Geez... I usually frequent the same routes repeatedly, so it looks like I haven't flown much this year: <IMG SRC=http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gcmap?PATH=SAN-ORD,SAN-DFW,SAN-LAX,SAN-SJC,SAN-JFK,SAN-STL,ORD-IND,ORD-BOS,BOS-JFK,ORD-BDL,BDL-JFK,IND-DFW,MIA-LAX,SJC-JFK,SJC-ORD,STL-IND,SAN-SFO,SFO-STL,STL-P...
Jump to postMy nonrev travel doesn't really fit any patterns... sometimes I fly a lot, sometimes not. My heaviest travel was during my internship at Delta last spring, when, during a four month period, I flew about 160,000 miles between DL jumpseats, DL positive space business travel, and American non-rev fligh...
Jump to postTo add an interesting point on the LAX-SNA service... The flight will only operate once a day, in the early afternoon. Scheduled for a 35 minute block time, the flight will be operated not by a Saab, but by an ERJ-140.
Jump to postPb737 -
As of Tuesday, 5/28, the livery count was as follows:
Total TWA LLC aircraft: 133
AA/TWA interim livery: 4
TWA livery: 14
AA livery: 115
So about 85% of the fleet is in full AA colors, and another 11% is in AA colors with TW titles.
No, AA717... AA already operates 1-stop DFW-EZE service over MIA. The rights that they have been granted now will allow them to operate DFW-EZE nonstop daily, in addition to the current schedule of JFK (767 5x/week), and MIA (777 5x/week and 767 daily), bringing their total to 24 flights per week US...
Jump to postA few notes about Purdue's fleet: The 14 Warrior IIIs are year 2000 models, so they are only in their second school year here The 4 Arrows are scheduled to be replaced in the summer of 2003. They are being replaced with new Arrows. The Duchesses are tentatively being replaced with Seminoles this sum...
Jump to postJsheldon - I spent Saturday in the Newburgh area, visiting family, before heading to Paris on Sunday evening. My trip actualy started with IND-ORD-SWF-ORD-CLE-JFK, but I left those segments out of the report.
Jump to postHi, Ben. These were actually my 3rd and 4th flights on the 777. I had my first 777 flight on 10/31/99, in coach, on a DFW-ORD flight. My second flight was a jumpseat experience during my Delta internship, on the MCO-ATL route. This was my first time flying in the premium cabins of the 777. As for th...
Jump to postThanks for the positive comments... Salvation: I was given a seat in the main cabin because that's the cabin I was listed for. I was listed on 3 flights prior to the JFK departure, and on those flights I wanted to be in coach, so I listed for Y. As for the internship, it was outstanding. I interned ...
Jump to postAfter 21 years of enjoying travel benefits as the dependant of an American Airlines employee, I will be losing those benefits in May, when I graduate from college. (I'm a pilot, majoring in Professional Flight Technology, so hopefully I'll have my own travel benefits before too long!) Despite my lon...
Jump to postAssuming that your fare permits standby travel, you can change your routing as long as you fly an equal or lesser number of flight segments as your original itinerary. The one issue you have to be concerned with here is this... If you attempt, for example, PIT-STL-OGG, fly to STL, and find that you ...
Jump to postDeltaflyertoo - In practice, the way that they would set up having one hub cater to lower-yield traffic would be to make more seats available in the lower fare classes on flights connecting at STL, and making a higher percentage of the seats through DFW or ORD in the higher fare buckets. Thus, when ...
Jump to postYou can still fly VFR into LAX all you want... To the best of my knowledge, Miegs is the only airport that is totally closed to VFR traffic for reasons other than the general TFRs.
Jump to postIdentity Check Printers makes an American Airlines check series, featuring, IIRC, 6 or 8 different AA pictures. I don't remember the design code off hand, but they could probably get it for you if you called them.
Jump to postI strongly prefer PCs over Macintoys. I have an English class in a Mac lab this semester, and the computers really bite - the Mac OS is so much less user-friendly than Windows, and I REALLY can't stand the single-button mouse.
Jump to post"Sync" is short for "syncronized". The engines are in sync when they are turning at the same rate. The pulsing sound you hear when the engines are not in sync comes from the different frequencies of the sound waves. I don't think it's damaging to the airframe (though I could be wrong), but it is not...
