Re: B6 NK Merger blocked

This could have unlocked so much shareholder value. Keen to see if there is an appeal. Shareholder value yes, but consumers would most likely of lost out based on JetBlue’s own omission they’d raise Spirit’s fares. As for those saying consumers will end up paying due to a redesign of networks - fai...

Re: Which airlines serve free beer and wine in Eco on short-haul flights?

Aeromexico used to a few years ago. Unsure if that has changed.

Re: Allegiant (MCO) air service announcement

Will there be enough demand though to keep both MCO and SFB with these new cities? Yes. As someone else pointed out these are the top 3 markets out of SFB. Whether or not the service will work will depend on how MCO goes for G4. I don’t think the success or failure of the routes will be on how they...

Re: US-Haneda frequency award proposals

I’m rooting for AA to throw in PHL-HND. I know DOH is technically Asia but would be nice to see some additional Asia service from PHL.

If they’re committed to making PHL their east coast international hub I think service to a partner carrier’s hub in Asia makes sense.

Re: FedEx Pilots Are Worried About Their Jobs

Interesting - I know freight transport has trended down recently. One of my clients who is a trucking company just laid off around 10% of their workforce.

I'm sure these pilots would not have any trouble getting rehired else where, but seniority is a big concern I imagine.

Re: Newark (EWR) #1 for European destinations

Why doesn’t KLM fly EWR-AMS? How big is Delta operations at EWR, as far as I know not as big compared to JFK . Quite small, I think they have only a handful of B gates maybe 3 at the most. They only do ATL, MSP, DTW and BOS. I believe it’s mostly 717 service as well. Their SkyClub is quite large fo...

Re: FAA acting administrator Billy Nolen stepping down

I would think that an acting Administer would be appointed fairly quickly from one of the current FAA administrators. Correct me if I am wrong, I don't think an acting admin would have to be approved by the Senate. Correct, anyone who is in an “acting” position in the cabinet does not need Senate c...

Re: FAA acting administrator Billy Nolen stepping down

What is the relationship between the DOT, the transport minister and the top of the FAA? Has it been especially stressful or difficult? The FAA is a department within the Department of Transportation. In simple terms the Transportation Secretary is the FAA Administrators boss per se. They're very i...

Re: WSJ Reporting Large Boeing Order by Saudi Arabia

Interesting this is coming immediately after announcing they were re-establishing political relations with Iran.

Re: Northeast U.S. Blizzard Sat-Sun Jan 29-30, 3100+ XCLS So Far

Made my way through ATL tonight, can confirm lots of cancellations and delays due to high winds and other weather issues throughout the country. Luckily my flight was able to land around 7:15p EST without any issues.

Lots of folks lining up at customer service to get rebooked.

Re: SBY GROWTH

Ocean City, Maryland is busy enough during May-September, why would any person outside of the MD/DE/PA/VA/NJ area want to fly there? The area has a big mediocre beach, and a larger than the normal boardwalk but that's about it. Nothing that makes it pop out from any beach town on the east coast. I'm...

Re: AS: Temp Revised Seating Policy for D.C. Flights

Sounds like political theater Why not just enforce the disruption rules that already exist? The USA needs less drama. This just fuels it. This is private business making a business decision. Not political at all. With the last weeks there have been many videos of extremely rowdy flights and confron...

Re: UA Plans to Return to JFK in 2021

I wonder what the scheduling will like post-COVID or vaccine. It seems light to me, but comparable to everyone else but DL. I imagine this is more about just getting better utilization out of these 767s.

While I have no plans to travel to JFK for these flights it’s exciting to see UA back.

Re: OAG Changes 10/20/2020:KEEP IT ROLLING (THE CANCELS);EK Suspends ATHEWR,JFKMXP,DXBSEA;UA Adds IAD-ABE/ERI/Carib,LAXS

Quite surprised regarding UA with ABE-IAD. They used to serve this route for years before the CO merger, and then I believe a few years after.

Re: AA Adds Routes Including CUN-CMH/IND, MIA-MKE/PWM/ROC, JFK-SJD and more

JFK-SJD is an interesting choice. I wouldn't normally think there is enough demand to justify daily service. However, with travel restrictions likely to be in place for many Caribbean nations, there could be more demand for Mexico. And not everyone want to go to CUN. I agree with you that this is o...

