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hiflyer

Re: United Airlines "Evolution" to Globe Livery coming in April

the Max9 that just did the ferry is in the current paint. the multi-blue and white tail that is raising eyebrows may be to Nordstar. I agree that if a new paint is to appear it may come out of AMA (or VCV or HKG) first.

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Re: Perhaps United is waiting on a new livery because they might change their name?? Thoughts....

Apparently there is a MAX out of the factory with a just the rudder with a new design....rest of fuselage still bare. From what was shown looked like the blues and greens they have been touting as their new colors. And so far gold and red are both out....hearing ALPA not happy losing their gold stri...

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Re: United Extends Lease at IAD

Does this quash the IAD dehub rumors...naaah. Wall Street wanted a strong UA over in EWR to give competition for their own personal flying. Someone pointed out EWR was at capacity....well...isn't the FAA taking the slots off EWR this fall? Haven't carriers been announcing intentions to enter ewr or ...

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hiflyer

Re: Rumor: Monarch to cease ops?

think there may be only 2 UA birds out there total right now...n120ua and n116ua if my tracker is working right...grin

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hiflyer

Re: New Site.

Basic colors are far too pale...from Fonts to graphics....waaay too much pale and light grey. Makes reading slower and harder. The whole board looks washed out....not good as I am not going to change my monitor setting for just one website...but I strongly suspect some of the designers did.

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hiflyer

RE: St Helena - First 737 Arrives (video)

Hmm. A well known favourite no longer in production? Guess those portable air stairs and belt loaders and fuel trucks will have to do just a bit higher

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hiflyer

RE: Return Of The Continental Retrojet!

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/jetmatt777" class="quote" target="_blank">jetmatt777</a> (<a href="#45" class="quote">Reply 45</a>):<br/><i>I don't have any inside knowledge if...

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hiflyer

RE: Lufthansa CFO Resigns

Seems that a lot of the "sudden" CFO departures in the airlines industry precedes bad news coming...<acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym>'s walked right before the Smisek story broke as a quite recent example. <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilie...

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hiflyer

RE: UA Announcement / Event June 2

De-Smisek <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym>? Is it really possible? As the investigation on him continues thru the slow fed process and will probably hit news by this fall any move to move <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> away from Smisek branding would be a smar...

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hiflyer

RE: Damaged Aircraft In AUS

Normally in a expected high wind environment the aircraft is attached to a pushback unit as well as all main chocked and extra fuel loaded. There was an expected frontal passage of storms thru the area this morning showing bright reds on radar. Tower shows 52kt gusts on the metar at 30950z with a st...

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hiflyer

RE: Delta Orders 37 Additional A321s

Why would I think that UA's walking away from the C series and 321 with the firesale prices from Boeing might have prompted the boys from Georgia to walk in and want even better terms and got them?

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hiflyer

RE: Could A 762ER Fly SAN-FRA Profitably?

First off departing west out of KSAN is similar to west out of KSFO...both runways are pointed pretty much to avoid hills...KSAN goes out over the north end of Ocean Beach and KSFO goes out the Pacifica Gap. Neither are pointed due west for this reason....holdover from the old days...grin. However.....

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hiflyer

RE: A Mistake For Boeing To Destroy The 757 Tooling?

IMHO this is one of the top threads that rises from the dead over and over.....and usually from our newer members. Says a lot about the 757. Mercure/Airbus started with a clean sheet with that narrowbody design whereas Boeing has played hug the ground with all the narrowbody 7 series except the 757 ...

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hiflyer

RE: ID Requirements At German Airports

Hmmm...here in the wild wild west (the us) anytime we fly commercial it is gov issued picture id checked first then onto screening for your flight...whether intrastate or interstate.

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hiflyer

RE: Northeast Yellow Birds To Make Come Back?

Always heard rumblings about NE...this website dated 1015 and seems fairly aggressive. The 737 pix appear to be 737max. The northeast US seems pretty full of aircraft now...interesting.

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hiflyer

RE: EK 211 DXB-IAH A380 Diverting To Oslo?

Dang...those outboards really kicked up some dirt at the beginning of the roll. This was already a planned 15p45 overall flight....but apparently the crew continued despite the divert and delay. Interesting.. <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/scratchchin.g...

