Southwest use to turn planes in 10 minutes. https://youtu.be/gnFfFRDMd_0 When I worked at MSY in the early 80s, WN indeed had 10-minute turns. IIRC, they operated 18 daily flights at MSY from one gate and only lengthened the turn times when they started getting 737-300s. I heard at the time that th...
Jump to postSome airports completely closed - BWI replaced BAL (which is now a container port). The most recent American is example is DEN replacing Stapleton. The only examples of small airports emerging are for adding terminals and commercial service to existing airfields, and usually the impact is so small ...
Jump to postI was looking at the two terminal maps of XNA on the airport website, flyxna.com. The maps confirmed what I already knew, which is that the upper level concourse with jetways is Concourse A and the lower level concourse is Concourse B. However, the flight information page shows a UA flight leaving f...
Jump to postJust noticed that the current Google Maps satellite view of SFO shows every gate at every terminal empty. I've flown in and out of SFO many times, driven by it hundreds of times and spotted there scores of times and never seen it without some planes at the gates. I'm surprised that this could ever h...
Jump to postAn excerpt from the link shows the numbers are for 2017, not 2018. Sorry sfjeff! The airport announced its record enplanements on Tuesday, saying 2017 saw 725,284 passengers depart from XNA. That was a 3.7 percent increase over 2016, and it was the first time the airport eclipsed 700,000. Sorry abo...
Jump to post2018 saw a new record at Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport with more than 725,000 boardings. Impressive for an airport that was derided as a boondoggle when it was under construction in the late 90s, to the point of having a segment about it on 20-20. Here is a link about 2018 at XNA: http://www.n...
Jump to postFrom SFO's site:
https://www.flysfo.com/about-sfo/sfo-to ... r-terminal
I wish them success, and it appears that they will have it. However, it seems rather redundant to put "international" in the name as there are very few airports in Spain that are not international. MAD, BCN, and AGP, to name a few, don't bother.
Jump to postKind of interesting to compare Hawaii to the Canary Islands, where almost all inter-island flights are operated with AT7s.
Jump to postQatar's new seasonal service between Doha and Málaga began yesterday.
From Diario Sur:
http://www.diariosur.es/turismo/qatar-a ... 39-ga.html
Last week I flew EasyJet from AGP to SXF and was surprised that we took off from runway 30. From what I have seen, it appears that this newer runway is rarely used. I recall reading that this is because of the convergence of the takeoff paths when using 12/30 and 13/31 simultaneously when taking off...
Jump to postMy first airline flight was in 1969 from Pine Bluff, Arkansas to Dallas Love Field, with stops at El Dorado, AR and Tyler, TX. It was on a Convair 600. It was a great flight. I always loved the sound of the Rolls-Royce Dart engines. The second part of that particular trip was from DAL to ABQ, with s...
Jump to postTurkish will give you a hotel room if your connection is more than 10 hours, which can make going thousands of miles out of the way a bit more palatable, and the fares and service are excellent. I have taken advantage of this twice: IAH-IST-AGP and AGP-IST-SFO. Of course, Málaga is too far to the so...
Jump to postWhat about Malaga????? Why not Sevilla? AGP handles more than three times as many passengers as SVQ and the Costa del Sol is a very popular summer destination for people from the Middle East. Also, Sevilla is much hotter than Málaga in the summer. The average daily high in Sevilla in July is 36ºC/9...
Jump to postAM has thrown everything from mainline to jungle jets at MSY and it never took. Sure, if we're to call a DC9 and ERJ.... "everything." Their last attempt launched the same month as the H1N1 crisis began in MEX, so no real surprise when it didn't last. It also ignores that TW successfully ...
Jump to postFrom what I can see, it appears that United Express operates flights DEN-JMS-DVL-DEN or DEN-DVL-JMS-DEN, combining two small cities with one flight. However, I think there are at least two roundtrips a day from DEN to each airport, one with JMS first and one with DVL first. The point is to carry pas...
Jump to postI wouldn’t rule out PIT. We’ve seen BA have decent success on untapped transatlantic routes with no competition such as AUS & MSY. Kind of a non sequitur though, considering that PIT already has 3 or 4 transatlantic nonstops as it is. Does it? To where? Delta to CDG (seasonal), Condor to Frankf...
