Re: Have you flown the same exact aircraft on the same exact route before?

TAT, WDL, Contiflug, OLT, Germania, all operated only 1 or 2 dedicated aircraft between XFW and TLS. So most of the flights on that route that I had during 35 years will have been on the same aircraft again and again. Only during the times of Lufthansa CL, Titan and Hifly different aircraft of their...

Re: Airports You've Transited Through In Cities You've Never Visited

Europe: ANR (Antwerpen) on VG Asia: DXB (Dubai) on EK SUB (Surabaya) on KL Australia: none Africa: JNB (Johannesburg) on BA/SW North America: SEA (Seattle) on SK/AS MSP (Minneapolis) on NW DTW (Detroit) on HP/SK ORD (Chicago) on AA ATL (Atlanta) on DL, AF/DL and SN/DL IAD (Washington) on UA and PA/S...

Re: Is something actually beeing done about the howling issue on A220 and E2s?

This howling goes back to the PW4090 series. For anyone who loves jet engines, I can't find a single point of complaint. If you "love" jet engines, you should be really worried when they make a noise like that. It comes from a combustion resonance, an effect that destroyed engines and tur...

Re: Airlines You've Flown Exactly Once

HP (America West), PHX-EWR CX (Cathay Pacific), HKG (old)-SIN 4M (LAN Argentina), FTE-AEP AS (Alaska), SEA-PHX FH (Futura), PMI-HAM VY (Vueling), HAM-BCN TG (Thai), SIN-BKK (old) OS (Austrian), HAM-VIE JQ (Jetstar), AVV-SYD HV (Transavia), HAM-INN N6 (Aero Continente), LIM-CUZ BD (British Midland), ...

Re: Enjoying it while it lasts - 757 time.

I know a lot of us appreciate the power and the aesthetic beauty of the 757. The appeal is not in the cabin, the appeal is that it is the Ferrari of commercial aircraft - where as the a320 or 737 are more like the minivans of commercial aviation (boring, nothing exciting or particularly attractive ...

Re: Enjoying it while it lasts - 757 time.

I did have quite a few flights on B757-200/300, among then RA to/from KTM, several flights on AA/UA/DL to/from/within USA, ~20 flights on FI to/from KEF and ~10 on DE B757-300 to/from the Canary Islands. The flights were ok, but to be honest, sorry to say, I can't see anything special about them. Es...

Re: American Airlines 757 RB211 Engine Sounds

Acoustics are affected by atmospheric conditions. That is just one of very many parameters having an effect on what you hear (or record) in the cabin, and in this case it is rather minor. The dominant sound in those recordings is the so-called buzz saw noise. Not only does it depend on RPM of the f...

Re: Your 2022 Booked/Flown Flights

Not much flying anymore these years, but anyway I never took flights just for flying, but rather to get to places. So in 2022 it is this: 16. Feb HAM-TFS, DE/Condor, A320 19. Feb. TFN-GMZ, NT/Binter, ATR72 24. Feb. GMZ-TFN, NT/Binter, ATR72, TFN-VDE, NT/Binter, ATR72 06. Mar. VDE-TFN, NT/Binter, ATR...

Re: Avgeek who doesn't enjoy flying ?

Does "avgeek" mean you fly just for the flight itself? Then I am not an avgeek at all. I worked in that business, I am interested (and an expert in certain) technical aspects of aircraft. But I never took a flight and never will, just for the flight itself. I take flights to get to certain...

Re: Ice Box 767-400

...it dawned on me that Boeing had not designed some/all of their 67s to have individual blowers above each seat. It is not so that Boeing designed some aircraft with and some others without the indiv air outlets. I'm sure they were an option that some airlines ordered and others didn't. But whethe...

Re: Same flight number, how many segments?

Oh, that is quite well possible. When I think KLM 30 years ago I always think MD11. But I also had B747-400 with them. But on what routes I don't remember.


Gruß, masi1157

Re: Your orphan flight segments?

