Unsure as to whether only US carriers carry US-originating international mail, but you are correct that there are specific 'sorting centers' (Processing and Distribution Centers--P&DCs) located on or adjacent to major international airports that handle outgoing international mail. Both the LAX ...
Jump to postI'm waiting to receive a letter sent from Seattle, destination Milan. The tracking number indicates the letter went from SEA and is now at the LAX international sorting facility. Can anyone share some light on how international mail operates ex USA. For example, do only US carriers have the contract...
Jump to postWell well well... Not too much detail but for the first time the reporting indicates that an agreement might be reached... https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/airbus-qatar-edge-towards-agreement-a350-dispute-sources-2023-01-31/ I can see that the QCAA have no evidence for the ground ...
Jump to postLongest domestic 4330nm: JFK-HNL UA DC-8-52
Shortest International 95nm: BJM-KGL Novair DC-10-10
I can give you 2 numbers from an Asian carrier I used to work for: $11K/hour for an A330-300 and $8K/hour for a 737-800. These figures were actually used by the route controllers to calculate profitability when they received outstation fare requests. I remember one conversation: - I have your promo ...
Jump to postI believe EK was fined $400K in Oct 2020 for overflying Iran with a Jetblue codeshare. The codeshare agreement ended in OCT last year and now those EK flights go over Iranian airspace again.
Jump to postTP is extremely strong in Brazil and SN in Africa (a leftover legacy from SN). Before Russian airspace closed, AY was dominant in 2nd tier Asian cities. OS is still strong in Eastern Europe- this was their niche market before the iron curtain fell and they had no longhaul destinations. TK is strong ...
Jump to postI'm wondering if DPS is served from North America. DPS is one of the most visited destinations from overseas. If there were flights to HKT from North America, probably AM, HA, WS would serve those routes.
Jump to postPapeete currently has direct flight connections to Cook Islands, New Caledonia, Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand in the South Pacific. Why not Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Tuvalu, Kiribati and Micronesia ? Has it been tried before and failed ? Also, are you sure that anyone is currently operating RAR-PPT? ...
Jump to postThe AI LAX-FRA- India flight was plagued by operational reliability issues from the start.
Jump to postWell up until Oct 2007 NZ was still operating the Coral Route with a once weekly 767 AKL-NAN-RAR-PPT. Remember the population across all these Pacific islands is very small / insufficient demand to sustain flights. Finally, for all these islands the dominant place is Fiji, not Tahiti.
Jump to postWe will punish the citizens of countries that insult our (overly sensitive) face by denying them the right to access cheap airfares on our state owned carriers.
Jump to postReally wouldn’t make turnarounds quicker—slower boarding than using a jetway, time to deploy and stow isn’t much different than positioning the jetway, either. Weight and maintenance was the reason US carriers shed them or never ordered them. Definitely not slower than a jetway, especially when the...
Jump to postPPT-AKL-PPT also permits the same crew (or perhaps only the cabin crew) to turn around immediately and go back home. SYD is too far and requires hotels.
Jump to postAbout the Southwest schedule meltdown last weekend... so complaints have been filed with the DOT- but what can they do- you can't force an airline to operate a hub & spoke model. Perhaps the only thing the DOT can do is force an IT upgrade (said to be part of the scheduling problem), but when th...
Jump to postIf you want a good laugh, google how Air Rhodesia got around sanctions and procured 3 Boeing 720's. And wait for it... United did the crew training (and didn't know it) LOL
Jump to postI also wonder what sort of role has Turkey played in this episode, given that it has always ben alleged that they help Iran with aircraft spares. Also, 4 A343 departing in short succession one after the other from JNB... did it not raise any red flags? Asleep at the wheel much? Who do you think was...
Jump to postSabena DC-10 combi switched to a wet leased Novair DC-10-10: BRU-BJM-KGL-EBB.
3 months ago: a TAP A320 switched to a TAP/Bulgaria Air Embraer LIS-BCN.
I was a happy boy anytime a BA Tristar was subbed for a Trident on LHR-CDG.
Jump to postThe only pax I ever banned were serial complainers who repeatedly took up too much of my time. I didn't care about the cost if the ticket.
I heard many years ago Andrew Lloyd Webber's 3rd wife almost crossed over into forbidden territory with EK about an overly entitled attitude.
The FJ role, as dictated by the Fijian Govt., is to promote tourism to Fiji. AU/NZ connecting traffic to North America is secondary, so I doubt any new route would be launched with transit traffic as a main objective. I wouldn’t be so sure using my 1 flight as an example. Came in on FJ811 from LAX ...
Jump to postThe FJ role, as dictated by the Fijian Govt., is to promote tourism to Fiji. AU/NZ connecting traffic to North America is secondary, so I doubt any new route would be launched with transit traffic as a main objective. I wouldn’t be so sure using my 1 flight as an example. Came in on FJ811 from LAX ...
Jump to postOf course it is! FJ has been flying to LAX for ages and have you not noticed the Fiji water in the supermarket?
Jump to postThe FJ role, as dictated by the Fijian Govt., is to promote tourism to Fiji. AU/NZ connecting traffic to North America is secondary, so I doubt any new route would be launched with transit traffic as a main objective.
Jump to postUnless they are packaging this with a major tourism expansion, I just don't see it. The big pacific islander markets are California and Hawaii. The one exception to that is Tongans in Utah, but the overall demand for something out of SLC isn't great and they don't work with Delta anyway. No, I don'...
