Ive done ORF-DCA several times. One time I clocked it as 21 minutes from wheels up to touchdown - departing Runway 5 at ORF and landing on 33 at DC. Evening flight with about 30 passengers on it (CRJ-200 days).
Jump to postI take it by that time, Amtrak will have added that fourth track between Halethorpe to just southwest of New Carrollton, enabling much more frequent rail service between DC and Baltimore. Plus the new Frederick Douglass Tunnel will complete. That should make a people mover between the terminal and ...
Jump to postLooks like AC pulled its IAD-YVR winter service and re-made the route seasonal. Last flight is 26 October. Flight was announced last year as a summer seasonal service, but bookings were strong so the flight was extended as a year-round 4x weekly service. I guess I am not terribly surprised. The Van...
Jump to postLooks like AC pulled its IAD-YVR winter service and re-made the route seasonal. Last flight is 26 October. Flight was announced last year as a summer seasonal service, but bookings were strong so the flight was extended as a year-round 4x weekly service. I guess I am not terribly surprised. The Van...
Jump to postAny chance of linking the rail station directly to the terminal or is that at the bottom of the priority list? Eventual plans for a people mover exist to connect the Amtrak station to the terminal, but no timeframe on that and probably not for another 15 years. I take it by that time, Amtrak will h...
Jump to postIIRC, MWAA has a capital project in the works for adding more A380 capacity. It’s bigger than just that, I think it includes more Sterile corridors in B, also. The only references I can find are opaque as to the specific gates, but the idea would be to connect more gates to sterile corridors and re...
Jump to postIt would be interesting to hear from the pilots on here as to what parameters are permissible for departures on 4/22 and 15/33. Obviously aircraft type, temperature, wind direction, runway condition (wet etc), all are the major factors. But obviously it appears that the flight crews appear to be as...
Jump to postIt would be interesting to hear from the pilots on here as to what parameters are permissible for departures on 4/22 and 15/33. Obviously aircraft type, temperature, wind direction, runway condition (wet etc), all are the major factors. But obviously it appears that the flight crews appear to be ass...
Jump to postNot unusual for 15 or 33 to be used. Pretty common actually for E170s and CRJ700s to be asked if they want to use that runway. What is more surprising is the increased use of runway 4. I was on a flight (DCA-JFK) on a day with significant weather delays at JFK. It appears ATC was doing what it could...
Jump to postBu buh buh buh....what about the A220?
Jump to postThe only notable expansion that I could see at DCA is the relaxing of the perimeter requirements on Saturdays - similar to LGA.
Jump to postI'm sure some folks in Poolesville get up in arms as they're on the flight approach for the 36s when IAD is in the south configuration. I've seen some big boys circling to land in that part of MoCo. Poolesville is about 12 miles due north of the runways. Also some of the operations on the 36s will s...
Jump to postSomeone can come in with a more verifiable number but I believe the A320neo family has something like 95% parts commonality between variants. And The A220 is hardly better selling than the entire A320neo family. So The A220 is definitely not the most logical. Mostly because parts are definitely not...
Jump to postInteresting stuff tonight. #1 significant NW wind component has most all departures off Runway 33 except for the largest jets #2 there is some very clear intentional interference on the tower frequency from some idiot with a radio. Playing music, swearing, etc. Hope the FAA and FCC get on this pronto.
Jump to postThat plane can't do TPAC from LAX with full payload. It can, and it does, for UA to HND from LAX and has even been used from SFO to AKL. TYO is pretty much the shortest TPAC route possible, ICN / SIN / SYD / MEL / KUL / PEK / PVG / MNL are all significantly longer. Being capable of one specific mis...
Jump to postDCA simply isn't going to be closed. Get over it. IAD can't handle that type of volume. You see significant delays at IAD - and DCA has higher passenger loads now than does IAD. The MSA that incorporates DCA/IAD has 6.2 million people in it. Since people want to consider BWI to be a viable alternati...
Jump to postWhy do people still have this love affair with the A220 and American? New type, new ratings, new parts, new equipment, new simulators. I see a virtually zero chance of that happening.
Jump to posthttps://wtop.com/local/2024/02/addition ... al-groups/
The debate over additional beyond-perimeter slots is getting more intense. This will be interesting to watch. We'll see coalitions of strange bedfellows on this.
Spanish is a main language down there....But not the only one.... 1/2 of South America speaks Portuguese.
Jump to postUSAirways tried FLL and it was a gate disaster. Also USAirways. What gates would UA take over? MCO certainly has the passenger loads and demand, but jeez, every cheap-o carrier is already there. Yields on many routes cant be good. Or can they? Given how expensive Disney World is these days, maybe th...
Jump to postWatching the live feed from LAX....messy, messy day in SoCal.
Jump to postI don't see IAD-LHR. AA can barley seem to generate traffic to its own US cities out of IAD (they fly to a whopping two cities out of IAD and have cut LAX and MIA). Their partner flies 2x daily in the high travel season (including one A380) and there is competition from VS and UA as well as from BA ...
Jump to postFor @atcsundevil and for others, did anyone see the MWAA Capital Projects update at pages 7 and 8? Looks like a whole new set of taxiways and hold bays and/or deice pads for DCA - I'm guessing, in part, to alleviate the pinch factor from the "E" concourse.... I believe that's part of the ...
Jump to postFor @atcsundevil and for others, did anyone see the MWAA Capital Projects update at pages 7 and 8? Looks like a whole new set of taxiways and hold bays and/or deice pads for DCA - I'm guessing, in part, to alleviate the pinch factor from the "E" concourse....
