Funny, even though I know San Francisco well, not until this thread did I think about OAK being a better location for a trip to the wine country. I am headed to Napa next month and OAK is 9 miles closer to wine country than SFO but I am flying UA to SFO. That said, the only non-stop from Chicago is ...
Jump to postFrom my understanding, UA can continue to operate it's full schedule even with SAT 2 not done, as long as SAT 1 is finished. I'm expecting some regional routes will get upgraded to mainline, and maybe some tighter regional banks to keep things moving, but SAT 1 will (I believe) deliver roughly the ...
Jump to postNot to mention Aerolineas Argentina dropping EZE-NYC. No one seems to be able to make it work. If they stay away long enough, maybe UA will give it another try. What? AA flying 2x daily and DL 1x daily and "no one seems to be able to make it work"?? I think both would disagree with you. A...
Jump to postIt's [basically] official... City + Airlines [with 99.99% certainty] agree on ORD 21 changes + pivots, per the lead arbitrator. New schedule: SAT 1 to begin construction later this summer, accelerated schedule. OGT to begin immediately after. SAT 2 to begin as OGT wraps. AA + UA really want to beef...
Jump to postAlso, I may be in the minority here, but I would be happy to take a slightly simplified and more practical OGT if it means S2 gets built. Maybe the OGT is more of an A to A- rather than an A+. S2 was needed 5 years ago and S3 is needed now already. We all know that UA and AA’s primary motivations ar...
Jump to postDid CDA update the schematic diagram on their website for TAP? I’ve never seen this one before but maybe I missed the update. Compared to the earlier drawing, they’ve changed the shape of OGT (main area more rectangular), the second satellite concourse (reduced area where the concourse connects to ...
Jump to postBut what really sets United Airlines apart i the shear reach of their international network. They serve 134 international destinations across 67 countries that is extremely impressive considering most if not all of those destinations are on United's own metal. No disagreement there, but if you're g...
Jump to postAnd before the sky starts to fall on this thread... some takeaways. 1. The airlines have lost their leverage at this point. Under the 2018 Usage Agreement, the city, having now presented updated cost figures that are in-line with inflation adjustment, can proceed with this project. American and Uni...
Jump to postSuper Bowl has come and gone, no news? Any UA ads?
Jump to postRegarding a South hub - hubs are for connections as well as non-stops. FL hubs should have Carribean and SA routes. A Florida hub to some extent could flow some IAH connection traffic. South Florida hub wouldn't pull much traffic from ATL as connections to SE wouldn't work. TPA seems too far south ...
Jump to postbigb wrote:LoudounHound wrote:The agenda for tomorrow's MWAA Board meeting has posted. There is an interesting Capital Projects Update tab: https://www.mwaa.com/sites/mwaa.com/fil ... Update.pdf
IAD upgrades can’t come soon enough…..
AA extended their schedule again. Just a few tidbits. SFO goes to 4! That may not seem exciting but considering they were down to just 1 this past summer is a nice bump although only 737s. I also don’t know what the highest AA ever flew this route but the highest I recall is 6 including a 763 that ...
Jump to postI would love to see a larger A321 fleet at UA. Going from 130 A321 to 230 A321 will only make it more operationally efficient. Diversity in your fleet for such a large airline is a good hedge against groundings due to manufacturing issues which seem to be more common: 787, A380, 737Max... I love Boe...
Jump to postI would love to see a larger A321 fleet at UA. Going from 130 A321 to 230 A321 will only make it more operationally efficient. Diversity in your fleet for such a large airline is a good hedge against groundings due to manufacturing issues which seem to be more common: 787, A380, 737Max... I love Boe...
Jump to postWhen there’s a recent schedule update (which in this case I believe the schedule was increased from 1 to 2x daily), it takes some time for the systems to align so it prices at full fare Y to start until everything catches up I always assumed this was some pricing strategy that UA does to test the m...
Jump to postLooking at the pictures, no sign of clothing or personal possessions. Is there any evidence that POW's were on that plane?. And no bodies. I would think that if the Russian's version of the story is true, that they would have released (leaked) photos of the crash site showing bodies (or body bags) ...
Jump to postOMG, about time UA started ORD-ATH. It has been discussed on airliners.net for as long as I’ve been on the site, about 18 years.
Jump to postIt's shocking how little service EGE has today. You would think with the beautiful new terminal they would have gotten AS, B6 and/or WN to start flying there by now. Even someone headed to Breck or Copper Mountain should find EGE to be much more convenient than DEN. EGE seems like such an underutil...
Jump to postCan anyone tell me which tail number was used on UA 1732 from BOS-ORD on 8/8/2023?
Jump to postThe US and the Phillippines have also gotten closer (militarily) lately. Can't imagine that wouldn't hurt either and maybe a small factor in UA's timing. https://www.fpri.org/article/2023/06/us-philippines-enhanced-defense-cooperation-agreement-revived/ Look at all of the flights UA used to have to ...
Jump to postI find it interesting to watch over the years how UA continues to dominate US carriers in the TPAC market while AA piddles around and DL squanders opportunity after opportunity. UA is positioned for a lot of success in the TPAC market over the next ten years with the right strategy, network, infras...
