Miami has lots of space. All common use, And they have some very old gate areas that are lightly used. Until F reopens, they’re maxed out. E is full with AA, JetBlue, and some international carriers. G is full with Southwest on the west side and Frontier on the east side. H is full with Delta on th...
Jump to postMIA has really hit the jackpot this year. Congrats to them. That said, some of their facilities are quite dated (especially F and G). We'll see what happens on that front. Apparently MIA is taking advantage of F’s closure to remodel the interior. G received a modest facelift when it was closed too....
Jump to postLATAM Airlines Colombia plans to resume Bogota-Miami service on June 2, 2021. LOT Polish is returning tomorrow too. Vivaaerobus is coming to miami. I think they used to fly there though https://twitter.com/WandrMe/status/1397269580461056000?s=20 Viva Aerobus started flying to MIA in summer 2020 and...
Jump to postA CDL is not required to be an aircraft fueler or drive a fuel truck on an airport. It is an off-highway use where a CDL does not apply. At many stations (mine included), a CDL is required to operate a tanker truck, though not the other fueling equipment. Which station is that? I have worked at sev...
Jump to postThe angst over summer gasoline prices is related to number of delivery drivers, not quantity available from refineries. How many of the nation's top 20 airports get their fuel by truck? While I doubt it’ll affect jet fuel prices much, the tanker driver shortage may have operational effects on airli...
Jump to postThe angst over summer gasoline prices is related to number of delivery drivers, not quantity available from refineries. How many of the nation's top 20 airports get their fuel by truck? While I doubt it’ll affect jet fuel prices much, the tanker driver shortage may have operational effects on airli...
Jump to postMiami International Airport Going Full Speed With $5B Capital Improvement Program In 2021: https://www.thenextmiami.com/miami-international-airport-going-full-speed-with-5b-improvement-program/ Curious as to what a theoretical gate swap would look like for the Concourse F-J carriers once Concourse ...
Jump to postI think that after the many episodes of bad publicity (probably the most infamous being the dragging of David Dao at ORD in 04/2017) UA is trying to buy back customer trust through these actions. Most definitely a good try to reposition itself as a premium brand. Does the average traveler really re...
Jump to postI see a bunch of flights to Miami canceled this morning. For example, the first few Delta flights on ATL-MIA canceled. Was there more bad weather this morning? The weather was fine so I assume that the cancellations were because of all the aircraft piled up at MIA. The E satellite looked like JFK w...
Jump to postNo arrivals between 5:42pm and 7:00pm at MIA demonstrates how bad the storms are. Why did you jump to the 737MAX as the cause? No other airline cancelled their entire operation and if they’re short on lift it makes sense to not bother wasting airplanes on a station that’s going to be stormed out. T...
Jump to postSouthwest cancelled everything departing MIA after 13:00 today for a total of 13 cancellations. There’s a storm system forecast to move in around 18:00 that I’m assuming factored into the decision, but no other airline at MIA has cancelled any flights at all yet. Are they short aircraft because of t...
Jump to postSo much for these airplanes being thoroughly inspected for any other issues before being returned to service.
Jump to postThere is a Delta 757 parked at CLT off terminal almost every day it seems, yet AFAIK Delta doesn't offer regulaly scheduled 757 service into CLT. Does anyone know why? As Timf states they are NBA charters including for the Hornets. I'm not sure but pre-pandemic only two or three teams didn't use De...
Jump to postThis isn’t a major, sustainable expansion. This is UA trying to mimic G4 but using idle RJ capacity. Enjoy summer 2021 dart board routes while they last. The airlines just got bailed out again :mad: So they have do something with the money. I would rather the airlines use the money to start new rou...
Jump to postNice find - the 707 exploding is at about 2:08. Bizarrely it looks like the took the organ pipe suppressors off the engines put KC-135A exhausts on the engines. Trying to figure out why they would put money into engine mods for a non-flying aircraft that was blown up in production! Maybe just alumi...
Jump to postUse to see Continental brings their 10's into Melbourne through out the 80's, What part of LAX was that final scene shot at, cause I remember seeing a Korean Air (don't know if it was a 300 or 400 variant) 747 taking of in the back ground. I think you are describing when the bus first entered LAX p...
Jump to postflymco753 wrote:I wonder what the stance is on MIA though. If they want to run a fluid operation with LATAM, they'll need to insource ramp workers.
