There is a thread on this but it looks like they have a part of the company moved to the US to do this https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1490843 Its not uncommon for foreign companies to do this. US bankruptcy law and procedure is a lot friendlier than most countries. Brazil a...
Jump to postHow can GOL be in Chapter 11? Chapter 11 is a US thing, right? There is a thread on this but it looks like they have a part of the company moved to the US to do this https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1490843 Its not uncommon for foreign companies to do this. US bankruptcy law ...
Jump to postThe financial mystery deepens. Who is providing even more capital/has the deep pockets to roll the dice even more with the 25 extra frames? Even if they're leasing them for more than the purchase price and pushing the debt out in the end they still have to come up with the deposit, the debt princip...
Jump to postThe financial mystery deepens. Who is providing even more capital/has the deep pockets to roll the dice even more with the 25 extra frames? Even if they're leasing them for more than the purchase price and pushing the debt out in the end they still have to come up with the deposit, the debt princip...
Jump to postBUF would be an excellent strategic choice , there's so little competition and with famously lower costs than Toronto. Canadians will easily cross the border for savings and they're very aware of self connecting opportunities at DUB I dont think this has been true for sometime. Plus the CAD is crat...
Jump to postIt will pass. Respectfully do you think JetBlue would have gone this far knowing it wouldn’t get approved? No way. Didn’t stop United and US Airways, did it? Looking at other industries, a good example is the failed AT&T and TMobile merger. Not only did that fail, but the breakup fee ended up t...
Jump to postLooks like the entire EU is closing its airspace to Russia.
https://airwaysmag.com/industry/eu-clos ... -aircraft/
As a side note. Delta is hurting so bad for new hires that they recently sent out an email stating that if you did not make it in the hiring process to please re-apply with a different email address. Not sure what having a different email address will make? I bet their HR system automatically rejec...
Jump to postThat is an unacceptable amount of time to get a shipment processed through their hub. Thanks for the news. I will make sure to advise all of my business associates to stay away from DHL. Sounds like they are being run by the Post Office. I have done 4 shipments with FedEx in the last 3 weeks, and e...
Jump to postThat strategy drove NWA's investment decisions, which resulted in the McNamara terminal (also known as the WorldGateway) at DTW, opening in 2002. Those decisions were around the same time as MSP was debating building a new airport (and NWA was opposed), which lead to MSP's decisions to invest incre...
Jump to postSo how does this work AOC wise with Brexit? Does EI need a UK AOC (and does it have one)? Or are there some shenanigans where they found a way to use the BA AOC?
Jump to postI'm surprised the Haredi parties in the government don't just push the government to re-nationalize the airline. El Al is always going to struggle for profitability and handing the company over to a family in the US seems like a really questionable move. If El Al's finances get worse because the new...
Jump to postI believe the Vistara and Spicejet flights are tied to bilateral agreements that India set up with countries to facilitate two way repatriation (look up India air bubble agreements for more details). India shut down all international flights (with a few exceptions) and now they're reopening some fli...
Jump to postWhen i was looking at a wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doha_International_Airport&oldid=601923325#Airlines_and_destinations), it says United flew from Doha to Dubai in March, 2014. It really dosen't seem feasible...... Does anyone else know why this was? It was a tag...
Jump to postHey guys, I was browsing through YouTube today, and I came to realized that six east African nations, which are South-Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda are set to create a Confederation from 2023 onward. I am not going to details this in here, but there is some articles you can fin...
Jump to postI saw on Twitter that the IATA Clearing House has suspended Interjet's membership. I think this is the end for Interjet. RIP. Link: https://in.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-interjet/iata-clearing-house-membership-of-mexicos-interjet-suspended-letter-idINKBN22B3BC What exactly does this mean? No lon...
Jump to postAfter a 6 to 24 month breather, people who like to travel are going to return to travel as soon as it is safe to do so and globalization will resume. We will be well above 2019 passenger volumes by 2022 or 2023. If the 777-9 cant find a market, I would also assume the global A380 fleet will be reti...