Re: Rumor: Aeroméxico to file for Chapter 11

Soooo... relating to Delta... - JV partner Virgin Australia enters administration - 20% stake in LATAM - Ch. 11 Bankruptcy - 49% stake in Virgin Atlantic - Expected to enter administration - 49% stake in Aeromexico - Expected to file for Ch. 11 bankruptcy. Unfortunate. Getting some Etihad vibes for...

Re: AA to make SEA an INT hub/new codeshare with AS and LHR and India

W.t.f.

I hate to say airlines act on feelings, because I like to think they put their shareholders above that. But this just feels like straight retaliation against DL for the LATAM deal.

Re: Sky Team at PHL

DL

I’m assuming you meant European carriers.
EI is in the JV with AA/BA/IB, also can be flown on 757.

LH used to partner with US, and has flown to PHL for awhile now? I think that they built the contracts in PHL to keep the base viable.

PHL’s demand is eaten up by AA, quite simply.

Thoughts on 40 Minute LAX Layover HNL-EWR?

Good Evening, I'm trying to book a flight home from HNL and I see UA has multiple connection opportunities for these super short layovers in LAX (sub 1-hour). I've never connected through LAX, and I'm typically very anxious about short layovers. I'm looking at two options: UA 2036 HNL - LAX *39 minu...

Re: A DL 772, Flying LAX-PVG, Makes Emergency Landing And Dumps Fuel On School

Just saw this on ABC evening news. It sounded like it was this terrible thing, 60+ emergency personnel showed up to treat the children, with soap and water. Poor children, they received a bath by a complete stranger. I'm sure the kids held their breath the whole time too. Lawyers are going to have ...

Re: A DL 772, Flying LAX-PVG, Makes Emergency Landing And Dumps Fuel On School

Just saw this on ABC evening news. It sounded like it was this terrible thing, 60+ emergency personnel showed up to treat the children, with soap and water. Poor children, they received a bath by a complete stranger.

Re: Etihad to the rescue? Again?

Neither, the GoI will find some compelling reason to keep AI in government control.

Re: AA beefs up MIA - South America flights, returns to BOS-LHR and extends European schedules

It’s a positive sign to be growing again in BOS, but if they want to combat DL they’re going to need to do more than just that. It’s a shame that they gave up on a lot of the to point flying out of BOS that US used to do.

It was also announced Level will be flying between ORY-BOS.

Re: AA/oneworld Needs a Win

While I think this is a huge blow for AA, I don’t think that it matters in the grand scheme of thing. They weren’t going to be able to get the JV with LATAM in the near future. Therefore the partnership was never going to reach full potential. AA is better partnering with GOL or Azul, maybe they cou...

Re: Is consolidation over in the US ?

There is no way DOJ will approve a major 3 acquisition of a smaller carrier (besides maybe SY, by someone other than DL) unless the economy totally crashes and the said smaller carrier is on the verge of liquidation. Think about the initial push back against AA/US, and then the continued fight with ...

Re: OAG Changes 8/25/2019: WN Moves Cuts to NOV;AA STS-DFW/LAX;DL Reduces PUJ

Not surprised at all the cuts to PUJ. I know many people who strongly reconsiders (or avoided booking new ones) their trips to the DR this summer with all the random deaths that were a major topic of the news. Give it six months and people will forget it all happened.

Re: Qantas annnounces strong profit in FY19 along with record revunue

Just a few years ago most of this thread thought QF on the verge of insolvency and they should move all their assets JetStar.

Good for them, strong quarter.

Re: Percent of people who have never flown?

According to the CDC 10% of the worlds population does not have access to clean water. 35% of the world lacks proper sanitation. 71% of the world lives on $10 or less a day for housing, food etc. Now $10 a day is a lot different in America than it is in a lot of the world. But this is still a signif...

Re: Southwest, a stalwart Boeing 737 MAX customer, eyes other jets

I smell BS. As much as I would love to see a diversified WN fleet, it’s not going to happen. Boeing will give WN whatever concessions they want so they will order more, or keep the amount of 737Ms on order. They still have a defacto Gentleman’s Agreement that all the other US carriers got rid of yea...

Re: Virgin Atlantic Future Fleet Matrix for LHR, LGW, and MAN

The A330/A350 combination makes a lot of sense for VS. Considering their de facto parent DL will have a large fleet of both, they can probably pass off a lot of maintenance off to DL. The 787s on the other hand now make less sense in hindsight. Considering VS’s network is primarily US based, they wo...