This is where company directors need to be made personally liable. Decisions like that are almost never the case of someone on the front line acting alone. That happens because the entire company culture is rotten and that behavior is accepted by management so becomes accepted by the line worker. D...
Jump to postEveryone from Trego Duran involved in making the decision to release the airplane like that should be behind bars. We haven’t had a fatal US mainline crash in nearly 20 years and that record was almost marred because a vendor decided to cheap out. If it’s a company culture thing, they shouldn’t be a...
Jump to postCounting wikipedia on JFK, 27 cargo and 74 passenger. Pretty sure not all operating right now, but puts them at 101. LAX 29 cargo and 66 passenger - total 95 Maybe MIA might be close, doubt any other US airports are even close.. MIA was in the upper 90s and probably would’ve broken 100 with the rec...
Jump to postJetBlue just sent an email to True Blue members with their new carry-on policy, eliminating the carry-on bag for Blue Basic fares and guaranteeing overhead space for all other passengers. Getting a handle on carry-ons. Starting 7/20/21, our new carry-on bag policy will guarantee overhead bin space t...
Jump to postIndeed. Well, AA's 767-300ER's have been gone since April 2020 when the remaining ones were retired. American did little to invest in the planes, except for a "done on the cheap" overhaul of the business class cabin, starting in the mid-2000s with those awful, angled seats and 777-style c...
Jump to postNice!! Looks like MIA spotting will get interesting again!! Absolutely. My guess it that they’re going to run this on MIA-HAV as soon as they can get the aircraft ready to roll. They’re running 3-4 737s on it right now that are only operating that route, so it might make sense to consolidate a bit ...
Jump to postSlightly off-topic, but I checked LATAM and GOL sites for routes and did not see any MIA-SSA/REC/MAO/FOR Non-Stops. Is there a potential market here for Eastern? Can these routes be done with the A321NEO or MAX; the 767 and 777 appear to be too much capacity for them? Thanks! I thought GOL was goin...
Jump to postAA 787 operating to Port-Au-Prince from Miami today. Very interesting.. That struck me as odd too since I’ve been used to the usual 737s and A319s recently. It’s hard to believe that PAP (and a bunch of other Caribbean and Latin American destinations) regularly had multiple daily A300s a little ove...
Jump to postRumor has it B6 will operate out of E. I wonder if they will use the high E gates. Those don't seem to be used much during the day. Lately the High E gates have been full of chronically delayed Swift Air Cuba charters. It makes sense to colocate B6 with AA given their partnership. Maybe they’ll get...
Jump to postWhy stop at 747s? There's A380s hitting the second hand market in droves now. They can sell even cheaper fares and still make more than the 747 and even have the moniker of only A380 operator in the Americas! You are giving them ideas! Oh man. Imagine the A380 with 900 seats from LAS to LAX? Talk a...
Jump to postThere are plans to extend the Brightline train from West Palm Beach to MCO along with plans to further extend the Brightline train to Tampa from MCO. The Brightline train would allow Hawaiians to go to South Florida from MCO once the Brightline train is extended to MCO airport and to the Tampa Bay ...
Jump to postI'm very jealous of the guy who has the position of Senior Vice President of People and Culture. I'm tired of doing technical things to make bank. How do you get what I assume to be a 6 figure income with a rather subjective sounding job title at a non-flying airline? I guess you have to be a 'lumi...
Jump to postIf WFS was using the Swissport equipment without permission, I wonder if maybe they took dollies that had been removed from service for a reason. Dude was not watching his mirrors. At all. Could have pulled in front of the runaways. Better to sacrifice the ground equipment. As quick as they came loo...
Jump to postenilria wrote: *DL MIA-RDU JAN 1.2>0[0.3] FEB 2>0[0.1] *DL MIA-TPA JAN 3>0[0] FEB 5>0[0] MAR 4>0[0] APR 4>0[0] MAY 5>0[0] *DL MCO-MIA JAN 2>0[0] FEB 5>0[0] MAR 3>0[0] APR 4>0[0] MAY 5>0[0] Humbling in the time of COVID-19. And announced today (11/17/20), F9 is starting daily MIA-MCO. That stuff bar...
Jump to postWould there be a market for First class cabin on these 50-seater routes though? Maybe economy+, But I doubt these small city folks would have the dough to cough up that much money for short domestic flights. It’s doubtful that the O&D traffic alone could fill the premium cabins, but the connect...
Jump to postSouthwest launched MIA yesterday. They’re using gates H11 and H15. To accommodate Southwest and Delta, H11 was converted to a narrowbody gate and H9 was converted to a widebody gate capable of handling a 767.
