Re: [Video Only] - Riding on a empty repositioning flight to the aircraft boneyard

neat .. thanks for sharing!

Re: Are gay pride rainbow paint schemes the new trendy thing for airlines?

JohanTally wrote:

Every major US Airline now has a DEI department and 10 years ago nobody really knew what that meant.

Re: AA432 flying at FL240 2 hrs out of OGG.

It's that time of year in Hawaii. I've heard from staff flying in/out of Hawaii and within Hawaii reports of turbulence. We've had quite a few storms in the past week and scheduled for more in the coming weeks. That's our winter - heavy winds and rain.

Re: Cathay Pacific Amazon Model Question

You could always send a question to the seller and ask ..

Re: Airline Pilot Trip Report #3 (DCA, CAE, CLT, ATL & YUL)

THANK YOU! Love your trip reports .. you should put'm in a book!

Re: A few old OAGs online

WOW what a treasure trove! THANKS!

Re: United Celebrates 75 Years to Hawaii

THANK YOU United for the continuous lift and support you've provided to the State of Hawaii - truly appreciated!

Re: AA Leaves passengers stranded in Bermuda for almost 24 hours

Bermuda is a very unique, and beautiful, destination. It's not a matter of "how do we pay for all these rooms" - the goverment limits the amount of tourism on the island by limiting the number of hotel rooms that can be built. There are NO rental cars on the island. The movement of cruise ...

Re: United Widebody Order: 787, A350 being considered

When they ordered, didn’t they say these were to replace the 744’s? I don't believe United ordered the A350s - those orders were placed by Continental - and United has just been moving them back. No, PMUA ordered the 25 A359s at the same time they ordered 25 787. After the merger Smisek converted t...

Re: United Widebody Order: 787, A350 being considered

UA has A350s on order, have had them for a while, keep deferring the deliveries. At this point, I'm sure Airbus expects that order to be dropped, and I doubt they take this RFQ seriously... unless UA clearly says they are a real contender. When they ordered, didn’t they say these were to replace th...

Re: United reaches Tentative Agreement on pilot contract

Why is a 2-year agreement bad? Is that out-of-the-norm for a pilot contract? I'm asking for clarity because I don't know what the norm is. Thanks ..

Re: Quick Family Visit: ATL-DCA-ATL on Delta and Southwest (Pics, long)

great trip report!
and my stomach is rumbling after seeing that shot of the prime rib .. as I'm about to have SALAD for supper ..

Re: United's supersonic purchase... one year hence

Boom is opening a plant near Greensboro NC - I think there was an article in Aviation Week.

Re: Braniff International 1982 - 2022

I was working for a tour company in Honolulu the day Braniff shut down - Braniff was one of our contract carriers. Around mid-day we got a call from our sales rep in Dallas - her husband worked for Braniff - and she told us that "it's not public yet - but Braniff is shutting down." We scra...

Re: Braniff International 1982 - 2022

cs03 wrote:

Try finding "Splash of Colors" by John J. Nance. It tells the story of Braniff and how it fell apart.

Re: Hogan Wings Aircraft Model Question

some/many of the manufacturers have their own websites .. I regularly check geminijets.com
Also when you go to a retailer site there is normally a "pre-order" section ..

Re: American 727 tribute

love watching a 727 land - and seeing full flaps!

Re: United 195 diverts to ORD

why did you post your question twice? On the other thread I answered - fuel stop - here's what appears in Sabre: UA RESPONSE P MUC/OFF 431P P ORD/ON 646P P ORD/IN 700P P ORD/OUT 751P EST OFF 807P P ORD/OFF 815P P SFO/ETA 1037P L08.22 D FCF/FSTOP ORD ENRT MUC-SFO A/ D EWU/* MUC SFO * MAINTENANCE DELA...

