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Re: Horizon E175 diverts after ‘Authorized’ Person in Cockpit Tries to Shut Down Engines

AC4500 wrote:
Was the "authorized" person an off-duty Horizon pilot/FO? I'm not sure who else would be authorized to be alongside the cockpit crew during an operating flight, other than maybe a flight engineer.

Pilots from another airline, dispatchers, FAA, company executives.

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twinotter

Re: JetBlue Fleet - 2023

n471wn wrote:
AviatorTravis wrote:
N648JB was flown to MZJ today from FLL.

Does anyone know the reason for this?

That is indeed odd and way too young to be retired as a 2006 build with many older aircraft still flying for JetBlue.

There is a MRO facility at Pinal.

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twinotter

Re: AS announces moves targeted at disgruntled DL customers

I got my "Welcome to Mosaic" email today.

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twinotter

Re: AS announces moves targeted at disgruntled DL customers

They announced the original changes about 2 weeks ago and I have not put even a nickel on my reserve card in that time. I'm sure American Express is taking note. And I put about $3000 of spend on my card a month. They aren't. I'll bet you it shows up on someone's spreadsheet. It'll definitely be no...

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twinotter

Re: AS announces moves targeted at disgruntled DL customers

HNDICNSIN wrote:

They announced the original changes about 2 weeks ago and I have not put even a nickel on my reserve card in that time. I'm sure American Express is taking note. And I put about $3000 of spend on my card a month.

They aren't.

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twinotter

Re: Reno Air Races End in Tragedy

FlyingElvii wrote:

These kind of landing accidents aren’t common, but they do happen every couple of years.

Careful, you're getting awfully close to acknowledging the elephant in the room: many go to air shows hoping to see a crash.

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twinotter

Re: Reno Air Races End in Tragedy

These events are pure idiocy. Should be banned. Or held in the middle of the sea. I agree. Too many pilots and spectators have died or have been injured. Since 1972, 23 pilots and 10 spectators have died. Just should not take place. Period. In the United States 56 people have died from shark attack...

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twinotter

Re: Alaska 738 damaged by hard landing in SNA

889091 wrote:
59 posts and it still hasn't come up, so I'll do the honours....

Is it a write-off?

As well as the "that'll buff right out!" comments. I love reading all of them because they are so witty, edgy, and original.

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twinotter

Re: US travel hits all-time high

I think what is amazing is that with fare increases, demand is still high. Despite all the inflationary pressures, consumers are able to keep purchasing tickets and affording vacations and other leisure trips. I do wonder how sustainable it is as fares keep rising as well as inflation. Wages are up...

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twinotter

Re: Ramp Employee Killed in SAT

To the poster that implied they were pushed, they’d have someone under arrest by now if this was the case. I wasn't implying anything, I was asking since that was the first thing I thought of when people were saying it wasn't an accident. I hadn't thought of the alternative. Early in the thread, so...

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twinotter

Re: Odd flight paths off FL Atlantic coast

takeorf wrote:
These are two of the flights that had the most significant re-routes that I noticed.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VXP542/history/20230326/1410Z/KFLL/KILG

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL1079/history/20230326/1355Z/MROC/KEWR

See the weather?

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twinotter

Re: JetBlue Fleet - 2023

If it wasn't reconfigured, it was retired Are you sure it's been retired? If it was one of the 11 never to be reconfigured tails, they are going to be retired soon. Company has said so multiple times on pocket sessions and on emails. I ask because flightaware.com shows N520JB scheduled to fly from ...

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twinotter

Re: JetBlue Fleet - 2023

B6twufa wrote:
n471wn wrote:
So is 520 being retired or repaired?

If it wasn't reconfigured, it was retired

Are you sure it's been retired?

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twinotter

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

boilerla wrote:

Automatically reporting your location at all times, just to see if you’re at an airport, is a privacy nightmare.

So you would treat your tracking device the same way as your ID badge. Take it to work but not to the bar. I don't see how that would be a privacy concern.

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twinotter

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

MIflyer12 wrote:

You haven't seen AA/DL/UA just do systemwide shutdowns in the face of weather in the last decade - that kind of stuff is reserved for amateurs like JetBlue.

LOL. Southwest is having a meltdown and your takeaway from it is ... JetBlue sucks!

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twinotter

Re: Was about to board; then a delay was announced due to a lightning strike

rjsampson wrote:
Right after boarding time, they announced that the aircraft had experienced a lightning strike. I wonder why it took them that long to announce it.

I'd guess that's when the evidence was discovered. What makes you think they waited to announce it?

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twinotter

Re: Taking over the inflight PA: strange sounds on a AA flight.

https://nypost.com/2022/09/26/bizarre-n ... -intercom/

You really have to listen to it.

Weird that:
(1) It sounds so human; and
(2) It only has been reported to happen on AA from LAX.

