The NEO has a new first class seat that has a small divider at the head level. There are pictures of it as Delta put out a release about a year ago on it. Otherwise configuration is close to the same taking into account the adjusted, reduced exit doors. First class remains 20. Other changes I have n...
Jump to postThey started their focus to compete with NK and F9 long before COVID my friend. But, yes, AA and every other airline is going after leisure now. This is going to be fascinating to watch. AA is a dog of an airline. B6 is at the other end of the spectrum from a soft and hard product point of view. AA ...
Jump to postThis is going to be fascinating to watch. AA is a dog of an airline. B6 is at the other end of the spectrum from a soft and hard product point of view. AA management thinks it's competing domestically with Spirit and now has partnered with an airline that offers a substantially far greater product.
Jump to postThe ones that went to San Bernardino were still subleased from Southwest (AirTran legally since it remains a paper subsidiary of SWA for the leases). That doesn't mean they weren't lease returns however. Just means that Delta had not reached the stage where it owned the planes. Like you wrote, tons ...
Jump to postBoeing is buying 2 ex-DL M90's I'm told. I have no idea why. But the original plan was for these M90's to be torn down.
Jump to postUntil New Mexico's atrocious Gov forces these to stop bringing in the spread of Covid.
Chuska wrote:Jump to postAlso resuming 3/11:
ABQ-AUS/BWI/LAX/SAN/OAK. Still down are ABQ-MCI/SJC.
AA isn't going to be adding anything if this pandemic is still raging by summer. They'll be dealing with bankruptcy lawyers and routes like SEA-Bangalore and Shanghai will look like fools gold.
Jump to postWho? Delta? A handful have the higher rated engines.
txkf2010 wrote:Jump to postDoes anyone know if any/all of their fleet is the high gross weight with the BR700-715C1-30 engines?
You're making a good point. Mine: it opens doors outside Breeze which will keep a flow of attrition allowing Breeze to consistently backfill with younger flight attendants in a perpetual cycle. A college degree in what? There is no point in getting any college degree just for the sake of having one....
Jump to postHa! John never met a defeat he didn't have an excuse for. Airbus ex-salesman, John Leahy, has blamed the A380 engines for the early failure of the aircraft. Leahy has expressed his love for the aircraft to the point that he has postponed his retirement just secure another another order for Emirates,...
Jump to postI made a typo error in replying. Good to know the highly flammable, easily provoked NWA employee mentality still lives a decade later. Geez... wrote the immediate paragraph below. Yes and why don't you also admit you are drawing a better pension under the AMFA contract than the IAM had more than dou...
Jump to postAMFA broke themselves. Yes Doug was mostly non-human. But AMFA did themselves in. Morons. Did not know that. I think it’s Steenland (Douglas?) though. Good luck my fellow AA mechanics. (I’m no longer at AA) He was appointed to the board this past October http://news.aa.com/news/news-details/2020/Ame...
Jump to postAircraft is at Embraer AMS in Macon for outfitting and Breeze-specific work. 49 page Breeze filing with DOT. "First Response to Information Request" https://beta.regulations.gov/document/DOT-OST-2020-0019-0008 The first Breeze aircraft has been painted at Dean Baldwin in Peru, Indiana, and...
Jump to postThis is grossly inaccurate. The AMFA strike was long before any talk of a merger - it was also before NWA, Inc. filed for Chapter 11. Actually the filing was due largely to the AMFA strike. AMFA blew themselves up long before even the most innocuous merger talks began. [/quote] Yes and why don't you...
Jump to postWell said. Don't forget -- the other NWA unions (ALPA, AFA, etc...) refused to honor their strike! AMFA arrogantly, and haphazardly, believed their strike would get the remaining unions to follow suit. This tells you about the lack of respect for AMFA and its leadership at the time! The historical m...
Jump to postAMFA at NWA was hilariously inept. They literally destroyed their careers. And it's not like no one knew what NWA had planned if they struck. Everyone at AMFA leadership knew damn well what NWA's plan was to operate without them. And given how many mechanics broke ranks and went back to work, that s...
