I am not sure if this has already been discussed in the other threads, but just posting it here. I just noticed yesterday, the Qatar is operating twice daily to DFW. Its interesting to see that the new service arrives at DFW in the morning and wont depart until late evening. Trying to understand, w...
Jump to postIt was incorporated and can be done, but the ease of which it was supposed to be able to be done originally didn’t live on.
It’s much more complex than originally envisioned. Therefore, it is not cost effective to do so.
The best way forward for Boeing would be to de-list their stock, getting out of the grips of short-sighted Wall Street vultures and their perpetual desire for ever improving quarterlies. Secondly they need to recognise that they're an engineering company first, second and last. Their mission should...
Jump to postIssues here as well. Many shipments give a delivery day, then move to pending for a day or two and end up being delivered 1-2 days late, typically.
I had a pool pump that was supposed to be delivered Monday and it got delivered today.
I’m located in the DFW Metroplex.
Can someone explain to me why they’d use 31R for takeoff over 31L when ‘Left’ is slightly (300 ft) longer? 31L go arounds can easily be turned west to de-conflict with 31R departures (of which two headings were used). In the other scenario, turning a 31R arrival east into DAL doesn't work well for ...
Jump to postCan someone explain to me why they’d use 31R for takeoff over 31L when ‘Left’ is slightly (300 ft) longer?
Jump to postDoes PHL ever allow landings on runway 8? It looks like the approach goes right over the terminals. No. It is a unidirectional runway. Landings on 26 and takeoffs on 8. All good until a private jet over runs and blocks 17/35 when a passenger jet is taking off or landing. It doesn’t work like that, ...
Jump to postUnsafe flying over for people in the terminal. It can be disastrous if take off or landing crash error stall or microburst or engine stall to kill people in the terminal at least 500 fatal do you want to get lawsuit high insurance fee rate for this? No! Better than nothing! Q What? Please proofread...
Jump to postAs someone who regularly flew Norwegian on TATL routes & having flown NZ to Florida, I think NZ would be brilliant to try TATL late night departures out of FLL or MCO. With the void left by NLH’s demise, an MCO/FLL hop to LGW/BCN/CDG/FCO would be a major success. It would have an advantage Norw...
Jump to postThe trAAin was unique for sure but the Skylink is far more useful and efficient. I know what you mean about the dual AA/DL hub with BN in the mix prior to that. I always liked the dynamic of the dual hubs we saw in years past (EA/DL in ATL, CO/UA in DEN, PA/EA in MIA, TW/OZ in STL, etc). It seems t...
Jump to postOzarkD9S wrote:I avoid DFW like the plague. Never been there, DAL yes.
Booked flights: April IAH-BNA E175 and BNA-IAH CRJ7 April IAH-SJD A320 and SJD-IAH A320 Tentative: End of February/first part of March IAH-STL E175 and STL-IAH E175 Though all of these trips are in serious danger of not happening due to friggin COVID. Why? We went to Cabo in September with no issue...
Jump to postUnited does not have an aircraft that can make it from South Africa to Chicago. Yes it does: 787-9. Meanwhile, it is a fact that Delta doesn't have the aircraft to fly nonstop from JNB to ATL. No, it doesn’t. ORD is about 700 miles (about an hour and a half) further than EWR. Unless they significan...
Jump to postDelta could fly JFK to Johannesburg, New York doesn't have as many connections and more competition. From Atlanta they connect to 100 cities and have shown it can be done for a decade so why change what works ? USA to South Africa is a niche market, Delta has been the only airline recently flying t...
Jump to postWhen above 30,000 feet, travelling at over 500kts, I prefer to stay inside the aircraft (bit cold outside!) So I never need to worry about outside noise. Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk Interior sound levels have little to do with engine location and much to do with sound insulation design and...
Jump to postThe new gear slightly improves takeoff performance. I believe if, not when. I would consider DL, a large -900 operator, high on the "talk to that customer" list as well as AS, AA, UA, IAG, and SpiceJet. You make a good point, I was only considering MAX 9 U.S. operators but it is way bigge...
Jump to postAF022 wrote:Maybe i missed this, but aren't they changing it to ATL-JNB-CPT-ATL to avoid JNB high and hot departure back to ATL?
