Just merge CSA and Smartwings already. CSA serves no purpose. They have literally 2 planes.
Jump to postso help me if they ever remove the list of destinations from the individual airport pages....I use those ALL the time!
Jump to postDoes BA need to fly there though, when OW partner MH already has LHR-KUL covered with twice daily flights? But there are many cases of alliance partners flying the same route. How much revenue does BA really make codesharing on MH and then feeding MH connections in KUL? Must be a lot more profitabl...
Jump to postHow do airlines decide which cities become crew bases? I always assumed it was only at the hubs. But I recently flew a Delta flight from LAX-LAS and they announced that the crew were San Francisco based. SFO is not a hub for Delta and they only fly from SFO to a few other cities (all DL hubs). So wh...
Jump to postLH ground personnel will strike once more for two days; from Thursday, March 06, 04:00 to Saturday, March 07, 07:00 (local time). FRA and MUC will be affected the most but HAM, BER, DUS, CGN and STR are targeted too. https://www.verdi.de/themen/nachrichten/++co++51ec0084-9995-11ee-acfe-1f373f0d8e36...
Jump to postAKL321NX wrote:Feels like Flair surviving is probably the worst case scenario out of this
https://www.facebook.com/share/G9jYir3Dhf5Puu9W/ Official announcement for Singapore Airshow 45x GE 787 + options for up to 80x as we already know, and the most interesting sentence "Secured a pathway to acquiring 777X" This link doesn't work but today Boeing has released official announc...
Jump to postDoes anyone have information about the current pace of AC's new livery painting and how much is left to paint? I'm quite surprised how often I still see toothpaste liveries are still out there, including high profile long-haul aircraft, not just ancient A320's. I recently found an old post of mine ...
Jump to postDoes anyone have information about the current pace of AC's new livery painting and how much is left to paint? I'm quite surprised how often I still see toothpaste liveries are still out there, including high profile long-haul aircraft, not just ancient A320's. I recently found an old post of mine f...
Jump to postFlew from Mexico City to Palenque on Interjet. At the time there was literally only 1 at most 2 flights per week. It was all jungle and suddenly there was an airport. No idea where all the staff came from for such limited service. The route ended not long afterwards.
Jump to postNot sure if they are going by literal size or just overall impact on their markets but Forbes lists these as the "Biggest Airlines to Ever Go Bankrupt"
Pan Am
TWA
Eastern
Braniff I
Laker
Ansett
Transaero
Thomas Cook
Air Berlin
Sabena
Mexicana
Recently flew from Oman to India. The flight (duration 2 hours) left at 11:55pm and arrived at 3:55am. Had about 1 hour sleep on the plane but then could not check in to my hotel for about 6 hours.
Jump to postDoes anybody like Frankfurt airport? Arriving at T1, I had an insanely long wait for luggage. Then, there was no train working to T2 so had to take a bus. How many minutes is "insanely long"? I don't know what counts as insanely long, but for me at FRA it was around 45 minutes to an hour
Jump to postArriving in T1, waiting for luggage and then transit to T2 sounds like you booked two separate tickets on two unassociated airlines, right? Well, you made it unnecessary inconvenient for yourself, as usually airlines that work together are in the same terminal in Frankfurt. And even if not, there a...
Jump to postIf Thailand were that close to any US gateway city (HNL does not count), it too would be on a route map.... but it's not. If Venice were a 14 hour flight, it too would not be serviced directly. The days of US airlines servicing SE Asia was only possible with old 5th freedom rights, which aren't com...
Jump to postDoes anybody like Frankfurt airport? Arriving at T1, I had an insanely long wait for luggage. Then, there was no train working to T2 so had to take a bus. I had never flown out of Terminal 2 before and was pretty shocked at how bad it was. First, there was an incredibly long line from the departure ...
Jump to postJust to point out that Air Canada do fly to BKK (despite the comments of it being supposedly low-yield and despite having an alliance partner in Japan to connect through). Would be interesting to know how much US traffic AC gets on that YVR-BKK route. Obviously given the geography and with Russian a...
