So are they doing the 738 cabin refresh at both Kansas City and Opa Locka?
Jump to postOof those uniforms are rough. Totally joyless and so dowdy. I agree with the above poster - Zac Posen has got to be having a good day today. My overall takeaway is that a ton of knowledge has been lost in the airline industry since the pandemic. Delta is very hit or miss service-wise as the front li...
Jump to postDL has put a significant number of 757s through heavy checks post pandemic and spend a lot of money on overhauls of PW2000s as well with the intent of using the engines and harvesting them out to the end of life of the fleet. Not to mention the schmitar wingtips and interior refurbs on the 75H and ...
Jump to postATL is the most efficient major airport in the world. I’d connect through there everyday over the alternatives. ATL is a well oiled machine, especially on the taxiways and runways. But I actually think people are overstating how busy the operation is. Yes, the concourses - especially A, B, and T - ...
Jump to postJFK-EZE's season ends June 6th instead of the usual late March end date for Northern Winter long haul routes (it will resume in late October for NW24/25). This June 6th date is a day before TLV resumes. This begs the question, is DL truly trying to make JFK-EZE year round or will it revert to NW se...
Jump to postI think they do, which is why so many are surprised that they didn’t just cut one of the VS frequencies on that route this way DL still have a presence on that route with their metal while still eliminating some over capacity of it. If it’s metal neutral and it’s a bloodbath why wouldn’t DL cut the...
Jump to post3 75D/75H (same config) 75G/75S (Expect S2G conversions to start this year. The lie-flat 321NEOs will start taking over premium TCON routes) 75C - but that config doesn't really count So it’s likely that 757 routes will become shorter as the 75S jets are converted? Yes. Primarily moved to the East ...
Jump to postWhile we’re at it, drop the bubblegum-country-pop boarding music for something more curated and serene, and encourage FA’s to actually use the mood lighting. What’s the point in having it if the crew only sets it to white or off? This times 1000. They have done so much work to make the fleet more a...
Jump to postJust a little confused on details. Is the 737-7 certification timeline (and new delay) the same as the 737-10, or are those two timelines unrelated?
Jump to postJournalism is going through what the airlines went through during the "lost decade" of the 2000-2010 era, where new competitors are totally displacing established news outlets, and as local journalism is collapsing. Most of these outlets are losing money and are severely understaffed. Ther...
Jump to postAnyone know why DL147 ATL-SCL cancelled last night? I assume the 35L went tech, but I also wondered about extra spare aircraft due to TLV being suspended. I forget if the TLV suspension leaves extra slack in the 35L fleet, or if the fleet is maxed out with the ATL-LAX-AKL rotation added in.
Jump to postThey must really be banking on maquiladora / manufacturing / auto related traffic from DTW & ATL point of sale and strongholds going into MFE. Like I said, seems like it would be better to just fly ATL-MFE. All I can think of is that the MFE and MAF sectors are very short, which saves on block ...
Jump to postThere isn’t, just that everyone ran hard with the throw away comments apparently made by leadership to the pilots during townhalls to expect a widebody order by “year end”. Not a peep from anyone in while, no media “leaks”, just what it is and the internet ran with it from there. DL will order more...
Jump to postI wonder if DL would have ordered a more capable configuration if they had known a pax weight increase was coming. I doubt it. With 155 321neos on the way plus a big MAX-10 order and the 739, Delta has plenty of capacity to cover longer domestic routes. If you look at Delta's route system, there is...
Jump to postI see a lot of switching with the A339 being removed for A333/2….where are all those Neo’s being redeployed? It looks to me like they are really trying to push more 339s into JFK and less 332/3. Makes sense from a premium product standpoint. Even less 764 flying to an extent. That being said, equip...
Jump to postFor people not around back then, it helps to remember that before deregulation in 1979, airlines only flew on routes authorized by the CAB, and could not discontinue a route without approval. And routes were often not just city pairs, but could have through service requirements. What we are seeing ...
Jump to postGreat thread! Before PHX boomed as the global city that it is today, it was a tourist town that was particularly popular with folks in the upper midwest - and especially with Irish Catholic families from Minnesota like mine. My grandparents started hosting winter parties in Scottsdale in the mid-196...
Jump to postLooks like Stuttgart will return to year-round service from winter 2024/2025. Most interesting fact: schedules show an A330-200, which means the first change of equipment on this route in almost 30 years (not considering change between 767-300 and -400). Welcome to the future. ATL-STR is one of tho...
