Hi All, It is important to note that the newer C130J/LM100J platform has significant enhancements over the older models (C130H and older). Some of the improvements include: Avionics have been modernized. More efficient engines are used. New 6 bladed props that further enhance the efficiency of the e...
Jump to postDCA is a great location for folks inside and adjacent to the beltway. There is excellent connection by Metro (when it is operating), and is convenient to counties south and east of the beltway. Dulles can be a pain from counties north of the city due to traffic issues, and limited mass transit conne...
Jump to postIts simple - 3-3 can be done. Get rid of the armrests, and shave off a couple of inches from each seat section. Any airline who would put serious consideration to this concept doesn't care about passenger comfort, so why not? As long as there are 3 seat belts, meets flammability requirements, and ho...
Jump to postI noticed that Air France had some aircraft with a slightly wider middle seat. Although the seats ahead of the overwing exits converted to business class seats (the middle arms retracted, and the back cushion folded down to make a table between the window and aisle seats). I am pretty sure that even...
Jump to postBA seems to be leading the way towards narrowing the gap between traditional carriers and LCCs. I have to admit that I was a bit surprised with the BoB system that was implemented on the European flights. I thought this was going to be limited to UK Domestic. Guess I was wrong. Regarding the other t...
Jump to postThis is ridiculous. We finally have a set of pilot requirements that make sense and make it so that airliners have two well qualified, experienced pilots flying them. It is immensely impressive how safe airline flying in the US has become and this rule is a big part of it. I don't agree with your p...
Jump to postI don't think that it is JUST the inch in the seat width. It is a combination of refinements that went into the 10 abreast seating. The armrests are tiny, the seat cushion is not comfortable, and the slim backrest seems to have no give at all. The aisles are narrow, causing passers by to make contac...
Jump to postIt is interesting to see how benchmarking similar aircraft (capacity and mission) and similar aircraft, different generation have evolved and improved. The F100 was not as inefficient as I had understood, but 717 seems to be a vast improvement (same fuel burn, 2200kg/h) 752 vs TU 204 300 surprised m...
Jump to postNW always took care of me as a customer, especially as an elite FF. With their domestic fleet lacking on entertainment, I found an MP3 player or a good book invaluable. The folks on the ground, and on board were always outgoing and helpful. Prior to early 2000s, UA was a great airline. 'The friendly...
Jump to postIn the past, the common limits for international travel were 2 bags @ 32 Kg. Later, this was reduced to 2 bags @ 23Kg. Not long after, they dropped it to 1 bag @ 23 Kg. Experimenting with lowering the allowed weight of checked baggage has been done. Airlines had a nice payday during the 'Gocha' peri...
Jump to postAA is not just competing with low cost carriers. Airlines like Lufthansa already stripped away frequent flyer benefits and seat assignments. The days of loyalty to alliances are going to continue fading away as there is less and less benefit to sticking to a preferred airline and alliance. On the o...
Jump to postUntil recently, there was no A321 that had the legs to go coast to coast. With the extended range, and NEO, this is (or will be soon) possible. In this case, the 757 was the best tool for ~200 pax service (not as sensitive to hot/high performance offsets, longer range, etc). US Airways had quite a n...
Jump to posthigh altitude destinations in India and Himalayas need a sturdy Regional aircraft... ...It is a cargo aircraft it's used for troop movements as well.. A little more improvements should make it good for passengers too! http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2016/12/14/pakistan-airlines-c130/ This i...
Jump to postThis is a good option for Boeing and its 737 customers. The seating capacity difference between the A321 and 737-9 is now within a whisker and from where I sit the economics could well be in favour of the Boeing product (depending on mission profile). With many airlines already down gauging domesti...
Jump to postI see a lady and her niece who are likely not regular travelers, who are not used to how air travel is set up, and what the 'norms' of what navigating airports are. They are likely under a lot of stress being out of their comfort zone, and not being sure of what comes next. I don't believe that air ...
