Does anyone have any photos of the current bins? The E-jets have a 2-2 configuration in coach. Isnt the current bin deep enough to fit a bag flat, perpendicular to the aircraft? I don't really understand how they are getting more space. I don't think they can't get taller bins like the mainline jet...
Jump to postClues; Indiana Jones themed, 3 routes all from a location by the ocean, 1 787 heads east, 2 737 max 8, headed south east. My guesses: EWR or IAD to CIA or CMN (787) EWR or IAD to Georgetown Guyana (7M8) IAD to BOG (7M8) CAI would definitely be a summer seasonal service at minimum. FWIW those aren’t...
Jump to posttimberwolf24 wrote:I haven't seen this posted, United resumes ORD-TLV March 30, 2024, 4 weekly flights. Flights bookable on United.com.
UA is taking on a lot of planes at the moment and I feel they dont have enough staff or pilots to fly around, I think this is why we are seeing cuts to EWR/IAD during the slow season. I think as more crew gets trained and the continued arrival of new planes in their fleet will free up a lot more ca...
Jump to postIn today's world American is now a strong player across the Pacific. It is great to see them so large to Australia and New Zealand now. I never imagined a world where American is larger to the South Pacific than United and now American is a strong competitor to Asia from the U.S. That is not an acc...
Jump to postDoes anyone know why the fares on BOI-ORD are over a thousand dollars for the entire year? Is there a glitch with UA's website? When there’s a recent schedule update (which in this case I believe the schedule was increased from 1 to 2x daily), it takes some time for the systems to align so it price...
Jump to postLAXdude1023 wrote:DEN and IAH win for the number of flights being added to the schedule. ORD gets a new long haul. All the hubs outside of California seem to get a decent amount.
Western727 wrote:Given the MAX9 door plug thing...I cant imagine I'm unique in being grateful that WN has no MAX9s (or MAX8-200s) with said door plug.
The first 5 MAX8s will have 12 first class seat but will be upgraded to 16 seat that the rest of the fleet will have later. Terrible planning. They should’ve realized that they needed to upgrade to 16 seats back when the interior specs had time to be adjusted. Lucky you when you are one of the peop...
Jump to postI believe the new OO 175s to replace the CR7s will start Q4. But still haven’t heard of any plan for ASE?
Jump to postSMF airport has seen a lot of growth over the last 2 years, driven by a pretty solid migration of folks from the Bay Area (San Francisco and Silicon Valley/San Jose). Big financial investments/capex also being put into SMF to capture growth opportunities, inclusive of Lake Tahoe and Napa Valley tra...
Jump to postFinally! Decades of debate, legal issues and planning, construction at BUR for the new terminal complex has finally commenced. From what I’ve read elsewhere mid-2025 opening. December 14, 2023 – The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority (BGPAA) has received the first round of permits from the...
Jump to postrj777 wrote:btw how could the kid's checked bag end up on the correct flight but he didn't?
A lot of smaller US airports are moving to common use as it allows you to theoretically add more capacity without physically expanding the terminal footprint, which is very costly and during a downturn you end up with excess space. It also helps during irregular operations for airlines to not be lim...
Jump to post"United Airlines 737NG (737-900ER) aircraft are being modified in accordance with the United's "United Next" strategy, which includes installation of new Boeing Space Bins, Panasonic Audio Video On Demand (AVOD), In Flight Entertainment at every seat location, full cabin In-Seat Powe...
Jump to postGee! Thank you for taking the time. I have seen those pictures and I will have another look at them. I didn’t recall if the nicer looking reupholstered F seats will get a tv monitor on the seat back? I think that is one thing that really dates those seats (aircraft) vs others. I’d imagine adding mo...
Jump to postIt not the AS/AA NW Alliance similar to the AA/B6 NE Alliance? Wouldn't the NW alliance be considered a 'quasi merger' because of the AS One World membership and AA/AS Code Share agreements? Since AA and HA also codeshare the DOJ could demand both AS and HA end the codeshare agreements with AA and ...
Jump to postJFK and LGA both share DL and AA as hubs for themselves in the same market like Tokyo
LAX probably holds the title for having the most carriers considering it a hub or similar
Does United have any “classics” or “Jurassics” in their fleet? Surely not the 100! No. Question: when the day comes a 737-900NG like the one I just flew, goes in to be “NEXTized” how long is she out of service? Aside from the reupholstered F seats, will the NGs get everything else? Bins, bulkheads,...
Jump to postI do not know if the 737-800/900 have a moniker like “MAX” (except old) so we can easily refer to them…but I just flew a 737-900 from PTY to EWR this past Friday. About a 4 hour flight. There was only one nonstop departing at 10am. I have not been on one of those-900’s in at least 5 or 6 years. Not...
Jump to postToday: AS 654 SEA-ABQ almost "full", but a 1/4 of the seats were X'd out (not sold but not available) AS 655 ABQ-SEA 1/3 full but almost every window seat taken and almost all the middle/aisle empty Heavy cargo run from SEA? Per the AS cargo website, Alaska doesn't send cargo to/from ABQ....
Jump to postI'm not saying it could or should happen...but I could see combis allowing more frequent service to some cities as opposed to waiting for the dedicated freighter or milk run to come through. I'd be curious if cities have more or less service now compared to back when the combis were in service.
Jump to poststrfyr51 wrote:bob75013 wrote:Now if WN coud just get the first one ....
why wouldn't they? Were they not the first order for the 737-7? How many airlines have also ordered the 737-7?
IAD has the space, EWR has the demand. The answer for EWR is larger gauge, more 737-10MAX, A321NEOS. Instead of domestic 777s from EWR-SFO/LAX I wish they were operating EWR-MCO. The 777As were designed as cattle cars to compete with the LCCs and to provide plenty of leisure and mileage redemption ...