Explanation sounds bogus.

twinotter

Re: JetBlue/Spirit Merger Discussion Thread - 2022

Rumor mill says that the new combined company HQ will be located in Dania Beach. That will be a blow to NYC, but almost every company that can is already fleeing New York for Florida, for a whole host of reasons… Which of course is why housing priced have collapsed in NYC and especially Manhattan. ...

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twinotter

Re: End of AA LuxuryLiner and LuxuryJet

GSPSPOT wrote:
Sad, but really... Were their a/c in truth different or more luxurious that any other major airline's back in the day?

Was Coca Cola "the real thing"?

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twinotter

Re: JetBlue flight to Worcester stranded for 1 hour on tarmac...no ground agents at work.

AWACSooner wrote:
2. $50 and an apology? Seems despicably low.

It was approximately 45 minutes from wheels-on to door open.

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twinotter

Re: JetBlue A320 and King Air 350 near miss at HDN

D L X wrote:
The incident plane is still on the ground in Denver, so I suspect there was substantial damage.

Looks like it flew to KMCI today, Feb 10.

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twinotter

Re: Incident at ORD. CI 744F has close encounter with ground equipment

bennett123 wrote:
If both engines hit those baggage carts, then there must be significant damage.

Absolutely, and the engines are likely damaged as well.

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twinotter

Re: The cost and reasons for building Northwest's DTW WorldGateway in 2000-2002

The airport desperately needed a new terminal, the Smith and Davey terminals served a different era of aviation (the Smith terminal was a wonderful anachronism when it closed and the Davey main building really was a wonderful piece of architecture that nobody remembers because the rest of the termi...

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twinotter

Re: Southwest pilot broadcasts political views to pax

If that Southwest pilot has been so radicalized that he's willing to shout slurs on an airplane, has he been radicalized enough to fly that plane into the ground just to make a political statement?

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twinotter

Re: AA4817 Security Incident

FlyingElvii wrote:
I feel sorry for the people I know at the Inflight Department. This has become an epic s…. show.

I feel sorry for the guy who was pinned face-down on the tarmac.

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twinotter

Re: B6 adds EWR Pilot Base

There’s a Mint A321 sitting inside the UPS Z4 ramp for the last two weeks undergoing #2 engine repairs. That’s ridiculous considering a large TechOps group with EBU and storekeepers available right across the river at JFK. That aircraft (N981JT) was grounded after an engine-fire incident upon landi...

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twinotter

Re: Jet Fuel Prices this Summer

They bought an expensive insurance policy ( a refinery) which turned out they really didn't need. Delta has lost over $200 million in the last six months thanks to its refinery. In other words, Trainer added 23 cents per gallon to Delta's fuel cost in the last quarter of 2020. That's a heck of an &...

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twinotter

Re: AA FA attacked inflight

ATC cannot refuse “permission” for an emergency landing. If the captain said, “declaring an emergency, we need to divert to CLT”. ATC’s only action to provide traffic priority and separation. Correct, and it doesn't need to be an emergency either. The Captain can divert anywhere just by telling ATC...

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twinotter

Re: NTSB Renews Calls for Cockpit Video Recorders

Protecting ones rights is not narcissism, it is a protection afforded to everyone under the law. Passengers have no right to know anything about the crew, they have no right to the crews names, age, gender, phone numbers, photos, passport, rosters, crew ID etc. Likewise as a Captain I have no right...

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twinotter

Re: NTSB Renews Calls for Cockpit Video Recorders

They know exactly what happened to the aircraft, we know why it crashed. The FDR and CVR gave them that information. Exactly! I can think of no crash left unsolved where the FDR and CVR were recovered. And ..... a video feed would have solved it. We don't know if a pilot on Northwest 255 pulled a c...

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twinotter

Re: WN Pilot Goes on Anti-Bay Area Rant

My only concern would be having that conversation at a time when the cockpit is supposed to be sterile. As for his rant, whatever. Counseling? Really? Everyone has their political opinions and views people who oppose them in certain ways. Im liberal myself and Im not bothered by it. I just need him...

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twinotter

Re: WN Pilot Goes on Anti-Bay Area Rant

Surprised at the number of people who want the sterile cockpit regulation rescinded - or at least are denigrating it. Even some of the ones I thought were rational.

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twinotter

Re: Official: LAS to be renamed for Harry Reid

Airports, roadways, and government buildings should not be named for politicians. I have said it numerous times, they should be named after a serviceman who died in battle, defending the United States. Charles McGhee Tyson. Although, he was the son of a Senator who donated land for the original air...

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twinotter

Re: Jetblue A320 refurbish thread

Jose767 wrote:
I see most refurbished a320’s are kept in Florida, between FLL, RSW,MCO and PBI, it’s kind of stupid because they schedule old a320’s on long flights like JFK-PHX but almost always have a refurbished a320 on JFK-FLL. Why is that?

Because the refurbished planes have more seats?

