Re: Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW/DAL) Aviation - 2023

"Millions" of affluent people? lol okay. Average McKinney household income: $130, 717 Average Frisco household income: $165,827 Average Allen household income $118,254 Average Plano household income $134,666 Is that affluent enough for you? That's about 800,000 people - there's more to Co...

Re: Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW/DAL) Aviation - 2023

DFWGlobeTrotter wrote:

bob75013 wrote:

Millions of affluent people look pretty attractive.

Re: Speculation: American Airlines might file bankruptcy again

Nick614 wrote:

The amount of debt relative to other operators is irrelevant. While serious, the Wuhan Virus will be gone by the summer.

Re: American Airlines Improves Project Oasis First Class

Now it is truly an oasis. Watch out Emirates!

Re: Doug Parker Interview DMN

Interesting article somewhat relevant to this topic.
https://www.inc.com/chris-matyszczyk/american-airlines-just-gave-a-perfect-painfully-detailed-explanation-for-why-passengers-prefer-delta.html

Re: David Neeleman Raising Funds for New U.S. Airline

From Bloomberg, GE Capital Aviation Services to supply first nine airplanes to Moxy. Also from the article they revealed Neeleman plans to base Moxy near a tech center that is not Silicon Valley. My guess is going to be RDU or GSO. Although IAD does have the capacity and they have a rail link to th...

Re: Is Alaskan Airlines really that good?

IPFreely wrote:

First of all, it’s Alaska Airlines, not Alaskan Airlines.

EA CO AS wrote:

Alaskan? Never heard of 'em.

Re: AS wins 12th straight JD Power award

This ranking is about as honest as your inflight magazine- Best Steakhouses in America, Best Seafood in America, Best Plastic Surgeons in America. Pay to play. Yep JD Power is a pay to play award. They fact they shower Chevrolet with awards for quality every year pretty much tells you all you need ...

Re: Rumor: American Airlines To Bring Back Seatback IFEs On Domestic Aircraft

For once, Dougie and Co. thought they figured out Delta's next move, then reacted quickly to announcing plan of removing seatback IFE so that they can claim for once Delta would be following AA. Instead DL laughed at AA and told the whole world that they will be ADDING IFE so passenger can enjoy mo...

Re: American Airlines Admits It Has No Brand Purpose

For the last several years I fly AA just enough so I achieve gold and fly WN and DL the rest of the year. With OASIS being rolled out I'm not sure I'll even bother continuing to do that next year.

Re: AS’s Airbus network post VX

seabosdca wrote:

Let's get real about lie-flats.

Re: TWA Ambassador Service Seat Charts (1971) L1011, 747 Question- K Class?

Re: Rumor: American Airlines to Modify Project Oasis Planes.

gsg013 wrote:

AA continues to get worse and worse and the crazy thing is they still have $25 billion of debt that is more debt than DL & UA combined... They keep buying new planes that turn their customers off to their product and push people toward DL and UA...

Re: AS new interior

AS to designers: “Use this Prosthetic leg as your color palette and inspiration”

Re: Crash in Yorba Linda, CA

^^^ sorry but he’s right.....how can anyone come on here literally right after a crash and be like “oh sounds like a weight and balance issue” Lol wtf. How does that person have ANY idea whatsoever to make that statement? Because this is an internet message board that consists of public topics that...

Re: Crash in Yorba Linda, CA

I’d bet on a weigh and balance issue, may they all rest well. And may the survived recover mentally and physically That's ridiculous. Wild speculation with no facts in evidence. Sheer guess work. Irresponsible. An aircraft crashed. That's all that's known. Stick to facts, instead of fantasy. Easy t...

Re: AS new interior

Somehow AS has found a way to roll out a color palette even more bland than AA.

Re: Dallas/Fort Worth Aviation Thread (DFW/DAL) - 2019

ctrabs0114 wrote:

So, F9 has apparently loaded the seasonal schedule for DFW-LAS. I don't get why they're running that route considering AA and NK already have relatively strong year-round service.

Re: Lufthansa Lady at CLT

Based on her behavior I wonder what her A.net username is.

Re: Virgin Atlantic Reveals A330-200 Cabin Refresh

Cool. Looks great!

Re: AA213/214 going from 752 to MAX8

BestWestern wrote:

AA’s MRTC didn’t work out for them - chasing yield didn’t pay off.

Re: Alaska tests Virtual Reality headsets in First Class

Might I suggest a virtual Virgin America cabin as the default content.

Re: DAL becoming all-E175 for AS in November

I cannot think of a worse use for those gates than AS using them. Here's hoping an airline people in Dallas want to fly will ultimately end up with those gates. Delta hopefully will end up with one and AA the other.

Re: Dallas says it has a plan to resolve Southwest-Delta fight for Love Field gates

ADrum23 wrote:

With all of this talk of DL wanting to build up AUS, perhaps they (DL) can get back at WN for trying to force them out at DAL by preventing them from getting more gates at AUS.

Re: Cathay Pacific Hints At New US City

Is this the thread where anyone who lives in a particular city on that list happens to think their city will be the one because "reasons"?

Re: Spirit Airlines Announcement?

Probably something to do with the Miami Dolphins is my guess. If so, we can definitely eliminate an announcement they're the official carrier of the Dolphins since none of the players can fit into any of their seats.

Blue and grey are the colors of their passengers knees. More legroom to come?

Re: The Future of Virgin brands in commercial aviation

I’m 30 and I couldn’t care less about the Virgin brand, it’s a relic from 25-30 years ago. Your description of how millennials view Richard Branson is correct, he’s a 60-something billionaire who owns islands, etc, but he’s not the youthful rock-star/take-it-to-the-man type of person he once was. S...

