But wasn't that also after UA cut EWR flights and/or moved them to IAD? I don't hate EWR for eastbound Euro connections (I use IAH-EWR-NAP frequently for example) but as a POE (even with GS and GE) it is not my favourite. I use it for O&D sometimes and am fairly neutral in that aspect. they're ...
Jump to postFor comparison: Airbus has moved the group HQ to Toulouse from Paris and Munich (just not the legal one). Airbus' headquarters are in Leiden, Netherlands, but daily management is conducted from the company's main office located in Blagnac, outside Toulouse, France. Boeing can do the same thing. The...
Jump to postThe Navy should re-establish a Reserve Air Wing. There was one until about 15 years ago.
Jump to postHow does moving back to Seattle help when their 787 production is in South Carolina? And if they bring Spirit back into their fold then you have that manufacturing in Wichita. Seems like Chicago was better than DC or Seattle in terms of being close to their manufacturing. I think what is needed is t...
Jump to postMavyWavyATR wrote:I wonder if B6 would have some luck in establishing a focus city/connecting hub in places with minimal or no competition like GSO, MEM, BHM or COS.
Dulles is a terrible name imo, sounds too much like Dallas. I'm not saying it should be renamed (after a politician) as it's just a waste of money. I'm surprised the airport doesn't have a more patriotic name like "Freedom International" or "American International Gateway." You ...
Jump to postTaken from the thread on JFK airside connections. There are no plans to connect B and C at LGA…to do so would require another huge load of construction over a very busy section of roadways… Considering how the earlier renderings had it, I'm shocked that there's no airside walkway between B and C. A...
Jump to postI get vibes of Eastern air lines in Boeings recent travails. People love to blame Lorenzo and Texas Air while glossing over the Eastern unions. Boeing leadership definitely deserves blame, but what about the Boeing unions and their strikes that ultimately drove an adversarial relationship with manag...
Jump to postPerhaps they will find new office space in Ozone Park.
Jump to postTurns outs even SAS has their US offices in New Jersey.
https://winmo.com/open/company/travel-and-hospitality-airlines/nj/lyndhurst/scandinavian-airlines-system-sas/12535#:~:text=Headquartered%20in%20Lyndhurst%2C%20New%20Jersey,services%20company%20founded%20in%201946.
Here is what it think will happen when SAS has joined SkyTeam and DAl-AF-KL-VS JV as AFKL plan for; SAS will continue to serve CPH from both JFK (A330/A350) and EWR (A321 winter/ A330 summer). ARN and OSL will move to JFK but operated by Delta with OSL probably on summers only. SAS need to centrali...
Jump to postThere more I look, the more I realize SAS would be crazy to do what the OP mentioned. Moving their EWR operations to Kennedy.
https://www.costar.com/article/554516873/danish-biotech-company-inks-lease-to-expand-us-headquarters
Remember Maersk’s (Denmark’s largest company) US HQ is in NJ which will probably keep a SAS presence at EWR. You sure that isn't Novo Nordisk these days? They've got a big presence in NJ as well, and they plan to buy Catalent, which is based in NJ. I'm pretty sure pharma traffic would be another go...
Jump to postIf there were an issue where someone or something gets by the TSA, or the terminal needs to be evacuated and everyone rescreened. These types of issues can be compartmented to the affected areas instead of the entire airport. Where would you put all the people if you had to evacuate the entire airpo...
Jump to postI would rather name it after local hero MC Hammer International airport.
Jump to postIf SK can obtain more slots at JFK, I can see them moving the entire NY area operation there and closing down the EWR gateway they've had since the late 1980s, which was a direct result of SK's investment in Continental Airlines at the time, and then endured for 35+ years since, even with minimal c...
Jump to postIf SK can obtain more slots at JFK, I can see them moving the entire NY area operation there and closing down the EWR gateway they've had since the late 1980s, which was a direct result of SK's investment in Continental Airlines at the time, and then endured for 35+ years since, even with minimal c...
