-7 powered 727-200s must have been real slugs at 172000lbs At Continental we had -9 powered -200s with a MGTOW of 172500 and they were hardly overpowered Our -15 powered aircraft had a MGTOW of 190,500, they were good performers There were two or three -17 powered 727-200s at Air Mic in GUM. Seems ...
Jump to post…On paper, it might temporarily look like a savings on flight plans, but all aircraft actual burns are recorded in a database and corrections fed back in for future flights. Eventually, the system will end up right back at correct fuel burns. And if that does not happen quickly enough, pilots will ...
Jump to postWhat is everyone’s opinion about the MAX-10, will she ultimately get the green light eventually or will she be totally scrapped? I know other airlines have ordered the -10 but should that line ever open up, would UA get preferential treatment and bump other deliveries back? It’s actually very sad t...
Jump to postI know of at least one carrier that deselects GPS for arrivals into TLV.
Jump to postPossible that they are placeholdee schedules with smallest reasonable widebody put in there with final aircraft to be chosen later? The reason behind the 777 wind down is due to I tied shifting the 777 flying out to SFO. They are displacing over 200 EWR 777 pilots. The 756 fleet will be picking up ...
Jump to post'LHRMM team is now able to work inside a hangar for the first time. Thanks to the entire team and all the support groups who worked on this project, and thanks especially for your patience while all the details were worked out. This is a huge improvement and long overdue, now that we are doing A Ch...
Jump to post#0121 Good News. Thought she might be scrapped... Aircraft RTS in Work. Both engines were robbed. Engines now Installed and torqued. Hook ups in work and servicing in work. All other robbed parts either on hand or on order finally. That is good news, thank you. 0121 was one of my favourites to fly ...
Jump to postThey did a great job, but the question will be coming: why go back to CHA with 7,400 feet of runway and go off the end? TYS is right up the road with 10,000 feet ATL is close with over 12,000 feet. So, too, are BNA and CLT. One, it looks like the FDX crew did a great job. Two, their checklist might...
Jump to postI am surprised to hear that a critical emergency infrastructure is abused in this way by people who are supposed to be "professionals". Isn't there 123.45 for that kind of stuff? Hendric Who said it was only professional pilots doing this? One the worst abuses I’ve heard on 121.5 was a La...
Jump to postThat’s fantastic news. I used to fly that a lot when I lived there. It’s almost always been a CR2, though occasionally it would get bumped up to a 175. I believe AA is now flying A319s to DFW, so good that UA is more or less matching that. Which aircraft will be used for the mainline service betwee...
Jump to postIs there a reason United doesn't fly either LAX-FRA or LAX-MUC on their own metal? Seems strange to me that they just increased LAX-LHR to double daily yet still have zero flights from LAX to any partner hub in Europe. My company (which is based in LA) has a corporate contract with United, and I as...
Jump to postUA reducing EWR-LHR from 7 daily to 6. UA 14 and UA 905 are being dropped for the Summer 2023 season through September. Wondering if the slot is going to support another LHR flight temporarily on the LHR end. Upgauges to keep seat count about flat? Did IAD pick up another LHR turn? I think I heard ...
Jump to postSTT757 wrote:Speaking of Hawaii, United has EWR-OGG nonstop with 767-300s. What will replace that? Does the 788 or 789 have the performance to operate the OGG-EWR leg?
wacgocrazy wrote:AMA Paint flights:
767-300 6462 (N662UA) 2751/Dec6 IAH-AMA going in.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N662UA
A319 4042 (N849UA) 2759/Dec6 AMA-IAH
Coming out with EvoBlue
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N849UA
Here is the union press release https://www.alpa.org/ual/-/media/UAL/Files/eLibraries/Communications/press-release/2022/ta-rejected-2022-11-01.pdf Its been interesting to watch the fall out with union leadership losing their positions one by one with recall elections for having sent this TA to memb...
