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

My only issue is that they LEAD with "San Francisco Bay" in the name. Oakland only comes in later. They could have gone with "Oakland-East San Francisco Bay Intl" or "Oakland-East Bay Intl". It doesn't confuse people from the very start in letting them know that it's st...

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Re: Fate of Condor 757-300s?

The only future I see for those aircraft after being withdrawn from use at Condor is them being parted out for spares.

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Re: New Royal Jordanian Livery

I love it. The current livery is almost unchanged since 1986, with the exception of the engines, which is incredible because it looks so timeless and modern even today. It's a tough act to follow but this livery does a great job of modernizing the core elements. It reminds me of the recently refres...

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Re: What happened to the Boeings 737's in the river?

On a slightly related topic, I know it's been reported in the past that during these long train rides from Kansas to Washington, several of the frames sometimes arrive with bullet holes in the sides from people taking potshots at them as they go through some extremely rural areas. Are these frames w...

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Re: 2023 NFL Charters

Super Bowl is different of course, I'm talking a regular season game and for them, it almost never happens. Some teams obviously allow it but most do not and with good reason. This can be a touchy situation and why a coach would start an internal war on whose player's family or spouse would be allo...

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Re: Air India gets ready to reveal new livery and branding in August

Looks like Air Asia and Lauda had a baby. Not impressed. I would have liked to see a bit more taken from the Vistara livery than that splash of purple on the tail.

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Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2023

https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/pl ... n-atlanta/

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Re: Atlanta Aviation - 2023

https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/pl ... n-atlanta/

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Re: Airport Mistakes

Denver and no walkways next to the train like atl THIS! toaster style concourses and no backup for their two largest tenants (WN and UA) if and when the trains fail? It failed once while my parents were traveling through there and it took them over 2 hours to get from security in the main terminal ...

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Re: UA Calls Out WN for Misleading DEN Ad

United currently (and since last year) carries the most local and total passengers, so they poked fun at Southwest for covering up their false claim in the fine print tucked away at the bottom of the ad. It's not a false claim. WN defined the period. WN cited the metric and a source - a good discip...

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Re: Denver Aviation - 2023

Agreed. He is just filling his bucket list on the taxpayers dime. Airlines do not listen to politicians about potential service. They look at data, market potential, and talk to airport authorities about facilities and incentives. All politicians do is add in an unneeded and very expensive dog and ...

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Re: Why is El Al flying over Russia on NRT-TLV?

This has much more to do with safety and far less to do with “siding with NATO”. We saw what Belarus did, and we can expect Russia to do the same, particularly to Russian nationals who are dissidents or are dodging the draft. At this point dissidents and Russian men escaping the mobilization are ju...

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Re: QR Possibly taking MAX 8s?

https://www.boeing.com/commercial/customers/qatar-airways/qatar-airways-order.page Not sure how old this story is but apparently there is a Qatar LOI for up to 60 MAX 8s. Didn't realize there was a firm order for them like the MAX 10s. That’s very old. QR ended up ordering Max 8s after that LOI, bu...

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Re: QR Possibly taking MAX 8s?

https://www.boeing.com/commercial/custo ... order.page

Not sure how old this story is but apparently there is a Qatar LOI for up to 60 MAX 8s. Didn't realize there was a firm order for them like the MAX 10s.

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Re: Last time the largest aircraft in production was a twin?

Wasn't one of the later produced Wright flyers a twin? You would probably have to go to the early years of propeller aviation. From 1969 up until 2005 the largest passenger plane produced was the 747 (quad). 2005-2021 it was the A380 (quad again). Pre depression era is what we would have to look at ...

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Re: Frontier Airlines Eliminates Telephone Calls??

I understand that more and more is going online but this is going to backfire. Sure 99.9% of airline ticket sales are online now but those hotlines are useful when passenger circumstances are unique enough that trying to find an answer on the website is pointless. Unless they have suddenly created t...

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Re: Horizon Air RetroJet Unveiled

N1120A wrote:
I wonder if someone is going to fly on one to prevent a computer game causing nuclear war?

Nice "War Games" reference. Funny enough that's exactly the same scene I think of whenever I see the old school Horizon Air livery.