Jump to postThis is a concern for a lot of companies in the industry. Aviation and Travel related companies are dealing with artificially low share prices because of Covid-19 so they're all ripe targets for hostile takeovers. The larger legacies will be fine but smaller airlines and niche companies (like IT pro...
Jump to postWas that pre or post CAB? Because I would say those are completely different worlds that need to be treated separately. I believe there were a few post de-regulation interchange flights but these wouldn't be interchange. Given how quickly this would need to be up and running, they would probably im...
Jump to postI really don’t get why people (including the DL CEO) say this will cause a permanent 30% decline in air travel. Supposedly, DL was making money just a few weeks ago with that level of service. If the demand was there, why wouldn’t it rebound when the virus problems are over? Because people are shak...
Jump to postDidn't Austrian do the same thing the other day? I suspect airlines will conclude that it is better to temporarily shut down rather than operate empty flights. Especially now that borders are closing, you'll see this ramp up quickly.
Jump to postGeez the Dow futures really took a tumble after that speech.
Jump to postDoes this mean that UK participation in EUROCONTROL and the ECAA are also under review? Hopefully they stay in Eurocontrol but I suspect they will not be part of the ECAA. Easyjet and Ryanair both have EU and UK AOCs so they'll be ok even without ECAA membership. Additionally, I assume that now tha...
Jump to postSLC/DTW have no competition to LON. And VS already has the JV with Delta, so what's the point of SLC or DTW? It doesn't expand the network. Replacing a frequency? Complimenting Delta’s existing service? (More unlikely). Did anyone ever say it had to expand the network? It would expand VS’ own netwo...
Jump to postMissed this earlier, is this alluding to AA’s return to Fortaleza? After it is approved by authorities in the United States and Brazil, American and GOL’s new codeshare will allow customers to connect seamlessly to 53 GOL flights beyond GIG, Sao Paulo (GRU), Brasilia (BSB), Manaus (MAO) and Fortale...
Jump to postFromCDGtoSYD wrote:What will happen to the skyclub, I presume it will close
There seems to be a huge amount of IT industry in Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad (ie demand for people to fly for work purposes) I'm sure there is IT offshoring in Kolkata but it doesn't seem to generate as much noise as other cities. Delhi took over as capital of India well before independence -...
Jump to postSo many dramatic replies in this thread! If 100 extra people airside will break the airport, I hope a 77W never has to divert to SEA. Imagine the absolute chaos! For whatever reason, people on this thread are convinced that all 100 people will enter the airport at the exact same time and distribute...
Jump to postMAD is premium for South America - not necessarily true for Asia though - and even more in South East Asia where there's no non-stop flight to MAD . IB is struggling with PVG and NRT. Air Europa doesn't fly to any destination in Asia. That suggest that the market MAD-Asia is not that premium (not s...
Jump to postThe premium economy seat looks like United's, which is actually pretty good. And the business class looks stellar! Way to go Aeroflot! Big upgrade. Aeroflot had the same PE seats as Air France which were those annoying seats that were in a hard shell so when you tried to recline your seat just slid...
Jump to postWaiting for them to start YQT - the closest connection between the two currently has to detour in Winnipeg. Hopefully a step in the right direction. No way they add YQT. SY is mostly US point of sale. YVR has cruise ship traffic and decent O&D on its own. Not to mention SY flies 737s which is a...
Jump to postWhat exactly was the rationale for removing slot controls from EWR?
Jump to postWeatherPilot wrote:They all probably use the same reservation system distributor.
This is trivial in the grand scheme of things. MSP was ready for the storm. Some cancellations were inevitable but all in all, they are managing this quite well given the circumstances. They're still getting flights in and out despite getting close to a foot of snow. The article even mentioned that ...
Jump to postI expected NK to apply for this slots but I guess it will be one of those rare destinations where one of the biggest metropolitan areas in the world doesn’t get international LCC service. Definitely telling! There are multiple Mexican LCCs operating from MEX. The issue is that US LCCs have had litt...
