Re: Constrained Runways

What "runway constrained" airports did you have in mind? McCarran has been brought up in this thread and you mentioned LAS is past 49.5M passengers putting it within 10% of it's designed 55M pax capacity. Correct me if I am wrong but I do not believe the airport is runway constrained. Rath...

Re: Could an unpressurised passenger jet ever become competitive?

WeatherPilot wrote:

That would be like putting a paddle wheel on an aircraft carrier.

Re: Giant 3591 Down in Trinity Bay, Texas

CLTRampRat wrote:

Yikes. Hope the crew is ok, or at the very least it was quick. It’ll be interesting to see what caused this.

Re: UA has retrofitted many of their 737s with scimitars- why haven't AA and DL done the same?

I worked at a company in a different industry that was often caught up in public speculation along the lines of, "Company X did this. Why isn't Company Y doing it too?" I'll go with the answer that someone crunched the numbers internally based on proprietary information and that led to the...

Re: Airlines with a flight number ‘One’

AA1 JFK-LAX

Re: Unpainted plugged windows

I'm going to guess that the plane was painted white with windows installed. When the new interior was installed the plugs got put in where needed. When you get them for AB they are light grey. These airlines just put them in without painting them to match the fuselage color. Gray plugs seems like t...

Re: Rename PHX

I believe a major public venue should only be named after a person at least a decade after they have died. This gives time to assess their actual contribution and positive impact they had on society. I'm sure something will be named after Senator McCain but the rush to so is unnecessary.

Re: Cold war turning hot: What would happen to bombers?

I can tell you from sitting Alert in the late 70's there are pre-positioned supplies of POL at various places around the world. The sorties, back then, were set for 2 air refuelings and a lengthy low-level route. There was no A/R post strike just a couple of hour flight to a landing strip for refue...

Re: Air Force One in Colombia?

Spotted the USA 747 at the Bogotà airport this morning, out by the hangars with the military aircraft. Is this real deal? Or an older version getting service/repurposing? (Just joined, don’t know how to post photo on mobile) As an additional point, the callsign Air Force One is only used when the P...

Re: Air Force One in Colombia?

Spotted the USA 747 at the Bogotà airport this morning, out by the hangars with the military aircraft. Is this real deal? Or an older version getting service/repurposing? (Just joined, don’t know how to post photo on mobile) As an additional point, the callsign Air Force One is only used when the P...

Re: What will supersede the Boeing 717

acjbbj wrote:

717 MAX 2

717 MAX 3

Re: Best airline call signs

Virgin America - "Redwood"

As someone pointed out years ago at A.net, it fits VX's Northern California roots and the brand's love for double entendre.

Sadly the airlines is no more.

Re: General aviation ferry flights

Very interesting article on GA ferry flights. I've always wondered how you get a Cessna all the way to Europe from the factory, for example. I always thought they disassembled and shipped them. Guess not... https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34484972 Hope to track down a blog I read years back writt...

Re: Why are Airbus planes still called "Airbus Industrie" when booking tickets?

Putting my work hat on, I am guessing it's because the information is drawn from legacy databases. In many established industries I have worked in, data is held in massive databases designed decades ago. Built for stability and compatibility with a large number of disparate systems, changes do not c...

Re: Aeroméxico E190 Accident in Durango July 31

george77300 wrote:

LATEST CONFORMATION

95 onboard (unsure if 95 pax + crew or 95 total) but,

ALL SURVIVED

Re: Croatia in the final of the WC, what solo you think that Will occour to aviation?

Pepper456 wrote:

New companies in ZGB (Will arrive to 20 mil pax Faster)?
The other airports DBV and SPU, they Will grow also?

Re: Air India Privatization, by June-Failed sale. What next?

... I tend to find people get worked up. Lightsaber Interesting choice of words lightsaber. You are the one maintaining double standards between EK and AI. 250 planes - 65,000-104,000(group) staff - Good 120-160(group) planes - 11,000-27,000(group) staff - Bad $12 Billion Debt - Good $8 Billion Deb...

Re: Airports where pax had to use stairs to board 747, DC-10, L-1011

I've deplaned via airstairs at SFO in the 90s.

Fuzzy memories of the 80s and I could be wrong but I seem to recall Pan Am 747s sometimes boarded at a remote stand at JFK.

Re: Fatal Incident Where Plane Returned to Service

Ozark Air Lines 650 is a very unusual accident that comes to mind. The fatality from the incident was the operator of a snowplow that was struck by the DC-9. There were no passenger causalities and minor injuries to two of the cabin crew. The repaired plane used the right wing from Air Canada 797. 2...

