I have some theory about why Latin is down 12%, but I need to see how AA is doing before I make suggestions. On top of my hat there are the declines in Chile, the potential Brazilian visa changes that was delayed (thank goodness), the strong dollars and the Argentina economical reforms could all con...
Jump to postCan Iberia launch flights to DEL instead? That seems more realistic with the coming A321XLR fleet. DEL-US is a huge market and IB has been adding capacity there in recent years. Maybe they want a bit of that market too, which anyway IAG caters mainly via LHR. I really don't see A321XLR would work o...
Jump to postAlso, looping back around to tpla350's post, I am really curious to know what will happen to the A380s which are now also listed as sold out. An RR powered A380 has even less of a second-hand market than an A340. No passenger airline wants them, you can't make freighters out of them, and they have ...
Jump to postIt may force opening dialogue between Russia and Europe/US, and maybe airlines can fly over Russian space again with certain limitations. A chance for peace between Russia and Ukraine but I can only see it happening with Ukraine in a not so ideal solution. ME3 will definitely be the most nervous ele...
Jump to postI won't say never. In my recent trip to Thailand, I heard a lot more Spanish speaking tourists compared to pre pandemic. When I was flying Bangkok Airways (price premium over let us say Air Asia), I saw a group of 20 Spanish speaking tourists seemed like a big family group. They were transferring to...
Jump to postStarted with BA at least a decade ago (at least 13-15 years if my memory serves me right), I remember frequently taking advantage of the online upgrade offer or airport upgrade offer. The offer sometimes are so reasonable I just take it without second thought. I think airline using plusgate or other...
Jump to postYou can try to steer the conversation back to AA network. Like AA forcing every international route to go through LHR. Or AA growing PHX, DFW, CLT. Plenty of topics to make this discussion better without comparing AA to the other two airlines. That flight has departed several years ago. Every singl...
Jump to postThat's insane. Never would have thought there was that much Premium demand. Tapping into premium leisure demand, but it is also about capacity, broadly. FCO is a goldmine right now, in peak season. The NY Area to FCO market is huge, with 3 x daily on AZ, 3 x daily on DL, 2 x daily on UA (EWR), + No...
Jump to postFantastic to see KUL return. As the main hub for OW in South East Asia, it makes perfect sense for BA to fly there daily. I wonder whether we could see BA fly to CAN in future, if CZ ends up joining OW. The Pearl River Delta region is surely worth more attention and there is a lot of business traff...
Jump to postDoes BA need to fly there though, when OW partner MH already has LHR-KUL covered with twice daily flights? MH used to fly A380 on LHR-KUL and had 2 daily. With A380 gone, now on A350, there are plenty of opportunity for extra flight. Also worth noting besides the historical ties, Malaysia is the ma...
Jump to postFirst time poster long time lurker - is there any logic why they didn’t fly them out of the tropics and store them properly? Even for resale value alone? Missed opportunity and bad timing. When pandemic forced A380 operators to ground the plane, major carriers all acted swiftly and took available s...
Jump to postICN is interesting. Is this a remedy slot/route for the Asiana+Korean merger deal that Korean has to provide support? I guess that is B788 routes written all over it together with PVG. Would that be a stopover route SEA-ICN-PVG to replace the previous DFW-ICN-PVG?
Jump to postWill the 787 be moreso replacing existing 777 routes or be there for new routes? I can't see AA putting in the time and effort for a 787 base just for a couple routes. My guess is more to do with replacing B772. I think AA may move B772 to other hubs like CLT, MIA and DFW as the high-J B789 arrives...
Jump to postSomeone can come in with a more verifiable number but I believe the A320neo family has something like 95% parts commonality between variants. And The A220 is hardly better selling than the entire A320neo family. So The A220 is definitely not the most logical. Mostly because parts are definitely not...
Jump to postThis has been talked in China since 2015, then again 2016, 2017,2018, 2019... But a rumour is a rumour. It didn't happen then, why would it happen now? I am so tired of hearing this rumour year after year in Chinese forums, now this vile rumour crept into English language forums. It is like the Ping...