Jump to postWell, the extended date for the voting on Tentative Agreement 1.0 is fast approaching with no rumours of a T.A. 2.0. Will the union release the results of TA1 or just sweep it under the rug? Given UALs Q3 financial results (released yesterday), it’s going to be hard to claim hardship for UAL.
Jump to postamtravels wrote:Man I hope they find a way/a need to order some 777-X. UA is clearly the only one of the legacies that would even think for a second about ordering the X, so I’m holding out hope.
CALMSP wrote:I see Paris as well. So that will be interesting, will it be DEN or will it be IAH?
DXB is shown again.......hmmmmmm.
So I guess that UAL isn’t too upset about not having a hub in Florida right now.
I am watching the news closely and was pleased to get a message from a first cousin in Tampa this morning. He reported damage in the yard only.
Kirby is faced with entering into a new contract which will raise your labor costs just when it looks like the economy may tank, the value of UA stock is down 28% ytd and the cost of new debt has doubled since January 1. Yikes A tale of woe is going to be a tough sale to UAL employees: On September...
Jump to postNot sure what the master plan is going to come up with, but I think a taxiway around the end of the west runway (4L/22R) would work well. EWR normally has departing traffic take 4L/22R and arriving traffic on 4R/22L. The arriving traffic has to hold short of the inner runway after landing. The loca...
Jump to postPinto wrote:gkirk wrote:What do we think the chances of UA restarting EWR-GLA/MAN?
Pretty good in 2024/2025. UA just needs the A321XLRs to arrive for them to start reopening those secondary destinations.
The numbers i'm hearing are 400, with a doubling of FOs in 5 years. The only concern is that UA will not be able to find enough qualified instructors to get this large of an upscale thru. That is why they are hiring other airlines instructors; most recent B6. It limits the other airlines growth and...
Jump to postintotheair wrote:The UA 744 made a handful of visits to IAH, but it was a pretty rare event.
Looks like UAX will start to wind down it's ZW agreement in 2023, starting in March as per the 8-K. https://sec.report/Document/0001193125-22-225815/?fbclid=IwAR1iV7u-tAQlGsQq_Ari054j4ZD6Id1eJ8exCr3t10ddB1myOf3fqSIqZR8 At about 40 active aircraft in the fleet (albeit at an abysmal utilization), tha...
Jump to postRefer to the UPS fleet thread. IIRC, one is expected to be ex-AirBridge.
Jump to postI wouldn't call this off-topic as the proposed weight increase is certainly a Scope concession. What did UAL ALPA get in return for agreeing to the weight increase? To answer your questions, yes, this additional weight would likely resolve a lot of the weight restrictions the CRJ-550 suffers from. ...
Jump to postKnow a couple pilots in Germantown. Used to work At DL and UA. They think they died and went to heaven. Not everybody is going to be happy. Do you these pilots fly for a living? Do they fly for FedEx now? Or did they leave for DL and UA and have since retired? A little context would be helpful here.
Jump to postSERMN routes have been published as a route option for short hauls leaving the NYC airports most days during the past week for thunderstorms and ATC staffing. The altitude restriction is meant to keep the aircraft in less busy airspace. Usually SERMN and related tunneling playbook routes like DUCT,...
Jump to postIsn't the proof of the pudding the complete lack of incidents since the Max returned to service? I sure haven't heard of anything. Just because no one died yet doesnt make the max incident free, especially if there are weird ones like fuel in the cabin and no one knowing why Please look online for ...
Jump to post…In short, EWR is running at or above capacity on a normal day. When weather is impacting the airport and/or arrival/departure routes, the entire operation goes down the toilet. I am of the opinion that EWR needs to return to level 3 status, where the FAA directly slot-controls the airport. United ...
Jump to postFiscAutTecGarte wrote:Congradulations to Boeing on that.... Nice top-up order.
UA444 wrote:Never heard of this before. Would love to see a photo of a Saul Bass 757 though.
