Just because this happened in this case, this doen't mean it is happening the next time again. SQ22, I invite you to reread this thread. If it weren’t a trend, this thread wouldn’t exist. See examples in this thread, including the very first post. Today, if a new topic is created, often it's blocke...
Jump to postIf you think a topic deserves its own thread, feel free to start a thread on that topic. That’s the point. Someone started a thread on that topic, and the moderators closed it saying it was already being discussed in a free-for-all thread. So if you wanted to talk specifically about the new LAX ter...
Jump to postIn the future, if you have questions and for a faster response you can reach out to us directly at moderators@airliners.net Why?? Emails sent to that address are ignored, which is why we posted it here. It’s bad enough that you move this discussion to “Site Related.” You make the conversation priva...
Jump to postPut another way, once there was a specific three on the topic, the correct thing to do was to direct the people in the free-for-all thread to the thread devoted to that topic. Not the other way around.
The moderators pushing everything into free-for-all threads has ruined this site.
Janders, The fact that someone made a standalone discussion of the terminal renumbering says two things: 1) it was not noticed in the general “Los Angeles basin” thread and 2) someone thought it was worthy of discussion I can’t be clearer: MOST people do not look in the free-for-all discussion threa...
Jump to postSo what the hell does it take to get the moderators attention about this? I’ve been in this site a long time — I think longer than any current moderator — and the omnibus threads are changing the nature of the site for the worst! It’s not just my opinion. You can’t find topics now because moderator...
Jump to postSo what the hell does it take to get the moderators attention about this? I’ve been in this site a long time — I think longer than any current moderator — and the omnibus threads are changing the nature of the site for the worst! It’s not just my opinion. You can’t find topics now because moderators...
Jump to postI think you're thinking about this wrong. You were on the right path noting that Berlin is a 5th highest GDP in the EU. But it barely cracks the top 50 in the World, while Washington is in the top 10. In fact it is the *only* top 10 city not served by oneworld to Asia. (Miami, Philly, Charlotte, and...
Jump to postI guess my biggest wtf is why JP doesn't serve IAD - that would go a long way. . The same reason JL serves DFW instead of IAH (while ANA would serve IAH, not DFW). Because both Tokyo and IAD are a Star Alliance and NH/UA JV hub. The competition would be too strong and UA/NH will definitely do whate...
Jump to postI guess my biggest wtf is why JP doesn't serve IAD - that would go a long way.
The CX flight to HKG was well-received, but ultimately, the timing was horrific, happening right before a pandemic. The route never had a chance to mature (even though i had multiple flights planned for it).
Lamp1009 wrote:D L X wrote:Why so little, and what do we need to do to get more flights?
#tiredOfConnecting
Move to SFO
UA: IAD-HND. NH: IAD-HND. KE: IAD-ICN That’s all we get. No PEK or HKG anymore, no TPE, no PVG. No oneworld flying between DC and east Asia at all. (Doha is the only Asia DC gets on oneworld.) Boston has Tokyo, Seoul, and Hong Kong. Toronto has Taipei, Manila, Hong Kong, guangzhou, and Shanghai. Why...
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What the hell are you supposed to do when you’re on an airplane and a tornado touches down near you? Can’t exactly go to the basement …
N1120A wrote:In fact, such a discussion in that thread could ultimately drown out the broader discussion within.
Case in point: A discussion about the new proposal to rename the terminals at LAX was closed, with traffic sent to a general thread. https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1493023 The general thread isn’t even about LAX - it’s about all the airports in the Los Angeles Basin. I thoug...
Jump to postNot sure where people keep discussing a parallel runway at DCA. That simply isn't going to happen - ever. It's always people who don't live/never lived in the area and don't truly understand the airspace restrictions and don't realize/care how built up it is around the airport. They just know that ...
Jump to postI like the clear no-nonsense coms from Swiss. "Rejecting takeoff, traffic on the runway". No emotional outbursts, no BS, just wants to taxi back and go again. But you can bet he will write a very detailed report of what happened. The detail will be, “I was cleared for takeoff then saw fou...
