LH didn't make a hard landing at LAX, and didnt make 2 landings. They went around on a balked landing and made one perfectly fine landing. Of all the airlines in the world, LH is one that I will always and forever trust as safe and with extremely well trained crews. This kind of thing happens to eve...
Jump to posthawaiian717 wrote:Not sure about Porter but I also see on FlightAware an Avelo 737-800 due to leave for Burbank at 3:30.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VXP ... /KSAN/KBUR
Eh, it's questionable if it's really financial reasons at 10 year old planes. Overall cost would be cheapest to buy planes and go through a fully heavy maintenance cycle or two. There is a certain vanity factor for those airlines that they just have chosen to want new planes and have the money to b...
Jump to postAmazing that these B74S’ have lasted as long as they have, given their relative obscurity. These 45-year-old+ aircraft being so well maintained should certainly teach a lesson to the Asian and ME airlines retiring 10-year-old B77W’s… Such retirements are for financial reasons. Private operators may...
Jump to postThat settles it, it's the wind, thanks! I wonder if any of the passengers get puzzled and wonder if they've been hijacked?! :D Recently flew SAN-HNL and in the preflight announcements the captain explained that due to military activity in the airspace off the coast of So Cal that we would be flying...
Jump to postD L X wrote:N1120A wrote:In fact, such a discussion in that thread could ultimately drown out the broader discussion within.
Which is inherently the problem with all the omnibus threads. Every last one.
They're completely different things. 121 flights don't use a lot of the airports that GA aircraft do. Exactly. People complain about the premium service that they can see, in the airline airport. The truly wealthy who avoid the entire airport aren't complained about. Then they get airborne and caus...
Jump to postFunny that since the exchanged about checked bags - we had another mishandle and it was by KL and DL, who are supposed to be good at this stuff. 3 days to get 2 bags, 4 to get another. Thankfully, we were home and more thankfully that was had carry ons. Oh, and at the start of the trip, it took BA 2...
Jump to postThe QF 743 was on AKL-LAX for quite a while, and spent time as the airplane that did the LAX-JFK-LAX turn as well. The -300 was basically a -200B with more weight because of the SUD, which was also an aftermarket option for the -200B when the -300 came out, hence the shorter range. Fun fact - the SP...
Jump to postLet's see, and I'm not counting Hawaii flights: UA - 747-400 (7x - SFO-SYD-LAX, LAX-SYD-MEL-SYD-LAX, SFO-HKG-SGN-HKG-SFO, SFO-ICN), 777-200ER (2X PVG-SFO, EWR-HKG) JL - 787-8 (NRT-SAN), 777-300ER (ORD-NRT) CX - 777-300ER (4X HKG-SFO-HKG-SFO-HKG) AC - 777-300ER (HKG-YYZ) NZ - 777-200ER (2X - LAX-RAR-...
Jump to postThere are many benefits to the 24 hour news cycle, but there are even more downsides, and this form of mass hysteria is one of them. Also, as someone who has represented his share of whistleblowers, you must understand that they're a special breed and you can't always take everything they say as gos...
Jump to postThis thread, which I did not start but did comment in, was locked and people were directed to "the LAX thread," which doesn't exist. Instead, it was to the omnibus regional thread for the L.A. Basin. https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1493023 This seems rather poorly t...
Jump to post100%. But A.netters will be A.netters. If you’ve had one flight in your life, you’re not a fan of aviation, you’re an expert. It is a surprisingly common view among the public, even the more educated. We've all those TV shows where this stuff is caught on camera. If that isn't enough evidence I don...
Jump to postUS actually had quite the respectable TATL operation out of PHL, especially during the summer, when they would serve some secondary cities that were tourist hubs that we commonly see now, but which were very undeserved back then. Think VCE and ATH. Their early build A330s had serious issues making ...
Jump to postMy guess is that the people proposing this have no qualms about business jets, which bypass all lines. Since that is "invisible" to the airline traveler in the passenger terminal, it doesn't exist. Its all about optics and managing perceptions. They're completely different things. 121 fli...
