Allegiant is adding SRQ, SAN, and IAD in April.
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/ ... om-austin/
Good stuff, glad United held your connection for you! Thanks for sharing.
Jump to postThe pilot shortage is being created by the 1500 rule, which was an arbitrary rule that was enacted with the goal of creating a pilot shortage and raising existing pilot compensation. None of this is a big mystery. A bunch of pilots are probably flying in circles, polluting the air and going into de...
Jump to postLet's be clear about this.... There is not a pilot shortage. There is, however, a shortage of pilots willing to fly regionals for what United wants to pay them, when so many other opportunities are available. It is not 2008, anymore. This was true 5 years ago. It's not true anymore. There is a pilo...
Jump to postWith more dots connected to Austin, I wonder when AA starts to flow at least some connections considering they have a few international flights from Austin now. Depending on the routing they are selling a good deal of tickets this way. Would be interesting to see what percentage of AA traffic is co...
Jump to postIt's amazingly easy on here to find the people who have never worked as a crewmember. These are exactly the kinds of people that think the lifestyle is easy, with nary a glimmer of experience personally. 15 days off sounds like a lot. Until you have to commute standby the day before and the day afte...
Jump to postThere is also a website that literally has FedEx’s entire flight schedule published that can be sorted by city pair and date. I won’t link it here so this resource doesn’t get access restricted. The OP can message me for the link if he wants it. But the fact that people are calling this SSI is laug...
Jump to postDoes anyone know why TUI was sending a 787 from Gatwick to Austin today? Saw this badboy from my window about 15 minutes ago: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/TOM8056 Seems a little early for it but the only thing I can guess is some sort of vacation package charter that ends with the F1 race on...
Jump to postDepends on whether you consider AUS to anywhere P2P on AA.
If so, RNO, LAS, IND, CVG, ELP, TUL, OKC, SJU, NAS, RDU, BNA, IAD just to name a few. AA operates to 25 destinations nonstop out of AUS now, 17 in addition to their 8 official hubs.
To answer your first question, at least for the Embraer 170/190, the mixture is 52% fresh, 48% recirculated air.
Jump to postFatigue is a problem across the industry. Operational performance is suffering greatly due to staffing issues and a litany of severe weather across the country. Scheduling departments are using and abusing everyone everywhere, and we're just exhausted. It's really bad, and there doesn't seem to be a...
Jump to postI'd hazard an educated guess it was canceled because the crew timed out after the weather diversion to MEM and therefore couldn't move the plane out of MEM, so the plane couldn't position to DFW for QR730.
Jump to postOn the 170/175, we usually climb in FLCH. The default at my airline is 270/0.74. The changeover occurs whenever the two intersect, which is usually somewhere around FL290.
Jump to postNot to be a Debbie downer, but G4 keep's adding bases all over the place. In the context of them, the designation is kind of meaningless at this point. Sorry you feel that way. From the article "The Las Vegas-based company will invest $75 million to establish the new base in Austin, creating a...
Jump to postHopefully any expansion at AUS will be completed before the project on nearby highway 183. What are they using to dig, a teaspoon? You think? I was really impressed with not only how quickly they got the toll road substantially completed, but did it in a smart, intuitive way that minimized impacts ...
Jump to postAnd why does it matter if you connect in DFW or ATL/JFK if you're headed AUS-Europe? Proximity to a spoke enables an airline to serve it well - low aircraft requirements and bigger theater of connection possibilities. AA should be bigger than DL in AUS due to nearness of DFW DL should be bigger tha...
Jump to postJohanTally wrote:The big rumor is eventually the E175s will be worked by Piedmont agents on E Concourse once space is available.
AUS is a mess in every imaginable way. I just can't see AUS growing that much with DFW and IAD so close, relatively speaking. Then again, DFW is horrendous, but it keeps growing for some stupid reason, so who knows... BNA probably has the brightest outlook. Growing market not close to any major hub...
Jump to postI agree completely with your larger point, though FWIW it seems unlikely that winds were the culprit. The last three wind METARs were 340 at 8, 330 at 10, and 340 at 6. Sure. And I didn't do a deep dive at all into the conditions then, just providing some cockpit context for things. . . . which all...
Jump to postLooking at FR24, it seems that AA4345 IND-PHL did a quick goaround, and now is heading East over Southern NJ at the moment after a 2nd attempt. Anyone know what's up with it? It's raining here in PHL, but it doesn't seem like any sort of weather that would require multiple go-arounds to land. EDIT:...
Jump to postLooking at FR24, it seems that AA4345 IND-PHL did a quick goaround, and now is heading East over Southern NJ at the moment after a 2nd attempt. Anyone know what's up with it? It's raining here in PHL, but it doesn't seem like any sort of weather that would require multiple go-arounds to land. EDIT:...
Jump to postWas it DL or Airtran that made EYW a captain-only airport? More to-the-point, do we know which carriers consider it to be so? Or do all the airlines flying 100+ seaters in there consider it to be captain-only? Eagle (Vail) is another one where the larger aircraft are captain-only, and I've never fl...
Jump to postStarting with a null hypothesis that these two were a danger to themselves and their passengers, in the face of extraordinary evidence to the contrary in the form of aviation safety data, requires a lot more than an anecdote of questionable applicability to this scenario. It's not on me to provide ...
Jump to post... If (in theory) you saw a friend doing incompetent landings on a regular basis, would you say anything about it to somebody, knowing they may get an invite to somebody's office soon ? Would you act the same way if it was your spouse, in the knowledge that you cannot avoid them when you go home f...