Jump to postHopefully the usual suspects won't geek up the flight like they did the last DAL 777 flight from JFK. Saw the reports on the write ups and it was pretty bad given the pandemic. May I ask why people are excited or disappointed when it isn’t a -300 vs. a -100? I’d always prefer the smaller plane. This...
Jump to postWell they still have a 727-200 in TUS. Just needs 3 JT8D's and some love.
It actually got moved a month or so ago. So the wheels work!
4 of the 75S fleet was leased as of pre-Covid. And the entire 75C fleet is owned by the NBA. The rest of the fleet 75D/75H/75Y is owned. Being that Delta announced zero plans to retire the 757. Does the heavy maintenance become more extensive and expensive after 45k cycles 100k hours. I assume most ...
Jump to postI'm told neither.
Delta350 wrote:Jump to postLAXffDUB wrote:Does anybody know if today's last 777 flight (#8777) is getting a special commemoration at either JFK or LAX? Perhaps a water salute or passengers receiving a keepsake?
Most likely a water salute at LAX
There wasn't anything planned by corporate. However corporate security and others in upper management did get reports/complaints from a few passengers about large group gatherings in/near doors 2L/R and premium economy throughout the flight in blatant disregard for Covid protocols on ground and in-f...
Jump to postThe transaction is rather simple. GoJet selling the aircraft to SkyWest and in turn leasing the aircraft back. GoJet not financially healthy, their private owner is unwilling to put much if not any money back into the operation. Suave move by OO to gain further control over the 550 fleet. If GJ defa...
Jump to postIt will be around 18 frames give or take.
rsgolfpunk wrote:Jump to postSo how much 200 at-risk flying will OO do for DL?
DAL is now officially reporting only 64 717's as active or temporarily parked following the 3Q report. So 27 717's are "off certificate". Don't have ship numbers or any specs beyond what I see.
Jump to postCharters to get and return Oakland A's to LAX for MLB playoffs vs Houston Astros. Anyone know anything about these weird 77L trips from LAX to OAK after the LAX-SYD flights that N702DN has been doing? Has happened twice. 88** is usually a charter flight, but there's no sports team that would be doin...
Jump to postPSA had 3 or 4 gates on the original A. Believe it was 4. Prior to merger to USAir. Frontier I leased a gate further down. Then TWA had 2 gates at the very end of A. This would've been 1986. Western was at B2,4,6,8 that Delta then inherited. AirCal was further out on B. Republic had 2 gates midway o...
Jump to postThis is about JetBlue and LAX. And having seen a couple of market polling results in last few years, I will confidently say that JetBlue has a wider and more Q score in the LA/SoCal area than Alaska does. And when Virgin America was around, their Q score was higher than AS's as well. Now if you want...
Jump to postIt's not a lessor decision in this case. Virgin America's lease dictated the options on the aircraft delivered and it continued with the options through the final 10 320's with sparklets it took. Very good point It's because they can't carry live animals on the Airbus planes. Dogs are a real thing i...
Jump to postDelta sold them...to Nordic. Many are at TUS. And many will end up at Breeze. Waiting for finalization for leases. Delta already had the chance to fly the ERJ-190. Back in 2015 as part of a 739 order, I believe used Air Canada tails. Cancelled later that year, and A220 ordered instead- definitely a ...
Jump to postAll things being equal, Boeing prefers not building the -8. There's a surprisingly large amount of non-conformity in the buildout of the -8 vs the -9/-10. Not the 787 -9 but I think that DL will prefer the 787 -10 for its mid-haul operations (US domestic, EU routes). The 789 would be quite non-sensi...
Jump to postPre-Covid 753 was the best cash cow in the entire fleet. Considering the state of Boeing, and the abundance of missed opportunities to launch a new aircraft, I fully expect DL to buy the A321XLR in the not so distant future to replace the 752s. I cant see any MAX orders for DL either. The A220-300 i...
Jump to postExactly: - Taking the non-cash write-down now as said when they already are recognizing losses and take the hit now versus on-going While this is big news in the sense its the first time they indicated actual dates for these fleet retirements, the announcement in the 8-K filing really isn't all that...
