As mentioned above, LWB which I flew a few times for an annual summer work project in WV, from NY. A mostly empty flight with gorgeous views. I was usually the only person on the flight NOT going to the Greenbrier. I would always try and sit upfront and with no cockpit door, it was an avgeek's dream...
Jump to postNice video from day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwP7oJ6Rpn8
Jump to postLast time I flew one was BA 112 JFK-LHR on G-BNLA March 25th, 2001, Rose livery I recall.
Jump to postDuring a post major winter storm years ago, I flew a JetBlue flight operated by a North American Airlines 757 to Florida because they needed the extra lift. It can and has been done... if the airline wants to!
Jump to postAA MIA to ZSA is basically the Club Med charter for Columbus Isle. Great resort, although last time we were there we flew NK FLL-ZSA. Unlike normal NK flights, drinks included!
Jump to postIn 1993 I flew on a UA 727 ALB-EWR. Those were the days!
Jump to postInterestingly, at least it was this way a few years ago, the ZSA Spirit flights were not treated like a normal flight service wise. No extra charge for baggage and free drinks.
Jump to postAll those animals are probably rescue dogs heading to new homes. My parents recently got one from these guys <a href="http://www.strayfromtheheart.org" target="_blank">http://www.strayfromtheheart.org</a> who ship on <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> <acronym title="San Juan - Lu...
Jump to postYes there was a 145 Flight on US from <acronym title="New York - La Guardia (Glenn H Curtiss / North Beach / Municipal-La Guardia Field) (LGA / KLGA), USA - New York">LGA</acronym>. I flew on it along with maybe 1 or 2 other passengers. Loads were silly empty. LWB has a really neat outdoor seating a...
Jump to postAnother reason for the car seat besides safety is the child's own comfort. On our last trip NY-FL our daughter fell right asleep because she was in <acronym title="Heraklion - Nikos Kazantzakis (HER / LGIR), Greece">HER</acronym> car seat just as if she was in our car. Comfy baby = sleepy baby = no ...
Jump to postIn 2006, I flew on a North American 757 <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym>-<acronym title="Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International (FLL / KFLL), USA - Florida">FLL</acronym> Jetblue chartered to clear up a post storm back...
Jump to postA few years ago we flew <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym>-<acronym title="Kahului (OGG / PHOG), USA - Hawaii">OGG</acronym> on <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym>. No free meals and not enough buy on board for everyone for ...
Jump to postTrip booked. Initial destination changed to <acronym title="Edinburgh - Turnhouse (EDI / EGPH), United Kingdom">EDI</acronym>, so going <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym>-<acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), Unit...
Jump to postLooks like even after transferring points to <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> or <acronym title="Virgin Atlantic Airways (United Kingdom)">VS</acronym> the taxes and fees are over $1000 for a J class. On <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> they are $200 - $300. What do p...
Jump to postHave to go to the UK in mid January. I have enough Amex points to convert to <acronym title="Tower Air (USA)">FF</acronym> miles for a J class ticket. I can convert amex points to <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym>, <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym>, <acronym title="Virg...
Jump to postWV gets no love from the NYC area yet again. Remember when US had non stop LGA-LWB? That was so great for our company but had a load factor of like 2 people per flight.
Jump to postWhen I joined airliners.net almost 12 years ago, I was just a single 20 something living in NY and travelling whenever including a long weekend to England just cause I could... Now that I'm married with two kids, my love of aviation hasn't diminished but the frequency of travel has. Therefore I pres...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/homsar" class="quote" target="_blank">homsar</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> homsar, the EXACT s...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/richierich" class="quote" target="_blank">richierich</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> I thought...
Jump to postLast March we flew <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym>-<acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym>-<acronym title="Kahului (...
Jump to postSomething wonderful can come from such a tragedy. Project Morry (founded in honor of Morry Stein, passenger)
http://www.projectmorry.org/
In March we flew on one, OGG-SFO. We were "those" parents with the screaming toddler ... sorry.
Jump to postWe flew <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> non-stop <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym>-<acronym title="Kahului (OGG / PHOG), USA - Hawaii">OGG</acronym> in February. Meal "service" was drinks + BOB. Problem was there was ju...
Jump to postSkoker, thanks for referencing my trip report! I was about to reference it myself when reading through this thread.
Jump to postLast year USairways had a nonstop ERJ service from <acronym title="New York - La Guardia (LGA / KLGA), USA - New York">LGA</acronym> to LWB (Lewisburg / Greenbrier, West Virginia. Our company used this flight often as we have a location near LWB. Does anyone know if this flight will exist again this...
Jump to postFlyBoy, come on, this is airliners.net I know the difference between a 757 and an A321 <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/wink.gif" alt="Wink"> Here's a shot though i don't know if this was my plane specifically. <br><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><...
Jump to postIt left from T6, gate 9, smack dab in the middle of all other B6 flights.
Jump to postI was on the <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym>-<acronym title="Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International (FLL / KFLL), USA - Florida">FLL</acronym> flight. As far as I could tell, there were no jetblue staff flying down wi...
