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...
Jump to postI’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...
Jump to postAirplanes 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...
Jump to postAirplanes 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...
Jump to postI 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...
Jump to postI 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 ...
Jump to postI 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 ...
Jump to postWhy 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...
Jump to postNo 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...
Jump to postHey 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...
Jump to postSkyVoice wrote:Comair (OH), the BEST North American regional airline EVER!
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.
Jump to postThe 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...
Jump to postHere 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”...
Jump to postThis 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 ...
Jump to postIf 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 ...
Jump to postCLT 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...
Jump to postalasizon wrote:Every carrier with the exception of Frontier will already put passengers in a hotel for a controllable overnight (assuming there are hotels available).
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...
Jump to postDidn'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...
Jump to postIf 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...
Jump to postLAX772LR 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.
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...
Jump to postWere 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.
Jump to postA 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...
Jump to postThere 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...
Jump to postThere 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...
Jump to postDon’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...
Jump to postCorrect 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...
Jump to postPretty 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.
Jump to postAgain: 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...
Jump to postWindows 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...
Jump to postThe 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...
Jump to postProst wrote:With avoiding Russian airspace did the plane deviate west or east leaving SIN? SIN-ATL nonstop is very close to going over the pole.
Is Cordia Harrington the Nashville/BNA connection? BNA is a lovely place but BNA-LNK doesn’t make a lot of sense. BNA is a massive tourist destination right now, so if they can work it in to the rotation with a couple of turns a week (and LNK is geographically well-placed to do that alongside the o...
Jump to postDoes anyone know if TYS has been in talks with Breeze or Avelo to start service? Or would they not be willing to do that with the G4 base here? Spirit seems unlikely with all the merger stuff happening. I had asked the question whether WN is likely to announce any new destinations in 2023 in a disc...
Jump to postDoes anyone know if TYS has been in talks with Breeze or Avelo to start service? Or would they not be willing to do that with the G4 base here? Spirit seems unlikely with all the merger stuff happening.
Jump to postTo not allow someone to work because of their age when they can meet the requirements of the job is age discrimination. To not allow my 4 year to get a driver’s license is age discrimination. Key phrase - I don’t think your 4 year old can “meet the requirements” in this case. Come on, clearly we’re...
Jump to postI already understood your first four paragraphs, but am still confused if FR24 and other sites have access to ATC ADSB data. It doesn’t seem like you did understand his explanation - he is saying that there is no such thing as “ATC ADSB data” that’s any different from another receiver. It’s all the...
Jump to postIt's strange to see people disagreeing with an airline paying homage to the airlines and it's employees that have been incorporated into what AA is today. Agreed - for the most part, airline employees are rightfully proud of the heritage from which they came. Some of you are arguing that having her...
Jump to postI mean, I've tried it before, and my only flight experience is with a flight simulator on my computer and one flight on an actual Cessna 172. It can be done. You just have to know where to look. The one I tried was a Boeing 737-200 at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta. How much did you pay? It mus...
Jump to postIf MX actually had a dedicated first class attendant who was being paid a livable wage, hot meals, pre departure beverages and actual food on their flights instead of a bag of chex mix then their fares would be higher too :roll: I don't believe the MX fanbois quite understand this concept. Breeze a...
Jump to postEinheitsdesign wrote:dennypayne wrote:Found another one I'm missing as well:
AA?? DFW-FRA 19 June 2011
Anyone able to find the registration for this one? Should be a 763ER.
Should be this one
N7375A B763 AA 0601 20110620 AA0070 DFW-FRA [[+00:00] Sandhurst [1.70RC3]]
Found another one I'm missing as well:
AA?? DFW-FRA 19 June 2011
Anyone able to find the registration for this one? Should be a 763ER.
ACDC8 wrote:Literally nobody goes to Sun Peaks, not even the locals.
Anyways, this is just another "Alamo A380" thread, so I'm done with it. Good luck with your endeavours.
N838MH 764 went tech today at EZE. Tonight's return to ATL has been cancelled. Delta sent N839MH as DL9966/101A to presumably pick up passengers from last night's DL110 that was cancelled. It was supposed to leave ATL at 11PM last night but ended up leaving today at 10AM, just arrived EZE at 9:28PM...
Jump to postI believe at least DL/AA/WN will offer you a free rebooking even if your schedule change is under their threshold for a refund. Sure, you have to call to get moved to new flights if you originally booked a 90 minute connection and now only have a 40 minute connection and you want to have a better c...
Jump to postI don't get why any airline should have the list. Shouldn't they just post passenger info the DoT or whomever it is that manages the list and get a response that's basically affirmative or negative without actually being able to look at the underlying DB in the first place? (man this is really comp...
Jump to postI don’t understand why Commutair needs the “NoFly List” at all? Is the operating carrier responsible for checking that its not carrying anyone on the list? This also surprised be, because I would have assumed that it was ticketing carriers who were responsible. From the original blog quoted above: ...
Jump to postI am afraid that over reliance on cloud computing is getting a bit too much. This has nothing specific to do with cloud computing. In fact, cloud computing companies do offer solid (though not perfect - nothing is) data security solutions to their customers. This clusterf#&k is likely the resul...
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