Jump to postLAX-ORD question. Of all the speculation on here about adds, LAX-ORD is the only market I am shocked they haven't added. Delta has such an attractive offering in LA for both short and long haul customers. But ORD is a big business market, and without non-stop service, their offering is terrible. Be...
Jump to postLAX-ORD question. Of all the speculation on here about adds, LAX-ORD is the only market I am shocked they haven't added. Delta has such an attractive offering in LA for both short and long haul customers. But ORD is a big business market, and without non-stop service, their offering is terrible. Bec...
Jump to postI disagree with all the post foreshadowing a large new Delta commitment to widebodies - either new or used. Delta is not United. It does not see a high volume global network on its own metal. It is much more opportunistic, nabbing revenue where it can and then building up its core and partner hubs....
Jump to postI disagree with all the post foreshadowing a large new Delta commitment to widebodies - either new or used. The technology curve is moving very slowly. It is not the 1955-1970 era, where the airlines went from the DC-7C to the 707 to the 747 in a short period and enjoyed the massive productivity gro...
Jump to postAlso, in the post-pandemic era of increased remote work, the Thankgiving travel period has also extended itself and actually gotten a little less spikey. Friday 11/17 through Tue 11/28 is considered the travel period and people who can work remotely increasingly has shifted their travel off the pea...
Jump to postAll ships are getting a cabin refresh, but only ships 3744-3773 are getting new 1st Class Seats with 13” monitors. No official communication regarding what type of seats they will be. Correct on the Panasonic 738 getting new first class seats. They are the new spec found on the NEO. Pics have been ...
Jump to postSuch a fantastic career. The 757 stratotype up the tail of the Eastern 757s is an iconic symbol of the Borman era. The Lorenzo disaster was so painful at the time, but it feels good to be celebrating someone's life who built airlines rather than tore them down. It is Borman's legacy that will be rem...
Jump to postThey've got a lot of work to do, I'll believe it when I see it. I agree. I think Delta is very open about where they are strategically. The cost of doing a two-hub (BOS, SEA) internal expansion in an era of tight capacity has meant that they have had to drastically trim the core operation. Their ga...
Jump to postThey've got a lot of work to do, I'll believe it when I see it. I agree. I think Delta is very open about where they are strategically. The cost of doing a two-hub (BOS, SEA) internal expansion in an era of tight capacity has meant that they have had to drastically trim the core operation. Their ga...
Jump to postAnyone have an idea about how much smaller DL is today at ORD versus the combined NW/ DL in the period five years following the merger? I seem to recall NW having a larger ORD operation. DL's considerably larger today. In the first half of the 2000s, NW/DL operated as many as 50+ flights per day (n...
Jump to postDoes anyone have an updated timeline on when the first transcon A321neo will enter service? Do we know if this a/c will feature PS? I am guessing it is still in flux. The last A321N delivery was September 8th - 20 days ago, and none are flying right now. That is the longest gap in deliveries this y...
Jump to postI am curious as to whether the level of dramatic reaction to these changes varies by region. Living in the Midwest, the overwhelming airline drama since the pandemic has been airfares, not Skymiles changes. Because they put the early and middle parts of the pandemic recovery effort into BOS, SEA, LA...
Jump to postPart of this is to reverse the status boost that some of us got over the pandemic because they just kept counting your MQMs toward status for the whole pandemic without the annual reset. I now have 75,000 rollover MQMs in addition to the 75K I need for Platinum Status, and with the card spend requir...
Jump to postI am so lost at these descriptions. How was there "diarrhea throughout the plane?" How does that happen? The A350 is a big airplane and I am lost at how one person could do that much damage. Were they running up and down the aisles while suffering from this condition? Clearly a sh*tty situ...
Jump to postJuan is a class act and I learn so much from all of his videos. Yes, he reads accident reports, but he adds so much useful clarification and context to every incident. Sure, he sometimes says things that are critical of people involved, but he is also very self-deprecating and references his own mis...
Jump to postDL doesn’t need any more focus cities and needs to beef up MSP and DTW with frequencies and possibly some routes they dropped there. My 2 cents. The company has already said this is the plan, and you are already seeing upgauging in both hubs. Your point is well taken, though. I think the biggest re...
Jump to postSo distressing and hoping for everyone's safety up there. Mikey McBryan usually posts a lot about Buffalo Airways, and he has been silent the last couple of days. I assume they are both helping with the evacuation and getting their own assets out. The Electra tankers from both Buffalo and Air Spray ...