Jump to postWith all the talk around the industry of Boeing increasing the performance of the existing 787-10 by adding MTOW to add 500 NM extra range, why doesn't Boeing go further by enhancing the 787-10 wing by adding extenders off of the lead and trail edge to increase efficiency? This is what Airbus has o...
Jump to postI didn’t even know DL flew ATL-ASE, 4 hours in a CRJ700 is pretty brutal. That must take some pretty big weight penalties getting out of ASE when the weather goes sideways. SBA is a big void finally filled again. With Southwest there now with 7 flights a day and AA, AS and UA all flying in mainline ...
Jump to postI just checked the ATL-SBA add also announced. The ATL-SBA will be on 220-300. So FAT is being given a few more seats. But the SBA route gets a slightly better schedule with no redeye turn. It will depart ATL at 7:23pm and depart SBA at 7:25am. SBA on the 220 might be due to runway length too. The ...
Jump to postSome of our fellow members have stated positive & negative opinions & thoughts of Southwest opening up TYS. I would love to see it and hopefully it will come to fruition someday. I could see maybe 6 to 8 flights to start out with . 2 BNA, BWI, MDW, HOU, DAL. Maybe DEN and ATL. Even if some ...
Jump to postEffective 08JAN24 AA will offer daily flights between MIA and SNA with MAX 8 equipment. Flights available for sale from next week. https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/american-airlines-announces-new-transcontinental-route-from-miami-to-orange-county/ar-AA1g7PTY?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=4aece39c84da...
Jump to postGreat to see MCO return as it’s always ranked as one of the largest US routes without a non-stop. Now it’d be nice if they bumped up some of their non-daily flights up to daily (and year-round) and brought back BWI, which seemed to be a very popular route
Jump to postHawaiian reports another loss, but some signs of improvement:
https://www.flightglobal.com/strategy/h ... 83.article
Back in the day. I was doing W&B on a Simmons Airlines/Republic Express. Due to weather, we only sent 10 bags as no one was willing to get off. The forecast changed and they needed more fuel. I'm surprised F9 did not pull bags?? That would probably be the majority of the bags. Might as well lim...
Jump to postProbably had to carry extra fuel due to weather, could be too hot to takeoff with that much weight, could have been overfueled and didn't have the ability to be defueled...could be many issues and it happens regularly. The airline has their own volunteer process and if they cannot get what they need...
Jump to postmaps4ltd wrote:How many UA A320s are still flying around with the old light gray leather seat covers in Y? I was on 4252 (N452UA) the other day and the seats were pretty grimy/beat up.
Summary of the extension:
https://wieck-swa-production.s3-us-west ... c94e91f0c7
jetwet1 wrote:iAvgeek737 wrote:jetwet1 wrote:Finally some competition to Allegiant on the Mexico routes.
Allegiant doesnt fly any international routes. Maybe your thinking of Frontier or Spirit?
Well that's embarrassing, yes, Frontier....
SBP-LAS is completely out of the blue, but I could see it working as there is wealth around SBP and limited nearby options. Otherwise it’s a connecting flight or a 45 minute drive to SMX to catch G4 or a 90 minute drive to SBA to catch WN. I wonder if SBP is offering incentives to get this route res...
Jump to post#1 goal is not repeating what happened last year. Parading around a bunch of new routes would probably be un-wise until they can prove they can make it through this holiday season without any major hiccups. Plus there are still delays with MAXs, pilot contract negotiations, etc. All eyes will be wat...
Jump to postwacgocrazy wrote:Question about NEXT on the A320:
Will United Reconfigure the 320 fleet with a larger F Cabin to 16F or will they keep them at 12F like the 73G/319 fleet?
avi8 wrote:So realistically, what happens now? I love Southwest but am worried they might be going down a rough path.
LAXPolaris wrote:AC4500 wrote:Domestic schedule updated through 10/28/23.
Any notable changes?
The original plan was for the -800s to come off the longer sectors to make up for the 1 less lav. Guess they are even rethinking that?
Jump to postI’m curious about what WN’s long term plans for LAX are. Presently they have 96 weekday departures with the new April schedule. October shows 102 weekday departures, but still a far cry from the ~130 daily flights pre-Covid. Frequencies to their NorCal stations are still fewer than existed before, ...
Jump to postUnfortunately according to afa alaska 1qt in-flight meeting notes, which are publicly available, 737-800 retrofits are on hold. Wasn't any more information on when the they might resume or what caused them to be halted in the first place. Apparently Alaska wasn't so happy with the quality of the re...
Jump to postLooks like NK is jumping on the AUS bandwagon with daily service starting 6/7
Jump to posttravaz wrote:If I am using United (T2) I assume it will not be affected?
The issue with a lot of the WN planes is they go out substantially heavier at 100% capacity vs contemporaries. 189 seats v 150-160 on a DL/UA/AA 738. That extra capacity coupled with WNs 2 free checked bag policy adds a good amount of weight. This is why we see the 738s P/O on East-West transcons a...
Jump to postInteresting that they've never been able to make much advancement at CLT (just 11!) and DTW (14) PHL too. They tried to grow PHL in the 2000s but US Airways fought back hard. And over the last decade, Frontier and Spirit swooped in and surpassed WN in marketshare. After the growth of the ULCC segme...
Jump to postUAX Update: CR9: 3 more fleet additions - all 3 in Mesa livery N953LR entered fleet, 2015 build, 12F configuration N954LR entered fleet, 2015 build, 12F configuration N958LR entered fleet, 2015 build, 12F configuration AUS, how many total of these are we getting? 10-ish? Gaining up to 38 Mesa CR9s ...
Jump to postI could see AF place some orders on their home turf, they have a couple areas of their fleet that need eventual replacements.
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