Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

This aircraft is still sitting at the Horizon hangar. I take it can’t go back into service until the investigation is totally complete?

Re: Oregon Aviation - 2024

Just regular RON aircraft will be sent to the hangar.

Re: Oregon Aviation - 2024

United’s PDX hangar is having its open house today. It only took three years to repurpose this old ANG hangar. They should’ve just built a new one for cheaper and it would have been finished in 1/4 of the time. Wish I could see that,Is this open to the public, or just invited guests? What aircraft ...

Re: Oregon Aviation - 2024

United’s PDX hangar is having its open house today. It only took three years to repurpose this old ANG hangar. They should’ve just built a new one for cheaper and it would have been finished in 1/4 of the time.

Re: Oregon Aviation - 2024

That's not good, but thanks for the response. Any future changes to where international flights are handled will be covered by the new master plan that the Port is working on. Easier said than done, but you would think they could have at least built a walkway the length of the D concourse for inter...

Re: Oregon Aviation - 2024

AC4500 wrote:

Looks like F9 moved from gate D8 to C16 effective today. Is this just temporary? Is C16 a common use gate?

Re: Oregon Aviation - 2024

I know it was mentioned on last year's thread but any idea what's up with the UA hangar adjacent to the ANG ramp? In June, someone I met with at QX said it had been delayed because of electrical issues as it had been isolated from the base, and over the summer I had applied to two jobs at United mo...

Re: Boutique Air Shrinkage

We still occasionally get some transfer bags here at PDX. We don’t like to run down their bags to the old Skywest hangar where they operate from because you have to go through a security checkpoint on the way back.

Re: AA at PHX in the 1970s

It’s crazy they flew a DC-10 to PSP. I worked at PSP in the early 90’s and American had a bunch of igloos left over from their widebody days on the field. They used them for storage at the time.

Re: Oregon Aviation - 2023

pdxav8r wrote:

ramprat74 wrote:

I didn’t see Western in this video?

The Western counter is definitely in the background in one shot.

Re: Oregon Aviation - 2023

I didn’t see Western in this video?

Re: Oregon Aviation - 2023

The United hangar has been one boondoggle after another for the last two years. They should’ve never leased that old ANG hangar. It would of been cheaper to raze it and then build a new one. United does A checks on one RON Airbus. They were suppose to start doing B checks at the new hangar but that’...

Re: 6 cities announced for Reno Air Races

I don’t see it at Thermal, which is right next to Coachella and Indio, both are growing cities near Palm Springs. Wendover would be good, middle of the desert and have places to stay at the casino hotels. This was where the Enola Gay plane and crew trained before it went to Pacific theater.

Re: Oregon Aviation - 2023

Who wants to go to Iceland in the winter? The sun rises at 11:00am and sets at 3:00pm.

Re: Was AA really the place to work and fly, 30+ years ago?

I knew a few folks that worked with both UA and AA years ago. They all seemed to enjoy working for the airline they worked at so i can't really say if one airline was better to work for then the other in my opinion. Airline jobs at one time were very prestigious and i guess Nepotism did not hurt th...

Re: LAX Terminal 4 Renovations American Airlines

AA has been renovating terminal 4 since they moved in. I miss the first addition, when they built the widebody gates where the nose of the plane was feet from the terminal glass.

Re: Odd ferry flight - DL 8841

On google maps, you can see a DC-8 on the ramp.

Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

The HNL-GUM is non rev flight for all the Micronesians that work for United these days. Half of my co-workers come from GUM or TKK. The SFO-MNL will be a non rev flight also. It will probably have 100+ listed every day.

Re: Oregon Aviation - 2023

pdxav8r wrote:

Any word on the UA MX base that was supposed to be at PDX? Dead or alive?

Re: Airport Mistakes

ONT. The new terminal that opened in 1998 should of been one large terminal with a parallel concourse like SNA. I know they had big plans with up to four terminals in the future, but having two terminals pretty far apart isn’t the greatest use of land and manpower. The two terminals are night and da...

Re: AF to SAN (limited)

leftcoast8 wrote:

PSAatSAN4Ever wrote:

I only know of three regular international routes that served San Diego: BA to LHR (SHJ 744 and 77W), LH to FRA (744, 346) and JL to NRT (788)

Re: 3M Flight Department closing?

Intel has its own fleet and terminals in Hillsboro, OR and San Jose, CA. They have multiple flights a day between the two cities.

Re: Denver Aviation - 2023

Always wondered, is there enough space between A and B terminals to put another terminal ? No. The efficiency of DEN is that both concourses can push while two way traffic is also moving. Widebody gates and international gates seem to already be short even with A west opening. Is DL going to have a...

Re: Mom files complaint, claims UA refused to accommodate son's peanut allergy

Judge1310 wrote:

ramprat74 wrote:

Mandelbaum, Mandelbaum, Mandelbaum

Don't you even try to bring that mess in here, or at least, please share your referencing...

Re: Mom files complaint, claims UA refused to accommodate son's peanut allergy

Mandelbaum, Mandelbaum, Mandelbaum

Re: Los Angeles Basin (BUR/LAX/LGB/ONT/SNA) Aviation - 2023

What is MSC? When should we realistically see an announcement around T9? Sorry sometimes forget that people not fluent in LAX speaks don't get the acronyms. Since it was answered upthread here is a link to the project. https://www.lawa.org/transforminglax/projects/upcoming/msc-south In my opinion, ...