Jump to postPremium A321NEOs will replace D1 757s on LAX-BOS/DCA; SFO-BOS/JFK; SEA-BOS/JFK Any possibility LAX-MIA might be upgauged to D1 A321NEOs to offer a premium cabin for those transferring to LATAM’s flights? Right now there is only lie-flat D1 service on: LAX-BOS/JFK/DCA, SFO-JFK. There used to be more...
Jump to postIs the 767-400ER fleet stretched really thin on scheduling? A friend of mine was supposed to be on DL31 LHR-ATL yesterday at 11:45, and it cancelled. DL33, which leaves at 1:55 was 3 hours late yesterday. They rebooked him today on DL33 today, and it was 2.5 hours late. There was obviously terrible...
Jump to postIs the 767-400ER fleet stretched really thin on scheduling? A friend of mine was supposed to be on DL31 LHR-ATL yesterday at 11:45, and it cancelled. DL33, which leaves at 1:55 was 3 hours late yesterday. They rebooked him today on DL33 today, and it was 2.5 hours late. There was obviously terrible ...
Jump to postYeah no kidding here is a representative week in the life of one of DL's A321NEOs - 5012 / N512DE Tue 7/18 LAX-OGG OGG-LAX LAX-FLL (red-eye) Wed 7/19 FLL-LAX LAX-SEA SEA-LIH LIH-SEA (red-eye) Thu 7/20 SEA-MCO MCO-SEA (RON in SEA) Fri 7/21 SEA-JFK JFK-LAS LAS-JFK (red-eye) Sat 7/22 JFK-LAS LAS-BOS (...
Jump to posthttps://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/rtx-raises-2023-sales-outlook-boosted-by-aviation-recovery-2023-07-25/ What will be the impact on DL's GTF-equipped aircraft now that PW has announced further issues with the engine? This engine can't seem to catch a break. For all the media covera...
Jump to postSorry but any Detroit area GM traffic going to SBN for this battery plant is driving. (Or any company for that matter) I am guessing the poster was implying the battery plant would increase economic activity in the region, which when combined with existing demand from Notre Dame and other big emplo...
Jump to postThis incident is similar to the AUS conflict between the FedEx 767 and the Southwest 737 in that they both involved very rushed operations at airports that are not that busy. Because of upguaging, and with 739s and 321s operating so many flights out of MSP, we have tons of breaks in arrivals and dep...
Jump to postRe A321 ovens, I believe that there are space for 15 casserole dishes with 20 passenger seats. Prior to pre-order you may have 10 of x hot casserole, 5 of y hot casserole, and 5 cold dishes, be it salad or charcuterie. Now with pre-order, if you have 20 people ordering hot…things get interesting. T...
Jump to postThe A321neo is quite the quirky subfleet. It had issues with meal preordering, as reported on FT – has that been resolved? Why would meal preordering be an issue only on the A321neo? lack of galley space? Not possible. The tray set-ups and entree racks in the oven (where the entrees are stored) are...
Jump to postAnyone know anything about A339 fleet reliability issues? Up here at MSP the 332/333 flying has been very reliable this summer (except for the very unfortunate AMS-DUB-BOS-MSP double divert the other day). We have two 339s per day, one to HND and one to CDG. HND has had long delays (over three hours...
Jump to post76K 1701 on track to exit on 6/7 (6/6 US time) 339 3422 exit now showing on 6/8 223 8316 2nd flight today https://aviation.flights/aib/A220/55207 339 3422 on track to exit NRT tomorrow 339 3422 en route to MSP from NRT https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n422dz#30a0dfc8. I believe it was to...
Jump to postArrived from AMS today at gate G13… MSP has temporary walls up at gates G11-13 to connect them to the secure arrivals for international arrivals right now. There is literally two jetways that cross over to gate G10 to connect them to the intl arrivals area. They are getting desperate for space with...
Jump to postOn a Monday (today), United has 6 RONs and American has 5. All are mainline, though. I forget how they space their gates, but they may not be able to have every gate full if there are no RJs in the mix. The wider wingspans might make it necessary to take some RONs to F, C, or D. Wow... Did not real...
Jump to postArrived from AMS today at gate G13… MSP has temporary walls up at gates G11-13 to connect them to the secure arrivals for international arrivals right now. There is literally two jetways that cross over to gate G10 to connect them to the intl arrivals area. They are getting desperate for space with...
Jump to postLanded late tonight and noticed two UA 737s parked at some of DL's F gates. Is this a normal RON procedure? Peace :box: Yes it is. Airlines RON on F and sometimes on C and D as well. Jeremy But why would they not just park at the E gates overnight? Is there really that many UA and AA planes that RO...
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