Re: 787-8 for sale

Why is DeerJet selling their 787? I recently saw a video by Sam Chui about its interior. Why are they offloading it that quickly? It is their mother company, HNA Group, selling the 787-8 BBJ. Main reason is to reduce debt load after global shopping spree for past few years. In short, credit crunch ...

Re: 787-8 for sale

Why is DeerJet selling their 787? I recently saw a video by Sam Chui about its interior. Why are they offloading it that quickly?

Re: First Delta Airlines A330-900neo rolls out of final asssembly

They will be coming with the cheaper IFE first introduced on the CS100

Re: Reuters: Airbus likely sold 10 A330neo jets to Delta

Delta may be deferring for the 251t version, which would have roughly the same range as the Boeing 777-200ER. But the 359 by default already has the range of the 77E and even more. The fact that DL elected to get theirs with a lower MTOW means they don't intend to use them on longer missions, like ...

Re: Reuters: Airbus likely sold 10 A330neo jets to Delta

Why take less A350s? The A330-900 clearly does not have the range to fly many of Delta's pacific long haul routes except for the ones from Seattle. Delta may be deferring for the 251t version, which would have roughly the same range as the Boeing 777-200ER. I see. As long they don't cancel these or...

Re: Reuters: Airbus likely sold 10 A330neo jets to Delta

Why take less A350s? The A330-900 clearly does not have the range to fly many of Delta's pacific long haul routes except for the ones from Seattle.

Re: Why DL use everything from 737 to A330 for ATL TO JFK.

Some are repositioning flights. I've seen one-off 777-200LR flights on this route. Several times I have also seen the 767-300ER sub in for the MD-88s. Here's a recap of what you will most likely get for a flight into any of the major 3 NYC airports (JFK, LGA, EWR) From EWR: MD-88, Boeing 717, occasi...

Re: United Fleet Upgrade Status - 2018

Such conflict is happening now with the Max9 and the 738 fleet numbers... More likely some desk jockey just made a purely random decision. Someone at CO did the same with the 762 and 753 fleet numbering too.. :crazy: UA's aircraft numbers are 4 digits, so 0754 (B737-700) will not conflict with 7754...

Re: B6 Adds LGA/HPN-ACK

I don't live far from HPN. This is quite an exciting development! One more place to add to the vacation list lol.

Re: United Fleet Upgrade Status - 2018

Last: and we’ve discussed this before many, many times... but the First Class interiors of the 752’s are becoming worse and worse every time I’m on one. Last week from Denver to Newark the 752 I was on was in such bad shape it would almost worry someone if she was air worthy! In seat 1A, the wall p...

Re: Alaska Airlines starts repainting Airbus fleet

Its kinda funny because you say in that blog entry that you've never flown Virgin America. Pretty hilarious someone writes a whole post about the loss of an airline that they’ve never flown on. I’ve stated before that I wholeheartedly believe that some of the most Anti-Alaska people on here probabl...

Re: United Fleet Upgrade Status - 2018

Nose# Type...........Serial#..N#.......Fuse#..YR.........Fleet Code 7511 737MAX-9 43449 N27511 7338......19 ........42 / 61 7512 737MAX-9 43449 N47512 7361......19 ........42 / 61 7513 737MAX-9 64494 N37513 7394......19 ........42 / 61 7514 737MAX-9 43450 N37514 7428.......19.........42 / 61 7515 7...

Re: Phoenix Sky Harbor is named the best U.S. airport for the second time

I trust TPG with a grain of salt because this is coincidentally the same site that has rated Alaska Airlines above jetBlue and Delta.

Re: United Fleet Upgrade Status - 2018

N37508 has been delivered with a ferry flight from Renton to SEA on Nov 8th.

Re: Alaska Airlines starts repainting Airbus fleet

Think it was addressed up thread but all AS planes coming out of VCV are only painted. Read somewhere that the first 737-700 (N619AS) and A320 (think it is N283VA) were at GSO getting their interiors redone. First 737-700 with new interior (N619AS) is back from being retrofitted and comes online th...

