I'm surprised Sun Country tried MRY/STS before FAT to be honest. I'd have to imagine that with MRY and OAK getting service, FAT is on the dart board somewhere. UA was empty - literally. Lots of UA pax don't pick a seat outright and book the cheap restrictive tickets, so many UA flights appear much m...
Jump to postLOL great. One of the worst spots in the entire freggin nation for rental car smash-and-grab robberies is the entire area around OAK's main entrance. Many of the businesses, and I mean many of them, either left the area or restricted their food franchise to drive-thru only because crime was so out o...
Jump to postOO did do LAX-SCK in -200s late 2019 with incentive $$, but ended soon after , maybe even before COVID issues. They remodeled old (1979 era) PSA/ Federal Express counter area at SCK for them for this stint. Seems big waste for short time there. I remember a big deal the baggage carousel was when it...
Jump to postI'd imagine many of the carriers planning to restart TLV, especially the US carriers with strong crew unions, would again suspend service.
Jump to postHHR-CEC-HHR is not TSA screened because the HHR Jet Center is not a secure terminal. CEC-OAK is because it uses the secure concourse in OAK. People doing that HHR-CEC-OAK fan trip have to deplane to the landside terminal lobby and be screened into the secure gate area. Ticket and boarding pass requ...
Jump to post^ that's because they don't fly HHR-LAX. I think it goes HHR-CEC-OAK then returns same day, same routing. LOL! Oh, I misread. So its a triangle route, makes sense. :tombstone: :tombstone: :tombstone: Still tho, they don't allow you to buy HHR-OAK via CEC? Its out of the way, but money is money if s...
Jump to postGreat info in this thread, it was a good read to catch up as post-COVID the EAS world was shaken up so badly. Learning about the HHR-LAX shuttle by Advanced Air, I was hoping to catch OAK-HHR on the CEC-OAK-HHR route one way then fly UA back to SFO from LAX soon. However, it looks like they don't se...
Jump to postThis will happen every few years I'd imagine as it has in the past, but no name change yet. San Francisco - Oakland International Airport sounds much better, but I doubt we see a name change unless something is different this time.
Jump to postI'm so glad that the Internet didn't exist when I worked at a major Air Carrier in the '80's. Gear-Up landings, missing O-rings on chip detectors, missing NLG doors on landing, cracked cabin outer panes. There were weekly events. Yes, and air travel safety did improve quite a bit since then.... Les...
Jump to postLol, I think some of you guys would be surprised how often this doesn't even make AvHerald, let alone the press. Every airline I've worked for had events like this that didn't make the news. UA for sure has been making a lot of headlines, but they have a lot of planes too. One airline I worked for h...
Jump to postIf it involves SFO, I'd be surprised if it isn't a route UA isn't serving that another carrier has a monopoly on. It seems in recent years, they're making their way thru these routes like PPT, BCN, FCO ect. By that logic, I actually agree with the other poster in this thread that SFO-NAN is a possib...
Jump to postThis STS expansion is interesting. No one has really tried to make STS an O&D leisure market beyond Allegiant trying to see if enough people in the North Bay wanted to go to LAS work. Before that, it was just a history of commuter flights to other NorCal airports (first independently, then later...
Jump to postLOL @ all the people in this thread looking at a fireball saying "fUeL sTaRvAtIoN". A fireball is not evidence that fuel was flowing to the engines properly. Pretty sure the term "fuel starvation" isn't used in a crash with usable fuel in the tanks. Regardless, both engines fail...
Jump to postCancelling on paying passengers to run a charter should be investigated by the DOT Charters are paying customers as well. Charters have priority for an airline over scheduled flight. When I was in DFW with AA, we canceled a full DFWLHR flight to run the Cowboys charter. Real airlines have enough st...
Jump to postLOL @ all the people in this thread looking at a fireball saying "fUeL sTaRvAtIoN".
Jump to post99%?! I know nothing of their woes, but I automatically have to side with any union that votes for such a serious repercussion against the company in such unity. It must all be warranted. Go get em.
Jump to postNot to mention ATC staffing is terrible, like the worst ever, and they are overworked as hell which is a whole topic on its own. The result is it is way more likely to see dramatic delays and cancellations worse so than the pre-pandemic days when there is weather, construction, ect. A small number ...