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Re: The WSJ names SFO best US large airport

Ranking LGA last in the mid-size category? Makes no sense. It's almost as if the last time they went through LGA was before any rebuilding happened.

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Re: Two Delta Air Lines Flight Attendants Facing Felony Charges For Drug Trafficking

The two claimed they did drugs in Brazil but had no clue how the drugs ended up in their baggage. I'm not a native English speaker, so I'm not sure, if I understand the phrase "they did drugs in Brazil" correctly. Does that mean, that they agree to have consumed these drugs during their s...

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USAF Refueling - Boom Operators

This question is specific to the USAF and their tanker refueling fleet. Currently the USAF refueling fleet operates 3 different types (KC135, KC10, KC46). I would assume that the flight crews are specific to their aircraft and cross training between types is rare if not unheard of. As far as the spe...

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Re: Killeen in talks with various airlines

At one point GRK had flights to DFW on AA, IAH on UA, and ATL on DL. United and Delta pulled out leaving nothing but AA. Now they think they're primed for a big expansion? UA service back to IAH would be nice start as UA discontinued a lot of their regional Texas flights from IAH during the pandemic...

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Re: Airbus reshapes A350 cabin to better accommodate 10 abreast

*BF and TX have entered the chat

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Re: A320 in Alitalia colour scheme yesterday.

They'll most likely be repainted as maintenance comes due. For a company that replaced the basket case that was Alitalia, paint costs are probably pretty low on their list of priorities.

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Re: WizzAir rescued 1 of its 4 Airbus planes stranded in Ukraine in a daring stealth mission at low altitude

They should coordinate the flight with Ukraine military / ATC though to avoid being confused with a Russian cruise missile. The risk from Russian anti-air is pretty low, so far away from the frontline, but I'm fairly sure that Ukraine has air defence active around Lviv. I'm certain it was heavily c...

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Re: EWR To No Longer Be Considered NYC Airport

To 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 ...

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Re: EWR To No Longer Be Considered NYC Airport

Could 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.

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Re: Star Alliance to become Inter-modal Alliance

ucdtim17 wrote:
Unlocking4729 wrote:
airbazar wrote:
Which U.S. airports have an Amtrak station? That should answer your question

EWR, MKE, OAK, BUR and BWI?

OAK doesn't have Amtrak on site, but it's a 5 minute ride away on the BART connector

Not to mention the BWI station that isn't even connected to the airport except via bus.

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Re: Emirates relaunching 5th freedom Germany - USA? (HAM-JFK)

DXB-DUS-JFK would be a possibility too of course but I think Hamburg is more promising, especially because there is less competition and no other huge Airports in the catchment. Wouldn't Budapest be in the catchment area to DUS? (30 min train ride?) The Hungarian government, I believe, even advocat...

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Re: Tim Clark: A350-1000 too small to be largest Airbus offering

Maybe for EK Mr. Clark but not for 99.9% of the airlines out there who have either retired the A380, getting ready to retire them in the near future, or never ordered them to begin with. Not to mention all the airports that were off limits to the A380 because of it's size.

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Re: JetBlue's London Heathrow Slots Now Permanent (freebie value?)

edealinfo wrote:
Separately, how long, on average, do airlines circle around LHR wasting fuel, waiting to land, because it's a slot congested airport?

Probably not as much as airlines who arrive too early in the morning and have to circle before being allowed to land once the airport opens.

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Re: Ariana Afghan issues tender for purchase of 3 A330s

SR380 wrote:
Where do they still fly internationally?

While they're not currently flying internationally, if I were a betting man I'd say their destinations would include DOH, DXB, IST, and probably destinations in Russia and/or China.

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Re: Can India-Canada/US flights fly over western China?

Much of China's airspace is heavily controlled but that's not the reason as while I'm typing this there are no fewer than 3 EK flights flying east over western China from DXB to KIX, ICN and NRT. Flying over western China from India would involve flying directly over the tallest mountains in the wor...

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Re: DL proactively trimming schedules July 1 - August 7

Was flying to RIC from DFW via LGA this past Saturday. Got to LGA just fine but 3.5 hours into our 4 hour layover and our flight to RIC was suddenly canceled. The ONLY option to get into RIC that weekend until Monday was from JFK to ORF and renting a car to get home. Both AA and DL were canceling fl...

