EWR isn't connected, either (aside from an airside bus), and certainly doesn't seem to be concerned about it given how far A is from B & C. I think reality is just that connections across terminals aren't nearly as important at LGA/JFK as at other airports, given that airlines largely only occup...
Jump to postLas Vegas is a station in a foreign country. Does AC have any ground employees in Las Vegas or is it all or mostly outsourced ground staff? True that it's a station in a foreign country, but it's not like LAS is some backwater airport. Huge airport/operation (within the top 10 in the US for pax cou...
Jump to postAre there instances of employees of airlines in the same alliance working together (an example would be United and Lufthansa flight attendants working with each other)? For DL flights at AMS and CDG, KL and AF gate agents handle all the ground operations, with a DL red coat overseeing things. Simil...
Jump to postThe US Preclearance area in T3 is miserably crowded, too. The concourse is separated down the middle with only ~40% of the space allocated to the Preclearance side, and it's always a mess of crowds of pax without enough places to sit, while the other side is often way more serene.
Jump to postWhy doesn’t KLM fly EWR-AMS? How big is Delta operations at EWR, as far as I know not as big compared to JFK . Quite small, I think they have only a handful of B gates maybe 3 at the most. They only do ATL, MSP, DTW and BOS. I believe it’s mostly 717 service as well. Their SkyClub is quite large fo...
Jump to postOver the years, I've always wondered what the most common alternate airports are for major airports around the world (clearly, I'm not a pilot :P ). I realize that this can vary significantly in case of bad weather or other operational constraints, but I'd imagine that there are pretty standard ones...
Jump to postWow, that's pretty scary how close that took place to the airport where regular pax would've been going about their business.
How hard is it to repair bullet holes in an aircraft?
I've been to the USVI a handful of times over the years, and it's always been surprising to me that neither STT nor STX have any meaningful service to destinations outside the US, outside of some regional carriers to other Caribbean islands. STT in particular and neighboring St. John are majorly pop...
Jump to postI think AF will do fantastic on CDG-MSY. Plus DL can flow pax to MSY to connect to AF to CDG vs through ATL. Given that DL only flies from MSY to its hubs, would there really be much connecting traffic? Unless it's notably cheaper than other options (which would thus depress yields on CDG-MSY), why...
Jump to postBDL-MSP gets them - at just over 1000 miles, I'd have to imagine that that route would be up there, if not at the top.
Jump to postSAS adding more routes to EWR https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/scandinavian-airlines-system-sas/sas-launches-two-new-routes-from-aalborg-denmark-and-gothenburg-sweden-to-new-york-newark-with-airbus-a321lr/amp/ Obviously SK's network planning department has done some research on these new routes f...
Jump to postI was recently on a domestic flight within the US, and before pushback, the captain stood in front of the cabin and made a PA that the aircraft was having "technical issues" with the seatbelt sign, and then when it was turned on, it wouldn't stop repeatedly dinging. Therefore, to spare us ...
Jump to postWould say the timings are all about transatlantic connections to and from JFK...via Montreal and Toronto... NYC is large enough that it could probably fill seats from any NYC airport. However, since AC already flies from LGA and EWR, I'm not sure what they expect to pick up at JFK that isn't alread...
Jump to postBy intention, TBIT is all international, but in practice, it isn't. In the last several years, I've arrived at TBIT 4 times on domestic DL flights during their terminal remodel. It may be intended for international, but as a matter of operations, it's not 100%. I flew LAX-ATL out of TBIT at the end...
Jump to postUS Laws and airport design post a limitation as well, many US terminals handle both international and domestic in the same terminal or concourse. Your next international flight might be leaving from a domestic gate. If you were transitioned to the domestic area and had no checked bags (or one you d...
Jump to postIs SJU anywhere near capacity constrained given its footprint at the moment? If not, I doubt it's something Puerto Rico is terribly worried about (its current financial issues notwithstanding!).
Jump to postI'm a pilot for a major European airline, but have previously flown for a couple of US regionals, a Caribbean airline and another based in Europe. The US is definitely the exception to the rule globally in terms of how things are done. Some, such as ATC having full WX radar coverage and giving Prec...
