FRA doesn't make passengers from "safe" countries reclear security.
Jump to post"Completely professional" is an unattainable goal. We are human. We can have disagreements or dislike the person in the other seat. We can be tired and fatigued, have trouble at home, or financial troubles, or just having a bad day. Since the inception of CRM, the fact that pilots cannot ...
Jump to postThey made a total of 55 -300s compared to nearly 1,000 -200s. Even if the scimitar winglets would produce a meaningful benefit the small fleet size limits the potential market for anyone interested in developing an STC. Just because something is technically viable doesn't mean it's economically via...
Jump to postShorter flights due to less range inherent in the design. It takes flight time in cruise to make the fuel savings. -200s do lots of TATL and HI flying, the -300 not so much. The -300 does tons of Hawaii flying for UA The -300 DID tons of flying to Hawaii. The amount has greatly dwindled with the 77...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:Shorter flights due to less range inherent in the design. It takes flight time in cruise to make the fuel savings. -200s do lots of TATL and HI flying, the -300 not so much.
On an AA flight a few weeks ago I was surprised when the FO made the preflight announcement and stated that the captain was his wife. I was surprised because I would have thought that people in intimate relationships wouldn't be allowed to fly together. I would think that if a couple had an argumen...
Jump to postJoe and Margrit Fahan not only flew at DL together all the time, they posted on IG about it. Very cool people actually - Joe mandatory retired and is flying corporate, while Margrit did that for a while and now took a CA slot at Breeze.
Jump to postAA closed the the SFO base in early 2023 (probably in response to California labor regulations), so it makes some sense they'd explore adding another west coast base. Absolutely and totally wrong. The issue with the VA FAs is that they were non-union. Since AA's FAs are, the meal and rest break law...
Jump to postIt's kind of remarkable that in the US ULCCs are pulling out of the smaller airports like this one while in Europe they don't, European ULCCs prefer smaller airports instead of major ones. In the US only Allegiant works that way. And apparently, until shortly, Spirit at ACY. ACY is the kind of airp...
Jump to postPre clearance posts are usually for up to 5 years, and they apply for the position. They can bring their family. They get generous housing allowances and extra pay, but tend to work longer hours than US based CBP
Jump to postFlying a non -15 727-200 on a hot day at Stapleton must have been a challenge.
Jump to postI liked north island 29 too, and I imagine the younger guys still get to fly it!.....not much has changed at North Island since I left AMC many moons ago. Can you, Galaxy, or anyone else explain how the North Island approach worked/works? Is the SAN tower involved and if so, what instructions, clea...
Jump to postUS callsigns that aren't either an FAA recognized radio call sign (like the airlines) or a local LOA (like local TV helicopters, police, sky dive, etc) are always the tail number. The tail numbers all start with N and up to 5 digits after, with the last two being allowed to be letters. The UK and Ca...
Jump to postIt's likely that LS had a spare aircraft and a full crew at EMA that could have continued the journey. Or flights that could accommodate the pax from LS249. LBA is LS's home base, but it's not their biggest base (that would be MAN). Looks like you're quite correct about spare a/c and crew. LS249 no...
Jump to post$14K is expensive, but used cars are expensive these days. The CX-5 has been a smash hit for years and is a very good balance of a car, so it is not surprising to see that kind of price. I think it's a decent idea to offer lower and see what you can do. Also, don't discount what you might be able to...
Jump to postRunway 27 into SAN is both an incredible view, from both sides, and not nearly as hard to fly as many make it out to be. Just use what you have to slow the airplane down. It's also nice to know I'm home. The arrival and approach from the north into MEX is also quite impressive. Agree with everythin...
Jump to postOntario added LA in the front and called itself LA/Ontario Airport for a long time and it never really had any international flights except the ones coming from Central America. They managed to get a flight to Taipei because the senators went to Taiwan and asked for a favor (and it also works logis...
Jump to postRunway 27 into SAN is both an incredible view, from both sides, and not nearly as hard to fly as many make it out to be. Just use what you have to slow the airplane down. It's also nice to know I'm home.
The arrival and approach from the north into MEX is also quite impressive.
Coming from the north on the Pt. Reyes arrival, getting radar vectors to a visual to 28R at SFO is an awesome view.
RNAV 36 into CEC
No bigger fan of all 747s than myself but why would a 748 Combi be needed ? The standard 77W is already an epic combi right out of the box, it has a massive cargo capacity KLM had unique needs that made combis viable, even in the big belly era. Large animal transport, particularly very expensive ho...
Jump to postDoes LH have a maintenance plan that avoids full D Checks?
Jump to postThe longer the stage length, the less attractive ULCC products get - especially with seats as uncomfortable as F9 sells.
Jump to postBoeing legitimately proposed certifying the 777 without any deice on an entire surface - I can't remember the wing or the tail. United refused to take the airplane without it, so Boeing put in a pretty basic system.
Jump to postThe silly part of the O2 rule is one, crew masks are not designed for continued use, it’s emergency equipment; two, breathing even supplemental oxygen for long periods isn’t good for the user—it’s very dry; finally, the instances of loss of pressurization above F350 is easily meets the one on a bil...
Jump to postBUT: the real question here is - is the probability of dual engine failure high enough to even consider it? Has it ever happen, except for bad luck with bird strike, or similar? Is it like "once in a history" chance? The odds of it happening aren't all that high from a technical standpoin...
