Yes, I posted this on the Nordic Aviation thread a couple of days ago, but it was before I could start new threads (I'm a new member). As a crew, I've got mixed feelings about this. While it is clearly interesting to get the opportunity to stay the night in another place than Copenhagen, or Bergen ...
Jump to postSorry if this has been asked, but how come in countries where 5G is already rolled out one hasn't heard of any issues? In fact I was in Korea last year for half the year and I don't remember hearing of such a storm around 5G and aviation. The same problem exists in other countries. The difference i...
Jump to postAny word on how MX is doing at XNA?
Also, G4 had their first PGD flight this past week.
How is Spirit liable? Because it's their employee, who was working at the time, and legally has power over passengers? But yet the passenger didn’t call the police nor file charges. It’s simply a money grab. The FA didn’t exert power over the passenger. The only power is to ensure the passengers fo...
Jump to postAh, the old mantra of there's no victim if he's male. "He should have known". Treat this as any other case of sexual assault. Swap the male passenger with a female and nobody would think twice about this. How is Spirit liable? Because it's their employee, who was working at the time, and ...
Jump to postShould I be shocked that Orlando isn't an initial market? I feel like I should.
Jump to postGo to page 30 & 31 of this document and you will see that there was a state-contracted airline agreement as recent as 2019. The legislature modified this in 2021 with a weasel-worded passage in the Statue governing state travel that says basically, while you can use whatever airline you wish, t...
Jump to postIn my memory at least, he is one of the few living celebrities to have his own Logo Jet. The only one that comes to mind right now is Taylor Swift with Air Asia.................Russell Wilson has a great reputation, but imagine the nightmare that would unfold if some huge negative PR scandal involv...
Jump to postIt doesn’t matter what the FF share is if the traffic shows a different pattern. No reason to get defensive. I didn't challenge what you said. I posed a question as part of a discussion about whether AA was growing more off of a FF base or more casual travelers. I’m stating facts, not opinions. Aga...
Jump to postJAX is 2 1/2 hours drive time from TLH and ECP is a 2 hour drive, so I doubt too much traffic from Tallahassee is bleeding in those directions. I used to fly in and out of TLH frequently on business and learned that the airline that is granted the state government's air travel contract tends to dom...
Jump to postAA carries more passengers than DL out of TLH. That doesn't surprise me if that has changed given the different destinations and levels of service AA has been offering the past several years. I'd be curious to know what FF market share is like - TLH has been a very loyal DL market for a long time, ...
Jump to postJAX is 2 1/2 hours drive time from TLH and ECP is a 2 hour drive, so I doubt too much traffic from Tallahassee is bleeding in those directions. I used to fly in and out of TLH frequently on business and learned that the airline that is granted the state government's air travel contract tends to dom...
Jump to postI drive I4 everyday and none of this is remotely true if you drive between 10am-2pm its only about an hour and 15 mins from MCO-TPA Ah, so a very limited time window when there might not be a massive traffic jam, assuming there's also not any wrecks. Or you could just take 417 from MCO to Disney re...
Jump to postSo that makes it all the more confusing. If TLH is closing in on 1-million passengers *and* bleeding passengers to JAX & ECP, then TLH realistically has over 1-million total passengers. TLH is def not a place one would call a tourist destination, but just shy of 1-million passengers annually is...
Jump to postBecause MCO is a huge airport and it recently took me an hour from my arrival gate to driving away in my rental car. That eats into that 45 minutes. MCO is also losing Disney’s Magical Express as a free Disney transportation option next year. That is because Brightline is going to have a non-stop t...
Jump to postTVNWZ wrote:Smart people use TPA. Fast to the rental cars and an hour and some change to Disney.
I’m not sure where STN and “FR self connects” come from as a business model. Norwegian operated from Gatwick and offered protected connections with easyJet through the Worldwide by easyJet product. If that didn’t work, why would STN, with far lower O&D passengers work? From what I heard, the ea...
Jump to postApparently not all modern browsers are supported at flybreeze.com. I tried Firefox and I get a popup Browser not supported. Hopefully this is a temporary thing, Firefox a modern browser? I know back in 2005 they were the most popular for around 5 years until Chrome came out. As of now they only hav...
Jump to postI just booked a CHS-MSY in late August. Incredibly excited that these two cities are now connected by a nonstop. The app was intuitive and definitely user friendly. Also they give you a $5 credit just for making an account. Needless to say I’m looking forward to flying with BZ and it’ll be interest...
Jump to postPleasantly surprised to see XNA get some love. I think TPA and MSY will do okay, in that order. SAT seems a bit odd but that's just me. Those are purely gut-feelings and having lived in the area for 10+ years and not founded in any passenger numbers. I don't think many would argue our area is under...
Jump to postAllegiant is more likely to add ATL as a destination hub/focus city than it is to start service at LZU or elsewhere as a spoke. See G4 at BNA, SFO, LAX. The Allegiant business model has evolved considerably from what it was just ten years ago as a purely small town to vacation destinations, which ba...
Jump to postThinking more along the lines of a Skybus type operation, or at least just Allegiant, how about AHN? Doesn’t do anything for Cobb, but it does for Gwinnett.
Jump to postAtlanta has no need for a second airport. Unlike most cities, ATL is very close to the central business district. In current conditions, it’s a 15 minute drive. It is also easily accessible by transit, and has a station at the airport. New capacity is being added with the 5 additional gates on Conc...
Jump to postI don't recall BA flights using HKG as a transit point from the 70's onwards (possibly before that) on their Australian flights which operated via BAH/DXB/AUH/MCT/BOM/BKK/KUL/SIN/BWN. As for BA LHR-HKG flights before the nonstops, in 747 days they operated via 2 stops (sometimes 3 stops if FRA or F...
