United has six 777-222ERs that operate as two class airplanes in the 36 and 312 configuration. They are N210UA-N215UA. I believe there are 14 PW4056 powered 767-322ERs that operate as two-class airplanes. Someone else needs to chime in on the tail numbers, but I know they are the ships registered N6...
Jump to postIt took off on 30L just after 1000. The whine of a JT8D from and <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> DC-9-30 made it difficult to even hear the A380 from my post on the top of the Lindbergh north parking garage. It used about 5,000 feet of runway to get airborne, and looked like a...
Jump to postCan anyone verify the equipment on nonstop <acronym title="Pittsburgh - International (Greater Pittsburgh) (PIT / KPIT), USA - Pennsylvania">PIT</acronym>-<acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym> and <acronym title="Pittsburgh - International (Great...
Jump to postDoes anyone know what <acronym title="Air India">AI</acronym> 747-400s are getting this upgrade? I have heard they have some ex-UA -422s headed their way - so are these photos from one of those aircraft updated before entry into service? Or is this one of the -412s from <acronym title="Singapore Air...
Jump to postHey all- Thanks so much for the info on the <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> layovers in <acronym title="Luanda - 4 de Fevereiro (Belas) (LAD / FNLU), Angola">LAD</acronym>. I heard that other cities see a similar practice - like Abuja and Port Harcourt. But that is a SHORT layover for ...
Jump to postDoes anyone know how <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> (or <acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym> for that matter) deals with crew resource issues for the <acronym title="Luanda - 4 de Fevereiro (Belas) (LAD / FNLU), Angola">LAD</acronym> route? Do they have a local base down there to ...
Jump to postWell I guess if the inferior inflight meal service, paying for drinks in coach (other than with the primary meal service), outdated inflight entertainment, and absence of a new generation of aircraft didn't convince people, the draconian frequent flyer rules will convince people to take the European...
Jump to postOh I miss those days. I remember coming in from <acronym title="OLD: Denver - Stapleton International (DEN / KDEN) (closed), USA - Colorado AND CURRENT: Denver - International (DEN / KDEN), USA - Colorado">DEN</acronym> in 1984 in a DC-8-71 on United and parking next to a <acronym title="United Airl...
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Jump to postI saw the CO777 on a northbound departure off the three-zeros at 4:55pm. I heard those GE90s howling and I stepped outside my office at the University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus and there it was headed due north right above Cedar Avenue. I am not used to seeing the girth and massiveness of the ...
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Jump to postPeople should also understand that deadheading crewmembers have a VERY short report time prior to deadhead segments. For United flight attendants, it is 30 minutes. Flight attendants go on duty 30 minutes prior to scheduled DEPARTURE time for a deadhead segment. So that means the duty period begins ...
Jump to postThe non-stops were certainly post-deregulation (Western flew <acronym title="Honolulu - International / Hickam AFB (HNL / HIK / PHNL / PHIK), USA - Hawaii">HNL</acronym> with <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> through flights during regulation)....
Jump to postIf I am not mistaken United has already tried this. Any United buffs out there remember the K fare? I am not sure if it was introduced in the 70s or the 80s, but the <acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym> flight attendants always used to talk abou...
Jump to postI'll be with <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> on flight 997 <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym>-<acronym title="Buenos Aires - Ministro Pistarini (Ezeiza) (EZE / SAEZ), Argentina">EZE</acronym> on Christmas Day. I haven't ...
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Jump to postGosh that TWA 707 at <acronym title="CURRENT: Hong Kong - Chek Lap Kok International (HKG / VHHH), China - Hong Kong AND OLD: Hong Kong - Kai Tak International (HKG / VHHH) (closed), China - Hong Kong">HKG</acronym> is such a stumper! It has to be a -131B, because of the short ventral fin. The non-f...
