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Jump to postMy guess is the non-stop from Houston, Texas to Luanda, Angola, flown by World Airways three times weekly for SONAIR, Angola's national airline on a specially configured aircraft - only 113 seats. The trip is well over 7,000 miles.
Jump to postAre the parties talking to each other at all? Haven't seen any of the usual posturing on part of the company. The union, however, seems to have filed a lawsuit that sounds bad as far as management's conduct is concerned. What's happening, if anything at all?
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Jump to postThis strike is all about SCOPE, not money or bennies, at least for the majority of the pilots.
Jump to postWorld Airways has route authority from Washington-Dulles to Baghdad. Don't know whether it's non-stop or what the intermediate stop might be. This would be mostly for Government travel, I assume, although the market for ethnic travel might also be there. By the way, the Arab/Iraqui population in the...
Jump to postThe pilots at World Airways probably will strike as of midnight, January 28. For those interested, there is good discussion on this at the Yahoo message board for WLDAE in the financial section. The disagreement seems to be mostly over World's purchase of North American Airlines as an alter-ego oper...
Jump to postIf they are using 737s, how long will the WN pilots allow that to go on? Flying to HI has got to be a choice route not to be left to a codeshare partner?
Jump to postI think what's equally interesting is that <acronym title="American Trans Air (USA)">TZ</acronym> is adding one daily frequency <acronym title="Chicago - Midway International (MDW / KMDW), USA - Illinois">MDW</acronym>-<acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DF...
Jump to postIn five years, Southwest will have bought AA and shut it down. Then they'll move to DFW. LOL
Jump to postRumors are that they will be wet-leased from a U.S charter carrier, perhaps North American or whoever else has spare 757's and crews. Destinations to include Australia, I hear.
Jump to postThere has been speculation that Southwest may start transatlantic service out of <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym> to connect with one of the discount carriers in Europe. ATA has been rumored to be doing this for <acronym ...
Jump to postNow I understand why U.S. airlines haven't outsourced flying to Mexican airlines. NW, etc. wouldn't pay those kind of salaries.
Jump to postWorld/NAA's first 767, the one to be delivered in March or April, will be coming from KLM. Don't know about the second one.
Jump to postDTW is Detroit Metro, the area's major airport (the W is for Wayne County). DTT is Detroit City which was home to Pro Air and also Southwest flew from there for a while. Willow Run is <acronym title="Detroit - Willow Run (YIP / KYIP), USA - Michigan">YIP</acronym> for ypsilanti - it is the home of K...
Jump to postSo this fleet was pretty well picked over before World got to choose? I would imagine they are all due for C or D checks. The press release stated they would be converted to <acronym title="STAF Airlines (Argentina)">SF</acronym> freighters - doesn't that mean that the nose can tilt upwards for load...
Jump to postIs this a response to Atlas Air's announcement that they are considering going into the passenger ACMI with 747's, thus threatening World's MD-11 dominance of the military pax business ?
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Jump to postTZ like Budapest and Shannon for their tech stops while World are often seen at <acronym title="Frankfurt - Main (Rhein-Main AB) (FRA / FRF / EDDF), Germany">FRA</acronym> and <acronym title="Shannon (SNN / EINN), Ireland">SNN</acronym>. As far as military charters by scheduled carriers is concerned...
Jump to postNorth American Airlines is operating a flight (#133) this Saturday evening <acronym title="Dublin (- Collinstown) (DUB / EIDW), Ireland">DUB</acronym>-<acronym title="Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS / KBOS), USA - Massachusetts">BOS</acronym>. This is probably one of the su...
Jump to postHow is the weekly JFK-ACC rotation by North American Airlines doing? What are load factors on the 763? Thanks.
Jump to postThank you for posting this information - very interesting!
Jump to postSo what is the problem - price or availability?
Jump to postCall World Airways/North American Airlines. They have what you're looking for: MD-11, DC-10 or 767 in various configuration. www.worldair.com
Jump to postThat's why they bought North American. The World <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-11s are valuable as freighyters and eventually will all be converted, especially once the military flying slows down. It lets them get rid of the very expensive flight attendants at World and NAA will be th...
Jump to postIf <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> is going to be the predominant national carrier, it has to be at one of the big three NY airport, and their CEO already has said that they are studying <acronym title="New York - La Guardia (LGA / KLGA), USA - New York">LGA</acronym>. It's no...
