Re: Icahn Takes 9.9% Stake in JetBlue

JetBlue just doesn't market themselves. I'm a New Yorker transplanted to Kansas City and they announced service to MCI shortly before I moved to the area. Other than a news story on their announcement of service, release of schedule, and their inaugural flight, there's no marketing here. What can t...

Re: Cabin noise ATR72-500 vs 600

I’ve been on Silver’s ATR-42-600s and several operators’ Q400s. I’d say the newer ATRs are marginally quieter, and both are better than the earlier variants of either. Personally, I think the perception of a lot of cabin noise in modern turboprops is vastly overblown. People that complain about them...

Re: Loud noises and shaking after takeoff

Airplanes are funny in how isolated some of these sounds can be. If you're right over the gear, this is usually *really* loud. If you're only a couple rows forward or aft, you won't hear it at all. CRJ-200 main gear doors opening for landing sounds almost like a gunshot. I’ve seen more than one per...

Re: Loud noises and shaking after takeoff

Airplanes are funny in how isolated some of these sounds can be. If you're right over the gear, this is usually *really* loud. If you're only a couple rows forward or aft, you won't hear it at all. CRJ-200 main gear doors opening for landing sounds almost like a gunshot. I’ve seen more than one per...

Re: 737-MAX 9 and 737-MAX 10 Only Order totals

I think Boeing has been tight-lipped about the performance of the new 7MJ landing gear. I haven't seen anything about the landing gear specifically. I'm eager to find out their results. This is telling. I lean towards no significant gains. They're eager for good news and would have shared this if t...

Re: Delta Air Lines 1997 "Interim" livery question

I am laughing that everyone is calling it the interim livery there was nothing interim about it- it was a permanent livery change and it was touted as the first change in years, part of a rebranding post 1996 Olympics. It was short lived replaced with the wavy gravy Deltaflot tail. Correct, at the ...

Re: Delta Air Lines 1997 "Interim" livery question

I am laughing that everyone is calling it the interim livery there was nothing interim about it- it was a permanent livery change and it was touted as the first change in years, part of a rebranding post 1996 Olympics. It was short lived replaced with the wavy gravy Deltaflot tail. Correct, at the ...

Re: Delta Air Lines 1997 "Interim" livery question

Why was it called the “interim” livery? I think mainly because it never got applied to the entire fleet. Colors in Motion began being applied when a bunch of the fleet was still in the original Widget livery, so a good chunk never wore it, they just went straight from Widget to CIM. Hence the Ron A...

Delta Airlines MD-90

No MD-90s are flying anymore. That appears to be incorrect, and I stand corrected as well - from the SoCal Boneyard thread: Boeing MD-90 N930TB ferried VCV-PMD as BOE930 for the X-66A program. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n930tb https://www.nasa.gov/aeroresearch/nasa-boeing-provide-a...

Re: Delta Airlines MD-90

Hey there. Quick question. Back in around 2020, Delta retired its MD90s and MD88s, but today I found a Delta MD90 flying on flightradar. How can it be? Does anybody have some insight? Thanks! Probably a GA aircraft that has picked up one of the retired registrations and FR hasn’t updated their data...

Re: What airlines would you want to bring back ?

SkyVoice wrote:

Comair (OH), the BEST North American regional airline EVER!

Re: The first Airbus A320 to break the 30-year in service mark

I got a ride on 2 different 30+ year olds in the same day yesterday: N320US at 32.2 years, and N328NW at 31.5. I'm confident not many other people on board had any clue of their age - their new cabins are quite pleasant and comfortable.

Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2023

The Max 10 (and 9 and 739ER) doesn’t have great runway performance but it is kinda becoming a meme at this point on how much A.net exaggerates the issue. DL wouldn’t order 100 (and UA something like 400) planes that they can barely use in the summer in half the US. I would even say that the stateme...

Re: Fireworks and Airplanes

Here is a chart of how high fireworks can go: https://pyroinnovations.com/images/fireworks-shell-altitude.jpg This is for higher grade mortars, most other things are even lower. My wife is a certified pyrotechnician - the largest shells they regularly use at her commercial shows are 8”. Most are 6”...

Re: Air India 777 on an India-SFO non stop made an emergency landing in Magadan, Russia

This is a clear example of the down side of long range twin operation : land at nearest suitable airport with an engine failure. But what are the options you offer? To go back to flying less efficient MD-11s and 747s? I doubt the first of those would even have the range for DEL-SFO. Or develop new ...

Re: 737-MAX 9 and 737-MAX 10 Only Order totals

If the Max10 winds up working ‘well’ then I would expect very few comparative copies of the 9 to be produced, once they are both in serial production/service. There will be some notable exceptions like Riyadh/Alaska but most airline operations can handle the poor field performance for the extra 11 ...

