Re: Porter Airlines Fleet and Network - 2024

The mistake Embraer made was listening to their launch customer Crossair when developing the E-Jet, who pressed Embraer to go for a 4 abreast cross section, instead of 5. If they’d gone for 5 abreast they would’ve been better placed to complete against the A220 in the 150 seat market. Interesting. ...

Re: China Southern Airlines to start flights to MEX from Shenzhen April 17

No idea if it'll last year round. I saw the news buried deep in a thread here in A.net. It's good to have a direct link to China. I know people that have had the need to go to Shenzhen in the past. Now, if AM could go back to Shanghai, that'd be awesome too. BTW. I was in TIJ yesterday. It has impro...

Re: Tren Maya/Maya Train Begins Operations

I don't like the military involvement in this. It's hard for me to look past that issue. I will say though, that a Merida-Cancun-Tulum train could have made some sense IF it was deemed reasonably viable at some point in the future and built and operated by public non-military institutions, private i...

Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

Regarding the near impossibility of a regular door to blow away from a pressurized aircraft. I know this has been asked before, but the thread is hundreds of posts long. Would it be possible to design and build that cover in the same way a regular door would be? as in plugging harder due to cabin pr...

Re: New mexican military managed airline called Mexicana de Aviación announces its first destinations..

Aesma wrote:

Being French I'm familiar with leftist ideology but I don't get this.

Shouldn't the military fight the cartels instead ?

Re: Help me pick a new Phone.

I'm going for an iPhone 15 Pro to replace my Xr. I stopped using Samsung because software updates depend on the carrier, and they don't send it timely or at all, except for the top of the shelf models. Lots of bloatware and Samsung's Android is highly customized with Samsung proprietary libraries, a...

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2022 Audi A3 sedan. Works for me.

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2022 Audi A3 sedan

Re: New mexican military managed airline called Mexicana de Aviación announces its first destinations..

Why is AMLO doing this? To make use of NLU. Which so far, when it comes to commercial aviation, seems to be covering the demand of passengers within its catchment area, which is quite far from the known epicenter of the airline travel demand (a circle of 8km(?) or so around the Polanco neighborhood...

Re: Mexico City's Abandoned Airport Project

I think NLU will continue to serve the population that lives a few miles from it. The destinations with enough demand from there are the usual suspects : TIJ, GDL, MTY, MID and some popular beach destinations: CUN, ACA, PVR, SJD. All of them currently served from NLU, as well as some rather odd flig...

Re: 2023 F1 Season News and Discussion Thread

With about 10 laps left I recall Checo's engineer saying he was free to push. I think that was a misunderstanding on the engineer's part (or perhaps not). Checo was saying "guys, we don't need this, are we really pushing?" in the sense that the race was already decided, and he was only pu...

Re: 2023 F1 Season News and Discussion Thread

Talking about a convenient moment during qualifying in Monaco is exactly why PER has lost it. He deliberately spun the car in last years’ qualifying (you don’t throttle up that way in a corner) Really? If anything, Leclerc's crash that got him the pole position (the year before?) looked way more su...

Re: Aeroméxico News and Discussion - 2023

FCO (3x) and NRT (daily) starting on March 25. Here's hoping that FCO will work out long term this time around. The 787 is right plane for the job.

Re: 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualification

No clear cut Group of Death IMO. Group E has two clear favorites (Japan and Costa Rica are no gimmes, but those are two big gun European squads), whereas G and H both have three teams could conceivably do it (or actually done it recently). Group C could be, too: Poland has made the podium a couple o...

Re: Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the US Getting Closer to Reality

[*]They are doing it wrong. We should be staying on standard time, not DST. In northern states it will be dark until 7-8 am in the winter vs 6-7. Staying on standard time means the sun will go down around 7 instead of 8 in summer. Southern states won’t even notice it. Much more practical. Leave it ...

Re: Updated: Mexico city's new airport to be improved Santa Lucía Airport

CMA727 wrote:

https://a21.com.mx/aerolineas/2022/03/10/conviasa-deja-toluca-para-operar-en-aifa

Venezuela´s Conviasa will move from Toluca airport to the new Santa Lucía airport.

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Rejection reasons 'distance' and 'motive'

Hi everybody. Aviation photography newbie here. I recently submitted a couple of shots which were understandably rejected. I'm learning about lots of things going wrong in this shot (blurriness, banding, vignetting, etc). However, I'm not too clear on the 'distance' and 'motive' reasons. This photo ...

Re: AM launches: GDL-MAD 3x Weekly

So, these flights have started operating. Glad to see them show up in Flightaware. Anybody has any info on how they are doing occupation wise?

Re: R.I.P. Dan Reeves

I remember him as a long time Denver Broncos head coach during most of John Elway's career. Too bad he couldn't win a Super Bowl as a head coach, he did enjoy quite some success and took Denver and Atlanta to the big game. May he rest in peace.

Re: Volaris to fly out of new Santa Lucia Mexico airport

AM is moving some operations to MEX T1. Twenty departures for now, starting December 11th. CPE, DGO, LMM, MAM, NLD, REX, TAM, ZCL, ZIH - Sorry, link in Spanish https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/cartera/aeromexico-traslada-algunas-operaciones-la-terminal-1-del-aicm The new eight contact positions in T2'...

Re: Volaris to fly out of new Santa Lucia Mexico airport

For now, it looks more of a publicity stunt. As long as MEX is is service, NLU won't work out IMO. Also, having the new airport being built and operated by the Army just feels wrong.

Re: AM launches: GDL-MAD 3x Weekly

I hope this one works out and proves to be sustainable. I'd think there are lots of people connecting in DFW and IAH for this very route. MTY in my mind would as much if not more sense, as it could serve as a connecting point for the northern and western portion of the country for which MEX makes li...

Re: Deadly Mexico City Metro collapse

Absolute tragedy. Up until the late 90s, the subway worked flawlessly. Then, since 1997, the mayor is democratically elected rather than designated by the president. Before this, the subway was pretty much built (10 out of 12 exisiting lines), operated and subsidized with federal funds. That is not ...

Re: I'm in Crypto Now

Not yet, but plan to. I'm only somewhat familiar with Bitcoin, so I can't speak for the others. As of today, I see it as on track of becoming a legitimate store of value. Say, I'd be willing to put in some small amount of money that would otherwise go to a gold-backed ETF and forget about it for a w...

Re: Your Favorite Movie

The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman - Sweden
A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick - UK
Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino - US
Seven Samurai - Akira Kurozawa - Japan
Roma - Alfonso Cuarón - Mexico

Re: What is wrong with South American capitalism/ capitalism in general?

Did the South Americans of the cold war have a dominance and submission mentality which respected only exploitive employers? Had South American capitalism free and equal chances or was it the Indian type? Any other factors? As far as the economic powers-that-be were concerned, back in those years, ...

Re: What is wrong with South American capitalism/ capitalism in general?

I think it's a more imperfect form of capitalism. Weak state and rule of law which leads to crony capitalism and all sorts of economic distortions. Even in the somewhat rare cases of well meaning political and economic agendas, the elites are in general much more poorly prepared and corrupt, than sa...

Re: Updated: Aeroméxico files for Chapter 11

AM's plan of action with it's Chapter 11 reorganization = become a leaner more agile airline with a cost structure that closely competes with Mexican LCC's on the domestic market and best cost structure than any U.S. or Latin American carrier for the international front. https://aeromexico.com/cms/...

Re: Marriott in Mexico City