I would ascertain that Terminal C here at my home airport of DFW is quite .... crappy. Efficient, but crappy.
Jump to postTheir timing was bad for the launch (virus) and the 737 is a horrible aircraft to ride in for more than a couple of hours. Because Southwest is the only carrier flying a 737 to Hawaii. Totally, give me a break, this place hates WN. OK, you get a break. Lots of carriers fly 737s to Hawaii. Lots of c...
Jump to postWould not be surprising to see WN close Hawaii altogether. It was one lowest RASM operation in the network pre-Covid. Simply isn’t going to happen, when they have been exceeding expectations. There is some sadistic desire to see WN fail at Hawaii on Anet. Yes, they do and I can’t understand why. It...
Jump to postSimply isn’t going to happen, when they have been exceeding expectations. There is some sadistic desire to see WN fail at Hawaii on Anet. There is nothing sadistic about wanting them to fail at inter-island flights when HNL based Aloha who succeeded for almost a century failed, as have almost every...
Jump to postjmc1975 wrote:Would not be surprising to see WN close Hawaii altogether. It was one lowest RASM operation in the network pre-Covid.
So after the completion of 18R/36L, are there any plans to resurface any of the other runways? I have no idea, but the next big project appears to be the SW end-around taxiways. And one nugget buried in that package is that they are planning (long-term, I would assume) to connect the SW and SE end-...
Jump to postFrom my understanding (and again, I could be wrong), I believe they are going asphalt when they rehab one of the 18/36 runways (I forget which one is first). According to this, it's 18R/36L, and you are correct that it will be asphalt. That graphic says that construction should have started by now,...
Jump to postI just watched a youtube video on this and for DFW, it mentioned the following: "The Asphalt is designed for strength and stability suited for North Texas weather conditions" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBqi-Zm5-hc&feature=youtu.be And this I found this little nugget: At 13,401 fee...
Jump to postWhat an interesting topic! And what a Pandora's box of technical questions this opens... Does this mean that asphalt is better for landings? Does this mean that concrete is better for take-offs? Would airports like LAX, which is 99% of the time outer-runways-for-landing and inner-runways-for-takeof...
Jump to postWho needs more range out of current 787-9? 787-9 is already the king of ULH. Think of SIN-SFO, SIN-LAX, PER-LHR. Nothing beats 787-9's efficiency and range. The king of ULH? It’s good but their are a number of aircraft more capable in terms of payload range so to Call it the king is a stretch in my...
Jump to postI hate remote stands and it’s one of the turnoffs when going to Europe.
Yes, it happens elsewhere as well, but quite a bit in Europe and we find it annoying. We’d much rather have a gate with a jet bridge.
Spiderguy252 wrote:Another example of mileage plans being junk.
Stay away from them and their intangible currencies.
They can pass out water in a plastic cup, they stewards and stewardesses have been handling, but won't hand you a coke, beer, food or any other beverage. Try Lufthansa! ;) They handed me a glass bottle of Warsteiner when I asked for a beer last week! And they had many more drinks available. Haha!
Jump to postI hear a lot of folk talking about the people in the row in front of you or the row behind. When I am sitting, I can't see the people in the row behind, and apart from the rare instance when they got to the toilet, I can hardly see the people on the row in front. The degree of separation compared t...
Jump to postI'm 'Anti-Mask' (meaning I don't wear one). I have no issue if you choose to wear one. Individual freedom and liberty are real things. You give the government or anyone in power an inch and they will take a mile (there is no end to this mask crap and that's part of the problem). If I knew it was fo...
Jump to postNot really, weak must die for the strong to live. This is called nature. In this case the weak are old and have many co-morbidities. That's exactly right and EXACTLY what we have seen. Look, I'm not going to change the peoples' minds who are afraid of their own shadows (and that's fine - I respect ...
Jump to postIts hypocritical for airlines to pass out drinks and snacks, invite you to eat them but then "require" masks. Which is it? Virus spreads while you are munching on snacks, producing excess saliva that gets projected into the air while smacking with your mouth open and chatting with your tr...
