With kids and pregnancy in mind, I'd choose FRA. No security check during transit, which happens in IST.
Jump to postplanemanofnz wrote:GUM?
What about the passenger(s) who are disembarked for an emergency? Say I was injured from turbulence and we divert. What happens to my luggage? How do I get to my destination after being discharged? Who pays? I'm sure it's easy if it's a busy airport, but what about places like Goose Bay?
Jump to postWe aren't counting Canadian Pre-Clearance ports as 'entry' into the US right? So then: AC into LGA / CO out of EWR. EK into LAX / AC out of LAX AC into LAX / QF out of LAX LH into JFK / LH out of BOS KL into LAX / KL out of SFO NH into LAX / NH out of LAX AC into PDX / AC out of LAX HA into HNL / JL...
Jump to postWhy have finnair flights to HND and NRT been stopping at either RIX or ARN for past few days I’ve also noticed that HEL-ICN has been stopping at BUD Essentially, fuel shortages at HEL. https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/24997-hs-strikes-force-finnair-to-add-re-fuelling-stops...
Jump to post2) NOWHERE, and I mean NOWHERE else in the world calls it ‘Domestic First Class’. Some airlines in China do, JAL does as well. Correct, JL has domestic F and J, with only the 77W/35K having ‘true’ F Internationally. Speaking of widebody services actually, Air China sells First class (no business cl...
Jump to postYYZSpeedbird939 wrote:2) NOWHERE, and I mean NOWHERE else in the world calls it ‘Domestic First Class’.
Just want to confirm, BITRE LF figures are counted as seats bookable, not total aircraft seats, right? Eg 100 seats on a plane, 10 seats blocked, 90 seats sold, 100% LF.
Jump to postAnyone know why/how long MEL has had crickets everywhere? Flying out tonight and can't help but notice them crawling, hopping or squished everywhere. Seen in T1 and T2. From news.com.au Swarms of crickets are blanketing suburbs of Melbourne, with social media videos showing thousands of them invadi...
Jump to postI'm quite skeptical about how viable this'll hold up, as transit in the US can be a pain. Transiting via the US with an ESTA was even a pain. I can't imagine many Colombians will be interested in completing the US visa process just to transit. Then again, EK might try and fill the belly with cargo ...
Jump to postAnyone know why/how long MEL has had crickets everywhere? Flying out tonight and can't help but notice them crawling, hopping or squished everywhere. Seen in T1 and T2.
Jump to postIceman7 wrote:JL is using 4 787 for domestic routes in the trial run. The route is HND-ISG. (ISG is Ishigaki in Okinawa.) The trial commences from 4-10 February.
Link: https://www.aviationwire.jp/archives/294465
planemanofnz wrote:Does the AA-QF JV not include HNL/Hawaii?
Interesting QF's HNL service was excluded from the JV map in AA's press release about starting DFW-BNE?
United actually did not lose any time and reiterated its application for GUM-HND merely hours after Hawaiian surrendered them. Schedule: “ United flight UA849 will depart Guam at (7 p.m.) and arrive at Haneda at (10 p.m.) the same day. On the return, flight UA849 will depart Haneda at (11:55 p.m.) ...
Jump to postMust a slot be used for its applied destination? Eg, UA is awarded the nighttime slot for GUM, can they switch GUM and LAX 6 months down the track hypothetically? It's a bit different than DL and PDX. No what your describing is pretty much Delta wanted: switch slots around to other gateways. The DO...
Jump to postMust a slot be used for its applied destination? Eg, UA is awarded the nighttime slot for GUM, can they switch GUM and LAX 6 months down the track hypothetically? It's a bit different than DL and PDX. I believe UA will have to return the slot and rebid if they want to switch GUM to LAX in the futur...
Jump to postMust a slot be used for its applied destination? Eg, UA is awarded the nighttime slot for GUM, can they switch GUM and LAX 6 months down the track hypothetically? It's a bit different than DL and PDX.
