Some article (simpleflying for this instance) points out that A220 achieve 120 miles per gallon (MPG). While MAX 8 achieves 103.2 MPG and the A321neo 107.4 MPG Closest to A220-300 is A320neo based on max seating capacity on both aircraft. There is zero chance those numbers are accurate - per thousa...
Jump to postAnyone got some numbers that may give some idea on just how ahead the 223 is in terms of lower operating costs vs 31N or 7M7? Must be some pretty good numbers that despite the lower range and being a completely new fleet, it's the best seller in its category. Some article (simpleflying for this ins...
Jump to postYeah, read this in the AA network thread where I then asked WTH? What is suddenly with PHX-Provo? Provo in general? How the hell much traffic can there be? Seems nuts to me. Lots of LDS links between the Salt Lake/Provo area and the east valley. I get the LDS traffic, but I do wonder who will bail ...
Jump to postI dont see this posted but am thrilled to see American starting 2X daily CRJ 700 from Provo to DFW and daily to PHX. When Breeze announced twice weekly DFW service I started dreaming of an AA responce. I am a Delta diamond and am 10 minutes from PVU and have thought that should American enter thr P...
Jump to postGood news: Piedmont just picked up a bunch of new planes Bad news: They're not going to fly Seems Envoy just dumped a bunch of their parked E145s on Piedmont's door. Not all of them, but a fair share. Makes sense for PDT to be looking after them instead of Envoy. Not sure what you mean by dumped bu...
Jump to postcrj-700 they’re also adding phx https://ksltv.com/636832/american-airlines-to-add-flights-from-provo-to-dfw-phoenix-this-fall/ Obviously taking a slap at Breeze, look for them to match Breeze fares, triple or quadruple FF points on these routes ... it will go on until one cries uncle ... But is it ...
Jump to postPRC-Prescott, Arizona DOT/PRC rejects both SkyWest Charters and Contour Airlines as they are not classified as Scheduled Carriers. Requesting a new bid and proposal. Link: https://www.regulations.gov/document/DOT-OST-1996-1899-0292 Regards, Alex Sounds like they want 2x daily scheduled air carrier ...
Jump to postAnd then there were none: N920AN, the last of the stored 737-800s, is reentering revenue service today after competing reactivation work at Cecil Field: https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N920AN Well not quite “none”. Sadly N978AN still sits in Roswell and has not RTS as it was leased. Accordi...
Jump to postPRC-Prescott, Arizona DOT/PRC rejects both SkyWest Charters and Contour Airlines as they are not classified as Scheduled Carriers. Requesting a new bid and proposal. Link: https://www.regulations.gov/document/DOT-OST-1996-1899-0292 Regards, Alex Sounds like they want 2x daily scheduled air carrier ...
Jump to postWhere did this plane come from? It was a new delivery from Embraer. I was just curious on the “BS” registration. I’m not that close to it but seemed odd to me. Envoy has been using seemingly random combinations of letters for the last handful of registrations. They were using initials of key Envoy ...
Jump to posttheVagabond wrote:TallFlyer wrote:E175 N313BS is en route from ABI to DFW for entry into revenue service with MQ
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/N313BS
Where did this plane come from?
Tristarsteve wrote:Please stop calling it an elevator. its a stabiliser, with attached elevator.
How in the world????? Looks like the aircraft right elevator was torn off, how in the world does a jetbridge hit that? Looks like right ring hit a pole? I would bet on a runaway, either missing chokes or towbar problem with nobody in the cockpit. Maintenance was mentioned elsewhere, accident happen...
Jump to postA brand new A320neo (OE-LZQ) from Austrian collided with a jetbridge at VIE... the right elevator broke off, and the right sharklet doesn't look particularly good either... https://x.com/aviationbrk/status/1776948441744068665 ?!?! Can you imagine the force necessary to break off an elevator? Or has...
Jump to postAlways thought these tight pushbacks at the bottom of an alley would benefit from utilizing towbarless tugs more as they give you better turning precision. Nah, not really, tug and bar always preferred to a TBL. No skill involved in TBL driving. TBL may require less "skill" but ultimately...
