Still, you own 9.9% of the company but you get 2/13 = 15.4% of the vote.... So, I'm guessing he plans to buy up enough shares to have 15% share (why else would the board have made the extra room on the board?). But to me, the board has already rewarded him with a disproportionate amount of control ...
Jump to postWas there even credible demand to fly such a route in 1990 ?
In 2024, the only airports in Germany to have flights to South Africa are Frankfurt and Munich. Go back 34 years when long haul air travel was far less affordable... and I'm struggling to see demand for such a route existing
Planeboy17 wrote:DOJ just crushed B6/NK acquisition, you really believe they’ll allow a big 4 to take anyone?
Can the manufacturer provide the long term maintenance support that Delta will need at the scale that Delta will need ?
Do Delta want to buy a niche type from a manufacturer they haven't used before ?
Perhaps Delta should pick something more mainstream... a larger manufacturer with greater scale ?
How enforceable is the 15 % cap ? Can he give money to one of his kids to buy more of Jetblue for example ? Any other ways to get round this constraint ? Icahn isn't exactly the kind of person to go quietly
Jump to postmercure1 wrote:Does anyone remember the Cariboo ticket deal and his cheaptickets.com w/ TWA? Brutal
Today happens to be Icahn's 88th birthday. For a birthday present, I hope he gets told no by shareholders when he tries to buy their stock. If shareholders want to sell their stock, they typically do it through a broker. The broker is under all kinds of legal requirements which force them to get th...
Jump to postThey do that because they're the largest carrier in the largest overall market - Europe. The EU+UK is well over 500 million people and Ryanair found a way to service basically all of them - regardless of model. It isn't because of their CASM. They're the largest carrier in Europe *because* their fa...
Jump to postThe airline whose stock is listed on a credible stock exchange and with the largest market capitalization in the world.... is Ryanair Air Canada - $4.9 bn (USD, not CAD) Alaska - $ 4.7 bn Allegiant - $1.5 bn American - $9.6 bn Delta - $26.0 bn JetBlue - $2.4 bn Southwest - $20.3 bn Spirit - $0.7 bn...
Jump to postThe airline whose stock is listed on a credible stock exchange and with the largest market capitalization in the world.... is Ryanair Air Canada - $4.9 bn (USD, not CAD) Alaska - $ 4.7 bn Allegiant - $1.5 bn American - $9.6 bn Delta - $26.0 bn JetBlue - $2.4 bn Southwest - $20.3 bn Spirit - $0.7 bn ...
Jump to postYour premise presupposes that there is only one overall "winner." But business is not a sports tournament. As long as a company is profitable, there is often no (or little) need to be "the best" or be dubbed "the winner" by whatever metric. In the U.S. market, yes, air...
Jump to posthttps://www.aviation24.be/airports/eindhoven/eindhoven-airport-facing-five-month-closure-runway-renovation-to-impact-travellers-and-locals/ eindhoven closed for 5 months while AMS movements reduced. Should be interesting to see how this is gonna pan out traffic wise...if they gonna divert all the L...
Jump to postWhat's changed recently at OSL to cause the collisions ? Winter happens every year... and the people working on site are (substantially) the same people who worked on site last winter
Jump to postThe ultimate question is, can LOT handle an airport as large as CPK is supposed to be?? Or another carrier will come in and take over?? Because as much as I love LOT I don’t think it will handle 30+ wide bodies, who knows how many mid and regional jets to make it work. LOT can’t even get an order g...
Jump to postLet WRO, KRK, GDN and all the other regional airports expand. If there is demand for flights from Krakow to Tallinn, then BT, W6 or FR should be encouraged to find a way to make it work. It's not in WAW's (or CPK's) long-term interest that they act substantially as a hub for people connecting betwee...
Jump to postHas there been any news as to when Celeste, based in Brest in Brittany will start flying commercial passengers ? They were granted an AOC in March 2023.... it's now February 2024 and their website shows no start date, let alone the capacity to book flights. Brittany is heavily dependent on the summe...
