And perhaps I am wrong, but as the population in Québec gets older, that 3 hours of driving (and driving through the afternoon traffic of Montréal) can get very tiring for those retired people who want to travel. That might make some of those people not travel to France as often as they would if th...
Jump to postQR713 DOH-IAH diverted to PHL due to flooding at IAH and DFW having no available space. A350-1000 A7-ANG. Hopefully continuing to IAH today based on condition of the airport.
Jump to postSo, this is Airbus equivalent of the Sonic Cruiser, a radical placeholder to make them look innovative until airlines are willing to plunk down money on the next generation of aircraft, all of which will look nothing like this. Kahless would find such tactics dishonorable. This is what drives innov...
Jump to postSo, this is Airbus equivalent of the Sonic Cruiser, a radical placeholder to make them look innovative until airlines are willing to plunk down money on the next generation of aircraft, all of which will look nothing like this. Kahless would find such tactics dishonorable. This is what drives innov...
Jump to post-Divert SWF LY 7 (TLV) Is that common? Never ever heard of SWF so far... What might led LY crew to choose SWF among the other options? What about receiving a diverted Intl flight? Such an event for them, isn't it? Or no? Which aircraft is operating LY7? SWF does commonly see TATL diversions headed ...
Jump to postThis totally would have saved the program and DL would have ordered 100 of them for their ATL-India, CVG-Asia, and SLC-Africa routes... In all seriousness, if they felt that they could have made money doing so and and engine manufacturer could make money doing so, then they would have. They decided ...
Jump to postFirst time I've seen this happen...and I saw it first hand. MAN-PHL 763 just landed on runway 35. I'm not sure if this speaks to a light load on the flight or the wind pattern / refinery fire. When an Air Serbia A330 diverted a couple years ago it landed on 35. I was in my office in A-East and I sa...
Jump to postA lot of it is political. Air Italy is owned by an ME3 carrier. And there is an issue with them running an end around on US to Europe flights using IG. And like I said DL did the same thing in the past to an ME3 carrier. It's probably doesn't have anything to do with that. AA lends parts out all th...
Jump to postI was not personally affected but I think those who were affected have the right to know that AA had the possibility to make money by selling a spare part AND help people, while they chose to lose money and hinder people. Shareholders also have the right to know it, so they can evaluate AA's manage...
Jump to postWhy? Were you affected by this? No, why this question? It's a stupid level of business not to have a parts agreement in place. Your ire should be directed at Air Italy firstly. AA refuse to sell a spare part this mean they won't sign any contract with IG, not viceversa. So my ire goes to the right ...
Jump to postDAILN wrote:Scheduled for repair next week some time. Will probably change both port engines and perform cowling repair. LH426/427 will now operate with A346 through 16JUN.
Crew issue. They were short an FO leaving PHL and had to make a planned stop in ATH to change tech crew.
Jump to postI would say DL is probably the least likely candidate to be considered a "one-hub" airline. There is plenty of connecting traffic through all of those hubs. Just because one is bigger than the rest doesn't mean the others don't matter.
Jump to postThat story seems to be embellished quite a bit by their counsel. However, assuming the facts about what transpired are true, they have a legitimate complaint against the carrier. They followed the rules of the car seat, the airline pushed back but it got resolved by a CRO (even though I don't belie...
Jump to postThat story seems to be embellished quite a bit by their counsel. However, assuming the facts about what transpired are true, they have a legitimate complaint against the carrier. They followed the rules of the car seat, the airline pushed back but it got resolved by a CRO (even though I don't believ...
Jump to postAnd the sturgis motorcycle rally!! You would think that, however I happen to be in Rapid City years ago when Sturgis was happening and quite a few people said they shipped their bikes in a flew from their homes that were far away. Obviously most will ride in but you would probably be surprised at h...
Jump to postI don't work for Emirates however I have to assume that the do not do the catering for the return sector in DXB. The carts from the outbound need to be removed and cleaned, plus if there is any fluctuation in meal counts (i.e. a flight cancels and now the next several are full), you would have no wa...
Jump to postPHLspecial wrote:Does anyone know if PHL is ever going to get a in ground fueling system?
My predictions for PHL are: Lufthansa is obviously going to launch MUC-PHL American Airlines is going to move Milan (MXP) from JFK to PHL A new daily flight to London Heathrow between American and British A new Asian destination JAL with NRT-PHL or American / China Southern with PHL-PEK New routes ...
Jump to postI would think that if a city was at the point where they needed to rely on connecting between two airports (unlike a situation like NYC where all 3 serve different purposes) that it may be time to look at building a new airport outside the city that can adequately handle the capacity needed.
Jump to post* Angel starts playing in the background of a panning shot of the DXB ramp * "Hi, I'm Sarah McLachlan. Every day dozens of A380's are abused by flying them into over-saturated markets. These poor aircraft only want to be filled up with happy travelers, only to have their hopes dashed multiple t...
Jump to postAn interesting and detailed report summary has been released on AvH http://avherald.com/h?article=4c0febbf&opt=0 The most disturbing is that the captain saw the mistake on the FMS, tried to correct it but actually entered back the same incorrect data... Also, the only reaction the crew had duri...
Jump to postWhen was this not possible? There is nothing today at most U.S. airports stopping non-travelers from accessing the gate area. It's not well known or advertised but it is allowed. It's called an escort pass and you ask for one at the check-in desk. They don't just give out escort passes for no reaso...