Jump to postThe title is NOT an error. Read on... Sunday morning during the record breaking NYC winter storm we get a phone call that my wife's grandmother has passed away in Florida. She had a long and happy life but this was unfortunately, expected. I offered to arrange all the travel needs for 5 people flyin...
Jump to postI flew on a US F100 to PWM from PHL sometime around 01 or 02
Jump to postThis is all terrible news. I really enjoyed <acronym title="Atlantic Coast Airlines (USA)">DH</acronym> service from NY to <acronym title="Charleston - Yeager (Kanawha) (CRW / KCRW), USA - West Virginia">CRW</acronym> which I have to take a few times per year. (see trip report below). <a href="http:...
Jump to postGreat Report! I'm sure you'll have a great semester in <acronym title="Air New Zealand">NZ</acronym>. My fiance and I will be on <acronym title="Qantas (Australia)">QF</acronym> 26 in Nov on our honeymoon (yeah upper deck business!) And internal flights <acronym title="Air New Zealand">NZ</acronym>:...
Jump to postMy fiance and I will be arriving into <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> from <acronym title="Sydney - Kingsford Smith International (Mascot) (SYD / YSSY), Australia - New South Wales">SYD</acronym> on 22nd Nov at 9:45am. I'm from NYC so excuse ...
Jump to postI would say, unfortunately, about 80% on the first one and 50% on the other 3.
Jump to postGreat Report! I was excited to read it as I'll be flying on QF26 in November for our honeymoon to <acronym title="Air New Zealand">NZ</acronym>. The routing is <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>-<acronym title="Auckland - International (AKL / NZ...
Jump to postI had to go to rural West Virginia for an installation of a T1 line at our summer business location mid week. Usually I fly to LWB but US Airways was about $900 RT without a Saturday night stay-over, while <acronym title="Atlantic Coast Airlines (USA)">DH</acronym> was $150 RT, although I did have t...
Jump to postI live a few minutes from <acronym title="White Plains - Westchester County (HPN / KHPN), USA - New York">HPN</acronym> and frequently have to travel to LWB during the summer for work. Too bad this route isn't served nonstop (except for Martha I guess). Usually I fly on US through <acronym title="Pi...
Jump to postGreat report and it got me even more excited for my honeymoon my fiance and I booked last week. In Nov 2005: <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>-<acronym title="Auckland - International (AKL / NZAA), New Zealand">AKL</acronym>, <acronym title="Ch...
Jump to postI wound up booking on QANTAS (sorry for my spelling in the original post). Even though it would be neat to fly on <acronym title="Air New Zealand">NZ</acronym>'s new 777 from <acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym> or to get in earlier in the day, ...
Jump to postInteresting idea going with <acronym title="Singapore Airlines">SQ</acronym>. However, according to their awards chart <a href="http://img.singaporeair.com/pdf/SQMI_RoundTripAwards.pdf" target=_blank>http://img.singaporeair.com/pdf/SQMI_RoundTripAwards.pdf</a> <acronym title="Newark - Liberty Intern...
Jump to postMy Fiance and I are planning a trip to New Zealand from NYC in the fall of 2005. Due to a very generous donation, we have enough Amex points to go J class. We would like to do it one-stop. NYC-<acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>-<acronym title="A...
Jump to postHere is a news story and video from a NY1.com reporter, on board a 727, which does Zero G. It's down in <acronym title="Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International (FLL / KFLL), USA - Florida">FLL</acronym> and $3000 for the ride. What makes this even cooler is I know the reporter from summer camp. <a...
Jump to postI had the pleasure of attending the opening night matches at the US Open last night. I guess because of the weather, <acronym title="New York - La Guardia (LGA / KLGA), USA - New York">LGA</acronym> take offs were ROARING directly overhead the stadium every 90 seconds. The players seemed to try and ...
Jump to postWhat hotel was that? looks like a lovely view.
Jump to postI've already postponed it once, so they are pretty much not going to let me out unless it's a real emergency.
The trip is a one-nighter for business in Columbus, the company wouldn't have a problem paying the fee, i'm just trying to save them some money.
So I recently booked a trip on US from <acronym title="New York - La Guardia (LGA / KLGA), USA - New York">LGA</acronym>-<acronym title="Columbus - Port Columbus International (CMH / KCMH), USA - Ohio">CMH</acronym> Aug 31-Sept 1st. Yesterday I got a jury duty notice for Aug 30th, with a low number,...
Jump to postI flew in one yesterday. USAirways Express (PSA) from <acronym title="Pittsburgh - International (Greater Pittsburgh) (PIT / KPIT), USA - Pennsylvania">PIT</acronym> to <acronym title="White Plains - Westchester County (HPN / KHPN), USA - New York">HPN</acronym>. I found it much quieter and smoother...
Jump to postWinglets coming to some 737-800s (this year) and 757-200s (next year). This is in reference to fuel burn savings.
MD-80s gone by Jan, new 738s replacing them.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a First Officer for Trans American Airlines. He flys 707s with Captain Over
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