[quote="khobar95"]I saw where Phoenix Sky Harbor was shut down this morning due to low ceilings. I'd not heard of that before yesterday (or day before) when they shut KPHX down for the same reason. I "know" ground stops happen sometimes where there are thunderstorms in the area (...
Jump to post...and ORD-HEL& DFW-MUC There was also ORD-DUS, during the Air Berlin days. DFW-MUC was funded by dropping PHL-MUC, but DFW-MUC never launched, due to the pandemic. DFW-MUC was flown the summer of 2019, it launched alongside DUB. Dublin has obviously proven successful. Here's the article noting...
Jump to posttheVagabond wrote:At DFW Terminal C, I see dirt moving near Gate C28. I assume for the new extension. Progress!
This runway will take longer because it's 200 feet wide as opposed to the previous ones which were 150. Hope that helps. Which leads to a question I’ve been curious about. Why are the inboard runways (17R and 18L), which are used mainly for takeoffs, 200 feet wide and the outboard runways, used for...
Jump to postWhat is the construction on the south east apron, and terminal A apron on the northeast side? Is DFW reconstructing the inner taxiway in front of terminal C and D? The place is lit up like a Christmas tree out on the field with the blue, green, white and red lights flashing on the field. Southeast ...
Jump to postWhat is the construction on the south east apron, and terminal A apron on the northeast side? Is DFW reconstructing the inner taxiway in front of terminal C and D? The place is lit up like a Christmas tree out on the field with the blue, green, white and red lights flashing on the field. Southeast ...
Jump to postWhat is the construction on the south east apron, and terminal A apron on the northeast side? Is DFW reconstructing the inner taxiway in front of terminal C and D? The place is lit up like a Christmas tree out on the field with the blue, green, white and red lights flashing on the field. Southeast ...
Jump to postAnd yet, the airport will soon break ground on 9 new gates and is planning terminal F, so they must know something about airfield capacity. There are hours of the day with literally nothing going on. 7:30-8:30 and 9:30-1030 am, along with 1:30-2:30 pm there's very little activity. Yes, the airport ...
Jump to postMcKinney city leaders have been talking with airlines and possible service to TKI. If those airlines had said "not interested," then city leaders would not be thinking about wasting $200 million. With a current catchment of over 1 million, and a projected catchment of about 3.5 million wi...
Jump to postFor the folks wanting to vilify the WN crew, I'll just say this: ATC should never be putting a crew in that position in the first place. The controller created this chain of events. To make WN 50% responsible to me is nuts. Do I think they should have questioned the clearance, yes I do. But to equat...
Jump to postThere were a multitude of other issues here and definitely a broken rule or more, but I don't think FedEx being cleared to land with Southwest cleared for takeoff is one of them. But that's not what happened. Fedex was cleared to land, THEN Southwest was cleared to taxi onto the runway and take off...
Jump to postYet, you probably have zero issues with LHR tower giving a conditional clearance such as " behind traffic on a 2-mile final, runway 9R line up and wait". Assuming they still do that, which last time I heard tapes they did. The FAA did away with it years ago, because they had concerns abou...
Jump to postStandard phraseolgy is often quicker and less congesting in the R/T than the non-standard stuff that's a regular occurence in the US. Heathrow cram in the traffic without any fuss and arguably with more non-native English speakers than anywhere in the US. Ultimately two issues, big one is that the ...
Jump to postAny idea if AA has aircraft out of service due to hail damage at DFW? Over 500 cancelations today systemwide. That’s too many to just chalk up to thunderstorms. Not when there's almost no arrivals or departures for a good 3 hours, and many of your diversions time out. It's gonna take AA a few days ...
Jump to postCan someone explain to me why they’d use 31R for takeoff over 31L when ‘Left’ is slightly (300 ft) longer? 31L go arounds can easily be turned west to de-conflict with 31R departures (of which two headings were used). In the other scenario, turning a 31R arrival east into DAL doesn't work well for ...
Jump to postCan someone explain to me why they’d use 31R for takeoff over 31L when ‘Left’ is slightly (300 ft) longer? 31L go arounds can easily be turned west to de-conflict with 31R departures (of which two headings were used). In the other scenario, turning a 31R arrival east into DAL doesn't work well for ...
