Transit pax only go through security when arriving from countries where the security process isn't accepted by the EU - I think the only countries that apply are US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
Jump to postI'm not a fan boi for either CLT or RDU, but the reasoning people use for one airport in favor of another on a theoretical route (or using pre-Covid market data) veers into the preposterous sometimes. "CLT-NRT won't work knowing how expensive it would be and people would rather connect in DFW ...
Jump to postThis probably belongs in a Virginia thread, but how much RIC traffic bleeds over to IAD?
Jump to postMultiple sources saying the FAO cancellation is related to FAA inquiry which has placed approval of new international flying on hold. If that’s the case though, what about IAH-MDE and EWR-RAK? My guess is because both have late October start dates while FAO's was this spring. I would assume that UA...
Jump to postIAD-YYC is still flying this summer. United had it in the schedule to fly through December, but now it ends at end of September, just as it did last year. I IAD-EYW/YYC seem like seasonal cuts, I'd be surprised if they were permanent. even YYC I'd think could sustain summer traffic to the parks I'm...
Jump to postSay what? The Metro Vancouver area has 2.6 million people in it. The hell you say. Tiny might not have been the right word but in the grand scheme of things Metro Vancouver is around the size of the Portland CSA. Large by Canadian standards but it wouldn't even be in the top 20 CSAs by size if plac...
Jump to postLooks like AC pulled its IAD-YVR winter service and re-made the route seasonal. Last flight is 26 October. Flight was announced last year as a summer seasonal service, but bookings were strong so the flight was extended as a year-round 4x weekly service. I guess I am not terribly surprised. The Van...
Jump to postLooks like AC pulled its IAD-YVR winter service and re-made the route seasonal. Last flight is 26 October. Flight was announced last year as a summer seasonal service, but bookings were strong so the flight was extended as a year-round 4x weekly service. I guess I am not terribly surprised. The Vanc...
Jump to postIt looks like AC re-made YVR-IAD seasonal. Last flight appears to be 26 October.
IIRC it was originally a summer-seasonal service, but was changed (before it even started) to operate 4x weekly in the winter months.
IAD-YYC was always supposed to end in early September and was never for sale past that point.
FWIW - this is the second season UA is operating the route and I believe it has a longer season/earlier start date than last year.
I'm surprised the airport doesn't have a more patriotic name like "Freedom International" or "American International Gateway." You would also think the IATA code would be USA not IAD. There are people who live here, and we'd rather just have a normal name for the airport just li...
Jump to postThanks for the answers. I could have sworn that UA had gone x3 to FRA more recently, but I don't really follow things like that closely enough to ever really be sure. I guess the switch to the 346 was made at the same time as the 380 announcement to MUC? Maybe my brain blocked that piece of informa...
Jump to postDid UA or LH ever run IAD-MUC twice daily individually?
I recall at one point IAD-MUC had three daily frequencies in the summer, either 1x UA flight + 2x LH flights or 2x UA flights + 1 LH flight.
Are there any details available about AC leaving BWI? The planes seemed relatively full whenever I flew that route. Probably wasn't profitable to run a whole operation there for one flight a day. Three daily flights were loaded in the summer at the time the route was cut Part of me feels like AC wi...
Jump to posttax1k wrote:Took this flight last week. There was something bizarre going on with TSA screening everyone at the gate. And it looks like they are still serving Harrisburg and other smaller markets.
I know at United, an FA from the aft will work their way to the overwing exit and conduct an evacuation. This is interesting to me - say there was an unplanned emergency evacuation on a 737/A319/A320 and let's assume all doors are available for use/safe to open, how would that be possible? Upon hea...
Jump to postPretty much. IAD actually gets a 13% increase in capacity. Wasn't it announced that IAD was going to get cut in favor of MSP? Yes, but from the start of the summer timetable next year. I wonder if they would keep IAD around with a A321 year-round. It's my understanding that the route is almost stri...
Jump to postCompared to W23: CPH/ARN-MIA: A350s replaces A330s, the departure times at both ends will also be moved forward by a few hours. CPH-BOS: Daily A330 replaces 6x weekly A321LR. CPH-SFO: Reduced from 6x weekly A330 to 5x weekly. CPH-LAX: Increased from 6x weekly A330 to 1x daily. CPH-IAD: 4x weekly A3...
