Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

I went through United's LAX wide body schedule, and compiled their gate usage at LAX T7. They have 4 wide body gates at LAX T7. Looks like in the evening, there is a slot for one more South Pacific departure? Not a whole lot of room here to grow. (the early morning South Pacific arrivals come to TBI...

Re: Boeing 787 Production/Deliveries - 2023

Is 988 going to Europa after all? I thought it was ntu… Yes, that frame is destined for Air Europa especially considering that it got a new Spanish registration EC-ODH. There were rumors that it would be destined for Lufthansa but that was merely some misinformation and confusion with Lufthansa's 1...

Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion - 2023

So will Austrian have 5 GE-powered 787-9s and 5 RR-powered 787-9s? Or is LH group ordering 5 of their other 787s with GE engines?

Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion - 2023

Looks like 7 additional 787s are NTUs 955 - ex Norwegian 971 - ex Norwegian 983 - ex Norwegian 988 - ex Air Europa 992 - ex Air Europa 1011 - ex Norwegian 1028 - ex Air Europa Any word on what interiors these will get? Also, are these likely to go to Austrian? I believe that apart from the five GEn...

Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion - 2023

Looks like 7 additional 787s are NTUs

955 - ex Norwegian
971 - ex Norwegian
983 - ex Norwegian
988 - ex Air Europa
992 - ex Air Europa
1011 - ex Norwegian
1028 - ex Air Europa

Any word on what interiors these will get? Also, are these likely to go to Austrian?

Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion - 2023

Well... is ANA, Gulf Air, LATAM, Air Europa, or LOT not planning on taking their remaining orders?

Otherwise, looks like some of them may end up being GE aircraft.

Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion - 2023

So is there any truth to LH taking 7 RR-powered 787s that are NTUs?

Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion - 2023

So they are taking 7 NTU RR-powered 787-9s? Here is the currently list of un-delivered RR-powered 787-9s: 1 - the mystery LN688 originally for Air China 4 - Norwegian 4 - ANA (likely to be delivered to original customer) 3 - Gulf Air (likely to be delivered to original customer) 2 - LATAM (likely to...

Re: Boeing adding 737 line in Everett

The competition is sold out for almost 7 years if they deliver at 75 per month. You would hope that they project more sales if they are ramping up capacity. You have to wonder though if they will run into trouble getting engines at a rate approaching Airbus though, only one engine supplier and also...

Re: Boeing adding 737 line in Everett

Looking at Everett from left to right: South side: 40-21 (original building): 747 wing / fuselage assembly -> empty? 40-22 (original building): 747 final assembly bay 1 -> 787 rework 40-23 (original building): 747 final assembly bay 2 -> 777 surge line -> 787 rework? / empty? 40-24 (expansion 1): 76...

Re: Delta LAX Terminal modernization opening

It does not look like T2/T3 will have FIS. The new T4 will have 4 FIS gates. T6 FIS is under construction (AS international arrivals will move back to T6 once it is open again). T7 also has FIS.

Re: Boeing 737 MAX 10 Development / Testing / Production Thread - 2022

What happened to the Boeing that built the 777 (a whole new airplane).... ON SCHEDULE, with just 1 year flight testing?

Re: Iberia's high density A350 used on European flights

Wouldn't this have some major CG / balance issues?

Re: United Airlines Network Thread - 2022

Looks like there are 17 routes not operating, that did prior to the pandemic. This must mean close to 30 widebody aircraft (mostly 777-200ER) not being used. United currently has more widebody aircraft in their fleet today than prior to the pandemic (with all 777s not active and more 787s delivered)...

Re: Delta Fleet Thread - 2022

A321neo deliveries #51-72 will be premium transcon configured (16 D1 lie flat, 12 Premium Select, 54 C+, 66 Y. 148 total seats). Where do you think they'll fly these 21 aircraft? Have a source for this? Or a photo of the layout? Those are also likely to replace the D1 configured 757-200s. I'm unabl...

Re: Delta Fleet Thread - 2022

What is the long term game plan here? A high premium A330 configuration? Maybe a reconfiguration of the ex-NW A330s? That is an interesting line of thinking. Eleven high J 332s to ply the transcons now that their range won't be needed on intercons, not with the 242T A330s, 330neos, and all of the A...

Re: Delta Fleet Thread - 2022

Trying to wrap my head around the 767-300ER fleet.... Pre-Covid (circa 2018) Delta 767-300ER fleet: 9 - 767-300ER PW - (76L) 36J 175Y - 1990-1993 build 17 - 767-300ER PW - (76Z) 26J 200Y - 1992-1998 build (2 are in mod to get the new 26J 18W 172Y config) 4 - 767-300ER PW - (76K) 26J 18W 172Y - 1992-...

