Does anyone have a total of the number of wide-bodies on DL right now? Looks like 5-6 A330s and 3 767s however it may change day to day.
Jump to postThis week I took the AA NS PHX-BNA and back, As a DL platinum, I could not justify connecting in ATL while paying more. The new 738 interior was nicer that I expected. Keep in mind I have not flown AA much at all. I was in first on the return and I think the seats were even more comfortable than DL....
Jump to postToday at A15 around 1 pm, fire trucks were lined up on one side and police cars on the other. My assumption was fallen soldier or a first responder casket arriving. Was a somber sight.
Jump to postHow did day 1 of mandatory masks go at the airport? Do you have to take them off at TSA checkpoints to verify identity or did they stop that as well? I was supposed to be flying out and had my mask ready however the trip was cancelled yesterday afternoon.
Jump to postMrPeanut wrote:The final touches on T3S are waiting on the full demo of T2.
Is it common for the approach to the south runways to overfly the airport and do an extended right 270? I honestly have never noticed this before. Makes sense however it is just not something I have observed. Maybe due to a runway change or just a traffic flow solution?
Jump to postLooks like DL is ramping up wide-bodies later than normal. A330s and 767s to Atlanta March 11 - April 9 and 763s to Detroit March 12 - March 31. I will ask the obligatory "China diversions?" question. I missed having the A330 this year to ATL over Christmas. Too bad I have no travel the ne...
Jump to postHas anyone been following the Avatar Airlines attempt to get off the ground? I saw one graphic that showed they would be running 747s between PHX and LAX, LAS and DFW. I know this has been tried in the past with little success. Still they have gone as far to discuss terms with Boeing. What is the ov...
Jump to postI know in the 2019 thread, there was discussion of Uber and Lyft leaving. If that happens, use of the 44th Street station will NOT be permitted. I know this because it has been made very clear that it is airport property. When the precious spat occurred, I took SkyTrain to the station and ordered an...
Jump to postcathay747 wrote:Damn it, I totally forgot about the last BA 744 last nite and didn't go out to PHX. Bloody hell.
Was cool to hear “requesting to push for the last time” on ground.
Jump to postTUSPHX wrote:G-CIVA has just taken off for the last BA 747 flight to PHX
Day 3 = 225min average delays to start the morning off CTL ELEMENT: SFO ELEMENT TYPE: APT ADL TIME: 1219Z DELAY ASSIGNMENT MODE: UDP ARRIVALS ESTIMATED FOR: 09/1400Z - 10/0759Z CUMULATIVE PROGRAM PERIOD: 09/1400Z - 10/0759Z PROGRAM RATE: 27/27/27/27/27/26/26/26/26/26/26/26/26/26/26/26/26/26 FLT INC...
Jump to postYes the 321 will not let you turn the bags on the side like the 739s and 738s. Every flight I take someone tries and then does not shut the bin so then the FAs have to rearrange bags. Seems like not a big deal until you are waiting for them to check bags that had already been placed in a bin. Now I ...
Jump to postI live now on what was Runway 35L. I would love to see an overlay map of Stapleton with the airport versus Stapleton of today. It would be so interesting to see what now resides on where the concourses were, etc. Of course only the Control Tower remains, now the Punch Bowl Social Club. Which is one...
Jump to postLast night sucked. I flew STL-PHX. We got over Gallup and they put us in a hold. The crew timed out and we were running low on gas, so they sent us to Ontario. My three hour flight ended up being a six hour flight by the time it was all said and done with. Sometimes monsoon storms just cause havoc....
Jump to postI travel DL a lot and my favorite seat is 13 F. I promise you there is tons of room to get out of that door. You compare this to window exits or the 1R "baby door" on the 717 and there is plenty of room to get out of the aircraft. Also, if you do not like this then you will really not lik...
Jump to postI travel DL a lot and my favorite seat is 13 F. I promise you there is tons of room to get out of that door. You compare this to window exits or the 1R "baby door" on the 717 and there is plenty of room to get out of the aircraft. Also, if you do not like this then you will really not like...
