Re: What aircraft have you flown transpacific?

1990 LAX-HNL-NAN-AKL TE 767-200
1991 HKG-SEA UA 747-SP
2003 LAX-SYD QF 747-400ER
AKL-LAX QF 747-400
2004 LAX-AKL NZ 747-400
AKL-LAX NZ 747-400
2011 YVR-SYD AC 777-200LR
SYD-YVR AC 777-200LR
2013 LAX-BKK TG A340-500
BKK-LAX TG A340-500

Re: The Worst Red Eyes You’ve Done

LAS-DFW. Depart LAS at 1:15am, in the air for just over 2 hours, then arriving DFW at 5:30am. Then, waiting 2 hours for the connecting flight to AUS. This :checkmark: except PHX-DFW with the same schedule in c.2001 - had to wait for the Admiral's Club to open after landing so I could push 2 club ch...

Re: CV-990 doors

Zowie! Thanks for that @DL_Mech

Re: First Time Flying On A Widebody?

1978 LHR-LAX B747-136 (G-AWNA: I know they didn't have the legs for that sector but my Junior Jet Club logbook doesn't lie) we were supposed to go to MIA but the staff travel gods intervened. During the cruise we met the actor James Garner in the upper deck lounge: and as The Rockford files was my f...

Re: Former aircraft/airline combinations you've flown on

BA 1-11, Trident, TriStar, 741, 742, 744, 757, 763, VCV, 732, 734
VS A340-600, 744
AF 732
KL F70, F100, 744
IB A300B4, 757
LH A300, A310
SK MD-90, DC9
OS 310, MD87
OK 734
EI F50
CX 743
TG A300-600R
NZ 742, 744, 762
QF 744
UA DC8-72, D10
DL 762
AA 727, S80
AS 321, MD-80
AC 146

Re: CV-990 doors

Finding a safety card or a video of the CV-880/CV-990 door operation has yielded very little, unfortunately

Re: Hollywood Hotel -Recommendations/Areas

As a 29-yr Angleno I would add a couple of points here: LA by public transport can be frustrating simply because of the distances involved and the time-suck when holiday time is precious. It doesn't generally go where you need it to go as a visitor: rental scooters can solve this problem for short d...

Re: Defunct Carriers you have flown

bmi
Manx
Caledonian
Airtours International
Air Europe
flybe
Swissair
Air Liberté
Maersk
Kulula
Comair
Scibe Airlift
InterJet

Re: The Era of Airlines giving gifts before arrival

OZ did indeed give gifts to F class pax - I had an award ticket LAX-ICN on their 744 in 2014 or thereabouts. Prior to landing at ICN, the cabin crew offered a gift from a selection of 3: a leather wallet, a hardback coffee table book with Korean calligraphy and something else (ceramic pot of ginseng...

Re: UA 747SP routes late 80s/early 90s

I failed to get a subload seat HKG-LAX on UA's new n/s 744 service so they put me on the HKG-SEA n/s 74L service - my first and only -SP ride in 1991

Re: The use of integral air stairs

IL 86 has integral door stairs to facilitate failed "luggage in hand" concept similar to the Tristar As well as Yak 40 from the back which reminds me of flying a BAC1-11 MAN-MAD in 1991 and upon arrival there was a baggage handlers strike: the capt's solution was to unload the holds himse...

Re: Qantas from LA or SFO to London ?

Also NZ/TE had the advantage of being able to fly east or west from AKL and both paths are roughly the same distance to LHR (and for a few years they did operate both via LAX and HKG on different services) Routing SYD-LHR via LAX adds +/-2,000 mi to the route compared with a stop in SE Asia (SIN/BKK...

Re: Jets gain weight? Really?

Insulation blankets can also retain moisture over time and grow heavier, contributing to increased weight. So true. I watched a C check on a Dash 8 once. The insulation was soaked. Had to have added ~200 pounds. But they get replaced thus reducing the weight. For awhile! "Pax breath" cont...

Re: Names Airlines have given to their business class

BA's business class evolution: Club Class > SuperClub > Club World (long-haul J) Club Europe (short-haul C)

Re: Air Transat News and Discussion Thread - 2022

9H-TQP operated my FAO-YYZ as TS233 on Wednesday Jul 6th - arrived 2 hrs late from YYZ, and departed FAO 2hrs 20mins late - reducing my self-transfer to AC to 2 hours - but luckily AC was operating everything late that day too, so it all worked just fine for me... Cabin had cloth seats and armrest I...

Re: Air Transat News and Discussion Thread - 2022

While 9H-TQP has been flown to BYJ, the same day A333 9H-POP began flying between Portugal and YYZ. according to Flightradar24 9H-POP operated a YYZ-LIS and YYZ-OPO and today 9H-TQP appears to be back on OPO-YYZ - really disappointed to hear it's reputation as a worn-out clunker :( (tho' not sure t...

