywhere? It amazes me that United would do this, potentially risking lives to save pennies on the dollar. I'm sorry, that's just an ignorant statement. Name a US carrier that hasn't had an accident. Even E...
Jump to postFrom local media concerning Indianapolis-based employees alone: Layoffs begin Oct 1 for some, Nov 1 for others. Houston and Kansas City bases closing. 132 Pilots and 96 FA’s based in Indy being laid off. (They were short on FA’s before this all began). 40 at Headquarters being laid off. I assume Th...
Jump to postIn DTW at the B and C concourses and in MSP at the A and B concourses, DGS continues to be understaffed. I’ve had to wait almost every flight for ground crew, and so far 4 flights I’ve operated have been late due to a lack of available ground crew (my record is waiting almost 30 minutes!). Don't fo...
Jump to postbennett123 wrote:Wonder what they do with the A318.
[list=][/list] Does it make sense for AA to keep the transcontinental A321s in a 102-seat 3-class config, or should AA reconfigure the transcontinental A321s to a 190-seat standard domestic config or a 158-seat config with the first class cabin being in the current transcontinental business class co...
Jump to post90 miles to PIT and 40 miles to LBE. It's hard to believe this qualifies for EAS. What's the per head subsidy?
Jump to postThis is really no different than any other labor negotiation, with one difference: The company and union negotiated an agreement. Both sides thought it was the best they were going to get. The union submitted it to the membership. The membership rejected it. Nobody here has posted the TA, so we don’...
Jump to postI was on a 319 DTW-PHL two weeks ago. New livery and new interior with the exception of the bulkhead panel between row 1 and the galley. The logo on it was from the pixel livery.
Jump to postCharlotte is a higher per capita income area. You can't compare STL of 20 years ago against CLT today. The whole scenario needs to be considered in the context at the time. 20 years of a major, stable air service hub might mean that the STL economy might look very different today. There's no doubt ...
Jump to postYes, because adding in more flights to places where there are already plenty of entrenched carriers is a winning recipe for success You forgot an important point. They're going to be successful because they are going to attract the Virgin America crowd. You know, the ones who made Virgin America wi...
Jump to postCointrin330 wrote:LHR service began in 2008, though I seem to recall reading DL flew a 747 in the early 1970s to LHR?
Quite nice to see this one grow over the past years. Originally a Saturday-only E175, then daily E175, then daily A319 and 2x daily mix of 1x E175 and 1x A319 in the winter, and now a 2x daily A319 in the winter. It's amazing how well all the new service AA added to EYW worked. DFW, ORD, and PHL we...
Jump to postYikes. Why yikes? Spirit and United currently book to 100%. I haven't heard of Covid being spread on their flights, have you? Pretty sure our hyper-sensitive media would make a big deal out of it. I've been on a number of 85% flights recently, don't see the issue. There are carriers who will contin...
Jump to post-CVG and HNL will transition from bases to AFP’s with approximately 80 flight attendants each. -ORM, SAS and TPM AFPs closing. -SFO will transition from base to AFP; will retain current staffing but no backfill for attrition. -EWR will no longer be a coterminal for NY-based crews. EWR flights will ...
Jump to postSo who will get theses stations? Unifi/DGS, Envoy, United Ground Express, McGee, ATS, G2, Menzies, Primeflight, Quickflight? It will likely be multiple ground handlers for various reasons. For example G2 already does below wing for B6 in DTW. That may give the the ability to bid competitively for a...
Jump to postAt that time, airline service was highly regulated. It was not the commodity product that air travel is today. Airfares were highly regulated as well. The average cost of air travel based on historical data was well outside affordability for many. Do you desire more legroom? You can buy it for less ...
Jump to postDoctorVenkman wrote:If you take this deal you better be ready to go into a different industry. It's not like there's anyone hiring out there.
In profitable or turbulent times, U.S. airline policies and the implementation of them are so one-sided. Doesn’t seem to matter whether they are making or losing $2b a year. Anyone wonder why they are one of the most distrusted and complained about industries in the U.S. Oh those awful airlines. Th...
Jump to postVarsity1 wrote:Really? They were HQ'd in GSO just a few months ago.