Re: Icelandair, where's our fish?

I know that many of FI's 767 routes, were upgauged because they wanted to carry more cargo, and FI carries tons of fish in its aircrafts belly. Sad to hear it affects the one of Iceland's main economic sectors and people's jobs.

Re: Delta brings back free Y class meals on NYC transcon

Thats great news! I wonder if other long flights like SFO-BOS,JFK-SEA,BOS-LAX,JFK-SAN and other will also get complimentary meal services.

F9 on ATL-SLC

I was wondering why does F9 fly between ATL-SLC. They are an ULCC and focus on O&D traffic, but is there really enough O&D traffic between Atlanta and Salt Lake City? Plus its an interhub route for DL which clearly dominates the market, so what is F9 strategy over there? Do they fly there ju...

Re: Are WOW and Norwegian Restricted from Expanding in Canada?

Which is basically nothing, specially since those tourists are sparsed in a country the size of Europe, from Vancouver to Québec to Yukon to Toronto (so obviously they cannot be served by one single airport). Compare it to NYC http://www.nycandcompany.org/research/nyc-statistics-page Yes they canno...

Re: Memphis Air Service Discussion

How much MEM demand is there for DL's JFK destinations not already served from ATL? There's already MEM-LGA served by both AA and DL, plus MEM-EWR on UA. There are some, plus flying through ATL involves backtracking. Cite a source for PDEW MEM to those specific destinations, and show how flying thr...

Re: Memphis Air Service Discussion

MIflyer12 wrote:

usflyer123 wrote:

I wonder if DL will announce MEM-JFK, seems like a big hole.

How much MEM demand is there for DL's JFK destinations not already served from ATL? There's already MEM-LGA served by both AA and DL, plus MEM-EWR on UA.

Re: Memphis Air Service Discussion

I wonder if DL will announce MEM-JFK, seems like a big hole.

Re: AMS vs CDG for Skyteam and DL

You are all praising AMS, but I actually preffer connecting at CDG over AMS.It has Pretty short immigration lines(unlike AMS). Also its very convenient to get from 2G to T2 and at AMS you need to walk forever. Also I had more pleasant flying experiences with AF than KL. Of course if I wasnt using DT...

Re: Ryanair opens 15 new routes from Israel

Those routes are very strange. Why so many flights to Poland? I know most of the tourism to Poland is in Warsaw and southern Poland, so why Gdansk and Poznan? I guess there's lots of Jewish people living there. Besides, southern Poland is (unfortunately) very important in the history of the Jewish ...

Re: Ultimate Airlines Logo Quiz

98, damn I was close!

Re: Air Canada adds YYZ/YUL-KEF

Thats great news! Do both routes will be daily? Because YUL-KEF daily seems like alot of service with WOW and FI. Now I hope UA will launch a summer seasonal EWR-KEF.

Re: Ryanair opens 15 new routes from Israel

Those routes are very strange. Why so many flights to Poland? I know most of the tourism to Poland is in Warsaw and southern Poland, so why Gdansk and Poznan?

Re: WestJet Adds YYC-BNA

Pretty strange route, but I guess leisure can make it happen. Now lets hope BNA will earn its long discussed BNA-LHR!

Re: LO to lease 3x 787-9 for longhaul expansion

With the opening of KRK-ORD, I wonder if LOT will open a small hub there. Ive been to Krakow two monthes ago, and this lovely city is way underserved.

Re: Syrian Air to acquire A340-300

I guess there isnt much pax traffic between those two suggested routes, but those flights will be of diplomatic reasons and may carry alot of cargo between those routes(probably weapons and ammunition).

Re: New service announcements: CLE, CVG and BNA

I find BNA-YYC to be an extremely odd route. YYC has no flights to BOS, WAS or ATL but has a flight to BNA? Odd... Well...it's only 2x a week, but yes it is an odd route. But WR does fly BNA-YYZ. So it makes a little more sense. Well its still weird, especially that they compete with AC on BNA-YYZ....

Re: Air Canada's new network partner - Silver Airways!

Wow did not see that coming! too bad though its just an interline and not a codeshare agreement.

Re: JFK/LGA/EWR/HPN/ISP/SWF Aviation

China airlines will increase TPE-JFK from 5x weekly to daily for Winter 2017/2018: http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/271080/china-airlines-w17-new-york-service-changes-as-of-27jan17/ Actually, it appears to be staying at 5 weekly...how they can't do daily while EVA does double daily ...