Re: ANA Restores More U.S. Routes

Are there any plans on upgrading the 787s with the new business class? It just a bit pathetic... their new 777-300ERs have perhaps the best business class seat out there, of any airline... and yet their 787s have a business class seat that is worse than AA, UA, DL, and JL.

Re: ANA Restores More U.S. Routes

LAX no longer has the 777-300ER? The business product on the 787-9 is a far cry for the new 777-300ER "the room" seats. Still plenty of 77Ws. https://i.ibb.co/VT5fBGY/nhlax.png https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/220831-nhnw22us According to this, LAX and SFO are going to be all 787-9, with th...

Re: ANA Restores More U.S. Routes

LAX no longer has the 777-300ER? The business product on the 787-9 is a far cry for the new 777-300ER "the room" seats. Where are they flying "the room" equipped 777-300ERs? HND-ORD, NRT-ORD, and HND-JFK? Looks like 9 of the 15 777-300ERs have the new configuration. Is that corre...

Re: Los Angeles (LAX) Aviation Thread - 2022

Flying LAX-NAN today. What lounge does Fiji Airways use? Do the non-aligned airlines have deals to use one of the other lounges?

Re: AirInsight : Boeing’s pre-Farnborough market review June 2022

I think looking "the 777 family is outselling the A350-1000" is truth, but also is designed to create incorrect perceptions. Because it leaves out todays reality of A350-900s replacing 777s everywhere. And no passenger 777s deliveries 2020-2025. Willingly leaving out essential information...

Singapore A350 fleet - do they have another HGW version?

The Singapore A350-900 fleet seems to be broken up into 4 groups: 24 “Regional” aircraft – C40 Y 263 9V-SH-series 21 “Long Range” aircraft - C42 W24 Y187 9V-SMA – 9V-SMU Delivered 2016-2017 Used on long haul flights to Europe, Australia, etc. 7 “Long(er) Range?” aircraft - C42 W24 Y187 9V-SMV – 9V-S...

Re: KE Resumes ICN-LAS, Increases LAX and YVR

Good news.

Korean Air pre-covid at LAX was 2x A380 + 1x 77W(in the summer).

At their peak, they had up to 4 daily ICN-LAX flights + ICN-NRT-LAX, ICN-LAX-LAS, and ICN-LAX-GRU.

Re: Los Angeles (LAX) Aviation Thread - 2022

LAX gets more confusing than it already is. Congrats LAWA, you played yourself :D LAX is one of the least "confusing" large city airports out there. Once the APM is operational, the traffic loop mess will be gone, and the airport will overall be a very good experience. This new TBIT / mid...

Re: Los Angeles (LAX) Aviation Thread - 2022

What is going on here?


Will this be another curb-side drop off for TBIT? Will there be check-in kiosks in that new structure between P3 and P4 (below the west APM station)?

Re: Air New Zealand adding JFK

Wasn't the original goal to offer EWR-LHR on UA? There is no longer an NZ flight to LHR since they ended LAX-LHR.

Re: QR to order up to 50 777-8 Fs and signing MOU for up to 50 737-10 MAXs

This did involve QR reducing 777-9 orders by 20. It is now down to 30, plus 10 777-8. Is the interior issue with the 787-9s solved? For a while, they had their first 7 delivered, but not operating (this was before the current 787 manufacturing delays). Are those 7 787-9s actually in passenger service?

Re: Boeing 787 Production/Delivery Thread - 2022

What is the story with the Air China 787-9 at CHS that has been undelivered for years?

Re: Boeing 777 Movements / Write-Off / Retirements / Scrapping Thread - 2022

Is anyone picking up any of the 13 ANA 777-300ERs at VCV?

Re: Boeing 777 Production/Delivery Thread - 2021

How many 777-9s have they built? Flying out of PAE, I saw nine green ones lined up tip to tail, at night in the fog is an impressive sight. Then there are others parked around various spots on the airfield. Our esteemed member VCVspotter has kindly done a spreadsheet of the 777-9's buit and their s...

Re: 777 Retirement/Scrapping Thread - 2021

Are there ex-CX 777-300ERs going to QR?

Re: 777 Retirement/Scrapping Thread - 2021

Is there a comprehensive list of all 777-300ERs set to be scrapped?