Jump to postSmall airline based in Tirana, Albania. Last year Ryanair and Wizzair decided to have a major fight over passenger traffic at Tirana leading to a price war. Many airlines saw the writing on the wall and dropped their Tirana routes. Albawings decided to move their base to Pristina... but they don't s...
Jump to postDOJ policy around JetBlue trading slots is likely to be very dependent on who wins the US presidential election in November. I would expect Biden and Trump administrations to have significantly different views. I do not say which is the right view - only that they will be different. Icahn may be be...
Jump to postDemand for seeing the northern lights is peaking in 2024-25 due to the 11 year solar cycle. Demand may look different in 2028 or 2029
Jump to postDOJ policy around JetBlue trading slots is likely to be very dependent on who wins the US presidential election in November. I would expect Biden and Trump administrations to have significantly different views. I do not say which is the right view - only that they will be different. Icahn may be bet...
Jump to postA gentle discussion of what Icahn did to TWA can be seen as dull, boring and academic by some people. Discussion of balance sheets, debt-loading, leveraged buy-outs and the like sends a lot of people to sleep. Sometimes one needs to put something in the equivalent of flashing red ink with a loud bla...
Jump to postThere was a small matter of a disease called Covid in early 2020. Airlines may well have made announcements via their PR department.... but many people in the world were interested in other things at the time and those announcements probably received very little news media attention.
Jump to postJust as a reminder there are many employees of JetBlue that read this site. I’m not sure we should be so cavalier about bye bye JetBlue or RIP. Cavalier no. But JetBlue employees REALLY need to know what may be coming to them in the future. TWA closed 21 years ago. Icahn took control of TWA 36 year...
Jump to postApologies for the thread drift... Air Arabia Maroc to open 5 new international routes at Rabat effective May 2024 - Barcelona, Brussels, Basel, Paris and Istanbul https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/air-arabia/air-arabia-maroc/air-arabia-maroc-launches-flights-from-new-base-rabat-to-five-european-des...
Jump to postThis should be a strong signal for employees of JetBlue to think about what happens if their long-term future at JetBlue becomes in doubt (even if their annual appraisals gave top grades in recent years) and to have an alternate career strategy. They won't need to find a new job *yet* but that might...
Jump to postRyanair has officially dropped its PDL base, blaming ANA for increasing airport fees and rendering the operation unviable. MOL says the base never made money and he's looking at closing his FNC base in a similar move. https://www.ch-aviation.com/news/137013-ryanair-says-fee-hike-killed-ponta-delgad...
Jump to postsbworcs wrote:Been looking to book BHX - BRU - BHX for end of June (Friday - Monday) and no direct flights coming up.
Is this a seasonal flight or something (or just fully booked) as flew it direct in December last year?
Air Serbia is to codeshare with Air Europa between Madrid and Caracas, Venezuela I did not think there was much traffic between Serbia and Venezuela - there doesn't seem to be much in the way of family, historic or cultural links between the two countries. I realise that it's a codeshare, not Air Se...
Jump to postWould a volcano erupting and actively spewing lava, causing the possibility of limited capability at Keflavik airport in Iceland and consequences for ETOPS played a part in anyone's thought process ?
Even if those fears were unwarranted...
Many of these things are about airlines covering their backsides in case somebody's passport has expired or nearly expired and there are tears followed by shouting and legal threats at the check in desk. Or pax who don't have a passport at all and don't understand why they need a passport, let alone...
Jump to postI really don't understand why Morocco would want a HSR line at 320 km/h between Agadir and Marrakech. It's hilly/mountainous terrain, and Agadir is a beach resort - a normal 120 km/h rail line should be more than enough. If the Chinese want to throw money at it especially in Africa and for politica...
Jump to postSo when the one remaining pilot in an operating seat needs to deal with a physiological requirement while the other is resting in their bunk, who takes control then? The active pilot can do what fighter or glider pilots do. As a.net is meant to be a family-friendly environment, I'll leave it to you...