Jump to postA pilot for a 121 carrier is limited to the following flight time limits. Only commercial flying counts, personal flying is exempt:
8 hours/day
30 hours/7 days
100 hours/month
1000 hours/year
Kinda similar to what both previous replies said, but different... When you become a flight instructor, you get a CFI (Certified Flight Instructor) certificate. The certificate also carries ratings. The standard assumption, when a person says that he is a CFI, is that he is actually a CFI-A, CFI-Air...
Jump to postI e-mailed it to you, Neil... Let me know if you didn't get it.
Jump to postTWA LLC doesn't have the rights to serve LAX-DCA... when the operating certificate was trasferred from "TransWorld Airlines" to "TWC Airlines, LLC", the route authority was not allowed to be transferred. That slot exemption now belongs to Alaska, to operate SEA-DCA service.
Jump to postActually, if he wears his beard for the next 3 1/2 years, he'll be the first beard-wearing guy to lose the presidency since the last one, assuming that the democrats see fit to re-nominate him. Of course, maybe it would be nice if he won... who wants to have pesky things like engines, anyway?
Jump to postQuick correction... AA does not use the EmPower system. EmPower requires a special adapter, while American's seat power outlets are conventional car-cigarette-lighter type power ports. They're great, because you can use them not only for laptops, but also for CD players and things, as long as you ha...
Jump to postGibberish - This refers only to actual meals... beverages and snack mix will continue to be served. Also, it applies only to non-transcontinental domestic flights and 2-class international flights (Canada, Mexica, Carribean, Central America). Transcons (2 and 3 class) and 3-class internationals wil ...
Jump to postThe Practice is, quite simply, the best show on television. I have loved that show since it began several years back. TWFirst - The daughter, trying to protect her father, claimed on the stand that she shot the guy. That's what made the father make the plea bargain - he didn't want his daughter to t...
Jump to postI don't think you have anything to worry about with AA160... That flight has been operating for at least 15 years, and I don't think it's going anywhere. The most I could see happening to it is a downgrade to a 738 or a 757 which, while a larger airplane, would not allow you to fly in Biz. On a side...
Jump to postAaron - Both the JFK redeye and the 2nd BOS flight were seasonal services... they were originally scheduled, I believe, until the end of September. In the end, mainline AA service at SAN isn't losing much, although I'm REALLY going to miss the ORD redeye - that's the flight that I take most often.
Jump to postI know of 2 or 3 of the AA flights to be cut from SAN... We are losing the redeye to JFK, which was to be a summer-only service anyway. With DL cutting their daily service, that leaves 2 daily AA flights on the SAN-JFK route. We are also losing one of the two daily flights to Boston, which leaves th...
Jump to postADG - Contrary to your remark, Bush did not say to release Americans from Afghan prisons, but to release all people falsely imprisoned. A Direct quote from the text of the speech, which can be found at <A HREF=http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.html>the White House website</A...
Jump to postThe Official NOTAM (Notice TO AirMen), issued this morning: !FDC 1/9731 FDC SPECIAL NOTICE - DUE TO EXTRADORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES AND FOR REASONS OF SAFETY. ATTENTION ALL AIRCRAFT OPERATORS, BY ORDER OF THE FEDERAL AVATION COMMAND CENTER, ALL AIRPORTS/ AIRDROMES ARE NOT AUTHORIZED FOR LANDING AND TAK...
Jump to postThe reason that the 767 you flew DFW-SFO didn't have PTV's, despite being an international aircraft, is that premium passengers on these planes are provided with personal DVD players and a DVD library on international flights. This gives passengers a selection of 20-30 movies, which can be stopped a...
Jump to postI can whole-heartedly reccomend Purdue to you if you're looking for a high quality flight program. I'm a senior this year, and, with a little less than 400 hours, I'm getting ready to start interviews with regional airlines. Our program is outstanding, and there is no hassle at all scheduling flight...
Jump to postAaron - The only planes left with the brown seats are the ones that are going away... MD-11s and 3-class A300s. While the domestic 767-200s do have a smaller pitch in Business than the international fleet (currently 40" domestic vs. 60" international), I have read that the pitch on the domestic flee...