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hiflyer

RE: How Long Until ULH Is Common And Profitable?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/LAX772LR" class="quote" target="_blank">LAX772LR</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i>I don't think there's any evidence to sugg...

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hiflyer

RE: United Fleet Upgrade Status - Part 28

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/rnav2dlrey" class="quote" target="_blank">rnav2dlrey</a> (<a href="#170" class="quote">Reply 170</a>):<br/><i>as <acronym title="United Airlines...

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hiflyer

RE: EK 211 DXB-IAH A380 Diverting To Oslo?

TRD would have been closer if was an immediate issue...Oslo closest 'major'....turned around after going offshore just past TRD...

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hiflyer

RE: Saudi B772 Engine Crashed By A Jetway

When manufacturers keep putting the 2L door close to the leading edge of the wing root this will always happen...757-200 a prime example. Compounding the problem is that the jetways now have extra stuff hanging off that side...mostly baggage slides attached to the stairs...so the clearances are even...

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hiflyer

RE: Sharing Planes

remember two involving pan am...first was the dl interchange atl iad by dl crew then lhr with pa crew (747-100) and the other was national jfk-mia then points south with panam (b707). Pan Am also did some with Panagra in South America as well. Heard last decade before the <acronym title="United Airl...

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hiflyer

RE: Republic Returning 170s Apr 24th

Couple questions...(of course) who were they flying for? what is replacing them? find it interesting in this age of moving to the 170/175 and up from the 50 seaters and even the cr7's that Republic could not make it work....

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hiflyer

RE: Q2 2016 YoY US Carrier Capacity Changes

Believe <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> deliberately pulled down <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> due to the large reconstruction ongoing on Term 7...however that has let <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym...

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hiflyer

RE: United Fleet Upgrade Status - Part 28

Hate seeing good classic retro liveries go...no matter what carrier. I would suspect another retro will be coming. Since <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> absorbed the PA pacific/lhr/latin america mebbe a pa retro? Of course the Bass scheme would be great as well. NY Air/Texas Intl...

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hiflyer

RE: Concourse G In Miami

Nice recap Don... I also have seen the plans...albeit a few years ago...where G is supposed to be torn down and become a just a nub for commuter aircraft and extra aircraft parking between F and H. I also remember hearing that G cannot be modernized without a total rebuild of the fire systems so the...

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hiflyer

RE: United Makes IAD-GRU Seasonal

So now march and route is still selling 5 out of 7 days a week....wonder what has changed?

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hiflyer

RE: United 90th Anniversary.

Would be great to see the Bass paint scheme one more time....737-700 would be great with it....

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hiflyer

RE: Are United Express's EMB-120's Retired?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/F9Animal" class="quote" target="_blank">F9Animal</a> (<a href="#12" class="quote">Reply 12</a>):<br/><i>Nothing beat flying into <acronym title=...

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hiflyer

RE: United Now Subject Of 3 Govt Investigations

The SEC investigation adding onto the NYPA original just adds to the mess, Rumbling that it may be looking at the <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym>/DL slot swaps and the follow-on closure of <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> <acronym title="New York - John F. Kenn...

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RE: Pan Am 73 Hijack In Karachi

Remember going aboard the aircraft after it's multi stop low altitude ferry to <acronym title="Miami - International (Wilcox Field / 36th Street / Pan American Field) (MIA / KMIA), USA - Florida">MIA</acronym>. Those are images I had forgotten till this thread. Later flown to a mtc overhaul vendor i...

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hiflyer

RE: United Makes IAD-GRU Seasonal

Suspect bad feed from poor performance commuter carriers (Mesa Transstates Commuteair) driving traffic away to other carriers and other routings. <acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (IAD / KIAD), USA - Virginia">IAD</acronym> has now lost 3 longhaul 777 flights since Jan 1 KWI <acronym...

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hiflyer

RE: OAG Changes 1/22/2016: AA+CLT-SJC,Out PHX-YEG/YYC

pamam330 think we saw a taste of that in UA's 4th quarter results as well. Situation re refugees and such may have to change sooner than later to get the tourism flow up to full.

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hiflyer

RE: Allegiant COO Resigns

Find it curious that Spirit's head suddenly up and left and now Allegiant,,,,

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hiflyer

RE: 100 UA Flight Cancellations Today

Every year there is weather during christmas...and every year airlines ramp up their schedules...reduce standby aircraft...maximize crew duty...and end up with hours of tv new video of standed customers. It's a Christmas Tradition!

