Re: Delta to cut Seattle-Hong Kong, announces Seattle-Osaka

I really hope DL can make SEA-KIX work this time. I flew the route in 2013 and had a great experience on that flight. Plane was full going both ways and pax were treated like kings on those flights.

Re: Kentucky Aviation Thread 2018

With all of the UPS widebody action, SDF is a potential spotters heaven.

Re: How many 727s still active?

N720CK, N722CK, and N729CK all operating in and out of SDF for the UPS peak season. Also spotted another -200 of IFL Group.

RE: Surprised At The Gate - Equipment Changes

I don't know if this counts, but some years ago I booked <acronym title="Louisville - Standiford Field International (SDF / KSDF), USA - Kentucky">SDF</acronym>-<acronym title="Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International (FLL / KFLL), USA - Florida">FLL</acronym>-<acronym title="New York - John F. Ken...

RE: VS Jet Wing Clips Blast Fence At JFK

Love how the article makes it sound like there was a "crash". Much more dramatic than necessary. The plane nicked the blast fence. They will do a wing inspection, throw on a new winglet, and this A346 will be on her way. I know the blended winglets on many aircraft are roughly $1M a piece; does anyo...

RE: 767 Production Increase

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Stitch" class="quote" target="_blank">Stitch</a> (<a href="#28" class="quote">Reply 28</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> I don't see UPS p...

RE: What Is Your Favorite Wide Bodied Aircraft?

Boeing 747. Any version except the SP. Hands down the most beautiful plane ever built.

RE: Newest Aircraft Involved In Hull-loss Incidents?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/HPRamper" class="quote" target="_blank">HPRamper</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> N571UP was ba...

RE: Delta To Resume Hot Meals In Coach?

Just my two cents, but I flew Delta <acronym title="Seattle / Tacoma - International (SEA / KSEA), USA - Washington">SEA</acronym>-<acronym title="Osaka - Kansai International (KIX / RJBB), Japan">KIX</acronym> in August. We were treated like kings in coach. Hot meal, hot breakfast two hours before ...

RE: Where Is This 744's Left Winglet?

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RE: The Best Time To Purchase Tickets

From my personal experience mostly flying domestic within the US, fares tend to be at their cheapest approx. 2 weeks before the date of the flight you want to book. Once you get within that two week timeframe, the bulk of travelers booking shifts from travelers planning for vacation to business trav...

RE: What's Your Favorite Runway?

Always liked Runway 4R at Chicago Midway. Come in low and slow over residential neighborhoods, almost skimming rooftops, thunk the plane down, hammer the brakes 'cuz you have maybe 5,000ft left to stop, pull off the runway right up to the gate. Always an adventure at <acronym title="Chicago - Midway...

RE: Boeing 767 New Orders - Why?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/tdscanuck" class="quote" target="_blank">tdscanuck</a> (<a href="#31" class="quote">Reply 31</a>):<br/><i>It's all in the eye of the beholder;</...

RE: Identify This! Airports Of The World.

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/vikkyvik" class="quote" target="_blank">vikkyvik</a> (<a href="#97" class="quote">Reply 97</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Alot closer t...

RE: Identify This! Airports Of The World.

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RE: Has Every 747 (Of 1400) Been To JFK?

UPS doesn't have a scheduled 747 service to <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym>, so I'm pretty sure the newbuild 747-400's (N570UP-N577UP) haven't been to <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (...

RE: WN "Old School" Livery

Just my $0.02. The old puke looking colors: NASTY! The brown/gold colors look beautiful when the paint is fresh and/or clean, but ugly when old and dirty. The canyon blue also looks bad when old and dirty, but looks amazing when fresh and clean. Both liveries were meant to represent sunset in the Am...

RE: Plane Crash In Accra, Ghana

This accident seems to parallel the <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> accident at <acronym title="Chicago - Midway International (MDW / KMDW), USA - Illinois">MDW</acronym> some years ago. Aircraft lands in bad weather and is unable to stop. Aircraft leaves the runway, leaves th...

RE: US Ramper Killed At PHX T-4 Today

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/peachair" class="quote" target="_blank">peachair</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i> lock out/tag out procedures</i></font></t...

RE: Airliner List Prices

What was the list price of a new 747-400 at the time the line shut down? Just curious.

RE: Is This The Cleanest 727-100 Flying Today?

RE: Airplane Shop At IAD?

There is still a shop in <acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (IAD / KIAD), USA - Virginia">IAD</acronym> that sells Skymark airplane models. I bought a few there less than 2 years ago. Don't remember the terminal number or the name of the store, but I can tell you it's in the terminal ...

RE: World's largest Miniature Airport

Three words: I WANT THAT!  

RE: 50-30-20-RETARD Retard

"50, 30, 20, RETARD, RETARD!"

Slam stick forward, nose plane into the ground    "You won't be calling ME a retard again!"

RE: Airline Logo Quiz -- Too Easy?

#7 will throw you for a loop. Is it United or Continental   Damn merger!

RE: The Death Of Modified Airliner Photos

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FS9 Aircraft Cfg Problem: Please Help!

Been playing lots of FS9 on my laptop lately. I have one problem. Every time I try to make a change to an aircraft cfg file I get the usual "Changes have been made to file. Do you want to save changes?" pop-up. When I hit "Save Changes" I get the Save as... menu. When I click on save I get a little ...

RE: Your Favorite Specialty Paint Scheme

Being a huge fan of Japanese anime, and yellow being my favorite color, and the 747 being my favorite plane: <br/><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/photo/All-Nippon-Airways/Boeing-747-481D/1090956/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a href="/photo/All-N...

