Flying WN in/out of SLC - was not horrible, compared to the "old" terminal walk from the end of "B" or "E" - whatever they re-lettered the old terminal - the new terminal has moving walkways under the taxiway ala DTW McNamara, was easy enough. Nice that the new concours...
Jump to postCall Patroni.......dig out the mains and nose wheel, lay some plywood, full reverse thrust !
Does the 717 have the same airframe sturdiness of it's elder sibling, the DC-9 ?
Truly a Classy Lady and will be missed.
I hope Smokey serenades her at her Celebration of Life, he did a beautiful song for The Queen at her Ceremony.
Our favorite MIA videographer is back. Nice to lay eyes on quite a few of the birds that we talk about in here (Kalitta 733, SkyBus DC8, Cargojet 763, etc.). There was also a quick glimpse of one of the Kalitta 727s hanging out at Commercial Jet while our DC8 taxis by (https://youtu.be/h43X_5YtsDs)...
Jump to postSo Hughes being dismantled wasn't NW's doing. The rise of HP and WN and AS in former RW markets was the undoing for Republic's western division.[/quote] The old RW system and PHX "hub" were taken down once Steve Wolf came on-board at RC in conjunction with the recession of '82 - PHX and LA...
Jump to postA - ATL, AMS, AUS, ABQ, AMA, ACA B - BOI, BOS, BHM, BUD, BDL, BUR, BNA C - CLE, CVG, CAK, CLT D - DCA, DUB, DAL, DEN, DFW, DTW E - EUG, EDI F - FNT, FLL G - GTF, GIG H - HVN, HNL, HOU, HPN I - IND, IDA, IAD J - JAX, JFK K - L - LGA, LGW, LHR, LAX, LAS, LGB M - MDW, MIA, MEM, MSP, MAN, MAF, MSY, MCO,...
Jump to postIt's too far gone to try and rehab. That part of the D is not getting much attention, plenty of empty land over there. Best bet is tear-down and offer up to FCA or a supplier or warehouses for a new facility (basically what seems to happen to old auto plants, see Dodge Main, Ford Wixom, GM Livonia o...
Jump to postKDET - Detroit City Airport Used to be the "main" airport for Detroit prior to WWII Post-deregulation Wright Airlines WN Pro Air NW USExpress Comair CO Express Nothing since Pro Air Obviously DTW is the 800-lb gorilla down the road serving the Metro area. Short, narrow, runways and lack of...
Jump to postAA - Bob Crandall era WN - lounge seating, 2/3 full, and 25 minute turns on the 733 - pre-2000 (Herb's airline) NC - flew all over Michigan with Herman the Duck, good, solid, airline Bonanza - LAS hometown airline, had I been born in another era, would've been my go-to airline RW - see Bonanza above...
Jump to postBiased me.......LAS
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-the-s ... 80218.html
LAX
T-3 historically TW
T-4 AA
T-5 WA
T-6 CO
T-7-8 UA
Looks like IFL's 727's have headed home for Christmas dinner
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/TSU ... /KSDF/KPTK
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/TSU ... /KMEM/KPTK
No need to dig up those bones! - A legacy to the "Flip this Airline" mentality of Stephen Wolf (put a new coat of paint on the 'planes and hang the "for sale" sign) and arguably some of the worst of UA's history as discussed above. Saul Bass for me or Friendship or Rhapsody in Bl...
Jump to postasuflyer wrote:Well this evening at JFK did not go without hiccups. Two A330's, DL 262 and AZ 610 became disabled in the snow and had to be towed out.
RNO - booming up there, hard to find a place to live
BIL
BZN
SGU - as others have mentioned
DEN - the Metro keeps growing and growing, plus pull from mountain communities/Boulder/Colorado Springs
InnsbruckFlyer wrote:Anyone have a diagram of KLAS that shows where this happened and approximately where he crossed the perimeter?
First question. Third question. Was the Davey terminal constructed because the airlines at Willow Run complained that they wanted better facilities or was the Davey terminal built by Wayne county to lure the rest of the airlines away from Willow Run by tempting them with more modern facilities. Pas...
Jump to postOnly managed two round-trips on the Queen to date: VS 744 LAS-MAN-LAS 2018 Premium Economy r/t - lower deck going, upper deck coming back BA 744 LAS-LHR-LAS 2019 Biz Class upper deck (reverse facing seat) / Premium Economy lower on the return I do miss the upper deck, like it's own little aircraft w...