Swift Air also resumed HAV charters yesterday.
One of the 2 other new 788's N871AY has entered revenue service as well. It's inaugural flight was DFW-MIA this morning https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N871AY I fueled that airplane at MIA and marveled at how new it seemed, but I had no idea I was fueling it on its second day of revenue service.
Jump to postI think AA if there is a widebody shortage come 2022 will take a hard look at JFK and ORD. I would add MIA/Europe routes to that list for any routes that cannot be supported by O&D. MIA is a horrible domestic connecting airport due to its geography for passengers traveling to/from Europe. AA wi...
Jump to postWhat say you guys? 1. They definitely will get it, it’s the lowest CASM machine around and WN are sick of being screwed and want to teach Boeing a lesson because of the MAX. 2. They have to demonstrate to the shareholders that they are showing due diligence and have approached airbus as a way to ex...
Jump to postYes, UPS is definitely bigger in terms of flying their own planes to Latin America. Their MIA hub is very Latin-American based. Latin America is basically their sole purpose for having a hub at MIA. IIRC the MIA gateway is organized under UPS Americas instead of whatever the regular American busine...
Jump to postAlthough A-220 models are built in Alabama, they will not be considered US planes by a big part the flying public. Southwest and Alaska built up their marketing image for people with an ingrained "if it ain't Boeing, I ain't going" attitude. Alaska tried it out with a few Airbuses, but mi...
Jump to postAeroflot resumes Miami-Moscow November 4th. Another one resuming with very little forward notice (Miami and almost all of Aeroflot long haul network was removed from GDS for W20/21 a few weeks ago) but great to see all the same. Hopefully we see more airlines do the same. Aeroflot came back this we...
Jump to postAA probably has the ability to delay those deliveries indefinitely. By all accounts, AA loves their A321s and most of them are quite young, except for a small tranche from the early aughts. They aren't going anywhere and AA has 240 of them, which isn't a small or insignificant subfleet. The bulk of...
Jump to postWhy MIA-EZE? It's a rich market for sure (in non-COVID times) but AA usually has up to 3 daily, with AR 1 to 2 a day. Are they trying to scoop up what's left? I think they're thinking AR might not be coming back or go less than daily and AA may be down to 1 daily for some time in an effort to bolst...
Jump to postThink about AA trying to get through and win on the other side of the pandemic with a bunch of MD80s. I really don't understand the hate for the MD-80s. Yeah, the last five rows of economy suck, but the five-across seating means fewer middle seats and the front of the plane is very quiet. If you ma...
Jump to postAA did not and by 2008 a/c going out of service was becoming a big issue. I remember those days. It was a crap shoot particularly with the A300s and 762. It wasn't unusual to have an a/c go out of service, be moved to another a/c and then have that one go out of service. That sounds like the AA of ...
Jump to postBrickell305 wrote:WN has loaded flights to MIA. It seems like BWI, HOU, MDW, and TPA will be the nonstops served.
AA began regularly scheduled 787 service to MIA today with a once daily PHL-MIA turn.
Jump to postThanks for your work. I looked at maybe thirty routes and I have to say I don't understand the routine of carriers leaving November at 100% of last year's levels until the first week of October. Surely they understood a month ago (if not longer) that even 70% of capacity (even if blocking middle se...
Jump to postToday, the overall popularity of redeyes is largely a derivative of utilization and repositioning. E.g. NK can "create" a CLE-LAX trip out of an airplane that would otherwise sit idle for 10 hours, or AA can move a plane that would otherwise just sit at LAS to DFW, and create a prime reve...
Jump to postOn multiple occasions in the past few years, I have sat next to other customers on Delta flights and heard comments like, “Oh this plane is brand new!” when it was actually an old NW A320 built in the 1990s I assume. Delta has done a fantastic job on this front. Agreed. The first time I flew on one...
Jump to postSo is anyone going to ask the obvious questions, why were they not tasered and or shot? We have seen tasers used on folks who were much less disruptive to the police. When the boy friend refused to let her go so that she could be arrested, how did they know he/she did not have a weapon in her cloth...
Jump to postSo socks only would've been fine? Or a pair of flip-flops? Yes, I've seen people wearing medical socks only.....my last flight out of Miami, two women looked as if they had just gotten our of bed and came to get on the flight (robes, hair in towels/wraps, pajama pants, house shoes/slippers). There ...
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