I was not asking for airports that you only ever arrived at or departed from. That is another thread. Here I was asking for flights between 2 (or more) airports that are not linked by any other of your flights to the rest of your web of flights. The direction of the flights and the date of travel do...

Re: Airports you’ve flown into on one airline and out on another

jumpjets wrote:

A few journeys that involved a change of airline when making a connection:

Re: Airports you’ve flown into on one airline and out on another

Oh, I had plenty of them. When I limit myself to flights during the same trip, but not necessarily the return flight, and not counting direct (self-) connections between different airlines, I remember: PMI: Arrived from HAM on JK (Spanair), returned to HAM on FH (Futura) PMI: Arrived from HAM on X3 ...

Re: Same flight number, how many segments?

I know that Widerøe in Norway operates real milk runs. You can book and fly TOS-KKN direct, but also TOS-HAA-HFT-HVG-MEH-VDS-KKN under 1 flight number. Unfortunately I never was on any of them. My only ever flight KKN-TOS was direct on DY. I also know that Condor and others have triangular flights o...

Same flight number, how many segments?

There are probably much stranger milk runs than mine out there. I can currently only think of 2 flights with 3 segments under the same flight number (+ the returns, so 4 altogether). And both had to do with KLM. The "normal" one: AMS-SIN-SUB-DPS and back on KLM MD11. The stranger one: MEX-...

Re: What airline operated JFK-MIA in Dec. 2000?

Actually SkyTeam came out of the womb in mid-2000. I had booked those flights long before. Perhaps before the birth of SkyTeam, surely before the terror attacks on 11.Sep. And I booked through an online travel agent, quite a popular and respected one at that time. Booking through travel agents was ...

Re: What airline operated JFK-MIA in Dec. 2000?

I thought it rather was DL than AA. But if DL had only 1 daily flight, that can't be. Due to the late inbound AF flight we were rebooked on a later flight on the same airline. That can only be AA then. I am talking about the time between Christmas and New Year, maybe 27.Dec. Can DL have had more fli...

Re: What airline operated JFK-MIA in Dec. 2000?

DL purchased the Pan Am "system", for lack of a better word, after the airline was liquidated. As such, they inherited the PA Worldport and this is when they established their JFK hub to Europe. In this case it was not Europe-JFK, I am absolutely sure the CDG-JFK flight was on AF. It is a...

Re: What airline operated JFK-MIA in Dec. 2000?

I also remember that we were originally booked on a certain flight JFK-MIA, which we didn't reach because AF was late into JFK. We were then booked on another flight of that same airline a little later, maybe 1h. So it must have been an airline with rather frequent flights JFK-MIA. But I'm afraid th...

Re: What airline operated JFK-MIA in Dec. 2000?

Just a wild guess, but is it possibly AA, DL, or TW. Ah, ok. So DL operated that route? Then it probably was them, also because they cooperate(d) with AF. I was not sure and also thought about HP. Did they ever fly there? TW would seem very strange for me. AA was rather a surprise on the last leg M...

What airline operated JFK-MIA in Dec. 2000?

I am currently going through my flight map. I stumbled over some entries that can't be true, but I can't figure out what they really were. In Dec. 2000 we had a flight booked by a travel agent. It was HAM-CDG on AF, connecting to CDG-JFK on AF. The next flight should have been JFK-MIA (what carrier?...

Re: Your orphan flight segments?

While none of those flights quite count as orphans by the OP's definition, those three airports form a triangle that's not connected to the rest of my flight map. For me that is fine. Call those flights "orphan brothers" if you like. They are connected to one another, but not to the rest ...

Re: Your orphan flight segments?

conaly wrote:

Very few and only if I count either the return leg or a second orphaned segment from one of those airport:

Re: Your orphan flight segments?

Does SDU-IGU count? Or does the fact that I once connected SDU to my other spokes on a prior trip (2 years earlier) disqualify that route? I was thinking only of what you see on your flight maps, no matter when, how often and in what direction you did those flights. So SDU in your example would not...