Jump to postOver time, with a good bit of travel in Europe (in addition to the US, my home country), I've noticed a handful of different aspects of how airlines in the two regions operate that's always been a bit puzzling to me. I'd be curious as to the genesis of how these things came to be, and what's resulte...
Jump to postDepending on how semantic you want to be about the definition, BOS is a tough spot for any airline to have a "hub" in the truest sense of the word because it'll never have a ton of connecting traffic, given it's location way in the northeast corner of the country. Only exception might be p...
Jump to postEven though job opportunities for pilots are abundant in the US right now, having to start over on an airline seniority list and payscale mid-career - particularly if you've been flying 777s long-haul, has got to be majorly demotivating.
Jump to postIt's not ATL-DOH market , QR is serving these markets. ATL-Middle East ATL-Indian Subcontinent ATL-Southeast Asia ATL-Sub Saharan Africa ATL is the 8th largest metro in the US, so even aside from the (enormous) DL hub, ATL generates enough O&D on its own for non-DL affiliated carriers to make A...
Jump to postThe TSA isn't having quite the same level of issues with staffing that European airports have had, but I can't see how this wouldn't do anything other than needlessly increase security wait times. I wonder if this is an effort to increase business for in-airport concessions? Maybe this could work at...
Jump to postPicking up regarding EWR global awareness from the UA network thread: I would hope that however big or small the global population is who may get the willies flying into a less familiar airport, that the NEW Newark Liberty will gain some notoriety. I’m not sure if NYC should be adding to the name, ...
Jump to postI've started flying internationally again this year for the first time since COVID, and I've noticed that the kiosks that US/Canadian citizens used to be able to use at both ATL and JFK are now missing. When you go to CBP's website, the number of airports where these are present has shrunk significa...
Jump to postWN certainly has found a niche in the market, no doubt. However, a few of your points aren't really unique to WN: - Many airlines have high frequency on key trunk routes, and there's plenty of routes where WN has limited frequency, or even 1x/day. - No US airline has ID checks for domestic flights, ...
Jump to postI think more for B6 and less for DL, also I’m assuming AS is moving so they could share gates with AA. I think DL has only been using 3 gates at EWR? DL definitely uses more than three gates at EWR. It's a heck of a lot smaller than LGA/JFK comparatively, but they still fly to ATL, DTW, MSP, CVG, B...
Jump to postI learned to fly in San Diego and (I don't know if this is the case -- feel free to correct him) my instructor told me that if while flying close to the border, even just the tip of our wing crossed in to MX airspace, technically we would need to call customs upon landing. I'm guessing that's not t...
Jump to postThere's obviously been a ton of issues that have been plaguing AMS, LHR, YYZ, SYD, etc. this year with regards to insanely long security lines at the airport - most notably, AMS and LHR both had airlines cull schedules to reduce the number of passengers. It seems like the US airports have avoided th...
Jump to postIs there another international hub airport comparable to AMS thats faring better in this day and age? There haven't really been any reports that airports in the US are having major issues. Sure, there might be a one-off day here and there with a crazy amount of TSA volume, but it's not really somet...
Jump to postThe "unnecessary connecting volume" argument is a red herring. Connecting passengers burden the infrastructure at a given airport less than O&D passengers since they don't need rides to/from the airport (apart from the planes on which they arrive/depart), typically don't need to clear...
Jump to postHow is this different than, say GSO-CLT or TPA-MIA or CSG-ATL. The big issue is that LGA barely hangs on operationally on a good day given how capacity-constrained it is, and then it totally falls apart if there's some minor wind or rain. Obviously, DL is just following the rules in terms of utiliz...
Jump to postCould this be the city of New York's doing? Maybe they got tired of losing a sizeable portion of their passengers to New Jersey? Not saying this will stop them, just that they now have to do a separate search for EWR when reserving their tickets. Takes all of 10 seconds. I can't imagine the City it...
Jump to postTo be fair, although distance wise EWR is closer to Manhattan, EWR is physically in New Jersey and not New York. It is in a different state. So the comparison let us say, London area airports are weaker. I think we all agree that Tijuana airport can't be called San Diego area airport, although the ...