Jump to postMy opinion as someone who has worked in airline/airport ops for a long time and used to work for WN in leadership; this will happen every winter. Southwest is too huge with too many multi-stop flights via too many cities rather than hub + spoke flying. Anytime a portion of the US shuts down aviatio...
Jump to postMy opinion as someone who has worked in airline/airport ops for a long time and used to work for WN in leadership; this will happen every winter. Southwest is too huge with too many multi-stop flights via too many cities rather than hub + spoke flying. Anytime a portion of the US shuts down aviation...
Jump to postYikes, with the frequency of the KOA-HNL flights, I'd imagine there will very quickly be massive IROPS. Not to mention issues for airlines other than HA with planes on the ground in KOA. Lucky for Kaiser Air that the Kona Shuttle got out and will be safe and sound in OAK. With the huge number of hel...
Jump to postThere are dozens of 3-man cockpit-operated aircraft out there still with active flight engineers. Even the Las Vegas Sands 747SP with a retrofitted glass cockpit still has an F/E. As does every active 727-200, DC-8, 707, classic 747, ect. along with any number of 3+ crew aircraft operating made by T...
Jump to postA little history for those curious; Prior to the opening of GZA in 1999, they operated out of El Arish (AAC) in Egypt. I am not sure about 1995-1997, but by 1998, the 727-200 not used for scheduled flights and was doing charters (I found evidence of late 90s charters to CAI, JED, IST, KWI, BAH, DXB,...
Jump to postForgive me if this is common knowledge, but are any airlines using the WB gates in T1? Are they FIS capable? I don't know if there are any international widebody flights using T1. But I know some of the gates are FIS capable. There is a sterile corridor to the International Terminal. JetBlue may or...
Jump to postAs I mentioned in the Mesaba CR2 retirement thread, my first CRJ-series ride was on Mesaba MSP-SDF when Pinnacle was the big CRJ operator for Northwest and Mesaba was just flying 2 or 3 around. I did really enjoy seeing the CRJs at MSP in the Northwest livery, since there were very few airports to s...
Jump to postAs they've abandoned SJC/OAK and are again rather large at SFO, I'd expect a few aircraft to be based here. ONT as well would be my bet.
Jump to postSNA has a similar program where residents can get TSA passes even if not accompanying a traveler.
Jump to postIt does seem that most people who are frequent travelers I know avoid ULCCs adamantly even on 1-2 hour flights whereas before this was not the case. What is more interesting is prior to COVID, the only people I knew who didn't like flying Southwest around the West Coast (where they are the only airl...
Jump to postTurkish cancels all flights to Israel https://aviationsourcenews.com/airline/turkish-airlines-cancels-flights-to-israel/ That says a lot. TK was in and out frequently and I saw more planes from various carriers going to IST/SAW than anywhere else except maybe LCA the last few days from TLV. I hope ...
Jump to postTurkish cancels all flights to Israel https://aviationsourcenews.com/airline/turkish-airlines-cancels-flights-to-israel/ That says a lot. TK was in and out frequently and I saw more planes from various carriers going to IST/SAW than anywhere else except maybe LCA the last few days from TLV. I hope ...
Jump to postWe remember what happened in 2020 with that UIA 737. I'm concerned that a repeat will occur in TLV soon. Should TLV suspend all operations? It is very different from the situation with the UIA shoot-down. That incident happened during peace time. No one was expecting a missile suddenly getting fire...
Jump to postIt seems to me that Norse is simply toying around a bit and the next few summers will be quite a bit different while they establish some solid (even seasonal) trunk routes. Norwegian was doing quite well in the SFO area for example, even with WOW Air and LEVEL around, so I expect to see them back in...
Jump to postWow, MRS really surprises me ahead of service to plenty of other EU cities I can think of that MU doesn't fly to. Is there a big Chinese community in MRS or business links or is this tourist traffic?
Jump to postIt was 3x weekly JFK-CAI-DXB, I believe using the MD-11. Just because DL briefly flew there doesn’t mean the city or country was well known to most Americans. It was a very niche route (hence the limited frequency and tagged with Cairo). A very interesting bit of history which Iw as not aware of, v...
