The A320 has been steadily ramping up, excluding the pandemic years. 2010: 34/mo 2014: 42/mo 2016: 45/mo 2019: 60/mo 2021: 63/mo (target) 2024: 60/mo (is) 2026: 75/mo But beyond Airbus, there's an entire supply chain that needs to keep up. There's no point producing empty hulls if you don't have av...
Jump to postRichard Anderson did an amazing job with Amtrak.............................................that is sarcasm. To be fair, It’s Amtrak - a US Government entity, no one can right that ship as long as the government is involved, just like the post office. Aside from the NE corridor, the population dens...
Jump to postWhat about Mark Burns from Gulfstream or is being current VP of General Dynamics going to be a non starter?
Jump to postPaying your worker the fair price is also a good solution to retain and attract talents and secure ramp-up with a skilled, already trained workforce. I know that Airbus and the rest of the aerospace supply chain are always complaining about recruitment difficulties, at least in Europe. It is hard t...
Jump to postIrkut will need to be especially careful to ensure that any aircraft designs conform to FAA/EASA specifications so that the MC-21 has a market after the war. The aviation world, particularly in the West, is still jittery after the complications of the SSJ. Irkut will thus need to distribute parts a...
Jump to postJust spinning it at a slightly different angle. If we are talking about $10k annually per each of 1200 workers, that is extra $1.7M per each of 70 delivered plane. With current losses of $4M per plane. Paying your worker the fair price is also a good solution to retain and attract talents and secur...
Jump to postAfter Boeing's experience trying to replace its existing unionized labor pool with a new, untrained, non-union labor pool in South Carolina - an experience mostly notable for quality problems, production shutdowns, and chronic delivery delays - the union and its members know they have some leverage...
Jump to postThis is strange, indeed. Interstate 10, 20, 65, and 85 make it easy for the engineers and business folks from not only Alabama and Auburn, but GA Tech, Texas A&M, University of Texas, not to mention Delta Air Line employees looking to hop over to the OEM side, easy access to move to Mobile if A...
Jump to postNo. The goal should be to make air travel for sustainable rather than stopping air travel itself. How do you make it sustainable?. Put a fancy CO2 calculator on your airline’s webpage and pat yourself on the back for giving of the aura that you care so much about the environment. Offer to passenger...
Jump to postWith Haiti currently in turmoil, I was listening to the news today stating PAP was a free for all, gangs trying to take it over etc. Anyone have details of the state of affairs for PAP? Any airlines currently suspending service? Is the airport even taking flights (whether humanitarian or civilian)? ...
Jump to postAlabama isn’t known for their highly educated skilled workforce. This is strange, indeed. Interstate 10, 20, 65, and 85 make it easy for the engineers and business folks from not only Alabama and Auburn, but GA Tech, Texas A&M, University of Texas, not to mention Delta Air Line employees lookin...
Jump to postAbsolutely not. For every “climate” protest that blocks traffic, involves someone being “so brave” by tossing paint on art or gluing their hands (again… so brave!) , I will buy a plane ticket, rent the largest suv available and blast my HVAC with windows open. Virtue signaling is one of the dumbest ...
Jump to postI don’t see any poor planning. What would you prefer, DL cancel all flights into SFO due to SFO being a mess in weather? Do you have any dispatch or 121 crew experience? The old walk a mile in the other guy’s shoes idea. Not cancel flights, but divert into an airport within driving distance of the ...
Jump to postThe pacific sale was perfect for United due to their SFO operation. SFO is the perfect hub to Asia just like MIA is the perfect Latin America gateway. Not sure how American could have taken full advantage of the Pan Am pacific routes without a fortress hub like SFO.
Jump to postLooks like around 76 Alaska Airlines cancels so far today: https://www.flightaware.com/live/fleet/ASA/cancelled That still seems rather low for a 737 MAX fleet of 66 aircraft. Grounding and cancels only effect the -9, there is nothing to inspect on the NGs so I'd imagine there are plenty of substit...
Jump to postAC appears to now be having a long RON in LHR, I assume they are running the data since the landing video garnered so much attention just out of an abundance of caution. Aren't you confusing AC with AA? I am not. The flightradar data (which very well could be inaccurate), makes it appear the aircra...