Jump to postThe CP merger has always been a "we conquered our enemy" mindset at AC. As a junior AC employee at the time of the merger, I don't feel this was the general sentiment from AC employees. If anything, that was more from the former CP employees. Sure, there was a lot of animosity and bittern...
Jump to postCanadian Airlines retro liveries would make my year honestly. Some have mentioned though that it will likely never happen because the AC take over of Canadian was rather hostile and bitter. I don’t have further intel though. People mention the CP/AC merger/acquisition of 2000. Long story, it was no...
Jump to postHats off to the JAL crew for keeping all their passengers safe. Absolutely, was going to say this as well. I think we often take for granted that THIS is their job and why they are there. All the other things that people sometimes give crews a hard time for, using the call button to demand more dri...
Jump to postBA returning to Stansted for the first time in several years with new routes to FLR, IBZ and NCE in summer 2024. Fairly limited frequency, though, with only weekend departures https://onemileatatime.com/news/british-airways-london-stansted-airport/ https://simpleflying.com/british-airways-london-sta...
Jump to postI will miss HA, but AS will make it a better experience. But…it’s not going anywhere, it just will have a new corporate ownership right? From a branding and consumer perspective Hawaiian won’t really change or am I wrong? I don’t see the Hawaiian girl tail being repainted with the Inuit man any tim...
Jump to postZero concern is even better - makes for a completely stress free travel experience The people jostling at the gate to board 45 minutes before boarding time even begins because they're so worried about not finding overhead bin space don't look stress free to me :D I do, it's called a carry on. I tak...
Jump to postZero concern is even better - makes for a completely stress free travel experience The people lining up at the gate to board 45 minutes before boarding time because they're so worried about not finding overhead bin space don't look stress free to me :D I do, it's called a carry on. I take it on the...
Jump to postNot even close. Remember, it’s not just a function of how long it’s been since the last fatality, but how many flights have been completed since. Interesting. Yeah after I posted I re-read your post realized you were talking about as a proportion of total flights, not comparing total fatalities by ...
Jump to postWow some of the above are crazy, so I may as well join in and be controversial too. Here's mine... -Reclining seats in Economy should be banned. Seats should only recline by sliding forwards or not at all. -The ME3 airlines in economy class are overrated. In my experiences, the foreign low paid youn...
Jump to postoceanbeat wrote:GDL...wow very interesting. I would have expected TQO instead.
Seeing this new photo, I like it as much if not more than I did after the original announcement But I am probably in the minority and anticipate continued disappointment (as if simplistic Eurowhite is not now the industry norm!) Air India needed a complete rebrand, hard and soft product, and change ...
Jump to postProbably discussed before but I'm curious again for any new thoughts: 1. What global alliance do we think the following defunct US airlines be in if they still existed today: Continental, Northwest, US Airways, TWA, America West, Eastern 1, Pan Am, Virgin America 2. Would airlines tolerate a competi...
Jump to postDominion301 wrote:alan3 wrote:
That's been known for a few months.
Only YUL route this winter is to YYC.
Westjet suspending YYZ-YUL for the winter
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6986307
Wouldn't be fair... but what would make most money for LHR ? If AFKL were at T3, how many people from Amsterdam or Paris, both very strong Skyteam hubs with many long haul routes, would fly via LHR ? Probably not a huge number, so LHR would not see a particularly large boost of transferring pax to ...
Jump to postInterested to see what this means for LHR, and with the AF/KL/DL/VS joint venture with SK added into the fold. VS & DL serve some key markets ex LHR. IIRC, SK have circa 16 slots per day at LHR - as well as based A320's and Crew. By no means I'm not suggesting they start a short haul feed hub, ...
Jump to postAC appears to be very much the sort of airline A.netter's want to see, with a standardised B777/B787 fleet and a considerable order for the B78X, the 'CASM Beast' and 'TATL King'. Does AC really need them for anything other than A333 replacements however? There aren't really many markets AC can exp...