Jump to postAA will not add competition. They have a joint venture with JL. So you think adding flights and additional seats won't increase competition? Please explain that. Adding capacity and increasing competition are not the same. For anything to involve competition, there has to be two or more entities co...
Jump to postAA should've applied for MIA-HND, JFK is already served 4x daily from HND (2x NH, 2x JL). Most likely the slots will go to IAH. And IAH-HND is already served. The DOT won't be considering what foreign airlines do. Therefore IAH-HND will be a new route, just like JFK-HND. But if they consider area c...
Jump to postAA should've applied for MIA-HND, JFK is already served 4x daily from HND (2x NH, 2x JL). Most likely the slots will go to IAH. Out of curiosity, have we heard from the US DOT regarding the HND slot shift from PDX to either JFK or IAH? And IAH-HND is already served. The DOT won't be considering wha...
Jump to postThe Nikkei just reported that ANA will be launching MXP/ARN/IST in the second half of 2024 and resuming Vienna in August. Summarized the report here: https://knaviation.net/ana-european-expansion-2024/ MXP is a bit of a surprise. IST has Turkish so this is a little surprising as well. ARN I would h...
Jump to postJust saw a JAL 767-300 at my local airport! Never thought I would see a mainstream airline flying 767-300s on such a long haul route in 2024! Wowsa! Must book while I still can! How long are these birds going to stay in the fleet? What is the config like? JAL is one of the best airlines for Y Class...
Jump to postwinGl3t wrote:ekte wrote:mict wrote:
I believe they do have 5th freedom rights between SIN and MEL and it seems open for bookings already.
What are Tk's other bookable 5th freedom routes?
GRU-EZE-GRU comes to mind
What are the prospects for long-haul expansion by JL/NH this year to new ports/countries? Anticipate a new nonstop between Portland, Oregon and Tokyo. This market permanently lost Japan service during covid. This market had nonstop Japan service since 1980 and then suddenly went to nothing. Previou...
Jump to postUsed to live right by the old IST (Ataturk) and loved seeing the low slow climb of the A340 over the rooftops. I was really trying to get on a TK A343 before they retired from regular passenger service. On a trip to MUC, I saw the A343 scheduled on my return date, so booked that! On the day, it got ...
Jump to postEverything is going to be dramatised if it's a B737. Reminds me of the news article in Australia when a QF B738 had engine troubles midflight. When it landed, the news when insane saying parts were clearly missing from the engine, exposing the inner workings. It was just the reverse thrust being act...
Jump to postHND Runway C is open again, as of 08 January. From what I can tell, first flight was Skymark BC703 HND-CTS.
Jump to postJetConnect’s wide body crew base in AKL keeps growing, QF management knowing chose to make this happen. Heck if they could, QF would operate crew-only deadhead flights from AKL just to fill every AU flight with Jetconnect crew. I'm actually surprised QF doesn't have crew bases in Asia "for loc...
Jump to postCPT maybe a better suit to JQ once they have their refit? No, CPT really isn't a discount style destination. Neither is Honolulu and that isn’t stopping them. That being said I think JNB would come first, that and India. Others have pointed out LAS might be too far. Or Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul. Jetstar ...
Jump to postFrom July we also see QF9/QF10 become a PER terminator, with no 789 making the MEL-PER journey. Does that add fuel to the 'more Euro flying' fire?
Jump to postMH used to (might still do) offer free domestic flights around Malaysia when booking an international layover through Kuala Lumpur. All flights had to be on the same itinerary but it was a cheap way to visit Malaysia! You can book a multi-city trip anytime you want. True, but often cost more than wh...
Jump to postYou should ultimately ask the State of Queensland this question as one of their aims from the AAIF funding across multiple flights (including VA's CNS-HND flight) was to attract inbound tourists into certain regions of Queensland, without said funding VA's owners would've highly likely let the Hane...
Jump to postYou should ultimately ask the State of Queensland this question as one of their aims from the AAIF funding across multiple flights (including VA's CNS-HND flight) was to attract inbound tourists into certain regions of Queensland, without said funding VA's owners would've highly likely let the Hane...
