Re: Recent Runway incursion and other increasing congestion problems, sounds like airport planning prioritized terminal expansion over improving planeside/taxi/runway flow and needed operations space. I wonder why the city hasn’t put pressure on MCRD to consider a move out to Pendleton. It has to be...
Jump to postOn another topic, has anyone arrived/departed FAT at night and noticed the 25 strange blue roadway lights in front of the terminal?
Not sure what their purpose is, as they don't shed any meaningful lumens on the roadway. Hazardous for people crossing the
roadway from the parking lot.
T-1 Project: How come their aren't current pix or videos of this massive project? The SAN.ORG site only shows artists renderings, no actual photos. The Google Maps satellite view shows some of the action, but could be months old. The San Diego live cams only show a constant cam movement, worthless. ...
Jump to postI wonder if the center gave any U.S. airlines the chance to get in on this, particularly UA, who donated the DC-8, and gave
$69 million to the adjacent Coliseum/USC for naming rights (later downgraded to "UA Field.")
Any locals at SAN seeing any progress on the reconstruct of the 1931 UA hangar? It is supposed to go at the spot west of Pacific Highway, North of Palm, south of the Wind Tunnel. This spot would only be yards from the original site S of Palm and N or Laurel. Pretty historic as it's the only structur...
Jump to postUA N777UA delivered May 1995 and first flight June 1995 should be in a United Museum. First 777 delivered to an airline, number 7 built. First 777 built is at Pima in Tucson. .... United needs a museum, to showcase the History, Legacy and Pride of that great airline. Look at what DL has done at thei...
Jump to postcodc10: Unfortunately, UA doesn't have any displays of aircraft or Memorabilia at any public viewable location. Take a look at the outstanding display of Delta at ATL and witness the pride, legacy, history of that great airline. Their employees actually bought that 767-200! The N777UA would be a gre...
Jump to poststrfyr51:
N777UA was the first 777 to fly with an airline. Delivered May 15, 1995 and flew June 7, 1995.
N771UA was not delivered until November, 1995.
re warehouses, now Amazon is starting a new 4 Million SF warehouse adjacent to Chino (CA) airport, which will be on 93 acres.
Largest Amazon warehouse in the world.
Unknown if it will use that airport (7,000' runway) or truck stuff up to ONT. (7 miles away)
Bus travelers? Nothing I can see BFL-LAX direct or BFL-BUR either.
Surprised UA hasn't considered BFL-IAH or FAT-IAH with the energy sector
on both ends.
Does anyone know what equipment United used initially in its Hawaii service? I have seen old pictures of Boeing 377 Stratocruisers at SFO bound for Honolulu, so that’s my guess. ... The UA launch aircraft on May 1, 1947 was the DC-6 SFO-HNL and was then the longest over-water commercial airline rou...
Jump to postIMHO, a UA museum should be in a) a fair weather location to allow year-round outside displays, and b) a location with a lot of active and retired UA tech employees to work and volunteer on museum projects. These two items eliminate ORD and DEN, and most other UA hubs. That leaves SFO, or how about ...
Jump to postIf N777UA gets retired, it should get into a much needed formal UA museum.
Anyone out there seen the wonderful DL museum in ATL? An incredible display and
a tribute to their history, pride and legacy. UA should have no less.
UA flew a 727-200 LAX-SMO-LAX for about a 4 hour layover in the late 60's as part of
a SMO mini airshow. It was setup as a promo for an employee-based sales program
called ESP. FA's, pilots and other LAX employees handed out literature and had a
walkthru utilizing the airstairs and a front stand.
Jayunited: One last thing from the video that stood out was it took 30 seconds after the engine exploded on UA1175 for the pilots instruments to show them which engine had actually failed. Even though all the bells, whistles and alerts were going off in the cockpit it took a full 30 seconds before t...
Jump to postI've wondered if an engine cam in commercial airliners would be of help in this type of incident. I realize the current monitoring info is of great help in deciding what to do next, but an engine cam in the fuselage somewhere around door 2 (777) may have helped the pilots in this incident, who may h...
Jump to postVCV Spotter:
Thanks for the update on the UA 744's. I was hoping that at least one frame might be retained intact for a possible future display, including engines.
VCV Spotter:
Thanks for your continuing good info.
In your travels around VCV, do you know if any of the UA 744's are flyable (have engines, etc?)
I show that there should be about 11 frames there, but I think some are in some stage
of part-out/cannibalism, etc.
Thanks.
SAN apparently going ahead with the Term 1 project.
https://simpleflying.com/san-diego-term ... velopment/
No incentive....just COVID fears...after all, there have been 19 deaths here so far....!?
Jump to postre: Hawaii service and quarantines...heavy rumors that the Aug 1 pre-testing will move to at least Sept. 1 So if that's the case, the 14 day quarantine for all arrivals will remain in August. All Hawaii mayors are pushing for the extension, and Gov. Ige will probably decide this coming week. The sum...
Jump to postNo one, including HA is going to expand any flying until the HI governor decides to stop the 14 day quarantine. They just extended it another 30 days (July 31) which kills the summer business and probably the 4Q as well. I feel sorry for all the restaurant, hotel, retail and other visitor-related em...
Jump to postWhen UA sheds this iconic aircraft, it should go into a United Museum...
Jump to postRe: airport development plan: Thanks for the info SanFan, but both those links go to the abbreviated report that I was talking about. The full report that I'm sure I saw on the SAN.org site several months ago had a lot more detail and I believe incorporated all those corrections seen on the current ...
