Re: DL A339's - Issues with reliability?

Keep in mind the A339 has a lower crosswind limit for landing than the classics do, that could have contributed to ams operations - winds were gusting to 50 i believe Wait, really? Why? I believe its a RR engine limitation... only because thats the only difference between the classic and the neo. C...

Re: Delta Air Lines Network - 2023

They are very strong in JAX. I could see LAX-JAX start out with 4x weekly on a A221/A223s. However 1x daily rotation would probably work well too with all the business traffic between the two cities as well as military to a smaller extent. Nah. Less than daily is worthless for business travelers th...

Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2023

Approximately how many letters of the alphabet do DL 757s cover? Is there a reference for what each letter means? 75D - "D for domestic", standard 193 seat domestic fleet. 75H - "H for Hawaii", Same config as the 75D but with full ETOPS certification. These are all about to be f...

Re: Delta Fleet Thread - 2022

I noticed today that Dal A333 on flightaware is being listed as A3M3…is that the designated code for the planes with premium economy? https://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL259/history/20221030/1025Z/EHAM/KBOS https://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL104/history/20221031/0200Z/SBGR/KATL Correct, 3M3 ...

Re: TAP 237 Medical Divert to KFAR

Not to Monday morning quarterback the situation but this goes back to the severity of the emergency and whether that dictated nearest suitable vs. nearest adequate. Nearest suitable for an A319 is different than nearest suitable for an A330-900. Active chest compressions are one thing, which in my m...

Re: Big ATL route announcement 7/29

I don't even know what would properly count as a 'big' announcement at an airport the size of ATL. Routes come and go all the time. In the current political environment, a "big" route announcement for ATL would be something to sub-Saharan Africa. I don't think ATL-LOS is coming back anyti...

Re: Monkeypox outbreak...what could it mean to commercial aviation???

What shocks me more than the "government tyranny" spiel that libertarian Anetters love to vomit is that 2+ years of COVID news coverage has resulted in zero public education on how diseases work. +1 for this. People on here have such dark views. Normally it manifests itself in wanting eve...

Re: Delta Changing Ground Handler - MIA

Off the top of my head in no particular order: FLL RSW MCO RDU EWR BNA CVG TPA DCA BWI ORD DFW DEN PDX SFO PHX LAS SAN PHL IND MEM MCI HNL MKE all have actual DL mainline ramps, the vast majority of which were larger NW stations pre-merger. I may have missed one or two. DL has above wing mainline em...

Re: Virgin Atlantic adds LHR-TPA

Orlando is just like any other city in Florida once you are away from the attractions area. Some parts of town (Winter Park) are quite nice. The attractions in the area are not built to appeal to a "solo gay" traveler, they're built to appeal to the typical American family with 2.5 kids an...

Re: Delta Fleet Thread - 2022

The LA 359s will have Comfort Plus. What they won’t have is Premium Select.

Re: Delta plane diverted mid-flight in latest unruly passenger incident

Because it's not really the masks - it's people who lack the self-awareness or intelligence to not let their lack experience or expertise get in the way of their strongly held opinions about pandemics & infectious disease, combined with the mentality that anything that they don't like is not tr...

Re: Delta charter A330?

Delta will operate whatever the client wants for charters. Everything from 717 to A330 have been pressed into service for sports teams, military, etc.

Re: Did JAX Center temporarily shutdown yesterday 10/8?

Someone feel free to correct me but WN is experiencing something similar to what DL had gone through a couple years ago - thunderstorms causing operational delays and diversions so severe that crew scheduling is underwater with a zillion broken rotations that need to be fixed. It takes a while to ge...

Re: AA Unions File Grievance Over Lack of Hotel Availability

I love how members can rationalize anything on here. "crew shouldn't expect hotels to be booked for them, I have to book and pay for hotels at my job" "crew shouldn't expect hotels to be available when it isn't the airlines fault" "crews are being unreasonable to expect a h...

Re: Delta vs. Alaska During Seattle Snow

Interesting that DL slams the use of a vendor for deicing in SEA, but contracts the same vendor (IDS) in DTW.... At DTW, DL mainline is deiced by DL mainline. There are two pads and a myriad of closed bucket trucks, all DL owned. IDS at DTW sprays a bunch of airlines, including DL connection carrie...

Re: Delta to end Ready Reserve in July 2021

I started at Delta nearly 12 years ago under the RR program, and here are my views: - I knew exactly what I was getting into when I took the job. It was clearly explained and I worked with a lot of people (students, retirees), who felt the position was perfect for them. The scheduling was extremely ...

Re: United 3Q20 Financials

I don't think you can characterize UA's results as better than DL. Excluding DL's restructuring charges of over 5B, DL had a 1,041M operating loss compared to UA's operating loss of 1,615M. UA also had higher non-operating losses. I'd also add that 3B of DL's charges are for buyouts, UA did substan...