RE: Airlines Your Parents Flew On, But You Can't

About the closest I can come up with is my father flying aboard a CO A300 on a business trip. In addition, my grandparents flew aboard a TWA L-1011

RE: What Was Your Smoothest Landing?

WN 737-700 a few years ago, and at <acronym title="Chicago - Midway International (MDW / KMDW), USA - Illinois">MDW</acronym>, of all places. Didn't feel the touchdown, just saw the spoilers deploy and felt the weight of the plane settle on to the runway. Had another greaser at <acronym title="Chica...

RE: How Do You Like Southwest?

I have always liked <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> since I started flying with them in 2001. They usually have the best prices, so I go to them first when I need to book a flight. Service is always friendly with a sense of humor, bags still fly FREE, and since I don't mind go...

RE: Airports You've Flown Through

ISP <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym> <acronym title="New York - La Guardia (LGA / KLGA), USA - New York">LGA</acronym> <acronym title="Newark - Liberty International (EWR / KEWR), USA - New Jersey">EWR</acronym> <acronym ...

RE: Jokes On Southwest...

On a <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> flight some years ago: "Your seatbelt should be worn like Britney Spears' pants: Low and tight around the hips!" And another one I filmed a while back: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgFMYMlli_Y" target=_blank>http://www.youtube.co...

RE: Songs With Tenuous Links To Aircraft

Back in the 90's country singer Doug Stone put out a little Christmas song: "Santa's flying a 747 tonight Bringing my baby back to me on a 9:45 flight I've been good, so he's gonna treat me right Santa's flying a 747 tonight" Another song which mentions flight is John Denver's "How Can I Leave You A...

RE: Your Aviation Job

I am a tug driver at the UPS hub at SDF. I haul ULD containers (some full of packages, some empty) from aircraft to aircraft and between aircraft and sort facilities.

RE: What's So Special About 10,000 Feet?

The other day I flew <acronym title="Louisville - Standiford Field International (SDF / KSDF), USA - Kentucky">SDF</acronym>-<acronym title="Covington / Cincinnati - Northern Kentucky International (Greater Cincinnati) (CVG / KCVG), USA - Kentucky">CVG</acronym> in an EMB-145. According to FlightAwa...

RE: What's Your Longest-since Airline?

I split this one into two categories: defunct airlines and non-defunct airlines. As far as non defunct airlines go, I flew Continental <acronym title="Houston - George Bush Intercontinental (IAH / KIAH), USA - Texas">IAH</acronym>-<acronym title="New York - La Guardia (LGA / KLGA), USA - New York">L...

RE: Compulsive Lists: Have You Landed At The Alpha

A B= <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym> C= <acronym title="Covington / Cincinnati - Northern Kentucky International (Greater Cincinnati) (CVG / KCVG), USA - Kentucky">CVG</acronym> <acronym title="Charlotte - Douglas Intern...

RE: You Know You're Around Planes Too Much When...

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RE: How Many Ramp Agents Do We Have Here?

UPS Ramp guy here. I work the Next Day Air ramp operation at <acronym title="Louisville - Standiford Field International (SDF / KSDF), USA - Kentucky">SDF</acronym>. Been doing it since '98 and I still love it. I started out at $8.50 an hour. I used to get $1 raise every year until about 2 years ago...

RE: Things Rampers Love

Here's a few for the Cargo rampers: I love the ever so dependable <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-11. You FedEx and UPS guys know what I mean I love it when we have the plane loaded, Mechanics decide at the last minute the plane is broke, it's not going anywhere. We gotta unload the who...

RE: Your Itinerary Plans For 2009 Part 3.

My itinerary is simple: Saturday 9/26 <acronym title="Louisville - Standiford Field International (SDF / KSDF), USA - Kentucky">SDF</acronym>-<acronym title="Covington / Cincinnati - Northern Kentucky International (Greater Cincinnati) (CVG / KCVG), USA - Kentucky">CVG</acronym> Delta 6058 ERJ-145 <...

RE: What Kind Of Compulsive Lists Do You Keep?

If you look at my list of photo albums, you will see a collection of every aircraft I have ever flown on. The <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym>, US, NWA ,Independence, and <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> birds are the exact tail numbers, while the Pan Am, TWA...

RE: Your Longest Layover

Couple years ago flew <acronym title="Reno / Tahoe - International (Cannon) (RNO / KRNO), USA - Nevada">RNO</acronym>-<acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym>-<acronym title="San Diego - International / Lindbergh Field (SAN / KSAN), USA - California...

First Time On A 767...What To Expect?

Come the end of September. I will be going <acronym title="Louisville - Standiford Field International (SDF / KSDF), USA - Kentucky">SDF</acronym>-<acronym title="Covington / Cincinnati - Northern Kentucky International (Greater Cincinnati) (CVG / KCVG), USA - Kentucky">CVG</acronym>-<acronym title=...

RE: Dying PA103 Terrorist To Be Released From Prison

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RE: UA # 867 IAD-LAX

You're lucky you're not getting an A319. I flew one of those <acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (IAD / KIAD), USA - Virginia">IAD</acronym>-<acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym> a few years ago. One of the most cramped and uncomfor...

RE: Top 5 Most Popular Airliners Of All Time

DC-3
737
A320
DC-9/MD-80/717 family
727
747

RE: Which Is Better Looking A 747 Vs F-14

They are both impressive but for different reasons. The F-14 looks badass when it does a low altitude, high speed flyby, touching the sound barrier at the same time. <br><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/open.file/1021930/L/" target="_blank">View Large<...

RE: Top Ten: Things To Appreciate Before They're G

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