FloridaMakos wrote:elewis wrote:
It’s behind a paywall, but I’d assume it’s LEVEL? If so, they commenced service on March 31st.
On a serious note, the transcon flights and shorter/mid haul international flights probably can use the IFE. To both sell more of a premium experience and of course more AA credit card ads. Pretty difficult to do though since those routes use the same planes that are flown on short domestic hops to...
Jump to postAA could theoretically fly a 737-MAX8 or an A321NEO on a PHL-EDI route, but it would be a bit of an oddball on an airline that doesn't seem to do that kind of thing, using a domestic configured aircraft for a TATL route (though they have in the past from BOS on 757s and from PHL. My guess is that E...
Jump to post119297 wrote:AA Miami Hub. 1994 vs 2024
https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240101-aamiajan94-24
Back to the question asked at the beginning of the topic:
When will Boeing finally consider ending the 737 family
My guess is sometime in the 2040s they announce and EIS around 2050.
My other guess is that many participating in this topic won't be alive (perhaps myself included) to see this.
Congratulations are in order: Eastern has somehow managed to stay in business through 2023!
Jump to postMine was National Airlines flight #8, MIA to EWR back in 1976, I was 12 years old at the time and that cabin seemed to be HUGE. I remember thinking it was wider than the living room at our house!
Jump to postLAXintl wrote:Aircraft maintenance
Really strange. They took off from SJU bound for DFW but upon reaching 10,000 feet, they descended to 3,000 feet and circled over Puerto Rico for about an hour, then climbed out and continued on to MIA as a divert. Anyone know why? https://es.flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL2437/history/20231221/2039...
Jump to posttrnswrld wrote:I really thought it was the L1011 that was considered the Rolls Royce of the skies. Never really heard of the DC10 being called that, but then again I was never really around the 10 much.
And according to Flightaware it will cancel for the third day in a row on Saturday. This is usually flown by an A380, so that's (presumably) a LOT of customers needing rebooking. Plus, doesn't BA have to pay some cash penalty to each passenger if they cancel for reasons other than weather, act of G...
Jump to postAnd according to Flightaware it will cancel for the third day in a row on Saturday. This is usually flown by an A380, so that's (presumably) a LOT of customers needing rebooking. Plus, doesn't BA have to pay some cash penalty to each passenger if they cancel for reasons other than weather, act of Go...
Jump to postI had the good fortune of landing at HNL (from AKL) about a month ago when BOTH of them were there. I had the misfortune of going through immigration as one of them had arrived the same time I did!
Jump to postThe person who said the "high from cocaine lasts 5 minutes"...I'm pretty sure the effects of the drug on one's CNS last far longer than that. Add to that the fact that most users keep chasing that high by adding more and more far after it will have no effect, and you've got a serious situ...
Jump to postIt was a glitch of some type that was corrected overnight. Flights for today, and future dates into 2024 now display Y seat selection availability. I noticed this about two weeks ago when I booked a May trip to NRT. Seats were not shown available until you actually went through the booking process ...
Jump to postleader1 wrote:Isn’t one of the runways closed for refurbishing, too?
I first noticed this a few days ago, thought they would fix it over the weekend but nope. If you pick any flight on aa.com, and view the seats, you'll see that all the economy seats are unavailable. Anyone have any insight as to if this is a bug, or if this is a new "feature" of the site?
Jump to postCouple of posts reference BA using a 77L. I believe they do not have the 77L. Perhaps it's the 777-200ER?
Jump to postThere isn’t a separate base of crews for the 321T. Miami is certainly an A320 family base for pilots and flight attendants. Its about rebooking people on a cancelled flight! Putting them on a plane that doesn't have the same configuration makes the pax unhappy... And there's lots of work to try and...
Jump to postI think someone posted a while back and said that rotating flight numbers made it harder to track on time performance of a particular route (I.e. its difficult to see if a particular flight is regularly delayed)? Yes, that may have been me (though someone else may have posted the same thing). Examp...