Re: Alaska Airlines female co-pilot claims male pilot drugged and raped her

Why don't you ask your women friends? Go ahead, please, and they will tell you why. Tugg But legally, it is very suspicious. It would be more challenging to find out the truth but the mentality of victim is not unthinkable Please keep the discussion on topic. The discussion has been moved to Non Av...

Re: Alaska Airlines female co-pilot claims male pilot drugged and raped her

I doubt it in present-day America. No counter-suits, just suits. You mean because of the current political environment? The #MeToo movement. We all, male and female alike, have experienced interest from older human beings. And that is okay up to a point. Not with violence or against anyone's wishes...

Re: Alaska Airlines female co-pilot claims male pilot drugged and raped her

atcsundevil wrote:

Please keep the discussion on topic. The discussion has been moved to Non Av, but please keep things appropriate.

✈️ atcsundevil

Alaska Airlines female co-pilot claims male pilot drugged and raped her

A Seattle-based pilot employed by Alaska Airlines has filed a lawsuit against the airline, claiming that her male aircraft captain drugged and raped her during a June 2017 work trip. Betty Pina, a former military helicopter pilot who flew combat missions in Afghanistan, told KIRO 7 that during an ov...

Re: AA downsizing NYC for future B6 takeover?

I saw a wheelchair being used to cart a passenger to a recent Jetblue flight that was clearly marked as "American Airlines". The merger is inevitable!

Re: American Airlines Wants to Grow in Charlotte

People like you were the ones saying "CLT will get dehubbed because of MIA" "CLT can't support 600+flights the local market is way too small" "the O&D market is tiny and low-yield" blah blah blah blah. Now we have people saying it's too crowded and dirty. It's not ...

Re: American Airlines Wants to Grow in Charlotte

I seem to be one of the only people here who doesn’t think CLT will ever become a mega hub. It serves a purpose, it’s growing, and CLT is on fire, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. I can see it becoming another DEN, but more than that? Nah. You don't consider the third largest hub in the world ...

Re: Alaska "Beyond" problems, Seattle Times finally catches on

Actually, the in-depth research done on both brands during the "Which brand are we going to keep?" phase showed that the VX brand scored less favorably in many of the key consumer metrics than the AS brand did. It's not 1995 anymore, and the "Virgin" brand doesn't carry anywhere...

Re: DFW 2018 Developments

That would be awesome if DL brings back DFW-SEA. Crossing my fingers on that one.

Re: Spirit partners with Disney to improve customer service

Disney can start by asking Cuba Gooding Jr. to quit stabbing other Spirit employees.

Re: How much trouble is Alaska Air in?

Everything is going great!

Re: A visual into Alaska Air Group's Q3 performance

Keep watching ALK. And talk to me again next week. Yesterday you said tomorrow. You were wrong, end of story. If you keep moving the goal posts, eventually you'll be correct. It should also be noted that an Alaska Airlines employee just publically stated forward looking information about ALK stock ...

Re: A visual into Alaska Air Group's Q3 performance

Congrats to my co-workers on a nice quarter! I don't mean to be rude, but this wasn't a nice quarter by any financial measure. ALK stock went down today 13.21%...that is worse than United's earnings call fiasco 6 days ago! It was a nice result, not in terms of the stock price though Short interest ...

Re: Is the JetBlue CEO giving us some hints for the future?

tphuang wrote:

Midwestindy wrote:

Abeam79 wrote:

You should see the amount of anger toward as management from as loyalists regarding the merger.
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Re: Southwest Airlines seeking to expand dominance at Dallas Love Field

So say the NIMBY's in the area. In fact, Love Field operated - no problems - with nearly twice as many gates when it was home to Braniff, American, Delta, Continental... i.e., before the opening of DFW. The gate limit was an artificial sop to those prima donnas who think other people shouldn't have...

Re: Southwest Airlines seeking to expand dominance at Dallas Love Field

Will Southwest Airlines fly Southwest Airlines planes to Southwest Airlines Destinations Served by Southwest Airlines? Southwest Airlines.

Re: Midwest Express 2017

Only on airliners.net could a simple one-page "airline" website with a single contact us link generate a thread with 32 replies.

Re: Alaska CEO on Airbus

The level of nerd in this thread is at the maximum level.

Re: G4 strands approx. 200 pax headed to Oklahoma, and other west coast issues

" cars are gone, no rental cars, we have no hotel room ," passenger Alana Buckner said. Let's be clear here. I'm sure she meant to also say "..that Allegiant would pay for". Las Vegas is not out of hotel rooms, and according to kayak there are countless rental car options availa...

Re: Delta Air Lines at DFW

jplatts wrote:

I was on a full flight from Cincinnati to Dallas/Fort Worth on one of Delta's regional jets yesterday. There might possibly be enough demand for Delta to add mainline service between DFW and CVG.

Re: Richard Branson may start a new US airline venture after Alaska spat

I never understood by A.net has always been so aggressively opposed to the creation of new Airlines in the U.S. market, especially as competition,after a series of mergers and acquisitions, is at an all time low(along with customer satisfaction) 8 years ago it made sense with a struggling industry,...

Re: Virgin America receives first A321neo

PlanesNTrains wrote:

lee757 wrote:

QueenoftheSkies wrote:

Unfortunately

+1 what was the point in buying it to just get rid of it.

Seriously? Are we going to do this everytime there's a VX thread?

Re: AS adds DAL-SEA/PDX/SJC/SAN

So, here's why I think the LGA/DCA will not end well. I will preface this by saying, I assume they are precluded from using the AA code at DAL for at least three reasons. If that is not the case then throw this all out as that changes things dramatically. #1 First, VX did not do well. They had two ...