Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

Because it is. That simple. More daily seats to Europe than demand to Europe. Last summer didn’t have Lufthansa. LH is absolutely the tipping point. And yes I know - can connect to India, etc., but all those markets are tiny except India and connections to India are usually a 6-8+ hour layover. At ...

Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

You have no idea of what you talk about. I posted my pedigree. You have not. Instead you've supported a post about how local ramp unions control airlines flight schedules which is at best: false, or worse: misinformation, I don't know your knowledge or intentions. And RDU ramp is IAM, not TWU, try ...

Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

And those other flights are staffed already. you clearly don’t understand how the operation works. This from the person who floated the false narrative that the RDU TWU controls where and what type of equipment AA flies. smh. I guess you had your hypocrisy flakes for breakfast! I've worked on the r...

Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

Copa wasn't even on my radar. I've visited PTY before. Beautiful country. I just can't imagine there's enough demand from RDU to Central and South America to make this viable, but I hope I'm wrong. Copa and Lufty both coming...interesting, considering the *A is the least represented (in terms of cap...

Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

The ramp has station protection. They can’t be laid off or forced to transfer if they were on the seniority list as of then the last CBA was ratified. They also can be knocked down from full time to part time cause of flight cuts. Ok, but that has nothing to do with which routes or what aircraft th...

Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

The ramp has station protection. They can’t be laid off or forced to transfer if they were on the seniority list as of then the last CBA was ratified. They also can be knocked down from full time to part time cause of flight cuts. Ok, but that has nothing to do with which routes or what aircraft th...

Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

BA have zero need to take over the LHR flight. AA have plenty of crew at RDU and staff already on duty. all of which are union employees. DL and AF swapping is because DL knew their 767 was noncompetitive, and their employees aren't union so they really have no say. it doesn't make a lot of sense f...

Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

that too. AA meanwhile are very used to W patterning the 772 that operates RDU Yeah, but it's extremely inefficient. I don't know how AA crews it, if they W the crew, or dead head them to RDU, or have a small base there. Either way, running any wide body Int'l flight between two non-hubs isn't effi...

Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

My guess is that BA will be taking over the LHR flight. I might be in the minority with this, but i have flow AA business class out of RDU and BA business class out of MIA and honestly, AA business class is so much better than BA. BA is literally like a cocoon where AA is like a pod. But that may j...

Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

It just makes no sense for it to be a European carrier. There frankly isn’t the demand to be able to upgrade to the a350 on AF, go to daily on Iceland, add 5x weekly Lufthansa flights, AND add another carrier Prima facie it does seem that way, but recall RDU already had LHR/CDG daily going back abo...

Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

MAH4546 wrote:

Raleigh has more seats to Europe than it has daily O&D traffic to Europe. That's virtually unheard of. Something needs to give.

Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

Folks it looks like DUB service is “a matter of time” and “in the works” This is according to Triangle Business Journal All I can say is wow lol The more the merrier I suppose haha we are overdoing it admittedly but we are grateful. I read somewhere this morning (and I can’t find the link) that it ...

Re: Nashville (BNA) and UPS Air.

Doesn’t make sense to open up a gateway for a 757 from PHL that would be half empty at best. Better off flowing that all through SDF and putting it on a truck. Every gateway in the country has a connection to SDF, not everyone has a connection to the regionals. UPS literally only flies it when they...

Re: Nashville (BNA) and UPS Air.

Interesting, I did not realize UPS didn't serve BNA via air at all. I would have figured they'd at least have flights from some of the other UPS air hubs* like PHL. I imagine that makes some of the early AM deliveries (I think UPS SLA is <8:30am) challenging. *I don't know what exactly UPS calls &qu...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

The local media (WRAL) is saying they hit a "electrical tower". Jajajaja. I guess that's a euphemism for light pole.

I hate it when they put "electrical towers" in the middle of the TWY.

Re: Austin Aviation - 2023

So according to data posted in this thread...AUSRDU is both F9 (2019) and WN's best load factor...therefore, I think DL needs to add at least 1-2 rounds daily. Makes perfect sense :) (And yes, I know LF != yield, but I would still selfishly like to see DL put some more capacity there, since one of m...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

Did not see this one coming, at all. It'll be interesting to see the timing on this round. It's been a wild 2023.

This one will help me visit our CDMX office, so I'm happy about it.

Re: How Do Manifacturers Predict Sales Figures?