Jump to postI think if you look at certain nations you know that this will never happen. I mean how will India and Pakistan ever agree on something. Or many of the African nations that are also not really the best friends. Most of the member countries have totally different agendas. I am actually surprised tha...
Jump to postIs this another thread to bash Boeing or to deflect 100% blame from Boeing for the MAX crashes? I think it is general bashing of America. It is a sad position in my opinion since the FAA has been such a worldwide leader in making aviation safer around the world for decades. Is the original poster (...
Jump to postThe FAA reauthorization bill was always viewed by Republicans as an opportunity to further diminish the FAA. Remember, this was the bill that originally included provisions to privatize ATC among other FAA functions. So it can't be surprising that there are provisions that further weaken the FAA's c...
Jump to postThe common opinion here seems to be that airports (and carriers) have a right to pollute - noise pollution in this case. Entities don't have a right to pollute as much (or a little less) as they used to in perpetuity. Ask any utility running a power plant how much they spent on flue gas desulfuriza...
Jump to postThis stuff has always been generally under wraps in Minnesota because cities don't own the airports. Airports are instead owned and managed by a state agency. The Twin Cities itself even has the unique quirk of having a regional government that oversees the entire Twin Cities metro and that entity w...
Jump to postQuite a spend for six commercial flights per day. I think the issue was that even 6 flights a day was a lot more than what the old airport was designed for. And upgrading the old airport was apparently as expensive as building a new one. And the Bakken oil boom seems like it will stick around for a...
Jump to postI can't recall any other proposed JV being appvd. without ATI. If you ask me, it's like eggs benedict without the hollandaise! What's the friggin' point? What they're left with is what they can do (and mostly already do) without a JV. This really is a kick in the ass to HA, given the NH/UA JV which...
Jump to postAI is still operating EWR-BOM so I doubt its a range issue. I would imagine that DL's new flight is the cause. DL has actually priced their flights quite competitively so I'm sure travelers will opt for DL over AI if given the choice. Even among Indians, AI doesn't exactly have a very good reputati...
Jump to post*AI BOM-JFK NOV 0.4>0[0] DEC 0.4>0[0.4] JAN 0.5>0[0.4] FEB 0.4>0[0.4] MAR 0.4>0.0[0.5] I think I've seen cuts to this route show up in this thread at least a few times now. Has AI officially pulled out in the face of the daily competition from DL? I thought it was an aircraft range issue connected ...
Jump to postHas anybody looked at the Alaska Air angle of this? Alaska and LATAM have been partners for years. Obviously nothing has been announced yet but who agrees (or disagrees) that DL will force LATAM to cut ties with Alaska? If any of the last responses to JV applications by the US DoT are indicitive of...
Jump to postIf Turkey had ever managed to join the EU, I think this would have been plausible. But everything took a completely different turn so now I'm not sure what their competitive advantage is over the ME3
Jump to postAA doesn’t even codeshare on JL’s NRT-PEK/PVG flights, so I’m still putting my money on China not being in the JV. They aren't allowed to include China flights in the JV. This applies to all US carriers. For example, China is excluded from the DL-KE JV. DL sells KE segments to China but they use KE...
Jump to postDiplomats and government officials. Even EU officials in Cyprus (Commission and Parliament) fly with Aegean via Athens, they have some sort of a corporate agreement with them. What staff does the Commission and Parliament have in Cyprus? There isn't much. There's a small office in Nicosia and I ima...
Jump to postCancelling Open Skies and using bilaterals also leaves entrenched incumbants. You propose to apply significant medicine to a very small problem. Start by listing the top 50 U.S. and European that are also slot-limited and you'll see just how small. https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Airline-N...
Jump to postCan Delta get ANY luck in Japan? What do you mean? DL got 5 out of their requested 6 HND frequencies in the recent proceeding (and the one they didn't get was just a throwaway frequency increase on HND-HNL anyway), so I'd say they have had pretty good luck recently. Also, the demand from the U.S. t...
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