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twinotter

Re: Sriwijaya Air 737-500 (SJ182 CGK-PNK) crashes shortly after takeoff

evanbu wrote:
The aircraft was a former Continental Airlines 737-500 (N27610).

Ironically, N18611 was the aircraft that crashed in Denver in December of 2008. CO #1404

Not sure if those were delivered back-to-back but I found it interesting.

There is no irony. That is merely coincidence.

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twinotter

Re: Uh, oh...looks like Delta's schedule is burning up again

FWIW, UA also had lots of delays up and down the East Coast on Saturday. There was no weather. All airlines did. In addition to the airspace flow programs affecting southbound traffic, Miami Center was enforcing lengthy miles-in-trail restrictions by metering departures out of South Florida airport...

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twinotter

Re: Spirit Airways skids off taxiway at bwi

September11 wrote:
Spirit Airways? I believe it's Spirit Airlines.

This is 2020. Information for correct reporting by Airliners.net posters is there if they choose to use it.

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twinotter

Re: Pan Am shuts down 29 years ago today.

It's not like the loss of, say, the Oldsmobile brand. But still pretty sad. Let's all have a good cry.

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twinotter

Re: JetBlue Network Thread - 2020

ScottB wrote:
Will they do a better job with the BUR curfew than they did at LGB?

From the Burbank Airport website:

Nighttime Curfew: Rule 9
Aircraft originally certified as Stage 3 or quieter are permitted to fly 24 hours per day.

The A320 is a Stage 3 aircraft.

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twinotter

Re: Breeze - News and Discussion Thread

The best part of this whole story is Compass was located in DL Building C, @MSP Now they have to find an office and hanger space. The only place I know of a hanger is by SY. But Endeavor uses it. Looks like sky hanger for them Compass' space in Building C had a private entrance from the exterior an...

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twinotter

Re: TSA Screening Numbers - Charts and Comparisons

No, it's called refusal to obey the lying State and to question authority, which people in your generation USED to do. LOL, anyone want to bet whether or not he would grab an oxygen mask during a rapid decompression? Or if he would instruct his surgical team to forego masks and sterilization of ins...

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twinotter

Re: WTI Oil price goes negative

Insertnamehere wrote:
Well I am sure Delta is rubbing their hands with their refinery being able to buy up the cheap oil and stockpile it while the fleet is barely flying.

Delta-owned Monroe Energy is likely going to collapse. Isn't Delta lucky to be in the refining business!

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twinotter

Re: JetBlue Network Thread - 2020

Wacko55 wrote:

Gonna be a long day for Blue.......Can they survive the virus?

There was only one person here who called Jetblue that. Found jumbojet's new identity!

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twinotter

Re: Delta plans to emerge a "smaller" carrier

Alaska Air downgraded to “BB+” from “BBB-”American Airlines downgraded by one notch to “B”JetBlue Airways downgraded to “BB” from “BB+”Southwest downgraded to “BBB+” from “A-”United Airlines Holdings Inc. downgraded to “BB-” from “BB”[/b] All are rated below investment grade, commonly referred to a...

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twinotter

Re: Trump should do a 'dry' quid pro quo on airlines

In-flight incidents fueled by alcohol have been steadily increasing, causing major concerns for the safety of passengers and overall disruptions for airlines. In-flight incidents fueled by alcohol have not been steadily increasing, aren't a major concern for the safety of passengers, and haven't si...

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Re: JetBlue Network Thread - 2020

Lastly, pilot pay is rising quickly across the industry, and the E190 doesn't allow JetBlue to spread its pilot costs over as many passengers as an A320 or A321. LOL. Well, pilot pay is rising quickly right now! Hypothetically speaking, imagine a scenario where some significant external event affec...

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twinotter

Re: JetBlue Network Thread - 2020

B6 has been saying that the maintenance on the 190 is what makes it so difficult to keep on a cost basis. Are they that terrible that they can't be kept in favor of the larger jets that they really can't fill right now? Where has Jetblue been saying this? You just have to look: https://www.fool.com...

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Re: JetBlue Network Thread - 2020

WN732 wrote:
B6 has been saying that the maintenance on the 190 is what makes it so difficult to keep on a cost basis. Are they that terrible that they can't be kept in favor of the larger jets that they really can't fill right now?

Where has Jetblue been saying this?

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twinotter

Re: JetBlue Network Thread - 2020

I wonder if this will give them the excuse/out they have been looking for to axe ORH If that happens the JFK service should be moved South to PVD where it will grab some nice business from Southern New Englanders looking to head West on the JetBlue system via that awesome hub at JFK. If JetBlue acc...

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twinotter

Re: Delta plans to emerge a "smaller" carrier

I’m not a fan of an industry-wide bailout. It punishes airlines like DL who have paid down debt to be better positioned for an event like this, by propping up competition that should have gone away. It rewards poor behavior . . . Delta used Chapter 11 protection to transform their business into wha...

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