*UA3411, Republic Airlines, DBA United Express. Now let's see, which contract of carriage do I use? Is it Republic's, United Express', United's?" Probably as they say when you check the rules on your fare, something like "the more/most restrictive rule applies!" "Sorry, sir, you ...
Jump to postThis EAS program has been repealed more often than the House has repealed Obamacare, and they're both still here and I'll bet you they'll be here for a long time.. Sure, the EAS is crazy, like funding for most everything for transportation in our country is. And, like cars and driving will take care...
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I'll bet there are more than just a few flight crew folks on here who could just scream about the seat belt issue like this and others. Me, not now or ever a flight crew person, but if you"ve flown even a couple of times, you know, like, where are people's minds, or maybe we should all take a scienc...
Jump to postThere are 2 sides to every story, and in this matter, I would submit there are probably a hundred. First, the Fly America Act. It was part of law (Public Law 93-624), effective Jan. 3, 1975). It was often referred to as the "Save PanAm" law, but of course it failed to do that. Before the Act, 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/enilria" class="quote" target="_blank">enilria</a> (<a href="#27" class="quote">Reply 27</a>):<br/><i>That's a guess. The DOJ has a pretty lame ...
Jump to postPosts about ATPCO generally are not best sellers. But, in any event, if you're reading this thread, you're probably pretty passionate about this stuff. In my early years, I used to subscribe to ATPCO's domestic tariffs, back when there stilll was a CAB. UPS must have made a fortune with its daily de...
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/jOHNcLIPPER" class="quote" target="_blank">jOHNcLIPPER</a> (<a href="#25" class="quote">Reply 25</a>):<br/><i>All airlines do this...</i></font>...
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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/adamblang" class="quote" target="_blank">adamblang</a> (<a href="#11" class="quote">Reply 11</a>):<br/><i>Does <acronym title="United Airlines (...
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/EA+CO+AS" class="quote" target="_blank">EA CO AS</a> (<a href="#13" class="quote">Reply 13</a>):<br/><i>Ah, so you're THAT guy... </i></font></t...
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/airzim" class="quote" target="_blank">airzim</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i>The challenge with many of these very large ...
Jump to postUA is absoluletly an abomination with its "change-of-gauge," 1-stop, direct flights, and "with stops" flight marketing shenanigans. I've complained about this to <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> and DOT for years. No other airline does this like <acronym title="United Airlines (US...
Jump to postI'd like to think this is all about reacting to customer revolt. For me, put in a regional and you've lost me as a customer, assuming there is an alternative. Maybe <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> is seeing that in others, too. But <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acron...
Jump to postAs was said, the original versions that "mated" with a plane were an adventure what with passengers having to navigate the narrow walkway ramp--mover-to-the-plane. Essentially, you had to go outside on the ramps, battling the cold, wind, snow, rain, you name it! My dear Mom was terrified she was goi...
Jump to postJust, curious. Yes, I know what happened to the cat! No, I make no claim for "need to know" privilege. Why aren't all airlines, regardless of their flag, given the same departure routes, for example, from Dulles, heading overseas? I don't mean the North Atlantic track, just the first few miles from ...
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Jump to postThe weather the past few days has been "something" most everywhere in the lower 48. Always interesting to see the diversions for whatever. I believe American's 1651, a 737-800 from Miami to Seattle is just about the longest domestic US nonstop going...about 2,720 stat miles, taking about 6:15 to 6:3...
Jump to postLove places like Wendover. No scheduled airline service, just casino charters. Laughlin, Nevada (through the Bullhead City, Arizona airport just across the river) has about 3 or 4 gambling charters every day. Harrah's-Laughlin and Don Laughlin's Riverside use Sun Country 737s and Republic E-170s fro...
Jump to postInteresting topic. Maybe someone already mentioned it, but a few years back, some in Congress were planning to enact legislation to eliminate the airlines' prohibition on "hidden city" and"back-to-back" ticketing. The Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (sounds pr...
Jump to postPeople, people, people! We are talking about the airline industry here. I don't trust any carrier, but if you see the names Allegiant and Frontier, you know what you are in for...here today, gone tomorrow. It has nothing to do with Harrisburg. It's just the way these types of carriers operate. Front...
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/Vasu" class="quote" target="_blank">Vasu</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>Can anyone explain to an intrigued non-American wh...
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/CALMSP" class="quote" target="_blank">CALMSP</a> (<a href="#56" class="quote">Reply 56</a>):<br/><i>but are you willing to pay for all that? </i...
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/KGRB" class="quote" target="_blank">KGRB</a> (<a href="#15" class="quote">Reply 15</a>):<br/><i>What's so confusing about it to passengers? They...
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/ScottB" class="quote" target="_blank">ScottB</a> (<a href="#41" class="quote">Reply 41</a>):<br/><i>IMO the key distinction here (and one I have...
Jump to postI think we're getting a little ahead of ourselvers thinking about the Silver Line to Dulles--like even by 2018 or 2019. Now, we Americans aren't too into public transportation, but it should be <acronym title="CSA Czech Airlines">OK</acronym>, if it ever gets to Dulles. The first phase of the Silver...
