Also worth noting that just because NH and JL have flexibility doesn’t mean that they are not going to use their slots. They are required to serve the US or lose their slots. All the hubs served by the JVs are arguably served quite well by the airlines. If UA is awarded IAH or AA some hub other tha...
Jump to postYou don’t have to guess about what the DOT wanted in 2019. It’s right in the docket. They wanted to “maximize public benefit,” including who can “offer and maintain” service, the “overall competitive environment,” and historic patterns. Obviously conditions have changed since 2019, but there’s litt...
Jump to postWhich is exactly what a for profit airline is supposed to do. Why does everyone keep acting like there is some sort of malice behind DL's request for flexibility? Just because the rules were one way at the time the frequencies were given out doesnt mean they are the same now. UA's objection is sole...
Jump to postwhat makes you think UAL would or would Want to fly to ICN at a loss? they used to interline with Asianana in SEL and they still fly to ICN Non stop and have flown 1 stop via NRT. as that's how I last got to ICN to go suit shopping in Seoul. I don’t think that, that’s why UA wouldn’t want seven dai...
Jump to postUnited has file a motion today for leave to file a sur-reply. https://www.regulations.gov/document/DOT-OST-2019-0014-0098 Just read some of it. UA is arguing that Korea and Japan are part of the same market, therefore their JV and AAs don’t matter. A bit disingenuous. Not just that. They say that a...
Jump to postDelta friends seem to forget in this "everything must be equal when someone has a JV at an airport" chat that... DL benefits from Joint Ventures all over the world to the detriment of AA/UA where their JV partner has better local access. AMS & MEX are obvious examples (even ICN and CD...
Jump to postMy primary problem with Delta’s filing is their attempt to get a change from established rules, for their own benefit. Realistically, when has any business ever requested anything from any authority that isn't for their own benefit, though? It's not as though United has asked Delta to deny the requ...
Jump to postTwo other points about HNL-HND vs JFK-HND: 1. DL actually applied for TWO HNL-HND frequencies back then; they only got one. HNL-TYO was such a huge market Pre-pandemic that it was a relatively safe bet (in terms of filling up the planes). Hawaii is a market which has truly tanked post-pandemic; eve...
Jump to postThe distinction people seem to be missing is that if Delta were actively changing the rules, they would already be flying different routes with no recourse. Delta is requesting, DOT may or may not be changing. This interpretation would be like hosting a party and saying everyone gets one slice of pi...
Jump to postLongest domestic, CDG-RUN at 5048nm on an AF 772.
Shortest international, MRU-RUN at 125nm on an MK 359.
cokepopper wrote:Delta aircraft struck several times
According to:
https://www.newsweek.com/delta-airlines ... le-1786366
Would be interested in know h the ship #
The Lear messed up, this kind of thing happens all the time, everywhere on earth. It was handled the right way and wasn't some extreme issue. ATC did their job. Everyone is safe. ] This is a dangerous attitude... they didn't collide, nobody died, so let's move on here. The hope is that the NTSB and...
Jump to postAre intersecting runways common in foreign countries? I'm noticing that US airports tend to have more intersecting runways as compared to many foreign airports. Is it safer if the runways are not intersecting? The ones that I can think of off the top of my head are AMS, HND, SYD, and TLV. NRT was s...
Jump to postI say its ORD. With the large ORD gate expansions, plus a city with great restaurants, museums, architecture, beaches, etc. Also, I would add Chicago also opens up the whole Midwest. Whereas French Bee already has a presence on both coast. It's not ORD. Then why don't you save us all the time and d...
Jump to postA regional megahub yes. All these airlines can feed flights from secondary airports to Singapore to secondary airports in other countries in the area. The problem I see is with long haul, unless you are going to use an airline with direct/non-stop service to your long haul destination. If not, you ...
Jump to postSFO is now arriving and departing the 19s. Certainly don't see that every day! Lots of assorted diversions around northern California. AS 3471 (OO E75) flew SEA-MRY, but couldn't get into MRY and diverted to FAT. After some time on the ground, they departed for MRY and once again couldn't get in - t...
Jump to postI believe, French Bees expansion will come one city by one city it seems, but didn't they state they wanted to be in a dozen worldwide cities in less than 10 years? So far I counted 5 including their Orly hub, PPT, LAX, SFO, MIA, JFK & ORY. I believe they are at 7 total under the French Bee bra...
Jump to postIndian air carriers access to Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Vancouver, and two additional points to be selected by India. That's a funny way to delineate this given the small number of markets with long-haul potential in Canada. Or maybe I'm cynical and we're about to see the launch of India flights...