Jump to postNo, they don’t. AA hasn’t flown the A321T on BOS-JFK-BOS in almost two years. It’s all Eagle 175’s. They only fly BOS-LAX on the A321T. My point is... they CAN do it because they HAVE done it with JFK-BOS. AA CAN do anything they want. They can fly an A321T from SJC-SMF if they please and want to l...
Jump to postNice add. Horrible plane for the route. Apparently AA added SNA-JFK a while back to cater to the "financially well off" passengers in Orange County, so they fly it with the 321T (I flew the route last year). To not offer the same product on SNA-MIA (which allegedly has "premium marke...
Jump to postMagnum9 wrote:N62NA wrote:AA does JFK-BOS-WestCoast-BOS-JFK with the 321Ts.
No, they don’t. AA hasn’t flown the A321T on BOS-JFK-BOS in almost two years. It’s all Eagle 175’s.
They only fly BOS-LAX on the A321T.
Nice add. Horrible plane for the route. Apparently AA added SNA-JFK a while back to cater to the "financially well off" passengers in Orange County, so they fly it with the 321T (I flew the route last year). To not offer the same product on SNA-MIA (which allegedly has "premium marke...
Jump to postNice add. Horrible plane for the route. Apparently AA added SNA-JFK a while back to cater to the "financially well off" passengers in Orange County, so they fly it with the 321T (I flew the route last year). To not offer the same product on SNA-MIA (which allegedly has "premium marke...
Jump to postAmerican launching first non-stops between Miami and Orange County, California on January 8th with year-round, daily 737-MAX8 service. https://simpleflying.com/american-airlines-announces-flights-miami-orange-county/ Nice add. Horrible plane for the route. Apparently AA added SNA-JFK a while back t...
Jump to postEffective 08JAN24 AA will offer daily flights between MIA and SNA with MAX 8 equipment. Flights available for sale from next week. https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/american-airlines-announces-new-transcontinental-route-from-miami-to-orange-county/ar-AA1g7PTY?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=4aece39c84da...
Jump to postHere is a list of Airbus and Boeing aircraft, starting with the 737. I have included some major revisions of significant aircraft. And I probably forgot some. 1968: 737 1970: 747 (first double decker) 1971: DC-10 (tri-jet) 1974: A300 (first twin-engine widebody) 1976: Concorde (fastest aircraft) 19...
Jump to postStupid question, but what does everyone think the future of commercial aviation look like? Other than working on a greener solution (solar, biofuel, etc), what other advances can be made that can truly be "revolutionary"? I've thought of this after the A380, and realized that we've "...
Jump to postHere is a list of Airbus and Boeing aircraft, starting with the 737. I have included some major revisions of significant aircraft. And I probably forgot some. 1968: 737 1970: 747 (first double decker) 1971: DC-10 (tri-jet) 1974: A300 (first twin-engine widebody) 1976: Concorde (fastest aircraft) 19...
Jump to postA touch of realism needs to be applied to this question. In terms of airframes there hasn't been much of an advance since the DC8/707/VC10 era (depends if you see the 787 as a technological blind alley, though) and for engines since the early CF6/JT3/RB211 days. Similarly, changes in aerodynamics h...
Jump to postA touch of realism needs to be applied to this question. In terms of airframes there hasn't been much of an advance since the DC8/707/VC10 era (depends if you see the 787 as a technological blind alley, though) and for engines since the early CF6/JT3/RB211 days. Similarly, changes in aerodynamics h...
Jump to postI stayed at the hotel that the BA uses for their crews who overnight in JNB. It's in the Melrose Arch "development" (I wouldn't call it a neighborhood). The entire development is a few blocks across in each direction and is walled off from the surrounding areas. Getting in or out requires ...
Jump to postI was very impressed at the size of the EA operation at MCI when I flew a direct "through" service EWR-MCI-LAX in July of 1986. My first ever flight on a 757 too. MCI was an interesting experiment for EA.
