When airlines in E board via bus, is there a dedicated gate that they'll do it from? Also, what is E1A used for? (the gate with no jetbridge) Is this where the DL shuttle from A drops off? If so that's still a long walk to E13-E16 Used to be E8A which was a stairway/elevator next to E8. Then for a ...
Jump to postWell E10-12 are mainly BA, EK and LH due to lounges and aircraft. DL seem to be taking the new gates. (E13-16) B6 tend to get preferential treatment on E1-3 (C5-7) in the am I believe. Although have seen them on E4 too in the past 2. As FGITD notes above, certain gates can only take certain aircraf...
Jump to postI like how many are quick to point to 1974, but ignore the fact that the name British Airways, pre-dates this. The name was originally used in 1935. British Airways we know today is the result of various Acts of Parliament that merged, split and merged various British airline companies. Mergers of ...
Jump to postYes, most international airlines use E for both arrivals and departures, however, all international arrivals have to arrive in E as it is the only terminal with customs facilities (-cities like DUB, SNN, AUA with pre-clearance facilities). JetBlue typically uses E1/C7, E2/C6 for international arriv...
Jump to postDecided to make a spreadsheet of all BOS international flights for the Summer 2024 season. The sheet includes airlines, destinations, departure time(s), frequency by day of week and aircraft type https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MMIbLYf94J0DScJ2BNKjjXvYGXWZJ-izTQRLOkRtCn8/edit?usp=sharing Ni...
Jump to postWhy is Speedbird BA's callsign? From the BOAC Speedbird logo. I believe it was BOAC's callsign for that reason and it was what the merged entity of British Airways adopted. It was asking a rhetorical question. The Speedbird was Imperial Airways' logo and first flew in 1932. The Speedbird was Imperi...
Jump to postThere would be a decent benefit to connect Terminals 1 and 4 inside security as domestic arrivals on Delta could depart on AF or KE without re-clearing security. That's really the only benefit I see. I don't know why AF hasn't moved to T4 yet. Considering their own airline KLM, and their best frien...
Jump to postIf we're talking about the longevity of airlines over time using the same name all the way, then the likes of KLM, Avianca, Qantas etc certainly have it over the likes of 50 years old 'British Airways'. KLM’s claim to be 100 years old demands closer scrutiny. In 1940 the Nazis occupied the Netherla...
Jump to postSJC calling themselves a San Francisco airport on the other hand... Hey if the 49ers can call themselves a San Francisco team, SJC can certainly call itself an SF airport. Although I think OAK and SFO are in a different realm. OAK would (and does) work well as a secondary airport for the region but...
Jump to postThe north cargo apron is only wide enough for one taxiway. Suppose you build an E satellite over there, you’ve now got e9-16 and all the “new” E gates stuck at the mercy of a single entrance/exit. Throw in a broken towbar, pushback, delayed startup or anything, and suddenly 3/4 of terminal E is gro...
Jump to postI think there's a real problem of "where do you put it?" The terminals are about 1,500 feet apart and there's stuff -- a big parking garage and a hotel -- in the way. It's also only useful in one direction since E-->A connections can take the existing non-sterile bridge or the 11 bus. For...
Jump to postIt's not true that the combis have no demand. Apparently, in a very limited, but highly lucrative, trade of flying horses, 747-combis are a perfect solution. With combis gone, they'll have to look for (very suboptimal) alternatives. I worked pretty closely with many of the horse shipping operations...
Jump to postI fear you are wrong. The line is gone and its supply chain as well. But it’s only been less than a year!!??? Boeing's focus is more on shareholder value than keeping a line that was producing 0.5 frames per month. No one at the top was interested in keeping a 50 year game changing legacy to contin...
Jump to postShe looks great, but they really need to put her inside else they’re just going to go through this process again and again. Strange that they are willing to spend the money to get it refurbished yet not spend more to protect it. Even a cheap tube-and-plastic hangar would keep most of the moisture o...
Jump to postShe looks great, but they really need to put her inside else they’re just going to go through this process again and again.
Jump to postTaking off from BOS on Sunday I noticed that it looks like they are adding a second jet bridge on some of the new E gates. I know this was the original plan for all the new gates but I thought it got shelved. Definitely saw them on E14 and E15 at least. Does anyone know if they are going to be adde...
