It is envitable as Delta has come around to the fact the A359 is too small and needs more premium seating, hence the coming reduction in seat count for the A359. They need 20-25 aircraft that seat well over 300 to fill in certain long haul destinations where capacity matters more than frequency. I ...
Jump to postPoor Evansville. Do you think they will ever rebound? How do FWA and SBN have 40-50 times the cargo of EVV? Both are just as close to IND. SBN is as close to Chicago as EVV is to SDF. UPS doesn't fly to EVV for the same reason they don't fly to IND or BNA, they can truck the freight to SDF and stil...
Jump to postThe real question is will other similar sized cities suffer the same fate? Will SBN and FWA be able to maintain their current service? I feel like airport authorities need to start using cities like Toledo and Evansville as examples, “You need to use this airport or we are going to lose service.” T...
Jump to postPoor Evansville. Do you think they will ever rebound? The real question is will other similar sized cities suffer the same fate? Will SBN and FWA be able to maintain their current service? I feel like airport authorities need to start using cities like Toledo and Evansville as examples, “You need t...
Jump to postrsgolfpunk wrote:Is it realistic that Delta can bring on all 100 Max 10s without retiring any 737s? Or would they retire a 737 before it’s time to maintain an “optimal fleet size” based on their network and other factors?
sas931 wrote:Dont think they will only use ERJ 145 in 10 years time...maybe 195/190
Interesting. So are we at a point where there is essentially an over saturation of air traffic into Florida air space? Is this going to be a thing every year now? I don’t see airlines too concerned as everyone keeps throwing more flights into a perpetually growing Florida market. We've already been...
Jump to postAre they bare inside? They have windows installed, what else is installed on the inside? eg: electic cable, ducting wiring etc Looking at the carriages and the length of the fuselage, one can see why they can't (or its just cheaper not too and repair damage instead) design a box carriage for them, ...
Jump to postI never understood how any sane person, or manufacturer for that matter, would buy or produce an SUV or truck (and I mean the bigger ones not the small cute ones) with a petrol engine. Back in the early 2000s I did own one and the performance was abysmal for our needs, had to change fast back to di...
Jump to postI never understood how any sane person, or manufacturer for that matter, would buy or produce an SUV or truck (and I mean the bigger ones not the small cute ones) with a petrol engine. Back in the early 2000s I did own one and the performance was abysmal for our needs, had to change fast back to di...
Jump to postPetroleum trains should be replaced with far safer pipelines. Yeah well, that went so well in the last few years. Keystone XL not being built 100% forced the further consolidation of the railroads (CP + KCS), in an effort to get a single road export of crude from Canada to the gulf... This train wa...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:Petroleum trains should be replaced with far safer pipelines.
744SPX wrote:GalaxyFlyer wrote:Super Hornet flies at 300 KIAS, loaded or not, hardly turboprop speeds.
The A400M cruises at 420 KIAS
Whatever comes out of the ocean off the SC coast I doubt will ever be made fully public, at least not until years after the current relations between China and the U.S. change in a way that would make declassifying the data irrelevant and a non-event. At best we can expect a generally vague comment...
Jump to postAirships only work at a certain size. What kind of small electronic payload is going to give them more meaningful information than a satellite overhead, in a small enough package to be lifted by something in the size of a "small car" as has been described. If it can be done by hobbyists, ...
Jump to postI don't know what these things are but I can tell you what they are not. They are NOT aliens from outer space. Anything technologically advanced enough to get here from some distant planet is NOT going to get shot down by F-22's. >>...Unlike a balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina Feb. ...
Jump to postI know that the 764 is operated as a separate pilot group. If the 763 exits and most of the 752s, could they operate the 753 and 764 as a combined pilot group? Very slight tangent but only a simple yes/no question - before all the 777s departed, were they the same pilot group as the 764? No, the 77...
Jump to postEA CO AS wrote:And now a TFR and another KC-135R orbiting over Lake Michigan.
https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/106577/pdf A preliminary report has been released. It gives some details as to speed and distance, DL aborted takeoff at 100kts and came within 1400 feet at the closest point. One thing of note is the AA pilots have ref...