Re: Airport Mistakes

CLT has been an ongoing nighmare for a long time. No passenger access to Terminal A. Only three TSA checkpoints. The road construction is never ending and seems to get worse daily. I’d only connected though CLT before, and that’s bad enough. The airside food court is about the only bright spot. Typ...

Re: Proposed Rulemaking for Controllable Disruptions in the USA

alasizon wrote:

Every carrier with the exception of Frontier will already put passengers in a hotel for a controllable overnight (assuming there are hotels available).

Re: A220-100 in all Business Config Question

You said in your post up above that for these types of airlines “the business just wasn’t there” - but at least in Legend’s case I think it was, they just got victimized by AA’s dirty tricks as you detailed here. I lived in AUS at the time and was hoping to work it out to get a flight on them but t...

Re: A220-100 in all Business Config Question

Didn't American operate all first class F100’s between ORD and DAL for a while? Yes, an airline called Legend Airlines started at DAL using all F DC-9s, configured with 56 F seats. They were therefore not restricted by the Wright Amendment. American saw this as a threat to their DFW operation, so t...

Re: A220-100 in all Business Config Question

If somebody else was running delta, there would be a small subfleet of A221 (5-6 Aircraft) flying out of JFK,BOS to CDG, ZRH, LCY, AMS. Using an all business set up, I’m pretty sure that DCA-LCY would also work with a preclearnace at LCY - yes I am aware of the perimeter rule, however this flight w...

Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2023

LAX772LR wrote:

No one of any discernment is going to mistake "could be" for "it's sure and done."
Executive-speak isn't exactly new, even to amateurs.

Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2023

This was presented on April 13th at an internal Delta town hall where they discussed quarterly results and hosted an employee Q&A. A pilot specifically asked Ed Bastian about the prospects of the A350-1000 joining the fleet. Ed acknowledged they had been in active negotiations with Airbus and t...

Re: Widespread power outages and nighttime VFR

Were the airport lights themselves also off? If not, it might have been easier than normal to see those, because many airports actually appear much darker overall at night than the surrounding lights.

Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2023

A while ago there was speculation that DL wanted a reputation for spaciousness in economy, and therefore preferred the 2-4-2 economy layout in the 339 and 3-3-3 in the 350 to Boeing's tighter alternatives. To the extent that they "persuaded" VS to order 339s in preference to enlarging the...

Re: Possible for B787 or A350 to do NRT-MIA Nonstop?

There is no need for a nonstop when a customer out of Japan would, literally, be over-flying every other hub in the US and Canada. Yeah because I hate it when airlines try to get me to my destination 4 hours quicker and make me miss out on running through a second airport hoping my bags transfer pr...

Re: Possible for B787 or A350 to do NRT-MIA Nonstop?

There is no need for a nonstop when a customer out of Japan would, literally, be over-flying every other hub in the US and Canada. Yeah because I hate it when airlines try to get me to my destination 4 hours quicker and make me miss out on running through a second airport hoping my bags transfer pr...

Re: BAe146 / Avro RJ into Lorde Howe Island

Don’t know anything about the 146 other than watching one depart from Perth (YPPH); it seemed to take forever. Those hairdryers called engines aren’t all that great, either. Consistently the best landings I’ve ever experienced though - something about the high wing and trailing link landing gear di...

Re: AA A319 Has to be the worst US legacy cabin

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that the LAA A319s (the ones with sharklets) are the only AA narrowbodies that still have PTVs at every seat. Which helps to make them the absolute worst because of the IFE boxes taking up some of the small bit of legroom that you have. This definitely makes th...

Re: AA2043 odd departure 10 Apr

Pretty much every flight I’ve ever taken out of SJC has done this. It’s nice, it gives you a 360 view of the whole Bay Area.

Re: Is this actually a viable new cabin layout?

Again: nobody said all the windows will go. Read the article. There will still be windows on exits and at crew positions, as a minimum. No need for more windows than that from a safety point of view. I suspect the FAA will disagree with you. And yet, there are companies that bet millions of $ on th...

Re: Is this actually a viable new cabin layout?

Windows could possibly be made a little smaller before they are abandoned all together? none of that has to do with them having bigger windows The trend is pretty clearly in the opposite direction. A350, 787 and even 777X have bigger windows, not smaller. There's no evidence that trend will reverse...

Re: Is this actually a viable new cabin layout?

The upstairs of that render looks like a slave ship for children. I guess if the exits are blocked on the left, and the fire is bad enough, it's a great airplane if you hate kids... I’m all for a separate, sealed off cabin for kids- bring it on! [emoji16] But yeah it doesn’t look like anyone though...

Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2023