Re: Should airlines hand out hand wipes before inflight snacks and meals?

As we know, airline meal tray usually contains forks, spoons, knives, napkins, etc. But what if we added a small pack (1 or 2 Individually wrapped) of Purell or Germ-X hand wipes to that list. That way, every passenger would be made (Or at least given a chance) to sanitize their hands before diggin...

Re: UA to Potentially Gain 24 of 39 New DEN Gates

It is a very efficient system with enormous advantages for airport owners/operators in the United States. This is by no means an exhaustive list of the benefits for airports and airlines, but this hits the general high points: Big thank you for this extremely detailed post - learned quite a bit fro...

Re: Bag Explodes at Midway While being loaded onto a Volaris Flight

Except that it can and does happen and its "usually" not on purpose. If you have ever driven ramp equipment you will understand that they are not the most maneuverable or stable of vehicles, especially a tug towing a string of carts or dollies. In bag rooms bags do sometimes fall unexpect...

Re: AC to improve inclusivity and stop using "Ladies and Gentlemen"

I think it's a little odd, but getting upset over a company deciding to making such a small change is silly. Does it affect you that much that your experience is ruined if you don't hear "ladies and gentlemen"? If it makes some people feel more comfortable, then more power to them. This, ...

Re: Airport concessions being moved airside

If I were airport designers, I would design the restaurant where both airside and landside customers can access. Like putting the restaurant on the border and have two counters serving. There would have to be some security measures in place, especially in a joint kitchen, to ensure that things/peop...

Re: Definition of Airport Closing Time?

On the topic of airport closures, are passengers allowed to remain in a closed airport overnight? Many itineraries on OTAs involve overnight layovers without any regard for whether the airport is closed or not at night. While it wouldn't be an issue at airports like DXB or SIN, do any major airports...

Re: ANA’s Boeing 777 seat configuration

Say you're traveling with just you and your spouse. Instead of other widebodies which are often 3-3-3 or 3-4-3 in economy, forcing you to crawl over someone you don't know, on a seat layout of 2-4-3, you can choose a seat in the 2 section, meaning you don't need to crawl over anyone unknown. The sa...

Re: Georgian Airways flight attendant standing in aisle during landing

I have experienced something like this before on a Thai flight from BKK to HKG three years ago on a 777-200. But that experience was purely due to incompetency of the crew. Flying time was about 2:30. After departing from BKK, the flight deck did not turn off the seat belt light until the flight ha...

Re: Most space-efficient business class seat design yet.???

I think this company seems to be slightly confused about how many families (especially ones with kids) pay for J.

Re: Indian Aviation Thread - August 2019

Lufthansa to start a new daily route - Munich to India. some speculate it will be BLR but I hope it will be Hyderabad. If it is BLR then BLR is shaping to be India’s new crown jewel. Regardless of this speculation, on a personal anecdotal basis, I already regard BLR as the crown jewel of internatio...

Re: LH to announce two new US-routes from MUC

My gut instinct is telling me MUC-IAH, but that the second US and the Indian destinations are going to be switches from FRA to MUC. Similar to what we saw with KIX. Even though LH has been more focused on MUC traffic as of late, their India routes are still bolstered by US connectivity, which is ha...

Re: SWISS Announces Zurich To Washington D.C. and Osaka

ktachiya wrote:

Wait, if the A333 is coming to KIX, are they blocking seats or will it be on the A343? I thought the B77W was going to free up the A343 which would be allocated to KIX but am I missing something here?

Re: Airlines Flying Out of the "Wrong" Terminal

At JFK, JAL flies out of Terminal 1 (a founding partner of the terminal now dominated by SkyTeam and Star Alliance). Additionally, LOT uses the BA-owned Terminal 7, and remains the only Star Alliance carrier there.

Re: Multi-Airport-Cities: Which have you landed/departed at more than one airport?

New York (home airport): JFK, LGA, EWR (3/3)
Bay Area: SFO, OAK (2/3, missing SJC)
Chicago: MDW (1/2, missing ORD)
Dallas: DFW (1/2, missing DAL)
London: LHR (1/6, missing LGW, LCY, STN, LTN, and SEN)
Paris: CDG (1/2, missing ORY)
Dubai: DXB (1/2, missing DWC)

Re: LATAM A350 GRU-JNB

The main purpose of LATAM putting the A350 on GRU-JNB is to not ONLY serve the African market but also serve the Asian market with connecting traffic on OneWorld onto CX to HKG (fastest route). They finally have a competitive product with CX's B77W. But if one is to connect between CX's HKG-JNB fli...

Re: looking for old registrations of flights

Seeing as others are requesting, it would be awesome if I could get some assistance in finding some flights of my own. BA 116 JFK-LHR on June 28, 2007 (B744) EK 202 JFK-DXB on July 9, 2009 (B77W) EK 544 DXB-MAA on July 11, 2009 (B773 or B77W) 9W 015 SIN-MAA on September 18, 2009 (almost definitely a...

Re: Did Malaysia Airlines fly to Mexico, Argentina, Canada & USA in its heyday!?

Does anyone have the schedule to MH's flights to Zagreb? I am really interested and curious about this one! Me too. You'd be surprised who flew there. Even Qantas did at one point! It's off topic but you'd be surprised by some of the old routes. I think there was a lot of demand to the Adriatic are...

Re: Did Malaysia Airlines fly to Mexico, Argentina, Canada & USA in its heyday!?

MH-090 KUL 3.20pm 7.45pm TPE 9.15pm 6.15pm LAX 7.45pm 1.00am MEX MH-091 MEX 9.20pm 11.00pm LAX 1.45am 6.15am TPE 8.00am 12.20pm KUL (operated in October 1996 as stated by departedflights.com) Hope this helps! Almost a full day on the ground in MEX?! The westbound TPAC flights work well because of t...

Re: UA moving IAH-GRU to VCP?

Is there enough connecting traffic to launch IAH-VCP in addition to IAH-GRU?

Re: LAX vs SFO in the transpacific market

SFO is only strong in that area because of UA. If you remove UA from the picture, SFO is tiny when it comes to TPAC. There's no evidence to support that. While with few exceptions (most notable being Hong Kong and India) SFO doesn't have the O&D pull that LAX does, it's still a massive market t...

Re: Largest non-hub AA stations?

If I recall correctly, US had clearly defined PHL, CLT, and PHX as their hubs and DCA as a focus city; although BOS had a sizable US operation, it was still just a large station for them.

Re: VS announce BOM return

VS connect LOS/DEL to JFK on the VS25/26 rotations. I wouldn't be surprised to see the DEL timing's change in the future, however The ME3 still have India-US well covered As a regular JFK-BOM traveler who tries to fly VS as much as possible, the VS 25/26 connection to their former BOM and current D...

Re: BA retimes LHR-BOM Flight

I went back and looked but cannot find BA139 if you are traveling from June 14th to the 30th. Starts again on July 1st. Here you go : British Airways starting next week is increasing London Heathrow – Mumbai service, with the additional 4 weekly flights scheduled from 02JUN19. Overall service will ...

Re: Insults between controller and pilot after near miss

ClipperYankee wrote:

OK, I'll bite. Despite being bilingual I have no idea what "CDTMYLPQTRMP" means and I couldn't find anything in a search. Can someone reveal?

Re: Jet Airways: Shutdown