Jump to postTheir whole strategy is very unclear to me, they are not cheap by any means, and their connection time is horrible for many routes. With nearby neighbour Etihad recent drive towards budget conscious consumers while also drive premium segment, Qatar and Emirates already cornered the market, Oman Air ...
Jump to postWhy do people still have this love affair with the A220 and American? New type, new ratings, new parts, new equipment, new simulators. I see a virtually zero chance of that happening. That is because Airbus is pushing A220 in favour of A319NEO. With only 44 unfilled order and a total of 60something...
Jump to postB78X may add 30Y seats over B789, but it also requires extra crew member. Considering how many people sits in AA's B788 and 30J B789, I think B789 is enough capacity to replace B777-200ER, the contention is the 20 odd B77W, with planning of turning them into 70J, B78X is too small to replace the B77...
Jump to post1, Invest in infrastructure 2, Be customer friendly, this including cheaper car park fees and no drop off charges 3, Transportation link with plenty public transportation options 4, Forget long haul, concentrate on profitable routes, and lure two major network carriers to have multiple daily flights...
Jump to postscbriml wrote:aviator2000 wrote:What about Level? They seem to be doing just fine..
With a huge fleet of, checks records... six planes.
Good luck with that. "Low cost" and "network carrier" are two terms that don't fit together very well. Long haul low cost is the problem more than anything. Southwest is a perfect example of a successful low cost network carrier. Many LCC sell connecting tickets which makes them...
Jump to postHow many times Air Asia and other carriers have tried similar ideas? So is this Air Asia X 3.0?
Jump to postThis may be a far fetch, and the quality of the image is not high enough to count properly, but if this is indeed from an actual rendering plan of the cabin; then it looks like there is roughly 16 rows (give or take 1) of main cabin (if you count the chair handles :-P). So that would be 16 * 6 =~ 9...
Jump to postDelta: low CASM with used aircraft, good maintenance to extend shelf life or aircraft hence lower CASM, but kept even coach product premium by offering seat back monitor and free WiFi. Hence Delta can charge heavier fares in many markets. AA: high CASM with new aircraft order, although CASM is decre...
Jump to postLAXintl wrote:Russia overflight.
There are always passport and boarding pass checks and they are required to board T5 US bound flight. It is impossible to get on the flight without being seen by an agent. There are normally 5 to 8 agents including security officers in BA's US bound flights that will check your passport and boarding...
Jump to postKnowing AA that its fleet planning involving with moving aircraft around different hubs constantly, I highly doubt B78X could make to AA's fleet in short term. The reason is that B772 is highly concentrated on LHR/MAD/CDG in European side while it is JFK/CLT/MIA/DFW heavy in US side (yes there are m...
Jump to postHowever by the looks of it, the 787 will become the backbone of the carrier. Saw somewhere else that it was only 789s though, which if true I find surprising, I thought the 78X would have been a great addition for Japan, China, Australia and busy domestic/regional. I think the problem is that TG is...
Jump to postI feel the Captain had no choice but to return to BKK from above Myanmar. The report might be sensationalism, yet the description of cough up 'litres of' blood suggests body fluid might be visible to passengers next to him or near him, which is very disturbing if the crew was not able to clean the s...
Jump to postA crazy idea but may not be popular in bean counter world: AA can still make DFW-HKG work in today's environment, with a tag on sector between HKG-BKK or HKG-SIN. Sure, crew cost would be more, considering it could be a 6-7 day trip, but Tokyo routes crew cost would be crazy too. However, the passen...
Jump to postI feel like the problem with MCO isn't just that it's a saturated leisure market.. Leisure, is what Airlines made money from in 2022 and 2023, also looks to extend to 2024. There is a health growth in leisure premium market in last 2 years. MCO may be dominated by LCCs, it doesn't mean there is no ...
Jump to postThe 744 and 763 rotations are interesting. CTS hardly likely needs a 744 capacity. And GMP-CJU is the busiest route in the world, I believe. I think that is a pure freqency/seats game. Hello, this is wintertime! Ski holidays to CTS is huge!!! Not only from South Korea, but also Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Jump to postThings to break on planes. And that not working isn’t a no go item. It’s an inconvenience. Normally I would think like this too. But it is not the first time I was in row 12 that the charging not working for that row (3 times in last 6 months with connection via CLT)! For some reason row 12 on A321...
