I usually agree. It’s gotta be my bad luck, but the last 2 times I drove to Memphis from Nashville, I was in stand still traffic for hours on I-40 due to an accident or other matter. Really made me wish I was on a NW DC9 flying BNA-MEM like I used to take. No different than wx delay or ground stop ...
Jump to postI don’t get the MIA hate either unless it’s people trying to connect from an international flight. Other than that, which at times can be a disaster, it’s a decent facility. When I lived in LA and Dallas, I flew AA all the time since they were my carrier of choice and I spent a lot of time in MIA f...
Jump to postBoth--the check-in agents will verify your visa in Vienna before you start your journey and then will do a visual spot check again before you board the connecting flight in Abu Dhabi. For the airline, better to be safe than sorry and have to deal with you being refused entry upon arrival and deported.
Jump to postBNA-PBI was a COVID cut. Ahh, I'm guessing it'll be back eventually then. STL just bot PBI back this year. BNA I am sure isn't far behind As much as I would have enjoyed a BNA-PBI nonstop during baseball spring break season, I have to believe there is very little O&D between the 2 cities on a y...
Jump to postUA said it will start summer 2025 in the statement, so I don’t think it’s an issue with the market. I think it is likely lack of aircraft as you mention. They have not received all the aircraft deliveries they were supposed to for this summer. The other new routes such as ORD-ATH are still happenin...
Jump to postI was/am in a little bit of the same situation as you. As I started researching online, it seems like this is a fairly common phenomenon--people who used to be okay flying who experienced one traumatically turbulent flight that basically ruined them and suddenly made them fearful of flying going for...
Jump to postFaro is a beautiful part of Portugal. But European retirees from colder countries are overwhelming the area and infrastructure. Housing prices climbing fast. Hotels/lodging hard to find in summer which might be a reason UA is delaying the start. If they had a cancellation, no hotel rooms available ...
Jump to postI'm not trying to be rude, but I am not sure why you find this strange, other than the fact that you personally haven't done it yet. Do you live in a small or spoke city? Airline hubs are typically in large cities that have a lot of demand. If you live in a hub city and travel for work or personal, ...
Jump to postThis is actually pretty common in the U.S. Years and years ago, USA Today even did an article about how there were something like 20 cities in the Midwest that UA passengers between ORD and DEN could make connections in, and most of those airports would see a few connecting passengers each day who w...
Jump to postSo a group of House Republicans wants to rename IAD after Trump . This all just reads of "something that's going to die in committee". I just heard from some friends, and came to A.net to double check. Hopefully it's yesterday's news (check the date!) I have seen this news pop up on sever...
Jump to postWhy is everyone so dead-set on WN having a major operation at DFW? Why would they want to make DFW as large, if not larger than their DAL operation? Because Southwest fan boys envision a world where airports (DFW, BNA, etc.) simply take gates from other airlines and give them to WN. WN apparently h...
Jump to postYou have to take history into consideration to answer your question. When DL bought Pan Am's New York-based European operations, that acquisition instantly made them the largest transatlantic carrier. But it took them years and years and arguably billions of dollars to build up the domestic network ...
Jump to postNo one has mentioned any professions in the business world: hedge fund managers, investment bankers, management consultants, accountants...these folks can easily make $250k/year, then add some seniority and a manger or partner title and even a CPA can clear $1MM/year easily. Tenured college professo...
Jump to postWhy can’t United make LGB work? Maybe 3x SFO on express and 1x DEN mainline. In fairness, a lot of airlines can't make LGB work: AA dropped service entirely, B6 dropped their mini-hub there along with all service, even DL only offers service to SLC but not SEA. It's a smaller airport, hard to get t...
Jump to postSome nice frequency increases this summer for LAX/IAD, UA July flights up 17% YoY at IAD. IAD-SEA up to 4 a day (3x in S23) IAD-PVD up to 4 a day (2x in S23) IAD-ROC up to 4 a day (3x in S23) IAD-ROA up to 4 a day (3x in S23) IAD-TYS up to 4 a day (2x in S23) IAD-SYR up to 4 a day (2x in S23) IAD-A...
Jump to postSaw on WSMV/Channel 4 News last night BNA is courting flights to Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, France, Germany, and Italy. Sorry can't find the link on their crappy mobile app. None are surprising to me except Italy. Can't imagine there's a market there. This doesn't really mean anything. Most if ...
Jump to postUnited largest asm. In 2023 I am born and raised in New York City and I am a Creative Director for 30 years with Landor and Young & Rubicam. We took “truth in advertising” very seriously as did our clients. The lawyers required proof when certain claims were made in certain ways. You can say “t...