Jump to postCertainly, some very good points and questions. Just for the record, from DOT stats. At Nov. 1, 2013, there were 117 communities being subsidized under the EAS program (excludes Alaska but includes 2 routes in Hawaii and 1 in Puerto Rico). Total annual amount of subsidy was: $219,879, 243. As I allu...
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/lightsaber" class="quote" target="_blank">lightsaber</a> (<a href="#15" class="quote">Reply 15</a>):<br/><i>Lancaster is located directly on one...
Jump to postCongress to the small communities of America: "DROP DEAD!" Congress to the rest of America trying to schedule a day-trip to the small communities of Amerca: "YOU PEOPLE MAKE ME SICK!" Congress is intent on seeing that the EAS eligibility rules are such that NO small community will qualify for a subs...
Jump to postThere really are some beautiful places in our country and Jackson Hole is certainly one of them! Earlier this Spring <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> was offering <acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (IAD / KIAD), USA - Virginia">IAD</acronym> to <acronym title="Jacks...
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/DashTrash" class="quote" target="_blank">DashTrash</a> (<a href="#33" class="quote">Reply 33</a>):<br/><i>They don't have any to keep. </i></fon...
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We are talking about Allegiant here, no? Is any route they start up, ever safe? If it is, they must have screwed up!
I'm sure that <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> has every intention in the world to farm out every last route it can to the regionals and the little planes. I doubt that lavatory issues have ever entered any of their decisions. I do enjoy flying on the 9-seaters--the Cape Air C409s...
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/LOWS" class="quote" target="_blank">LOWS</a> (<a href="#22" class="quote">Reply 22</a>):<br/><i>Surely, I'm not the only person who saw this thr...
Jump to postWhat a year for the DC area: RGIII, Dan and the Skins, honor all the native Americans by winning the Super Bowl. Ovie and the Caps win the Stanley Cup. The Nats, Mr. Boswell tells me, are but a few days from clinching a spot in the World Series, and The Wiz, who'd a thought. Isn't it tonight they fi...
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/toxtethogrady" class="quote" target="_blank">toxtethogrady</a> (<a href="#37" class="quote">Reply 37</a>):<br/><i>I see no reason for <acronym t...
Jump to postTaking <acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (IAD / KIAD), USA - Virginia">IAD</acronym>, for example, pick a day, say Thursday, May 8: To <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym>, 3 are regionals--600a, 332p, and 714p. To <acronym title=...
Jump to postknope2001, Great work, and I respect your opinions, too. Might not always agree with you, but nevertheless I appreciate your work. I have ridden on the service from a hub to a particular EAS community (I won't say which one right now) many, many times. Over time, the hub changed, as did the carrier....
Jump to postUA lists it as aircraft #3209. I see FlightAwawe no longer shows the path of the roughly hour and a half, mostly 5,000 foot. many looped flight from <acronym title="Washington - Ronald Reagan National (DCA / KDCA), USA - Virginia">DCA</acronym> to <acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (I...
Jump to postThanks codc10, UA's Flight Status says flight landed. Hope all's well.
Jump to postJust wondering, is this a diversion to <acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (IAD / KIAD), USA - Virginia">IAD</acronym> on Sun. morn, <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> 1662 737-800 <acronym title="Washington - Ronald Reagan National (DCA / KDCA), USA - Virginia">DCA</a...
Jump to postSomething very strange going on here. I could swear I and at least one other poster had this topic started in the civil aviation forum, not here in the Polls forum. I saw it there...then, bang it got obliterated and I never knew where it went until now. Maybe <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">U...
Jump to postAnyone else happen to be looking at fares on united.com sometime around 2pm EDT and wonder if they had hit the lottery?
I booked a seat, have a confirmation number, and wonder whether it will stand. Anyone?
The EAS program has been discussed many times here. We all have opinions about the value of the program. What is it now, about a $200 million annual program? Money paid to airlines that fly the routes to serve small communities, the people who live, work, and play there and for everyone else in the ...
Jump to postThanks all. Great info. At <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym>, UAX ops were busy, to say the least and passengers were not in a particularly good mood, even if it was Christmas. Planes were sitting around everywhere, many, if not all for de-ici...
Jump to postFor many of us this past week, weather and de-icing played a major factor in our enjoyment/displeasure of our travel. For us passengers, not involved in airline or aiport management, it would be helpful if someone could explain how de-icing management works. My trip was intended as a <acronym title=...
Jump to postFlown Cape Air many, many times. In all types of weather.
Very small, but well run. Simple, quality service. If only there were more such carriers.
These major-city, intrastate routes seem so interesting. <acronym title="Las Vegas - McCarran International (LAS / KLAS), USA - Nevada">LAS</acronym>-<acronym title="Reno / Tahoe - International (Cannon) (RNO / KRNO), USA - Nevada">RNO</acronym>, <acronym title="Philadelphia - International (PHL / K...
Jump to postNow there's a plane that could make some real noise. Living at the Virginia end of the Teddy Roosevelt bridge across the Potomac, on days with low cloud ceilings and the river noise abatement procedures weren't/couldn't be followed, you knew when a 727 was flying over. Power up! (Of course, the <acr...
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