From an airport ops perspective....Santa can bring us a working baggage handling system. Anywhere in particular? Works pretty well in the vast majority of American airports All over the Workd you will find ramp managers babying baggage handling systems this time of year. The volume is intense and i...
Jump to postFrom an airport ops perspective....Santa can bring us a working baggage handling system.
Jump to postThe remaining flights will depart okay because the schedules have been reduced. For example, AA only has 15 mainline departures remaining and 42 have been cancelled, all of them late evening. Due to impending visibility and crosswind limitations, arrivals are done for the night so the focus is on ge...
Jump to postOn our local Los Angeles news, they just reported that the US government is looking into a person who is on the US no fly list who is believed to have been onboard.
Jump to posthaving worked on gate design and engineering at several airports, my personal opinion is that fitting the next generation aircraft within existing 737-900/ A321 gates would be a huge win for the manufacturer that can do it. In the US, the reduction in the 767 fleets spawned “re-gating” to allow for...
Jump to posthaving worked on gate design and engineering at several airports, my personal opinion is that fitting the next generation aircraft within existing 737-900/ A321 gates would be a huge win for the manufacturer that can do it. In the US, the reduction in the 767 fleets spawned “re-gating” to allow for ...
Jump to postAny smart person would use Eagle as a stepping stone to American or any other major airline. I took a job with Signature Flight Support, to get to know people at Sun Country in MSP. I worked for SY for many years. If you want to work for American, the worst thing you can do is to start by working f...
Jump to postThere has to be an “entry level”. I was 19 and working for America West on the ramp in Seattle making 6.10 and that was in 2003. I used it as a stepping stone to gain experience and I moved between companies to increase my pay, better my situation and build my skills to make myself more marketable. ...
Jump to postCorrection: said every business founder in history. Exactly. Remind me where in the history of the planet (or in the regulation of a merger) that anyone promised that starting a new competing business would be easy????? In stead of using all those question marks how about you read the paragraph abo...
Jump to postFirst, it will help us understand your point if your posting was a bit more clearly written. I think what you are saying is your buddy booked two separate tickets on AA. He paid for a SYD-LAX ticket. Then he booked a do-it-yourself connection with a frequent flier ticket LAX-DEN. They are two compl...
Jump to postThey could have been checked all the way but baggage fees would have been charged for the non-international PNR.
Jump to postPeople will pay more for better product and service, otherwise every hotel chain would be like Rodeway Inn or Travelodge. There wouldn't be fully loaded cars outselling the same model with basic options, grocery outlet or Aldi would be the only grocery stores, etc.[/quote] But I think that’s what ai...
Jump to posthttps://seekingalpha.com/news/3322087-american-airlines-higher-strong-q4-update AA is making some good progress with RASM and I expect there will be efforts in 2018 to reduce CASM growth. The focus on the premium cabin customers, I believe is the right call. The investments in the Admirals clubs (Fl...
Jump to postThis may be a little more complicated with the Virgin branding complexities and the royalty issue that was discussed in previous merger threads. When AA merged with US, the US brand disappeared....that won’t be the case with Virgin as it is a worldwide brand used across industries and not owned by A...
Jump to postAnd that’s how bad mid/low level managers can expose a company to a ton of liability....whenever you hear about an issue that could be considered harassment or creating a “hostile work environment”, you have to hop on it immediately.
Jump to postThe risk for HA will be in how it was handled once they were aware or if there was a pattern of behavior in advance of the situation that was not appropriately addressed by the company.
Jump to postLess brand focused management or just a mistake by management? Who runs the better airline right now in terms of profitability, balance sheet, customer complaints, on time statistics, and completion factor? I wouldn't necessarily hold AA up as an example to be followed. I tend to stay out of the fr...
Jump to postI daresay that 50 billion dollar a year businesses don't do hat tips when their brand is involved. Explain AA's heritage liveries, then. Less brand focused management or just a mistake by management? Who runs the better airline right now in terms of profitability, balance sheet, customer complaints...
Jump to postASFlyer wrote:SteveXC500 wrote:AS flies 737’s from the West coast
as does DL, UA and AA, while VX has been flying A320's. It's nothing new at all.
People, AA is “doing what they need to do at ORD”......they are making money. Decisions will be made based off of what the market can support and support profitably. With 10 hubs and gateways you don’t have to and nor should you serve everything from everywhere. Some people are obsessed with pretty ...
Jump to postAlso reports of deplaning using emergency slides. source? i highly doubt this happened. I think people got confused. I heard some really uninformed news reports that said people had to “slide down” emergency stairs. It sounded to me like they were using mx stands and air stair trucks which would ma...
Jump to post[ At the time DL cancelled the interline/ticking agreement they claimed they ended the agreement because Delta's schedule reliability was superior to AA . . . . it is and also UA for that matter. I think its fair to say that both UA and AA took a page from DL's book years ago to get their own relia...
Jump to postI also wonder about baggage..... if baggage carousels are not working, that will be a massive mess. Wonder if the in-ground fueling system is impacted?
Jump to postSomething y'all need to realize about an outage of this magnitude .... Purely speculation, but this comes with some knowledge of distribution infrastructure. Something the size of ATL is a HUGE consumer ... bigger than some large towns. You feed that from multiple HV sources, and have switching (re...
Jump to post777PHX wrote:Didn't NW have a guy in his 90s before they merged with DL?