Jump to postCALMSP wrote:I say, if anyone isn't thinking this is happening on these sports charters, they don't know much. The carefree environment that are on these MLB charters are there. The amount that I've been on, very lax.
The PTVs do have the advantage of gate-to-gate availability for young children while personal devices unfortunately tend to not due to the WiFi generally not being available below 10,000 feet. I'm not sure if this is different for the free entertainment streaming, but just another point I wanted to...
Jump to postIsn't UA in the process of adding PTVs on their domestic narrowbody fleet now as well? If so that leaves AA at somewhat of a disadvantage doesn't it? I thought UA already had PTVs. AA had removed PTVs because everyone brings their own devices now. Each seat back has a holster to mount a smartphone ...
Jump to postPersonally I don’t buy that DCA needs a runway besides 1/19. Is it really worth the operational complexity so you can sneak out a plane here and there? As long as Congress keeps shoving more flights into DCA, we absolutely need more than 1/19. Hell, in my dream world, we would have 1L/19R, 1R/19L, ...
Jump to postDon’t see 4 being used much, wonder why JetBlue chose that runway? The ground controller can also be heard on the radio soliciting for operators to use 4/33 for departures. Using 33 is much more common than using 4. I don’t think I’ve ever departed from 4. I’ve observed it but never experienced it.
Jump to postNot horrified, but this is reckless, even if the passenger is a relatively safe former mlb player. (Hensley Meulens.) What if the plane hit a minor disturbance with a non-pilot at the controls? At a minimum, you have a large adult primate in the way of the captain actually returning to his post to a...
Jump to postAA continues to flounder around imo. Just spit balling and calling it progress. This is just another example. Maybe hoping to survive long enough for the horrible employee relations stink left over from the last round of mergers to fade away. TBTF in the meantime. Serious question...how is this &qu...
Jump to postDon’t see 4 being used much, wonder why JetBlue chose that runway? Runway 4 points the plane towards Boston a bit quicker than runway 1 does. Planes launching from 4 (usually an e-jet) take an aggressive right turn to avoid protected airspace and go around it to the east. (If you go to a baseball g...
Jump to postAA will still have a long way to go to match VS/BA on transatlantic flights and JL/CX on transpac flights. With the new cabins AA will also introduce complimentary upgrades on all international flights for AA top tier flyers, as they do on domestic legs. BA in J is “okay.” Those seats, particularly...
Jump to postCould they have paved a one time use runway by now?
Although, as one of the posters on Avherald noted, with sanctions in place, the parts are extremely valuable. Probably more valuable than attempting to get the plane out.
Caspian27 wrote:
Someone at Southwest correct me if I’m wrong.
Interestingly, this plane flew back to MAD yesterday at FL410.
https://fr24.com/data/aircraft/ec-nbx#34b57005
[set RANT=ON] The media hysteria is deadly. More than 100 people die in auto accidents every day the USA. Almost 40,000 per year. Driving is FAR more dangerous than flying. The average person has about a 1-in-10,000 chance of dying in an auto accident every year. When the media obsess over highly-u...
Jump to postThis looks like a giant nothing burger. The deviation could have been caused with one serious gust of wind. Radar picks it up..pilot correcting and deciding. The ATC tower controller's tone made it sound worse than the situation. They were climbing and not going to "hit the tower". You sh...
Jump to postCan a mod change the title, southwest didn’t almost hit the tower, it flew 800 feet over the tower doing a go around. It did the go around because the Tower instructed it to. If it hadn't, it would have been a Very Bad Day. And that only happened because the controller saw the plane headed for the ...
Jump to postI just booked a flight to see it outside of Cleveland.
I was going to drive, but it’s about 6.5 hours each way. I understand I got the last nonstop seat from the whole DC area. W00t!
Had I known people were going to Dayton, I would have considered that.