So I follow this industry enough to know that labor is very seniority driven, and that the larger planes tend to go more senior. So I was a bit confused when I read this: https://www.instagram.com/p/CaktIADveEQ/?utm_medium=copy_link Swayne was recently a captain on Envoy’s E145, and now he has been...
Jump to postI can remember flying on the "River Route" in 1985 GRI-LBF-BFF-DEN on Frontier Horizon (Convair 580) and also in 1984 on Rocky Mountain Air Dash 7 (GRI-LNK-OMA), and it was like a bus. Every stop, a handful of people got off, another handful of people got on. But the planes were pretty fu...
Jump to postIn addition to aircraft purchases and traditional leases, there are also Equipment Trust Certificates (ETCs or Enhanced ETCs (EETCs)) that operate like a lease-to-own transaction. As I understand it, the ETCs - and eventually, EETCs - originated in the railroad industry before spreading to the airli...
Jump to postPinto wrote:Any idea where we might see them deployed initially?
UA have only just upgauged both LAX/SFO-SYD to 77Ws in December with Australians allowed to return home, not sure how many pax are actually on them. There were some 77Ws earlier in the pandemic for freight services. Mainly 789s for the majority of the time though. I haven't checked this, but didn't...
Jump to postWould a 737 of the same size as the 737-100 be viable today? No. The economics of the -200 were simply better.
Research the sales numbers of the 737-600. It was the smallest of the 737NGs and it didn't sell well. But even the -600 (and the -500) were bigger than the -100.
acomp wrote:Anyone know why UA sends multiple PW 772s from the mainland to Xiamen/Hong Kong via HNL and GUM and then back to Victorville (VCV) since last year?
Hey guys. Is there a procedure that tells which specific engine to start first on a Twin-Engine? In Prepar3d, FS2Crew always tells me to start engine 2 and then 1. Is it always like that on every flight? Cheers! Ricardo At WN it’s always 2 and then 1 unless an air start is required and then they st...
Jump to postnew generation 30-50 pax props that allow for single pilot operations.... it's the only way that remote regional flying will continue... Are there any such aircraft in the works? Not that I'm ware of, so expecting one to appear in the near future (the OP's "next 5 years") seems rather unl...
Jump to postHow far back do you want to go? Back in my days at DEN/Stapleton, Trans-Colorado, Pioneer, Centennial (before Mesa), Rocky Mountain. Almost forgot GP Express. Before those were Wright, AeroMech. Mall. Comair is now long gone, too. Trans Asia comes to mind as well, though a bit later. Forgot to ment...
Jump to postIs the airport certified under Part 139? Please see: https://www.faa.gov/airports/airport_sa ... -part-139/
Jump to postThe first 737-10 to be painted in UA colors: https://twitter.com/AeroimagesChris/status/1487642709095436290 I wasn't really expecting it, but I wished there was some distinguishing between the Max9 and Max10 in the paint scheme. Some blocked out windows up front, or different paint around the behin...
Jump to postSXDFC wrote:I’d love to see a 717 get repainted into a retro livery.
Thank you very much for all your replies. However, I don't feel any closer to solving the solution. It may be the routing of ducts, I agree. How come the A-10 and C-5 didn't have any anti-ice? Wouldn't any ice affect the airfoil significantly? IIRC, Boeing originally proposed that the 777 not have ...
Jump to postThese routes aren’t just regular corporate traffic like sales people. They’re connecting massive tech markets. All the major tech companies in the Bay Area and Seattle have huge offices in BLR and HYD. That demand will be there because the teams need to connect. You can’t use the broad “corporate t...
Jump to postWayexTDI wrote:Ziyulu wrote:I'm surprised this happened in China considering how strict they are with batteries in checked luggage.
There was no checked luggage, it was a cargo airplane.
Rest in peace and blue skies to you, General McGee. Truly, one of the greatest of the Greatest Generation.
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