Jump to postPer APC, Skywest Charter began interviewing for Captains last week. Almost all were over 65, and much was said about mentoring new pilots. The plans that Skywest has for SWC are said to be "Ambitious", it seems that among other things they intend it to be a school funnel for FO's into a S...
Jump to postGood luck banning batteries considering most airlines now stream entertainment to personal devices. It's going to take a major accident to push regulatory agencies across the world to ban batteries. You mean like UPS 6 over 12 years ago? Or does that not count because it didn't kill anyone but crew?
Jump to postMaybe DL’s content on watching AA burn money against WN? Folks say that DL has missed the chance - discounting JV service to AMS and LHR - while AA is somehow building a “fortress” that is just a carbon copy of Southwest’s route map. When JetBlue ditches the Northeast Alliance for approval of the S...
Jump to postNot many ex-military pilots with less than 1,000 hours of turbine time. Eh, that depends how the airline is calculating it. If their hours are in the Osprey, which a lot of pilots now are getting much of their time in, Southwest counts it as a zero turbine time. That’s a sign of changing times in p...
Jump to postUSA Jet is stopping all DC-9 operations March 1st, 192US had no #1 engine as of 1/24/23 and 205US is going to be sold off to another company, presumably Aeronaves. The history of 205 is interesting. It's a valuable air-frame just because of the range that plane has, with all the aux tanks on it. No...
Jump to postIt'd be nice if someone in Network Planning remembered that the upper Midwest exists. they certainly didn’t forget DLH….mainline flights starting in March. Looks like 320s. DLH is still a shell of its former schedules. Don't even get me started on the rest of north Minnesota and the token service D...
Jump to postAs far as I can see we know without doubt that there was a significant loss of situational awareness in the AA crew, leaving aside the event, consider the official version of the aftermath. They were told a number to call and this apparently didn't ring big bells for them. How many times in a caree...
Jump to postLong-term, standardizing all short haul/low capacity on the A220 family is a given. One can predict in decades time, it will have largely phased out the 717 and A319 as the replacement. Hypothetically, the A225 for the aging A320s as well. Near-term, a variety of CRJs, 717s, A220s and A319s will fi...
Jump to postThe problem with a single 737 morning departure is getting the crew appropriate rest. Usually the morning flight is flown by the aircraft that flew the last flight in the night prior. The crew does not have enough rest to operate the last flight in and the first out, so that results in a 30-32 hour...
Jump to postTan Flyr wrote:Midwestindy wrote:FWA-DFW is getting a 3rd flight
Start date? time?
Equipment?
It seems that the route is growing enough that maybe a mainline 319 would be worked in?
They need to bring back DTW-FNT !!! LOL on a 339 What's the difference between that and running 50+ RJs a day on sub 200mi routes? The difference is, you can staff a 339. You can't staff an RJ, let alone 50 today. The small Midwest markets need to realize what they're seeing today was going to happ...
Jump to postPardon me? Let’s recap: You posted a comment that MD80Fs have only recently been acquired. I posted a reply with a link proving that is largely untrue, as induction began 10 years ago. Your secondary argument on 717 capacity did not account for DC9s and MD87s, thus I pointed this fact out as well. ...
Jump to postFWIW, MD80F operations will have commenced 10 years ago as of this upcoming February. So while we may have had a few relatively recent (and surprising) top-off orders from the late DL fleet, the bulk of the active aircraft were acquired some time ago. https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-tra...
Jump to postUnderstanding the aforementioned bear case and it’s higher probability, on the contrarian bull side it is interesting to consider that the MD80F STC occurred when the type was arguably “longer in tooth” relative to the 717 today. Therefore I don’t think the BCF can be completely ruled out. The mark...
Jump to postSince OO holds the EAS contracts rather than Delta, I'd say any of these situations are most likely to occur: 1. DL and OO establish an agreement to allow OO to continue flying CR2s under the DL banner until the extant EAS contracts end. 2. OO drops the DL branding on its EAS routes and instead ope...
