I’d rather have something like that to MSP and just drop DTW if that’s the case. ATL has usually been between 1-3 a day (currently 1x daily) and on mainline for the first flight of the day currently an A319 which goes to an A320 this summer. I get that there are alot of smaller airports that will b...
Jump to posttravaz wrote:Should have used AS. Why were they routed thru ATL?
One thing about the Indiana regional markets and Delta is with wholly owned subsidiary Endeavor having CRJ200's, 700's and 900's operating the Atlanta flights Delta has aircraft scheduling flexibility based on projected passenger loads. They have been freely substituting CRJ700's and 900's on the A...
Jump to postIndy wrote:I'm amazed that it was legal what Delta was doing before. In any other industry when you are required to report to work, your pay starts.
Good way to try to draw more talent out of Skywest
Jump to postHow much of the issue is 717 part availability? I'm sure vendors are still willing to make more parts, but with all the announced retirements (Delta/QF) that the stockpiles were intentionally allowed to go down as soon many used parts will compete. I'm purely speculating. If I missed why the cancel...
Jump to postThe most recent date I have seen was they were to be phased out by the end of 2023. They were still operating 60 of them in the fleet as of March 31st from quarterly report. That's actually an increase from what they were flying at the end of 2021 which was down to 46 aircraft. Technically, they ar...
Jump to postHas DL restricted capacity in some markets? Example my hometown of CID used to see upwards of 11 daily flights between ATL (3) MSP (4) and DTW (4). It’s now down to a total of 5 flights a day - one daily 319 to ATL and 2 CRJs each to MSP and DTW and the flights are spaced out throughout the day. I ...
Jump to postWe know that the terminal’s design is an inheritance limitation on natural lighting, but per a former a.netter who worked intimately on the project, computer models showed the terminal receiving far more natural lighting, so they ended up compensating by using color to paint the terminal. The termi...
Jump to postXPlane is not a real airplane. In real airplanes, autothrottles are now available in a King Air, including a C90. They are not in a CRJ-200. FLCH assumes enough excess power to climb. IAS doesn't make that assumption. In general, however, those modes function similarly and are there to provide both...
Jump to postumichman wrote:DL restored hot meals in FC on flights over 900 miles last month. Not sure if RJ-900 have ovens, but flight will at least get meal boxes if not (DL stopped serving snack boxes as meals in FC last year).
DL is adding back JFK once daily on the CR9 starting June 6. Obviously a response to B6. Was hoping they'd just upgauge LGA instead. Delta may be more on time, but jetBlue's product is worlds ahead of what you'll get on an RJ. Lol! That was predictable. Hopefully they’ll have better luck than their...
Jump to postThe runway is less than 4,800 ft and Envoy is notorious for running into the grass... This will be fun to watch. The runway is within 50m in length of London City. And that’s E-jet central. I don’t see what the drama is. The drama is Envoy, and their inability to keep the rubber on the prepared lan...
Jump to postafcjets wrote:Winston Salem, NC
Anderson, SC
Albany, GA
Brunswick, GA
Macon, GA
Hot Springs, AR
Greenville, MS
You guys who have been flying to the city airport with mainline jet and later abandoned service for a long time or never service again. I flew Southwest 737-300 a couple of times to Detriot City Airport (KDET). It has been never serviced for now. I am very lucky been there. It's rare. I flew to Rhi...
Jump to postfedex1 wrote:Why has JetBlue never came to IND? They go to a lot of airports around us, never been interested in IND?
Concourse B has always been capable of handling narrow body aircraft from the time it was built. When originally opened in 2002 it was 8 gates. CO was on B the rest was primarily NW/XJ ARJs. In 2005 B was extended and built out to its current length up to B21. DL moved over from the Smith Terminal ...
Jump to postA few random thoughts and notes from my trips in and out of DTW over the past few weeks: - It feels like pre-pandemic these days in the terminal, at least during peak hub times. - Departing last Thursday night, its nice to see multiple TATL flights at the gates departing at the same time with full ...
Jump to postDuring Notre Dame Football Season United was operating B737-800 and 900 aircraft into SBN from ORD and then taking ND fans out of town to away games. Those ferry flights had additional flight numbers and were carrying paying passengers who were connecting off of other United flights. United was boa...
Jump to postI’m sure someone will fire up the flamethrower, but I find it hard to believe that Skywest entered into these markets and United didn’t have some say. I mean gate space allocation at a hub has to figure into this. United, I like you, but maybe it’s time for you to pony up some 737-700 or A319 milk ...
Jump to postLOL, you’d make a good hack for management Gremlinzzzzz. Same old cop-out. “We’re getting paid lots of money, just do it.” That morphs to “Its not that big of a deal, let’s just do it. Then finally, “If you don’t like it leave. How about bargaining, not blackmail! Delta pilots can choose not to fly...
Jump to postI can easily see Skywest being forced to continue services. There is just no replacement services available, because Skywest decimated the other EAS carriers by jumping into all of these markets for cash flow after March 2020. How do you force an airline to continue service when they don’t have the...
Jump to postthe plan its to convert them to 76-seater so I guess that is not the case It doesn't matter how many seats are on the plane, the FAA views the CRJ-1000 as a separate type rating. CL-66 vs CL-65 for the rest of the CRJ family. They could probably do a differences course and get it FAA approved. I be...
Jump to postCRJ-1000 is a unique type rating to the CRJ-200/700/900, which all share the CL-65 type. That would mean a lot of training overhead. the plan its to convert them to 76-seater so I guess that is not the case It doesn't matter how many seats are on the plane, the FAA views the CRJ-1000 as a separate ...