Jump to postIf you are a component repair shop for NEFs, you will not be touching a logbook. The airline is sending you an unserviceable component that most likely has been replaced by a serviceable unit thus closing the write-up in the book. You are being sent an unserviceable part under a repair order from a...
Jump to postAC appears to now be having a long RON in LHR, I assume they are running the data since the landing video garnered so much attention just out of an abundance of caution.
Jump to postWith some big projected losses in Q4, hate to see how Q1 the traditional weakest quarter will be for some of the airlines. Its early for Q1, but as of today analysts estimate AA, AS and WN all turn negative with losses and UA could be touch and go to breakeven. Between weaker unit revenue, and high...
Jump to postWhy does the Delta A330 fly to NRT on her delivery flight? Delta used to have a hangar in NRT, left over from the days when they operated there. They may be doing prior to service modifications there. Its a strange world we live in. I believe they do the title transfer in NRT for some tax purpose. ...
Jump to postWhy did AF have both A340s and 777s? AF had the A340 for hot n’ high services. They had the B777 for higher capacity flights, I think. Was there that much of an economic reason that warranted having spare parts for both as well as pilots trained for both? A340 has less of a performance penalty when...
Jump to postI’m curious to see what a Leap-1A equipped A340-300 fuel burn would be like With so few active A343s, I doubt if it is feasible to launch a re-engining program. My guess would be around a 10-12% fuel burn improvement but it would depend on the length of the flight. I am not sure if the wings are ab...
Jump to postI’m curious to see what a Leap-1A equipped A340-300 fuel burn would be like
Jump to postNight trains that are LONG distance would be amazing. Have an 9 hour night train between Chicago and DFW and/or Houston - golden. Night train between Phoenix - Houston/DFW/NOLA area - golden , 10 hours total. Sleeper suite beds, 125 bucks, you’d actually get people. Tramslated as "if I could t...
Jump to postNight trains that are LONG distance would be amazing. Have an 9 hour night train between Chicago and DFW and/or Houston - golden. Night train between Phoenix - Houston/DFW/NOLA area - golden , 10 hours total. Sleeper suite beds, 125 bucks, you’d actually get people. A little bit of reality check is...
Jump to postYeah, no for me in the central US. For less than 3 hours, I drive and for more than 3 hours, I fly. I fly smaller commuter aircraft nonstop to places too. It's all about convenience and my precious time. In places where high speed rail exists, most people are willing to pay more for the convenience...
Jump to postI agree sure. The outlook from the WHO and the NZ government at the time wasn’t good, I didn’t think even the 77Ws would fly again 2 years ago. Now look, it seemed like it would take longer for things to recover. I mean, it wouldn't be the only thing NZ and Oz handled extraordinarily poorly during ...
Jump to postIt will be difficult for AI to satisfy every major city in India, with convenient one stop connections to major cities in US, Canada and Europe and other destinations, something like what EK and QR have done to the 9 to 12 cities they serve in India. Air India will rightly focus on DEL and followed...
Jump to postIts been said over and over but lets say it again. Online searches are useless to draw conclusions from as to the financial performance of routes. AI might be close to breaking even on some of their current routes but thats really only a product of US carriers being unable to compete on nonstop rou...
Jump to postAre you employed by a ME3 airline? Two things that come to mind - (1) Who do you think it flying AI’s nonstops and UA’s before the Russian airspace shutdown? So many new nonstops and growing rapidly. Of course this affects the old players and (2) You talk about the connecting airport experience - y...
Jump to postI dont know where you are getting the data, but on nonstops, AI fares are generally higher than with ME2 1 stops from US, and AI fares are generally higher than EY on 1 stops too from US. That isn’t true. The data comes from ARC, IATA, and FM Travel, it is factual and non-negotiable. I just looked ...
Jump to postWrong. With a good AI, there is no reason for the ME3 apart from Muslim world connections. I am not wrong, I am merely speaking reality. The ME3 at this time and in the next 5-10 years have zero worry about Air India. That's a lot different than never. In the next 5 years I agree completely. After ...
Jump to postAir India is prioritizing US routes for its aircraft with upgraded hard product. Perhaps because fares are higher than UK routes? If soft product upgrades continue as the relationship with Singapore Airlines deepens, the ME 3 will face a serious challenge to a big revenue source . I mean this witho...