Jump to postUnderstanding the aforementioned bear case and it’s higher probability, on the contrarian bull side it is interesting to consider that the MD80F STC occurred when the type was arguably “longer in tooth” relative to the 717 today. Therefore I don’t think the BCF can be completely ruled out. The mark...
Jump to postThe Mall of America has gang problems. It doesn't help that the light rail train line quickly and easily hauls the hoodlums from downtown Minneapolis right to the the mall's very own transit station. I stopped going there years ago. In fact, I can't remember the last time I've been to ANY mall. Lig...
Jump to postAgreed. It will be interesting to see what frequency is used. Specifically, I will be curious if they are just a 1x daily RON CR9, or if it comes back at 2x daily like AZO/MBS/LAN. I still maintain that for those closer-in DTW routes to be palatable to the remaining business travelers, that multipl...
Jump to postIt's funny Delta finished playing this game back in 2019, and maybe foreshadowed all of this. Delta consolidated down to three strong regional carriers, and began transitioning to much of the regional flying to mainline and it's taken United and American until Covid to do this. Delta isn’t finished...
Jump to postLots of people can’t see the writing on the wall but most of these small markets, EAS or not Delta will be out of in a year or two max. The pilot shortage (brought on my the airlines themselves) will speed it up. If a city can’t support 2 or 3 76 seat aircraft it will probably loose all service. Ci...
Jump to postThis remains to be seen what they actually do but will be interesting to see the outcome. Here are some options that I potentially see happening: the OO CR2s in DL colors have a row of Seats pulled to provide increased seat pitch and have a 8F / 38Y configuration. After all, the LF on most these EA...
Jump to postAs a footnote.....with the scheduled ramp repair / rehab over the next couple of years, particularly on A and B, that with the draw-down in regional flying, I am guessing they will continue to utilize up through C27. Thus having sufficient number of gates available while sub-sets of gates on A or B...
Jump to postAs a footnote.....with the scheduled ramp repair / rehab over the next couple of years, particularly on A and B, that with the draw-down in regional flying, I am guessing they will continue to utilize up through C27. Thus having sufficient number of gates available while sub-sets of gates on A or B...
Jump to postThey’re probably not real sandbags. Instead it is a rectangular rubber puck that weighs 50lbs. Stackable I didn’t know mainline aircraft used them but it’s common for regional jets to get “sandbags”. They don’t need to comat them around sending them back to the origin. It goes for the flight that n...
Jump to postThere are a few airlines in the world that fly the 717. Some of the aircraft still are relatively low on cycles, and the airlines that own them have replacements lined up. There are also a few airlines that fly MD80/DC9 family converted freighters. Would it make economical sense for Boeing to have ...
Jump to postDelta resuming HAV effective 4/10/2023. 2x daily from MIA. Surprised they are not doing this from ATL. https://news.delta.com/journey-old-havana-again-delta-resumes-service-cuba-spring-2023 I'm not. ATL-HAV wasn't mainline, it was operated by CR9. Too long and thin of a flight to dump regional reso...
Jump to postThe most asinine part of this is what got us here in the first place. December 7, 1987 PSA flight 1771. David Burke, a disgruntled, terminated PSA employee used his credentials to bypass security with a gun, board a plane that his boss was on, murder the crew and cause the aircraft to crash near Pa...
Jump to postI eat my words regarding DTW-CHA being cut, looks like DL switched it to a CRJ-900 instead. I think the final CRJ-200 cuts from DTW will be AZO and MBS, but I think those will be shifted to MSP. Let’s not be surprised if they begin AZO/MBS-LGA though. Yep….we should expect AZO, LAN, MBS to get move...
Jump to postWonder why KLM doesn't serve DTW with it's own metal. I know the Delta JV covers AMS-DTW, but not even taking over a Delta frequency (or a seasonal service to DTW even) is strange. It’s a mystery that nobody can answer. Yes, I know they have a JV and operationally they’re equivalent. But KL has a v...
Jump to postIt's only on a 321 to get the plane out of BOS for the night, in order to not take up parking there.
Jump to postWoodreau wrote:Crap. I knew I mixed up the numbers somewhere. But it’s been about 20 years.