4 - Singapore airlines
13 - ANA
10 - Jet Airways ?
any others?

Re: NYC (JFK/EWR/LGA/SWF/HPN/ISP) Aviation Thread - 2021

Question about JFK ops (sorry if this has been asked before). Is JFK always a 2 runway airport? Is there any situation in which all 4 runways are used? If so, how often is that?

Re: BA (finally) gives official clarity as to new/returning/canceled routes!

Also, did some digging. Here is an overview of the 777-200ER fleet once all conversions are complete: LHR based: 14 - 3 class (new J) (all RR powered) (5 aircraft still with old J configuration, 2 in conversion, 1 in cargo config) 15 - 4 class (new J) (all GE powered) (1 aircraft still in conversion...

Re: BA (finally) gives official clarity as to new/returning/canceled routes!

The 747s operated to LAX to near the very end. With the A380s still in storage, what are BA's plans for LAX?

UPS 747 takeoff without flap fairing

Re: SQ restarts 5th Freedom SIN-TPE-LAX flights

From the 2000s, SQ's LAX operation has been the following: SIN-TPE-LAX - 747-400 SIN-NRT-LAX - 747-400 SIN-TPE-LAX - 777-200ER SIN-NRT-LAX - 747-400 SIN-TPE-LAX - 777-200ER SIN-NRT-LAX - 747-400 SIN-LAX - A350-500 SIN-TPE-LAX - 777-300ER SIN-NRT-LAX - 747-400 SIN-LAX - A350-500 SIN-TPE-LAX - 777-300...

Re: Cubana Fleet - News and Discussion Thread

Airlines in Iran somehow end up with A340-600s and other western planes. Can Cubana do the same?

Re: Change-of-Gauge Flights on DL/AF/KL/Others

Also, at some point, Air France did something like CDG-LAX-PPT-LAX-PPT-LAX-PPT-LAX-CDG, on a 777-200ER. However the LAX-CDG part on those middle days was a 777-300ER or A380.

Re: Change-of-Gauge Flights on DL/AF/KL/Others

The Qantas flight to JFK used to use a flight number from one of the SYD-LAX A380 flights. But the JFK flight was operated with a 787 that came from BNE.

Re: Boeing 777X Sales Campaign and Prospects 2021

Once the pandemic is over, the 777-9 is the only "big airplane" there is. What else are airlines going to buy if they need to replace older aircraft or buy aircraft for expansion? The only thing that comes close is the A350-1000, but I don't really understand if that aircraft has appeal wi...

Re: Airbus 1993-2023 alternative history

"4 engines 4 long haul"

At the time the A340-500/600 was new, it was very well liked. It seemed to have good potential. No one knew how good the 777-300ER would become. So, hindsight is a bit different.

Re: Boeing 747-400 Passenger Fleet Tracking/Retirements Thread - 2020

Boeing 747-41R Virgin Atlantic (G-VXLG) “Ruby Tuesday” has been ferried from Manchester to Tel Aviv for freighter conversion at Dec 3th. See : https://flightaware.com/live/flight/GVXLG/history/20201203/0946Z/EGCC/LLBG This would be the first 747-400 P-F conversion in many years. The last converted ...

Re: A350-900ULR: a one-off concept?

Yes it is simple. No one wanted to buy it.

Re: beluga medium

Or Dreamlifter... That said, these type of freighters sit, a lot. So peak optimization is not required. It is better if it can handle a variety of loads. It will carry pairs of wings, engines, and someday a future aircraft. You wouldn't want the business case of a new aircraft dependent upon develo...

Re: The odds that UA pick up the 77Ls from DL

A trade? 16 UA 767-400ERs for 10 DL 777-200LRs?

Of all the UA wide bodies, the 767-400ER is the least likely to return, as the entire fleet hasn't begun Polaris configuration.

Re: SIA to review fleet plan; future of A380 in limbo

Pre covid they were larger in SFO than LAX. How? LAX 21x weekly (14xW nonstop, daily 1stop via NRT) SFO 17x weekly (10xW nonstop, daily 1stop via HKG) LAX was also 10x weekly nonstop, not 14x. It was also operated solely by the A350-900ULR, where some of the SFO non-stops were operated by the regul...

Re: Planes with shortest production span?

Concorde...

Re: British Airways 787-10

What’s causing these repeated delays? No official answer. This is however the first Charleston-built 787 that has been produced for BA. Although they have plenty of 788s and 789s, and seem happy with them apart from the usual RR engine issues, all of them were made in Renton. EDITED to say I should...