So much churn at Boeing when will the financial reset with Wall Street begin? I'm curious if the major airline customers in the US (United, American, Southwest, Alaska, Delta), do they know their aircraft (new and old) better than Boeing does at this point?
Jump to postSlightly off topic, but I am looking through a BEA timetable from 1968. What is BEA 'luxurious Sovereign Service? It was offered on Tridents to Dublin. Thanks! Hello. Back in the sixties BEA offered First Class. On Trident operated services, First Class was marketed as 'Sovereign Service'. BEA Trid...
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Jump to postSlightly off topic, but I am looking through a BEA timetable from 1968. What is BEA 'luxurious Sovereign Service? It was offered on Tridents to Dublin.
Thanks!
Thank you to everyone!! Great info, I'll check out the site.
Jump to postHello - The last few days I have watched the live shot from LHR. I then watch where flights are headed on flightradar24. It's remarkably well-synced. The A350-1000, IMHO, is a gorgeous airplane. It also looks fantastic in the BA livery. Which leads to my question - where does BA fly their A350-1000s...
Jump to postDoes Airbus have any hard-charging, no-nonsense executives that would be interested? Or is there someone on the Boeing management bench that can be plucked from obscurity to run the place. What a mess. I'm at Microsoft, and remember the Ballmer years; a daily knife-fight. Came back five years ago un...
Jump to postI think the Aleutian Airways Saab 2000 looks amazing and wanted to get a discussion going about how the company is doing? Curious if the Saab 2000 is a good aircraft for its network? Are they making money? Any plans for expansion?
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where would they fly to? key southwest stations?
Jump to postVery unfortunate for United and Boeing. Is there a broader issue here, say, a generational shift of experience due to retirements and cyclical layoffs of engineers, maintenance, and pilots, and the emphasis on profit, outsourcing, and efficiency that is driving these issues? In other words, is there...
Jump to postAccording to a recent NYT article, AS' technicians and engineers requested on Jan. 4 to remove the aircraft in question from regular service and take it immediately for a safety check the next day amid increasing reports of a potential problem. However, AS decided to keep the aircraft in service on...
Jump to postSomething very festive (and tasteful) about Singapore Airlines A350 business class with the wreaths during the Christmas holidays. Honorable mention: Braniff Ultra DC8 with the leather seats, contrasting sidewalls, cloth center seats. (There was a great advertisement of this interior with FA's in Ha...
Jump to postCame across this video of John Oliver's take (and retrospective) on Boeing and it's problems. (Starts around 6:42). Not looking to drive a flame-driven discussion, but was curious if it's a fair assessment despite the humor involved. More importantly, there are some damning comments from folks that ...
Jump to postlayman here, is there some control activity the crew utilizes or that takes place with a tailwind?
Jump to postCan you get into a Centurion lounge with a Corp Amex?
Jump to postInteresting thread. I'm interested in whether this applies to LaCompagnie, too. Wouldn't growth out of ORY or New York help?
Jump to post747freak wrote:The 787-10 is great, but it needs that upcoming 6 tonnes MTOW/ IGW bump for it to really shine on some missions it it currently payload-range limited.
Delta - To Maui and Oahu. A couple of times. In First, but I heard the new A321NEO F class seat cushion is hard as a rock.
Jump to postThe airlines for the most part will try to get the luggage off of the aircraft. If they are not able to get it off, LAX baggage service will retrieve the luggage and wait for instructions from the passenger or the agent at the diversion city. I have dealt with several medical diversions, and usuall...
Jump to postThis whole incident sounds like Inspectors didn't do their job and the workers working on the MED Plug either took a break and just got plain lazy and cut corners in the reinstalling the MED or went home for the weekend or shift leaving the job half done and another crew assumed that something was ...
Jump to postGood Evening Guys. Yesterday I saw that DLH452 diverted to CDG on its way to LAX due to a Medical Emergency. Right after i started to wonder what happens to this person's checked luggage... Does airport staff try to retrieve it? or does it make it to LAX? If it makes it to LAX is someone suppose to...
Jump to postDLASFlyer wrote:AS707 went JAC to nearly the runway threshold at SFO before diverting to PSP. Was in the air nearly four hours.
Great thread. I flew (presume early 1970s), AA 747 ORD-DTW, with the piano bar. My dad asked the crew if we could see the flight deck. We went upstairs and the flight crew opened the hatch and hoisted me up and I got to look out to the rear and tail. Unforgettable memory, and I'm 60. Thanks to AA th...
Jump to postSlightly off topic, but for a passenger who is blind with a seeing-eye dog (service dog), are they generally seated in bulkhead rows? Presume not in an emergency exit row. I was on an Alaska flight many years ago (in row 6 on a -800) and seated at window was the passenger and her dog who had room to...