Re: United 195 diverts to ORD

If I'm reading Sabre correctly - fuel stop - UA RESPONSE P MUC/OFF 431P P ORD/ON 646P P ORD/IN 700P P ORD/OUT 751P EST OFF 807P P ORD/OFF 815P P SFO/ETA 1037P L08.22 D FCF/FSTOP ORD ENRT MUC-SFO A/ D EWU/* MUC SFO * MAINTENANCE DELAY * AMENITIES YES * SKED MUC ORIG 1140A GTD H02 SHIP 3007 SFO 215P T...

Re: Hawaiian Airlines interisland cancellations these past few days (April 14~)

Don’t Hawaii residents pay significantly less for inter-island? I presume this would mean folks with less lucrative positions than top executives can fly relatively regularly. Do you mean is there a rate for Hawaii residents vs a rate for everyone else? No .. there isn't. Residents pay the same rat...

Re: Hawaiian Airlines interisland cancellations these past few days (April 14~)

When Aloha shut down Hawaiian was flying 767s interisland HNL-OGG. Don't remember how long it lasted but it for quite some time - it wasn't just for a day or two.

Re: New Bermuda Airline.....Coral Jet

Not sure how this could work. Everything in Bermuda is controlled - the number of hotels and hotel rooms, no car rentals, etc. How can an airline hope to build traffic in a market like that? Aa a connection hub? I don't see that either.

Re: Twin Otter N48RF

fcogafa wrote:

I recommend 'Ice Airport Alaska' on Smithsonian channel. If you can get past the sensationalism there is some good aviation content, including NOAA P3/DHC-6 aircraft operating at Anchorage and Fairbanks and DC-6/C-46 operations

Re: 2021 Airport Passenger Totals

eastafspot wrote:

Jeju in China? Wow ...

Re: Any possibility of WN adding LAX-BUF/CHS/FLL/BDL/JAX/MCO/RDU nonstop service to better compete against B6?

My 2cents - the biggest issue working against WN is lack of overnight flights. That's especially true here in Hawaii - you can't connect from a big portion of their system. Coming to Hawaii you need late afternoon flights off the west coast and WN doesn't have them - that cuts their connections from...

Re: Hawaiian 717 retirement ideas

The same issues that have been brought up in all the other gone threads still remain - engines, cargo and it's gotta be a jet .. if those 3 don't exist the replacement isn't going to work. There have been enough dead airlines out here over the years that failed for multiple reasons .. go! left cargo...

Re: Sampling Scotland's Famous Beach Runway: Barra to Glasgow on a Classic Twin Otter

WONDERFUL! Thanks for sharing a Twin Otter flight - and in such detail! Many years ago I flew on Pilgrim Airlines Twin Otters fairly regularly between Hartford CT and JFK. Great Memories! Thanks again for sharing!

Re: George Cearley has "flown west"

I have quite a few of the print copies. Every so often I go to the listings on Amazon and click on the "I'd like to read this on my Kindle" ..

Re: Hawaiian Aviation Thread - 2021

I'm guessing the WN loads on mainland flights are higher than their interisland flights are due to the fact that they have a big RapidRewards customer base on the west coast. Our company has contracts with AS, WN, HA, UA. Our staff here in Hawaii prefer UA/HA to the mainland .. though we have some t...

Re: Aloha Airlines DC-10

Italianflyer wrote:

I know SEA was one of them.

Re: QF - Project Sunrise

So let's hope Qantas will say something this year. Let’s hope Qantas actually starts flying long haul again this year. I think you can forget about them making any decisions on PS this year. QANTAS is saying they'll return to longhaul October 2021. The government has not agreed and has hinted at 20...

Re: UA Expands California->Florida (LAX-TPA/RSW, SFO-RSW)

The early 1990s United hub at MCO is one of my favorite topics of discussion on A-net, If I recall correctly they also had the McDonalds Happy Meal promotion around the same time period.[/quote]

I still have a couple of the small United/McD hangers .. with a little 747 and Ronald McDonald .. cute!

Re: Let's buy a BAC 1-11

Original Mohawk on one side - their last colors on the other!

Re: Let's buy a BAC 1-11

hahahah .. you know a.net users would fight over what colors to paint it in .. I'd want the original black/white/gold Mohawk!

