I’ve encountered several people on CLT-CHA flights who are confused that CHA is Chattanooga, not Charlotte.
Jump to postThis probably belongs in a Virginia thread, but how much RIC traffic bleeds over to IAD? Fairly little. That can be a brutal drive because you have to go significantly west and the DC Beltway is the most direct way to do it. Plus UA does fly RIC-IAD, so you can already get into their international ...
Jump to postAmong the highest paid, but plenty of cardiac and neuro surgeons making similar money. Plenty of plaintiff lawyers are millionaires on annual billings. Theres something like 11,000 law firms in DC, I’d het the senior partners are $500,000+ annually. People underestimate the number of $350,000+ hous...
Jump to postIt would be interesting to hear from the pilots on here as to what parameters are permissible for departures on 4/22 and 15/33. Obviously aircraft type, temperature, wind direction, runway condition (wet etc), all are the major factors. But obviously it appears that the flight crews appear to be as...
Jump to postTime to get the CEO of Peace Air, this Oyema kid, to pound sand, I guess there's enough of that in Nigeria. Without him the world will become a more peaceful place :taekwondo: He's 60 years old. It seems the bluff was called. Now everyone can go do what they must. LGW might not be the worst result ...
Jump to posta lot of airlines are teetering on the brink ... we will see a lot more of this Turns out that relying on the ability to infinitely refinance debt cheaply into even more debt isn't a great strategy. When money was basically free, it was a smart strategy. Now that borrowing money has a cost, it isn’...
Jump to postcrjflyboy wrote:a lot of airlines are teetering on the brink ... we will see a lot more of this
Why are you blaming Southwest for the meltdown? You have no idea about the weather issues at the Dallas hub of Southwest. You have no idea what's going on. Stop being paranoid and blaming the airline for the cancellations. It is not Southwest's intention to cancel flights to inconvenience pilots or...
Jump to postWhy are you blaming Southwest for the meltdown? You have no idea about the weather issues at the Dallas hub of Southwest. You have no idea what's going on. Stop being paranoid and blaming the airline for the cancellations. It is not Southwest's intention to cancel flights to inconvenience pilots or...
Jump to postI will admit that I have not read every single post on every page, but I am surprised that no one seems to think the build quality or lack thereof had anything to do with over 100+ pax being returned to earth safely. I’m not sure returning to earth safely is quite the recommendation of build qualit...
Jump to postI will admit that I have not read every single post on every page, but I am surprised that no one seems to think the build quality or lack thereof had anything to do with over 100+ pax being returned to earth safely. I’m not sure returning to earth safely is quite the recommendation of build qualit...
Jump to postI would really not like to be the person who installed that plug showing up for his or her next shift.
Jump to postMaybe that question was already asked before but the thread is very long so I couldn't find the info yet. Wouldn't it be possible to install some form of infrared cameras on planes able to scan at 360° if there's an obstacle invisible to the pilot and alert him/her accordingly soon enough to allow ...
Jump to postIt seems there's a meaningful distinction to be made here between cities where the primary airport (or primary for some purpose, like domestic or international travel specifically) is far away versus one where an airport to which a city's name is appended only for marketing reasons to attract a carr...
Jump to postI would expect to see a flight to somewhere like Ontario, CA for Amazon before I saw one to Cincinnati. Right now the closest Prime flight out of CVG is to ABE but that's more of a hub to hub route for them. Pittsburgh to Cincinnati is a four and a half hour drive so I imagine it's much cheaper to ...
Jump to postFor those who are interested, the aircraft is still on the FX ramp at CHA but the titles have now been painted over.
Jump to postThe CHA construction is coming along nicely. Security area is done, gates 1 and 2 aren’t a mess anymore, and the only remaining phase is the new hall and gate areas (which are behind clear plastic sheeting and are clearly progressing). We’ve also had two of the Erickson Mad Dog water bombers based h...
Jump to post£17 can add up. £17 is alot for a easyJet flight to Reykjavik or a Norse Atlantic flight to the US. Suddenly these added costs could make a more southerly route that doesn’t use NATS airspace more cost efficient and then you’re increasing aircraft emissions. It’s not £17 per passenger. It’s per air...