Jump to postIt's not the 90s or 80s anymore... BTW, they only entered into a partnership with DL in 2018. So they had more than 20 years of accident-free operation without the help of a "superior" western-managed airline. Might want to check your timeline.... In 2000, a Delta Air Lines executive was ...
Jump to postThat still could help WN Carry passengers where they don’t fly like Europe. Exactly my thoughts..... LH service starts at STL tomorrow. There was a lot of speculation about where LH would operate from. Lots of us assumed they would deplane in Terminal 2 for customs, and then tow to Terminal 1 for d...
Jump to postAFL158 an A359 arriving into CUN from SVO. Flew over Canada and the US to get there. Wonder what routing they'll take returning to SVO if the US and Canada ban overflights along with the EU? Across to Africa and then north staying east of the EU, or up the Atlantic until they can turn towards Russi...
Jump to postmga707 wrote:I can't be the only 'old fogey' on here who saw this thread title and immediately started humming the 1971 Chicago single "Questions 67 and 68"...
Air Transat used to, and their website still has info on San Andres, but notes that there will be no flights there for the 2021/2022 season. https://www.airtransat.com/en-CA/colombia/san-andres/flights?search=flight&flightType=RT&gateway=AIRPORT_YUL-AIRPORT_SAL&pax=1-0-0-0&date=2022...
Jump to posthttps://imgur.com/5OwjsXZ Complimenting GalaxyFlyer's excellent image ( https://imgur.com/5OwjsXZ ), here are the ADS-B Exchange logs from 4 circle-to-land approaches to Gillespie Field Airport KSEE for N880Z in the last 3 months (the last one being the fatal one). Click on the one of the Playback ...
Jump to postPre-covid there was quite a bit of service between Canada and Australia. The dominate player was Air Canada. Nighty departures out of Vancouver on a flight that originated in Toronto. so YYZ-YVR-SYD, On some day also a flights into Melbourne and Brisbane. The second aircraft was usually connecting ...
Jump to postWe're talking at length about ORD's connectivity, but essentially ignoring connectivity on the Australia side. It's not quite as significant, but worth remembering that even a BNE-ORD service opens up Chicagoland itself to one-stop connections to huge swaths of Australia (or Oceania in general) for ...
Jump to postI think this might be oversimplifying a bit - SQ33 is pretty consistently running more like 17+ hours since winter has settled in, and the variation in travel time between the two depends on the day and conditions aloft. I'm not a flight scheduler or an expert on fees, so I have no idea the degree t...
Jump to postI wonder why they chose to operate this flight from ATL to begin with? Several factors, including: ⋅ Decent demand from ATL itself to South and southern Africa ⋅ Ability to siphon demand from S.Florida, which has always generated extensive and lucrative O&D to S.Africa (and ...
Jump to postNot sure how flying the extra distance to Boston was "better" than flying to ATL though. Hopefully you will not be too inundated with responses, but JNB-ATL is almost 600 statute miles longer than JNB-BOS. Contrary to our fuzzy picture of geography, BOS is the closest major mainland US ai...
Jump to postSure looks like a glitch to me. Aside from the obvious that MU is at least a year away from starting HHH-XNN service, the flight number it gives is MU 2296, which flies HXD-XNN. So maybe that's where the system got it wrong, mis-coding HXD as HHH. Pretty much this. Hilton Head is one of those where...
Jump to postMNL specifically is largely a low-yield VFR/guest worker market. It's not something which will work well in a time when a pandemic is closing or restricting borders for indefinite periods. Exactly this. Recall that, in killing its NRT operation, DL moved only MNL service over to ICN - the reason fo...
Jump to postYou're ignoring yields in the E75 vs. CR2 comparison. If people will pay for F (and maybe Y+) the higher trip costs can be covered. The type of plane is not irrelevant to an important subset of passengers. DL/AA/UA/AS have spent a decade fleeing from single-class express fleets. CR2s were better th...
Jump to postThe first and third bullets from the OP prove problematic for any such reboot. Utilizing a plane larger than a CRJ is ideal, but if they are to focus on unserved markets from MKE, they'll be almost exclusively serving markets which can't fill anything larger with good yields.
Jump to postNot sure they will all work out, but generally solid adds. What are the largest unserved markets for NK now? They are really connecting the dots very well coming out of COVID Cities: SFO (But I guess thats covered by OAK/SJC) , Same with MIA and FLL/PBI and DCA with BWI Markets: CVG, SAT, SLC, ALB,...