Jump to postWhile I flew as a flight attendant for United, I was always uncomfortable with the 767 and DC-10 doors - especially the DC-10. DC-10 doors required two people for opening in the event of a power assist failure. On the 767, you could do it with one person, but you would have to be extremely strong. O...
Jump to postIf we are going to talk grossness, when I was a United flight attendant, I'll never forget working a DC-10-10 on <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym>-<acronym title="Las Vegas - McCarran International (LAS / KLAS), USA - Nevada">LAS</acronym>. We...
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Jump to postI didn't realize that the practice of retiring flight numbers has been contingent upon our media saturated age. This puts older practices of not retiring accident flight numbers into context. Someone told me that TW847 had multiple incidents prior to the hijacking off of <acronym title="OLD: Athens ...
Jump to postThis is not actually a big news item. It is no surprise that Bush's justice department sided with management. This is just one brief that the Federal District Court judge will read before ruling. Everyone already knew that the executive branch would try to put the squeeze on the judicial branch to b...
Jump to postIt is basically impossible to identify a system-wide "most senior" trip, as flight attendants only bid against other flight attendants in their own domicile. The nature of flying in the given domicile determines which routes go very senior. You could try to extrapolate which bases have the most seni...
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Jump to postI was interested in people's experiences at USAirways/America West's Phoenix hub, and wondering if any employees or local residents have heard about plans for the terminal. I just flew through <acronym title="Phoenix - Sky Harbor International (PHX / KPHX), USA - Arizona">PHX</acronym> both ways on ...
Jump to postUnited had the lower lobe galley on all of the original 747-122s, as well as the five 747-123s that came from American. All aircraft had forward and aft lower lobe galleys, with cart and personell elevators at crossaisle 2 and crossaisle 4. By the middle 1990s, the -122s were on their way out, as th...
Jump to postHow about we try to navigate our way through the ignorance and racism here to actually examine the way the airline industry works. If the conversation the pilot has recounted is true, the most damaging piece of the narrative for jetBlue is that the flight manager answered the question "Is this becau...
Jump to postDoes anyone know when the last water-wagon <acronym title="TWA Transworld Airlines (USA)">TW</acronym> 707-131 flight was? I am assuming it coincided with the first oil shock in 1973. That was the first major forced retirement of old straight jet airplanes (a la the <acronym title="TWA Transworld Ai...
Jump to postAs far as the engine question goes.... N777UA is a 777-222 - the basic A model airplane. All of these aircraft are powered by the PW4077. The engine sounds VERY different depending on where you are sitting. If you are forward of the second doors, the noise of the primary stage rotor is very dramatic...
Jump to postUnited has a flight attendant base at <acronym title="Tokyo - Narita International (New Tokyo) (NRT / RJAA), Japan">NRT</acronym>, with both U.S. and Japanese citizens eligible to work for United. The same is true for the Hong Kong, London, Paris, and Frankfurt bases. All flight attendants are AFA r...
Jump to postThis is a situation where CHAOS can be a really effective tool. You have a very stressed out work force - both financially and emotionally - so things get increasingly unpredictable overall. But CHAOS doesn't require all to be involved. Remember, NWA flies with really thin crews. On most aircraft if...
Jump to postN801NW and others, The pay reductions are just a piece of a much bigger package. Hourly pay rates are reduced, but on top of this the proposal would have done the following: -Reduce/eliminate pay rigs that help protect worker pay when flights are delayed, cancelled, or rescheduled, and also compensa...
Jump to postthanks Eastern1985! I used to be a <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> flight attendant, and I thought our DC-10-30 <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym>-<acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KB...
Jump to postI flew an <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> 747-200 between <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym> and <acronym title="Minneapolis / St. Paul - International / Wold Chamberlain Field (MSP / KMSP), USA - Minnesota">MSP</acronym>...
Jump to postDoes anyone know if the Transmed hangars and group of stored/derelict 707s are still in tact? They were still surviving after the first day of the attacks, but I am not sure how the subsequent bombardment has impacted this part of the airport.