Re: Air Transat News and Discussion Thread - 2022

aaand right on cue TS have sent an email that LIS, OPO and FAO flights will be operated by HiFly and that inflight entertainment will be streamed to personal devices via BlueBox (though no explanation how that works). Email states more Club Class seats are available for sale now. Our seat assignment...

Re: Air Transat News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Since June 6th, HiFly A332 9H-TQP is flying for TS and interestingly, so far, it's only been shuttling between YYZ-FAO, LIS & OPO. Are TSC short of crew or aircraft? Any insiders know if this will continue through the summer? Booked my first ever TS trip FAO-YYZ on Jul 6th and was hoping for th...

Re: Air Transat News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Since June 6th, HiFly A332 9H-TQP is flying for TS and interestingly, so far, it's only been shuttling between YYZ-FAO, LIS & OPO. Are TSC short of crew or aircraft? Any insiders know if this will continue through the summer? Booked my first ever TS trip FAO-YYZ on Jul 6th and was hoping for th...

Re: Airports you have flown through exactly once

1 Landing only: SHV - COex: landed there but flew out of GGG CRP - WN: drove there from SAT and flew out to IAH YEG - UAex: flew in there but took the train to YVR MED - UA: landed there and drove to meeting and flew out of RDD VLC - UX: flew in from MAD but drove to BCN BOD - LH: arrived in from FR...

Re: You never fly out of airport but been visited airport

When I lived in KLU there were 4 daily SO F50s to VIE, 2 Tyrolean Dash-8s to FRA and a few charters to Turkey: maybe 2 per week on Hapag Lloyd. LJU was only 40 mi away and every time i had a rental car i made the dash over the mountain pass into Slovenia to catch the JP MD-80 fleet which was way mor...

Re: Airlines You've Flown Exactly Once

Alitalia - LHR-LIN Olympic - ATH-JMK TAP - LIS-LHR Air Liberte - LGW-TLS Kulula - JNB-GRJ SA Airlink CPT-MQP PrecisionAir - ZNZ-DAR Aerolineas Argentinas - COR-AEP Interjet - VSA-MEX JetStar Asia - SIN-BKK Crossair - KLU-ZRH (the original LX when SR still existed: does this count?) North American BW...

Re: Connecting from a premium product to economy

My parents came to visit from the UK and due to a terrible LHR snafu (terminal swap) they missed the LAX non-stop and were put on the LHR-SFO flight in BA F. Proactively I booked the most sensible (on my dime!) connection SFO-LAX on WN - their comment by sms: 'We've been told to stand under a sign w...

Re: Irish 2/22: Blossoming confidence

[ With others it depended on the fare level, this was to protect their revenue. Example the fare for LHR-DXB-DEL could be lower than the LHR-DXB fare. So to stop pax trying to pay the DEL fare when they really just wanted to go to DXB the airline would only permit the stop at DXB if they paid the D...

Re: Irish 2/22: Blossoming confidence

Any insight here as to why EI prevent some destinations from being offered as connections from certain US departure points? From LAX (for dates after the non-stop flight resumes), the EI website won't allow FAO as a destination, but it will from JFK. Is it purely because of the lack of same-day conn...

Re: Your orphan flight segments?

STN-CRL for me on FR - STN is so in convenient from us, the flights had to be 'Free' to make it worth going there

Re: Los Angeles (LAX) Aviation Thread - 2022

[l LA is a perennially popular destination from pretty much anywhere in Europe. Right now, you try and make money where you can! On AY specifically, remember their core Asia market is way down for obvious reasons so they're redeploying West. They've got very strong POS in Sweden historically (it's ...

Re: Los Angeles (LAX) Aviation Thread - 2022

In researching flights to various destinations in UK & EU I was fully surprised to see AY non-stop to HEL loaded in the the winter season :smile: - and then just realized how completely out of touch I am when the summer season showed AY non-stop to ARN as well :shock: : the last I knew AY was di...

Re: wich airlines released their concept when they revealed a new livery?

in the 1980s when Landor designed BA's iconic Speedwing livery, I remember an art & design magazine running an article on various concepts and iterations that were discarded (my secondary school art teacher left it lying around) I don't know if it was Landor who released those for the purposes o...

Re: Airliners with nicknames

Tridents were known among BEA pilots as 'Gripper'

Re: Boeing 767 - Who’s have you flown?

TE 762
QF 763
OZ 763
NH 763
BA 763 shorthaul & longhaul configs
ET 763
DL 762, 763, 764
UA 762, 763
CO 764
AA 762, 763
AC 763 (CP interior)

Re: Airline serviced airports now closed you once flew through

HKG - Kai Tak: BA TriStar / BA 742 / CX 743 / BA744 / UA 74L
TXL - Tegel: BA 732
MUC - Riem: BA TriStar / BA 1-11 / Scibe Airlift 707-320C
IST - Yesilkoy: TK 77W
ATH - Hellenikon: BA TriStar / BA 732 / AE 752
DUR - Botha: SA AB3 / BA 742
NIC - Nicosia (in utero ) BE Trident 2E

Re: Did the SAA 74Ls ever flew JNB NYC JNB NON STOP?

