What about restarting some Hawaii flights from SFO. DL has basically given the market to UA & HA. Who wants to go to SEA or LAX to connect? Plenty of tourism from SFO/OAK/SJC yet no DL.
Jump to postDL will be putting the A321NEO on SEA-OGG from 9/6/2022 to 10/5/2022 6 times a week. https://aeroroutes.com/eng/220612-dlsep22ogg We in the Bay Area don't want to fly to Hawaii via SEA or LAX. What has happened to the 3 Airlines called WA, NW & DL who collectively all had service from SFO-HNL b...
Jump to postUA tried a merger w/US before AA & was denied by the Feds, otherwise CLT would have become UA's southeast hub. As a result, UA still lacks a Southern hub unless one considers IAD in the South.
Jump to postHawaii extends 14 day quarantine exemption which would have taken effect on August 1, now to September 1, provided that arriving pax would have to submit a negative covid test which had been taken within 72 hours of arrival (which in itself is not a sure thing due to testing delays). https://www.haw...
Jump to postNo UA in May from DEN or LAX to Hawaii.
Jump to postDL should make SJC a competing hub & align w HA as well. DL&NW as separate entities ground handled HA @ SFO for over 20yrs & also does maintenace on their A330's. Use HA for Hawaii & South Pacific from SJC & SFO & reinstate some of AA's abandoned TPAC routes from SJC. Getting...
Jump to postA southeastern UA hub @ CLT became the same with AA at a later time due to the ruling by the DOJ.
Jump to postJAL probably still holds the world's single aircraft disaster record of over 500 deaths in a 747 over 30yrs ago on a domestic flight between Tokyo & Osaka.
Jump to postIf they do any Hawaii from SJC, I would expect it to be the relocation of the SFO-HNL flight it operates seasonally during peak times. Otherwise DL would be going head to head with AS, HA and WN which I can’t imagine is a winning proposition outside of peak travel. 77H[/quote] DL would just be re-in...
Jump to postPlenty of people (2+mil) in Santa Clara County(Palo Alto & South) to make SJC thrive, plus no weather delays like SFO. If the AA hub still existed, it would be thriving. DL is currently gate constrained in SFO due to limited space in T-2 for AA. People in the South Bay are just "trained&quo...
Jump to postLAX772LR wrote:Dunno why, but I was terrified before opening this that it would say "Vicki Escarra"
CLT replaced the entire length of 36C with new concrete a few years ago. They should have added 1k feet to the south end which they probably could have done. They also could use displaced thresholds for landing traffic on both ends & probably would have been able to max the strip out to 11500 or...
Jump to postCLT had approval to extend 18-36C many years ago but abandoned that plan in favor of a new runway. Only problem w/long distance trips from CLT (including HNL) are the hot temps in the summer. which is why 27R in ATL has been incrementally extended over the years to 12k+.
Jump to postThe 762 failed due to fuel stops enroute. Also ATL's O&D is less than 40% as an average....not sustainable without feed either. Some on here assume that AA is incapable of capturing any of the DL feed.
Jump to post56 years and counting. My point is that UA needs a domestic connex hub serving the SE (IAD isn't it and has never been it) .... or UA never penetrates the SE. It was going to happen back when the Feds nixed the UA proposed takeover of US but that was before the market crash and the subsequent BK's ...
Jump to postGerman industry BMW @ GSP, Freightliner trucks in the CLT Metro & Siemens Energy...all based in MUC.
Jump to postTell the crazy lady that the A346 is coming to CLT today, Dec17-Arr 16:26.
Jump to postIIRC, DL still had the rights to those cities from PanAm....just because the routes were dormant didn't mean that the "rights" were relinquished. I don't believe that there was any opposition to Delta resuming service to those cities whether it was from Europe or JFK/ATL. PanAm's original ...
Jump to postWhat DL has in Africa and parts of Europe were PanAm routes just as UA got the Pacific/Asia routes. Many of the Scandinavian & Eastern European routes have been abandoned over the years as have some of the less lucrative African routes.
Jump to postDL has always played 2nd in CLT since the beginning of time, first to EA, then PI/US/AA
As previously stated, maybe LAX & SEA could be a possibility, with maybe a 2nd SLC late afternoon departure. As long as AA continues as is, it doesn't make sense to do otherwise except possibly BOS.
AUS is the new OC (Orange County)....just run when the next recession hits, although AUS is the State Capital & home of the Longhorns whereas OC has Fantasyland.
Jump to postIIRC US used a 762 which continually had to make fuel stops in PHX or LAX to make it over the Pacific (due to headwinds). With better equipment it may work as the draw is pretty much the same as connex via ATL. Sure DFW can absorb much of the traffic but does that make it one or two stop service whe...
Jump to postUnbalanced hub structure it isn't. Amusing the reference of hubs in states next to Mexico when DL has 4 of its hubs (SEA, MSP, DTW & NYC) in states next to Canada.