Jump to postPrior to 2004 EK didn’t have the network to support flights to US. They were still fairly small, and EK and frankly Dubai/UAE were completely unknown in the US. I think Delta lauched non-stop service to Dubai in 2000/2001, so it was known to American's, but it ended abruptly when 9/11 happened. It ...
Jump to postAS 4x daily SEA-MSP. This is amazing for me since I''ll be taking advantage of open seats on that route, but I never thought I'd see the day AS goes more than 2x daily on that route before (re)adding SFO, LAX ect. Once upon a time, top elite tiers of airline and hotel programs were flush with usable...
Jump to postUh, what? So destroy their national airline? Cool. That'll show em. I can't imagine with that fee that AMS will still be a sensible connection for many passengers between the US/Latin America and EU/Asia/Africa. How do they go from cutting back flights a percentage to imposing fees that can easily ...
Jump to postUh, what? So destroy their national airline? Cool. That'll show em. I can't imagine with that fee that AMS will still be a sensible connection for many passengers between the US/Latin America and EU/Asia/Africa. How do they go from cutting back flights a percentage to imposing fees that can easily ...
Jump to postUh, what? So destroy their national airline? Cool. That'll show em. I can't imagine with that fee that AMS will still be a sensible connection for many passengers between the US/Latin America and EU/Asia/Africa. How do they go from cutting back flights a percentage to imposing fees that can easily ...
Jump to postUh, what? So destroy their national airline? Cool. That'll show em. I can't imagine with that fee that AMS will still be a sensible connection for many passengers between the US/Latin America and EU/Asia/Africa. How do they go from cutting back flights a percentage to imposing fees that can easily c...
Jump to postLooks like Russian pilots are quite good in bringing down their Airbus on a field in an emergency. They've always had a reputation for being great stick and rudder pilots, which saves your bacon in a case like this. Well done, must have been terrifying, but this is what they're paid for and all in ...
Jump to postMy parent's house overlooked SFO, so when I got home from 6th grade that day, I recall seeing a diverted MAS 747-400, probably doing LAX-NRT or NRT-LAX, but no other strange aircraft as it was rather early in the morning for us on the West Coast when it all shut down. Most LAX/SFO-bound internationa...
Jump to postWhy didn’t she just leave her dog at home with a sitter or something? I have a dog and never take it on an airplane with me. Only service dogs should be allowed on airplanes anyways. They offer services to accommodate your pet because that is a service that Delta provides. When they let a customer ...
Jump to postAvelo says initial bookings are doing well, claiming the number of seats booked pre-launched has exceeded numbers seen in any other Western market. Service to ‘Phoenix and the Bay Area’ will apparently be announced after Memorial Day. https://www.salemreporter.com/2023/08/19/avelo-reports-thousands...
Jump to postNot trying to rehash the point but SFO is like 10 minutes closer to downtown, 20 minutes with worst case traffic on the 101 vs. Bay Bridge. If people magically arrived at SFO, you'd have a point. Unfortunately, they don't. For anyone that cares about total trip time and not ground transport time on...
Jump to postThis can not be understated. People online look at the distance and think it is a no brainer lol. Thank you! And whether it's driving or taking the metro, there is still a toll associated with crossing the Bay Bridge and a charge for taking the monorail from OAK to BART-Coliseum. Long and short of ...
Jump to postI don't see any harm in this. Oakland is more or less the same distance as SFO to the business district downtown and much closer than SJC. 10x more timing risk on the Bay Bridge than driving up 101 into SF. When I lived in the city I only ever considered OAK for very early morning departures. This ...
Jump to postHoly crap...I can't even begin to comprehend the mental illness required to do that...
Jump to postAre you ready to give up price competition from having multiple carriers? Are you ready to give up the convenience of LHR/LGW/LCY/LTN/STN? If not, ten frequencies isn't going to do it. Why would having ten frequencies per day, rather than 42, mean "giving up price competition"? You'd stil...
Jump to postI wonder if anyone has successfully snuck into first/business class without any consequences? From time to time it likely happens. But I'd guess it is very rare, as there are only so many premium passengers to keep track of and of course, there are passenger lists with seat assignments. I've seen p...
Jump to postWell, a planeload of orderly passengers gets delayed for nine hours because of one single idiot? Is this the right balance? How about having him arrested at the final destination and not serving him food or anything until landing there? Or he can be just made to pay up afterwards for the cabin he h...
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