Re: DL Pax Told to Sit in Feces-Stained Seat

Aircraft was N335DN. Not an old A321 by any means.

Re: United Fleet Upgrade Status - 2018

N14001 787-10 has been delivered. It will be ferried to IAD as UA2712 tomorrow.

Re: United takes delivery of first Boeing 787-10

Looks like the entertainment system will be a new one

Re: Etihad to add Premium Economy from December 2018

Why can't they put the extra legroom section at the back of the cabin? I wanted to be able to sit in front of the engines and not have to pay extra

Re: Commercial Aircraft built in Asia

C919 maybe using “western elements” at least initially, but you can bet China is developing their own engine (in progress) and their own avionics (well, or “modify” it and call it Chinese). It is definitely a Chinese airplane, though. There's actually an engine called the CJ-1000A (Chang Jiang 1000...

Re: Commercial Aircraft built in Asia

zakuivcustom wrote:

C919 (although that had turn into a joint China-Russia effort).

Re: United proposes purchasing the A321LR for transatlantic flights

As I've previously mentioned, United will keep the A350. They will arrive within the timeframe of the first pmUA 777 retirements, and will (along with the 787-10) replace the 777-200ERs. That timeframe is also when the 797 will start to be delivered, coinciding with 757 replacements as well.

Re: United Fleet Upgrade Status - 2018

39M N37508 all bright and shiny in new paint VCVBFI 1Nov. Wouldn’t be surprised if UA has the keys and driving it off the lot by the 5th. :airplane: According to UA staff it will be delivered some time within the next two weeks. Also, I noticed that a lot of the B39Ms have registrations beginning w...

Re: Delta Takes Delivery Of First Airbus A220-100

The A220 looks beautiful inside and out. Also, I like Delta's commitment to providing seat back IFE even on short/medium haul aircraft while UA and AA seem to be moving towards only providing app-based streaming entertainment. Even though I usually download a few movies or tv shows to my phone befo...

Re: Potential A220 Routes for Delta

NYC-Pittsburgh can have a few flights a day upgauged to the CS100. United uses 737s (-700 and -800) on this route daily, in addition to 4 or 5 additional ERJ-175s, and makes it work perfectly.

Re: Why is the 738 Preferred Over the A320 for TATL?

738 also has a higher maximum cruising altitude compared to A320

Re: JetBlue Founder Reveals Details on His New Tech-Focused International Airline

Article: https://skift.com/2018/10/26/jetblue-founder-reveals-details-on-his-new-tech-focused-international-airline/ Interesting quotes from the article: Neeleman also claimed that the new airline, which he said probably won’t be named Moxy, will fly hundreds of routes, probably most without any no...

Re: Delta Takes Delivery Of First Airbus A220-100

Great looking aircraft. These can't replace the Maintenance Delay 88s fast enough. The A321s are actually taking care of that. Every time we say hello to a brand-new A321 or B739, we say goodbye to an old MD88. Hey, I mourn the loss of the Maddogs too! But aside from the Avgeek sentimental value, t...

Re: Delta Takes Delivery Of First Airbus A220-100

N776AU wrote:

Great looking aircraft. These can't replace the Maintenance Delay 88s fast enough.

Re: Delta Takes Delivery Of First Airbus A220-100

Can't wait to try the CS100!

Re: Has AA hit the limit for passenger discomfort?

I find it funny that some people defend that AA is doing the right thing in having a product that lags behind UA, much less DL, B6, etc.

AA management is a joke. They lack more common sense, intuition, and critical thinking skills than most people.

Re: First Virgin Atlantic Airbus A350-1000 Spotted in Toulouse

I wanted the A380 instead

But hey, finally something to replace the musty A330 and A340 aircraft on the New York route!

Re: United proposes purchasing the a321lr for trasnatlantic flights

I don't know why people think United is canceling or converting the A350 order. Before, the A350-1000 was intended to be a smaller replacement for the 747s. Now that there is the 777-300ER, they converted the order to A350-900s and pushed the timeframe back. This timeframe coincides with the beginn...