Jump to postStarting at 9 minutes a pretty good in-depth of Atlanta operations for both Delta and Eastern from 1988.
https://youtu.be/Krl3KFAEkyw?si=l41G5VWeJxQ-bRnf
Corporate contracts are in New Jersey, shipping industry in particular. So no matter what they are going to remain in New Jersey. As mentioned Maersk USA is headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey. Think of it like Tap Air Portugal. They started out only at JFK, then in 1989 they opened EWR. Event...
Jump to postAnother runway repaving project at EWR, not sure on the start date. https://www.nj.com/news/2024/03/get-ready-for-a-smoother-landing-newark-airports-busiest-runway-is-getting-repaved.html I wish during the pandemic the Port Authority took the initiative and replaced one of EWR's runway with concrete.
Jump to postWhy can’t United make LGB work? Maybe 3x SFO on express and 1x DEN mainline. In 1989 Continental was flying Long Beach-Denver, and United was flying Long Beach-SFO, ORD, DEN and United Express to Sacramento. I know it says 1979, but this is the December 1989 schedules for Long Beach. https://www.de...
Jump to postLAXPolaris wrote:If you are premium passenger flying to Asia from the PHL metro area, I assume most of those people would opt to drive to EWR to have a widebody to SFO or LAX over a 737 directly from PHL.
There's no way the Feds were not watching him before the raid was carried out. Could they not have had the FAA put some kind of ground stop on his aircraft. The US does have an extradition treaty with Antigua. Maybe he's trying to get to Brazil.
Jump to postWhy? Six daily flights in April by AA including two widebodies plus a daily Spirit flight might make that a tough nut for UA to crack. New Jersey geographically is a small state, tons of United frequent flyers in the State who usually fly from EWR may like Philadelphia as an option. no kidding..., ...
Jump to postTapping into premium leisure demand, but it is also about capacity, broadly. FCO is a goldmine right now, in peak season. The NY Area to FCO market is huge, with 3 x daily on AZ, 3 x daily on DL, 2 x daily on UA (EWR), + Norse and the 2 AA flights. My God! WTH is with Rome this year??? How can ther...
Jump to postUnited should start PHL-LAX. Why? Six daily flights in April by AA including two widebodies plus a daily Spirit flight might make that a tough nut for UA to crack. New Jersey geographically is a small state, tons of United frequent flyers in the State who usually fly from EWR may like Philadelphia ...
Jump to postThey desperately need to improve the TSA experience at MCO, it might be the worst experience of the airports I've visited. I guess part of the problem might be the higher percentage of travelers who only travel once or twice a year vs. an airport like LaGuardia or Ohare where the road warriors got t...
Jump to postAC mainline is all over the place on YUL-ORD. Showing a mix of A220/E75 in May and then 2 7M8 as of September. Same goes for UA, they had planned both mainline on YUL-ORD/EWR and now its back to E75s. The Boeing delays with the 737 MAX is going to start affecting United's planning. Yaaa not so much...
Jump to postI Rember flying on an Eastern L1011 in White, I feel like they looked so much better than the bare metal.
Thanks for providing all the information. I assume it would be located at the Philly tracon building? Being a controller would be an interesting career, unfortunately I'm at the cut off for the age of becoming a controller plus it sounds like its not a guaranteed to be assigned at PHL. Yes. It's a ...
Jump to postIn some scheduling news, Looks like AC has done a 180 on having all mainline this summer. YUL was originally scheduled as 3 7M8 but is now showing 3 175s ops by Jazz. So as of now YVR 1D 7M8 YYZ 4D 223 YUL 3 D 175 That’s the exact same schedule that they’ve been flying since December with the excep...
Jump to postThose of us who use PHL noticed there has been an uptick in the homeless in certain baggage claim areas. Looks like the new mayor is taking care of that: https://www.inquirer.com/business/phl-homelessness-resources-training-20240319.html I remember seeing homeless people in the concourses at PHL in...
Jump to postThe 757 tail was changed during repaints in 1990. In terms of other Eastern Aircraft, there were years were the cheatline went over the windows and years where they avoided. They stopped doing them over the windows because it cost more money then painting it below.
Jump to postThose of us who use PHL noticed there has been an uptick in the homeless in certain baggage claim areas. Looks like the new mayor is taking care of that: https://www.inquirer.com/business/phl-homelessness-resources-training-20240319.html I remember seeing homeless people in the concourses at PHL in...
