I think you might not still be not getting it. That fuel is not unneeded and WILL still be burned either way despite the magic (paper) weight savings of moving bags from the hold to bins because the actual weight has not changed. This is simply making false assumptions about weight at the gate and ...
Jump to postThis is a bit more serious than the general impression you get from skimming through this thread. United can not open new routes. United can not certify new pilots. United can not not issue type ratings. United can not start operating new aircraft in revenue service. FAA is going through every manu...
Jump to postCould be, though passenger accounts are largely unreliable. Mostly probably the “noise” was the nose gear leaving the taxiway and it took a few moments before the left main gear left pavement which caused it to tilt over. I suppose it caught the PF by surprise which is why he/she wasn’t able to get...
Jump to postAgree with those who have 1. EWR 2. IAH 3. IAD I agree. You have to use your imagination a bit, but the first one definitely looks like it's going toward Cape Cod, the 2nd is a fairly non-descript SE coastline, but going out over open water could really only be IAH, and the third departs SE over wh...
Jump to postIf UPS can move it by truck, they do. BNA is easily in range of ground based moves to/from SDF. surprising UPS doesnt do flights... Fedex has daily BNA-MEM and BNA-IND and it is only 2.5-3 hour drive down rt 40 or Up 65 It makes more sense when you think of FedEx as an airline with trucks and UPS a...
Jump to postNice report!! BOX-JAX was my first IOE flight at YX. I miss the E-Jet! My first IOE flight was LGA-BNA. I flew BOS-JAX on one of my first trips off IOE. It is a nice plane to fly. What do you fly now? Nice! I went to BNA on day 2 of my IOE! The more things change, the more they stay the same at Rep...
Jump to postNice report!! BOX-JAX was my first IOE flight at YX. I miss the E-Jet!
Jump to postTough situation here all the way around. SFO doesn't have the real estate to build a hole like that last minute. I feel for the LH crew after a long flight, and personally I didn't think any of the transmissions by either party were unprofessional. The f-bomb was the closest thing to it, but even th...
Jump to postSad. Thoughts to the victim's friends and family. Will await more details before I judge, but as someone on the ramp regularly, there are lots of opportunities for things like this to happen, unfortunately.
Jump to postORD,LAX,IAH, and IAD all have expansion projects underway or in the works. DEN just added 39 gates, many of which went to UA, and still has space to expand Concourse C relatively easily. I know ORD has the global terminal project, which will be nice for UA and make things much more convenient, but ...
Jump to postFor sure, they are going more mainline. These 30 or so less EWR flights impacted cities like OMA and MCI etc. MCI was 2x daily mainline EWR-MCI and over the winter it goes to zero, not even switching to E175 or 1x daily. I think this is short sighted and will reduce the value of being a UA Elite in...
Jump to postNew uniforms are being wear-tested right now for all customer-facing positions, including pilots, FAs, and customer service agents. They will match the branding seen here.
Jump to postI would be interested to see UA start an ORD-Poland route. AA had planned KRK before the pandemic, but either WAW or KRK would have sizeable VFR O&D out of ORD, and anecdotally I see Poland on American tourists' radars more than I used to. What little premium demand that exists might prefer UA o...
Jump to postWill the XLR affect this ratio? Granted, the XLR won't make up a huge % of most (large) airlines' fleets, but I wonder if some of the longer XLR flights will require two FOs, especially westbound in the northern hemisphere. Probably not much, at least at United. The majority of XLR routes will be a...
Jump to postTwo observations, if a plane cannot be flown without a captain , anyone wonder why there are so much less captains than first officers for the airlines quoted in the article, it's not like they have more captains so they have more flights with two captains. I could see if they were allowed to have ...
Jump to postHeard the same thing is happening at the Regionals. Same. It seems to be a common problem in the industry right now. Talking to some friends over at Republic, they were saying as FOs, they're sitting around collecting guarantee for working a couple trips a month tops, while the CA side of the house...
Jump to postSeniority bites everyone yet again, this happens in every unionized field in the airline industry.. It causes movement in the industry of most any kind to be very difficult if not completely undesirable. A better system needs to be found, Company seniority or Industry seniority would be much prefer...
Jump to postTwo observations, if a plane cannot be flown without a captain , anyone wonder why there are so much less captains than first officers for the airlines quoted in the article, it's not like they have more captains so they have more flights with two captains. I could see if they were allowed to have ...
Jump to postOn the 170/190, ECS OFF is an MCDU option when needed for TO performance, but it's not especially common except on the shortest runways. Occasionally there are MELs that require it, too.
Jump to postI've had 3 RAs in my 3.5 years flying the line. They were all non-events. Almost always brought on by excessive vertical closure rate for aircraft that are properly vertically separated (of course, the planes don't know that). The two transponders talk to each other to coordinate the RA. This become...
Jump to postYep, it's all about aircraft utilization and capabilities on the return. To leave that early in the day would mean considerable extra idle ground time in order to leave in the cooler hours with a viable payload. Frankly, I'm a little surprised they don't leave even later. 3-4 hours is plenty to turn...
Jump to postNice report! Welcome to the Brickyard club! Thank you for 2 very interesting trip reports! I'm curious (and I understand if you can't share this), but what are the Canada specific arrival procedures? It's nothing that complicated. Most of it has to do with the terminology, and meeting crossing restr...
Jump to postAllegiant 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 ...
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