Jump to postI believe OTP/LED/WAW ended in late 1996/early 1997 with the closure of the FRA hub. FRA-IAD/LAX around that time.
Jump to postFlyingSicilian wrote:RMTAviation wrote:United should start PHL-LAX.
Why?
Six daily flights in April by AA including two widebodies plus a daily Spirit flight might make that a tough nut for UA to crack.
How far does the E175 go? DEN-ILM is over 1500mi (statue miles). According to a simpleflying article UAX has only one route longer than 1500mi. ( https://simpleflying.com/longest-embraer-e175-routes-us-january-2024/ ). Late but want to mention that simple flying is just not a reliable source for co...
Jump to postDoes AF use A20/22 and also would they make B45/47 or B49/51 an A380 gate? It wouldn't make financial sense to modify any existing gates/jetbridges to handles A380s given that there are very few operators and the fleet type is on its way out. Like I said, all gates are CUTE. If AF traditionally use...
Jump to postDoes AF use A20/22 and also would they make B45/47 or B49/51 an A380 gate? It wouldn't make financial sense to modify any existing gates/jetbridges to handles A380s given that there are very few operators and the fleet type is on its way out. Like I said, all gates are CUTE. If AF traditionally use...
Jump to postAnyone know what gate SWISS will use at IAD and the LH A380? I believe gates on the international section of A/B are all CUTE, but I imagine they would use the same gates that LH/OS/SN use now - B45/B47/B49/B51. I believe A20/A22 and B42/B44 are designated A380 gates at IAD. B42/B44 will likely be ...
Jump to postThe MWAA agenda for Wednesday's Board meeting has posted. Included as part of Tab 7 is the proposed new Use Agreement and Premises Lease to run for the next 15 years. Power Point slides found here: https://www.mwaa.com/sites/mwaa.com/files/Tab%207.1%20%20Recommendation%20to%20Approve%20a%20New%20Ai...
Jump to postWe're moving closer and closer to the day when all pax on U.S. domestic flights are required to don a straightjacket prior to boarding...
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 postWhat is BOB? obviously not this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Microsoft_Bob_Logo.png Buy-On-Board offerings. What’s odd is that AA gives out what are basically the pre-Covid fresh BOB items for free in Y on the premium transcons (JFK-LAX/SFO/SNA, BOS-LAX and “Flagship” LAX-MI...
Jump to postI get that AA cannot offer hot BOB because they don't have ovens in their Y galleys domestically, but it's interesting that more substantial offerings haven't returned since the pandemic - I can't see them returning. What’s odd is that AA gives out what are basically the pre-Covid fresh BOB items f...
Jump to postI'm not so sure about that. I fly MIA-MEX almost monthly clocking in at 1,358 miles and BOB is never offered regardless of time of day. MIA-MEX is showing a great circle distance of 1,276 miles so it wouldn't get BOB right now. I receive 1,358 base miles on my FF account each time. Woudln't make se...
Jump to postNow they can rotate around domestically but the extended overwater routes out of CLT and MIA need the LAA birds. There is a subfleet of LUS A319s that are EOW equipped as well. The LAA A319s primarily rotate through CLT to operate EYW/STT/SXM where their performance is needed over the LUS A319. All...
Jump to postNow they can rotate around domestically but the extended overwater routes out of CLT and MIA need the LAA birds. There is a subfleet of LUS A319s that are EOW equipped as well. The LAA A319s primarily rotate through CLT to operate EYW/STT/SXM where their performance is needed over the LUS A319. All...
Jump to postI know LAA A321s don't really rotate through CLT all too often because of gate layout restrictions due to the type's sharklets.
Jump to postPre-merger, UA served IAD, ORD, and DEN out of LGA. At EWR, in the 1990s, UA had a larger presence, with service to IAD, DEN, ORD, plus LHR (1 x daily on a 777), NRT, and to MIA, to help feed what was, at the time a Latin America gateway for UA. UA also flew to LAX and SFO out of EWR. At the time o...
