CrankyFlier posted an article about NYC growth and mentioned PHL at length in comparison to the NY market https://crankyflier.com/2023/03/23/american-loves-a-fortress-network-so-why-is-it-growing-new-york-city/ Found it very interesting Figured AA doesn't have to do much PHL to keep the fortress hu...
Jump to postDoes anyone know if QR will return to LAS? They never flew there did they? They announced it but never started from memory. Like many other cities which QR "announced" (but never operated), LAS never saw QR service sold nor flown. Never say never, but the chance of DOH-LAS ever actually o...
Jump to posthttps://www.airliners.net/photo/TransBrasil/Boeing-727-185C/5040243?qsp=eJwtjEEKwkAMRe%2BStRsRK%2B2uXkAXXiBkPnZgbIckC0vp3U0Hd4/3%2BH8jWWbH119rBQ1kYJWJTlRZ%2BWM0bMRZS56PeO36Wx/NFvX7GiKxYxRBdaS/f2iCHgkm7eYdy3MA9NmYLl34lK0Wbh9wzoX2/QeMvS0b Sorry, but I think everyone has it wrong. They are all just cop...
Jump to postI haven't seen this posted here but well-known PHL photographer Paul Kanagie passed away five days ago as the result of a stroke he suffered. He is a huge loss to our community. http://www.flickr.com/photos/runway27r/ He also had many images on our website. Sad to hear. His web site now gets direct...
Jump to postPart of the problem is civil aviation is really getting boring. If you consider that 3/4 (or in some cases, 100%) of what you are going to see at and airport is the A320 and 737 family of aircraft, no wonder there are less and less airliners on the Home Page. Consolidation of the airline industry al...
Jump to postCan any of the UAL folks tell me how short lived my celebrating 4 UAL 777's at MCO today will last?? Im guessing not very long lol.. IAH,DEN,ORD,and IAD all joining in on the fun. 1 week?? 2 weeks? I know the ORD service has been ongoing for a while now.
Jump to postLast year a Volga-Dnepr -124 landed in Toronto and was immediately impounded due to sanctions Canada had against Russia. Did that plane ever fly out? Also it is my understanding that another was impounded in Leipzig as well. Did ADB takeover those two aircraft as Dmytro Antonov appears to imply in h...
Jump to postDidnt a similar event occur recentley when a DHL 777 took off from JFK fully loaded and the first officer retracted the flaps during early climbout initializing a stall ? I did my own research with no help from the experts....It was Southern not DHL https://onemileatatime.com/southern-air-777-stall...
Jump to postDidnt a similar event occur recentley when a DHL 777 took off from JFK fully loaded and the first officer retracted the flaps during early climbout initializing a stall ?
Jump to postWhats interesting is just when COVID hit in March of 2020, ELAL just started and suspended new limited service to Orlando MCO right up the road.
Entering FLL makes total sense now with AA gone on the MIA route.
Previously discussed here.
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Looks like NORSE is restarting up with service to LGW on May 25th...
Jump to postNice and I see Avelo flew out today as well to PHX Today we have GlobalX, Atlas Air, Omni Air, Avelo all going to PHX Plus lots of private jets. Who are all these people? :o This is why I never believe the claims that PHL punches below it's weight because it's a poor metro area (as some have claime...
Jump to postDoha #3? It is continued proof of the disservice AA provides for PHL. Really pathetic.
Jump to posthttps://simpleflying.com/coulson-aviati ... 737-crash/
Looks like it climbed to 1800 feet after a retardant drop and went down. Pilots appear to be ok...
Is there regularly scheduled 777 service between ORD and LAS or was this an upgauge for the Pro Bowl? LAS has some of the most unusual equipment types scheduled vs other cities. Yes, the ORD 772 is daily. In the past month, they were also using a 772 on the IAD route, but that recently vanished. DL...
Jump to postDidn't Air Micronesia, under CO, fly GUM-DPS? I knew they flew CNS too. Yes, I took that flight back in the mid 90s. It was operated by an Air Mike DC-10. I then connected onto the 727 "island hopper" GUM-HNL. Made for a very long travel "day", but boy was it worth it! I got off...
Jump to postSadly, throughout the world, people still treat animals as animals with having very little thought or care for their suffering and eventual death. Look no further than what Putin has done in Ukraine. While I don't want this post to turn into a political debate, there are tons of pets roaming the fre...
Jump to postI would think that it would mainly be Dutch coming to Disneyworld, not locals flying to Amsterdam. And a whole swath of connections over AMS. For the time being, Delta has the seasonal MCO-AMS-MCO route working OK, with load factors reported to be in the mid-high 80% range. I have every reason to b...
Jump to postSadly the 727 is still sitting on the ramp at TLH, not sure how much longer it will sit before being fixed.
Jump to postHere is is. It was by the airport in Dublin.
https://twitter.com/blankbaby/status/987451518327644160
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/travel/city-breaks-philadelphia-brand-usa/ Thought this was a decent article from The Times (UK) promoting travel to Philly via British Airways That was good to see. Don't see that often. I recently saw a billboard image online for Aer Lingus also promoting PHL. Might hav...
Jump to postThomas3125 thank you that was very informative. Looks like I waited to long. the 748 would have been my alternate choice.