Jump to postI recently ended up on AF from CDG-JFK. . Sigh. Tell me that the food and the politeness and attentiveness of the crew weren't just superb. Shame DL can't do that. I was in Y, so there's only so much crew interaction you're going to have in the first place, but I'd say it was...fine? Honestly, not ...
Jump to postIt's funny you say that - I'm a huge DL loyalist, but for schedule reasons, I recently ended up on AF from CDG-JFK. We pulled into the gate at JFK but had to stop a few feet short and get towed in the rest of the way. The captain had turned off the seatbelt sign before we were in our final parking ...
Jump to postJust got back from Nice on DL. Listening to the outbound DL crew butcher their French announcements, eating the mediocre food, dealing with the friendly-enough-but-not-friendly crews in both directions, I was thinking about how nice the food and service was on Air France last time I took them. Ligh...
Jump to postI don't know EI's full network status, but I'm surprised they would add BUF/DEN if they haven't yet restored BDL. Perhaps BDL-DUB wasn't that strong of a performer pre-COVID after all.
Jump to postDL response in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…… I was just going to comment the same thing. Then again, for these routes, I'd imagine that DL's volume must be super heavy on connecting traffic (not that there isn't any O&D), and F9 isn't going to have nearly as much connecting flow via ATL as DL, so I wonder wh...
Jump to postI'm assuming AF will use Terminal B for this flight - I wonder if they'll just use a DL gate and have DL ground handle (and DL already has a SkyClub at EWR, too, for lounge access for AF pax).
Jump to postApologies for hijacking the thread...but while we're discussing Lima: Why is Lima the only airport I've ever flown to that confiscates all liquids from your carry-ons upon boarding the flight to the US? I just flew DL out of BOG last week, and they had the same policy - searched everyone's carry-on...
Jump to postOver the years of traveling through airports around the world, I've noticed that airports outside the US seem to have a significantly heavier emphasis on shopping, duty free, etc. as compared to airports in the US. In many cases, you're forced to walk through duty free (or adjacent to it) once you g...
Jump to postDoes BA (or maybe European airlines more generally) certify cabin crew based upon specific aircraft types? If I'm not mistaken, F/As at US airlines are certified to fly on any aircraft type that the airline flies.
Jump to postFor B6, if your flight operates on time (or at all), then it's a great experience. They've really struggled through on the operational front - I'm surprised this isn't coming through in the numbers.
Jump to posthttps://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/delta-to-pay-flight-attendants-during-boarding-amid-union-push.html Big news from Delta that they're going to start paying their F/As half their hourly wage during the boarding process - pretty major shift in the compensation structure for flight attendants, and the f...
Jump to postIs SLC more banked than other DL hubs? In looking at various flights options through SLC over time, I've noticed that the schedules tend to be much more clustered around certain time frames vs. ATL/DTW/MSP, where seems to be quite more "rolling" in terms of the schedule.
Jump to postThe security theater process in the US needs to be significantly streamlined. Is it really that different in other countries? Yes. For starters no one needs to take shoes off in other countries and the only reason other countries still have the stupid liquids ban is because the U.S. requires it for...
Jump to postThe security theater process in the US needs to be significantly streamlined. Is it really that different in other countries? I have to say, I've had as many headaches with going through security at LHR or AMS, for example, as at your average US airport (with no offense intended to our UK or NL mem...
Jump to postEYW is in tough shape given how much traffic has increased and the fixed space on the ramp there. I was there a few weeks ago - the DL A319 inbound from ATL sat for 45 minutes (!) waiting for a parking space due to a DL E175 that went tech and was taking up a parking space. I could hear the DL super...
Jump to postThe EYW terminal is going to be bursting at the seams with the increased pax load. The new terminal can't come soon enough!
Jump to postAA offering flights to Europe via their PHL hub is not too bad a backtrack. PHL offers more than JFK unless people want Tel Aviv or Dehli. People in Hartford can also drive to JFK or Boston offering tons of flights to Europe and all other parts of this world. Connecticut residents have options many...
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