Going back a bit further, the DC-6 was grounded for 4 months in November 1947, 8 months after going into service, following a fatal UA crash in Utah (en route LAX-MDW) that killed all 52 aboard caused by a cabin fire, and a similar AA event about 2 weeks later on a TUL-LAX leg of a LGA-TUL-LAX fligh...
Jump to postFirst off, EVA does fly TPE-LHR, so there are flights from Taipei to Heathrow. But no, not on China Airlines. I am not sure of the story behind why China Airlines doesn't do LHR. EDIT: It doesn't appear there is an EVA flight today...so now I'm not sure if they have stopped LHR service, or it's jus...
Jump to postJust curious what happens to 737 MAX pilots? Will they still be paid while not flying or can they be laid off without pay?
Jump to postI repeat... " I personally flew several times on Delta in the "oughts" from Narita to Nagoya Airfield (Komaki) before Centrair opened in 2005 (NRT-"old"NGO-SPN). Cabotage in Japan, with JL as an advocate, is possible." I boarded at NRT and deplaned at Komaki. The 2000-...
Jump to postThe real question is why is Sunday shown as the first column of a calendar week if day 1 is Monday. In Europe, calendars almost always show the first column as Monday. I was always used to the first day being Sunday, as is the norm on calendars in the U.S. and Canada. When I moved to GVA in 1996 to...
Jump to postMore goodies from the somewhat candid VP of network planning given during a press conference with local business leaders... BKK and SIN are still on the radar and are being considered due to being 'counter-seasonal', meaning they would peak during the typically slower months of the winter. All thos...
Jump to postAs already mentioned, Canadian Pacific operated the DC-6B to YCG for some years on their milk-run route between YVR and YYC. Until flights to AMS began including stops in YYC, that was CP's only flight to YYC for quite a few years. The DC-6B replaced the Convair 240 if memory correct. I flew on tha...
Jump to postMBS airport in Michigan serves Midland, Bay City and Saginaw (thus the airport code) and is roughly in the middle between the 3 cities.
Jump to postHere is a link to a 1983 Flying article referencing Pacific Western Airlines. It mostly talks about 727-100 in the arctic but has a reference to 737-200 ops into YCG. I can't imagine anything bigger going in there simply because of the complexity of the approach and the fact there is a large mounta...
Jump to postslcdeltarumd11 wrote:Rogue already offers alot of ULCC seats to Canada. The USA was lower hanging fruit.
OlafW wrote:Dominion301 wrote:With the RJ100 gone, do Swiss still have a few RJ85s left for a few more months or is that it for the Avros at Swiss?
That was it for the Avros. I don't even remember if they had any RJ85s, at least not since I flew with Swiss first time in 2007.
[twoid][/twoid] The 346 was the Airbus attempt to polish a turd (i.e. the 340 was not a good design...so you make a derivative that is even worse). For LH the decision makes perfect sense. Why fly a 346 when you can fly a 359 with 30% or more lower operating costs? It did very well against the MD11 ...
Jump to postHB-JCC has been delivered: Bombardier CS 300 55012 HB-JCC Swiss International delivery 26jul17 YMX-ZRH ex C-FPBZ How could it have been delivered a month ago when it was making an acceptance flight at Montreal last Wednesday using its Bombardier registration C-FPBZ, per my reply immediately above y...
Jump to postVV wrote:Who is the lucky owner?
Expect the next CS3 for LX being delivered within days. I see HB-JCC currently planned for commercial ops as per AUG 28th. An acceptance flight of the future HB-JCC included a visit to YUL on Wednesday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3zh-xTuwDI It covered quite a bit of territory north of Mirabel...
Jump to postWas it not Lufthansa with a focke-wulf fw 200 'condor' in 1938 from Berlin to New York? Well that was the first land based transatlantic. Indeed it was, and it was revolutionary in those days. Until then all flights across the ocean were done on floatplanes that could land at the sea to refuel. Thi...
Jump to postNot everyone likes redeye flights which probably helps AC's traffic. And while CX's JFK-YVR westbound isn't a redeye, the midnight arrival time is quite late compared to AC's 787-9 from EWR which arrives at 2140. That aircraft continues at 2350 nonstop to BNE.
