PatrickZ80 wrote:LCDFlight wrote:DEN is really nowhere close to Denver…
Lamp1009 wrote:2nd Trans Bay Tube is almost certainly going to happen at some point....
...submerged tube tunnels are probably never going into the bay ever again.
FGITD wrote:
Hey if the 49ers can call themselves a San Francisco team, SJC can certainly call itself an SF airport.
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With SJC — Runway capacity, proximity to SF, and a rapid transit connection all inhibit it from being an SF focussed airport. No airline is going to use that airport as a hub, and its role will be largely confined to OD traffic, which will be fine given that CAHSR will likely reduce the demand for ...
Jump to postit's not out of the question to think that a lot of smaller and medium sized carriers will eventually end up sending their traffic to OAK to save money and reduce delays. Airlines like Westjet, Porter, some AC, Flair, Sun Country, JetBlue, and maybe even Hawaiian/Alaska might be better off sending ...
Jump to postNot necessarily. Without any traffic, drive times to the SF Financial District are exactly the same from OAK and SFO. Traffic from SFO can be just as bad into The City as it can be from Oakland. In my experience SFO is quicker in the morning while OAK is quicker in the evening. You are correct that...
Jump to postThis theory of blaming the McDonnell Douglas acquisition for Boeing's quality control problems is silly. The rudder issues of the 1990s all happened before Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas and allegedly lost its "engineering culture." The 737 rudder problems were a design issue, not a qu...
Jump to postanshabhi wrote:B737 Max has over 400 companies in its supply chains, and everyone down from the suppliers to the Boeing at Renton is using contractual workers for assemblies.
There are only a handful of blue chip customers with the fleet size and needs of a United, which until very recently, hadn’t taken delivery of a new Airbus in 20 years. There’s frankly a lot more upside to Airbus to help United than there would be for them to go out of their way to help some smalle...
Jump to postThey are not scapegoating MCD, they are blaming the MCD executives who took over Boeing and changed the corporate culture. This theory of blaming the McDonnell Douglas acquisition for Boeing's quality control problems is silly. The rudder issues of the 1990s all happened before Boeing acquired McDo...
Jump to postThe overall US business environment encourages this type of behavior. Everything is short term, CEO's climb to the top, prioritize short terms gains and are gone with a fat payoff before the $#!% hits the fan. This take is essentially the criticism that was leveled against the US back in the early ...
Jump to postETs maintenance procedures seem to be all over the place - total mess. FAA/EAA should open an investigation into their maintenance logs not just for this specific aircraft but a fleet wide review. And while they are at it, they could look at their Pilot and Cabin Crew Training as well. A temporary ...
Jump to postGonzalo wrote:I’m just pointing out that she was a little too nervous and shaky
The public wants to know if this is a MAX issue. So reporter (knowing it's not) will ask that question, and the relevant people will explain calmly that it is not a MAX issue. How do you know it's not a MAX issue? It's been all of 24 hours. They haven't found the missing door plug. We don't know wh...
Jump to postImagine if you had to PROVE you would not be a significant liability to your auto insurance rather than be able to relay on their analysis of your past driving record, age and vehicle statistics, area of ownership etc. How do you PROVE you are a safe driver? I suggest that there is a significant di...
Jump to postplanecane wrote:Especially after all of the scrutiny on the FAA, if this was truly a major safety issue they would have grounded the MAX.
Spain and the UK-France/Belgium undersea tunnel Eurostar are the only places in Europe where HSR has security screening. ...For now. This sounds a lot like the lack of screening in aviation in 1970 or so, before all the Cuba and Middle East hijackings. Wait until some bad actor figures out that Eur...
Jump to postI have friends/family on both sides of the border at Juarez and El Paso. It’s not going to be in the next ten US cities landing Europe service I can tell you that. So what are your ten? Unlike El Paso/Juarez, STL is a declining city and still succeeded with transatlantic service on Lufthansa. To el...
Jump to postCiudad Juarez has a median family income of $15,000 per year…….. let alone the cross boarder passport/visa issue. Median income is a meaningless statistic without knowing the standard deviation and, more importantly, whether the distribution is lepotkurtic. There are plenty of international destina...
Jump to postELP doesn't even have service to the Eastern Seaboard megalopolis currently, so that's really grasping at straws. The El Paso-Las Cruces metropolitan statistical area (MSA) has a population of over 1 million people. When you add Juarez in, the region's population surges to about 2.7 million people....
Jump to postfreakyrat wrote:The passengers dog was found at ATL 40 minutes ago
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlant ... HXTKIAA5U/
USAirKid wrote:Has it been mentioned that bringing your dog in an international vacation is a potential red flag for a customs officer? That does bring up the thought that the person might be planning to overstay her visa.
SAT and AUS share a catchment area, AUS is the bigger airport with more service and is going to get more attention. Precisely. This is why European airlines need to adopt a blue ocean strategy and look at El Paso/Ciudad Juarez. West Texas is a huge market, particularly now with the energy boom. Bor...
Jump to postI would be surprised to see European service out of SAT. AUS seems over served. Why are y'all so hyped up about San Antonio, when AUS is just up the road? The real question should be why no European airlines are flying to ELP. The city of El Paso is an important international trade hub. There are m...