Jump to postUA is and has been sticking it to AA on international deeply when you look at their 5 year growth and network spread created by individual route announcements. Different approaches, but AA is certainly stagnant on n the international network expansion. RAK was to be an AA route, but never happened....
Jump to postUA is going to fly directly to Marrakesh? WOW! Amazing! Looks like UA is really sticking it to AA by adding markets that AA should be strong in because they have a codeshare partner: CX in HKG and AT in RAK. Yes, absolutely, UA sticking it to AA real good by flying 3 x weekly from EWR to RAK. Compl...
Jump to postIf the aircraft is spending so much time in CEB couldn’t they apply for NRT-CEB-DPS? Wouldn’t make it a waiste for the aircraft to be parked in CEB overnight. Defintely shows the Philippines is growing for tourism from the U.S as they launched SFO-MNL not so long ago. Don't assume CEB or MNL is tou...
Jump to postInteresting - I had expected it just to be a regurgitation of recent new routes that were already announced separately. The only really shocking thing to me out of this announcement is that LAX-HKG is going double daily, given how often folks here discuss how demand to/from HKG isn't what it used to...
Jump to postdmcreif wrote:
I'm willing to bet this is going to be an announcement of essentially nothing except for one unannounced route- they are going to "announce" IAH-GEO (already announced and available for booking) and HND-GUM (already awarded) in addition to one unannounced route. I'm guessing the sole unann...
Jump to postI posted this on the WAS thread the other day, but WN did have a "partnership" of some sorts with FI through BWI in the late 1990s/early 2000s. I put partnership in quotes because it wasn't a codeshare or an interline agreement but rather like a bundled fare, though they would transfer che...
Jump to postCLT was 5x/day in the latter half of S23 too, but prior to that it's typically been 3-4 daily in the summer. PHL and ORD are still notably down from their past peaks of 4 and 5 daily, though AS has bulked up their frequency on those to compensate a bit. Slightly off topic but no idea why AS hasn't ...
Jump to postSay what? That's huge news to me. I'd love to see THAT timetable! And if somebody asked a WN res agent about that, what did they do? Tell them to call FI? Back then and until about, what is it now? ... ~3yrs ago? ... when WN migrated to Amadeus Altea ...their res system was an ancient, bastardized ...
Jump to postCurrently on a standard Thursday: 5x CLT (all 321s) 8x DFW (all 321s) 2x LAX (all CR7s) 1x MIA (321) 3x ORD (all 738s) 2x PHL (all 321s) 3x PHX (2x E175, 1x 319) I think AA does MIA 2x seasonally. Let’s see if I can list all the destinations that AA has dropped from SEA for fun: NRT, BOS, JFK, AUS,...
Jump to postHas anyone else heard Iceland air is looking to codeshare with southwest? Would technically be a resumption if they did - I believed they had some sort of agreement in the 1990s/early 2000s. I recall seeing FI flights from BWI in the WN timetable. Say what? That's huge news to me. I'd love to see T...
Jump to postjvlmd81 wrote:Has anyone else heard Iceland air is looking to codeshare with southwest?
DCA can’t handle any more slots. Glad that congress is busy stuffing their pockets with airline lobbying cash instead of fixing actual problems the country is facing. Extending the railway line to the BWI airport terminal would allow express train service that would allow passengers to get to the B...
Jump to postIt appears the airport is just making more space for non-AA carriers so AA can take over the old original 1980s concourses. (Concourse A south, B and C). B and C were never used by any non-AA carrier. All airlines except for DL moved from the older A gates the new A gates in 2018 - AA then moved in...
Jump to postCLT has issued a RFP for the final pier for Concourse A North ("Phase III"). https://www.charlottenc.gov/files/content/city/v/2/growth-and-development/doing-business/contract-opportunities/rfq-capiii/rfq-avia-24-21-concourse-a-expansion-phase-iii.pdf Yay! Let's just keep hacking more conc...
Jump to postCLT has issued a RFP for the final pier for Concourse A North ("Phase III").
https://www.charlottenc.gov/files/conte ... se-iii.pdf