Jump to postIndeed there's a cluster of 8 A333's that are 22-24 years old and the rest are newer. Which oddly enough were meant to disappear along with the A340's, but stayed because they are so efficient TATL. I wouldn't bet on anything other than the high-hour A333's leaving the fleet. AC has a history of ru...
Jump to postThis is common knowledge…..there’s maybe 8 older A330s…..the 77L isn’t that old Indeed there's a cluster of 8 A333's that are 22-24 years old and the rest are newer. The 77L's aren't that young, though. The youngest 77L is almost 16 years old. Yes but the 77L are young considering AC typically keep...
Jump to postWhy would they be retired? The newer A330s and 77Ls have tons of life left in them in the fleet From Air Canada's own media release: "They will be used to replace older, less efficient wide-body aircraft currently in the Air Canada fleet." https://media.aircanada.com/2023-09-25-Air-Canada...
Jump to postAgree completely... but passengers won't accept facing backwards I've flown on BA 777 in business from MAD to LHR in a rear facing seat a couple of times. Feels very odd but ok, I guess the more often it was available the more we'd get use to it. But yes agree people tend to like to see where they'...
Jump to postIn my opinion, the only other “oddity”, is the 777-200LR. The airplane is a beast, it can haul 300 passengers half way around the world. But, if you are not using that capability, it’s expensive (and heavy) on shorter trips. Think of how much more efficient a 787-10 would be flying, say YYZ-LHR. Al...
Jump to postin the 1990s, MH and GA's planes could be seen in airports like LHR, LGW, FRA, ZRH, FCO, AMS, CDG, etc Now, they only have one route (LHR for MH and AMS for GA) Why did they drastically cut back the routes to Europe and also were they actually profitable Didn't both airlines also fly to the US in t...
Jump to postI'm aware of why the large metropolises of the world (London, New York, Tokyo, etc) have multiple airports as they are just too big and there are too many flights for one airport to handle. I'm also aware of the fact that several large cities have secondary airports served only by low-cost carriers ...
Jump to postThe 787-10s probably won't have the legs to do YYZ-Asia, but I can see them being used to upgauge 787-8/-9 routes to Europe. The -9s have the legs for YYZ-Asia, and even more so from YVR. Maybe they're waiting for the IGW 787-10s to be launched... Any chance AC will pick up (lease) some used 77Ws f...
Jump to postWow, that's almost a retreat from YYC. I guess the only AC long-haul remaining is LHR. Is this due to lack of capacity, or is WS eating AC's lunch? I would guess it’s more of an issue that with resources strained, Air Canada is focussing on the three largest markets in Canada. Three markets inciden...
Jump to postWhen Rouge was in YVR, the routes offered were: DUB, KIX, NGO, LAX, SFO, LAS, MCO, KOA, PVR, SJD, ZIH, CUN. All but NGO and MCO now served by mainline. LAS was continued to served by Rouge after pull out, and YQB was added after pull out. Rouge also flew YVR-PHX on a 767 Honestly, the density of AC...
Jump to postReuters is reporting that Qantas is "getting close" to a deal for a 787-10 order to replace their A330's. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/qantas-airways-nears-new-boeing-787-widebody-order-2023-08-21/ It's speculation for now depending on how reliable are the "sourc...
Jump to postGiven that China has 6 international carriers that flew to the US pre-pandemic, how do they divide up so few routes among them?
Jump to postWhy is everyone on here always so immediately quick to always hate on new liveries? Are people expecting heavily colored, multi-colored, full-fuselage of highly intricate designs? It's 2023. Very few airlines are going to do that. Especially not an airline with Air India's massive fleet growth plan...
Jump to postIt depends what you mean by bias. We all have bias whether we realize it or not. But as a professional reviewer, if the airline is paying for your ticket by default you can't claim to be giving honest and unbiased reviews. Josh Cahill, despite what people may think of him, is usually quite honest ab...
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