Jump to postYou're not wrong, but San Antonio has definitely held its own, even if it has been "surpassed" by Austin's growth in most metrics. Surely there must be some business travel generated by NADBank (which is headquartered in San Antonio) employees meeting with development finance institutions...
Jump to postI agree with some of the other comments about today’s generation. It’s like the idiots a few years ago in California who used fireworks in a dry area and started a big forest fire that killed a firefighter and destroyed many homes. That is not remotely comparable to what happened in Mexico. Using f...
Jump to postFlyingElvii wrote:It can be even worse if Betty is flying the plane...
You can train some races, and you can train them from small pups only. This assertion is completely false. There is no breed requirement for service dogs. My trainer, who is the leading service dog trainer in my state, prefers golden retrievers, labradors, and German Shepherds -- and she certainly ...
Jump to postAll of us are aware of the environmental movement's attacks on commercial aviation. Dog ownership also causes serious environmental harm. The environmental implications of dog ownership are so grim that some ultra-progressive environmental groups in Europe are calling on their members to reduce the...
Jump to postI'm not sure the dog needs to be "professionally" trained to be a service animal. It just needs to be trained There’s no requirement that it be professsionally trained, and you can self-train a service animal. There is no requirement for formal certification, either. (I personally am usin...
Jump to postlowfareair wrote:If it doesn't work, it doesn't work and they end it. What is the actual downside here?
My point is: not all children are disruptive. That's quite the strawman, since I've seen few, if any, complaints that "all" children are disruptive. Clearly, though, *some* are. Why are you so dismissive of people who complain about getting their seat kicked, for example? Do you think the...
Jump to postSo if someone is moving into an apartment that does not allow pets...and that is a plausible scenario...you think it is their "right" to bring the pet? In the United States, under the Fair Housing Act, it is indeed a right if the dog is an emotional support animal or a service animal, wit...
Jump to postActually, the first place they seem to have screwed up was in allowing her to board with the dog in the D.R., considering that CDC currently bans the importation of dogs from the D.R. (along with a large number of other countries considered high-risk for dog rabies). According to the CDC website, t...
Jump to postMy question is how the hell are they unable to find the dog ?! Poor woman, and this kind of incompetence is eventually going to have ramifications for the US and its airlines because these incidents are becoming more of a feature than a bug... I'm afraid that "ramifications" may be that f...
Jump to postLilj4425 wrote:Why didn’t she just leave her dog at home with a sitter or something? I have a dog and never take it on an airplane with me. Only service dogs should be allowed on airplanes anyways.
The war on children and families continues... There is no "war on children." (What are you, a De Santis fundraiser?) There are only people who do not wish to sit right next to them. That is no more a "war on children" than is an upscale oriented restaurant differentiating itself...
Jump to postI stated numerous times in the thread that this is not my preferred way to see things, but it's required by those who pay everyone's salaries and underwrite the operation. Strangely, that was missing from your selection. I disagree. The tenor of your responses suggests it's very much your preferred...
Jump to postI seem to remember that in the 70s and 80s many airliner overwing exit hatches were almost routinely opened on the ground just to get fresh air into the cabin and humidity out whenever possible and parked for longer. Opened main cabin doors had those nice ropes "for safety reasons". I adm...
Jump to postHigh heels would likely create indents on the top of the wing, potentially disrupting airflow over the wing, reducing lift, and ultimately risking the lives of 300+ pax as the 777-300ER fails to gain altitude and ending in a horrific ball of fire, with hundreds of not thousands of mourning friends,...
Jump to postAaron747 wrote:.There is nothing wrong with staff having a bit of fun, but it's always better if that fun is OK'd by someone.
Noshow wrote:Why don't they just expand -or better complete- DWC airport? Is anything wrong with DWC?
Who in their right mind would choose to fly on AA metal when QR is an alternative?
Jump to postThe problem is, as above, politics will be playing a role in this sale. Those trying to downplay it is not being honest. Commercial aviation is one of the most political industries out there, second perhaps only to defense. That is particularly true in the Middle East. It's absurd -- "emperor ...
Jump to postOn the whole, I like it. I love the tail and the engines, particularly the metallic gold. I do think they would have done well to preserve the jharokha windows, at least in the rear third of the fuselage -- sort of in the way Turkish added its tulip. And yes, the yellow accent in the undercarriage l...
Jump to postMrHMSH wrote:The MAX makes sense for an existing 737 operator, the XLR would open up a lot of new routes and so not surprising they'd be very strongly considering it.
What is one example of an airport that changed its name/rebranded and attracted new routes, frequencies, passenger traffic and profitability for doing so? FLL didn't expressly call itself "Miami North," but it positioned itself that way and attracted Emirates for a while. Also, outside th...
Jump to postgaystudpilot wrote:What is one example of an airport that changed its name/rebranded and attracted new routes, frequencies, passenger traffic and profitability for doing so?
ucdtim17 wrote:I don't know what "better gate access" means - OAK gates are closer and easier to access from an airport entry point than 90+% of SFO gates.
For anyone that cares about total trip time and not ground transport time only, OAK is undeniably superior to SFO for downtown access for a commuter. I completely disagree with this point. If you're going by car or Uber, everything depends on traffic on the Bay Bridge. There are plenty of bottlenec...
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