Jump to postI don't know for certain without seeing what you've seen, but I believe what this reflects is departures utilizing 28R from N5 in west flow. This operation allows 28C to be used for arrivals, which can then do an end-around taxi via P and EE to reach the terminals without crossing the active depart...
Jump to postI don't know for certain without seeing what you've seen, but I believe what this reflects is departures utilizing 28R from N5 in west flow. This operation allows 28C to be used for arrivals, which can then do an end-around taxi via P and EE to reach the terminals without crossing the active departu...
Jump to postI'm assuming the World Area Code for those flights is wrong OR, more likely, filed as blank which prevents it from being filtered. Thanks, as always, for these weekly posts. A highlight of the week, still learning to have my brain benchmark these as a sign of Tuesday rather than Sunday! I suspect p...
Jump to post...potentially having two passengers in order to exit/evacuate is unprecedented, and surely the safety implications would have been obvious? I don't mean to be flippant, but isn't that the case for twice as many people in a 3-3-3 configuration given that most people can't evacuate directly through ...
Jump to postATL-PEK & KIX would be decent adds and they could transfer NGO from DTW to ATL. DL has been less than daily with NGO at DTW, at least with ATL They can better utilize an aircraft with a daily frequency instead of wasting an aircraft on DTW. You realize that DTW is the only U.S. airport besides ...
Jump to postIs any Vietnam-USA route other than LAX-SGN really going to be viable? It seems like blocking twenty seats on a 787-9 would be a much quicker and cheaper way of testing fares and viability. Definitely agree. It may not even perform that poorly much of the time - obviously the yield potential is muc...
Jump to post2. It says it will be their longest route, so PIA's flight would be to ORD, not JFK, since PIA already flies to YYZ and JFK would be shorter than their existing YYZ route. LHE-YYZ is actually 60+ miles shorter than LHE-JFK, so I'm not sure we can take what the story says and firmly conclude this me...
Jump to postMy point was that you weren’t describing an exculpatory argument, but rather one that will result in delta’s liability. Indeed, and perhaps not an unlikely outcome. I apologize as I've been playing devil's advocate a bit here, but some of the use by Delta (and, perhaps, arguably by other airlines) ...
Jump to postI'm not passing judgment on whether that defense holds water either way (and I most certainly am not an attorney), but seems a likely approach. It is not a defense. Delta isn’t using the word to describe their plane. They are systematically using the word to sell air travel services connected to a ...
Jump to postGoogle "flagship" and any major airline and see what results you get. :wink2: https://thepointsguy.co.uk/news/qantas-eyes-flagship-cabin-update-for-proposed-project-sunrise-routes/ Qantas eyes ‘flagship’ cabin update for proposed Project Sunrise routes https://www.emirates.com/media-centr...
Jump to postOh boy... This is REALLY problematic. https://liveandletsfly.boardingarea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Delta-A350-Flagship.png It actually says “flagship” on its booking engine. Yes folks, that is deliberate. I imagine a key point in DL's defense will be that one airplane (the A350) is indicated ...
Jump to postI do not get those numbers for January 2020 from OAG. On USA-Europe one-way I get 13.1B ASMs and you have 17.9. Even if I included Canada I only get 14.8B to your 17.9B. So, already not sure what is different. 13.1B ASMs OneWorld 3.1B 23.6% Star 4.7B 35.8% SkyTeam 2.9B 22.4% That's 81.8% + VS 0.744...
Jump to postMy thought was why fly to both when you can just fly to one, second the el paso/juarez connection is being made as an example, it takes sometimes many hours for people to cross the border between juarez and el paso as well, thirdly, as I have never been to Kinshasa or Brazzaville, I have been unawa...
Jump to postSK has more rigorous profit making guidelines than AY has hence the former tends to focus more aggressively on the higher yielding and shorter trans-Atlantic flights whilst AY has marketed itself as more of an Asian focused airline out of EU to differentiate from the rest. Of course, part of the po...
Jump to postWhat's your point? I specifically included his name and title, because I knew people would ask why MCI is highlighted. The point is that data which show MCI most in need of more TATL service have been provided by the Kansas City Aviation Department - data have to be viewed through the correct prism...
Jump to postWhat's your point? I specifically included his name and title, because I knew people would ask why MCI is highlighted. The point is that data which show MCI most in need of more TATL service have been provided by the Kansas City Aviation Department - data have to be viewed through the correct prism...
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