Jump to postIt's only 90 mins on a non-busy travel evening. Minimal impact. Eyeroll A 90 minute closure backs up a lot of air traffic. I once had a 90 minute weather delay into DCA that caused me to be stuck in CMH that then led to crew timeout that led to me having to stay the night in Columbus with the close...
Jump to postWith DL upgrading Boston to hub status, think we will get competition beyond AA and B6? Especially with DL adding flights to CVG, I would think BOS would be a given now, but then again we didn’t have service when it was a DL focus city... I thought the CVG flight was already dropped. This would be ...
Jump to postI wonder what the longest historical DL MD-88 flight was? I remember when they flew them as far west as PHX, but can't remember if it was from ATL or CVG. That was probably one of the longest? As somebody mentioned, they've come back on ATL-PWM after it had been -90s for over a year. I thought all ...
Jump to postI fly BNA-PHX a lot via whatever DL hub makes sense that day. I will tell you I see many, many of the same people on my originating and connecting flights. AA has neglected this route for way too long. DL has a new concourse in PHX and has added a lot of flights lately. One or even two daily would p...
Jump to postRAP should do fine, G4 has operated from AZA since they opened up shop! I hope to see FAR, CID & BIS soon, outside of the obvious BNA & MSY. This would make 20 new routes from AA since the merger In addition to PHX-FAR/CID/BIS/BNA/MSY, other possible adds by AA out of PHX include PHX-BUF, P...
Jump to postIf the Average Joe wishes to be misinformed, yes, it's a good video. What is wrong in the video? It doesn't fully exonerate Boeing. And such approach is totally unacceptable. At least to some people. Video should focus on the fact that third world junky airlines crashed MAX, while US operators didn...
Jump to post[threeid][/threeid] Getting ready for fire season? Out for a walk at about 9am and the DC-10 fire tanker flew over me while landing at IWA. Apparently came in from ABQ. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/T912/history/20190401/1513Z/KABQ/KIWA We were flying to Tucson on Saturday and getting close to...
Jump to postDo planes currently flying have to land at nearest airport? (That's what CNN is reporting) They can't complete their current flight? How many are in the air right now? Since both crashes happened on take-off you would think they would be able to continue to their destination. However logic is proba...
Jump to postWe are always told to keep politics out of these posts by the mods and, well, this time the post IS politics. Has a president ever took a direct action like this with the exception of the Sept 11 grounding?
Jump to postSome interesting developments in the "preferred alternatives" listed in the Comprehensive Asset Management plan. Among the most interesting proposals: https://www.skyharbor.com/docs/default-source/pdfs/camp/final-phx-camp-committee-meeting-01-30-2019.pdf?sfvrsn=ff229588_4 - A 6 gate secon...
Jump to postSome interesting developments in the "preferred alternatives" listed in the Comprehensive Asset Management plan. Among the most interesting proposals: https://www.skyharbor.com/docs/default-source/pdfs/camp/final-phx-camp-committee-meeting-01-30-2019.pdf?sfvrsn=ff229588_4 - A 6 gate secon...
Jump to postActually, it's exactly how it works. Aviate. Navigate. Communicate. In that order. So you can’t do more than one of those at the same time? [Waiting to get my head ripped off from the expert] Unfortuenately, not. As a corporate jet pilot, and having experienced my fair share of inflight emergencies...
Jump to postFollowing up on OO/DL3879 on the ground at LGA: Now that the news story has made its rounds on almost every TV station in the US, do we have any chance of regulations changing or certain devices being banned? Again, it is a great thing this was not in checked baggage. FA seemed to handle the situati...
Jump to postThe story has taken a strange twist. It was initially reported that the pilot was a retired Chicago policeman but his Police ID is fake and there is no record of him working for the Chicago Police. http://abc7.com/oc-plane-crash-pilots-false-credentials-idd-him-as-ex-cop/5121959/ That is super weir...
Jump to postThe weather at FUL says little about the inflight conditions, if it’s an LOC in IMC accident. GF Must have been a massive G-force to break a wing mid flight. Looks like both sheared off however for sure once of them broke in-flight. Possible LOC due to one engine out with IMC being a factor ot like...
Jump to postI'm really surprised this thread isn't blowing up. This is a HUGE issue. I don't care if it's a programming issue in the FADEC (unlikely) only related to ground ops, it's still going to have massive ramifications for the way software is coded, checked, certified, and employed. Of course there is a ...