Hello , sorry if that question has been treated , but I am afraid the SAL / SAA 747SP never flew NYC non stop from JNB . Can you tell me why . This SP jumbo has been purchased for Ultra Long Distances. . Many thanks Dennys The definition of Ultra-Long Distance was very different in the 1970s and ea...

Re: Aircraft codes FKF and FJF

I have come across the aircraft codes "FKF" and "FJF" in some French timetables from the 1980s for what must have been aircraft of the Fokker 27 / Fokker 28 families or aircraft. They also appear in some more recent documents by Aéroports de Parts alongside the aircraft codes F2...

Re: AA Gold Status

AA sent me this top-up email in Feb 2020 - surprising as I had only flown 2 sectors on AA in 2019 so I was definitely not close to status - maybe I was targeted for some reason only the algorithm folks know about because i haven't held status on AA in over a decade (switched to UA, then DL in that t...

Re: Feeling nostalgic about 747s. Who’s have you flown?

747-100 BA
747-200 BA, TE, BR-BCal
747SP UA
747-300 CX
747-400 BA, VS, KL, LH, TG, OZ, JL, BR-EVA, QF, NZ, UA
747-8i LH

CPT-LHR-LAX 1/9/20 was my last long-haul...glad now I booked the BA 744 all the way instead of the CX 77W/A359 cheaper fare

Re: Routing of non-stop flights Europe-Hong Kong during the 1980s

I used to fly London-Hong Kong with BA regularly on the "school bus' during my teenage years 1985-1990 and I remember - maybe a bit fuzzily - some aspects of that experience In regards to routing, one of my HKG-LHR (1989?) non-stops passed overhead Kunming, PRC on the way, as well as Tashkent (...

Re: Terminated AF destinations

PNH was inaugurated in 2011, becoming only European route flown from Cambodia to Europe non-stop. The route only lasted a couple of seasons. Correct. The route operated with a A343 and 772. I wouldn't be surprised to see PNH return to the AF network via Joon. Cambodia is a growing market and is qui...

Re: "Vanity Plates" for Aircraft?

DarthLobster wrote:

BA operated a DC-10 with the registry G-DCIO

Re: How Easy is it for Silver Medallions to be Upgraded?

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Re: How Easy is it for Silver Medallions to be Upgraded?

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Re: How Easy is it for Silver Medallions to be Upgraded?

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Re: How Easy is it for Silver Medallions to be Upgraded?

with a new booking on DL your status is 'dynamic' in that it will update automatically as your status changes the exceptions to this that I have encountered are: a 4-sector intl booking on KL made when I was Plat and flown when I was a 'SkyMiles member' yet I retained my complimentary Comfort+ seati...

Re: Vertically opening doors, L1011 / DC10 / B767

IIRC, the L1011 L1/R1 doors were staggered (i.e. not positioned directly opposite each other in the fuselage) because there wasn't enough space in the crown to accommodate both doors in the raised position at the forward-most location Also I remember reading a BA L1011 technical manual that stated e...

Re: Out of this world upgrades and downgrades!

1988 MUC-BHX on the first ski charter of the season I fully expected a BY 737 or similar - and got bussed out to a SCIBE Airlift B707-320C

Re: Traveling to Thailand with an infant

Bassinets are AMAZING - and with the age of your child, it shouldn't be a problem (TG wouldn't allow bassinet for our 11-mo old because she could stand) some airlines have 25lb weight limits etc...so there are some random airline-specific policies out there) Our itinerary was LAX-ICN-BKK-PNH on OZ A...

Re: Northwest Airlines Seattle Focus City?

I guess I always assumed the 'Northwest' in 'Northwest Orient' was in connection with their historical Seattle base for trans-pac service... (but then I didn't grow up in the US: so things like Northwestern University being located in Illinois, or Chicago being in 'The Mid-West' are tough geographic...

Re: DL S18 Departures By Hub And Aircraft Type

Great thread - thanks! on the topic of trans-cons on 1-off equipment - does the LAX-DCA-LAX int'l B752 serve other destinations ex-LAX. I assume it turns at DCA with an arrival at 16:37 and a departure at 17:35 - but after arrival at LAX does it operate any other rotations or does it sit for 12hrs (...

Re: Flying Almost 9 Hours To Come Back Over Your Home Again!

not a huge detour in time, but a illogical aviation anomaly nonetheless, KLM offered me LAX-AMS-DUB-BHX a few years ago (cheap ticket) effectively overflying the destination twice in opposite directions before finally arriving

Re: Meridiana to be renamed Air Italy

Meridiana was named Alisarda before because based in Olbia, Sardinia, somewhat in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. IIRC - the rebrand to Meridiana was an attempt to move away from only being associated with routes between Sardinia and the mainland - I believe the name was chosen because it work...