Jump to postJust a quick question. I'm on Flightradar right now and I noticed both the AC and CX flights from NYC to YVR have complete different flight paths. AC 549 EWR-YVR operated by the 787-9 is flying over Canadian airspace and seems to have a much shorter flight time compared to CX 889 JFK-YVR which is f...
Jump to postDoes anyone know why AC decided to drop a good livery (the existing one)? What was the motivation to do that? What did they feel was wrong with it....? I would like to answer to this too? Wasn't the "toothpaste" livery relatively new too? 13 years old, 2004. AC is a very different airline...
Jump to postIf I am correct, Japan Airlines flew NRT-YVR-MEX back in the day. JAL operated 5th freedom service YVR-MEX for about 38 years. I think it started in 1972 using DC-8-62s. JAL dropped MEX in January 2010 when they were in serious financial trouble and terminated several unprofitable routes. The YVR-M...
Jump to postI must admit it looks marginally better out in the open but it still suffers from balance issues, the logo is too small/low on the tail and the positioning of it under the window line is still very awkward looking. What's worse is that a few minor alterations could makes this a very classy looking ...
Jump to postBut why no local traffic? Canadian protectionism? The Canada-China bilateral is quite liberal. Chinese carriers can operate two 5th freedom routes of their choice beyond Canada (and Canadian carriers have the same rights beyond China). Carriers from both countries also have 5th freedom rights at tw...
Jump to post2.) Canada's airport costs. The airports I've been to in Canada are beautiful and modern, but that comes at a cost. They are however very expensive to operate in and out of. That being said, you're more likely to see DY operating into places like BUF or BTV where it's cheap to operate and people ar...
Jump to postThe forward outboard wheel on the left main gear fell off at rotation departing YYC for HNL on January 28. After a low pass and holding for some time to burn fuel (fuel dumping was optional on early production 767s; it was made standard at some point), it landed safely. The tire must have rolled a m...
Jump to postusflyer123 wrote:I know that the Algerian community in Montreal is big, but i thought we would see ALG-JFK first.
where will the a310 go when AT retires them Several ex-Air Transat A310s (code TS) have already been scrapped, including two mentioned in this 2013 article which were scrapped at Mirabel airport (YMX) near Montreal. Sorry, the article is only in French but you can paste the text into Google Transla...
Jump to postRelated article from local news source in Iqaluit on the An-124 arrival with more details of how the LX passengers were handled. http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674huge_antonov_aircraft_brings_engine_to_flight_stranded_in_nunavut/ Earlier article on the LX diversion with a few photos...
Jump to postAir Transat's current seat pitch is 36 inches in J and 32-33 inches in Y if the A321neoLRs will be used for TATL ops. I could see something like J24Y176 or J20Y180...with 36"/21.5" in business (2/2) and 32"-33"/17" in economy. (The 737s are Y189.) TS increased the seat pitc...
Jump to postYou are correct about UA. Their only international routes prior to deregulation were YVR and YYZ. IIRC, CUN was their next international station after degregulation. They didn't start going overseas until buying the PA routes. TW also flew over the Pacific in the 1970s but not to Australia or New Z...
Jump to postwhat is the rationale for SQ doing JFK FRA instead of EWR where they could get Star feed? JFK is a huge O&D market and a significant percentage of the premium market prefers JFK to EWR. I doubt SQ has much interest in carrying lower-yield connecting traffic via EWR. And until fairly recently SQ...
Jump to postThere was another thread on much the same subject last October.
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Clydenairways wrote:PanAm also flew the 707 to HEL back before the A310 days
Cathay operated the 747-200 nonstop in both directions HKG-LGW and HKG-YVR, they were true pioneers in ULH flying of the Classic. Only the later model 747-200s with higher gross weight and more powerful engines could operate those routes nonstop. They were much more capable than the early 742s. I r...
Jump to postIf I remember correctly, I had my first and only experience on a 767 in 2-4-2 layout on them. Boy what a terrible layout. Of course nowadays many carriers' 777s and 787s are no better..... 8-abreast 767 is actually worse than 10-abreast 777 and 9-abreast 787 (or 9-abreast A300/330/340). There can't...
