Re: OAK Renaming Proposal: San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport

Completely understand SFO’s position and support it. The airport is set to invest A LOT of money into new facilities and related infrastructural upgrades to support expected growth. Any “leeching” that jeopardizes that is not going to be received well by the airport or bond-holders that help pay for...

Re: 2024 Eclipse Airline Traffic

No one is going to add flights to CLE for an event like this...way better use of resources to cities that actually make a buck

Re: Proposal: San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport

Desperation is a stinky cologne...

Re: Airlines selling F upgrades cheap, undercutting Elite flyers

Brick wrote:

Elite customers are not "entitled" to an upgrade. They get an upgrade if the airline chooses to give them one.

You want to sit in first/business class? Then buy first/business class.

Re: Boeing announces Board and Management Changes

I hope Boeing looks internationally when they will replace all these people. But it might not happen because of the aerospace tech in all of Boeing's different divisions is sensitive, and there are federal regulations dealing with such things. I would bet on MHI's Hiroaki Yamamoto to lead BCA. Not ...

Re: Aleutian Airways

AS taking out an another carrier in the state of Alaska that many depend on is not a good look for them. It would be akin to how some saw Hawaiian after the demise of Aloha, although completely different and wrong for many reasons. AS would be wise to stay in THEIR lane and not the other way around

Re: Man boards Delta SLC flight without a boarding pass

If he took a picture of someone else's boarding pass on that flight (presumably boarded ahead of that person with their boarding pass) would there have not been an issue when that person whose boarding pass he used tried to board? Feel like there is something missing but maybe not...clearly it worke...

Re: UA870 diversion

The media is eventually going to media themselves out of interest, and it serves them right. At some point even the lowest common denominator of a reader says "stop picking on them"

Re: Korean may order around 20 a350s

A Korean A350 would be one of the better looking airplanes out there in their current livery. Love it

Re: Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but the timing seems seriously suspect. Just days into testimony against Boeing…RIP. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703 The timing is not 'suspect', it's simply bad for the legal proceedings. It's only 'suspect' if his death were truly unexpected. 62 year-old ...

Re: United flight loses main wheel departing SFO

Reminds me of the old B52 joke about an airplane returning to base after losing one of its 8 engines... "The dreaded 13 wheel landing!" I think what your looking for there is "the dreaded 7 engine approach". I know that was the saying...was matching it to the situation, alas...

Re: United flight loses main wheel departing SFO

Reminds me of the old B52 joke about an airplane returning to base after losing one of its 8 engines...

"The dreaded 13 wheel landing!"

Re: Performance of WN, B6, MX, F9, and NK in November 2023

Pretty bad numbers for WN. Can't imagine the outlook is good. Some of the Hawaiian interisland stuff all comes from, or dumps into the Mainland WN service which pays the freight so not too concerned at the low LFs. Terrible take. WN entered the inter-island market to put a dent into Hawaiian and fr...

Re: Airports With Near-Maxed Out Capacity

SAN is adding gates through its T1 expansion, but it'll be inevitably maxed out as the only major single-runway international airport in the world. That’s not even close to being correct. Two others have been mentioned here already in LGW and LIS… Perhaps you meant busiest single-runway internation...

Re: Hawaii Aviation - 2024

Glad that DL is adding more strong routes into Hawaii. AS product (both hard and soft) to Hawaii is mediocre at best. HA has a great product generally all around. Should be fun to watch over the next year

Re: UA 757 Leading Edge Slat Delaminates in Flight

Not serious but not really good. I watched a 320 taxi by after landing with a skeleton of a winglet. Stuff happens.. I have over12000hrs flying 757s and it’s a fantastic plane. I would not have added one knot extra on final however the precautionary landing was a good call. Delaminating of the Lead...

Re: Is it fair to operate a route with an a/c that may not make it?

Not my problem. It becomes your problem if it results in higher fares, the reason airlines like these can be as cheap as they are is that they don't have any unnecessary costs. Unnecessary costs like, you know, landing fees and refueling fees at a port they didn't plan on being at? So much for that!

Re: Overbooked flights?

So I did not check in and a day before they called me asking if I wanted to fly directly with Air France and get 300 euros compensation. I took the offer and the day of the flight I was upgraded to premium economy. Id say that was a good outcome? I'd say so. Cash plus an upgrade...and no hassle to ...

Re: Attention spotters. First Hawaiian 787 en route to HNL.

One thing to note is that the aircraft in the pic linked above on X is of N780HA. The delivered airplane was N781HA, the second of the HA 787's (obvs they look the same livery-wise)

My understanding is that 780 is at VCV getting some work done of some kind (no details of what that is)

Re: American Express Opens World’s Largest Centurion Lounge in ATL

nbc7 wrote:

Do Delta Amex platinum cardholders get access to these lounges or has that card basically been rendered useless ?

Re: Hawaii Aviation - 2024

DL added more Hawai'i flights ... BOS-HNL is new..added frequencies on SLC-HNL and SEA-HNL. ATL-OGG resumes BOS-HNL??? Say WHAT??? When? What source are you getting this from? https://www.travelandleisure.com/delta-hawaii-maui-honolulu-boston-atlanta-flight-routes-8583897 There's an article about i...

Re: US seizes ex-Mahan Air 747-400

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

Re: 4 Feb 2024 SFO diversions

On two separate threads you’ve mentioned “pax being furious”…why? Do you think the airlines themselves want their crew and passengers to end up in these situations?

Re: AS MAX9 Returning to service Friday

UA already got all of theirs active (bigger fleet than AS, mind you) so not sure why daily updates are a big deal anymore? Get on with it

Re: The Worst Red Eyes You’ve Done

Took the 145a scheduled HA departure from LAS many, many times. Arrives in HNL at 5 or 6a depending on the season. Absolutely brutal...no amount of Visine would take the "red out"!

Re: United Airlines 787-9 Diverts to Mumbai

"RMTAviation" sounds like a name where any information shared here is going to be part of some blog and quoted word for word. I mean, who else would care about one random diversion out of many?

So sick of it...by no means is this the only one on here

Re: American airlines announcement 2/1

Sad. Figured ORD-HNL already existed on them...if that is supposed to EXCITE people, that's a long stretch. Especially when you could do it on UA already

AA is the airline of a "day late and dollar short" with these announcements

AA Hard Landing in Maui w/ Injuries