At Newark they have stations for the busses and almost no hard-stands which can't load in a thunderstorm (a.k.a nobody is gonna get hit by lightning) with much of the driving between C and A nowhere near aircraft but on a service road. This issue can make people miss flights and cause significant i...
Jump to postYes, but they drive in a thunderstorm...pretty sure its illogical especially if there's even less movement around them, which would mean its no more dangerous. I can’t talk for EWR specifically, but as a general rule the issue will not be the bus driving in lightning. It will be the passengers cros...
Jump to postTwo of your comparisons are airports in other countries. Hardly similar to EWR. Whether we like it or not, all NY area airports, ports, tunnels, bridges, etc., are jointly controlled and run by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. That’s not changing. So regardless of the rationale from I...
Jump to postTo be fair, although distance wise EWR is closer to Manhattan, EWR is physically in New Jersey and not New York. It is in a different state. So the comparison let us say, London area airports are weaker. I think we all agree that Tijuana airport can't be called San Diego area airport, although the ...
Jump to postHello again everyone... IAD-BER, EWR-ARN, and EWR-Prague are great news. Now I am waiting to hear about how Lagos, Amman, Bergen, Palma, Azores, and Tenerife are all doing. It's seems old news now that ACC is doing well. Interesting how UA tried to make LOS work out of IAH for a long time and event...
Jump to postHuh? Please explain to me how TK is more profitable with the lira drops in value. Its pretty simple. About 25% of TK cost are in TL (such as salaries and local services), but TL only represents 7% of revenue as of Q1. So they collect far more money in a strong currency but spend more in a weak one....
Jump to postLife goes on, restaurants are full, Turks travel. This weekend happens to be the start of a holiday, and according to Enuygun (MENA’s largest online travel site) they project strong travel demand, with reported air travel bookings up 200% and bus trips up 60% https://www.paraanaliz.com/2022/ekonomi...
Jump to postTurkey is also experiencing over 70% inflation rate on the Lira. Their local economy is in serious trouble. I suspect the only thing allowing TK to continue to operate is 5/6th freedom traffic pegged to the dollar and Euro, and summer tourism. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/04/turkeys-annual-inflatio...
Jump to post1) Because the WA employees all got a raise 2) DL is non union (except for the pilots) 3) Very little overlap and therefore not many employee layoffs 4) Much smaller operations Basically they stapled WA onto DL. The goal was growing marketshare, not necessarily maximizing shareholder value by drivin...
Jump to postTurkey is also experiencing over 70% inflation rate on the Lira. Their local economy is in serious trouble. I suspect the only thing allowing TK to continue to operate is 5/6th freedom traffic pegged to the dollar and Euro, and summer tourism. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/04/turkeys-annual-inflation...
Jump to postIm guessing UAL is going to use the XLRs for IAH to South American routes that are not served yet by UA and of course Europe. I can definitely see OPO/EDI going to a 767. After those it’s pretty much knocks down the TATL 757 routes from EWR down to SNN/BGO/TFS/KEF. Surprisingly UA is running a 767-...
Jump to post…In short, EWR is running at or above capacity on a normal day. When weather is impacting the airport and/or arrival/departure routes, the entire operation goes down the toilet. I am of the opinion that EWR needs to return to level 3 status, where the FAA directly slot-controls the airport. United ...
Jump to postI remember seeing this plane, but refresh my memory on the co red and black tail logo. Was that norm? Are you referring to the 'meatball" red and black transition? It was originally black with a red version on the fuselage next to the name "Continental" When TexasAir acquired CO, my ...
Jump to postThe 767-400s are getting Polaris. Seating will be Total- 231. 34/24/48/125 Configurations are out.... Strangely premium heavy. Essentially just a stretch of the 767-300s (not high J) with more Econ seats. It's less business seats and less econ+ than the current configuration so not exactly sure how...
Jump to postCALTECH wrote:The 767-400s are getting Polaris.
Seating will be Total- 231.
34/24/48/125
Configurations are out....
Ethiopian basically covers the Star Alliance destinations except for WAW. I'd love to see them utilize those MAX 8s in Europe and the Middle East once they get back into full swing. One World has the connection through Doha, and QR flies the 77W on Mondays, and the A320 on Wednesdays, but what abou...
Jump to postNo, there's no evidence at all that a new Terminal B is going to be built at this point. I know some people want EWR to look a lot like the structure of DEN or something like that (based on the rendering) but you have to factor in demolishing existing facilities - plus politics, costs, mafia payoff...
Jump to postSo the Port Authority, which is equally controlled by the States of New York and New Jersey, is going to facilitate the total replacement of the LGA and JFK terminals yet they are going punish New Jersey by making them endure terminals that are 50-60 years old? That view is not realistic considerin...
Jump to postIdk why UA doesn't do IAD/EWR-YVR year round, AC is a *A partner and YVR is considered a trans pacific hub. Also EWR and IAD are both popular destinations. Does UA no longer do IAD-YVR as summer seasonal? I recall AC used to do the route with an A319 (can't recall if it was only seasonal or ran yea...
Jump to postExcuse me. CO didn't fly to PPT, but PPG was a stop along with NAN with the DC10-10 to the South Pac. Once the DC10-30 entered the route, CO overflew on some flights and appears to have pulled out of PPG, still serving NAN. Jun 1, 1982 schedule shows HNL weekly non-stops to MEL(1), NAN(2), SYD(1), ...