Jump to postEA CO AS wrote:seat1a wrote:Update! AS put their COO in 26A. There is a video out there, and she wasn't smiling.
Constance is a former US Army Blackhawk pilot. She doesn't smile.
Update! AS put their COO in 26A. There is a video out there, and she wasn't smiling.
Jump to postI think AS is smarter than to let a random sit there. It will likely be an executive. Nah, if I were AS I would tell BOEING to provide the executive to sit there! :spin: I say it with humor but really Boeing should be the one stepping up here. And honestly no one should have an issue. I'd sit in th...
Jump to postUnited1689 wrote:seat1a wrote:Who is in 26A on today's SEA-SAN flight? Hope the media interviews them.
I think AS is smarter than to let a random sit there. It will likely be an executive.
Who is in 26A on today's SEA-SAN flight? Hope the media interviews them.
Jump to posthttps://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/23/united-ceo-casts-doubt-on-boeing-737-max-10-order.html "United Airlines is weighing fleet plans without the Boeing 737 Max 10 after a series of delays and most recently, the grounding of a smaller variant of the plane, the carrier’s CEO said Tuesday." Kirby...
Jump to postDid EA ever use (acquire?) the DC8s or Braniff 727s for the routes, or did they utilize their own fleet?
Jump to postwedgetail737 wrote:Yes...it's the weather. There was an OAK diversion as well. If you look at the current satellite, you'll notice a huge eastward jetstream plume.
EA CO AS wrote:Fuel/headwinds
Hi - Just curious, AS 805 SEA-OGG diverted to SJC. Now delayed arrival in OGG at 12:05am. Is this due to fuel or consolidating flights with SJC passengers to OGG?
Any help is much appreciated! Thanks!
SNL's new AS ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZf0bNDWH4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZLbTuBDhJg&t=411s
Learned a lot here, not in industry. Curious of you pro's out there and your thoughts on the presentation. Good production quality.
what happens on a flight from SEA to HNL when a windshield cracks? Lower altitude flying?
Jump to postFAA has decided that after reviewing Boeing's instructions they need additional data. FAA has approved inspection of 40 airframes. After review of the inspection data, the FAA will determine if they are sufficient. https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/safety-american-travelers-faa-will-keep-boeing-737-9-ma...
Jump to postI'm curious who will be the person or team that speaks with un-impeached credibility to say the planes are safe to fly again? Or more broadly that all MAX jets are safe to fly, the bolts issue in the tail, the plug door, the wings will stay on, the CG is not an issue, the list goes on.
Jump to postCame across this interview this morning. There are generalizations made this incident is 'no surprise' because of safety culture at Boeing and a long list of problems, lack of inspection rigor, and a pitch that unions are being pressured. No mention of Alaska potentially doing something wrong with t...
Jump to postNot to be disrespectful with the crew, overall they’ve managed the situation very well, but hearing the audio with ATC, the lady doing the radios sounded very nervous and shaky, on the verge of being overwhelmed. She also gave confusing information a couple of times ( fuel on board numbers were hig...
Jump to postSo 737-900s are not impacted because they have been inspected and maintained for longer? Just trying to understand why the -900, if the fuselage is baseline for MAX9, is not impacted by inspections?
Thanks!
Curious about what Alaska does from a customer care perspective when this happens. Miracle no one died or was seriously injured; but what about the trauma that some experienced? From the photos, passengers appear to be calm, and this credit to the crew for their professionalism, and the flight crew...
Jump to postCurious about what Alaska does from a customer care perspective when this happens. Miracle no one died or was seriously injured; but what about the trauma that some experienced? From the photos, passengers appear to be calm, and this credit to the crew for their professionalism, and the flight crew....
Jump to postcall me a neanderthal, but there is just more camera phones on planes and people who love to post online.
plus abc news would have nothing to report, as david muir is really an overpaid weatherman and turbulence and cross-wind landing reporter.
Braniff had the Council Club at Love Field way back.
Jump to postAlaska canceled a bunch of first bank MAX flights this morning. Do you have any proof that it was in relation to this. My educated guess is that it's unrelated because an airline isn't going to cancel any flights over something that isn't even an Airworthiness Directive. IMHO it's time for the worl...
Jump to postSaw this story this morning (12/28). What happens during the day today with inspections? In other words, let's say I have a noon flight today on a MAX jet, the story breaks in the morning, does the airline start inspections immediately? Curious about the logistics. Thanks! https://www.cnbc.com/2023/...
Jump to postI’m going to sound like an armchair CEO here but if they had stuck with used E190s with the very attractive leases and established themselves first in these underserved markets, then they could slowly transition to an A220 fleet, similar to what G4 did with the new A320s and maxes. I will armchair ...
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