Jump to postPerhaps Minneapolis, Detroit and Salt Lake City ? And yes, then the a.net favourite, Honolulu You can probably make a quick guess by looking at this wiki page, crossing off the list the airports that BA already serves, and the few airports for which a long-haul flight isn't possible (e.g. NYC La Gua...
Jump to postI think the idea is to have a contingency plan against TLV becoming unavailable shortly before an aircraft from LHR approaches the Israeli coastline. The experience of BA in Kuwait in 1990 probably taught them to be cautious. BA may be a private company, but it's still associated with the UK as a co...
Jump to postI really don't understand why Morocco would want a HSR line at 320 km/h between Agadir and Marrakech. It's hilly/mountainous terrain, and Agadir is a beach resort - a normal 120 km/h rail line should be more than enough.
Jump to postCheck in as soon as the website allows you to do so. If online check-in opens 24 hours before a flight, then log into the LOT website no later than 23h59m before departure and go through the process. Once you have a confirmed boarding pass, it becomes harder for LOT to bump you.
Jump to postKeep an eye on your emails, and be ready to act quickly. If there is something that LOT cannot control - e.g. there is a major snowstorm that closes CDG, WAW or YYZ, then you just have to wait. If however the cause is within LOT's control, then LOT have to either get you to YYZ at a time close to th...
Jump to postFirst of all... it is highly likely that LOT will be able to fly you on the date and at the time expected. They are a reputable airline. Yes, things do occasionally go wrong, but this is not very frequent. That said, you are still required to fulfil all the normal things - eg have a valid passport, ...
Jump to postGRT - you are thinking of 5th freedom. There are various websites listing many of these routes.
Jump to postNovair (Armenian airline, not the Swedish airline) are supposedly flying every Monday and Friday Yerevan - Kapan - Yerevan. Their Let-410, EK-4117 seems to have flown this route on a very irregular basis since 01-Jan-2024. By comparison, Dec-2023 was rather more regular Anyone know what's behind thi...
Jump to postSounds like we’re just trying to replace a seat on the plane with a seat on the ground and do it in a much more complicated way with some mythical vaporware that offers no solution to required redundancy. Consider an airline with 100 aircraft. Put a 2nd seat into each flight deck, and you need 100 ...
Jump to postThe Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland seems to be getting rather geologically active. I realise that neither Keflavik nor the road between Reykjavik and Keflavik is in any immediate danger. However, Keflavik airport is of extreme strategic importance to Iceland. Yes, there are other airports, but they ...
Jump to postThat second back-up pilot could instead spend much of their time on a flight asking if people want coffee or tea, chicken or fish and whether passengers would be interested in trying out a new perfume. A bit different from what a FO currently does while captain is doing the flying.
Jump to postAlready announced that ITA are moving their LHR-LIN route to instead be LCY-LIN. It looks like their FCO route is leaving LHR after 30 March 2024 as well. That means ITA will no longer fly to LHR
Jump to postAgree with Patrick. I'd want to know there's a back-up option at moderate cost in case stuff goes wrong. The weather in March, particularly in Finland, can still make its presence known. 4 hours kerb to gate at AMS is unusually long - did that happen perhaps in 2022 when AMS was in melt-down ? By su...
Jump to postThis comes closer to the full list of cancelled routes
https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240207-w6w4ns24cxld
If you have 2 pilots on every airplane and something goes badly wrong... how will those people react ? Some react well... others not so well. You can't have a training captain who's seen in real life everything you could possibly ever see on every flight deck every day. If you have 1 pilot onboard a...
Jump to postThere is an argument that when 2 pilots are in an airplane that is (metaphorically) on fire, there may be a tendency for one or both pilots to panic or otherwise get emotionally involved. Maybe that motivates the finding of a solution quickly... or maybe it causes brain fog - I guess it depends on t...
Jump to postIf (almost) 8 billion people all stop burning hydrocarbon fuels, there will be a difference in the perceived environmental outcome - it was observed to a small degree in spring 2020 while the world was in lock-down and hydrocarbon consumption and pollution emissions fell significantly. If 1 person s...
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