Your orphan flight segments?

And here is another one of those threads referring to your flight map. In your and my flight map the majority of flights will be to or from at least one airport, to/from which you had other flights. So most of the "spokes" will be connected to other "spokes". But which are your &...

Re: The destination you have flown to from the most airports

The question was for airports, not airlines. My home airport is so close from home that I hardly ever fly from anywhere else. LBC was one of the few, but that is over. Otherwise I used BRE, TXL, SXF, DUS and DTM. I did fly to STN from HAM, LBC and BRE, to PMI from HAM and LBC, to AGP from HAM and DT...

Re: Your hub with the largest number of spokes?

PatrickZ80 wrote:

Great idea, such a map.

Re: Your hub with the largest number of spokes?

Then ORD gets even more confusing ... No, there is nothing confusing about it. Simply pick one airport and draw lines to all the airports that you ever flew to or from there, no matter how often, no matter what direction, no matter what airline. Then count the lines and find those airports, from/to...

Re: Your hub with the largest number of spokes?

What would you consider a hub in this case since that obviously varies based on airline. I've flown out of airports that could be considered a hub for one airline and not a hub for another airline. I thought that was quite clear from how I wrote it. FRA, AMS and CDG are actual hubs of airlines, LH,...

Re: Your hub with the largest number of spokes?

After my home airport HAM with 72 "spokes" (see first post) there is a large gap before the real hubs around me. FRA (Frankfurt) to/from, 21 airports: ATH (Athens) BHX (Birmingham) BKK (Bangkok old airport, now DMK) BOS (Boston) BRE (Bremen) BRS (Bristol) BRU (Brussels) DEL (Delhi) EZE (Bu...

Re: Your hub with the largest number of spokes?

As you can see there are a lot of asterisks in this list, which means it's doubtful if you can count them. I would count them (and counted them) also if the flight was only in one direction. I had my flight map in mind where I can't distinguish between A>B, B>A, A<>B or even multiples of such fligh...

Your hub with the largest number of spokes?

It seems this one is still missing in the recent row of "largest number of flights/airports/airlines" threads: Which is the airport from/to which you flew to/from the largest number of other airports? No matter what airline and no matter how often you flew that particular route. So, from w...

Re: Airport you have flown on the most carriers from

My home airport HAM: 4U (Germanwings) AB (Air Berlin) AF (Air France) BA (British Airways) BE (FlyBe) BM (BMI Regional) BT (Air Baltic) C9 (Cirrus) DE (Condor) DI (Deutsche BA) DL (Delta) DY (Norwegian incl. sister companies) EI (Aer Lingus) EK (Emirates) EW (Eurowings) FH (Futura) FI (Icelandair) F...

Re: Same airport...same airline over and over again

That would be Weeze (NRN), flown out of there four times and always on Ryanair. Thinking of Ryanair a similar airport comes to mind: 4 return flights out of LBC. And looking at my flight map I found two with 2 landings and 2 departures: PMC on LA and SAL on MX. Edit: Oops, there are more: MCO on MP...

Re: Same airport...same airline over and over again

If it has to be an airport that I only ever used with the same airline, I can only think of DXB on EK with 8 landings and departures. I have a large number of airports that I used much more, but all of them on 2 or many more airlines. The only other special case might be FRA: I've been there on a nu...

Re: Which route have you flown on the most diverse number of aircraft?

XFW-TLS:

Shuttle flights: F28, BAe146, CRJ100, Avro RJ, F100, B737, A319, A320, A321

Test and transfer flights: A310, A300-600, 318, A319, A320, A321, A330-200, A330-300, A340-200, A340-300, A340-500, A340-600, A380. Unfortunately I never was on A350 and Beluga/Super-Guppy.


Gruß, masi1157

Re: On which route have you flown the most airlines?