Jump to postAnyone know why Runway 18L/36R and 18R/36L haven't been used in a couple weeks? It looks like the two diagonal runways are getting a lot of new love. 18R/36L is still undergoing construction. 18L/36R is being used for takeoffs/landings from time to time. Traffic is still at relative levels so 13R/3...
Jump to postFor those interested, the UPS DFW hub today saw an ABX 762, 2 WGN MD11s , ATI 763 (still in it's former AAL livery so it looked very at home) and a recent arrived GTI 744.
Jump to postN756CA is back from Shanghai, going PVG-ANC-ORD today. The 747 is now awaiting its ORD-ANC late afternoon sector and presumably another overseas trip to Asia. And now 702CA is stuck at ANC for 24 hours. I figure these girls are gonna have a little teething difficulty working right away at this temp...
Jump to postAlright, what's going on at AA??. Bringing Americans home? AA is still planning on running flights on some international routes, but cargo only. If nothing else, at least (1) cargo is still flowing and (2) pilots are still working towards keeping their type ratings active (especially on the widebod...
Jump to postI know there was a United 777 there Saturday to charter Penn State. I know a 77W flew MDT-DFW and initial suspicion was for Cotton Bowl. However wouldn't Penn State just charter two 738s from SCE instead? This could be something different. Nah, there was a UA 738 that also flew into UNV. To add to ...
Jump to postIn the last week, DFW has seen 2 77Ws, 763, 764, and 789 from UA. Combo of bowl charters and diversions. Funny seeing a 77W going to MDT. Might be more that I didn't witness too.
Jump to postDid Omni base one of its 777s at AFW? I seem to see N828AX on the ground there quite regularly, and it's not like the airport has extensive passenger services available. Omni moved their maintenance ops from DFW to AFW a month or two ago. I imagine DFW made sense when they flew more troop charters ...
Jump to postTell that to the victims of Avianca 52, USAir 1493/SkyWest 5569, Aeromexico 498, and PSA 182. Why don't you give us a list of incidents in the last ten years and get back to us? You also a big user of pay phones? It's almost 2020. Do you gripe about auto manufacturers today as crap and talk about t...
Jump to post[photoid][/photoid] He was nasty, as is the case with most ATC in the US in/around major airports. They are generally rude, unhelpful, hysterical, and cause crashes to happen. The only good controller I’ve seen/heard so far was Patrick Harten who helped US Airways 1549. As an airline pilot that's f...
Jump to postThe reality is AA pads it's schedule for the 20 minutes you may await takeoff. Taxi-out isn't padded for 20 minutes. In a nut shell the team that creates the block times takes the average taxi-out for that given departure time over the prior twelve or twenty four months and averages it out to rough...
Jump to postLong departure queues don't bother me. Whether going back to the gate because there is a tech issue, whether excessive amount of traffic, or weather related...I don't care...doesn't bother me. The only time when a long wait on the tarmac will bother me is if it will make me miss a connection upon a...
Jump to postReally? I've had nothing but good experiences on AA this summer (although we waited 30 minutes to takeoff out of DFW, but I blame the airport for that). Delta has also been very good to me this summer in almost all categories except the DGS agents at DTW, what horrid sorry excuses for "human&q...
Jump to postWhy didn’t the airport close again last night? There was a lightning strike right next to my plane (over grapevine lake) There was a 2 HR ground stop from roughly 7:30-9:39 last night. I know but there should’ve been another one around the time I landed If you ever wonder why you're not taken serio...
Jump to postblueflyer wrote:Meanwhile, Lufty's FRA-DFW that was also diverted to IAH made it to DFW around 6p yesterday, however it has not left back to FRA yet. Did they choose to delay the departure until today, or is it AOG?
Ishrion, I was directing that at Planes4You, not you. The person who seems really knowledgeable about all things DFW except what terminal they're flying out of. I don't understand the obsession with CAN. AA doesn't fly to every oneworld hub, and CZ isn't even in it. Not to mention, does DFW really o...
Jump to postExcept AA already flies on half of those routes the demand is gone on them.However LATAM is planning on adding more routes so who knows So... considering DFW is AA’s superhub they would most likely do the same as the other routes and fly to CAN themselves IF they wanted to. They’re not restricted b...