Jump to post... It basically sounds like they could go all the way up to 88 frames if they wanted to. With oil north of $100, I am not sure they will. But then again, I bet the 717's fuel unit costs are still lower than most RJs. And there are still a ton of very short, sub-750nm routes they could put 717s on ...
Jump to postNot sure if this is the right place to ask, but how many CR9s are leaving the CityLine fleet?
Jump to postLpbri wrote:767-300s use pneumatics for thrust reversers. They work very well.
I will add no one foresaw the big issues at the regionals and Skywest abruptly having to cut 15% of its flying for 2022 since it can’t staff projected flying. No one saw it? This would have happened in 2020, arguably worse, had COVID not bailed them out. This has been coming for years, it's not a s...
Jump to postI've landed on 13 multiple times, it does happen. Sometimes via an approach to 13, sometimes they'll do an approach to 22 circle to 13.
Jump to postWhen filing the flight plan strip with items on deferral that no longer allow RVSM or RNP the "slashes and dashes" are modified to communicate the degraded capability to ATC. ATC then knows to increase separation because no human can fly with the same precision as the automation. These de...
Jump to postI thought HDN was a remote control tower airport where ATC uses cameras to watch the field and issue instructions? HDN is non-towered. It's Class E from 0700-2100 local and Class G otherwise. The minimum towered Class is Class D. A nearby example is EGE, which is Class D from 0700-1900 local, and C...
Jump to postIs Endeavor acquiring second-hand CRJ-900s from Lufthansa CityLine? Noticed on Skyliner that N94PQ (formerly D-ACKK) ferried to TUS, apparently for Endeavor. Skyliner often tends to jump the gun on these things, and the FAA Registry doesn't show that it's registered to Endeavor yet though. I'm gues...
Jump to postSeniority is based on date of hire so this has little to do with retirement age. As mentioned, medical exams already every six months after age 40, for captains at least. Want to eliminate the pilot shortage? Make it a more desirable career. Raising the retirement age just kicks the can down the ro...
Jump to postMy crystal ball...In 5 years time Southwest starts a regional with E2 aircraft. This forces the pilots of other carriers to waiver on scope clauses and finally take account of new vs old plane reality. Your crystal ball by Fresnel? SWAPA might have the tightest scope language in the US and maybe th...
Jump to postPerhaps fuel costs are a reason for the Skywest decision ... they bid on these routes when fuel was much cheaper Not at all. Skywest is hemorrhaging pilots (as all regionals are). I'm hearing that its a 2-3 month wait at Skywest now to start OE after completion of sims for new hires. Not sure what ...
Jump to postcrjflyboy wrote:Perhaps fuel costs are a reason for the Skywest decision ... they bid on these routes when fuel was much cheaper
The DOT may not have to allow them to back out of it. If Skywest isn't allowed out of it, they'll simply just cancel the flights day after day after day after day, until the local city wants to be able to rebid the flying. But then again, no one will step in to cover it. The DOT has plenty of lawye...
Jump to postMy guess is that by the end of 2022, most of the EAS flying done by FFD airlines will be severely reduced or totally cut. There simply aren't crews to fly it. The two big questions will be: does the DOT allow them to back out of all this flying, and if so, who steps in to cover? I would have though...
Jump to postMy guess is that by the end of 2022, most of the EAS flying done by FFD airlines will be severely reduced or totally cut. There simply aren't crews to fly it.
Jump to postJust looks like they have painted it on top of the tent lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I think you are correct! Like lets be real for a second...does anyone actually believe that they "accidentally" just left out a top secret plane so we could see it? Nothing accidental about it. ...
Jump to postWhy is that? Thank you. Something about checking a fuel valve It’s been a long while, but I have a copy of my iold company’s CRJ sops and looked it up. Yes, it was to do the Fuel Check Valve check. Correct, fuel check valve check. However, with some common sense, if you forgot it, you could still c...
Jump to post32andBelow wrote:They need to nuke the 1500 hour rule. Maybe require additional sim time and longer IOE or something for low time pilots
The 1500 hour legislation was an uneducated, knee-jerk reaction that needs to go away. My suggestion would be to limit it to 50 seat or smaller aircraft at first and see if that is enough to stabilize the industry. If they wait too long, it will have to go higher. No it wasn’t, 1500 hours are alway...
Jump to postIt’s headed for its demise. The service cuts to small cities will be widespread, replaced by less frequent mainline flights. Think 4-5 RJ cut to 1-2 flights, or 1 mainline and one 76-seater. Crewing throughout aviation is gonna be tough. Regionals won’t be able to keep captains and FOs won’t have t...
Jump to postPSU.DTW.SCE wrote:Supposedly OO indicated they were not going to be able to cover all of their DCI flying in March due to staffing so it go bumped up to mainline
My elementary-school-self says why can't this happen on a weekday, so at least you get a snow day out of it? Looking at the weather forecasts for my hometown, doesn't look like anything major. A bit windier than normal. Then again, trying to predict the weather in New England is like......well, try...
Jump to postHow common are commercial jet ops at non-towered airports in the US? I can't think of many besides HDN. UPS operates into uncontrolled Albany, GA (ABY) every evening and morning with A300 & B757 Aircraft…. To be honest with you, ABY is probably safer at night than during the day with the tower ...
Jump to postBWIAirport wrote:How common are commercial jet ops at non-towered airports in the US? I can't think of many besides HDN.
The solution (outside of enforcement), is to modify the well cars these containers travel on to not all the container to be opened while in the car.
Jump to postI would love for Cape to return with the EVV,SBN,FWA etc could also add STL,MKE,PIT. Maybe then the flights would be full Cape Air flew SBN - IND after being bankrolled by the state of Indiana to do it ... it was a financial disaster ... it will never come back ... flying two hours to PIT on a Cess...
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