I would understand "route" as a direct nonstop flight from one exact airport to one exact other airport (and/or vv). Not flights between two cities with multiple airports, and not connecting flights. If I count city-to-city it would probably be HAM (just 1 airport) to London (LHR, LGW, LTN...

Re: On which route have you flown the most airlines?

Clearly XFW-TLS: I remember TAT, Contiflug, Lufthansa CL, WDL, OLT, Germania, Hapag-Lloyd, Titan, HiFly. Only Volotea started a month too late for me.

Gruß, masi1157

Re: Which route have you flown on the most diverse number of aircraft?

Probably HAM-FRA, all on the same airline Lufthansa (incl. Cityline): B727, B737-200/300/500, A300-600, A310, A319, A320, A321, CRJ900, Avro RJ85.


Gruß, masi1157

Re: Do you check the current price of a flight after you booked it?

And if the fare decreased, what do you do, cry? Is that the only thing you can do? We had a booking HAM-FRA-JNB-WDH on SA (and LH) a few years ago. Every couple of weeks SA changed the schedule and asked me to accept it. After like the 5th change I checked the current price, found a much cheaper fa...

Re: Do you check the current price of a flight after you booked it?

I always check the price of tickets on SAS the next day and within 24h. Simply because on SAS I can cancel within 24h and book again if the price dropped. That happened 2x during the last years (and ~10 bookings) and saved me a few 100€. Otherwise I sometimes check prices, but not regularly. Gruß, m...

Re: Have you landed on the alphabet? A delayed 2021 edition

A: ABZ ACE ADL AEP AGP AKL ALC AMS ANF ANR ARI ARN ASP ATH ATL AUA AVV AYQ AYT B: BCN BDU BGO BGY BHX BKK BOD BOS BRE BRS BRU BSL BUD BUF C: CCF CDG CFU CGN CHC CHR CJC CPH CPO CPT CUZ D: DEL DEN DPS DRS DTM DTW DUB DUS DXB E: EDI ESS EVE EWR EZE F: FAO FCO FDH FLF FMO FNC FRA FRS FTE FUE G: GDL GDN...

Re: aerospatiale A200 from the 1980'?

I think you missed the point. Basically you said just the same as I tried to say: The Aerospatiale A200 shown in the study above is not a derivative of Dassault's Mercure. It is a development by Aerospatiale to which Dassault has inputs (as you said) or which uses some of Dassault's intellectual pr...

Re: aerospatiale A200 from the 1980'?

Sure, Dassault and Aerospatiale were in more or less close, and sometimes forced, cooperation. In that cooperation Aerospatiale had access to some of the intellectual property of Dassault. But I'm sure both had their own set of intellectual property that the other one had no access to. So Aerospatia...

Re: aerospatiale A200 from the 1980'?

It really does look like a Mercure with CFM engines. A forerunner of the eventual A320 which i always considered to have roots in the Mercure. The Mercure was made by Dassault, but this study is from Aerospatiale. They are/were both french, but different companies. I'm not so sure Aerospatiale woul...

Re: Who Here Has Flown on Both the 753 and 764?

For Germans it is not very unusual to fly on a B757-300, even today. Condor still operates many of them to holiday destinations. So yes, I flew on B757-300 several times. B767-400 on the other hand are very rare in Europe, they only come/came in from the US occasionally. I had at least 1 flight on i...

Re: Least known airlines you've flown on

Pretty sure the average American traveller has never heard of City Jet. I flew an ARJ of theirs on behalf of Aer Lingus. Believe it or not, there are still a few non-american users here. For a German like me CityJet is quite well known, just like Juneyao (they have almost daily flights between my h...

Re: Least known airlines you've flown on

DesertAir wrote:

Tikal Jets from Guatemala City to Flores.

Re: Least known airlines you've flown on

It is a bit too easy to name long gone airlines. I have a candidate that I used 3 times (always the same route, which is one of their very few), still operates today and is probably rather unknown outside of Chile: Aerovias DAP between PUQ (Punta Arenas, Southern Chile) and WPU (Puerto Williams on I...