Re: WOW Air to start Iceland - Israel flights

Interesting to know. I have no intentions to return, but I always assumed all flights to Israel had the same security procedures..i thought it was a pre-condition for any airline to be allowed to fly into Israel. There is more than meets the eye. For instance Turkish flights to TLV have several sec...

Re: WOW Air to start Iceland - Israel flights

I flew BUD-TLV with Up, it was a very different story :/ Thats because LY is different, They have Israeli security at every airport questioning you at chek-in which is a big headache. When I flew PS and DL to Israel, it was an ordinary flight. Interesting to know. I have no intentions to return, bu...

Re: WOW Air to start Iceland - Israel flights

Will they have to base Israeli security in Iceland? I flew FR BUD-VDA a few weeks ago, and there was nothing out of the ordinary! I flew BUD-TLV with Up, it was a very different story :/ Thats because LY is different, They have Israeli security at every airport questioning you at chek-in which is a...

Re: Cathay Pacific - A Dimming / Fallen Star

I think their biggest problem is Inter-Asian flights. Alot of competition from LCCs and alot of low yielding markets. I think their Long Haul routes have better yields and less competition and it seems they are dominating the NA-HKG flights.

Re: WOW Air to start Iceland - Israel flights

They requested slots so its not clear if they will fly this summer or not. But does the TLV-KEF flight is going to arrive in time for the WOW flight banks to NA and the opposite? Anyway, hope this comes to frutation and WOW and FI continue growing!

Re: Spirit Airlines To Begin Flights From Bradley International Airport (BDL) April 27

1. I think it can, Frontier might also add MCO but not in the near time since the market is pretty served. Not sure about Allegiant though, Maybe they can add something out of the box like MSY or AUS but I dont think they would fight head to head with other LCCs on those routes. 2. Maybe they would ...

Re: AC and others in talks to enter Iran

I wonder who the hell would fly Mahan between BKK-SYD solely :lol: Maybe the person that is asking :). It would be a great oppertunity as I wouldn't have to fly Iran to fly them(as U.S citizens are barred from entering Iran unfortounately). Are you kidding? I've been to Iran ten times and always ha...

Re: DOH - Hamad Airport 2016 growth over 20%.

Im glad to see this, it also looks like QR has grown alot in 2016. QR is a great airline with great service, and connecting and DOH is much simpler than in giant DXB!

Re: KEF-HKG: Unserved route of the week

Those numbers are truly ridiculous. BTW, I have been to Iceland last year and I did not see a large number of asian tourists, I did saw many Americans, Germans, British and Canadian travelers.

Re: AC and others in talks to enter Iran

lesfalls wrote:

cedarjet wrote:

I don't know about an Aussie airline to IKA but Mahan (W5) want to tag SYD onto their existing IKA-BKK flights. Would be great!

Would that mean 5th freedom on the BKK-SYD sector?

Re: Via Air...who are they...CLT hub

What is their business plan? I mean CLT dosent generate much O&D traffic, especially when its flights to WV and they dont interline with AA or have a big hub at CLT so what is their business plan, serving WV and FL routes with one stop at CLT?

Re: SQ plans to retain SIN-FRA-JFK after resuming SIN-JFK/EWR

what is the rationale for SQ doing JFK FRA instead of EWR where they could get Star feed? JFK is a huge O&D market and a significant percentage of the premium market prefers JFK to EWR. I doubt SQ has much interest in carrying lower-yield connecting traffic via EWR. And until fairly recently SQ...

Re: Emirates Announces Newark via Athens from 12MAR17

Its about time an airline serve that market year round and EK is perfect for the market, whice is pretty low yielding.

Re: Why no US Airline to Helsinki?

Helsinki seems to be perfectly located for Europe-Asia bound traffic but it also seems to be located under USA-ME3 bound traffic. Wonder why HEL and AY/One World has not tried to benefit this location for USA-INDIA/ASIA via HEL. I think that LAX-DBX-DEL would meet nice competition with LAX-HEL-DEL....

Re: Ontario Airport as a major secondary airport to LAX

It's not. Go back to reply #3 for the bottom line - ONT is simply not a viable alternative for LAX because most of the people, and in particular the people with money, in Southern California live closer to LAX than ONT. Go back and look through the last two decades of history at LAWA, and essential...