Re: Oregon Aviation - 2023

The Port of Portland has really dropped the ball the last two weather events. I feel they are so busy with the new terminal that they forget their running an airport. If it wasn’t for airlines flying in and out of this airport, there wouldn’t be an airport or new terminal. The last storm that starte...

Re: Oregon Aviation - 2023

Sorry, I meant D1 not B1. The old C concourse gate hold rooms were tiny. The ramps that you had to walk down to the door took a lot of space for seats.

Re: Oregon Aviation - 2023

Brand new terminal and same old stuffy and way too small baggage claim. It looks like the new gate E1 will be were the north atrium is today. I wonder if gate B1 will be removed because of ramp spacing, B1 always had a weird small hold room.

Re: A ‘Harrowing’ Delta Tale - Canceled Flights, Pilfered Luggage

Cliff notes?

Re: Brazil's Azul eyes restructuring, does not rule out a CH 11 filing

United invested close to $400 million into Azul, they own 8% of them.

Re: AA ground workers vote to strike over pay.

United has its own employees at LHR, Ramp, Customer Service, Tech ops, Stores.

Re: Deltas Old A320s

The NWA logo can still be seen on the roof of the Duluth hangar on Google maps.

Re: Dual front and rear passenger jetway boarding in CVG

United tried this in DEN with Ted about 15 years ago. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=07c1d230-76a9-4aea-a7e2-d609077f5615 Until the rear jetway collapsed on the wing, then United removed them. Pull up any airport picture from the 60’s and you will see aircraft being park...

Re: United Threatens to End JFK Airport Service Without More Flights

I hope they get kicked out of JFK. They cut their nose off to spite their face. Just another terrible decision by their former CEO back years ago.

Re: 1970s Film About Jobs in the Airline Industry

I like how the United flight kitchen worker said it was really good pay. Seeing how United outsourced their final kitchens to the lowest bidder just recently . I worked alongside three former United flight kitchen chefs back in the 90’s on the ramp after United outsourced them. You went from being t...

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2022

Gates E1 and E5 both could handle a 747. Now the United gates can’t even hold a 757. We will see what the new gates E1 and E2 will look like when the new terminal is complete.

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2022

NZ has flown a one off PDX-AKL non-stop with a 747-400, the passengers embarked from D. This was a delivery flight & NZ took the keys at PDX. Then operated the non-stop leg to AKL with fare paying passengers, who came home via LAX. Below is a link to an old OAG, showing the PDX & SEA flight...

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2022

United still has an agreement with Boutique, we get transfer bags off our flights and have to run them down to their terminal.

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2022

KLM connections to the DL AMS-PDX flight are pretty close to impossible. Most of the inbound KLM Euro flights arrive around 9am. That gives you one hour to connect and pass through passport control. A 1PM departure works better for connections.

Re: DL Opens Section of New LGA Terminal 6/4/22

Paywall

Re: Alaska Flt Cancelations

It’s not just the ground staff at Alaska, it’s all the airlines these days. The newer people just don’t care, it’s just a job for them. The days of having a career with the airlines are long gone. I’m glad I’m at the tail end of my “career” because coming to work gets harder and harder everyday. It’...

Re: The consequences of crew and staff shortage in aviation - 2022 thread

This is the first time in many decades that labor has the upper hand in collective bargaining agreements. Lets see how the unions handle it. I know Southwest IAM members turned down their recent agreement. No one wants to start at $15.00 a hour and wait 11 years to top out these days.

Re: Mike Tyson Punches Passenger on JetBlue Flight

Noshow wrote:

It ends with the wrong message: You can beat up people on airplanes without being punished. How many more people will now try the same?

Re: CDC mask mandate for travelers struck down by federal judge

I don’t believe anything from the media these days. If you want to continue wearing a mask on a plane, then do it, but majority of the traveling public and airline workers are done with it. https://www.kptv.com/app/2022/04/20/majority-americans-want-masks-travelers-ap-norc-poll/?outputType=apps

Re: 2005 schedule UA IAD-OAK

OAK was a large line station for United with flights to SEA, PDX, HNL, LAX, BUR, ONT, SNA, SAN, DEN, ORD, IAD. The DC-10 maintenance base also. Southwest moving in pretty much killed it for United.

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2022

PDX is having a job fair tomorrow April 19th at the Embassy Suites next to the airport. United will be hiring on the spot for Ramp Agents.

Re: AS Groundcrew meltdown at SFO?

There’s also a discrepancy between unskilled and blue collar Stacking bags in cans or in a bin? Fine, unskilled. Using loaders, pushbacks, etc…not unskilled. Take any of that equipment, put it on a construction site and you’d need a different license or certification to operate it, and pay through ...

Re: AS Groundcrew meltdown at SFO?

I found it odd that Alaska wanted McGee employees to be represented by the IAM when they were created. Why would Alaska management want to deal with organize labor rather then setting all the rules themselves? At my line station, my airline has 13 mechanic vacancies and not one application on file. ...

Re: AS Groundcrew meltdown at SFO?

Sister and Brother-in-law waited 1 hour 11 minutes at OGG this past Saturday to pull into a gate on a flight from Chicago on UA. It’s ridiculous what the contractors pay the rampers! I worked outside for 42 years here in Houston, it’s brutal in the summer, and not speak of winter in northern states...