Jump to postThe satellite E terminal seems to be shaping up pretty well. Passing by today I could see they finished installation of all the jetbridges, pulling excess from terminals B and D. Busy summer ahead! I also noticed the jetways from other terminals at the E satellite. How is it there were excess jetwa...
Jump to postSo AA wants an ATL style layout after all? I believe it was just a few months ago I was vilified for suggesting this. Appears for E and future F. Its going to be tricky to rebuild E with current tenants. That’s just phase 1. If you scroll down and look at the remaining plan, it calls for constructi...
Jump to postI wonder if there will be any other additional changes to the terminals at DFW beside Terminals C and F AA is already spending billions at LAX, ORD, CLT, and DCA. The airport already spent billions on TRIP and has endless airfield work to do. Pretty sure it's F and some lipstick on the pig that is ...
Jump to postI wonder if there will be any other additional changes to the terminals at DFW beside Terminals C and F AA is already spending billions at LAX, ORD, CLT, and DCA. The airport already spent billions on TRIP and has endless airfield work to do. Pretty sure it's F and some lipstick on the pig that is ...
Jump to postNope. All came from the US Airways side of the merger, or LUS as it's often called on here. If you searched the N numbers you'd see them in their previous liveries. Hope that helps.
Jump to postThe project was supposed to be done the week prior to Thanksgiving, so it obviously ran a little late, but it was really on time if you know how construction works around here. 18R is up for the same treatment next year. I'm certain any lessons learned from 17C won't enter the conversation about 18...
Jump to postI was there in early October and it had just closed. No idea it would be that long. Guess 17L-35R took most of the traffic The flow rate was reduced combined with an increase in traffic to 13R. 17L is already at capacity during many of the banks so it really doesn't offer much on the way of assista...
Jump to postTell us more about the "capricious" controller issues. We're all interested about which of our former co-workers was fired, and how their attitude issues negatively impacted the flow rate.
Jump to postNW flow is pretty rare. It's something we only do once or twice a year and generally try to avoid as much as possible because it kills the arrival rate and correspondingly disrupts the AAL operations so far as connecting banks go. 31L prop departures are standard, and hardly unheard of for jets. Jet...
Jump to postWhile the Atco did make a mistake, his workload there was insane. That needs to be addressed. The pilots plugged the hole in the cheese there, but it could have been a disaster. I have a hard time agreeing with any of this. The controller was busy, but if you think his workload was "insane&quo...
Jump to postThe work is already done, although it is not yet open. At this point, it's simply a hardstand ramp with underground fueling points. It will open up the parking in the low D alley where much of that is already done, and add additional parking spaces. Anything beyond that is speculation. No terminal h...
Jump to postJust to add to the OP, not sure what is going on with the AA 772 fleet, but the 77W has been doing some subs for the last couple of weeks out of DFW. I've seen it assigned to SCL and AMS, and there may have been others. Seemed to start after a couple of South America flights were delayed 12+ hours. ...
Jump to postI think that there are several factors at play here. 1. If AA wants to grow the operation, what other available gates are there? What motivation is there for the other airlines at terminal E to move to the satellite, especially when AA is willing to invest $25 million in additional upgrades? Somethi...
Jump to postEh, I wouldn't exactly call it your standard unstabilized missed approach. You're normally calling that around '1000, specific to company and approach of course. They're essentially shooting a visual in questionable visibility, pop out of the weather and realize inside of a 1/4 mile final that they'...
Jump to postFrame 904, one of the three in the above picture, did an engine run at DFW yesterday evening. Flight 8904 left for FLL shortly thereafter with what I assumed to be the same ship. Filed altitude was FL290, in keeping with the restriction.
Jump to postAAL79 from LHR diverted into OKC. Lots of airborne holding out to the east, arrivals were starting up again around 9 after about an hour or so of none. It's going to be a long night for quite a few folks. Just got some BigLeague hail here at my housr in South Frisco. Some neighbors have reported in ...
Jump to postI suspect this ties into Terminal F development. Phased reconstruction of partially-occupied structures can be significantly more expensive/complex than new construction. Perhaps the plan is to build Terminal F first, then vacate C entirely prior to remediation/demolition. If F is planned by 2025, ...
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