Jump to postI have been on A321 where the entire row of 12 are not able to charge their own device whereas every other row can. Would be awful to stuck on that row for a long flight while none of the seats in that row can provide charging while your device is low on battery. Why not? There is a universal power...
Jump to postI have been on A321 where the entire row of 12 are not able to charge their own device whereas every other row can. Would be awful to stuck on that row for a long flight while none of the seats in that row can provide charging while your device is low on battery.
Jump to postI am sure the last picture is hinting New York - Oslo/Norway with text and items/colors. I don't know. The blue, red and chequered design could be Croatia too (return to Dubrovnik from New York?). Plus blue, red and white can be French flag. So maybe Nice (NCE)? The other clues are New York indeed.
Jump to postWilling to bet AA brings screens back before the end of the decade. Not with the current management. They have clearly shown they're not into reinforcing the brand. Management won't even bring back BOB (other than junk snacks of flights over 1,500 miles). I can just imagine a bunch or them sit toge...
Jump to postORD-Hawaii DFW-Australia JFK-Haneda I reckon DFW-SYD ORD-HNL JFK-HND Just perhaps DWF-AKL also goes year-round... given DL has now confirmed year-round LAX-AKL, but not holding my breath. As a member of Oneworld, why AA can't think beyond seasonal service for North American customers is a mystery t...
Jump to postCrazy to think that DFW will have service to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Auckland. I remember when SYD seemed like a risky new route. If AA wants to be sucessful in the Sth Pacific they need to get more year round service. AKL needs to go year round to/from DFW at least. They will simply not ge...
Jump to postI think some fellow posters have over analysed things. I highly doubt AA would fly IAD-LHR. I think the B789, DFW and LHR simply means that the first B789 high-J route would be DFW-LHR. About 6534452, I am puzzled by this. However, if you search online, 6534452 as a product code for bestbuy online, ...
Jump to postFrequent flyer programs are no longer frequent flyer programs. At least for the likes of AA and DL and even southwest, they are now truly reward program. Look at AA, if you don't have the AA credit card it is extremely difficult to achieve higher levels without big spending. I think there are still ...
Jump to postWhen and where will the new 51 Business Class 787-9 be used, I would love to know. It is certainly very interesting to watch, since they will have so few of them initially in 2024, I would like to think it will appear on MIA/ORD to LHR routes. Both stations are B787 base, ORD LHR routes are doing w...
Jump to postFrom the 4th quarter earnings call, CFO May said: "Turning now to our fleet. We have modest aircraft CapEx requirements this decade due to the fleet investments we made over the past decade. In 2023, we took delivery of 23 new mainline aircraft. This year, we expect to take delivery of 28 new ...
Jump to postIt is not sterile, then there is no point to do it, and it is not preclearance. It is more like one time only Global Entry which you have to do every time you board an aircraft. No it is not like ESTA.
Using automatic passport gate would be easier and simpler than this trial process.
A lot of posters touched a lot of good points. I will add few that is obviously missing 1, B737. What Ryanair does good in some remote airports or smaller airports is the B738 that has its own stairs from the boarding door. Which eliminate a lot of man power hours from jet bridge or mannual stairs. ...
Jump to postplanemanofnz wrote:OA260 wrote:Lots of connections including BGO , DUS , FCO, LHR , WAW.
Someone was flying DUB-CPH-LHR?!
I often found Norse air fares are more expensive than legacies. There is no reason to choose Norse on many occasions. For instance, you can fly between London and JFK for £296 return on TAP (horrendous flight time with two overnights transit in Porto and Lisbon, but that is beyond the point), wherea...
Jump to postDoubt it, the addition of another fleet type would be extremely expensive. A319NEO or a 737MAX would be a better fit. Common parts/crews. I have followed aviation and this forum for almost 2 decades now. What I found airlines are in a great habit of following: 1, When the airline executives want to...
Jump to postI get what you're saying but relying on junk yields can't be a recipe for success. I'm sure AA is glad to have cut MCO-GRU when they did (And more recently LAX-GRU) and never to have flown BOS-GRU which was considered at one point Like @lowfareair said, it is not always about passenger yield. Aircr...
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