Jump to postFolks: Why not wait until we find out what happened: IF: it is the facts that the pilots made an error and triggered a "ground only" designed safety feature that shut down the engines; then their is no issue (other than potential embarrassment and improved training). IF NOT: Then we will ...
Jump to postHad a nice long chat with one of the navigators at the airport and she said they took a tour yesterday of the new Terminal 3 South. According to her they plan to open the second week of January however she thinks it will be a miracle if that happens. There is still a lot of work to do and the clean...
Jump to postI was all excited to post about a strange visitor to our amazing airport. A Transavia 738 was parked at the gate which I believe would have been a first. On closer inspection, it is wearing “Sun Country Airlines” titles even though nothing else has been repainted. Might be a temp lease since registr...
Jump to postHad a nice long chat with one of the navigators at the airport and she said they took a tour yesterday of the new Terminal 3 South. According to her they plan to open the second week of January however she thinks it will be a miracle if that happens. There is still a lot of work to do and the cleanu...
Jump to postIt is mind boggling to me that there are pilots out there that don’t want to talk to ATC. I did my private at IWA through ASU’s program and during the year and a half I was there before transferring there were multiple mid-air collisions of trainer aircraft that saw a lot of young lives lost needle...
Jump to postI understand the need as Gateway gets busier to possibly to address the class change. However, ops at Falcon and especially Chandler would be impacted in a negative way I would suppose. I’m not a controller,but fly for a 121 carrier, have an aircraft at Chandler and also a former sun devil (forks u...
Jump to postThanks for that piece of info. Was going to post that I drove up (from Baja AZ) to check out IWA today and saw a sign at the CalPac counter saying that their 12/7 flight was cancelled. Lady at the Swoop counter next door said that today's flight was cancelled as well. Thanks for providing the reaso...
Jump to post... Not sure I like that theory though - the bottom (and strangest thing about this entire situation) is that whatever happened, they were apparently able to fix it . .... I'm not sure, maybe I got it wrong, but I think in the middle of ATC communication I heard a remark from the ground station tha...
Jump to postMust have been quite tramatic since they kept making the exact same request without understanding they were never getting closer to the water. Kinda glad they never made it to the ocean as their persistence paid off with a safe landing. Also very little detail given to ATC as to what they were actua...
Jump to postAnyone know why one of the Dreamlifters is at Pinal? Maintenance or is it being replaced? Also, a couple of the DL 747s went from parked to partially dismantled. Always a sad sight.
Jump to postFor those of you who follow GA, I cannot remember a time when there were 10 TFR rings over one city. Trump lands at PHX Thursday night (2 rings), apparently stays near Scottsdale airport (2), is heading to Luke AFB Friday morning (2) and then speaks at Gateway (2). You also have the Cardinals game ...
Jump to postFor those of you who follow GA, I cannot remember a time when there were 10 TFR rings over one city. Trump lands at PHX Thursday night (2 rings), apparently stays near Scottsdale airport (2), is heading to Luke AFB Friday morning (2) and then speaks at Gateway (2). You also have the Cardinals game (...
Jump to postIs the new South Concourse still scheduled to open early 2019? I know DL replaced all their "Sky Club Coming Fall 2018" to "Sky Club Coming Spring 2019". Based on the history this is not a credible source however from seeing the progress both from T3 Sky Train station and taxiin...
Jump to postJetblue will begin service to Fort Lauderdale on February 14, 2019 (Valentines Day). I always thought this would be a good route for Jetblue. I thought it would have come about after the arrival of the C-Series, but earlier is never bad. It would be the only nonstop red-eye to FLL and one of two to...
Jump to postJetblue will begin service to Fort Lauderdale on February 14, 2019 (Valentines Day). I always thought this would be a good route for Jetblue. I thought it would have come about after the arrival of the C-Series, but earlier is never bad. It would be the only nonstop red-eye to FLL and one of two to...
Jump to postVery cool to see the first 777 is heading to Pima as discussed in another thread. I like seeing intact airplanes down there as I typically only get to see the gutted frames at MZJ. A great addition for AZ.
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