Jump to postSANfan or anyone else: Do you have a link to the Airport Development Plan, Final EIR, certified back in January?
The current page on san.org shows a link but all I see is the Intro, Comments, and Corrections & Additions, not the full report.
Thanks.
Did UA get their Hawaii CAREs act exemptions?
Jump to postnine4nine: If you wanted to know about SoCal aircraft storage, why did you leave off VCV, SBD & MHV?
Jump to postx1234..."every 777 Polaris"....except the 20 domestic birds and the yet to be converted (maybe) 3 ER birds. . attention UA pilots flying ferries to ROW: any chance of getting a picture of the parked aircraft (maybe on your fly-out deadhead?) Please post...don't see any pix in the local pap...
Jump to postRe: N777UA, YES, it belongs in a United Museum. #1 delivered 5/1995. (Pima already has a CX 777) United really needs a museum, to showcase the Pride, History, Legacy and Education of the great company. Look at what DL has done in ATL. Check out the you tube animation, and this was before they displa...
Jump to postModerator...
seeing this topic is getting huge, maybe time to split this into International carriers/cities and the other U.S domestic carriers/cities?
Would make it easier to scan the news that a reader wants to see?
(ericm2031)
"I think UA was already planning to drop down to 1 LAX-HNL, 1 SFO-HNL, 1 ORD-HNL, 1 IAH-HNL based on dummy bookings for the 1st week of April. They are relying on HA to get people to the other islands."
Please quote your source.
calpsafltskeds:
perhaps a new tab in the fleet website would be helpful, showing acft stored at temp storage sites, like ROW.
Thanks
atcsundevil:
any idea why some posts just after #788 regarding UA and the USOPC (Olympics) got deleted?
Re: UA SAN Hangar...pretty small, about 75x100x30H...no go on a 737 (117x130x41H) There's a Menzies sign on it recently with a lot of their fuel trucks parked around it, so they may be doing veh maint in there. Possibly a bunch of hazmat on or underneath it. Would be a nice mini museum, but would ne...
Jump to postanyone know where the old UA hangar is going to be moved to and who currently owns it? One of the T-1 rebuild docs said it can't be demolished as it's historic, and said it would be moved to the north side, maybe by the GA area or the cargo area.
Thanks
Don't know about the other guys, but UA requires BE pax NOT checking bags to go to the kiosk or counter to get a boarding pass. (Can't get one online) This presumably to let the agent have a look at the pax underseat carryon to insure they aren't trying to pull a fast one... Gate agents were probabl...
Jump to postThis move by DL is a shining example how the company cares about its employees, retirees and the important area of public image and education. Other major carriers seem to have missed this type of opportunity to showcase their history, image and legacy.
Jump to postUA forked over 70M to USC to name the 95 year old LA Coliseum. Then there was an outcry so they downgraded it to United Airlines Field. One sign above the new press box and almost unreadable field markings, and I didn't hear any USC announcers mention United at the recent USC game, and the Rams are ...
Jump to postRe: New Livery; does anyone know why UA isn't sending the 14 MAX's to VCV or AMA instead of GYR to get the new paint?
Jump to postOK, re other airports...NKX is really the only feasible alternate. As SANAQV8R pointed out, North Island wouldn't work, due to access (3 lane bridge) and the size of the Navy operation. Lets face it, any more work at SAN, including terminal rebuilds and rapid transit attempts, are strictly band-aids...
Jump to postGood info on this report. Am I imagining things, but didn't this site offer once the ability to hover or click on either a city code or airline code and a tiny popup window would open showing the city name or airline name? I know a-netters know most of the codes, but I always see a few weird ones th...
Jump to postThe GE/Pan Am -121 made it's final flight November, 2018 from VCV to DMA (Davis-Monthan) for the Pima Museum. Not sure of its
status, as it isn't shown on Pima's aircraft list. GE now doing testing with a -400.
1. One free checked bag to allow more space in overheads ?
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2. finally, a formal spacious United Museum ?
OGG, great spot on paved bike trail, near Stable Road by the Yellow safety wall. Probably 150' to taxiway alpha where the majority of ops turn off RW 2. Parking also at Kanaha Beach, with restrooms, and a 10 minute walk/ride to the bike trail. Good view of the Hazmat area, where oddball fixed and Mi...
Jump to postI'm wondering if the U.S. will impose tariffs on China services, as well as goods? I'm thinking aircraft maintenance, done in China, for U.S. Carriers, at places like HKG and XMN. Like goods, if services were tariffed, then it could mean more U.S. jobs, i.e. aircraft maintenance. Any thoughts on this?
Jump to postI think we can thank/blame WN for starting the safety video bonanza with their annoying cutesy live FA spiel that has made the You Tube rounds for years. After that, all carriers thought "we can do that," and the rush to produce their own annoying videos began. I like those UA 737's and 77...
Jump to post"The pupose of a map is to be... a map. Maps don't show people, cars and planes. Those are called photographs. ;)" True, and Google Maps Satellite View are photographs. Most views I see are single photographs, a few views are multiple photos stitched together, like the airport examples. I ...
Jump to postGoogle Maps and other map tools are wonderful, educational, informative and valuable. Everyone understands that the satellite image is taken at a point in time, and we all expect to see what the satellite sees. To begin to modify the images for some reason dilutes the value of the app/site. I have w...
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