MSC is still planned to open in 2020. I don’t know anything about T9 or T0. On the delays, most of LAX’s issue has been related to management of ground traffic and not air space. The ground stops and GDP’s resulted in airlines partnering with the FAA to implement tracking technology to help them man...
Jump to postEverybody seems to think that fuel is the only consideration. Last quarter, fuel only accounted for 16 percent of Delta's operating costs. There is a lot more than fuel that'll determine whether Delta expectations are met or not, and that's just on the cost side. It'll take a much longer time to kn...
Jump to postWhat will be immediately evident is the fuel burn savings. I have seen this personally with the 787 when it replaces existing legacy aircraft and I am sure DL saw the same thing immediately when the 350 replaced the 747. The numbers are staggering in some cases.
Jump to postAA has 100% onload, offload and transfer scanning as well as claim. The scan data drives the customer notifications on the App and is also the same data used for internal bag tracking to reduce bag mishandlings. AA and DL were both certified by IATA last month for meeting the resolution 753 standard...
Jump to postI think these look a bit cluttered and confusing. The vast majority of people will walk by them. Airlines that have had stby lists on electronic displays for years still have customers not look at them and go to the counter to ask an agent. I guess it’s a progression of technology but the frequent f...
Jump to postWhile the arbitrator's decision is meant to be binding, I don't think anything is preventing AS from paying more than the arbitrator has awarded if ALPA agrees. So, you never know... You think ALK management would willingly pay more without their hand being forced? Feel bad for everyone at Alaska n...
Jump to postI will post some pictures of the inaugural next week. I believe that this flight should do quite well given the lack of another US carrier from LAX which should be a plus for US POS. As the CZ codeshare ramps up, China POS should pick up. AA will serve 3 US gateways from PEK with the addition of LAX...
Jump to postNo airline goes through an integration without some turbulence. I have been through two of these, one was far less turbulent than the other but I can confirm that it is impossible to focus on normal business during an integration and some things do in fact slide. Performance metrics at all of the me...
Jump to postGlad to see the airline is moving forward with post merger synergy. Tough decisions to be made but financially and operationally prudent.
Jump to postI love that people get excited about this. Anytime you get a new plane it is exciting especially when the A350/ 787 aircraft that we take delivery of today will likely be flying after many of us are retired. They drive hundreds of millions in revenue over their life and they will do it more efficien...
Jump to postI think you will see slowing cost increases as labor agreements have mostly been settled and continued revenue growth as Basic and Premium economy expands. There is significant upside for AA and a lot of good momentum.
Jump to postA very nice seat btw. I have flown in PE on the 789 6 times recently and really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the rollout across the 777 and 330 fleet. I believe retrofits are set to be done by early summer 18.
Jump to postI had my first experience flying in premium Economy on AA's 789 this last week and I loved it. I would never pay for a business class seat but would shell out the extra cash for Premium Economy on a longer flight. I think the airlines have figured out that there are people who will pay extra for a ...
Jump to postI had my first experience flying in premium Economy on AA's 789 this last week and I loved it. I would never pay for a business class seat but would shell out the extra cash for Premium Economy on a longer flight. I think the airlines have figured out that there are people who will pay extra for a m...
Jump to postA big reason was UA and NW's big TPAC networks and their need to funnel large volumes of customers into their NRT hubs to connect to points throughout Asia. AA, CO and DL didn't have big TPAC operations and therefore did not need an aircraft like the 744 for their operations.
Jump to postAa is cutting a321t in December to 11 daily to lax and 4 to sfo. Not looking good. It loaded 7 daily to sfo for winter season. I don't see how that is even remotely going to happen. Maybe a couple of them will get rotated to fly bos to lax. Also a lot of cuts at lga again. Are they year to year cut...
Jump to postNice cameo by Oscar. (cue the UA haters)... Actually I thought that was a nice touch. Him and Ed over at Delta (and Gary of course at WN) are class acts, unlike Dougie "DUI" Parker over at AA that is holier than thou and barely shows his face because he thinks he's better than everyone. I...
Jump to postMrBretz wrote:Just to let everyone know, the yearly membership charge is $7500. I'll pass.
Funny that you brought this up. My parents just flew LAS-SEA and purchased the PE upgrade. They commented that the legroom and seating were good but that the snack needed a bit of work. I think it is supposed to be more of a snack than A meal but the selection seems random. I would almost think that...
Jump to postEarly evening on the 21st, the forecast was updated and landfall shifted south, considerably closer to HKG.
Jump to postAA cancelled flight 193 LAX-HKG and the HKG-DFW which operates with the same aircraft. I wouldn't be surprised if today's DFW-HKG and the corresponding HKG-LAX are also cancelled.
Jump to postFor comparison I checked the LAX-PVG non-stops in September. With a 1 week stay over a Saturday departing the 12th and returning the 19th, AA had a fare of 567.00 and Delta at 570.00. They seem comparable. I would imagine that AA will offer intro fares on PEK for a while.
Jump to postAA is Java City which is Rainforest Friendly.
Here is an interesting article on Airline Coffee brands:
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Another is Ben Minicucci, the current Alaska Airlines President/ COO. Tough leader, high expectations but he gets the most out of his people and builds exceptional teams.
Jump to postI know a lot of people think that Doug Parker isn't deserving of being on the list but I think he does. He is the longest serving CEO of a US airline and led America West (the only surviving deregulation era airline) through its rough infancy, a merger with a bankrupt and fundamentally flawed US Air...
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