Jump to postIs there a magic number of daily departures an airline needs to meet at any one hub here in the US for that hub to be considered a mega hub? Summer of 2019 United operated 637 daily summertime departures out of ORD. If the pandemic hadn't happened they were planning to exceed 700 daily summertime d...
Jump to postI am wondering why United isn't announcing any new routes out of Madrid besides the current Newark and Washington DC (seasonal) . The US-Spain market is booming, and I am sure a seasonal Madrid- Houston and/or Madrid- San Francisco should work well in the Summer. Madrid has several challenges inclu...
Jump to postA lot of the current state of affairs has to do with the development of better premium airplane seating. In the 2000s, on 3-class internationally configured aircraft, Coach/Economy was similar to what it is today, Business Class featured recliner-style seats, and only First Class offered completely ...
Jump to postCan someone please explain me why Morocco is suddenly floated as possible destination for UA , am I missing something ? It's just a guess, along with CAI. The video definitely shows a Dreamliner, and if you believe the map is eastbound from the US East Coast, that means it's likely a destination in...
Jump to postHaving crew bases in non-hub cities helps tremendously with crew scheduling. Outstations with lots of early morning flights to hubs and late-night arrivals from hubs are good candidates to be considered. There's less concern about flight crews exceeding their duty days and/or not being legal early t...
Jump to postThey're spoofing the Indiana Jones map journeys. I wondered if you're supposed to actually be able to identify the areas on the 3 maps or if they're just made-up borderlines on fake maps. They're so zoomed in, it's hard to make out territories. The only clues are the direction in which the route li...
Jump to postPersonally, I think peoples' concerns here about the absence of IFE on AA is greatly exaggerated. Most passengers who care about being entertained inflight have their own devices to stream content on. AA provides free wifi and lots of power ports, so people can stream content on AA just as easily a...
Jump to postAn usually well-informed Twitter account from the UK is suggesting a possible new announcement from "United". LGW? https://twitter.com/SeanM1997/status/1760431151640965156 It's been well documented lately that the London market is not what it used to be pre-COVID, though a combination of ...
Jump to postIf AA ever started charging for carry-on bags, business travelers like me would revolt and take my business elsewhere. I rarely check bags because I refuse to spend 20-30 minutes of absolutely wasted time standing around in baggage claim waiting for my bag to arrive and crossing my fingers that it d...
Jump to postI don't know that I would use bloggers and the type as your baseline for comparison. These are not your average travelers. If people who travel for business are excluded, as you want them to be for some reason, I would argue that there are very few people who regularly pay out-of-pocket for F and J....
Jump to postLooks like AA made some cuts to LGA this summer and/or late spring, basically reducing a bunch of markets by 1-2 daily. Nothing major, although interesting given their increases in PHL. LGA-BHM/DAY suspended LGA-CHO down to 1x daily LGA-CVG down to 2x daily LGA-STL down to 2x daily LGA-YUL down to ...
Jump to postThis is what is crazy about IAD, United is the only airline that flies from there to Florida. IAD has always had miniscule service to Florida compared to other Northeast cities. In 1985 I was living with my family in Fairfax County, when we flew to Florida from IAD we flew NY Air to EWR and connect...
Jump to postYour premise presupposes that there is only one overall "winner." But business is not a sports tournament. As long as a company is profitable, there is often no (or little) need to be "the best" or be dubbed "the winner" by whatever metric. In the U.S. market, yes, airl...
Jump to postIt's the old joke...if you live in the South and go to Heaven, you have to go through Atlanta :bouncy: :lol: :lol: very true and well said If memory serves, the saying actually is that "if you're in the South, even if you're going to HELL you've got to go via Atlanta" This is completely o...
Jump to postIf we keep talking about Orlando, how about a hub at SFB instead? United doesn't even fly to secondary airports like DAL, MDW, or HOU, all of which are closer to larger business-based cities. SFB is much farther away from the theme parks than MCO is. A hypothetical hub or focus city in Orlando woul...
Jump to postMCO/TPA/FLL are already saturated. I'm not sure about FLL but I believe MCO and FLL have poor yields. FLL is overcrowded with no room to expand. These aren't sound options for a legacy. They will need to look elsewhere for something viable. Honestly, they need to look outside of Florida. Where? No ...
Jump to postWhat would be the argument against UA setting up a hub at OKC? Not that I think they will set up a hub anywhere. What OKC has going for it is a rapidly growing metro area, a state eager to give away tax dollars to corporations, an airport with parallel 9800 foot runways, relatively low number of da...