Jump to postI was also curious about the US service to IAH, which came with the tie-up between UA and CO. I notice that UA tends to bounce between 763 and 777 on most of their routes out of MUC, but it appears that IAH stays consistent with the 763. I have flown IAH-MUC four times, most recently about a week a...
Jump to postHi All, As I fly in and out of MUC often, I was curious about some of the new North American services that came about, and what level of success the carriers are having. In particular, I am curious if DL had measurable success with the DTW-MUC summer flights. I do see that they did not extend this t...
Jump to postThe point of view of AZ was that the AF/KL Joint Venture was stacked against AZ, and favored AF, due to the existing larger network that AF had. It does not surprising that with the new blood of AB and EK, AZ feels that DL is suppressing growth opportunity in the US. When DL was providing feed into ...
Jump to postBoeing especially, but I am sure that other OEMs are similar, but there are requirements that in manufacturing to inch based engineering, all measurement tools be calibrated to inches. Measuring in metric, and converting is not allowed. Not with Boeing.
Tom
I recall that Air India did serve IAD in the past. In the mid-late 90's Royal Jordanian served IAD with an L1011. TAP also served (either IAD or BWI, I can not recall) up to the early 1990's. It seems that what is old, is new again. I recall that both, NW and KLM served IAD AMS off-and-on throughout...
Jump to postInteresting parallel events... Niki Lauda founded Lauda Air, and Lauda Air got absorbed into Austrian. Austrian Airlines went through some troubles thereafter. It wasn't until Tyrolean took over operations, and Austrian got bought by Lufthansa group that things started to come together. Then Lufthan...
Jump to postIf I were MWAA management, the language about "refining the mission" of hubs would make me very nervous. It seems clear to me that, of UA's hubs, IAD is in the strategically weakest position, not least because the bulk of Washington-area O&D travelers will pay money to avoid the airpo...
Jump to postThe Q series had this. It goes well beyond acoustic cancelling technologies, and goes after the vibrations in the airframe. It is a fairly dynamic system, and from what I have been told, it tends to have a rather low repair priority, since it is not a system critical to flight safety. It is not so m...
Jump to postI have a feeling that we will start seeing Y+ filling in for the masses of road warriors who's travel policies have evolved, and nudged them out of J class. These are still lucrative, since they don't have the flexibility to meet the criteria of discount fares, and often schedule travel closer to tr...
Jump to postI work with a large company, and it seems that every year, those who are authorized to travel business class become fewer and fewer. The dividing line tends to creep higher and higher up the org chart. There are fewer and fewer folks up there. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quot...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/vfw614" class="quote" target="_blank">vfw614</a> (<a href="#25" class="quote">Reply 25</a>):<br/><i>And much cheaper labor cost... </i></font></...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/seahawk" class="quote" target="_blank">seahawk</a> (<a href="#11" class="quote">Reply 11</a>):<br/><i>He will probably be correct. <acronym titl...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PRINAIR" class="quote" target="_blank">PRINAIR</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i>I find it hilarious how many continue to w...
Jump to postFrom what I have read, the organizers have sold exclusive rights to Delta. Normally when an organized event sells exclusive rights to something, they are responsible for ensuring the rights are protected as a condition of the sale of exclusivity. It seems from the article, these mandates came from t...
Jump to postI understand the difference in fuel burn between the 762 and 763 was surprisingly small. I would guess that this is the reason for the somewhat low sales volume of the 762.
Tom
I flew SAS ~2010 from <acronym title="Copenhagen - Kastrup (CPH / EKCH), Denmark">CPH</acronym> to <acronym title="CURRENT: Munich (- Franz Josef Strauss) (MUC / EDDM), Germany AND OLD: Munich - Riem (MUC / EDDM) (closed), Germany">MUC</acronym> (30 minute flight), and a snack was offered. There was...
Jump to postI was on a few <acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym> A320s not too long ago from 1988. It seemed that they pulled a few from the bottom of the barrel while some of their other machines were undergoing maintenance. About 3 years ago, I was on one of the <acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym> A32...