Re: concourse B at JAX

Following a 95% decline in passenger volumes because of COVID-19, Jacksonville International Airport is postponing its Concourse B expansion. “The way things are going and the way they pick back up, we hope to get that program back on track, possibly as soon as three years from now,” said Jacksonvil...

Re: Was SkyBus ahead of its time?

I would be interested to see any evidence you have for that statement. The failure of SkyBus? OK, let's understand what you mean by "Americans were not ready for the Ryanair model" because you could mean many things. So please explain what you mean. Well this one is simple. You ever been ...

Re: Was SkyBus ahead of its time?

Nobody would have thought Belleville IL to Fort Walton Beach would be so successful that they upgraded it from 2x weekly to 2x daily within a matter of months I would've. People in the Midwest see going to Florida as higher calling. True, I guess they took advantage of the untapped demand. Florida ...

Re: ATL - EYW No More 737?

Was it DL or Airtran that made EYW a captain-only airport? More to-the-point, do we know which carriers consider it to be so? Or do all the airlines flying 100+ seaters in there consider it to be captain-only? Eagle (Vail) is another one where the larger aircraft are captain-only, and I've never fl...

Re: DL commits to no furloughs for F/As & ground employees

How did DL have the ability to cut hours under CARES? The CARES Act only mentions wages, not hours worked. Delta kept everyone's base rates at 100%, and just cut their hours. It's semantics/parsing the language, but... As someone who’s been furloughed twice in my airline career, it’s nice to have a...

Re: DL commits to no furloughs for F/As & ground employees

Oh, this is going to be interesting... I guess if you shuffle them in to positions they don’t like and they quit, you can still claim that you didn’t furlough any... Or, you could have no job. In a pandemic as serious as 1918. Keep your health insurance. Keep some income coming in the door. I think...

Re: AA Announces DAB-DFW/PHL

jfklganyc wrote:

Antarius wrote:

DAB = Daytona Beach

I had to google it, so figured I'd save others who didn't know

Most famous flight school in the world on the field.

I think this forum knows DAB well

Re: DL/NW Merger....12 Years Later

I love it when someone on airliners who is usually named “Fly(smallstation)” gets upset because their grandfather/father/etc/whatever worked for/lived in/saw Ferris pass out at 31 flavors at/etc/whatever and is mad because the ERJ/CRJ/Metro/Brasilia/wherever flying out of their burg/city/town/whatev...

Re: Airbus completes testing of self flying jet

2 people for a machine carrying 200+ lives is too expensive for airline industry huh? Even today, Airlines barely get any sympathies from the general public due to charging for petty things. This will cause a complete mistrust between people and airlines. Then the general public of which you are ar...

Re: DAL Q2 2020 earnings thread

One thing people seem to forget about on these boards is that you can’t simply say demand is down this percent, therefore we must cut this percent of staffing. It’s a delicate balance in an extremely difficult time. Cut too much and you give up market share if things unexpectedly come back. Not to m...

Re: Updated: DL retired MD-80/90s quickly

I was on DL88 this morning. I have to say I was disappointed in some of the behavior of aviation enthusiasts on this flight. A number of younger basically exclusively males wearing no face covering, or wearing it but around their neck talking loudly. This is a confined space during a pandemic when ...

Re: United eliminates 13 executive positions

You are absolutely correct, when I think back to when I first started with United on the ramp, we had 2 dayshifts, 2 afternoon shifts, and midnight shift. There was one supervisor in each zone on days and afternoons, while midnights had 2 supervisors for the entire ramp operation. There were only 2...

Re: New Delta First Class Seats - A321neo

Compare this cabin to the Oasis cabin being installed on AA’s A321 fleet. About as clear a difference as you can possibly illustrate between management styles/ideas.

Re: DL60/01JAN GIG-ATL N154DL double diversion

Zealots on one side who have an axe to grind against Delta because they are mad about that thing that happened 27 years ago that Delta did to them. Zealots on the other side who have drank so much blue Delta kool-aid over the years that the company could probably literally screw them and they’d happ...

Re: CLT A Expansion and SkyClub

While I do not expect DL to serve destinations other than its hubs or focus cities nonstop from CLT, DL adding CLT-BOS, CLT-LAX, and CLT-SEA nonstop service are possibilities as DL has hubs at BOS, LAX, and SEA. You're ignoring the level of competition. AA's 7x frequency (Friday) on CLT-LAX makes i...

Re: UA167 LIS-IAD Divert DCA

Looks to me like the captain and dispatcher painted themselves into a corner and DCA became the only option. Where I am, DCA is closed to diversions unless the aircraft is in dire emergency, due to enhanced security procedures put in place after 9/11. I'd assume United is the same way, but it got do...