Jump to postAm I missing something against all the other costs that putting on flight: Plane lease costs Fuel Landing charges staffing costs etc These are tiny sums - £17 per flight extra. Yes the SNAFU was inexcusable and their system should not of collapsed based on bad data but airlines should have other th...
Jump to postOne could draw a parallel to the ASAP reporting system; it's the gold standard in aviation safety self-reporting because voluntarily disclosed data is de-identified and restricted from use in disciplinary or punitive actions from both the company and the FAA. One can dream that some sort of similar...
Jump to postBut he isn’t wrong is he? I'm not entirely on board with his point, no. Jumpseats are critical on 100% full flights. If they didn't exist, people and airlines would adjust. They're a program that allows carriers to base personnel in high cost of living areas without having to fully compensate them ...
Jump to postHPRamper wrote:It is now showing parked at one of the FX gates.
United Boeing 737-9 MAX rejected takeoff A United Boeing 737-9 MAX, registration N37560 performing flight UA-329 from Denver,CO to Boston,MA (USA), was accelerating for takeoff from Denver’s runway 16R when the crew rejected takeoff at high speed, in response to the radio transmission tower reporte...
Jump to postReferencing the Delta app this morning: Oct 4 DL2327 2255 ATL-CHA canceled Oct 5 DL2786 0540 CHA-ATL canceled DL2124 0646 CHA ATL delayed 5 hrs 2327 actually took off and just headed back to ATL. 2786 is just the return journey of the same plane, which is an A319 that RONs every night. 2124 was a b...
Jump to postWing and landing gear from the plane ! https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1695013896870903819?s=20 Funny how the two men throw carelessly potential pieces of evidence onto the wing in order not to carry it. I guess the NTSB doesn't work like this... Are the Russian authorities planning to i...
Jump to postWhy do they even create a passenger manifest, let alone a real one? This is a private plane and they can tell the Russian air controllers whatever they want, especially under the extreme security they need. What would it matter if they did try to falsify it? It’s not like Prigozhin hasn’t been unde...
Jump to postKeep in mind that just about every part of a scrapped aircraft can be recycled, it finds it's way into a new aircraft. Sometimes as an intact part, sometimes as scrap material that is being used to generate new parts. But anyway, in short, new aircraft are being made out of old aircraft. This means...
Jump to postI can't believe this is a story. Seriously. Who cares? CEOs fly private all day, every day of the year and it's nothing new or surprising. Not CEOs of airlines. And especially not CEOs of airlines that are at the time failing to get their customers to their destinations. This is a grade-A jerk move.
Jump to postmyki wrote:AA has a joint venture including BA and I believe AY and IB too so it is metal-neutral. That, plus the connections provided on the Europe side from their hubs may habe something to do with it.
They used a pad in the remote parking area and had Kloaders and their own ground equipment. Their ground crew used to come in when the flight arrived and left right after it departed. Was great watching that 757 climb out in the early morning with a light load to IAD Found this video on YouTube.. I...
Jump to postIf this is the case, they were likely dead long before the crash. If the plane had a pressurization issue then entire time, and the light-only warning system, the 15-minute no-contact observation would go a long way to explaining why depressurization wasn't noticed in the first place and why there ...
Jump to postLAXintl wrote:
I know people assume decompression, but couldn't something else like carbon monoxide cause the same result without setting off a pressure alarm? Or would there be a separate alarm for that that would also need to be missed?
Awful and tragic result either way.
This is being discussed in the UA network thread, but worth noting here: Scott Kirby mentions in a CNBC interview that UA will expand IAD from four banks of flights to seven: https://twitter.com/rossfeinstein/status/1661481593247264768?s=46&t=L3zxOFLfiyqQQ39fZJAOiA And, concurrent with the disc...
Jump to postTurns out that - see upthread - some of you folks should have listened to people who knew what they were talking about instead of shouting them down to the point that they stopped posting.