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hiflyer

RE: Pan Am And The Boeing 767

PanAm always looked at cargo...the 767 with the smaller containers due smaller fuselage diameter was not compatible with the 747 fleet which was the backbone...however the A300 was and Airbus was offering great terms on the birds in the 80's. As a fyi all follow-on pax widebodies by Boeing and Airbu...

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hiflyer

RE: UA To Leave DXB

First off both the <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> kwi and dxb 772 flights appear to have been routing far longer than they used to with arrival times showing in flightaware of 60-90 mins late routinely. However the <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym> fl...

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hiflyer

RE: UA To Begin TPA-SFO?

Just as a point...<acronym title="Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International (FLL / KFLL), USA - Florida">FLL</acronym> does draw from <acronym title="Air Namibia">SW</acronym> Florida using I75 (aka Alligator Alley)....for those both looking for LCC and Networked carriers the prices can make it wort...

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hiflyer

RE: Where Are The 9 A321 Of UTAir (Russia)?

Methinks some carrier gonna get a quick fleet of 321's in the near term unless they have been not stored intact.

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hiflyer

RE: Why Does A FedEX 777 Keep Circling My House?

think he needs to look at his roof on the barn...obviously the local kids did a Halloween prank and painted the fedex logo up there.....

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hiflyer

RE: Gov Christie To UA: No Cuba From EWR

Agreed Chrisite cannot make route decisions....however facilities are his domain and with the revolving door at <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> right now over those facilities...one could expect changes....on both sides as the investigations struggle on. The board seems quite wil...

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hiflyer

RE: UA Board Weighs Replacing Munoz

And twice now the board has bypassed the two senior Smisek staff...Jim Compton and Greg Hart. First to bring in Munoz and now Brett Hart...a nonmember of the boys from texas club and well entrenched in Chicago business. In the wake of investigations and such perhaps a lawyer at this time is a good i...

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hiflyer

RE: UA Board Weighs Replacing Munoz

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/UA444" class="quote" target="_blank">UA444</a> (<a href="#60" class="quote">Reply 60</a>):<br/><i>His drones have caused enough damage. </i></fo...

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RE: UA Board Weighs Replacing Munoz

First off this is still Smiseks board....which may be adding to the problem. He put Munoz on in 2004 and Meyer in 2003 by the way. It was publicly stated that Smisek put Meyer and Munoz into their current positions on his departure. Secondly right after Smiseks departure it was released that <acrony...

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hiflyer

RE: United CEO Munoz In Hospital - Heart Attack

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PlanesNTrains" class="quote" target="_blank">PlanesNTrains</a> (<a href="#69" class="quote">Reply 69</a>):<br/><i>Besides, with the way people a...

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hiflyer

RE: 4 Engine Boeing 737?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/embrider" class="quote" target="_blank">embrider</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i>but doesn't the 707 have same cross sect...

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RE: UA Subs 767 For 747 In SF Fleet Week Airshow?

Jeffie needed the 744 for moving his payout? Seriously...being a 744 router at <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> or <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> is not a long term job...the one that went tech the day before looks like forced the change. The 773's prolly can'...

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RE: Delta Buys 11 B777 From Singapore?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/lightsaber" class="quote" target="_blank">lightsaber</a> (<a href="#92" class="quote">Reply 92</a>):<br/><i>My question is, what cargo doors doe...

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RE: Dulles Gates

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/DiscoverCSG" class="quote" target="_blank">DiscoverCSG</a> (<a href="#36" class="quote">Reply 36</a>):<br/><i>I vaguely recall that there are ai...

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hiflyer

RE: Can UA Fix Its' Flight Operations?

YEs...spring and summer <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> was scheduled to fail...IMHO far not enough lag time to cover delays...and almost nil spare aircraft/crews to sub in. Add in the heavy push to get wifi installed and aircraft pulled for that on top of routine and nonroutine ...

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hiflyer

RE: Future Of UA At IAD?

First off...yup the metro is within a few miles now with convenient bus service for the last little leg...it is doubtful PATH will ever get to <acronym title="Newark - Liberty International (Metropolitan) (EWR / KEWR), USA - New Jersey">EWR</acronym> now. Secondly <acronym title="Washington - Dulles...

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