Jump to postI'm 'Anti-Mask' (meaning I don't wear one). I have no issue if you choose to wear one. Individual freedom and liberty are real things. You give the government or anyone in power an inch and they will take a mile (there is no end to this mask crap and that's part of the problem). If I knew it was fo...
Jump to postIt is absolutely bizarre to consider masks as some kind of authoritarian power play. You can find much more egregious violations of peoples' rights, and much more consequential rearrangements in political power, in minutes, or seconds, if you care to look. And far more important things that have im...
Jump to postI'm 'Anti-Mask' (meaning I don't wear one). I have no issue if you choose to wear one. Individual freedom and liberty are real things. You give the government or anyone in power an inch and they will take a mile (there is no end to this mask crap and that's part of the problem). If I knew it was for...
Jump to postI didn't see this posted anywhere, but just saw on Fox News that Airbus is cutting at least 15,000 jobs.
Total Bummer.
Excellent work. I looked up the Goodyear tires spec’d for the 737-900ER mains per this page: https://www.goodyearaviation.com/resources/pdf/application-charts-6-2018.pdf. It shows a speed rating of 235 kts, but the limitation in the FM is 195 kts (obviously a safety margin). It shows a different ti...
Jump to postFriscoheavy, 3 models of the 777-200 (UA) have MGTOWs of 545000, 648000 and 656000 lbs. Same 204kt tire speed limit for all 3. What is the MGTOW and tire speed limit for the Delta 777-200LRs? Really interested in the custom tires Delta uses(?) I don’t know what the tire speed limit is for the Delta...
Jump to postFriscoheavy, 3 models of the 777-200 (UA) have MGTOWs of 545000, 648000 and 656000 lbs. Same 204kt tire speed limit for all 3. What is the MGTOW and tire speed limit for the Delta 777-200LRs? Really interested in the custom tires Delta uses(?) I don’t know what the tire speed limit is for the Delta...
Jump to postojjunior wrote:BTW, is that the longest domestic flight in continental US?
JetBlue will be fine here. They already have 2 competitors at FLL and 1 competitor at MIA on this route. DL brings nothing here that would be threatening to JetBlue. An AA move to add more lie flat on MIA-LAX would be something that actually threatens JetBlue here. I just think that if they wanted ...
Jump to postThis is a rather childish move from Delta. If they wanted to build their LAX hub and support their JV with Latam, LAX-MIA is clearly the route they should've brought back. That's the higher yielding airport and actually helps their JV. But instead of doing the logic move, they are stuck on the pre-...
Jump to postThis is a rather childish move from Delta. If they wanted to build their LAX hub and support their JV with Latam, LAX-MIA is clearly the route they should've brought back. That's the higher yielding airport and actually helps their JV. But instead of doing the logic move, they are stuck on the pre-...
Jump to postWhat aircraft? OP said 737-800 But to be all honest I thought this would be for A223. Michael Yes the A223 would be ideal for this route. Plenty of legroom on a fine new aircraft. If it were ideal, it would have been selected to operate the route. Clearly, at this point in time, it's not ideal.
Jump to postI was out at DIA yesterday and two things really struck me. First, how incredibly few people were in the airport. There was absolutely no line at security, no line at check in. I've going to DIA since it opened and I've never, ever seen it that empty, even on holidays. Second, the Great Hall is pre...
Jump to postDelta 777-200LRs have custom tires that allow more fuel to be carried at JNB. These tires allow Delta to fly straight to ATL without any fuel stop. Were these installed by Boeing at the factory? The tires have a higher rated speed limit to allow more weight/payload, which in turn means needing a fa...
Jump to postI'd love to take off in a MTOW 737-900ER on a hot day! I've been on plenty of full 739's ATL- SEA in the summer and it's not nearly as dramatic as a.net myth makes it out to be. Granted, not the same density altitude as DEN, but I think the stories of poor t/o performance on the 739 are heavily exa...
Jump to postCertainly not directly related, but we flew on an AA 321 last week from DEN-DFW (short flight, lightly loaded) on a 'normal temp' day and I'll tell you what, I didn't think we'd get off the ground (semi-sarcasm). Now, I know it was a significantly reduced thrust take off, etc, but Lordy, it was one ...
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