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Re: KQ7515 GVA TO NBO, 8 hours in a 737NG!

MileHFL400 wrote:
Presumably this has PAX on board as their 7xxx flight numbers are usually chartered flights as i recall.

Could it be an all cargo charter?

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Re: Passengers on IST to TLV flight sent photos of previous crashes

Not the smartest considering you have to be pretty close to airdrop to other iphone users. This means it was another passenger. Did they actually think they could get away with it? Definitely made the Police's job easier by limiting the suspect pool lol

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Re: Delta’s long term SLC plans

I’d like to see a SLC-RIC route! That would be fantastic! Hope it happens. As a RIC regular I would love to see that route added on DL. All the new service RIC has been getting lately is awesome. Would have loved to see them continue the WN route to DEN but I guess that was more because of WN's pil...

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Re: Boeing 777X at American and United

We saw it with the 77W at both UA and AA. Just because they don't jump and order the aircraft before it even enters services doesn't mean they're not open to the possibility of operating them eventually. Maybe they just want to wait and see how it does in actual commercial service before making a pu...

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Re: BA will offer new cabin crews £1000 bonus

https://www.fox6now.com/news/us-navy-25 ... -enlistees

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Re: Is there any site to track cargo movement reg's

You can track cargo aircraft on FR24. you can sort by airport, cargo airline or aircraft type under filters. Granted they dont have a separate code for cargo aircraft (i.e. "MD11" would cover cargo and any passenger planes still flying)

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Re: Condor launch new livery

I love it! Definitely gives off Braniff vibes. It’s fun and unique. I’ll be sure to get the Herpa models whenever they get released.

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Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Certainly disappointed that Southwest is ending DEN-RIC after only a year. That flight was great once they finally added it as UA had that route all to themselves since 2016 even going twice daily at times. Hopefully this is just temporary until more planes come online and they have adequate pilot ...

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Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Certainly disappointed that Southwest is ending DEN-RIC after only a year. That flight was great once they finally added it as UA had that route all to themselves since 2016 even going twice daily at times. Hopefully this is just temporary until more planes come online and they have adequate pilot n...

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Re: Arajet, a new Dominican airline launching with 5 737MAX8

That isn't really a thing. Every US airline has the right to start LAX-SJU or any other domestic route. There are still some routed that are backed up by rights due to the Airmail acts of the 1930's left to the Legacy Carriers (AA, UA, TW, DL). Although most domestic routes are flyable without rest...

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Re: Frontier and Spirit to Merge!

chrisnh wrote:
If Frontier is the survivor, that’s a whole lot of new animals they’ll need to invent to paint on the tails.

maybe they'll unretire some that were on the A318s and A319s. And there's nothing to say they can't have different variations of the same animals on different tails.

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Re: Will BA bring back the A380 to JNB-LHR?

When people are talking about a BA 777 in this instance are they referring to a 77E or 77W?

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Re: BA 772 L2 door destroyed at jetway at CPT

Can they get a door from a plane in a boneyard. I’ve noticed aircraft with sections of fuselage cut out do they also harvest sections to repair damage A harvested door from a retired aircraft is one solution and most likely the most cost effective. A new door and hinges can be acquired from Boeing ...

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Re: New Sukhoi Superjet

marosbts wrote:
Now with Russian built engines you are set for even more trouble.

That just means it's designed to be a sanctions buster.

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Re: Aviastar TU204 freighter catches fire in Hangzhou

Those FlexTape commercials sure do come to mind. If it can tape together a boat then why not a TU204?

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Re: AS, UA, DL, LH and others struggle to crew flights due to Omnicron

My DL flight from RIC to MSP on my way to DEN was canceled on the 24th with only a days notice and they rerouted me through DTW instead. I figured it was some weather coming in and they wanted to divert flights to other hubs but I guess once it again it was COVID.

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Re: 20 years without Trans World Airlines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOCq_VRKBsE
I saw this interesting video posted to YouTube awhile back (probably has been posted here too at some point) of the last day of operations at TWA in 2001. SFO and STL are featured.

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