Re: Omaha Aviation - 2024

There are discussions about it https://www.wowt.com/2023/02/27/omaha-state-senator-wants-streetcar-line-expanded-eppley-airfield/ LB477 is almost a year old and I've never heard anything about it...I must be spending too much time on a-net. An airport extension was going to be tough to push through...

Re: Omaha Aviation - 2024

For $950 million we get two additional gates, a covered roadway and a much-more functional terminal/concourse layout. Hopefully the City of Omaha has a future plan to extend the streetcar system out to the airport and connect it with remote parking, the College World Series stadium, convention cente...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2024

Sadly I don't think re-imposing Level 3 slot restrictions at EWR are the panacea many claim it will be. During the era of slot restrictions, EWR wasn't a materially less delay-prone airport, and since it dropped down to Level 2, airlines still go through the FAA for schedule facilitation, meaning t...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2024

One of the big things I'll be watching this year is what United does in terms of rebuilding IAD's feed network. IAD will start to produce big results for UA once EWR gets slotted again. One more season of ATC staffing issues, summer convective weather restrictions and the usual NYC congestion probl...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2024

I really wish UA would fill back in the holes left by covid in the network! My brother-in-law has been an OMA based 1K on United for over 10 years now. I spoke to him at Christmas and he's so tired of waiting for OMA-EWR to come back that used to operate 2x daily winter and 3x daily summer pre-covi...

Re: Chicago Aviation - 2023

As it is now, any AA or UA flight from abroard that arrives at T5 has to taxi or be towed over to T3 or T1. That's been going on for 30 years. Both carriers have talked about having customs and immigration facilities adjacent to their terminals, probably since the late 1990s. The balking by AA and ...

Re: Southwest fined $140 Million for 2022 holiday meltdown & Future Delay Payments

The actual fine ended up being far less than $140 million. From the article: "Of the $140 million civil penalty assessed against the carrier, Southwest is required to pay $35 million to the U.S. Treasury . Southwest will receive a $72 million offset toward the penalty for the $90 million compen...

Re: United Airlines Fleet - 2023

As for those A359 orders, I think UA might find a way to trade those planes for some more A321XLRs or A321neos. I guess once United gets sick and tired to dump passengers and freight to enable them to reach their more distant destinations with the aircraft they have, and thus lose revenue on all th...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

Someone mentioned TLV earlier, briefly. I don't think that's coming back anytime soon. LH is starting up flights to TLV January 8 with service to both FRA and MUC. Austrian and SWISS are also reported to be starting up flights as well. UA to TLV might be back sooner than we all thought. https://new...

Re: US-Haneda frequency award proposals

Ironically, wouldn’t Iah actually lose connectivity if they no longer have a narita flight, only HND? Tpe-iah can do most everything narita can, but Iah already has the Japan HND connections. They’d lose the larger amount of international narita connections with United’s plan. My guess would be tha...

Re: US-Haneda frequency award proposals

At the end of the day, AA proposal adds competition as it injects a new flight and seats into the market. The UA IAH proposal does neither. Technically, UA's proposal adds the same number of seats to HANEDA as the AA proposal does. This whole DOT process is about Haneda airport and not greater Toky...

Re: LH458 16OCT24 diverts to OAK because unable visual approaches.

Accommodating a ILS approach to 28L would require a creating a last minute hole in the 28R arrivals, which would result in a substantial disruption to the arrival flow. Actually, quite the opposite. Allowing and A/C to fly the ILS instead of a visual approach would/should have no effect on any othe...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

Now that AA and DL have both jumped the gun with announcing Tulum flights, do we think United will announce something similar soon? I'd wager...2x daily from IAH, 1x ord, 1x den, 1x EWR. Or 3x iah daily United is finally digging out the hole they've been in for years by having too many RJs flying d...

Re: US-Haneda frequency award proposals

United put in its formal proposal. They confirm ANA will maintain its HND-IAH service, and offering dual flights separated by a few hours will offer significantly more connection opportunities and broader time-of-day coverage options for consumers. Should anyone really need access to NRT, UA states...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

It is inevitable that they will have to revert to the pre-Covid plan of optimizing EWR for O&D and pushing connections through IAD. While the XLR won’t push as far into Europe from IAD, it would still be good for UK, Ireland and the western regions of mainland Europe and Scandinavia. I would ho...