Jump to postSorry to repeat this question but I was hoping there is an LH expert here, I am planning a trip to Frankfurt in the Fall of 23 and want to know if LH will reinstate the 744 back to MCO Orlando. Eurowings A330 is showing on the LH website, if that is the case I have no interest.
Jump to postInteresting that they departed JFK, I have been spotting there for years and dont think I have ever seen a light single go out of there. Isnt that quite unusual? Are the fees high?
Jump to postI would say PHL was better off under US than AA with your examples. I’m sure PHL travelers, the airport and businesses would rather have back the international destinations in Europe, Caribbean, and elsewhere in the country that’s been lost, than gaining one stop access to Longview, Killeen, Tyler ...
Jump to postDoes anyone know if and when LH will resume mainline service to MCO Orlando and if so, what equipment? So sad to see the 744 flights gone and replaced with Eurowing/Finnair acft.
Jump to postIIRC, the MD-80s were just too big (meaning capacity) for the interisland operation.
Jump to postDoes anyone know why when flying to and from Mojave to the UK, this plane routes through Ft. Lauderdale both ways just for a fuel stop? Why FLL it seems like it would be quite out of the way.
Jump to postI agree. Anything less than 7,000ft is a bit tight for a widebody. They should have landed runway 27. No need for a widebody to use 22. Well I guess I have learned something on this forum that a widebody is very dangerous on shorter runways. Really everyone? I have watched A321s, CRJ-100/200s and o...
Jump to postsorry if discussed but I missed it, why is Orlando MCO -AMS being discontinued on March 24th? I flew it twice and it was pretty full both times.This was new service too. It was always intended to be winter seasonal. Thank you for the update, Interesting that a route is winter sesonal when I would i...
Jump to postsorry if discussed but I missed it, why is Orlando MCO -AMS being discontinued on March 24th? I flew it twice and it was pretty full both times.This was new service too.
Jump to postAbsolutely horrendous, compared to the previous livery that actually had some character. Something severely lacking in many corporate identities today.
Jump to postHas PHL ever had service to Asia? It must be one of the biggest markets in the US with no service. I would think a JAL connection at Tokyo would be an obvious connection opportunity, even if only for the PHL market! No, never. However, USAirways did announce PHL- NRT at some point and were planning...
Jump to postAre you serious? If there is a strong headwind, landing on a 6600' runway can be comparable to landing on a 10,000' runway in still air. You cannot just look at runway length alone. There is a difference between an 8000' runway and a 6500' runway. Especially on a widebody. With many operators, land...
Jump to postI really do think the plane should have diverted to DUS/BRU instead of landing at AMS. This is just overall a situation that could have been avoided. Why risk a flight that needs to land on such a short runway. A widebody aircraft shouldn't be landing with only 6000 feet. Short runway landings can ...
Jump to postWhat's a CF versus an F? The DC-8 62H started out as passenger I presume. Just guessing: CF - Converted Freighter F - Freighter I don't think that any DC-8 was ever built as a freighter fresh out of the factory. All the DC-8 freighters that you see were built originally as passenger variants, unlik...
Jump to postI have flown Emirates 4 times from MCO and all flights nearly full, I'm hoping they switch to A380 in 2023.
Jump to postlooks like someone started a dedicated thread to the accident an hour after I posted it here..
Jump to postLooks like there was an accident involving a Piedmont employee working around an Envoy EMB 175 at Montgomery Airport. Not a good way to end or start the year.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/montgomery-a ... 05312.html
Maybe I’m missing something very simple, but can someone please explain to me how thousands of pieces of luggage show up at airports across the country with no passengers.. how did the bags go from one airport to another without the passenger on the plane? 1. Passenger flew; bags didn’t make it ont...
Jump to postLatam also has a ton of daily cargo flights out of MIA as well...
Jump to postMaybe I’m missing something very simple, but can someone please explain to me how thousands of pieces of luggage show up at airports across the country with no passengers.. how did the bags go from one airport to another without the passenger on the plane?
Jump to postDoes anyone know where the JSX flights depart from at MCO? Is it from the Westside general aviation side? Also, I believe it was mentioned earlier, but United will be offerering a few nonstop extra session flights direct from MCO to LAS for the CES convention. Sure would be nice if those become annu...
Jump to postAtlas 744 for the Cheeze It Bowl, Orlando
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/GTI ... /KOKC/KMCO
Winter Storm now hitting SDF. Lots of wide-bodies diverting to PIT.
Jump to posthttps://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-airport-ceo-atif-saeed-travel-experience-2026-world-cup-20221216.html This is an inquirer interview with the new airport CEO Atif Saeed Couple of interesting points, the airport is trying to prep for the 2026 world cup and the airport master plan is expect...
Jump to postIs it me, or should we have a separate section for plane mishaps, accidents and or crashes. The topic here looked pretty bad, and we think the worst, but it turns out its a light acft with 2 injuries.
Jump to postLooking at photos of Southwest and other airlines, it seems that the very early production MAX planes had markings very similar to the 737NG (very angular) but starting in 2018 the slightly larger areas with rounded lines around the back of the top of the pylon seem to become the norm. Boeing proba...
Jump to postI’d like to see pics of the differences. The main marking is to outline an area allowed to have cold soaked fuel frost. I hope this works. Trying to find images. I have found two variations but having trouble uploading the third style. https://cdn.plnspttrs.net/17168/n8704q-southwest-airlines-boein...
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