Jump to postXFSU - To get coverage for GA and AL, you need need to buy 2 sets of Jepps... GA is in the Southeast region, which also includes the Carolinas. That sells for $26, or $114/year (6 revisions). Alabama charts are in the Mid-South region, which also includes KY, TN, and MS. It's the same price as the s...
Jump to postGt1 - The reason that the L15 never needed crew rest on the HNL flights is simple... The FAA allows a 3-man crew to fly legs of 8-12 hours. Since the L15 required a flight engineer, all 3 crewmembers were in the cockpit for the entire flight. As the 764 does not have a flight engineer, that leaves a...
Jump to postDuring my internship I got to do a lot of cool things. The best for me was the jumpseating... I had unlimited domestic jumpseat benefits on Delta, and I got to take 3 internation trips (San Jose, Costa Rica, Istanbul, and Rome). I also did a lot of stuff at the office. Some of it was just office wor...
Jump to postI'm a senior in the School of Technology at Purdue University.
Jump to postSpoilers serve several purposes, each of which have already been addressed. They can be used in flight, at the pilots command, to slow down the airplane or to increase the decent rate. They can also, despite CYKA's assertions, be used to augment the roll capability of the aircraft. Whether or not sp...
Jump to postI spent a semester (January-May 2001) doing a Flight Operations internship at Delta. It was a wonderful experience, and I met a lot of really great people. Unlike other airlines, Delta pays interns, so it was also affordable.
Jump to postFrom a statue on the Terazzo of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO:
Last year, we had a lot more 737s on this route - all but one flight a day for a while. I think that the main reason for the return to MD-80s is the slackened demand for business travel. If you look at the capacaties of these planes in the American configurations, you would see that they are almost ...
Jump to postRepublic - If you are going to count the Carribean, as you have in your post, I think you will find that CO comes no where near the number of destinations served by AA in the south-of-the-us region... South America: <I>CO (9): Caracas, Bogata, Quito, Guayaquil, Lima, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Rio de Jane...
Jump to postSJC>SFO - As was said, the 767 on AA 151 is a daily flight, and was upgraded from a 757 to accomodate passengers connecting to TPE and NRT. Using a 767 allowed them to put passengers in 3 classes all the way, rather than putting Biz traffic in First for the domestic leg. I can't tell you how full th...
Jump to postGreg - While you will be in a Business Class seat, the service will be standard coach. The flight between Chicago and DFW is operated as 2-class, so the Business Class seats are used for coach passengers. It'll definitely be more comfortable than coach, but the service will be identical.
Jump to postAs a Purdue student, I am deeply involved in student loans, and have been for a few years now. Hopefully this helps... Educational loans come in two main varieties, student loans and parent loans. The main student loan is the Stafford, which any student is eligible to get if attending an accredited ...
Jump to postI had 2 flights on AA 767-200s yesterday, and the airplane, from a passenger point of view, does not need to be replaced. The first flight, JFK-SJC, I was in Business Class. While the aircraft did not have MRTB, it did have the new business class seats, which are very comfortable. The second flight,...
Jump to post<B><I>Do the pilots here think this is safe?</B></I> I can't speak for other pilots, but I consider it safe. When you recieve a clearance to Land and Hold Short, you will be informed, either by the controller or by ATIS, how much runway is available. Because it is the PIC's responsibility to be fami...
Jump to postJFK-SAN hasn't been BusinessElite US for some time... while the flight was introduced with a 767-300ER in the international configuration, i was downgraded some time ago to a 757, and now further downgraded to a 737-800.
Jump to postLooks like I'll be able to make it in for the day, too. I have a test Tuesday morning, but then I'll be heading down to IND to catch DL953 to ATL, scheduled to arrive at D34 at 1506.
Jump to post"The point is Delta Raised their fares in 10 minutes because they heard Valujet/Airtran was leaving. They just raised them. When they heard they were staying, they said "Uh Oh!!" and lowered them again, Finally when the final VJFL Leaving announcement arrived, they Jacked their fares to $1,000.00. T...
Jump to postMy assumption, LoneStarMike, is that David couldn't tell exactly what was being said from seat 12D. My experiences while jumpseating on about 100 DL flights last semester were that most of the conversation between the cockpit and cabin crews during taxi were related to the flight, rather than casual...
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