Jump to postI've recently become curious about the history of Hong Kong and Macau. HKG has its own major airline in CX. What sort of operations did BA, BOAC, etc. maintain in Hong Kong prior to the handover to China in 1997? Was it a meaningful hub? Did TP (TAP Portugal) have any operations at Macau prior to 19...
Jump to postAs for the Los Angeles area goes, I think ONT is a perfect fit for Breeze. The airport has available gates and could easier expand if needed. Neeleman said they are going to add routes that will have no competition and I could see many routes added from there that would not have direct completion s...
Jump to postI agree with not rebranding it. Rebranding it in my opinion will make the public trust it less. Trying to rebrand the aircraft can be viewed as a cover up by some and that can make it even harder to regain trust at that point. Rebranding worked out great for ValuJet after the media firestorm. The p...
Jump to postCertainly positive news, and I would think these are all part of a strategy to capture passengers fleeing elsewhere in a bid to land WN. Hearsay, but I understand the airport director recently spoke to a business group and doubted the airport’s ability to land WN. It was reported to me that he said...
Jump to postI wanted to post this article that's nearly half a year old just because it points to stuff we'll be hearing about in late summer and early fall in regards to more gates, a club for business traveler, ect. https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2019/aug/22/xna-board-looking-at-200-000-million-in/ This foll...
Jump to postThe bleed to TUL and LIT will stop when someone comes in with stimulus through seats and lower fares, whether it’s WN or F9 or someone else. Very little hope given how F9 and NK operate though. Yet another example of the downside of consolidation.
Jump to postAny updates on the runway incident where Hi Fly dumped fuel?
Jump to postI'm going to say one will be MUC-ATL. With the amount of German auto companies in the area, I'm surprised it's not served already. Their FRA flight does really well even with the entry of QR and TK While there is assuredly some overlap, the German auto companies in the Atlanta area are Mercedes and...
Jump to postAnd "indoctrinated" as well into the virtues of joining a union and all that comes with it? No doubt. Given how predisposed South Carolina and its residents are to rejecting unionism, I doubt that is much of a concern. Regardless, it really says something that Boeing as well as many poste...
Jump to postWant evidence? "The NY Times also declined Boeing’s invitation to go to CHS and discuss" says it all. Most print news organizations would have declined the invitation. What would the NYT have seen? Floors scrubbed so clean they shone like mirrors? Aircraft inspected five times by five dif...
Jump to postI hope it comes back and fails miserably just to spite the people of Milwaukee. Their public protest to AirTran buying YX and the “save the cookie” campaign was embarrassing. DL and WN own MKE now and will ensure that they flood any market that the new YX tries to take from them. I don’t think this...
Jump to postJust asking the question. G4's MX and safety issues are well documented.
Jump to posthttps://twitter.com/gpbwesh/status/952545713648488448 Media reporter on board: Allegiant just announced there is a missing panel on our plane from NC to Sanford, nothing mechanical, nothing to worry about they say. Maintenance is coming to document it and it will get fixed in Sanford, please pray fo...
Jump to postI don't think the lack of a SE hub is going to kill UA. They've really never had one. IMO, Miami didn't count went they took the PA Latin routes because the feed into MIA was minimal. Besides, there really isn't a viable option in the SE to build a hub. What about BNA? Is it off the table because o...
Jump to postFrom a purely international perspective for airlines, LA does as well with LAX, SNA, and ONT. The latter two have limited intl flights to Canada and/or Mexico.
Jump to postJust add -Max to everything. 707-Max, 717-Max, 727-Max, etc.
Jump to postCan someone explain the pros and cons of buying an A/C that is high cycle but low hours and vice versa? Most aircraft have a certain number of certified cycles, which has to do with the pressurization, fatigue in the metals from the extremes of takeoff/landing, etc. So if you are buying high cycle,...
Jump to postTwo areas in Florida that are a just a bit too close to the major airports to have service - Ocala (OCF) with a metro pop around 300k, but about 30 minutes from GNV and about an hour or so from MCO Lakeland (LAL) with a metro pop just under 600k, but within an hour or so either way from TPA and MCO ...
Jump to postThe smaller players cannot fully compete with the big guys until they fill out their networks. While they can try to grow their way organically, that generally takes many, many years. The notion that mergers always mean less competition completely ignores the realities of the airline business and t...
Jump to postI am not in favor of mergers and the fascination with them is funny since we now only really have three players and SWA. With that said, this would be a bulking up of JB, problem is, the clientele is not the same. Serve many of the same international destinations in the Caribbean and Central Americ...
Jump to postI really don't know how NAI can survive long term. There business plan only makes sense for 5 or so years. Low cost carriers within Europe and the US survive because you can travel cheaply, stay with family, eat at McDonalds etc. You can have a cheap vacation for people who cannot afford to spend m...
Jump to posthttp://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL1239
http://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Smoke-o ... 62383.html
FAIR USE EXCERPT - (Bloomberg) -- East Carolina University joined the upstart American Athletic Conference three years ago, part of a frenzied league realignment across college sports. The Greenville, North Carolina, school was prepared for road games as far west as Dallas and as far north as Conne...
Jump to postN776AU wrote:Is this what you're looking for?
https://www.transtats.bts.gov/ONTIME/Departures.aspx
Hi all, I realized I've been remiss in not updating my FlightMemory in some time, and I need to go back to September 2016 to look up some DL flights. Is there a free source available that can show me the plane types on these flights? Unfortunately FlightAware's free database doesn't go back that far...
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