Jump to postJust for orientation purposes the shades should be up on takeoff & landing. Anything else is not safe. Shades can be lowered before deplaning or after takeoff. This seems to have gone off the deep end towards stupidity.
Jump to postDL/NE has already served ORH years ago. Used to be flights from LGA-ORH-MHT years ago on D9-30's.
Jump to postCLT was my home airport until I left for a job at DL in 1971. I got my pilots license there in 1970, kept up my flying out of there for awhile until I moved to SFO. When the demise of EA began, I probably was one of the first to start a letter writing campaign to the home office and was told, it's t...
Jump to postCLT is probably closer to that stat than ATL.
Jump to postMuch of what has been discussed in this thread ain't gonna happen as the 'big 3' won't let it happen, plus HA will get swallowed up by one of them who wants the route authorities & the 789's.
Jump to post?! CLT is one of the most discussed airports on a.net. Sometimes it's the haters with "Is AA going to dehub CLT?", other times it's the fanboys with "CLT should have hourly A380 service to every market in Asia!". Neither are true of course, but that doesn't stop the internets fr...
Jump to postDL flew both DC-10's and L10's to LGA, no jetways, in the 1970's. The D10's were leased from UA until the L10's were available.
Jump to postAs a 41 year resident of the San Francisco Bay Area I was interested in your post about SFO. However, your statement that SFO is “one of the best airports in the United States” is laughable. It is simply one of the worst—just above Newark. You are right that it has lots of airlines and lots of dest...
Jump to postDaimler=Mercedes, Freightliner trucks. There are 4 Freightliner plants within 50miles of CLT, plus the BMW factory near GSP, plus Siemens turbine plant near CLT Airport.
Jump to postFWIW, AA I think still holds the single fatality record, ORD, Flight 191, 1979, 271pax +2 on the ground.
Jump to postCRJ900 wrote:Delta's B717s probably have a lot lower cycles on them, Hawaiian could buy some of the newest from that fleet as DL is introducing the CS100.
Seems like AA has fairly good service Nationwide from CLT. Increase frequency otherwise. 787 service to TYO would make more sense than some of the other wishlists that I've seen such as AUS, BNA or RDU. At least there are connex to feed it (even from MIA )
Jump to postLooks to be more press sensationalism than fact in some cases. Looking at sat, Jun 9 from Oak to both Hnl & Ogg, there seem to be plenty of unassigned seats on the 330 to Hnl & 767 to Ogg. LIH pax can be routed via either connx. Good press for keeping the $$ jacked up. So what if they have t...
Jump to postProbably AA9475 @ 1100am as AA carries the team
Jump to post& some 321's will probably be added as 2nd or 3rd flights in some markets like LAX, SFO, LAS & SEA.
Jump to postIf one considers what DL, NWA & WA had premerger(s) to Hawaii, DL has receded in the market while giving some of the market to HA/AS/VX and soon to be WN. The SF Bay Area has virtually been eliminated from the Hawaii market by Delta except for the 10day 739 SFO-HNL-SFO evening roundtrip during t...
Jump to postAccording to the Company Intranet, the following cities should be seeing the 744 from 22Dec-Jan02. In alphabetical order they are:
ATL, BUF, DFW, DTW, EWR, FLL, GSP, LAX, MSY, SAN & SEA.
Write down the confirmation #, at the airport kiosk print the doc which will include everything that You need including the Boarding Pass.
Jump to postCombined they pale in comparison to BMW's most profitable facility (Spartanburg) and all of their tier suppliers in the region. That's only a part of it...Freightliner (Mercedes) have two plants near CLT and Siemens (Westinghouse) has a nuclear turbine plant in CLT, both German Corporations. As far...
Jump to postSee the YouTube Video below of the takeoff from NRT, N501DN (A359).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Txvzr3 ... ubs_digest
Adding inbound arrival into NRT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU8qMOx9YSo
, Prior management in the 90's had totally ignored those areas....too busy reeling from the acquisition of those PA routes that have since evaporated except for JNB & LOS. Huh? A whole chunk of PA routes are still around including the Shuttle, and many of the JFK-Europe flights. In fact, PA was...
Jump to postAs a DL Retiree, I think that DL's west coast strategy is still lacking when it comes to connecting the top business markets, notably Chicago & DFW to the top markets in the West...(SEA & LAX aren't the only ones). DEN to Silicon Valley? Must not be lucrative.. Before, DL had to buy the comp...
Jump to postWe still have trouble closing them and they are not safe for us from an ergonomics point of view. The 319/320 used to be our favorite plane, but after the mods it goes pretty junior now. But when you don't have a contract you have no say in your career or any input on design of galleys etc. All abo...
Jump to postUA has many narrowbody flights to Mexico in the international terminal. These often turn to domestic destinations after arrival from Mexico. There are also often widebody domestic turn flights. Not uncommon at all to arrive/depart from the international terminal on UA when flying domestically. As m...
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