Re: SFO bans sale of plastic water bottles

I’m excited about the refill stations. When I flew out of JFK terminal 4 there was one there, saved me $$$ on water and hydrated on a long over night flight without having to borrow the flight attendants.

Re: MYR and possible Allegiant future plans

Is LAS still Allegiants’s biggest focus? It is quite amazing to see how they have managed to coexist with Frontier, United, and Southwest here. cracks me up how people here think nobody travels on allegiant by choice. best described as aviation message board intellectual incest. A lot of people fly...

Re: OAG Changes 5/19/2019:AA Shrinks MEX;CZ JFK-WUH;F9 Suspends MCO-PSM

Thanks as always Enrilla. With all the MEX cuts I wonder if AA is feeling the effects off DL/AM. I used to be a pretty frequent Mexico traveler, but stopped for a few years. The only good options before were to connect in DFW/IAH/PHX. Now it’s impossible to connect there because AM/DL have such good...

Transferring in MEX on Interjet

I’m looking for some opinions about flying on Interjet, and transferring in MEX as a non-Spanish speaker. They’re offering a killer deal to fly JFK-MEX-SJD, but I read negative things about them online. I imagine they’re very similar to Spirit and Frontier in the states, so my standards aren’t that ...

Re: Airline alliances at EWR

Who is the other SkyTeam carrier? I’m thought it was only Delta/Delta Connect who serve EWR.

Re: American to start 787 service from PHL

Does anyone know what kind of routing these birds will do? I’m assuming they would be DFW or ORD crews, I’m not familiar with any other AA 787 bases.

Re: Hooters Air (fleet)

I believe I flew on their last flight, or at least that’s what I remember. it was from FLL-ABE but there was some sort of issue at ABE so we ended up diverting to AVP.

Re: OAG Changes 11/4/2018:AA Adds ORD-ABE/SCE,DCA-HHH;FI Delays CLE;ET Swaps LAX-DUB for LAX-LFW

FAQ *AA ABE-ORD APR 0>1.9[0] MAY 0>2[0] JUN 0>2[0] JUL 0>2[0] AUG 0>2[0] Thanks as always for this enilria. This is a relaunch from pre-merger AA, they use to operate 20x weekly on an ERJ-145. Either way I’m glad that ABE has received extra service, but 5x daily (UAX at 3x) I’m not sure if that muc...

Re: AA announces PHL-AVL, PHL-CHA

They also relaunched ORD-ABE today 2x daily, equipment hasn’t been announced or loaded into their website. UA is running it 3x daily with Air Wisconsin I do believe. They operated this route on an ERJ-145 (I think) before or right after the merger. It may of only lasted one year, very short lived. ...

Re: AA announces PHL-AVL, PHL-CHA

They also relaunched ORD-ABE today 2x daily, equipment hasn’t been announced or loaded into their website. UA is running it 3x daily with Air Wisconsin I do believe. They operated this route on an ERJ-145 (I think) before or right after the merger. It may of only lasted one year, very short lived. H...

Re: Boeing 787 deferred production cost watch

So if I understand this correctly, Boeing owes Boeing 26.358 Billion dollars on the 787? They owe no other company or bank any money. So if they wanted, they could write it all off tomorrow morning and it simply wouldn’t exist? Obviously share prices would change but short term, cash flow is far mo...

Re: AA Cadet Academy

I saw this on FB, and was hoping it would be something that would actually bring down the cost to become a pilot. Unfortunately after looking around their website it just seems like a marketing ploy more than anything to me.


Seems like an intensive program to get into.

Re: Word Game Q1 2018

child

Re: Is Virgin Atlantic struggling on LHR-MIA?

I’m hoping brighter days for them now that AF-KLM is (or already did) buying 30% of VS. Maybe one of their groups LCCs will begin P2P flying out of LGW or MAN.

It’s just going road for them because they’re in such a niche market, crammed in between BA and all of the LCCs in the market.

Re: WSJ: Amazon to Launch Delivery Service That Would Vie With FedEx, UPS

Is it just me or is Amazon just getting a little too ambitious? While I get their sheer size, I’m just worried they’re going to end up over spending and end up bust. In between HQ2, wanting to open up their own healthcare company with JPMorgan and Berkshire, and now this? Either way good for them tr...

Re: Trump's 757