Jump to postBased on the photos, that pushback went way wrong early, lucky they barely clipped. Looks more like they started turning a good 30 feet too early. Always thought these tight pushbacks at the bottom of an alley would benefit from utilizing towbarless tugs more as they give you better turning precision.
Jump to post2) Where are they used? As in, are they only ever used on the taxiway like I saw or do they more frequently retrieve the aircraft from the runway? Plenty of times where they are used to get disabled aircraft off the runway (or occasionally out of the gravel) - assuming someone on the airfield has t...
Jump to postWhen do you think the New York area operation would move to JFK? will they switch many of their Newark flights to JFK starting in Spring 2025. Will SAS switch the Stockholm and Oslo flights from Newark to JFK and if so, when will that take place. When will the shift in operations from Newark to JFK...
Jump to postIt is doubtful that this or the name change will attract more international flights, but I think the main point is that since SFO hasn't much room to increase domestic flights, they will naturally spill over to OAK and SJC. It makes sense that SFO should expand internationally while the other airpo...
Jump to postI wonder what their strategy for DFW would be? Similar approach to IAH and ORD? I assume they’d be flying out of terminal E as well. I’m not sure what Terminal they will operate out of but I know that they want it to be bigger than their operation at both ORD and IAH. They are going to try to get a...
Jump to post1-for-50 isn't the only rule for FA staffing minimums. If it is determined that the FAs would be unable to reach the doors or perform their evacuation duties in a minimum time the FAA can require more. I would assume this has to do with the 3L/3R doors being deactivated and the lack of FAs seated at...
Jump to postThat just tells me that everyone was tired of the quality control issues and they just wanted their planes delivered. Which is the biggest issue. Sure engineering looks great for future development but to have money for new development you actually have to deliver what is already ordered. It goes t...
Jump to postcustomers can just cancel their orders and go Airbus or some other manufacturer. No they really can't - it isn't as if Airbus just has unlimited open slots. They can threaten and cancel some orders but the reality is that Airbus couldn't absorb the demand today and there is no other player out ther...
Jump to postThe Gang of Four U.S. carrier CEOs that asked for a meeting with the Boeing BoD but didn't get one, apparently asked for a manufacturing guy, not an engineering guy That just tells me that everyone was tired of the quality control issues and they just wanted their planes delivered. Which is the big...
Jump to postInteresting weather night last night for March. Several diversions to TUS, and at least 4 into AZA. Looked like they flipped the field at least twice and had departures way backed up 20-30 and pretty full taxiways. This March has been one of the rainiest and most wind-packed I can remember in a lon...
Jump to postWhat I found confusing is the diversion to PIT. Was that because landing conditions at LGA were so bad? Or were the pilots trying to get out of a post flight interaction at LGA? Why PIT and not a closer airport, which of course the flight ended up at BWI where Southwest had more resources for impac...
Jump to postExcuse me for the slight topic switch here … So, I have a theory. I believe American knows the value of seatback entertainment, despite all their public statements. Since the launch of two seasonal routes out of Chicago, Jackson and Vale, back in October, the flights have been operated every single...
Jump to postThere's definitely some of Italian Americans visiting the homeland, but most are this new breed of luxury leisure travelers. It started before the pandemic but has since grown exponentially, Italy has become a luxury leisure mecca; you see it with all the celebrities. Positano, Amalfi, Capri are re...
Jump to postHaving Stephanie Pope run BCA isn't necessarily the end of the world. While yes, her background is in Finance, she has been all across the company and this clears the way to have a proper COO that can deliver better performance and focus more on righting the ship from a procedural perspective. A COO...
Jump to postAirlines once up and running also have all their own internal connection data to determine passenger flows. There is quite literally so much data out there about number of passengers carried, fares, etc. As far as the average Joe can access, Table 6 of the Consumer Airfare Report from the DOT is goi...
Jump to postHundreds, if not thousands of intoxicated people get on flights every day. Particularly if they don't speak a word when boarding.
Jump to postThere appear to be a lot of people who believe it is the news reports that caused the FAA to get involved as if the news was their only source of info. Every single one of UA's incidents would have triggered mandatory reporting to the FAA as an incident. When the same airline has no less than five i...
