Re: A320s heading west stopping for gas

Certainly looks fun. I opened up the windy app (or go to windy.com) and at FL340 it looks like a perfect headwind of 110kts + across the entire US. I’m tempted to find out some ground speeds. Fred Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk I just saw UA 1338 (753, ORD-EWR) do 606kts (696mph, 1120kph) over La...

Re: A320s heading west stopping for gas

Certainly looks fun. I opened up the windy app (or go to windy.com) and at FL340 it looks like a perfect headwind of 110kts + across the entire US. I’m tempted to find out some ground speeds. Fred Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk I just saw UA 1338 (753, ORD-EWR) do 606kts (696mph, 1120kph) over La...

Re: EWR To No Longer Be Considered NYC Airport

I wonder if UA lobbied the IATA to make this change so they could exercise greater pricing control over Newark. United does advertise pretty aggressively that you’re flying into NYC by flying into EWR, so I wonder if this hurts United on this front. And even stylize the airport as New York/Newark o...

Re: Memorable Meals in Airports Question/Poll.

A Shake Shack burger and a Brooklyn lager during my first time flying out of LGA's newly renovated concourse B back in October 2019, heading down to IAD to connect back home to FRA.

Perfect dinner, and my last meal in the US to date, so a bittersweet memory.

Re: UA933 strange departure at FRA

I tend to say for Narrowbodies its quite common. Really? I just looked up the departure route for UA933 today and indeed the super early turn seemed quite unusual to me - they already began their turn over the runway, and it looks like almost 45 degrees of the turn was already executed while still ...

Re: UA933 strange departure at FRA

Hi, UA933 FRA-IAD today took a very strange departure route today, with a very sharp left turn immediately after take off and then climbing out to the north. I have never seen such a route being used for departures at FRA. Anybody know the reason for that? I tend to say for Narrowbodies its quite c...

Re: DL "security" questions and passport sticker for US return flights

I've been questioned and had my passport stickered on UA out of FRA (upon checkin), UA out of ZRH (connecting), and AC out of FRA (Also US ex-FRA back when they were still around). I thought that was a standard procedure. The questioning was rather brief though, definitely not "20" questio...

Re: Joe Biden is currently one of the least popular Presidents in US history, moreso than Trump

I think you should brush up on your civics and check your facts.Multiple incorrect statements here. Well I'm not American, I just follow things. Maybe you can fact check me then. Or maybe it's just use of language. The Democrats have control of the House, Senate, and the Presidency. Neither of thos...

Re: Previous Travel History

If you entered the US (that's the case where I know it works) on an actual visa as opposed to an ESTA visa waiver you can indeed access your travel history. It's available online through US Customs and Border Protection (https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/) by entering your passport number, and it comes in the...

Re: Airports you have flown through exactly once

Departure/Arrival only: OPO (departing to FRA) VLC (departing to LIS) AMS (departing to STR) MDW (arriving from RDU) Connected through on one single itinerary only: ATL (flying ORD-ATL-RDU on DL) IAD (flying LGA-IAD-FRA on UA) YYZ (flying FRA-YYZ-LGA on AC) PTY (flying SJO-PTY-MAD on CM/IB) PHL (fly...

Re: Airports You've Transited Through In Cities You've Never Visited

Atlanta (ATL), Toronto (YYZ), Charlotte (CLT), Panama City (PTY), Manchester (MAN), Zürich (ZRH)

Re: Airlines You've Flown Exactly Once

Alaska Airlines: SFO-RDU
Southwest: RDU-MDW
Copa Airlines: SJO-PTY

Re: World's busiest airports announced, ATL regains title, no Europe in top10

and to a lesser extent in the case of MIA, Mexico In the event you're assuming MIA is low on Mexican traffic, you might be shocked. While it doesn't have anywhere near the destination count as say, IAH; for much of the 2000s and even into the 2010s, it was a larger Mexican gateway due to gauge size...

Re: World's busiest airports announced, ATL regains title, no Europe in top10

Yes, but LAX slipped even more No surprise, seeing as is has such a massive international component. Same for JFK and SFO. Of the USA's big-4 directional gateways (NE, SE, NW, SW), Miami was spared the most. I'm guessing the domestic traffic from AA's buildup, plus B6 and F9 entering, helped. I ass...

Re: Condor launch new livery

Sure ain't eurowhite so that's a huge plus - can't say I was immediately delighted when I saw the picture in the OP but the more I think about it the more I begin to see how it's actually quite a smart design choice. At last, the design agency's claims about what the livery is supposed to convey are...

Re: What is the shortest flight from your airport?

For my closest airport, FRA, the three shortest scheduled flights are all operated by Lufthansa: The hop down to STR at 157km / 98mi, followed by LUX (174km / 108mi) and DUS (188km / 117mi). Sometimes you'll see FR reposition planes between HHN and FRA, but seats on those aren't commercially availab...

Re: Which nation has the best National Anthem?