Re: Emirates looking to Windowless planes [BBC]

Would cameras, screens and power sources really be lighter? There woul not be a need to maintain windows, but I can imagine a plane where some of the screens are on, some are blinking and some are dead. Attractive! Newer LCD and OLED screens are very light and thin so I can see weight savings over ...

Re: Cruise Ship Thread 2018

Hi folks, just came across this thread and for what it is worth I tender my comments on two recent cruises. 2016/2017. The Cruise Line was Regent Seven Seas, the liner was the Seven Seas Voyager,on both occasions. 2016 cruise was from Stockholm to Copenhagen and points in between (St.Petersburg was...

Re: Why Ex-AA 767 Red Cheatline Painted Blue

As aviation enthusiasts, we have much more knowledge when it comes to planes, liveries, other areas in fine detail. I am always surprised at what people here can glean from the most subtle pieces of information. That being said, the general public likely has no clue who owned a plane as soon as the ...

Re: AS using non-branded OO CRJ2s

When AA first brought on OO to operate American Eagle flights, house branded Skywest planes were often seen. I saw a bit of confusion when flying out of the remote terminal at LAX. Many pax would stop and hesitate before boarding. Once onboard, the flight attendant had to answer the, "I thought...

Re: Landing charges for diverted planes?

After TWA 847 was hijacked, flight attendant Uli Derickson used a personal Shell card to pay for fuel at Algiers

Re: Saudia A333 stuck at LKO due to technical reasons

Can't they tow this rig off the active runways to keep the airport open? This must not be a very busy airport if they just let the plane sit there shutting down the whole show.. It's seems to have happened around 2:00AM. "Closed" might just be a formality as I doubt there are many arrival...

Re: Longest displaced thresholds?

Deelen Air base in NL has it's threshold displaced by a whopping 6200ft (1.9km) ... on one side....and 900ft on the other side (0.27km).. It used to be a airbase for planes propper, it's now a training site for army/air force helicopters so they can practice sloped landings. https://www.google.nl/m...

Re: KLM pilots will take their caps off

Add to that a very easy way to identify crew in the event of an evacuation, and adds an air of authority in survival situations. A short sighted move getting rid of the pilot hats. I doubt if crew would bother putting their hats on in an evacuation situation. The flight crew of Reeve Aleutian fligh...

Re: BA advert embroiled in sexism row.

More and more, it seems many people are only happy when they are angry. Every morning there is a new Outrage of the Day to be indignant over.

Re: Why do the OEMs Outsource?

Last I looked, there are only 5 or so landing gear vendors left: Boeing, Honeywell, Fokker (yes, they're still around, and Fokker landing gear knows their stuff), ugh... there is one more (in Italy, IIRC) and Northrop (the old Douglas team was hired by Northrop). Lockheed is trying to form a team.....

Re: Does SFO have a flawed design?

What exactly is the problem with the environmental lobby, about land filling a few hundred meters of the Bay? Surely they know there is one of America's busiest airports there already. A new runway further out, would simply close an existing one. What damage would it do to the Bay floor? and think ...

Re: First Joon A320 emerged from paint

Now we know what went on when an ANA and JetBlue A320 were spotted behind a hangar at Toulouse. To quote a character on the show Seinfeld, "That plane is... breathtaking."

Re: Little Tikes' newest toy, My First Drone. More Drone Incursions to come?

Well i'm sitting in the living room watching over my niece as she watches TV I see an advertisement run advertising their new "My First Drone" and I instantly thought of all the new drone incursions with aircraft due to unminding pilots or accidents with children, their target market. At ...

Re: NAACP Travel Advisory for AA

And again, if you're going to make such a claim, you should provide some evidence. (Also, you really shouldn't hide behind semantics. An observation is absolutely an accusation when it accuses something observed.) Funny how you keep squawking to people in this forum about "providing evidence&q...

Re: NAACP Travel Advisory for AA

1.4M butt in seat miles in 10 years on AA and I never been discriminated against nor have I ever witnessed discrimination toward anyone else. Me neither, but see: http://78.media.tumblr.com/58af1b3c67c974c25e80497e594aa0cb/tumblr_ox3y04PdTU1suxeeyo1_500.jpg I personally see this as a shakedown. Gue...

Re: NAACP Travel Advisory for AA

1.4M butt in seat miles in 10 years on AA and I never been discriminated against nor have I ever witnessed discrimination toward anyone else.

I personally see this as a shakedown. Guessing things will be back to normal when the right palms get greased.