Jump to postIn the case of an engine failure, you generally won't see a climb beyond the greater of 1) Where the airplane leveled off, 2) the MSA or 3) the MVA/MIA for the controlling agency. The reasons have already been stated - you no longer have nearly the same excess thrust you did with the engine working,...
Jump to postI bet you can get that expunged, given your age at the time and the charge you pled to.
Jump to postNot expecting insider info as I don't think those who work for Shenzhen Airlines would lurk on this form. But they've been running an A330-300 between Shenzhen (SZX) and Heathrow (LHR) and Barcelona (BCN) regularly on their A330-300 with 300+ seats. Surely there needs to be some sort of payload res...
Jump to postThis route is within about 900nm of the published still air range of the 242t A333. That's pretty tight on an eastbound, especially with Chinese airspace concerns. Also, Shenzhen has a pretty dense configuration, considering that the Airbus numbers are published for a 277 PAX configuration and this ...
Jump to postA friend noticed FX1353 was flying this kinda crazy route from MSY to MEM via SAT. I checked the flight plan and it is, indeed, quite weird. Anyone know why?
KMSY PEKON Q56 SAT J23 EDNAS J131 FUZ TXK HOBRK3 KMEM
Are Chinese carriers barred from using Russian airspace?
Jump to postHonestly - if it was anyone else, I'd be more suspicious. Burnett seemed like the kind of obsessed whistle-blower who gets crazier and crazier over time
Jump to postAre there any rules on how to pick the alphanumeric call sign? Or can the airline just go to town on it? The airline uses their assigned ICAO 3 letter code and then their choice of flight number in filing the flight plan. The vast majority of US Part 121 flights correspondence with the IATA and int...
Jump to postI guess there is a reason why single engine VFR is prohibited in the EU. During my US CFI days in the late '80s the PPL license required 1 hour of VFR night training. Although it's decades ago now I still remember being rather uneasy during those flights. The current applicable requirements: 3 hour...
Jump to postInteresting how far into Mexico they made it before turning back to LAX.
Jump to postmxaxai wrote:N1120A wrote:I read the OP as meaning someone declining purchase, not a card company decline.
I don't see how the method of payment processing (typically not obvious, if at all visible, to the customer) affects a decision to purchase something on board.
Thank you for your responses. I'm doing a final master thesis and one of the topics is how the airlines can increase the conversion rate in the buy on board service (food and beverage). Some of the problems is that they have a number of declines so high and conversion rate so low. The reason is bec...
Jump to postDH8PU wrote:Unfortunately AC seems to not have restarted enRoute post covid
Thank you for your responses. I'm doing a final master thesis and one of the topics is how the airlines can increase the conversion rate in the buy on board service (food and beverage). Some of the problems is that they have a number of declines so high and conversion rate so low. The reason is bec...
Jump to postFrom a hard product perspective, very little differentiates business from first class anymore, with the notable exceptions of: EK, who intentionally have a fairly bad business hard product; EY, who have a much more limited scope F hard product that is higher end and SQ, who are similar to EY on a la...
Jump to postHere is the preliminary NTSB report: https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/193768/pdf It looks like this may be related to United’s specific configuration? Perhaps more accurately: related to the available option for factory configuration to CAT IIIA capabi...
Jump to postRegarding ORD, AA will get most of the new OGT, but won't get any satellites. Pg 24 https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/TAP_Final_EA_Appendix_B_3.pdf This document shows that out of 10 widebody gates in the OGT, AA gets 8 and UA gets 2. I doubt UA goes along with that. But this document does no...
Jump to postIt does look like there is a material difference in the regulations. The BBC article notes a limit of 20 mg per 100 ml, which corresponds to a .02, while the FAA regulation is .04. I wonder how well the US airlines educate crews on this? It does look like the pilot blew a .049, though we don't know ...
Jump to postWhile SFO has the United MRO, I'm pretty sure LAX does a lot of 777 specific maintenance for United and that may well be the reason for the divert there. Also, they may have picked up some crew there even if the rescue airplane was flown down from SFO. Makes sense to go to LAX where if the aircraft ...
Jump to postAnyone know the weather conditions at the time? Good visibility, moderate south winds. BNA was operating on a south flow at the time, which means 20 would have been the preferred runway at JWN. How late was this? Was the tower closed at Tune? Anyone know the weather conditions at the time? After wa...
Jump to postAnyone know the weather conditions at the time? After watching the Blancolirio vid about this, it seems weird. The plane was on its 3rd leg of the day having started up in Canada. Why did he overfly John Tune airport and not land? If they were landing runway 2 that would have been a odd approach as ...
Jump to postI think this has devolved into two separate issues. 1) "Security " at UK airports is more of a joke theater than anywhere in world. Banning liquids from crews - especially flight crews - is a joke and will always be a joke, regardless of the BS egalitarian red herrings thrown out. Should t...
Jump to postMaybe it's the way you're saying it, but everything you do say on this issue just reeks of privileged exceptionalism. So being subjected to the same level of scrutiny as the self-loading cargo is enough to make you feel sufficiently " riled up " that it's a " menace to flight safety ...
Jump to postAbsolutely nothing other than RJ's wouldn't be allowed. The unions are not modifying scope unless the is something in it for them. The airlines would just have to figure it out. Given how scope is considered an immovable object, I doubt the unions would budge even if something was in it for them. T...
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