Re: Why WN does not fly to Canada --

You can't book southwest through most of the GDS"s which makes expanding into markets where they have limited presence's more complicated, as people won't know to check southwest.com I remember some forum users in the past saying that they could not even get on southwest.com in the country whe...

Re: Why WN does not fly to Canada --

Why are they required to accept CAD? They don't accept Mexican pesos, Aruban florin, Jamaican dollars and they most definitely don't accept Cuban pesos. Unless there's some Canadian law that says airlines flying to Canada must accept CAD, I fail to see how this is a hurdle. Canadians can use their ...

Re: 1Q21 $ fin/ops comparison AA DL UA WN AS B6

Thanks for doing this! In spite of all the optimism that's being shown by some on here and the airlines themselves, we've got a LONG way to go before the industry returns to any semblance of sustainability and profitability. Jeremy Totally agree. There are still huge areas of the world where travel...

Re: Flight 00880000

Company I work for has our private jet blocked.

Re: How is Airways Magazine doing these days ?

I'm still subscribing - it's great - I have no problems with the magazine. As far as publishing - they're not the only magazine that has reduced issues. Aviation Weekly, Air Transport World, Flight International - they've all reduced their publishing as have many of the non-aviation magazines. This ...

Re: TWA@TOL

That happened with a lot of smaller communities. Originally served by the then Big 4 - American, Eastern, TWA and United. Then as airplanes got bigger and turboprops came into being - the CAB authorized a transfer of service from the majors to the local service carriers - Mohawk, Allegheny, Piedmont...

Re: B6 to Staff: Looking to move HQ to Florida

I don't think this is unique to JetBlue. Every company is looking at all the empty office space they have and what to do with it now that many know people can work from home and be productive. My employer included. Overhead is a big expense and it makes sense to reevaluate office space requirements.

Re: 10 busiest airports in the world 60 years ago (1961)

Thanks .. and love the pictures! Electras .. 727-100s .. DC-6s and -7s .. Connies .. DC-8s .. 707s ... DC-3s at MIA and DCA .. UA CV-340s at LAX .. and that shack at JFK between the TWA terminal and the United terminal. When I was there in '66 Trans Canada and Trans Caribbean were there .. perhaps N...

Re: Northwest Royal Imperial service, fancy TPAC/TATL dining in 1980s?

Regal Imperial service wasn't just on flights to Asia. Routes that NW deemed "important" carried that as well. I'm looking at a timetable from 1968 and it's featured on flights to Florida as an example. It was another name for their best first class service.

Re: What is going on with AA2022 CLT-BOS

It just changed again - I'm able to paste it in as text:
2AA2022
AA2022/21DEC
CLT 835P A8
BOS 2 B16 1049P
4CLT/OUT2035 OFF2053 *1953
7CLT/AUTO REACCOM DLY FLT COMPLETED *2039*CRCYMG
2BOS/ETA2307 *2051

Re: What is going on with AA2022 CLT-BOS

It's changed again - ETA BOS 1125pm - no reasons given

Re: What is going on with AA2022 CLT-BOS

SABRE isn't providing a reason - they're only stating original times and new times.
SABRE is the reservation system American uses.

Re: What is going on with AA2022 CLT-BOS

From SABRE -
Original Departure 835pm - Departed CLT 853pm
Original Arrival 1049pm - Now ETA BOS 1148pm

Re: Kalitta Air To Operate 777-300ERSFs

Why is the (looks like) only cargo door aft of the wing instead of in front of the wing? Isn't that going to mess with COG?

Re: My new Aviation podcast, the Aviation Spotters Podcast

Just subscribed. I have to say - Google Podcasts app set-up is horrible. Instead of putting your library/subscriptions right on the Home page - you have to go to Activity .. then scroll to the right to find subscriptions. And the home page is pretty messy. BUT - looking forward to listening to ya!

Re: Southwest Crew Base in Hawaii?

Generally speaking - what's the threshold for opening crew bases anywhere? Number of flights? Number of overnight aircraft? something else?