Jump to postThey used to operate a scheduled service from BFS to Luton using 737-200s which was very cheap for the day, used it many times until it ended due to the retirement of the "200" series. A very pleasant Airline with a pleasing livery, sorry to see them go. If memory correct, Britannia Airwa...
Jump to postIn Europe even if you pay for business class you don't get more pitch, just food and maybe width. That's not always true. On KLM within Europe, the first 6 or 7 rows have 2 to 3 inches more seat pitch and the middle seat in 3-abreast sections is left empty in business class. Since all those rows ar...
Jump to postNo. All of EK's flights go through Dubai, a tiny nation, so EK is more comparable to international airlines operated by similarly sized countries today that take people to and from (or through) their home countries; think of El Al or Singapore on steroids. Pan Am had much more of a global network w...
Jump to postWhy are they still at CDG 2A instead of T1 where almost all the other *A carriers are?. I believe the reason for this is also because the MLL, AC's lounge, is in 2A. And its less about connecting traffic at CDG but more O&D to CDG. AC also has a lot of connections with AF at CDG, especially to/...
Jump to postKLM (PH-BUK) and Korean Air used to fly 743 to SFO Yes but were discussing SAN not SFO. Did the KLM 743 even have enough range to get to AMS from SFO? KL used the 743 and virtually identical modifled 742SUD from the west coast for many years. Even the 741 operated SFO-LHR with Pan Am for many years...
Jump to postLast few rows on a 737-200 were at least as loud if not louder than the rear of a DC-9, especially on takeoff. I've sat in the last 2 or 3 rows on KLM Fokker 70s several times recently and they're no louder than many aircraft with wing-mounted engines.
Jump to postA321-100 and -200 have slightly different nose gears, but I don't know what exactly is different. Only the earlier IC requested for bogie gears. Most of the difference is internal apart from the wing fences on the -200. As already mentioned, all A321s have wingtip fences. Only the few original A320...
Jump to postSo, will this be different on the A330-800/900neo? Are they fixing it? Or is it going to be the same? For those who haven't noticed, this thread is 11 years old. When people resurrect such old threads I wish they would mention it so you don't waste time reading it all again before realizing that it...
Jump to postQuoting TWA772LR (Reply 5): How come PA never operated their 737 in the US, it seems they only did in Europe. They had 737s in the US. MIA and JFK were both 737 crew bases at times. Even had a 737 based in LAX that did SAN and SFO runs Here some photos in MIA and SAN View Large View MediumPhoto © F...
Jump to post[ A 7th freedom right flight (as touched upon above) is exampled the current example of CX's 712 (BKK-SIN) as a standalone service, and not operated as HKG-BKK-SIN. (of note, is that the country of origin, do not match). No, CX service BKK-SIN (CX713 not CX712 which is SIN-BKK) is most definitely 5...
Jump to postUnited Airline wrote:I wonder why SQ doesn't install first suite onboard this flight as this is a very premium heavy flight. Maybe at least 4.
Varsity1 wrote:I don't think Canada allows cabotage either.
Another interesting thing I noticed while searching was that VP Johnson arrived in AF2, VC-137B 58-6970 (normally flown as SAM970) with a very unusual paint scheme. The 'swoosh' on the tail is day-glo orange (looks red in the pics). Also had orange above the cockpit. RJ That was the original livery...
Jump to postPS - isn't it illegal to sell tickets between two US destinations with an intermediate stop outside the US? Or is that just for non-US airlines? Disclaimer: this might be an exceptionally dumb question. I'm very tired. You mean cabotage, which, yes means a non-US airline carrying passengers between...
Jump to postNo. All of EK's flights go through Dubai, a tiny nation, so EK is more comparable to international airlines operated by similarly sized countries today that take people to and from (or through) their home countries; think of El Al or Singapore on steroids. Pan Am had much more of a global network w...
Jump to postThe United States is also relatively liberal with fifth freedom rights. It is usually allowed for an airline to continue a flight through the United States and pick up passengers on all segments as long as they are international. Seventh freedom rights is also possible I think. For example Sunwing ...
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