France and Italy are classics, I enjoy both of them very much in the way they combine iconic and catchy melodies with dramatic lyrics. I'd add the Polish one to that list too. I have a soft spot for anthems of Latin American countries, they are very melodic in a way that's quite distinct to European...

Re: 2022 March Madness NCAA Tournament Thread

One of the best times of the year for US sports fans is here- the 2022 College Basketball Men's Tournament. Link to coverage: https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ncaa-tournament/ I have completed my bracket and have Gonzaga winning it all. My alma mater, UNC, has a tough draw and I don't s...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

Looking at the direction this is going, I wouldn’t be surprised one bit that this is really the starting of WWIII. What if Russia really guns down a US supply plane? Nobody knows what Putin’s intentions are. The guy is 70 and may very well want to have his place in the history books. Russia won't s...

Re: Your shortest mainline flight and longest regional flight

Shortest mainline (by gc distance): Aer Lingus EI204 DUB-MAN, 164 miles / 36 minutes wheels-up Shortest mainline (by flight time): Lufthansa LH1182 FRA-ZRH, 177 miles / 30 minutes wheels-up (both on A320) Longest regional: Iberia Regional (Air Nostrum) IB8615 FRA-MAD, 883 miles / 2 hours 6 minutes w...

Some scenic winter flights: MAD-FRA-MAD on LH and UX

Hello Dear Trip Report enthusiasts, and bienvenidos to another report involving my time in Madrid in fall of 2021/22. As promised last time I actually got down to writing up some more reports about the flights I took then, so here's number 2 (out of 3 for now). The university I studied at during the...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

bikerthai wrote:

I see, dare Putin to attack those plane over NATO airspace so we can join the war.

bt

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

Turn the tide? Probably not. Hold on a little longer until the Russian finally give up and go home? That is the hope. Maybe they buy enough time to train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16s. bt F-16s? I thought they were only receiving MiGs? I was referring to the air, not the overall war, but "turn...

Re: Who are your LEAST favorite sport teams?

Don't have too many strong opinions on most US sports but for soccer there's a list, some self explanatory some with added descriptions: Bayern Munich Dortmund (keep criticizing Bayern's methods but then act the exact same with most any other team in the league) Real Madrid Lazio Roma (disgusting fa...

Re: Possibility of coup in Moscow to oust Putin?

Not sure if an assassination is something to really hope for... Whoever tries it would need to be very sure about how to succeed because I fear this is the epitome of a one shot in a lifetime situation - if there's an assassination plot and it fails, Putin will finally go completely off the rails, m...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - News and Discussion Thread

That is why Putin invaded. NATO expansion is unacceptable to the Russian people. Well, invading other countries is unacceptable to most of the planet. The way the Rubel is going down burning money for heat may soon be a cheap energy source. best regards Thomas So if Putin wants to send missiles to ...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - News and Discussion Thread

To be fair they have held back quite a bit from unleashing their full potential. If they wanted to, they could easily annihilate Kiev so their troops could move in without too much trouble, but it would be a holocaust. They haven't used brute force assuming this was going to be a walk in the park, ...

Re: Is Taiwan next?

Absolutely, Taiwan is next. Actually, Taiwan is already heavily in play right now, as we speak. Strategically. China is trying to put themselves on a war footing. The US appears to no longer understand geopolitics. This creates a power vacuum. Our #1 historical mistake in recent decades is empoweri...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - News and Discussion Thread

Not sure what to make of this but delegations (Ukr/Rus) to meet on the border according to Ukraine Ministry of Defence. https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1497933773828239366 ... but at the same time he is putting his nuclear forces on high alert, claiming that the west and NATO are being aggressi...

Re: Updated: Russia invasion Ukraine begun

Stupid for having no balls and no backbone, yet forxing himself in serious international politics. He's firmly and uncompromisingly at Putin's feet. He does it for his campaign, not for any other reason. Your alternative is to let multiple suns rain on Europe…. That will certainly help…. Not going ...

Re: Updated: Russia invasion Ukraine begun

It sounds like Germany and a few other EU countries are trying to dilute the banking sanctions. https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-24-22-intl/h_4f43d43b2b498447fc984f9a20526a18 Of course, Gerhard Schroder is agitating for his Russian friends, too. https://pbs.twimg.com/medi...

Re: Updated: Russia invasion Ukraine begun

This HAS been going on for years. The key part of the Russo-Ukranian war happened in 2014, during the Obama presidency. Just because Biden is sleeping, or I guess we could say functionally dead, in terms of his leadership, does not mean the war hasn't been happening. It was actually very well publi...

My first flights since the pandemic with a WB surprise!

Hey all :smile: , I wanted to get back to writing up some trip reports simply because I enjoy writing them about as much as reading them and now I finally have some flights to write about and some free time to write them up, so here goes. Ideally, one or two more might follow soon-ish. After a long ...

Re: New airport lisbon

Perhaps a high speed train via express would also be good, and likely more cost effective (and/or capable of finding more public/private partnerships as well as pulling on lower costs of maintenance, labor, and parts availability - if those matters matter, I do apologize if I am not as astute with ...