Re: Air Berlin acquires 3 more A330s; grows US; routes; ends AA codeshares

So no onward connections available at JFK? That seems strange, they should really sign a codeshare agreement with B6 or DL(long shot).

Re: Why does KLM fly to Oslo Sandefjord/Torp?

As said above its about serving connecting traffic and maybe a little bit of O&D traffic to Amsterdam. KLM also flies to OSL so the TRF flight might be more comfortable for people in parts of southern Norway than the OSL flight. Plus they have a monopoly on that route.

Re: LH's FRA-TPA "one of LH's most profitable routes in N.A"

Sounds pretty weird, I thought routes UA and LH fly alone, like FRA-IAH,FRA-IAD or FRA-DEN.

Re: BeNeLux Aviation # 7

georgiabill wrote:

Has SN discussed any plans to add any additional North American routes in the future? I could see BRU-BOS-BRU working 3 or 4 times weekly if flights were timed for African connections.

Re: Air Berlin Plans Hong Kong Flights

Im sure there is a market for TXL-HKG but I really cant see AB doing successful on the route...

Re: JFK/ORD - HKG on AA?

So i guess you have turned this topic from JFK/ORD-HKG on AA to 3-4-3 or 3-3-3 on AA or CX... Anyway, I think ORD and NYC to HKG are pretty much well served and I dont think AA would enter those markets. If there will be a JV between AA and CX maybe AA will swap some flights to AA metal but that cou...

Re: Finnair launching Goa, Havana, Puerto Vallarta & Puerto Plata

Just to clarify GOA is actually Genoa Airport, you should change it to GOI.
Those are some interesting additions, but its surprising that even though Finland is a state of barely 5 million people, AY is so big!

Re: Best and worst transfer airport by continent

OK first I will begin with North America- Best: SLC, Worst: LAX. Europe- Best:ZRH, Worst: FRA. Asia- Best: DOH/SIN, Worst: BOM. Africa- Best: both ADD and GRU were good. South America- Best: BOG, Worst: GRU. Oceania: Best: AKL, Worst: PER. So, what about you guys? One of the good ones in Africa you...

Re: AA Worst Airline in US per WSJ

I guess those people did not fly Spirit...

Best and worst transfer airport by continent

OK first I will begin with North America- Best: SLC, Worst: LAX.
Europe- Best:ZRH, Worst: FRA.
Asia- Best: DOH/SIN, Worst: BOM.
Africa- Best: both ADD and GRU were good.
South America- Best: BOG, Worst: GRU.
Oceania: Best: AKL, Worst: PER.

So, what about you guys?

Re: Air India to Start Delhi to Washington DC non stop from July 2017

Can't imagine 3 weekly flights will do much against 21 weekly flights on EK/EY/QR. Air India commenced San Francisco with 3 weekly, and then upped it to 6 weekly when they were comfortable enough. I think it's a good idea. correct. also EY lowered frequency to 3 weekly from daily, I guess AI did af...

Re: Air India to Start Delhi to Washington DC non stop from July 2017

Is it going to be a 777-300ER(if it has the range?) or 200LR? Also I wonder how it will affect the ME3 and maybe SV?

Re: Your Preferred Segment Length(s)?

My favourite segment length is about 1 hour, like LAX-SFO, MIA-TPA or LGA-BOS. For me the worst is 5 hours, because mostly you dont have enough time to sleep, usually there is no entertainment and time passes slowly. If its a longhaul flight, I rather fly non-stop than splitting the flight.

Re: Shortest International Airline Flight

TLV-AMM and SEA-YYJ are both very short, but I think both of them mainly serve connecting pax and not O&D.

Re: DL SEA Domestic Expansion (again)

I can see RDM, ALW,FAT,MFR and MCI happening.

Re: Pictures of new ETM (Ramon Airport, Israel) Construction - Opening Aug 2017

I think this airport is mostly going to serve domestic operations to TLV and Haifa, and IIRC thats a huge market. The international market from Eilat dosent seem so big, I guess Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada takes most of the beach tourists in the area.

Re: How's AKL-IAH (ANZ28/29) doing?

IAH is the best connecting option in the US from NZ, this flight really reminds me of SYD-DFW