I expected to see a southerly routing where the plane diverted when ATL was along the way. But no, this thing diverted near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border (around Youngstown) and the diversion was almost as long as the distance it had already traveled.
Jump to postHow deep is the water under the approaches? The span wouldn't have to be anywhere near 1.6 miles. There are plenty of suspension bridges with a span over four times the length of the Key Bridge. I agree with you that the suspended span would not need to be 1.6 miles IFFFFFFFFF the anchorages were i...
Jump to post1) the area to span is 1.6 miles long. That’s longer than the longest suspension bridge in the world. 2) the shoots are already required to stay in the channel. The Chesapeake Bay and the Patapsco river are not very deep. They have been dredged in a channel in the middle to allow the neopanamax shi...
Jump to postFrom interviews with the passengers on Israeli TV the event occurred seconds before touchdown and there were no two separate events, turbulence and windshear- looks like windshear as a sole event. Yup, the FlightAware track has them down to 300 before aborting, so it's safe to assume it was shear/m...
Jump to postI hope they make the main span longer than 1,200' when they build a new bridge. Also, I'm shocked more bridges these days that have piers in the water near navigable channels don't have ***very robust*** protection structures (artificial islands, dolphins, pile-supported systems). And the design of...
Jump to postWith the bridge out of action now I was looking at Google maps for what road traffic will have to do for the future. The detour looks to be around 7+ miles with Hwy895 taking the strain and it's a Toll rd. 895 and 95 are both toll tunnels under Baltimore Harbor. They are unsuitable for hazmat, whic...
Jump to postSeems plausible to me... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJtmSWGXQAABo2U?format=jpg&name=small Ref: https://twitter.com/mercoglianos/status/1773123345820614699 It comes via the guy who runs the "What's Going On With Shipping" u2b channel, Sal Mercogliano. Someone linked one of his videos ...
Jump to postThere is no quick fix and going forward a closed port is going to have a big impact on trade and jobs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68681086 Didn't realise so much Fossil fuels went through there, and the ships currently stuck in port need to be elsewhere. It's a big coal port because...
Jump to postI do think the VAS video makes too much of “microburst” which are associated with thunderstorm activity where a vertical column of air is falling rapidly then spreading horizontally. Here, I’d say was a low-level jet stream at the forward edge of the front approaching NY. It’s a shear, but experien...
Jump to postFor the folks saying that the piers for bridges need to be hardened against ships accidentally hitting them, at least some engineers believe that no bridge can withstand a direct hit from a ship this size: No bridge pier could withstand being hit by a ship the size of the Dali, said Benjamin W. Scha...
Jump to postWell, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was not too narrow in the late 1960s - built by people's taxes who were born about the time of WWI. Our turn to build the infrastructure we want. Strange you mention this because I have some family 35mm home movies of us transiting the Bay Bridge / Tunnel system shor...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:Most is self-insurance.
VAS Aviation posted a video explaining more details. Of course this is not official but does provide some additional information regarding the minimum altitude on approach which looks to be around 200'. https://youtu.be/DPCTrHJn4H4?si=YzVjTgHXoCPAJZY4 It is starker than that. Between 150’ and 250’ ...
Jump to postI just read that the US President just said the federal government will pay to replace the entire bridge. I am disappointed. The USG should go after the owners AND the operators of the ship to recover damages. You shouldn’t be disappointed. It will take 10+ years to determine who is liable and star...
Jump to postNAV error? GPS fault? Errant wind gust? ABC, CBS, NBC---"Another issue with Boeing 737s". Did the tabloid networks also carry this as they caught this from last week? https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/close-call-southwest-flight-comes-within-200-ft-ambulance-baltimore-airport-another-sc...
Jump to postWatched President Biden's briefing. Glad to see that help is coming from the Federal government but did he mention anything about the responsible party paying for the damages? The dust has barely settled and no accident investigation has been conducted so it’s far too early to determine ‘responsibl...
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