Re: US-Haneda frequency award proposals

The Department will also consider the effects of each service proposal on the overall competitive environment, including effects on the market structure and on competition in the U.S.-Japan market and in any other market shown to be relevant.[/i] OST-2019-0014 If just UA and AA apply for the vacate...

Re: JetBlue Wants KLM Out of JFK Over Slot Dispute

https://paxex.aero/jetblue-schiphol-slots-winter/ On May 30, 2023, Airport Coordination Netherlands (ACNL), the slot coordinator for AMS, notified JetBlue that we will receive slots for the Winter 2023/2024 scheduling season to support our previously announced non-stop service from New York and Bost...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

Can the 787 deploy the reversers before the mains touch down? FWIW, they are not deployed in that photo. There’s a strip of cowling that requires paint. Confused me the first time I saw that specific aircraft on the takeoff roll. :D Oh, so it just needs some paint. I guess that's better than having...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

planemanofnz wrote:

Earlier today, the first UA LAX-AKL service since 2003 touched down in AKL - here's a photo of the landing:

Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

MNL flight should be landing in a few hours. Pushed 3 minutes early, expected to arrive 1 hr. 7 minutes early. Seat map shows 20 empty Y seats on the 77W. According to ual.com: 7 upgraded to Polaris, 36 left on the upgrade list to Polaris. 2 upgraded to Premium Plus, 28 left on upgrade list to Prem...

Re: US 3Q 2023 Earnings Thread

Apologies if this has already been asked, but with UA tremendously bigger than DL both in Europe and Japan/Asia, how is DL earning 1 billion more than UA? Is it the money DL gets from Amex? I would expect UA to be way ahead of DL. The CPE at UA hubs compared to DL hubs is one place to look for some...

Re: United Airlines Fleet - 2023

If UA decides they need a new smaller plane in the fleet, does the Max 7, 319neo, or a220 make the most sense? An A220 or E195 unlock 76-seat scope limits. The MAX7 or 319 have the benefit of crew commonality with existing fleets although I believe they are less economical than the other mainline o...

Re: New boarding process for United flights

While the WILMA concept works well in theory, when you continue to board all the premier and non-rev fliers first, you're going to lose a lot of the effectiveness of the process. Premiers and non-revs are probably more than likely to be in aisle seats. If it were me, I'd board the last 10 rows after...

Re: US-Haneda frequency award proposals

2) It can be argued that there is a better market case for 2x AA/JL on JFK-HND, versus 2x UA/NH on IAH-HND. Translation: JL is less likely to drop their own JFK-HND flight should AA win JFK-HND, compared to the likelihood NH drops their IAH-HND should UAs bid for IAH get selected. It can be more re...

Re: US-Haneda frequency award proposals

(2) This will be the only service to HND from the East Coast on AA metal (UA has 2 HND authorities from the East Coast (EWR/IAD) whereas AA has none currently). This will also enable AA to spread its routes to HND from the west coast, central US and the east coast. AA has no east coast HND service ...

Re: Rat and Otter cause Mayhem on VietJet Flight

"They kept looking for the white rat and an employee caught the rat," the passenger added. "It bit them on the hand while they carried it back to the kitchen at the back of the plane." She probably should have left out the word "kitchen" when referring to the rat's dest...

Re: Chicago Aviation - 2023

unless AA suddenly starts losing gates that UA can snatch. In the very unlikely event that AA loses any gate(s), I doubt UA would even want any mainline or especially any widebody gates that AA has in T3. Any T3 gate, outside of the G concourse, would be such an inconvenience for any connecting pas...

Re: United Airlines Fleet - 2023

The delays continue for Boeing, I'm sure the delays have something to do with the 60 x 321 NEO top up order. It's already flying and Airbus has the capacity to make it happen. Now total 12 MAX 8 conversions and 30 MAX 9 conversions = 42 total conversions from MAX 10 I'm generally a Boeing (US-made)...

Re: Updated: United orders 50 additional B787 and 60 A321s

I'm just repeating what Kirby told my captain upgrade class when the new bases were announced. I understand that these bases will not become hubs, and that they are being strategic regarding where other airlines have hubs/pilot bases. All I'm saying is that he specifically mentioned the need to par...

Re: Media: More B787's and A321s for United?

MIflyer12 wrote:

Anybody thinking about dozens of UA widebodys in a domestic config? Bueller? Bueller?