Jump to post[quote="TheEuphorian" On the other hand, GA's TPAC flights to LAX actually had a strange routing, operating as a CGK-DPS-BIK(?)-GUM-HNL-LAX flight with DC-10-30s and even MD-11s prior to being terminated in the late 1990s.[/quote] There was no Guam stop. When the MD-11'a took over the Biak...
Jump to postWho says OW wants or needs to fill a Balkan hole? Is there enough money to be made there? On second thought- is there any money to be made there?!? I mean BA won't waste a LHR for a BEG route, so there's your OW answer right there. BA do not fly to Casablanca in Morocco, yet Royal Air Maroc is in O...
Jump to postYeah, but it's Serbia... How much air service does BEG need? There's already JU and Star- that should sufficiently serve the market.
Jump to postWho says OW wants or needs to fill a Balkan hole? Is there enough money to be made there? On second thought- is there any money to be made there?!? I mean BA won't waste a LHR for a BEG route, so there's your OW answer right there.
Jump to postThat should be 7 hours of fun filled enjoyment. I hope they at least bother to feed the patrons and not force b.o.b. Good luck to them, but I don’t really see the point. Mostly seems to be just slot squatting. QF must be happy, seems they’d hedged their bets with the split BNE/MEL schedule so will ...
Jump to postSeem to recall Kuwait using a 747-400 for both commercial and Govt flights. 9K-ADE, full Kuwait Airlines livery on the port side, Full State of Kuwait livery on the starboard. Upper deck never used in commercial service, as Emirs suite and conference table up there. Working hospital theatre onboard...
Jump to postThis sounds very weird to me. I changed my NV driver licence to the real ID version when it expired a few years ago. Booked the appointment online and I was in and out of the DMV in 30min. New licence arrived 2 weeks later.
Jump to postFor the aircraft to be away from base that long there better be a solid premium cabin demand to offset the opportunity cost. In other words, LON-HNL isn't going to happen. I get what you're saying but what makes you think there isn't premium demand? Hawaii is not exactly a backpacker destination. E...
Jump to postThe only other non Middle-Eastern examples I can recall are a TAAG & LAM Il-62- both examples were govt. aircraft that sometimes also performed scheduled flights. There was also a Romanian Govt. 707 with a colors similar to TAROM.
Jump to postMaybe bilateral restricted to one carrier and EVA flies the route.
Jump to postAt one time the Bruneian Govt. didn't want the public to know how many royal family aircraft they had, so you saw Royal Brunei liveries on A340, 767-200, 727-100, 727-200. One of the 3 757's was briefly operated by the royal wing, but later returned to commercial service.
Jump to postWith the heavy government (military) presence on Guam UA holding the government contracts is likely why you also don’t see HA on HNL-GUM. Federal government contracts are re-awarded annually. So there is an opportunity for Hawaiian to bid on Guam contracts, but I don’t know how GSA would consider a...
Jump to postFor the aircraft to be away from base that long there better be a solid premium cabin demand to offset the opportunity cost. In other words, LON-HNL isn't going to happen.
Jump to postRoyal Swazi F28 JNB-MST-MPS Zambia Airways (leased TAP-Air Atlantis) 737-200 LUN-GBE SkyEurope 737-700 LTN-PRG-ORY Novair DC10-10 BRU-BJM-KGL-EBB (operating for SN with mixed crew) New York Air DC9-30 & MD-80 LGA-DCA-LGA Seabee Air Goose G21A seaplane Waiheke-AKL harbour Honorable mention to AN,...
Jump to postI guarantee you the UA crew upon arrival in SYD will be waiting at the baggage carousel for their luggage like everybody else (although these will be the first bags down the chute). And when you depart the check-in staff will be outsourced (sometimes they wear the airline's uniform, but usually not-...
Jump to postExcellent news. Should benefit Canadian and Indian carriers whilst cutting out the middle man (ME3). The ME3 aren’t really the middlemen going to be affected by this; they’ve always been able to benefit from their large route network across South Asia. LH and KL - and AF and BA to a significantly l...
Jump to postBrunei probably has better negotiators and remember their population is under 500,000 people.
Jump to postThank you all so much for your replies. Follow up answer: I spoke to one of my students (an immigration officer at an airport) and he said he would have accepted your passport. The most important thins is if the biometric chip can still be read. Interesting, I am considering to complain about my tr...
Jump to postSIN & HKG are major financial centers so biz class cabins have good loads. PAL is always full- even during SARS they were the only carrier with high pax numbers- the Filipino diaspora in California is huge. KUL & JKT markets are too small to USA and these flights require a stop somewhere. Th...
Jump to postThe Italian Government will inject €400 million into ITA to compensate for growing losses. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-08/italy-s-ita-airways-gets-new-state-funding-as-sale-process-slows I think I’ve seen this before somewhere… ITA/Alitalia will never turn a profit nor will it o...
Jump to postSomething similar happened to me TPE-BNE- the flight left TPE 6 hours early as CI wanted to get the plane out of TPE ASAP because of a looming typhoon. Most connecting pax from other Asian destinations didn't make it. The funny thing was the pax continuing on to AKL had a 6 our BNE transit as the ne...
Jump to postFollow up answer: I spoke to one of my students (an immigration officer at an airport) and he said he would have accepted your passport. The most important thins is if the biometric chip can still be read.
Jump to postAnd if you were denied entry by one of those countries the airline would be fined a few grand. You can call it erring on the side of caution. Of course, it doesn't help that the damaged pages are the most important ones...
Jump to postYou can completely discount holding seats for higher fares later- no need to do that- simply zero out all sub-classes and make full Y available as the only fare.
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