Jump to postFairly common, QR launched the Q-Suite on A7- BED EI used to have them on the A330's, ones like EI-DUB/SNN/JFK/ORD/LAX/EWR etc. BA have a good few also Their existing registration scheme happened to work out well for them in this case. All of their Boeing aircraft are A7-BXX, with the 77L being A7-...
Jump to postKinda off topic but Im actually surprised a company like Uber or Lyft doesn't strike corporate deals with airlines to lock in a fixed price so crew members can call for transportation to/from the airport. I know most airport locations have their own shuttles but there are alot of locations that don...
Jump to postSkyblue39 wrote:Am I correct in saying that PHL will therefore only have 4 European Carriers: Lufthansa, Icelandair, British Airways and Aer Lingus? If so, that seems really strange.
Things happen while in flight? Not all maintenance issues happen on the ground. What if you lose and engine in flight and need to divert? You don't know that is going to happen before you leave an outstation. Aircraft get damaged on the ground. You can't predict that. What about an issue that comes ...
Jump to postThe Doh-JFK flight on the 350 is usually payload restricted.... Was talking to couple of A350 captains an hour ago and nobody can figure out how this will work. We are often leaving staff travelers behind even on 777 due to extra cargo Not sure what QR's mission rules are but I think Zeke has point...
Jump to postThe XXX is close to YYY argument always gets thrown out there and is typically baseless: especially for large metro areas. Sorry, but one of the fundamentals of the economics of geography still holds. Proximate airports compete with each other for local traffic, and compete to aggregate regional tr...
Jump to postI'm sure this is on purpose, but the first aircraft to have the QSuite, the first aircraft with a double bed in J/C will be registration A7-BED.
Jump to postMost airports most likely have some sort of capability to handle some hardstand ops. I don't think it would save any time or money to do hardstand ops vs. a jetbridge. If it did then more would use them.
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Oh please. The airline has a manifest of the passengers on the flight. This has already been checked against the boarding pass at TSA. How does looking at everyone's IDs on a flight when deplaning help them find a person (who apparently wasn't even on the flight)? This is absolutely not normal. Yes...
Jump to postALC is getting ready to head back to DOH. Here it is positoning to the gate after ALG was pushed back:
Awesome pics! One thing that came to mind, wouldn't this type of work be done ideally inside a hangar? I.e. Out of public view. Generally, yes. But what hangar would they use? AA didn't allow it probably because it would inhibit them from performing their regular duties. Other than AA, there are no...
Jump to postI recall from the old AA DC-10 accident that installing new engines requires the correct equipment -- given that this is a 350, which is not normally seen at PHL, I assume they were able to find the right equipment to lift and place the engine, but I wonder whether installing 350 engines requires t...
Jump to postBoof02671 wrote:Anyone know who is doing the engine change?
I see some AA equipment and some AA personnel around.
sadiqutp wrote:
I found this pic in twitter .. I am not an expert by any means, but is the discoloration of the bottom half metal normal?
A few more, including preparation to remove the bad engine from A7-ALC. I've never had the chance to see this before. Was very interesting to watch. Anyone have info on what happened to the engine? http://i.imgur.com/1HcWAQH.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ZVVORk5.jpg http://i.imgur.com/KHgSkLY.jpg http://i...
Jump to postIf the tickets are purchased separately then you most likely would not be able to through check.
As far as transiting goes, as long as you have proof of your next trip with you it should not be an issue immigration wise. Not sure how easy it is to transit through IKA, however
Has anyone on here been in a major airline control center as an employee? Whether a dispatcher, ops controller, aircraft router, crew controller, load planner, etc? I didnt think so. Gotta love armchair CEOs who think that being on here makes them qualified. The way some people seemingly think on h...
Jump to postAA gets no sympathy from me in this situation. You have to work harder than the 2 1/2 hours in KEF and the 2 plus hours at JFK. Very poor job by AA. Just curious, how long do you think it should take to unload and reload a 777, clear customs for all pax and bags, have all pax reclear TSA, reload al...
Jump to postQR could easily fill an aircraft out of DTW on a daily basis with all the connections to BEY, Iraq and many others. The issue is there are such low yield on these routes that they wouldn't make any profit. The only way I see DTW happening in the near future is just to annoy Delta. But here is the t...
Jump to postQR could easily fill an aircraft out of DTW on a daily basis with all the connections to BEY, Iraq and many others. The issue is there are such low yield on these routes that they wouldn't make any profit. The only way I see DTW happening in the near future is just to annoy Delta.
Jump to postEA CO AS wrote:TWA772LR wrote:Alaska is reportedly having a hard time with the Virgin America merger
It's not, and it won't fall through. You'll just have to trust me on this.
One of the biggest misses of HRC during the election was to point out the amount of business dealings Trump has with Middle East royal families and businessmen, including having the headquarters of Qatar Airways in Trump tower. No way he will do anything to upset his business interests. He is all a...
Jump to postOh wow that's awful. It seems that retro liveries only work when they're actually ... you know ... retro. I'm actually shocked for a company as brand-conscious and marketing-savvy as JetBlue that this is what they came up sigh. Yikes. Why is it awful? They are having fun with paying homage to aviat...
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