Jump to postClearly MH370 is not very interesting anymore, less than 400 people has read this thread, only you and I posted....while a simple slip into the grass of a Boeing 737 has thousands of readings and 45 posts in the same time frame. This is a good thermometer of what is in the mind of the average reade...
Jump to postNK’s expansion is an interesting situation, given that I believe they only have 2-3 gates in the B-C connector. And I can’t imagine there’s much space available, given that they’re boxed in by AS/WN, and B6 on the other side. I've seen them use all 4 gates: B37-40. Here are 3 out of 4, yesterday. B...
Jump to postNK’s expansion is an interesting situation, given that I believe they only have 2-3 gates in the B-C connector. And I can’t imagine there’s much space available, given that they’re boxed in by AS/WN, and B6 on the other side. And as March hits, terminal E is already heating up. It always works out i...
Jump to postSeems to have gotten mixed up in the HNL talk, but I’m very curious about this. Mainly where they say “expand” the ATCT. I haven’t been up there in years, but I’m interested in seeing where they could expand. I am curious on this as well. The architecture of the Tower to me would seem to make renov...
Jump to post. Also the cost of dragging this stuff around on days when you’re not going to need it. And there’s the reason I lack faith in it. It’s another system, one that has to be monitored, maintained and checked, and you don’t use it for months at a time. Or if it’s a removable system, you now have to sch...
Jump to postThe problem they have is the same as 99% of businesses at airports, pre-security. No one goes to the airport unless they’re picking someone on up, or leaving. And when they do either, they’re looking to spend as little time as possible there
Jump to postBOS awarded $12 million for phase one of a two-phase project to expand and renovate the existing ATCT, including construction of new space to accommodate existing and new FAA equipment, technical operations, a flight simulator, and a contract weather observer. https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/file...
Jump to postTo build upon that, for container loaded aircraft it gets more specific by bag type. Next time you fly take a look at the bag tag. You’ll see name, destination, sequence number, and then usually something like BF, BT, BL or something similar. It’s a designation of what type of bag it is, local, pre...
Jump to postAre bags loaded in any sequence, say by tag number, or class of service? In other words, is there a process where bags can be retrieved easily for events like this? This is a great question i was thinking the same. great minds thinking alike. ;-) To build upon that, for container loaded aircraft it...
Jump to postThe airport ....being Terminal E....would be far from quite empty at that time. Hawaiian, Porter, LATAM, IcelandaIr, Korean Air, Lynx, Bermudair, Sun Country, Frontier, JetBlue Allegiant, etc. etc. Best come in now while there's still space available. I’ve said it for years, the terminal E morning ...
Jump to postWell, I’ve twice had bags on planes I was not on, misconnects. So, how do they return bags to passengers that flew without the bags? It gets a "RUSH" tag and sent on the next flight to wherever the customer is or wants it. I know that because reached, BUT it traveled on a plane without me...
Jump to postSince it's an international flight they will have to take the bag off Since the pax is no longer on board. This is usually only the case because it's international but different countries have different rules for domestic How does the ground crew know which bin the bag is located in, or what the ba...
Jump to postAirlines don't do one-off test flights for a potential new route, it was a special charter for a medical convention (big difference) Perhaps, but this airliners thread would tend to indicate it was also a test run.... https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1481025 as might this article: ht...
Jump to postSo how would they drydock her? They'd have to somehow bulldoze part of the surrounding...I dunno what the word is for the ring of rock around her, then tow her out to a drydock I guess. Sounds expensive. But would be amazing to watch. Would most likely be cheaper to just build some sort of a dry do...
Jump to postVR, well their whole operation is a mystery to me and I have no idea when they stopped or if they're even still here. I think their ticket office in Quincy closed. For the nitpickers, LV was planning BOS-ORY too. Rest assured, I’ve worked in terminal E for years, and TACV’s operation has always bee...
Jump to postTransatlantic operations may not be helping either. Of course load factors do not mean yields but they are really low for instance to AMS or CDG, especially from Boston Amazing that the CDG loads from Boston are low being that they haven't started CDG from BOS Shows just how badly they’re doing, ca...
Jump to postDaylight flights also tend to have the highest fares (at least on BA), so on top of requiring people to wake up early, potentially miss a day, it costs more hence why there are so few. It's not for everyone but if you can make it it's way better than a 5pm red-eye. The other daytime flights that ev...
Jump to postEven at CDG, a 6am arrival means you’re lucky to be in Paris by 730-8am at the earliest.