Jump to postInteresting information. When I was a <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> flight attendant I would see RAF VC10s at <acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (IAD / KIAD), USA - Virginia">IAD</acronym>. Do you think they were in route to/from Nellis as well? Can the VC10 make...
Jump to postHey all- Did any spotters at <acronym title="Minneapolis / St. Paul - International / Wold Chamberlain Field (MSP / KMSP), USA - Minnesota">MSP</acronym> see a <acronym title="Servivensa (Venezuela)">VC</acronym>-10 take off this morning? It appeared to be one of the gray colored birds of the RAF - ...
Jump to postWait, mission accomplished as a GW Bush reference, right? Landing on the aircraft carrier when the war was "over." I'll assume people are talking about mission accomplished in that sense. I hardly think you have to open new crew bases, move employees around, re-train everyone, re-paint a whole bunch...
Jump to postPeople are right that the NWA situation is going to dramatically impact airlines like American. Northwest's plan is to employ VERY few people. Maybe 1,000 mechanics. <acronym title="Continental Micronesia (USA)">CS</acronym> and ramp only at the hubs. Flight attendants only on 757 and A320 flying, a...
Jump to postIt just depends on what you value. I have to say I love <acronym title="Paris - Charles de Gaulle (Roissy) (CDG / LFPG), France">CDG</acronym>. The glass jetways allow great views of the airplanes, and the giant, sweeping ceilings bring to life the excitement of flight. And the coffee at the cafes i...
Jump to postThis is a labor food bank specifically for striking workers. It was set up by community activists in Minneapolis. In the vast majority of labor disputes, a community support committee forms to provide material aid and food to striking workers. The situation for AMFA workers, with a support committee...
Jump to postI flew on F-GITA on <acronym title="Montreal - Pierre Elliott Trudeau International (Dorval) (YUL / CYUL), Canada - Quebec">YUL</acronym>-<acronym title="Paris - Charles de Gaulle (Roissy) (CDG / LFPG), France">CDG</acronym> in May. It certainly was the "beach configuration 17/457 configuration. I s...
Jump to postDaron4000- As far as two class 777s and 767-300s go: The two class configuration on the 777s has nothing to do with weight restrictions. Ships N210UA-N215UA were delivered in 2000 to replace DC-10s on inter-hub and Hawaiian service. United has a need for a high density configuration - and the choice...
Jump to postCO757 gets the airline supervisor of the year award! He says: "You guys are stupid!" "You guys are done!" You wonder why the airline industry has problems. Why wouldn't you throw a monkey wrench in the operation when your boss would talk like this? People need to be treated with respect and decency ...
Jump to postSeveral of you have suggested that the mechanics go out and get other jobs. What people don't realize is that they were on strike because their aren't other good jobs. Steel. Mining. Auto. Meatpacking. Food Processing. A billion opportunities that are opportunities no longer. So many of these strike...
Jump to postAMFA is offering to take significant paycuts. Not only in terms of pay, but in terms of benefits and work rules. The strike is about the fact that the company proposal would eliminate 53% of the jobs. The workers are willing to be creative about meeting the new revenue challenges in the industry. Bu...
Jump to postWhy is it desperate? This is what workers do who are on strike. No matter if you are winning or losing the strike, you block the scabs to slow the operation down. The shift change happened 2-3 hours late. It lets everyone at <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> realize that things ...
Jump to postWhat is everyone talking about here? The AMFA mechanics are locked out. The only people with access to the ramp are the scabs and management. The AMFA people are outside on the curb with picket signs. Only the scabs are touching the airplanes. The only way there would have been a sabotage is if this...
Jump to postThe first thing about a labor dispute is that there are no rules. Workers go on strike in times of desperation and frustration. So there is no official game plan guiding these sort of actions. AMFA has no strike fund. It has cash from dues so it can keep the lights on and print the picket signs, but...
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