Quite famously Airbus predicted a market for 1200-1700 VLAs. Of course they were very wrong with this prediction but how did they come up with that figure? Do manufacturers attribute each aircraft to a specific customer? Did Airbus go "50 A380s for AA" and "20 A380s for QF" then...

Re: Lufthansa Adds MSP/RDU-FRA and SEA-MUC; Swiss Adds IAD-ZRH/YYZ

How does RDU have so many European flights for a smaller metro area when Charlotte is only 150 miles away? Would you also suggest people in PHL drive to NYC or DC to catch flights? Those pairs are significantly closer. I realize some people on A.net might think people like to drive three hours to a...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

Looks like the flight will be at RDU from ~14:00-16:00 per local news. Can RDU fit three widebodies in the FIS-able gates simultaneously? I picked a random day in July 2024 and it looks like AF is scheduled to arrive at 16:25 and AA is there 13:15-18:15. Going to be tight if AF is early, or LH runs ...

Re: Lufthansa Adds MSP/RDU-FRA and SEA-MUC; Swiss Adds IAD-ZRH/YYZ

Very exciting for us RDUers. RDU-FRA is long overdue. I'm surprised Condor never started it.. I knew it would come one day, but I am surprised to see it so soon after the pandemic. Really exciting news. I believe this will put RDU over 1000 seats a day (average) TATL...if not, it gets them really cl...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

Looks like there's an announcement happening tomorrow. "A new airline with a new international route from RDU." I believe we will see LH announcing FRA tomorrow. Just confirmed LH announcing FRA-RDU tomorrow I don’t have it confirmed, but RDU has sent out a notice of a presser tomorrow to...

Re: Updated: UA Nationwide Ground Stop lifted

In the past, in general, a number of computer/technology issues occurred as a result of an "upgrade" being run... But that is an awkward thing to have to admit. So I don't expect that admission, either way. Could be anything, but I doubt they'd run an upgrade during the busier daytime (as...

Re: American Airlines suing “hidden city” ticketing site Skiplagged

I just found an article online about AA suing Skiplagged… what’s especially interesting about the suit is that UA had a similar suit a few years ago against Skiplagged. I’ve used them as a booking search engine of sorts in the past because they show if booking with a different airline on the way ba...

Re: United Passengers Allegedly Stuck on Hot Plane for 7 Hours

DTWLAX wrote:

Open doors when the aircraft is on the tarmac??!! Not happening

Re: United Passengers Stuck on Hot Plane for 7 Hours

SL1200MK2 wrote:

I’m wondering when it will be that someone opens the emergency exit. My guess is things might start moving at that point.

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

You're right... AS doesn't seem to be interested in RDU. They ended SFO-RDU only a year after buying VX. They did the same at BWI, BNA, IND, and MSY. I have to think that AS has future plans to go east, and I agree with you that they could definitely connect-the-dots somewhat. But their SFO hub see...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

RDU had more than 22% growth YoY in June in passenger numbers. A lot of Airlines are crushing it, but Alaska, Jetblue are down from a year ago. Seems to be some missed opportunities for those airlines as others are capitalizing. http://www.rdu.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/June-2023-Activity-Repor...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

I have a hard time figuring out why Delta would do this. Is the 767 retirement schedule a factor? Seems tough to lose a profitable route into a Hub. Is there a swap that Air France is giving DL a hub flight in from JFK , BOS, or ATL? It will be good to see more international planes in RDU. Especial...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

RDU had more than 22% growth YoY in June in passenger numbers. A lot of Airlines are crushing it, but Alaska, Jetblue are down from a year ago. Seems to be some missed opportunities for those airlines as others are capitalizing. http://www.rdu.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/June-2023-Activity-Repor...

Re: Air France CDG to RDU

This thread is all over the place... haha Regarding the topic, I suppose this is a good thing for RDU (depending on what the final frequency is, and it's not exactly clear to me what that is yet). However as an RDU based DL FF, I would rather have had DL metal on the route, even if the aircraft is a...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

The AF news was exciting until I realized it will actually be a (probably temporary) reduction in service.

Will be awesome to have a 787 option to EUR.

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

If it was a profitable route an airline would be flying it. One of them has had decades to do it and hasn’t. Just because something is profitable doesn’t mean a business will do it. They may instead choose to do something that is even MORE profitable. Resources are not infinite. You have to choose ...

Re: Ramp Employee Killed in SAT

Always sorry to hear news like this. Terrible for the family, friends and co-workers. Especially hard to process, because it was so avoidable. After the MGM fatality the airline was fined 10k after being found liable for the accident. Training about the ingestion zone was lacking and needs to be emp...