Jump to postSlight correction - Mayor Bradley's name will remain on the terminal (and airport) he championed and got built, and it will be Tom Bradley Terminal 3. Also, Terminal 1 will be a combination of the current Terminal and the new concourse that has been called Terminal 0 in preliminary documents. For al...
Jump to postPost merger, it was only PHL and CLT. It wasn't until about 2012 that a US Airways widebody even touched PHX, and that was only for a redeye to CLT. Apart from the early 90s when AWE briefly served PHX-NKM (Nagoya Airfield) with a B742, PHX didn't see hub airline intercontinental service until AA a...
Jump to postFor everyone who thinks this is some "leftist" initiative from California, the bill actually had bipartisan support with Republican sponsors. CLEAR exists because the TSA theater has created ridiculously slow lines for no reason. The airline revenue protection ID check creates a bottle nec...
Jump to postUS actually had quite the respectable TATL operation out of PHL, especially during the summer, when they would serve some secondary cities that were tourist hubs that we commonly see now, but which were very undeserved back then. Think VCE and ATH. Their early build A330s had serious issues making w...
Jump to postThere aren't really any east-west airways south of the coast in Algeria, so procedural flying combined with poor radar probably dictate those northerly routes. AT, of course, completely avoids Algerian airspace, because those two countries have had issues for years. My guess is RQ cut the corner ove...
Jump to postHard to believe that I just passed 20 years on the site this past December. I've made a lot of very real friends here, seen some of those friendships end, with others becoming much stronger and closer. I found the site through an aviation related email Listserv, where people linked to photos. I then...
Jump to postA320s have been operating in icing conditions for nearly 40 years, so my guess is that whatever the procedure is in place is the one that works well.
Jump to postI could see IB starting MAD-YYZ with the A321XLR, They need at least one route to Canada. Lot of connection opportunities on IB's network. I agree, it would effectively mirror what TP does on LIS-YYZ. I know the haters love to sh*t on IAG in Canada, accusing them of ‘declining’ (mainly because of B...
Jump to postCarbon fiber certainly wears differently than aluminum does. Corrosion isn't an issue like it is with aluminum, so that type of fatigue on the airframe on 787s is unlikely where no metal is used. Isn't "fatigue" reserved for load related wear, such as stress accumulation, deformation and ...
Jump to postCarbon fiber certainly wears differently than aluminum does. Corrosion isn't an issue like it is with aluminum, so that type of fatigue on the airframe on 787s is unlikely where no metal is used.
Jump to postfloridaflyboy wrote:airlinepeanuts wrote:Who’s going to train a bunch of pilots on the Dash-8 in this day and age?
CAE has a Q400 type rating course and a Q400 recurrent course that are both actively offered, so I guess there’s that option.
We made it from SFO to BCN on Norwegian in about 8.5 hours a few years back. In February this year I flew from SFO-ZRH and it took a weird route that took 13 hours. We flew sound over LA, then across the country to Texas, then flew up over New England and then across the Atlantic and Brittany in Fr...
Jump to postThe Trent XWB is a significantly larger engine than the GTF. As in the most powerful 1100G is less than half as powerful as the least powerful Trent XWB. This isn't even a comparison.
Jump to postFRA doesn't make passengers from "safe" countries reclear security.
Jump to post"Completely professional" is an unattainable goal. We are human. We can have disagreements or dislike the person in the other seat. We can be tired and fatigued, have trouble at home, or financial troubles, or just having a bad day. Since the inception of CRM, the fact that pilots cannot ...
Jump to postThey made a total of 55 -300s compared to nearly 1,000 -200s. Even if the scimitar winglets would produce a meaningful benefit the small fleet size limits the potential market for anyone interested in developing an STC. Just because something is technically viable doesn't mean it's economically via...