Re: Disapointing TWA HOTEL at JFK + UA 787-10economy FRA-EWR (w/photo)

Going anywhere on opening day is just asking for trouble. Couple that with the fact that New York City is an extremely tough environment for large construction projects (from building codes, to labor laws, to union contracts, to cost overruns, the list goes on and on). Never ever plan on anything op...

Re: AI completes dispatch with no alternate destination B787 flight

All it takes is one airport closure after the "point of no return", and the plane and its passengers & crew are out of luck. Remember the great San Diego power outage of 2011? For seven hours, no one was able to figure out how to turn the lights in this county back on, and SAN was clo...

Re: AI completes despatch with no alternate destination B787 flight

I cant speak for flight planning requirements in other countries, but every domestic US flight is dispatched with 45 minutes of "reserve" fuel automatically built into the flight plan. You can't ever "plan" to use that fuel, but it it is there should you arrive at your destinatio...

Re: Unknown airport-Eastern DC-9

It's Miami. See attached photo.

Pan Am 727 Taxiing by Eastern Airline Jet, Miami International Airport, 1984 by Steven Martin, on Flickr

Re: Southwest get final authorization from FAA to begin Hawaii service

Woah there fanboy, calm down.

My point is that they're frankly a hulking monolith that refuses to innovate. Great product for DAL-AMA, not so great for BWI-OAK.

How many other airlines have declared maintenance emergencies lately?

Re: Southwest get final authorization from FAA to begin Hawaii service

While I realize that ETOPS are a completely different ballgame, SAN-HNL/OGG is only slightly longer a distance than SAN-BWI, and the ability of the proper 737 to fly to the islands has been proven over a period of many years and many operators, The operations manuals are out there, and I have no do...

Re: What’s in a Delta flight number?

Is there any rhyme or reason to the mainline flight numbers on domestic flights? For example, many but not all MSP-ATL flights are 28xx; MSP-DTW has a lot of 22xx, 23xx, and 25xx; MSP-LGA is 19xx, 21xx, 22xx; MSP-LAX is 12xx, 13xx, 14xx, 15xx; but MSP-SEA doesn't seem to have any particular pattern...

Re: Baggage stuck in 1960s

To the guy who said baggage was free in the 1960s: not. Do some research before spouting off. JFK LAX in the sixties was like $800 for coach in today’s money, If you were lucky. Spirit will fly you across the country for what, $150? You, the consumer, demanded it. Stop complaining and pay $30 for yo...

Re: BN's "Tomorrowland" livery

Nice livery, but clicked on this expecting to see something related to Braniff!

Re: Delta’s IFE situation

....unless your own system has four times the resolution of the IFE panels, and movies that you prefer to the current catalog on board. My own system has all of that and I still prefer the ire . I’m on the plane now as we speak. It’s just more convenient to me. Speaking of ire on DL, one of the rea...

Re: AA930 March 7, 2018 canceled due to employee disagreement

Well in airline parlance, we have drunk and disorderly pax who do the same on an almost monthly basis and most are never even charged in a court of law or held responsible for the financial loss or the inconvenience of the other pax on that flight or the others downstream waiting for the delay a/c....

Re: AA 319 EOW

Someone at AA can correct me if I am wrong, but where I am these particular aircraft are equipped with life rafts, a pyrotechnic signaling device, an ELT, and life preservers. This allows the aircraft to operate further from shore (up to 162 nm) and typically (in the case of airlines such as AA or D...

Re: DL: Promotion to Captain in 6 months from date of hire If you'll fly MD88

MD88's can fly RNAV SIDs, STARs, and enroute. Just cant shoot RNAV approaches since they don't have GPS.

Re: American adds limited-time MIA-BUF/RSW during holiday season

L-AA used to fly MIA-RSW with the old Executive ATR-72 fleet. If I remember correctly, at a time, the route was flown up to 6x a day (in the early 2000s). When the ATR's went away, MIA-RSW went with them.

Re: Sairenade--Kenny G Sets The Flight To Music On AA TPA-LAX

It was a Delta flight, not an AA flight.

Re: New MSY Terminal Food/Retail Vendors Announced

I don't know if its' still there, but a while back the current terminal had an outpost of Cafe du Monde serving beignets. Will those delightful greasy, pillowy, sweet pieces of Heaven be available in the new terminal? I second this... Right next to the DL ticket counter in the current terminal is a...

Re: Why is Delta's 77L flying medium haul to S.America???

All I am saying is that if it was there, it was never regularly scheduled. It was/is one of the following:

1) A charter
2) An equipment substitution
3) A tech stop from JNB.

Other than when they were first ordered when it was brief, they've never been 'scheduled' into SJU, ala LIM.