Jump to postLots more pictures found here: https://www.mwaa.com/sites/mwaa.com/files/Tab%208.1%20%20Tier%202%20East%20Interior%20Finishes.pdf Knowing airport designs these days I'm surprised the ceiling isn't taller. Regardless of that this looks lovely. Hopefully the MWAA doesn't let costs get out of control ...
Jump to postThere's some East coast destinations they could also cut, Philadelphia would be at the top of the list. Others MCI, MKE, CLT, MSP, PIT.
Places to add,
ISP-MCO, ISP-FLL, ISP-PBI, ISP-TPA, ISP-SJU.
ACY-MCO-ACY-FLL, ACY-PBI, ACY-TPA, ACY-SJU
of course they won't close LAX. That's ridiculous. But if they have all sort of issues on East coast, it makes no sense to divert resources to intra west coast flying. I would love to see them doing better in west coast, but they don't have the solid foundation in East coast right now. They aren't ...
Jump to postView From The Wing reports that a big announcement is coming on major cuts or even closure of the West Coast operation (LAX), leaving just the key BOS, JFK, FLL markets. This really comes as no surprise if it is true. The shift from Long Beach to Los Angeles happened during the pandemic, but even w...
Jump to postI don't get why ISP needs transatlantic flights. You have JFK and EWR close by for that. Discount airlines tend to prefer secondary airports. If a ULCC wants to use ISP over JFK or EWR to do transatlantic flights and the airport is willing to add the facilities, why stop them? Either way ISP's prio...
Jump to postINFINITI329 wrote:Seeing how the MV-22 is grounded currently the only aircraft left available is the CH-53 E/K....I assume it either came from a ship or from Puerto Rico
If you look at the picture that's on the left you noticed that there are widebody B747 aircraft parked at T5 while T6 only has narrowbody A320 series aircraft so I can imagine that the original proposal was to have 19 gates for UA, 11 for TWA and 17 for B6. From what I recall UA 747s were pretty co...
Jump to postAA purchased TWA's LHR rights in 1991 (TWA was running on fumes and had no choice but to sell those routes to raise enough capital to see another quarter). All other TWA route authorities were obtained by AA via the merger 10 years later and were eventually no longer necessary in the world of open ...
Jump to postThat's correct although they weren't in merger talks but rather had a deal in place that raised DOJ scrutiny over the DCA/IAD overlap which led to the proposed "horse trade" as we called it at AA. As I previously stated, the horse trade involved swapping JFK T5 and TWA's JFK slots for US'...
Jump to postAA bought TWA and merged with US Airways and look at where American is today. I think United made out better and would not trade places.
Jump to postIt's definitely bigger than ever for United international at LAX. The only route they dropped and not brought back is Mexico City. LAX-HKG is a resumption, as was the case for LAX-AKL and LAX-PVG. Nice to see the hub thriving again! IIRC, a UA 747-400 was even featured in a Jackie Chan movie where ...
Jump to postWhy would UA want to build a hub at JFK when they already had a hub at KEWR? This was long before UA and CO ever thought of merging. UA had plans to buy US immediately prior to 9/11 around the same time AA bought TWA. DOJ initially objected to UA/US's post-merger dominance of the DC market which le...
Jump to postThese new LAX additions will mean that UA's intercontinental long-haul operations from there will be back to what they were pre-COVID, plus a few additional destinations/frequencies (seasonal AKL and BNE flights in the winter, plus new flights to HKG and an extra summer departure to LHR). It's defi...
Jump to postPre-merger, UA served IAD, ORD, and DEN out of LGA. At EWR, in the 1990s, UA had a larger presence, with service to IAD, DEN, ORD, plus LHR (1 x daily on a 777), NRT, and to MIA, to help feed what was, at the time a Latin America gateway for UA. UA also flew to LAX and SFO out of EWR. At the time o...
Jump to postLet’s not forget where they got that crown from. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/-DsAAOSwZ3Vimtgs/s-l1600.jpg UA's EWR TATL network today looks much different than it did when Continental was around. A lot of those secondary TATL markets CO flew have been suspended or out right canceled while UA has...
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