Jump to postI've been watching DCA on FlightAware for several days and anecdotally have noticed that there seem to be a lot more CRJ-700 and -900 flights than I am used to seeing on Eagle, and fewer EMB-170/175 flights. BNA, for example, is currently 3 CRJs and 2 EMBs when it used to be a mix of 1 AA mainline a...
Jump to postUsed to regularly operate non stop from HNL-EWR in the 767-400, left around 6p so 11p on the east coast then 8.5 to nine hours en route had us arriving at 7.30-8AM, that was a tough one Are you talking about operating this as crew or are you being sarcastic? Because from a passenger standpoint, thi...
Jump to postI did SFO-DFW as a redeye once. You're not even in the air for 3 hours, departing around midnight and landing at about 0530 in DFW. I was connecting on to BNA, so another short flight of about 90 minutes, and my night was over. I was young enough at the time to suck it up and go into the office even...
Jump to postI had asked the question of whether AA was likely to add PHL-HNL nonstop service over in the Philadelphia Aviation Thread at https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1480127&p=24059645#p24059645 with PHL being one of the top U.S. markets by number of visitors to Hawaii that doesn...
Jump to postThe problem is that, if you've flown more than once, you already know most of the information in the safety video. Once you've been told how an oxygen mask works, there's no need to keep watching again and again how to use it. Don't smoke in the bathroom. The hardest part of using seatbelts is figur...
Jump to postIt might have to do with reporting statistics to the U.S. government. Airlines here are required to report and publish on-time percentages for individual flights. Often when a flight has poor on-time performance, the airline will renumber it or adjust the departure time just enough (I don't know wha...
Jump to postJust seeing this thread. Not sure if you're still in the planning stages, but I lived in L.A. for 8 years, so here's my take: I always suggest to people that they set up base camp/stay in the area that has the most things in it they want to see and do and then take day trips or excursions from there...
Jump to postThere are a lot of variables that come into play when it comes to answering this question, including, but not limited to, how much you fly, where you are located, and what you're hoping to gain from the frequent flyer program, meaning elite status or free tickets. I'm going to take the contrarian po...
Jump to postand tracked down the reservation there, marked as checked-in. This time an option appeared to "add bags" - which I did, then flagged down the difficult agent for the 3rd or 4th time. I showed her my phone screen and said "IT SAYS HERE, 2 x bags checked - what else am I missing??"...
Jump to postSwiss serves 18 destinations year round from GVA. Of those, only 5 aren’t served by United on own metal. (And one is VIE — Austrian has its own ORD-VIE.) Those 4 destinations are already served from FRA, MUC, and ZRH. Any chance of UA metal serving VIE from EWR or IAD? On its face VIE seems like a ...
Jump to postDon't have pax counts handy but judging by the available spaces in the parking lot, CHO traffic is down significantly from its peak in 2018-2019. I suspect that CHO-area travelers have made a big contribution to the double-digit growth RIC has experienced this year. CHO is great for NYC and northea...
Jump to postI find it interesting how much flight paths can vary from day to day. For example, I flew FRA-IAD a few months ago. The day before, the flight path went northwest over London, crossing the Atlantic briefly, then entering North America in far northeastern Canada, then following the coastline all the ...
Jump to postI am curious why United does not have SFO/MAD? Not just because it’s a popular big city but it’s also Spain’s tech hub. I know that there are 2 764’s from EWR and IAD, but is Barcelona that big a draw for a WB the size of the 777-300? In short, yes. I don't have data to back up this assertion, but ...
Jump to postI commuted for a while from RNO, and occasionally had to do a 2-legger through LAS. WN has 11 (checking 12/18 flights) a day from RNO- LAS. I got a lot of comments like, “why don’t you just drive it? What is that 2, or 3 hours?” It’s a long drive, which surprises some people. The explanation I got ...
Jump to postAs always, it's all about the Benjamins - money! If UAL had been making profits doing it, it would have continued. Yeah, I get that, thanks. It just is unusual for an international route that had been served for 15 years, maybe longer, to suddenly get cut without an obvious external reason as to wh...
Jump to postWhat about IAD-MXP? I think in the early '90s United fle IAD-MXP-FCO with a 747. I flew this route but it was a 767 to MXP connecting to a 727 to FCO. I'm unsure how many UA 727's were leftovers from PA IAD-MXP was almost always a 767. I am pretty sure it was never a 747. It was my mother's favorit...
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