Jump to postPosted elsewhere, but N666UA operating UAL12 ORD-ZRH lost a slide from one of the overwing exits on approach to ORD this afternoon. More info: https://abc7chicago.com/emergency-slide-falls-from-plane-ohare-airport-chicago-news/13515495/ 7062797 What would you expect from a plane with that tail numb...
Jump to postWhy were planes landing and taxing out while there was a tornado warning? There were two warnings. The first warning covered much of the city from the southwest. The second warning came from the west placing O'Hare dead center, yet planes were still landing! What is the FAA's protocol for airport o...
Jump to postWhat is going on in NYC right now? 2 hour plus holds at the origins and no weather. My wife’s UA ORD-LGA flight was cancelled and nothing available to NYC until tomorrow morning. FAA issues?
Jump to postA Look ahead 3 months ORD/MDW to SE States LA, AL, GA, SC, NC, TN, KY, WV, VA Thank you for spending the time to do all of these. I have read all of these and they really show the difference between UA and AA. AA still has a presence on most of the routes that UA does (but not all) but in almost al...
Jump to postThe new FAA ORD diagram continues to show changes due to the OGT Satellite project and because they just seem to like to change taxiway designations! Is there any news on the OGT satellites? They are obviously doing infrastructure work in preparation for the concourses but we still have not seen an...
Jump to postPeotone took another step closer to reality earlier this month, with passage of a bill in the General Assembly that would require the Illinois DOT "...to enter into public-private agreements and to establish a prequalification process for vendors to participate in the development, financing, c...
Jump to postUnited flies ORD-PSP in the winter though, right?
Also, hasn’t united flown to SNA, ONT and/or BUR from ORD in the past?
The agenda has been posted for tomorrow's monthly MWAA meeting. Here is a Tab updating the status of ongoing capital construction projects: https://www.mwaa.com/sites/mwaa.com/files/inline-files/Tab%2025%20Capital%20Projects%20Update.pdf. Interesting to note that the 14 gate concourse addition for ...
Jump to postHow is AMS handling their current traffic volume? I am flying out of AMS next week and want to know what kind of lines I can expect.
Jump to postI am curious to know how the airlines compare at MCI: destinations served non-stop; pax per day; flights per day; club?
Jump to postCongrats to KC! Love to see new terminals open in the US. I love the use of the "wood", warms up the terminal, beautiful.
Jump to postJust because AA doesn’t do everything at ORD that UA does doesn’t mean that it is letting ORD die on the wine. UA has to fly a lot of routes (especially longer ones) from ORD that AA hasn’t got to, because they do not have any hub south of DC and east of IAH. AA is not going to fly many of those ju...
Jump to postbigb wrote:calpsafltskeds wrote:We do not have a 777 base in ORD….
United787 wrote:Jump to postThe Chicago Tribune has an article saying the T5 expansion is now officially open:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business ... story.html
The Chicago Tribune has an article saying the T5 expansion is now officially open:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business ... story.html
On a personal note, I used to travel to Japan almost monthly in 2019. Today, I have no need for such travel as work is being accomplished remotely. Who knows when if ever I will need to return to Japan on business. The world has changed for me and probably many others. Below are some numbers on wor...
Jump to postUnited has opened a new C-gate United Club. The facility will seat 650. The current under-sized (seating for 250) much maligned club will be subsumed by the Polaris Lounge next door. https://liveandletsfly.com/new-united-club-ord-c-concourse/ My wife visited the new club the other day and said it i...
Jump to postAnd for me it is really strange, that the new a/c for the potus, which will enter service in four or five years, are no shiny new cutting edge a/c, which show the capabilities and the leadership of the US-american civil aviation industry. They are one of the last built planes of a more than 55 year...
Jump to postILikeTrains wrote:It wouldn’t be a terrible idea for them to build an FIS in the satellite. Less walking back and forth and gets United/*A less dependent on T5 earlier.
This was announced some time ago that all Star and OneWorld carriers would be relocated from terminal 5, that isn't up for debate. That is great news! From everything I saw previously it didn't seem definitively clear that this was the case. As noted, there aren't a ton of widebody gates at the mai...
Jump to postArrived today at T5 M23 and got my first glimpse of the new T5 expansion! Very impressed. Love that there is glass between the upper sterile corridor and the departure lounge. Also love the new lower strike corridor. Immigration was empty, made it through in 5 minutes.
Jump to postAA will be running a stronger leaning THU/FRI/SUN schedule for January. AA's ORD operation is looking very interesting, for example, in January: A lot of these aren't new frequency drops, but a lot are - Monday (Jan 2020 Monday frequency) ORD-DFW 8x (13x) ORD-CLT 6x (9x) ORD-MIA 6x (9x) ORD-PHX 6x ...
Jump to postGreat to see!! Do we have an idea on timing when the Sats will fully kick off? Looks like it is getting closer and a great sign that all of the preconstruction infrastructure work is in full swing. If I had to guess, this would mean that they are at least 50%+ completed with Construction Documents ...
Jump to postyeogeo wrote:O'Hare 8/28/'22
Does anyone else think that the list of nonstop destinations served from Chicago's airports is going to become paper thin soon? LOL, before COVID, ORD was ranked the 3rd most connected airport in the world, #1 in North America. Not sure this group has ranked the airports since then. https://www.biz...
Jump to postfreakyrat wrote:RFD also has a large ramp to park diverted aircraft on.