Jump to posthttps://flightaware.com/live/fleet/CKS
CKS 562 / 564 /566 flights from MEM-HNL/LAX/SFO appear to be behalf of FedEx
Anyone know where Moderna's production facilities are? I know Pfizer has a major one near BRU. Moderna has never had to distribute a product like this, so it really doesn't have organic production facilities. Lonza in Switzerland is making it, about 1/4 in New Hampshire and 3/4 in Switzerland. That...
Jump to postCLE concourses A and B - hasn't changed much in my 4+ decades
LAX T3
BUR - whole airport
RNO - concourses look similar as they did in the '80s
ABQ - another one that is fairly 70s / 80s designs
At LAS Westair Industries flies the C208 for FedEx to CDC and SGU - HII has service to PHX on Empire for FedEx - no service via air to IGM or IFP, easy to truck to NW AZ from LAS.
Jump to postPE 747s - Transcon and Europe HP 747s - Hawaii, Transcon (as opposed to their new 757s at the time) - originally purchased to launch routes to Japan when their economy was hot in the late '80s, eventually had service to Nagoya from HNL, soon went to NW. Agree on America West but PE’s 747 service to...
Jump to postPE 747s - Transcon and Europe
HP 747s - Hawaii, Transcon (as opposed to their new 757s at the time) - originally purchased to launch routes to Japan when their economy was hot in the late '80s, eventually had service to Nagoya from HNL, soon went to NW.
Dennis Rodman (NBA) back in his SA Spurs days on a 3 a.m. red-eye, LAS-DFW on AA - he was slumming it in Coach in the back of the Mad Dog, we had received upgrades to F after being "bumped" off the 1am. Martin Shugrue (former CEO of Eastern and Pan Am II) at SJU during Pan Am II's launch i...
Jump to postDid NW cancel any ordered RC MD-82s ? 12 frames delivered to RC and never more taken up after the merger. Just curious. Seems RC was moving towards a fleet of MDs and 752s at the time. Did NW already have the A320 on Order and not interested in further MDs? Obviously the crash at DTW probably did no...
Jump to postLength of Layover, Weather (possibility of getting stuck), number of flights in case of IROP - how to get around or through the hub. Example - instead of UA LAS-SFO-SUN - went LAS-DEN-SUN - why? Possibility of mis-connect or weather in SFO compared to DEN, whereas, even if weather is in the area, DE...
Jump to postAt times, if not too far out of the way or other benefit. Last one was B6 - instead of getting on the non-stop red-eye LAS-JFK, took the red-eye LAS-BOS, changed planes for BOS-JFK to get to sample the E190 - flight was also $60 cheaper and time was not an issue as I was only going to NYC to spend a...
Jump to postThat depends - for instance I fly LAS-RNO many times per year, sometimes multiple times per month - however, always on WN - obvious reason, no other carrier has the schedule to allow for flexible travel. Same with LAS-SAN. On a route such as LAS-SLC, generally prefer WN for points and status, howeve...
Jump to postWN 722 AA 732 733 BAe 146 (Air Cal merger) MD-87 MD-90 (Reno Air merger) US BAe 146 (PSA merger) HP 742 731 TZ 733 G4 DC-9 PSA L1011 Mesa F70 Question: Did AA, after the acquisition of Trans-Caribbean Airlines, ever operate any of the former DC-8s in AA livery? I do not believe so, just wondering if...
Jump to postFlew LAS-BUR-LAS on WN at the end of September, 2001 - flights were somber - not much of any talking on-board that is one thing that seems to stand out, airports were rather empty, and the security procedures were still being "ironed out". Like 727tiger said, LAS did have the military thro...
Jump to postIn my experience, DTW, LAS and SAN have all operated as normal. Only noticeable difference is Plexiglass installed in front of the TSA Agent and they ask you to pull your mask down to identify you. Little to no lines for me in all 3 airports Pre-Check lines. At LAS the Regular Line seems busy, I'm a...
Jump to postRobert J. Serling did books on many of the regulated era carriers individually, I have read and have Western an North Central among others. Rapid Decent and Hard Landing are both wonderful renditions of the deregulated era until the mid-90s Air America was a good read if interested in the CIA sponso...
Jump to postWe can’t forget that in 1984 as the ETOPS era had dawned, Boeing refused to sell 767ERs to Pan Am because of their finances. Boeing knew they couldn’t pay for the planes. Airbus came in and sold them A300s and A310s and even threw in a new livery for free. The only reason PA could make the payments...