Re: 2 polish domestic flights divert to Hungry, huh

I assume pax stayed on board during their time on the ground at BUD to avoid any potential immigration issues? Not sure what the procedure is in cases of diversions like this so they may very well have stayed on board but since both Poland and Hungary are members of the EU and the Schengen Area, im...

Re: European Widebody Flights ??

BA runs a 789 from LHR to STR, at least on some days. In November I was surprised out of nowhere with an IB A330 from BRU to MAD, seemed that at that time they'd operate one of the flights on Sunday with the 330, not sure if that still holds though (hadn't been loaded yet when I was booking those fl...

Re: Airports you’ve flown into on one airline and out on another

Only counting those instances where it was on the same trip (and not accounting for regional subsidiaries), this is my list.

BRU: In on SN, out on LH
BRU: In on LH, out on SN
MAN: In on EI, out on FR
PTY: In on CM, out on IB
ZRH: In on LH, out on UA
ORD: In on UA, out on DL
LGA: In on AC, out on DL

Re: Russia invasion could begin any day, US warns

The question is, why invade ? If Russia goes in they will be cut off economically from the west, or is Putin sure that will not happen ? Maybe his meeting with Xi last week before the opening ceremony in Beijing saw some sort of agreement that makes whichever economic sanctions the West might impos...

Re: The destination you have flown to from the most airports

That's an interesting measure, took me a bit to figure it out...

For me it would be LIS, I've flown there on flights originating from
FRA
FNC
STR
BRU
VLC

Second would be RDU, with inbounds from four different locations:
PHL
LGA
ATL
SFO

Re: Airport you have flown on the most carriers from

Front runner is obviously the "home" airport, FRA: Lufthansa, United, Air Canada, US Airways, TAP, Iberia, LAN, Air Europa, Aer Lingus, Ryanair, Tuifly Followed by the place that was "home base" for about a year, RDU: United, Delta, Southwest, Alaska, American, US Airways And eve...

Re: Which route have you flown on the most diverse number of aircraft?

FRA-MAD is probably the most diverse one for me:

CRJ-1000 (IB)
A319 (IB)
A321 (LH)
737-800 (UX)
787-8 (LA)
787-9 (LA)

Re: Using the same IATA code

I'm inclined to think a pax cares more about the product. Does a pax even know what an IATA code is- a flight number prefix is unimportant. At the end of the day this is definitely true but from personal, anecdotal experience I would definitely say that people tend to find IATA codes like UA, LH, A...

Re: Lack of international flights at RDU

I'm not sure why the RDU-LHR segment would downgauge all the way down from a 772 to a A321XLR. IIRC, its been a 772 year-round going back to when AA received 777s in the late 1990s, except for a period when the flight was a 763 around 2008-2012. I believe the 772 used for RDU-LHR is rotated through...

Re: Your 2022 Booked/Flown Flights

Carrying over from last year because I can't find the 2021 thread anymore: Dec 18 Lufthansa | LH 1113 | MAD-FRA | Airbus A321-231 D-AISJ Now, as for actual 2022: Jan 07 Air Europa | UX1502 | FRA-MAD | Boeing 737-85P EC-MPS --- Jan 31 TP1095 VLC-LIS AT76 new type! fingers crossed TP572 LIS-FRA A20N H...

Re: One a time landed or Took off airport you've flown to

Only landed at:
MDW (continued by flying out of ORD)

Only departed from:
AMS (arrival by train)
OPO (had flown into LIS and traveled around by train)
soon to be added - VLC

Re: Kyle Rittenhouse Trial

It's a shame there wasn't a god fearing 2nd amendment good guy with a gun on hand to protect the innocent and shoot Kyle dead. The people he shot were far from innocent. They were innocent in so far as, at least the last time I checked, destruction of property was not carrying a death penalty in an...

Re: How to find Tail Number from old Flight Thread

I have three tail numbers of US Airways flights missing and for some reason I can't seem to figure them out even on the BTS database - can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Is it because two of them are international and the other is a regional subsidiary? I did a search for the regional carrie...

Re: How to find Tail Number from old Flight Thread

I have three tail numbers of US Airways flights missing and for some reason I can't seem to figure them out even on the BTS database - can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Is it because two of them are international and the other is a regional subsidiary? I did a search for the regional carrier...

Re: Your 2021 Booked/Flown Flights

FINALLY have made my first flight bookings since the pandemic.
Very modest compared to my personal record year of 2019, but exciting nonetheless - baby steps, I guess?

Nov. 25: IB3208 MAD-BRU A320
Nov. 28: IB3203 BRU-MAD A320

Dec. 21: LH1113 MAD-FRA A21N (new type!)

Re: Rumor: New United international routes 10/13

The check-in in the app is done for a flight from Los Angeles to Chicago so LAX and ORD might be involved. Also, comparing the number codes on the lock (102 and 324) @0:08 with that encoding disk @0:55 reveals P_L and MLD (Poland and ...Moldova???) or, if read as 13-02-24 "JLA". No idea wh...