Jump to postAir India is prioritizing US routes for its aircraft with upgraded hard product. Perhaps because fares are higher than UK routes? If soft product upgrades continue as the relationship with Singapore Airlines deepens, the ME 3 will face a serious challenge to a big revenue source . I mean this witho...
Jump to postNot every airplane needs to fly to the extreme of its range capability. In fact, most airplanes range capabilities are rarely used fully. A transcon flight on any NEO will still provide big fuel savings vis a vis a legacy 321. It seems ironic to me that so many folks think AA will fly these aircraf...
Jump to postThe weird thing to me is that all the 737-based retro liveries are wrong. Neither TWA, Air Cal, nor Reno Air ever had grey airplanes. Why not just paint them correctly rather than have a half-baked never-was sideways version of a livery? I assume it's because it's easier to swap out panel covers an...
Jump to postAA is operating a B777 as flight 9602, an extra section TLVJFK for crew and non-revs only trying to escape Israel. AA 9602 was the return of the revenue flight JFK-TLV that AA operated as a ferry / non-rev flight to take back and layover crews and non revs in Israel. DL 9888 was the same. The sched...
Jump to postShe was an ex-AA bird, N399AN. I remember I flew on her SJCCDG back in 2001. I doubt she will be repaired. Really so you know how much does it cost to fix that damage as opposed to buying another 767 freighter if you can find one? When AA retired this aircraft. How many cycles and hours did it have...
Jump to postGSPSPOT wrote:Kind of a tangent here, but what's with cargo flights to Laredo? Is it a big port of entry along the border? We have semi-regular cargo flights there from MKE on a variety of carriers and equipment (mainly turboprops).
I have never had an emotional reaction to a celebrity death, but this one hurts. Hopefully he has his loudest Tommy Bahama shirt on!
Jump to postOversimplified response here, max weight for aircraft cargo hold*** is usually lb’s (or kg) per sq inch or foot (or what ever the metric version is) Ramp will have a max weight limit too for the safety of the rampers. A 400lb casket could be loaded safely as the weight is distributed over a greater ...
Jump to postThis happens all the time in all airlines, and the only one to blame is the FAA for allowing planes without APU to be flown around the world. I’m sorry if its more than 75F outside they should ground the planes until the APU works. The FAA doesn’t let inop APU airplane fly over over the world. An E...
Jump to postScott Kirby isn’t a leader…and in one single, poorly made decision, he has demonstrated to his staff, his board and the industry that he doesn’t have the stones to be a leader in a time of crisis. Someone earlier made the comment about “would the CEO of Ford arrive to work in a Mercedes-Benz?”. Thi...
Jump to postI hate using my phone or tablet - so awesome to see some airlines invest in IFE. It’s a key factor for me when traveling. It's nice to be different. For me, IFE scores very low when I'm on the road. On a recent 7 hour AMS - JFK flight I didn't use it. Just looking out of the window, reading some ma...
Jump to postExactly. If my seat reclines, it’s going back as soon as the mains leave the runway. Because I’m kind, I won’t slam it back though. The person behind me knows the seat in front reclines, don’t act surprised and offended if someone reclines. If someone doesn’t want a seat in front of them to recline...
Jump to postYou can eat a smelly tuna fish sandwich and wear extremely strong perfume on the plane too. You can also cut your fingernails during the flight if you want. Nothing stopping you from doing that either. The difference is that the items that I listed are things that the airline provided to you to use...
Jump to postJust don't allow recline on Basic Economy. How would you do that. As far as I'm aware, the only difference between basic economy and regular economy is services such as seat selection and baggage allowance. The seat itself is whatever didn't get assigned or selected by someone else. Then don't allo...
Jump to postProbably a silly question, but how does a place with an airport and runway that can accommodate a 777 not have a reasonable hotel? There are airports all over the world that serve as emergency diversion fields that really don't have the equipment to service a 777 or other wide body aircraft. I have...
Jump to postProbably a silly question, but how does a place with an airport and runway that can accommodate a 777 not have a reasonable hotel? Those islands in the middle of the ocean Midway Island is a prime example. 40 people (At most) on the island at any given time. It’s an ETOPS diversion airport and how ...
Jump to postNot sure why everyone has been up in arms over this diversion. You don’t screw around with aircraft and passengers during an emergency diversion (now an imposed diversion IE in Belarus is different). Same thing happened to a United flight in August 2013. Crew and passengers stayed in terminal. Unite...
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