Jump to postDL took over the route from Pan Am in 1991 - CLE-DTW-LGW with a A310 - switched soon after to a L1011, the route was distinctive in that the flight would park at the Berry terminal whereas DL departed from the Smith terminal C concourse. The flight only parked at the Berry terminal on the LGW-DTW-C...
Jump to postthe PA flight between DTW and London operated as CLE-DTW-LHR (then LGW) and was flown with an A310. Delta I think continued it very briefly when it bought the remaining TATL network from PA in 1991. DL operated it very briefly, then ran it CVG-DTW-LGW briefly (IIRC), then dropped it. DL took over t...
Jump to postAny and all livery changes instituted under the stewardship of one Steve Wolf.
Jump to postDidn't Arnold Schwarzenegger fly them down on an 11 hour trip to Val Verde in 1985? Ha yes he did! Not sure how many here got the reference but that was my favorite part of the movie. :) He WAS to fly Western to the Republic of Val Verde....if one recalls, he "departed" the aircraft via t...
Jump to postOK, old school liveries, here are my top 10: 1 Braniff (Jelly Bean/Pastel's, Flying Colors, and Ultra) 2 United (Saul Bass) 3 Air New Zealand (from the mid 1970s) 4 Qantas (Any time, especially the 70s with the orangish cheat line) 5 New York Air 6 Air California (Yellow/Black lines, etc.) 7 Luftha...
Jump to post1) Ecuatoriana - anything from the '70s 2) AA - traditional bare-metal 3) New York Air - Big Apple 4) BA - Landor 5) Western Pacific - Stardust Hotel & Casino livery OK, old school liveries, here are my top 10: 1 Braniff (Jelly Bean/Pastel's, Flying Colors, and Ultra) 2 United (Saul Bass) 3 Air...
Jump to post1) Ecuatoriana - anything from the '70s
2) AA - traditional bare-metal
3) New York Air - Big Apple
4) BA - Landor
5) Western Pacific - Stardust Hotel & Casino livery
I have done it several times going to LAS - LAX - International destination - fly WN to LAX round-trip, the cheapest and easiest to change flights, especially considering baggage. Transfer at LAX to another carrier, usually a foreign-flag. I make a few hours between flights to allow for potential de...
Jump to post1973-74 coincides with the Arab Oil Embargo and the beginning of the decline of the Big 3 (American Auto Industry) - hence UA dropped DTW-LGA - AA was the big airline at DTW prior to Deregulation, UA had a decent operation as well, however, AA had the following as of 12/1/74 from DTW: BOS - 4x 707 B...
Jump to postHello all, All I want to ask here. Has anyone flown on them, and how was the service? Seats? Etc. I remembered seeing them at LAS a few times before randomly disappearing altogether and recently did some research (even went on their website with a waybackmachine..) so I was wondering what the first...
Jump to postMy only experience was a round-trip charter DTW-ACA in 1988/1989 on the L1011. The flight was good, on-time departure, movie on-board via the center pull-down screen (Crocodile Dundee II on the way down and Married to the Mob on the way back), meal service was served, nothing special as was airline ...
Jump to postSLC is close to downtown, depending on traffic how long to drive Wouldn't call that exactly close. Definitely not the furthest, but it's on the edge of the city. Pretty average location for an airport. However from what I can see this airport can only be accessed by car, which is a huge downside. T...
Jump to postUA used one on ORD-DTW in the 1990s. I took it a few times going to visit my sister and nephews. It struck me as an odd choice for such a short flight, taking nearly as long to embark or disembark (boarding started 40 minutes prior to departure) as it did to fly the route (about 45 minutes wheels-u...
Jump to postIFP is across the river from Laughlin casinos - 2-3 miles to all the casinos
PHX is close to downtown
SLC is close to downtown, depending on traffic how long to drive
In Europe there are hardly any white elephant airports left. Most of them have become "Ryanair airports". After London Stansted was built it basically became a white elephant for some time, no airline wanted to fly there. That is, until Ryanair moved in. Nowadays it's their largest base, ...
Jump to postThat’s a very good point. Perhaps there would be a duopoly now at Dallas consisting of AA and DL, the same way AA has a duopoly at ORD with UA. But was Delta Air Lines a big airline in the early 80’s? If I recall correctly, they said in the video mentioned above that Braniff was the 9th largest air...
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