Re: United proposes purchasing the a321lr for trasnatlantic flights

I don't know why people think United is canceling or converting the A350 order. Before, the A350-1000 was intended to be a smaller replacement for the 747s. Now that there is the 777-300ER, they converted the order to A350-900s and pushed the timeframe back. This timeframe coincides with the beginni...

Re: United Fleet Upgrade Status - 2018

Does anyone know when United took the aircraft section of their website down? It has to be in the last couple weeks, because I checked it fairly recently to see if the 78J or 77E with Premium Plus had been added. I hope it's just temporary while they are adjusting these maps. It would be very disap...

Re: United Fleet Upgrade Status - 2018

CR2: N871AS has left Skywest and is now flying ExpressJet as UAX (5th to be transferred) E45: N14543 has exited the fleet. Stored at IGM. N26549 has exited the fleet. Stored at IGM. Flew 871 when it was still DL Cnx (9E). Saw that it was transferred to SKW for UAX flying not long after I flew it, a...

Re: Korean Air mulling widebody order

Korean Air historically never orders anything with Rolls-Royce engines.

Re: Turkish to Start Newark Service

Hopefully this doesn't come at the expense of JFK service.

Re: Future of UA's Airbus Fleet

Also note that because of fleet commonality they are more likely to replace the A320s with 7M8s. The A320s are the worst aircraft in UA's fleet, smaller proportion of FC seats compared to the 738, no seatback IFE, thinnest seats in the entire fleet, and smallest legroom out of all the aircraft as we...

Re: Future of UA's Airbus Fleet

Give about 5 years of time and they'll start leaving

Re: Interior pics of Delta's first A220-100

In flight entertainment... hmmm. Would it not be cheaper to just supply in-flight internet access, USB charging ports and let the passengers use their own devices? Cheap "Low Cost Carriers" already do that. Delta uses seatback IFE to differentiate its product, to make it more appealing an...

Re: Interior pics of Delta's first A220-100

The IFE here is GoGo vision touch - exactly what you described. It's basically a wireless system consisting of tablets, with a USB and headphone jack located immediately underneath. Here's a video of the product during testing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUc74EX84LA This is what I imagined IFE...

Re: Interior pics of Delta's first A220-100

That is one really nice interior. :cloudnine: I thought these planes were going to have the special tablets as the main IFE? Looks like they have the exact same in-seat PTVs as the majority of the fleet based off of those images. The IFE here is GoGo vision touch - exactly what you described. It's ...

Re: Interior pics of Delta's first A220-100

Looks like they opted for the B/E Aerospace Pinnacle seat. The reason why the screens look so square is that there's a charging port located right below the screen, and that takes up some space so it looks like a 4:3 aspect ratio screen.

Re: Last Azores Airlines A310 flight happening right now

A310-A321: what a capacity downgrade. Widebody comfort is always so much better than narrowbody, even if it's at 9-abreast in an airbus fuselage (just my opinion)

Re: Delta’s new A220 narrowbody coming on sale for January debut

Note that the CS100 has the range to fly transcons if needed.

And for the Francophiles: The aircraft is coded as "WCS" in the system and has "CS100" painted below the nose for the ground crew to see.

Re: Which aircraft has the advantage - A350-900ULR v 772LR.

The problem is, PE fares on EWR-SIN are routinely $1000-$1300 roundtrip, and there are also many $3000 roundtrip fares for business, too. It's cheaper than flying legacy economy to Europe, Japan, and many other similar markets.

Re: UA A320 engine failure today

Aircraft is most likely N443UA

Re: A few Delta fleet questions.

Again, not true. Delta has only said that they plan on a 50% reduction in 50 seat flying from 2017 to 2022... But this was the original plan. However, a 50% reduction is significant because UA is gobbling up all of the CRJ200s Delta discarded and AA is reactivating up to 50 ERJ-140s. Again, not tru...

Re: United Fleet Upgrade Status - 2018

On the 757-200 spreadsheet, what is the "New Seats Reported?" Are the sCO 757s getting a new type of seat, or are only the seat covers being renovated to the leather type instead of the cloth type?