Jump to postevank516 wrote:The only schedule changes that would really get under my skin are downgauges from mainline to an RJ.
Lamp1009 wrote:NRT is an international connections hub. It's the only airport in Japan that allows for sterile zone transfers.
In fairness, that's if the route is successful. If it's not, JAL is just going to kill their NRT flight from JFK or send their HND flight somewhere more profitable. Regardless the market has ~200,000 additional seats. JAL can move its flight to another US city, but US-Japan still will have net numb...
Jump to postRe VA at HND; I'm still surprised they don't have a Japan point-of-sale on their website yet. To book from Japan, we need to use the NH website. Cheapest fares to CNS, BNE, MEL are still on NH via SYD and are around 75,000-100,000JPY ($750-$1,000 AUD) cheaper than VA via CNS.
Jump to postAA announces planned flight times and says it complements JALs existing frequencies so it sound like a straight up addition. Proposed schedule of services From To Departure time Arrival time Aircraft type New York (JFK) Tokyo Haneda (HND) 10:00 a.m. 1:05 p.m. (next day) Boeing 777-200 HND JFK 3:05 ...
Jump to postTK delays large aircraft order again, I was hoping an order at Dubai Airshow next month but unlikely. https://samchui.com/2023/10/29/ceo-talks-turkish-airlines-large-aircraft-order-delayed-and-leasing-34-aircraft/ Genuinely shocked. Just like I am when the idea of Australian services gets put on ic...
Jump to postDOT late this afternoon dismissed the United request.for Hawaiian Air nighttime HND frequencies. In its decision, DOT stated Hawaiian may retain use of its nighttime Kona/Honolulu-Haneda services and the carrier has committed to fully using them by March 2024. Ultimately, it does not believe the pu...
Jump to postOnly SJ (Freedom Air NZ) Palmerston North - Brisbane for me; unless we include closed airports too, then I'd also have China Eastern Chengdu (CTU) - Wuxi.
Aaron747 wrote:KIX-LAX (JL)
KIX-CNS (JQ)
DUS was a 'hub' (more like a focus city) for LH, as was TXL, HAM, STR. DUS had flights to the US (did they have one to Asia as well; perhaps NRT?) using MUC or FRA based aircraft on a W pattern. Just like HAM, TXL and STR, all of the LH mainline flights in/out of Germany were centralized at FRA and ...
Jump to postI guess AA will be putting a B777 onto their proposed JFK-HND, since JFK is not a B787 base for them. Presumably the B777-200ER?
Jump to postWhat other airlines do this today? Really it's a question of 'Why does AA do it?'
Jump to postAre you sure it was 2005? I was working at Dnata in MEL in 2008 and sure we didn’t get the 777 until 2009/10 maybe? Loved the 345 - but they were getting very very unreliable towards the end! It was EK404 which routed DXB-SIN-MEL-AKL. This flight used everything from the 332, 772, 77E, 773... then ...
Jump to postB77W’s aren’t going anywhere, they are still excellent aircraft and can fly for another 13-15 years. The 8 original A333’s are what will be replaced, as will the (already retired) Rouge B763’s. I agree about future additional used A333’s - makes sense. Any chance we might see an A330NEO order down ...
Jump to postDoes the E190 have the range for ADL-AKL with pax? Probably yes. With 2400nm range it should be able to carry full passengers and bags in all but the strongest headwinds westbound. That said, I don’t think it’s at all likely. Did we ever establish if the QLink E190s were equipped for overwater oper...
Jump to postSo far, DL SEA-HND. Still to come, SQ LAX-NRT.
Jump to postLots of Aussies/Kiwis with their Trans-Tasman EK flights! For me its:
EK: BNE/MEL-AKL
LA: AKL-SYD
QF: SIN-LHR/FRA
ET: NRT-ICN
CA: MUC-ATH
EK to PTY.
TK to SYD and MEL. Plans have been "announced" for years, yet no flights.