Re: Delta Air Lines Network - 2023

How does RDU support three TATL carriers plus all the overlapping domestic flying they get (3-4 carriers on some routes)? I know LHR was tied to the pharmaceutical industry for a time. Tech Industry+People With Money=TATL? High (relative) disposable incomes, lots of tech, life science and R&D. ...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

CaptainLeo wrote:

Looks like DL is bringing back saturday only service to CUN on December 16th. Someone else also said CVG is coming back 1x daily on the CRJ-900, but I haven't seen anything official on that route yet. Guess we'll know tomorrow when the schedule loads.

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion - 2023

VX/AS also couldn't make SFO-RDU work, I know it was tried both as a day flight and redeye eastbound. It worked for VX, just not for AS after the acquisition. Doesn't make much sense in the AS network. Also when UA started flying it 2x as they were pre-covid, it likely made it too thin for another ...

Re: FAA to prohibit many flight operations due to risk of ‘5G’ wireless interference

Because it seemed a bit large, I went digging where the interference testing with a 400MHz buffer came from. I didn't find it, it appears to be a guess off of a chart. The first mention of it is this: It came from Arstechnica, who's been closely following this, and the FAA. https://arstechnica.com/...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

I was looking at the old route map from when AA ran their RDU hub. Realistically, with how much Raleigh & the surrounding region has grown since the demise of the AA hub, does anyone feel like at this moment, RDU would be able to support such a same-sized hub today? https://www.google.com/url?s...

Re: FAA to prohibit many flight operations due to risk of ‘5G’ wireless interference

Well, not exactly. 5G in the problematic spectrum is a relatively new thing. That said, this technology has worked safely and without interference for decades. The FCC and the telecoms are really the ones at fault here. Read the thread (or google it). The altimeters were clearly faulty. They were (...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

Boof02671 wrote:

And don’t forget CLT-LHR is now three daily.

Re: Mom files complaint, claims UA refused to accommodate son's peanut allergy

Cause it was recent, UA1 SFO-SIN, where they were five hours in to divert to HNL and ultimately timed out. You aren't getting surface contamination that long in. https://onemileatatime.com/news/united-787-diverts-hawaii-nut-allergy/ Really, a blog? From that blog: A passenger with a nut allergy was...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

I’ve been talking to a Delta employee recently and she said that Delta has been wanting to do some stuff at RDU, but the airport has been a bit reserved about it- almost seeming like RDU doesn’t like Delta. She also said how they’ve had their lips tight about new routes & up-gauges and in years...

Re: Mom files complaint, claims UA refused to accommodate son's peanut allergy

There has never been a confirmed report of anyone suffering an allergic reaction to peanuts caused by someone eating peanuts in another row. The risk is if there is substantial surface contamination. Completely Incorrect, and refuted several times in this thread such as the BA flight. And yet you c...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

I love RDU as an airport, but what has been frustrating for the 9 years that I've lived here is the business pricing and award availability on the TATLs out of RDU. I have never, and I do mean never, seen J award availability open up on either the RDU-LHR or RDU-CDG. It doesn't matter if you search...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

Well, if you notice, there’s not much room for T1 to expand either. At max you can fit 21 gates there, but there’s not even enough room to add more counter space, security, and baggage claims in an efficient manner. Especially when you consider they are relocating the road, you would actually be ge...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

There's plenty of room on the Northeast end to expand the main decks. According to their master plan that's where they are putting the consolidated rental car garage which from the point of view of a visiting business traveler like me is an excellent idea. The worst thing about RDU IMO is not havin...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

Well, if you notice, there’s not much room for T1 to expand either. At max you can fit 21 gates there, but there’s not even enough room to add more counter space, security, and baggage claims in an efficient manner. Especially when you consider they are relocating the road, you would actually be ge...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

In the AIP’s reached this morning, UA is going to insource the ramp if the AIP is passed by the members. and it would be shocking if it wasn't. great shout by UA to not only insource ramp, but also protect the customer service side. I believe UA will be the only airline to be fully 100% "mainl...

Re: Raleigh / Durham Aviation - 2023

Today (March 7) the only parking lots at RDU with space are the remote lots. The terminal building is full - that's 10,000 spaces. With the projected traffic this summer, it should get interesting. I would hope people start using Uber/Lyft more. I parked in Feb at the terminal for 5 day vacation. P...