Jump to postThen the new airport is a market failure, and shouldn’t be propped up to the detriment of the people. As a taxpayer, I pay for LGA amongst other airports, I don't live in NYC anymore, so I'm not sure on the taxes issue, but I believe the Port Authority finances the airport and its operations (along...
Jump to postPITFlyer330 wrote:AA 787 door ripped off at DUB https://twitter.com/Shauns_Aviation/sta ... 30016?s=20
PHL cancelled today
787 deliveries couldn’t come sooner….
Why should passengers be forced to an inferior airport? If JFK, IAD etc want to attract customers, they should have to offer a better option. No monopoly like a government enforced one. Which airport is the inferior airport, JFK or LGA? In my mind, the inferior airport in terms of AA passenger expe...
Jump to postFlew ORD-DCA on AA this Tuesday and the AA side of the airport was insanely quiet, especially the H/K Concourse. It was mid day on a Holiday and pretty much the only flights departing within an hour or so as my flight were flights to other hub cities (MIA/JFK/PHL/CLT/DFW specifically). Pretty sure ...
Jump to postMAH4546 wrote:There won’t be an NK-B6 deal.
Uh oh. I used AA miles to book B6 FLL-SFO on July 25 and SFO-FLL on August 1st. I wonder if I'll still be able to fly as planned.
Jump to postIt seems as if American’s European routes from miami have been cut severely. Now it’s just London, Madrid, and Barcelona. Do you see them bringing back any of their pre-pandemic routes? (MIA-MXP,MIA-FCO) or any of the routes they recently discontinued (MIA-TLV, MIA-CDG) AA still operates Miami-Pari...
Jump to postIt seems as if American’s European routes from miami have been cut severely. Now it’s just London, Madrid, and Barcelona. Do you see them bringing back any of their pre-pandemic routes? (MIA-MXP,MIA-FCO) or any of the routes they recently discontinued (MIA-TLV, MIA-CDG) I would guess not until more...
Jump to postLast year I tried to book a flight with them from (I think) JNB to Accra. But, being in the USA, I was unable to use a USA credit card. There was some process that I would have to go through to book through a bank in South Africa, but I didn't have a bank account there so I ended up just not doing t...
Jump to postNot going to take the bait, sorry. *For anyone who missed the first go-around of this insanity, try looking up a nonstop on AA MIA-CDG or LAX-TPA for July. Or August. Or September. Because "AA is operating those routes" apparently! ;-) Why are we continuing to beat a dead horse? AA resume...
Jump to postDOT/BTS publishes the Chronically Delayed Flights here: https://www.bts.gov/topics/chronically-delayed-flights Those reports are based on flight number and city pair.so if a carrier needs to drop a flight off the list, they have to change the flight number (or improve OTP). When a flight is on ther...
Jump to postLAX-TPA was axed this summer. Only scheduled to operate from Dec 21 2023 thru March 2024 for now. Uh oh, here we go again. We had to spend a dozen posts earlier in this topic (most of them deleted) explaining that AA is not "operating MIA-CDG." AA is operating MIACDG, just like it’s opera...
Jump to post119297 wrote:MAH4546 wrote:Also, side note, AA still flies LAXTPA.
LAX-TPA was axed this summer. Only scheduled to operate from Dec 21 2023 thru March 2024 for now.
Here's a bit of history: DL used to group their flight numbers by aircraft type. If your flight number was in the 900 range, it was a DC-8 "stretch" aircraft. Flight numbers in the 1000-1199(?) range were L-1011. Of course, once DL started doing long haul, this numbering system was discont...
Jump to postConsidering it's a leisure-heavy route to Hawaii, I'd wager a week's salary most passengers wouldn't know a Polaris interior if they were seated in one. I bet 95% couldn't tell you whether they're getting on a 777 or 737. They saw "nonstop", "United" and "fare" when bo...
Jump to postThis is really odd.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL363
Staffing issues? Equipment issues?
Anybody have any info on why they've cancelled this flight 5 days in a row?