Jump to postHow was this NOT caught? Does the gate system not check for duplicate use of the same boarding pass? Wouldn’t the gate agent managing boarding receive an error message? Wouldn’t an error message trigger an investigation into why a boarding pass was used twice? Exactly. One would think so. Maybe it ...
Jump to postEspecially short haul on a destination well served. I wonder how F9 is going to manage between 2 terminals due to this flight I'd imagine they'll depart from T3 and tow-off from T4 back to T3 for their departure afterwards. I fully expect them to have a lot of growing pains on this route - in part ...
Jump to postAccording to Enilria, Frontier is adding PHX-SJD twice weekly, no further details. A very random/unexpected add, but thats F9 for you. Shows bookable on their website - effective 5/16. Operates on Thur/Sun PHX 0730 SJD 0938 SJD 1043 PHX 1253 Just what we don't need - another carrier out at INTL. Es...
Jump to postBA744PHX wrote:According to Enilria, Frontier is adding PHX-SJD twice weekly, no further details. A very random/unexpected add, but thats F9 for you.
Anyone know how long their previous contract was for?
Given a complaint of 10.3% not keeping up with inflation - that's definitely true if the previous contract was longer than 3 years.
Question: How often during normal operations is the panel, which fell off, opened and closed? Frequently for inspections and maintenance or only unfrequent for repairs and heavy checks? This isn't an open and closable panel. The fairing is attached with screws and not removed on any regular basis. ...
Jump to postHeinkel wrote:Question: How often during normal operations is the panel, which fell off, opened and closed?
Frequently for inspections and maintenance or only unfrequent for repairs and heavy checks?
Wingtips56 wrote:I'm guessing LF personnel and ground equipment compatible with the J328 will transfer over to AN.
Four years to build six gates? It's about 12 months just to relocate C-Pointand prep the site, then 24 months of initial build time and then another 8ish months for interior work and the connector to T3. It may be able to open to limited traffic with shuttle buses in about 36/38 months. We need the...
Jump to postIn about 4 years, the T3N2 concourse will open which will provide six additional narrowbody gates Four years to build six gates? It's about 12 months just to relocate C-Pointand prep the site, then 24 months of initial build time and then another 8ish months for interior work and the connector to T...
Jump to postLeft side lower WTB (wing to body) fairing. This is behind the wheel well opening as you can see the #4 flap transmission in full view. The panel is held in place with #10 screws. As a side note, the most common part to leave the 737 is the lavatory service door at the rear of the aircraft. This is...
Jump to postIt does seem like more and more stations are getting upgraded to the 170/175, with the most recent ones I’ve seen being GCK, ROW and SWO. I remember a while back Alasizon I asked you what criteria they were using to determine which regional stations got upgraded to the 175 vs which were staying CR7...
Jump to postHysteria, like this thread? Things like this happen everyday. Unfortunately it’s trendy to put the spotlight on them now. This panel is pretty much cosmetic. Losing it has zero effect on the control or stability of the A/C Agree that everyday events get hyped but cosmetic or not, this event is not ...
Jump to postAAtakeMeAway wrote:Which carriers are operating the LAX flights?
Another rough one for UA and Boeing (yes Boeing isn't at fault more than likely but they are going to get dragged through the news again). UA433 SFO-MFR lost what appears to be a piece of the wing/body fairing just in front of the landing gear bays. At least it showed up this way and pax likely were...
Jump to postApologies if I missed this up-thread, but it sure seems like DL is at capacity here. What are their gate expansion plans? Will the eventually take over concourse F and move NK/F9 elsewhere? I was there this past weekend and both my arriving flight and inbound aircraft for my departing flight had to...
Jump to postThe reason why F/A's standards aren't consistent is because Parker gutted the service training portion of F/A initial and recurrent training. Pre-Merger AA focused heavily on inflight service whereas US' approach was to train as little as possible re:service ( US' spartan inflight product didn't re...
Jump to postI'm not sure if this is a American Eagle question or a PHL question. So PHL F gates, can't handle E170/E175 due to the small gate size. If all the ERJ-145 are retired by 2030. Does Air Wisconsin keep the CRJ-200 running or maybe buy some CRJ-700? So the future of PHL F terminal could be just Air Wi...
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