Jump to postDaylight flights don’t do well. BA has barely any, and they’re usually the lightest loads of the TATL routes. They’re worthless for cargo, connections, and tourism. They also tie up an airplane for entirely too long. Look at BA’s morning flight from Boston. Leaves LHR at 1905 on day 1, arrives back ...
Jump to postLooks like AF is adding a 3rd flight in the summer I'm seeing AF 335 BOS-CDG and AF 336 CDG-BOS operated by a 772 (departing between AF 333 and AF 321 and likewise for the return). Any word if AF will give up / remodel their lounge now that DL's new lounge is open? Exciting update. That makes BOS-C...
Jump to postI don’t see why they would. DL only exclusively flys to hubs (that already have usually multiple daily CDG) from PHX, almost all of which are better located to CDG. There will be little connecting traffic at PHX. This flight is for PHX O&D with connections across CDG hub to fill plane. No reaso...
Jump to postAnyone know what happened with HA89 yesterday (Jan 18th)? Looks like it attempted to depart at 8:50am back to HNL but went back to the gate and was still there at 2pm when I departed. According to Flightaware it’s now rescheduled for departure this morning at 7am (ouch!). Rough way to start a vacat...
Jump to postHertz thing is a load of nonsense. Big rental companies turnover cars like crazy. One of my previous cars was an ex-hertz vehicle. 1 year old with 6,000 miles on it. When was the last time you rented a car that was 15 years old with 120,000 miles on it? As for why they aren’t getting more…rental com...
Jump to postHaving a deice pad is nice because you can operate it like a carwash. Plane pulls in, trucks swarm and deice. Trucks back off, plane leaves, rinse and repeat all day. Problem is all the aircraft taxi over and wait in line at the mercy of ATC and then are handed over to the iceman. Doing it at the ga...
Jump to postI got an alert i was now on AF4083 leaving at 1920 (AF137 was due to leave at 1720) AF137 departs at 17h30 lcl, which is 2330UTC. A mere 30 minute delay pushes it to the next day (in terms of UTC time). So you have to look at it in that context. You can't have two AF flights with a scheduled depart...
Jump to postIt’s nothing nefarious. Flight is leaving after the system changes dates and the AF system can only handle one AFxxx per day. Look up any international AF flight that’s been delayed hours into the night and you’ll usually see it’s now AF40xx
Jump to postIn terms of FIS, towing elsewhere other than back to the carrier's respective terminal sounds complex - I'm kind of wondering, why not just park at B (or C, or what have you) and just bus to E? Or is that the "Massport being Massport" kind of thing mentioned earlier? I'm pretty sure DL ch...
Jump to postUA was the first to go, about 10 years ago when both sides were connected. Southwest moved from E over to the A satellite in early 2015 I believe, then a few years later, maybe 2018 or so they moved in to AA’s pier at B. AA moved from their pier over to the US Airways side when WN moved in, but rest...
Jump to postHow would you know if you were in the right spot or not if you didn't have a marshaller or some sort of guidance system. It's not like you can stick your head out the window and see where the nose gear is relative to the line. I would think the aircraft would have a camera in the nose gear bay poin...
Jump to postWhat I think the poster may be asking is what the cadence for gate useage. For example, Swiss comes in and usually schedules 1hr 45 min to 2 hr turns - so it would make sense to come in at say Gate 1 and stay there for the entire turn and get out. Whereas, say the ITA flight from Rome comes in at 1...
Jump to postLast night was nothing short of interesting in terminal E. My wife and I were on 2 different flights that arrived hours late due to problems at their respective departure airport. There was no gate available and there were lots of planes waiting for gate at terminal E. LH, TK, CX, FI, were all wait...
Jump to postI'm curious about your thoughts on SkyTeam in BOS. Do you think that AF or KL increases frequency on BOS-CDG/AMS to free a plane for BOS-BCN/MXP/MAN/VCE? I think there will be a frequency increase. Having seen some of the numbers for many of the international carriers from the summer, they were ful...
Jump to postMaybe a fun little game of predictions for the new year? Personally I think there’s some as of yet unannounced international flights coming, but I lean more towards existing carriers adding over new entrants. I think Skyteam is brewing something, between AF/KL, whether that be taking routes from DL ...
Jump to post13ifs40 wrote:hello all and happy holidays
anyone out there know why we have had a KLM 777-200 in Boston for over a week
thanks
13ifs40