Jump to postGood stuff. I'd like to add on the 717 fleet DAL will continue to assume ownership of more 717's as each month goes by. I don't have access to the specs on ship numbers and their move over from AirTran/SWA subleases but they're baked into the system. I believe the write down DAL is taking on the 717...
Jump to postIt doesn't really. OO has already returned the DAL owned CRJ's and they're out of the system. DAL's filing deals with the dozens of CRJ's they own or lease (from the predecessor of Bombardier Capital) and that are flown by Endeavor. B712 to be retired by December 2025 per SEC filing along with B763 ...
Jump to postNot sure it affects AS all that much. But the 1pm turns with 4 WestJet 737's at PSP certainly will be missed!
32andBelow wrote:Jump to postDon’t forget PSP is huge for Canadians. So that’s going to be hard on Alaska this winter.
Good points. See same numbers. GEG gets propped up, especially in summer, from nearby COE and Sandpoint. But GEG economy was really humming into pandemic and Emperor Inslee decided to get off on his powers. So we'll see. Checked numbers and GEG-PSP is a larger market than BOI, especially more signif...
Jump to postFriendly reminder that load factor means little, especially in this period where RASM, PRASM and Yield is in the gutter. What is this the third try for AS? If they want to truly be PDX's airline, they have to fly to DEN N/S, period. AS started PDX-DEN on 9/1/2020. Anyone know how the flight went and...
Jump to postThis is incorrect. DAL ordered and started to received the 73G with the high altitude options before the merger was announced. A319s could always do the job. Retiring the 73Gs was worth it. There's 'doing the job' and 'doing the job well.' DL got the A319s from the NW transaction even before receivi...
Jump to postChecked numbers and GEG-PSP is a larger market than BOI, especially more significant given the 76 seat product being flown. And given the times of the AS flight, it doesn't appear to be related to OO's BOI MTC and pilot/inflight base for repositioning.
Jump to postBOI-PSP tells you how much money has flown into the region in past decade. PSP is a destination for people who are doing well, generally.
Jump to postFor a period, yes NWA was all Boeing. But they did fly DC-8's for a short time in the 60's. Just to confirm - wasn't NWA an all Boeing fleet until the DC-10's showed up and the Republic buyout? IIRC every other major operated a twin jet except NWA. Wonder what their fleet planners were thinking - di...
Jump to postThis is simply not true.
IPFreely wrote:Jump to postSounds like DL is looking anywhere and everywhere to utilize planes and crews that used to fly all the routes they've cut to and from SEA.
Times change. Economies change. Survival changes. That said...Richard's Memphis comment was widely viewed as bunk when it was said. Les we forget the words spoken by Richard Anderson and Douglass Steenland that no hubs would close. Memphis folks would say different. Also what Richard Anderson said t...
Jump to postThe Landor-designed NW compass in 1989 is one of the best airline logos ever. Right up there with the Saul Bass UA Tulip, Pan Am globe and Delta widget.
Jump to postNot sure if Gary is right or wrong but one thing I'm assured of... The fare spread between basic economy and the rest of the "regular" coach fares is going to get real wide. Say goodbye to $25-$40 one way differences - and more like $100-$125 differences between basic and regular coach. AA...
Jump to postSimple Flying is bot-level, high school journalism crap. Simple Flying may as well be citing a 4th grade history textbook on the Spanish-American War: really, it adds nothing new to understanding. It seldom does. They're not informing you - they're monetizing your page views. Don't be used. This def...
Jump to postIf you're looking for a recap of every article written in the press, yes. It's a good generic recap. But little to no access was provided to the authors by Delta thus it's essentially all anecdotal from press clippings. But it doesn't come close to telling the story. If anyone is looking for a very ...
Jump to postThanks. Avoided me a new thread on whose planes these were as I saw them from above into LAX other day. I believe AS MGT said all the QX and OO flying had returned. Flying out of ONT the other day, and was interesting to note 13 Alaska/Horizon aircraft parked in a holding area between T2 and the Int...
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