Jump to postRemember that Tower also operated a 747 freighter or two. Maybe that's why they needed an office there.
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Jump to postWorld Airways will continue to convert their <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-11s into freighters and replace passenger capacity with the 787 with <acronym title="Trans Asia Airways (Taiwan)">GE</acronym> engines, IMO. Question remains what they will do at their subsidiary North American...
Jump to postNo doubt John Tague at United (former CEO of ATA) will cut them a deal they can't refuse. LOL.
Jump to postI remember waiting in line behind a Caledonian plane in <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym> about 89 or 90, but don't know whether it was scheduled or charter. For some reason can't recall what type of aircr...
Jump to postWhat will happen in January when the Pleasant Hawaiian Holidays business goes from ATA to United? Are there any reduction in flights from the mainland to HI planned or will the Southwest codeshare take up the seats that become available?
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Jump to postThe main reason you get screened twice at <acronym title="Frankfurt - Main (Rhein-Main AB) (FRA / FRF / EDDF), Germany">FRA</acronym> is that there is a restaurant between the two security gates where you eat with metal forks and knives. There are also shops where you might be able to buy "sharps" t...
Jump to postIt is very easy for disgruntled pilots and/or mechanics to do things to an aircraft, or make "diagnoses" about the condition of an aircraft, that keep it from flying. When you look at all the operators of the <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-11, only a few have had persistent problems wi...
Jump to postThe systems that have been affected are those of the pilot. The <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-11 is not an easy plane to fly and McDonnell-Douglas can justly be blamed for some poor design features. However, a skilled and well-trained pilot can compensate for that. Pilots transitionin...
Jump to postSteenland will take no prisoners. I am convinced that he will not compromise, even if he risks strikes and liquidation, unless <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> can emerge from Ch. 11 as a profitable and competitive carrier. Just my take on the man and I don't like what's being ...
Jump to postProduction of the <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-11 was prematurely closed down shortly after Boeing bought McDonald-Douglas (MD) because they had a competitor in the 777 which required only two engines. The last production run was for 19 freighters for Lufthansa and <acronym title="Lu...
Jump to postIt was repaired and is now parked at Montreal, according to the info I have. There have been rumors that it will go to World Airways, to join the three other Delta MD-11s already there. N802DE.
Jump to postThanks for the feedback - I didn't know about the Air Canada contract. Thought the plane in <acronym title="Frankfurt - Main (Rhein-Main AB) (FRA / FRF / EDDF), Germany">FRA</acronym> was doing <acronym title="Lufthansa (Germany)">LH</acronym> work. Now, does anyone know their current fleet composit...
Jump to postIt's been a long time since I've seen information on Gemini Air Cargo on any of the boards. Saw one of their planes in <acronym title="Frankfurt - Main (Rhein-Main AB) (FRA / FRF / EDDF), Germany">FRA</acronym> last week, so I assume they are doing work for <acronym title="Lufthansa (Germany)">LH</a...
Jump to postNorth American Airlines has three 757 roundtrips JFK-MID today and probably more throughout the week.
Jump to postBack to the topic, how will they connect the new terminal (T3) with the existing terminals? Will they build an access under the runways for the tram or do they plan to run buses all the way around the perimeter of the airport? Anyone know?
Jump to postAfter watching for years the trials and tribulations of U.S. Airways, I have come to the conclusion that it is virtually impossible to kill off any American legacy carrier. <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> has some very powerful friends in Congress and they will be looked after...
Jump to postToday's announcement from Southwest, that they will be starting service out of Denver, is another serious blow to ATA's survival efforts. They've code-shared from DIA with <acronym title="Air Namibia">SW</acronym> to Midway and to Hawaii via Phoenix. With last week's announcements that they are also...
Jump to postWorld Airways might still be looking to add to their present fleet of five freighters and nine passenger MD-11's, if the price is right and the planes are in good maintenance.
Jump to postI've seen North American and World on flytecomm doing some flights <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym>-<acronym title="Port of Spain / Trinidad - Piarco International (POS / TTPP), Trinidad and Tobago">POS</acronym> and <acr...
Jump to postGemini Air Cargo used to be big out of Miami with their DC-10's to South and Central America. What happened to them? Did they get bought out or go out of business?
Jump to postTunica may be in for some hard times if Arkansas legalizes gambling, which is on the ballot. A lot of Tunica's revenue comes from a fleet of buses out of Little Rock and other AR cities. They'll need lots os planes to make up for that.
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