Jump to postShorter flights due to less range inherent in the design. It takes flight time in cruise to make the fuel savings. -200s do lots of TATL and HI flying, the -300 not so much. The -300 does tons of Hawaii flying for UA The -300 DID tons of flying to Hawaii. The amount has greatly dwindled with the 77...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:Shorter flights due to less range inherent in the design. It takes flight time in cruise to make the fuel savings. -200s do lots of TATL and HI flying, the -300 not so much.
On an AA flight a few weeks ago I was surprised when the FO made the preflight announcement and stated that the captain was his wife. I was surprised because I would have thought that people in intimate relationships wouldn't be allowed to fly together. I would think that if a couple had an argumen...
Jump to postJoe and Margrit Fahan not only flew at DL together all the time, they posted on IG about it. Very cool people actually - Joe mandatory retired and is flying corporate, while Margrit did that for a while and now took a CA slot at Breeze.
Jump to postAA closed the the SFO base in early 2023 (probably in response to California labor regulations), so it makes some sense they'd explore adding another west coast base. Absolutely and totally wrong. The issue with the VA FAs is that they were non-union. Since AA's FAs are, the meal and rest break law...
Jump to postIt's kind of remarkable that in the US ULCCs are pulling out of the smaller airports like this one while in Europe they don't, European ULCCs prefer smaller airports instead of major ones. In the US only Allegiant works that way. And apparently, until shortly, Spirit at ACY. ACY is the kind of airp...
Jump to postPre clearance posts are usually for up to 5 years, and they apply for the position. They can bring their family. They get generous housing allowances and extra pay, but tend to work longer hours than US based CBP
Jump to postFlying a non -15 727-200 on a hot day at Stapleton must have been a challenge.
Jump to postI liked north island 29 too, and I imagine the younger guys still get to fly it!.....not much has changed at North Island since I left AMC many moons ago. Can you, Galaxy, or anyone else explain how the North Island approach worked/works? Is the SAN tower involved and if so, what instructions, clea...
Jump to postUS callsigns that aren't either an FAA recognized radio call sign (like the airlines) or a local LOA (like local TV helicopters, police, sky dive, etc) are always the tail number. The tail numbers all start with N and up to 5 digits after, with the last two being allowed to be letters. The UK and Ca...
Jump to postIt's likely that LS had a spare aircraft and a full crew at EMA that could have continued the journey. Or flights that could accommodate the pax from LS249. LBA is LS's home base, but it's not their biggest base (that would be MAN). Looks like you're quite correct about spare a/c and crew. LS249 no...
Jump to post$14K is expensive, but used cars are expensive these days. The CX-5 has been a smash hit for years and is a very good balance of a car, so it is not surprising to see that kind of price. I think it's a decent idea to offer lower and see what you can do. Also, don't discount what you might be able to...
Jump to postRunway 27 into SAN is both an incredible view, from both sides, and not nearly as hard to fly as many make it out to be. Just use what you have to slow the airplane down. It's also nice to know I'm home. The arrival and approach from the north into MEX is also quite impressive. Agree with everythin...
Jump to postOntario added LA in the front and called itself LA/Ontario Airport for a long time and it never really had any international flights except the ones coming from Central America. They managed to get a flight to Taipei because the senators went to Taiwan and asked for a favor (and it also works logis...
Jump to postRunway 27 into SAN is both an incredible view, from both sides, and not nearly as hard to fly as many make it out to be. Just use what you have to slow the airplane down. It's also nice to know I'm home.
The arrival and approach from the north into MEX is also quite impressive.
Coming from the north on the Pt. Reyes arrival, getting radar vectors to a visual to 28R at SFO is an awesome view.
RNAV 36 into CEC
No bigger fan of all 747s than myself but why would a 748 Combi be needed ? The standard 77W is already an epic combi right out of the box, it has a massive cargo capacity KLM had unique needs that made combis viable, even in the big belly era. Large animal transport, particularly very expensive ho...
Jump to postDoes LH have a maintenance plan that avoids full D Checks?
Jump to postThe longer the stage length, the less attractive ULCC products get - especially with seats as uncomfortable as F9 sells.
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