Jump to postCM SFO-PTY MAR 1.6>3 APR 1.6>3 MAY 1.5>3 JUN 2>3
Copa must be doing very well at SFO and siphoning off considerable business from AV. I don't recall that Avianca/TACA has ever had more than 10 or so flights a week from SFO to SAL
PHLCVGAMTK wrote:Lancaster, PA is an egregious case. It's an 80-minute, $17 train ride to Philadelphia 30th Street, and another 20 minutes to the PHL terminals.
AA commits CRJs to HVN...that means I finally can look to flying out of HVN! I hate Dash-8s! You will love the Dash 8 once you have flown the CRJ a few times. Worst passenger aircraft ever. The Ford Trimotor beats the CRJ for comfort. My guess is that you never had an opportunity to fly on an Embra...
Jump to postThose flights must have been quite challenging for ground crews. For example, on a flight ATL-MEI-JAN-MLU-SHV-DFW, at each stop the baggage handlers would have to look through all the bags to find those for their station. Obviously the ATL baggage handlers would have grouped the bags by destination,...
Jump to postNorthwest Airlink used to fly 6 SF340 flights a day to XNA in three groups, with each group being two flights 20 minutes apart, to connect to their three banks in MEM. Later they used BAe 146s (I think) and mainline NW DC9s but only had three flights.
Jump to postNot nearly the same. I am quite sure the poster is saying that the code BE was once used by BEA and is now used by Flybe, not that BEA has become Flybe. Exactly. BEA became Flybe. But Ozark did not become Asiana. I had it kind of sideways. I did not know that BEA became Flybe. However, I do know th...
Jump to postSoftaero wrote:Cunard wrote:BE--British European Airways BEA now Flybe
Not nearly the same.
Disappointed that they will be flying to OAK instead of SFO (according to flylevel.com).
Jump to postThis is the name issue with claiming to be the largest...... The city of Jacksonville has the distinction of having the largest AREA of any Incorporated city in the state or the nation for that matter. Population density Not so much! ALL major FL cities i.e.: TPA/MIA/ORL are denser but not LARGER. ...
Jump to postAt this point my best bet are EK or ANA for domestic configuration only (if they decide to use them to replace the ageing 773Es.) The need for having a plane that sits so many people for Japan's domestic flights will continue to decline as (1) the bullet train network continues to expand with Sappo...
Jump to postAmerican no longer flies mainline to Arkansas. LIT and XNA are now all RJ, although mostly big RJs.
Jump to postI am happy to read that most replies have been reports of positive experiences. Things have changed a lot since I worked in the airline industry, always on the ground, from 1977 to 1987. There was no possibility of my being anything but closeted back then. You can imagine how I squirmed at the compa...
Jump to postAGP (Málaga-Costa del Sol) is the fourth busiest airport in Spain and one of the fastest growing in Europe. Many people from the Middle East vacation here and/or have business interests here. Does anyone have any idea if Emirates, Qatar, or Etihad have plans to serve AGP? It would seem a natural, al...
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Jump to postNow that most airlines are going 10 across on 777s, I was wondering if any will go 2-5-3.
Jump to postAn old sales video for the Convair 600 conversion of the Convair 240 says that the Convairliners were designed with turboprop conversion in mind. I've never heard of a turboprop conversion of the Martin 404. Was there one? Was this future conversion capability something that the original purchasers ...
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Jump to postFrom what I can see on <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym>.COM and quick trip.com, it appears that American is discontinuing mainline service at <acronym title="Fayetteville / Springdale - Northwest Arkansas Regional (XNA), USA - Arkansas">XNA</acronym>. I don't see any mainline fl...
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Jump to postToo bad we no longer have flights like <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> 1165 <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>-<acronym title="New Orleans - Louis Armstrong International (Moisant Field) (MSY / KMSY), USA - Louisiana">MSY</ac...
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Jump to postDoes anyone know what has happened to quicktrip.com? It used to be a good site for getting airline schedules, for those of us who cannot afford access to the OAG. Lately quicktrip.com has been working only sporadically and now it doesn't seem to work at all, at least not for retrieving airline sched...
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