Jump to postWith more and more carriers charging for checked luggage, there is more cabin baggage than ever before. Nearly all parties have taken notice- passengers, airlines, and manufacturers. They were faced with an emerging problem that needed a solution other than gate checking. The problem was that there ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/kdhurst380" class="quote" target="_blank">kdhurst380</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i> I suspect that there'd be no point ...
Jump to postI flew on <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym>, and some of their 'premium' routes (<acronym title="Washington - Ronald Reagan National (DCA / KDCA), USA - Virginia">DCA</acronym>-<acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson Int (The William B Hartsfield / Municipal / Candler Field) (...
Jump to postI have to say, A.net had been really good in the past regarding ads and pop-ups. In recent years, it has gotten worse and worse. I get ads that take up the entire screen, and I just close the window, and get back to work. This seems like a revenue habit of a site that is no longer trying to simply s...
Jump to postThere are a lot of folks out there who simply don't realize how easy it is to get a free bar code reader app. Inside that barcode is pretty much all of the passenger booking info (including the raw <acronym title="Tower Air (USA)">FF</acronym>#). Even by dutifully blurring out sensitive human readab...
Jump to postI am curious how the CRJ1000 and the E190 compare, with regard to performance, fuel burn, etc. It is interesting how the airline president is contrasting them to both, turboprops, and the narrowbodies (I guess he means non-RJs). I don't know how many regional jets can favorably compare. An <acronym ...
Jump to postWill we see closer ties with Virgin America, as we have seen with the other Virgin affiliates?
Jump to postI have been through a few airports in the past few months, and upon entry from outside France, we went through passport control. Also leaving France. I flew <acronym title="Amsterdam - Schiphol (AMS / EHAM), Netherlands">AMS</acronym>-<acronym title="Lyon - Saint-Exupery (Satolas) (LYS / LFLL), Fran...
Jump to postSo, <acronym title="KLM Royal Dutch Airlines">KL</acronym> is retiring the A330's? This is news to me. I know that the older A330-200s were delivered in 2005, and even some delivered within the past 3 or 4 years. The -300s are fairly new in the fleet as well. I was not aware that there was already t...
Jump to postI find the new system very difficult to figure out as well. The airline agents typically do not have a clear understanding either. I would suggest contacting Skymiles admin, not the ticket agents. The current system seems to be a bit of a shell game, and I gave up trying to understand it. I have sta...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/enilria" class="quote" target="_blank">enilria</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i> A LOT of the local market to <acronym tit...
Jump to postSo I arrived in <acronym title="CURRENT: Munich (- Franz Josef Strauss) (MUC / EDDM), Germany AND OLD: Munich - Riem (MUC / EDDM) (closed), Germany">MUC</acronym> on Saturday Dec 12, and saw an <acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym> 777-300 F-GZNN in Skyteam colors. This is not a normal type seen ...
Jump to postI see this on <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> 131 <acronym title="CURRENT: Munich (- Franz Josef Strauss) (MUC / EDDM), Germany AND OLD: Munich - Riem (MUC / EDDM) (closed), Germany">MUC</acronym>-<acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson Int (The William B Hartsfield / Munici...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/cyow" class="quote" target="_blank">cyow</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i> It also bothers me that their general education a...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Layman" class="quote" target="_blank">Layman</a> (<a href="#28" class="quote">Reply 28</a>):<br/><i>They should encourage pax to pre-order the c...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/zrs70" class="quote" target="_blank">zrs70</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>"We have found that our purchased meal option is...
Jump to postThanks for the great feed back, folks! It seems that there are plenty of targets to improve upon with regards to improvement of goods. There also has to be an effective balance between cost of increasing durability (both, weight and price), and the cost of simple R&R (remove and replace). Some p...
Jump to postHi All, Having worked in manufacturing, I am always amazed at how advanced materials are making components lighter and lighter. The humble tray table, for example, weighs about the same as the sandwich that is placed on top of it. I have wondered, with the innovations and such, what kinds of effects...
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