Jump to postThere is a big difference between pilots who are friends and pilots who are close family. You can choose your friends, and whether to remain friends with them. It's a MUCH bigger deal to divorce a spouse or separate from a parent or child. Ultimately - do your loyalties lie with following SOP and e...
Jump to postOO is still profitable even with the COVID happening No they aren't. OO was profitable in Q1, which was only minimally affected by COVID, especially for the fee-for-departure carriers. The cancellations didn't start in earnest until the very end of March. There won't be any passenger airline making...
Jump to postWhat gates are operating at AUS? And by what airlines? Is there a CUTE gate arrangement in place for some/all gates? I ask because a friend told me that a significant portion of the terminal is blocked off, but couldn't provide details. Thanks in advance. Everything west of Gate 27 is roped off. Th...
Jump to postSomebody starting training right now will still be 18-36 months off from a job at the airlines. The industry should be rebounding by then, and those thousands of pilots will still be retiring. Things will stagnate right now in a way no one saw coming, but there's no long term issue with the airline ...
Jump to postIt appears they brought back 750YX, so maintenance is possible, although I'm surprised we wouldn't be doing M/X in CMH.
Could be rotating aircraft in and out to fly off the green time.
3300 and 3301 are repositioning/ferry flight numbers on the United side, which 751YX is. No idea what it was doing there, though. It was operated under Part 91, but that's about all I know.
Jump to postSkyWest and Republic are going to look much smaller when this is all said and done. Republic has stated that even with CARES Act money (which they are in the same boat as XJT) they cannot make payroll for their current complement of employees. SkyWest is getting funding, but they along with Republi...
Jump to postOn January 30 UA activated their AUS inflight satellite base. Being overseen by the IAH staff, this gives flight attendants more flexibility over their schedules and other positives. The company looks to open a total of seven satellite bases in the coming year. Cheers to the senior mamas who likely...
Jump to postSo I've actually operated this flight before, and can certainly attest that showing up at 5:05 for a 5:53 is generous. I'm surprised the Eagle ground staff at HVN would do this; I've found them to be both friendly and competent in my interactions with them. With that many passengers missing (especia...
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According to Aviation Herald, a passenger reported the ceiling panels came down in the aft galley at touch down. Source: http://avherald.com/h?article=4d23c7df&opt=0 I had no clue that BA is using their A350 for flights to TLV. Kind of training flights? Sounds like they need a little more train...
Jump to postSo far this AA-DL tit-for-tat in BOS and MIA, Republic is the big winner! Lol.
Jump to postDL 300, operating SXM-JFK, had just landed on 22L, and was told to hold short of 22R. Instead of reading back the (mandatory) hold short instruction, they only answered the controller's second question ("what is your gate number?"), and continued across 22R. Another DL aircraft had been cl...
Jump to postSame company. Why did ALL the other employees get the same raise at DL than the pilots? Why did the pilots keep their PS percentage while ALL other employees had theirs cut? And AA and UA FAs make more in total compensation than DL and enjoy work rules that can’t be changed at a whim. Again your st...
Jump to poststrfyr51 wrote:UA857 wrote:Why can't Qantas carry local traffic on JFK-LAX route?
because NO foreign carrier can fly any domestic route inside the USA, and last I looked? JFK-LAX is surely in the lower 48 isn't it??
Looks like it had the above mentioned test flight on Sunday, it had two flights on Wednesday, one on Thursday, and one on Friday - all IND-IND. It has, and all flight tests were normal. They identified the cause on this aircraft, repaired the involved components, and at this time it's believed to b...
Jump to postHow do you figure? There are people that want to go from Paris to Kenshasa and Paris to Brazzaville, but perhaps not enough to fill up each separately. This way they get two markets with just one aircraft. It would be a much larger waste of fuel to fly an A332 from Paris to each separately, half-full.
Jump to postIn what way would a 77W "better compete" with the other carriers? Considering the fact that AA flies the 77W on JFK-LHR and they may be generating alot of money from that why can't UA do that I mean isn't EWR-LHR a strong route for UA. I've seen a few other routes out of EWR that were upg...
Jump to postNice report!
Must be a shock going from Cancun to Minneapolis in just 4 hours.
Interesting that you got two N898*Ns on back-to-back flights!
I don't know what it means, but I'm at IAH right now and there's an AI 747-400 taxiing out. Lol.
Jump to postKFLLCFII wrote:All it takes is one moderate to large volcanic eruption to emit more pollutants into the atmosphere than aviation has in all of its history.
You can choose to lose sleep over it...I'm going to sleep soundly tonight.
I fly the 170/175, and I don't find it to be louder than anything else. Arguably, less so. \
Jump to postAll I know is it's making my commute to MIA tomorrow a lot easier! The last AUS-MIA flight tomorrow went from 16 to 56 seats open in less than 24 hours! So YOU are the only Miami-based crew that didn’t try to call off tonight? Hahaha! Not MIA-based! This was an easy money trip for me, so I had to d...
Jump to postI agree with your first statements. Comparing Boston, even 20 years ago, to Austin now is a lousy one. But understand that to Texans, driving to DFW from Austin is as ridiculous as driving from Boston to New York. It's the same distance within a couple of miles. So when people suggest Austinites ar...
Jump to postPeople from Austin aren't Texans. I could say more but I'd probably get banned off this site. I don't want to go too off topic but Austin is somewhat to Texas what Portland is to Oregon, Berkeley to SF/California, Sedona to Arizona, Asheville to North Carolina and the State of Vermont to U.S.A. Bac...
Jump to postAll I know is it's making my commute to MIA tomorrow a lot easier! The last AUS-MIA flight tomorrow went from 16 to 56 seats open in less than 24 hours!
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