Jump to postI'm more surprised UA doesn't operate regular BWI-IAD but does PHL-EWR given EWR is a quick single train from Philly. This isn’t about local traffic. EWR-PHL is for connections flowing from Philly, which is the 7th largest MSA in the country. Other than connecting passengers from Baltimore (#20, le...
Jump to postWhat does this have to do with airlines? Many - perhaps most - heads of state will arrive on airline-owned aircraft, either as regular commercial pax or with an airliner in special VIP operation. I personally find a view on how this breaks down among various countries interesting. And it doesn't ma...
Jump to postI don’t think I understand the situation. Why would JetBlue taking over the American flying and using bigger aircraft be a bad thing for consumers? It’s not like JetBlue has the slots to start up LGA-ATL on their own. This is adding seats to the market, isn’t that better for the consumer? Because i...
Jump to postThis is really bad this is allowed. Airlines should not be able to take advantage of the consumer like this at all. Another reason the Spirit/JetBlue merger should be banned and this alliance needs to come under scrutiny. I don’t think I understand the situation. Why would JetBlue taking over the A...
Jump to postILG? Yeesh. Sexy, isn't it? I'm with others who think there's probably some untapped potential for some of the Eastern NC airports. But part of the issue is that you're dealing with a lot of seasonal beach demand; the airports aren't for the most part that close to the beaches; enough of that deman...
Jump to postGSP Airport to make a new service announcement tomorrow according to their Facebook and Instagram pages. I wonder who it is? Its avelo to ILG ILG? Yeesh. Sexy, isn't it? I'm with others who think there's probably some untapped potential for some of the Eastern NC airports. But part of the issue is ...
Jump to postI got it from the Delta employee travel website that gives real time load information in seat count, not just fare class information. Ryanairguru's explanation above was spot on. Thank you, I wasn’t sure how much internal info we could share but we are looking at the actual numbers vs everyone else...
Jump to postHere were the number of passengers, number of seats, and load factors for WN nonstop routes out of DCA and IAD in January 2023: ATL-DCA - 19475 passengers, 36182 seats, 53.83% load factor AUS-DCA - 7783 passengers, 10150 seats, 76.68% load factor BNA-DCA - 17333 passengers, 33822 seats, 51.25% load...
Jump to postI'm sure there are many articles across the web about this topic, but I grew up around KMCO and went there as a kid to see family fly out. KMCO was a tiny single story airport terminal back in the day, and its evolution that began in the 1980s (including the opening of its newest southern terminal)...
Jump to postThe sad reality that no one ever talks about is that market forces have driven revenue so low that the entire system is under duress. Airlines cannot cover the new aircraft development costs that manufacturers need to justify their investments, thus no new airplane types. No, low airline revenues a...
Jump to postThe chart you linked shows fare bottoming out in Q1 and Q2 of (2009 notwithstanding covid). You do understand that the inflation-adjusted column is the more meaningful one, right? The 2022 fare, by the BTS inflation adjusted spreadsheet, was 65% of the 1995 average fare. Exactly, and that fare is m...
Jump to postTickets are nowhere near record prices. In real terms (inflation adjusted) airline ticket prices are a very small fraction of what they were in 1970-75 (pre-deregulation). They have risen in the last ten years, but in the years immediately preceeding that all the US airlines went bankrupt. People w...
Jump to postThe sad reality that no one ever talks about is that market forces have driven revenue so low that the entire system is under duress. . Ticket prices have repeatedly hit record highs in the last few years and are far outpacing inflation. Tickets are nowhere near record prices. In real terms (inflat...
Jump to postWith logic like this, rural areas wouldn't have roads or electricity. Airports would need to be built by private entities without power of eminent domain or access to public bond issuances (hint: that means no airports would be built). There would be no public transportation. The non-sarcastic answ...
Jump to postWith logic like this, rural areas wouldn't have roads or electricity. Airports would need to be built by private entities without power of eminent domain or access to public bond issuances (hint: that means no airports would be built). There would be no public transportation. The non-sarcastic answ...
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