Jump to postThis happened around the corner from my friend. Looks like it landed on the Dulles Greenway (as opposed to the Dulles Toll Road, which carries WAY more traffic). https://www.facebook.com/iaff3756/posts/pfbid02mxuAcsFSQP766zrngVFr5f3KLXpCf4T7M3PwV9EAoXmLG76TxuC4WUQVFCJNo1JLl Nope, happened on LoCo P...
Jump to postHere is where it landed....
https://ibb.co/B23hKf4
Pics:
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https://preview.redd.it/3m1umrloxfdc1.j ... d14a30c0c9
Anyone notice the plans for the T1 gates at DCA?
Jump to postAnd AA hubs (plus a few other key airports) AA Domestic O&D Q3 2023 Q3 2022 YoY Change DFW 25,634 23,940 7.1% ORD 14,196 14,912 -4.8% CLT 12,957 12,752 1.6% PHL 12,794 11,445 11.8% DCA 11,781 10,611 11.0% MIA 11,126 11,620 -4.3% PHX 10,369 9,905 4.7% LAX 9,859 10,037 -1.8% I find this one inter...
Jump to postBack to BWI Masterplan It is good to see they are planning to still build a second parallel East/West Runway. They should build the exit ramps like in Atlanta (why O'Hare did not do this?). The ones where you can land and get over to the terminal without interrupting the traffic flows on the other ...
Jump to postThe target market for Metro to the airport isn't someone who travels with two 50 lb bags - to be fair I don't know anyone who travels with two 50 lb bags. The last thing I would want on a subway platform would be luggage carts. Last mile isn't something I made up - it's a common term in public tran...
Jump to postFun watching the arrivals onto rwy 30 yesterday. Winds were 270 at 25 gusting 35.
Jump to postThe target market for Metro to the airport isn't someone who travels with two 50 lb bags - to be fair I don't know anyone who travels with two 50 lb bags. The last thing I would want on a subway platform would be luggage carts. Last mile isn't something I made up - it's a common term in public tran...
Jump to postgood grief ... I'm nearly sorry for asking about the SILVER LINE stop at IAD ... hopefully ridership and usage numbers continue to increase in the future The population around DCA is denser than IAD. Cost and availability of parking is also more restrictive. So it would be natural for the DCA stop ...
Jump to postHow many accidents was serious death caused by delay in evacuation?... I am not sure, are you? Have there been some? Yes, and there have also been evacuations that occurred far too early causing additional injuries/deaths. In fact within the US Aviation Cabin Safety division, delaying evacuation ha...
Jump to postThose numbers are roughly in line with the National metro station, and given that IAD and DCA have similar passenger counts, I would say that the new Dulles station is meeting expectations in a system where ridership and service levels are very much not meeting expectations. I would have to assume ...
Jump to postThose numbers are roughly in line with the National metro station, and given that IAD and DCA have similar passenger counts, I would say that the new Dulles station is meeting expectations in a system where ridership and service levels are very much not meeting expectations. I would have to assume ...
Jump to postMaybe all airports should have a rule prohibiting the use of a single runway with three or two holding points for taxiing. It's challenging to see in the dark at night, making it difficult to navigate. Daylight conditions are better for visibility, allowing pilots to see up to three holding points ...
Jump to postTwitter post forwarded to me states that there was a passenger in 26B and that the force of the separation of the door ripped the shirt off the passenger....
https://twitter.com/lookner/status/1743 ... kQUJjKX-nQ
Holy scheisse. Ummmm....the passengers??
Jump to postRespectfully to both individuals here, there is video evidence that water and/or foam was being sprayed on the JAL plane. See timestamp 2:52. https://youtu.be/G9OpqKJTVa0?t=172 At the same time, I will say that firefighting response will most definitely be reviewed. Something to note - One thing I ...
Jump to postEvery fire/incident is different and the optimum way to get passengers out will vary with each one. An immediate evacuation as soon as the plane comes to a stop isn't necessarily the best course of action, just as awaiting the fire fighters to get things under control won't work in plenty of situat...
Jump to postI realize that I was a bit unclear. Big parts of the fuselage and at least the left wing was engulfed in fire due to the fuel from the Dash (my theory at least). That is clearly visible in the initial video, and remains of that can be seen in others (burning streaks of fuel along the fuselage). Tho...
Jump to postThere wasn't even a piece of fire equipment -at all- on the right side of the plane. On the left side shows passengers being evacuated and no action to assess the fire that was burning inside the left engine. https://ibb.co/fQf0h01 https://ibb.co/7bNptmK It would be nice to have one complete video s...
Jump to postI think the criticism from various posters regarding the ARFF response and the crew’s evacuation decisions has been thoroughly debunked by now. Has it? I haven't seen a report from the investigators yet. So the proper first steps are: 1. Assess the situation, including especially to identify hazard...
Jump to postThey did not evacuate SQ368 until after the fire crew had put the fire out. There are inherent risks to evacuations - people get injured on slides, and in the event of fire, opening a door in some situations may allow the smoke to enter, or send evacuating passengers into the blaze. Even when the p...
Jump to postNorse Air will not be returning for IAD-LGW next summer https://wtop.com/business-finance/2024/01/norse-atlantic-ends-short-lived-dulles-flights/ “The decision not to resume the seasonal Dulles route at this time was taken following an evaluation of the current demand which was lower than anticipate...
Jump to postOne doesn't have to believe the media. It's a certification requirement. Any commercial aircraft certified to fly must be able to evacuate all occupants in 90 seconds or less with 50% of the emergency exits blocked. They literally and physically test this out on each aircraft. In one video that is ...
Jump to postSLCLAXKIXKHH wrote:I have to wonder what was going through that dude’s head when he decided to climb into an aircraft engine. Maybe Darwin Awards candidacy?
I simply do not see AA adding the A220. AA is doing its utmost to minimize fleet differences and fleet types. The A220 adds yet another fleet type to the mix.
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