Jump to postCO flew to HNL to PPT and NAN with DC10s en route to NZ and Australia. Really low yields. I think it could make sense with the economics of a 38M HNL-PPT and maybe HNL-NAN (might be too long) with connections from UA hubs. The problem is timings don't work well on both ends of a roundtrip to these ...
Jump to postSorry, but IMHO, T3 was unsalvageable by the end. Perhaps 20 years ago, it might have had enough bones to rescue, but in the last 5 years of operation there wasn't a single element of the terminal that was functional. Every element had decayed beyond repair, it was perpetually filthy, and the conco...
Jump to postThis story doesn't add up. Not defending these women, but in one statement, "they were visibly drunk and could barely walk," yet three women managed to beat multiple employees to the ground? This is also under Federal jurisdiction since it involved airline personnel. The Queens DA could ha...
Jump to postParis isn't historically a great business market on it's own. IAH-CDG was only sustained by CO because of the downline oil traffic to Africa that was fed by AF. Once CO left Skyteam and joined Star, the traffic shifted to other hubs (FRA), other carriers (AF) or were attempted by CO/UA alone (IAH-L...
Jump to postIn order for DEN (or IAH for that matter) to obtain new service to a destination in Europe or Asia that is not a JV partner hub, it has to justify it off of O&D and fare premiums both. IAH-CDG has that, but AF gets the lions share of the fare premiums and always has so that may not be worth whi...
Jump to postLeej wrote:airzim wrote:Call me crazy, but that looks like closer to an A320 to me.
You're crazy. Never seen an A32x with a ceiling like that....
Call me crazy, but that looks like closer to an A320 to me.
Jump to postDoes anyone have any predictions about how the partnership with Virgin Australia is going to fit in with Air New Zealand, after COVID? Or is that the point, that UA had to form this new partnership, because of the lack of connections through New Zealand right now? Well, just for fun, I punched thes...
Jump to postCan someone explain why United underserves the Southeastern US? I live in Virginia and have Richmond and Norfolk as departure airports. I often fly to Orlando and never consider United because of either the option for a direct flight or a layover at least in the direction of my destination at Charl...
Jump to postDouble standard time. Continental was vilified for flying 757s TATL from Europe with an occasional fuel stop due to winter winds. "misrepresentation of non stop service", "wrong plane", "shouldn't fly the route if they don't fly the right plane", etc. No comparable out...
Jump to postI RARELY comment upon Airliners.net, but I'm an engaged reader!!! Strictly my opinion, thus "meaningless" conjecture re: "why" factors of 20-30yr old deceased airlines....BUT....[ i]what do y'all believe were the #1 factor (singular) for Pan Am & TWA ceasing to exist w/ exce...
Jump to postDouble standard time. Continental was vilified for flying 757s TATL from Europe with an occasional fuel stop due to winter winds. "misrepresentation of non stop service", "wrong plane", "shouldn't fly the route if they don't fly the right plane", etc. No comparable outr...
Jump to posthttps://simpleflying.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Northwest_Airlines-KLM_DC-10_hybrid_livery_Spijkers.jpg https://simpleflying.com/northwest-dc-10-klm-livery/ This alliance was so strong that they painted a DC-10 in mixed colors NW/KL LIKE wish we had that function! One of the few lasting allianc...
Jump to postNot mainline, but Colgan Air crash in Buffalo, marketed as Continental Connection is within 20 years and killed everyone onboard. Given how significant outsourced flying is in the US to express carriers and the volume of passengers they fly, it's slightly disingenuous to not include them. 50 people ...
Jump to postIt would be great if United can get UA149, daily EWR-GRU to have a better on-time record. Currently 80% are delayed 30 minutes or more, with the majority of those delays more than 60 minutes, causing major headaches for a whole lot of connecting people. It's gotten to where I'm looking at flying LA...
Jump to postActually... N592-N598UA are all younger than the oldest ex-CO 757 still flying. (591 would've fallen under this category as well, had it not been destroyed in 9/11...) 591 first flew in 1996, and the rest were delivered between 1996-1999. Compare this to CO's fleet which were delivered between 1994...
Jump to postAll PW-powered UA 757s have been retired. It's somewhere on the corporate sheets of UA that they are no longer part of the fleet. The only 757s left would be the ex-CO ones. As appropriate as that is given the age of these airframes, it still makes me sad. I still remember driving to the Museum of ...
Jump to postBack to the EWR meltdown — waited over an hour after landing for a gate on Tuesday night. Very frustrating. Just curious - did your flight depart early? And would it have arrived early had there been a gate or staffing available? I do agree that it's quite frustrating to land and then wait a consid...
Jump to postI have some serious doubts about the Boston flight sticking around that long. That’s a high J class 767. That needs a lot of corporate demand which they have very little point of sale from Boston. And they had to start competing with new American and JetBlue launch that are both going to fly it as ...
Jump to postPolot wrote:airzim wrote:(BA bought GE 77Es after initially having Trents, and also went for the 77W)
Actually the other way around. BA’s initial 777s has GE until they switched to their preferred vender of RR. The GE90 decision was related to a sale of BA’s engine overhaul facility to GE.
Having said that, there was a very brief period between 2002 and 2004 when the A346 was the best there was. For example, CX bought the A346 because it was the only plane that could fly non-stop between HKG and JFK in both directions, in the Winter and carry a lot of cargo in the process. This was t...
Jump to postHaving said that, there was a very brief period between 2002 and 2004 when the A346 was the best there was. For example, CX bought the A346 because it was the only plane that could fly non-stop between HKG and JFK in both directions, in the Winter and carry a lot of cargo in the process. This was t...
Jump to postSplit is trying to figure out how to get a direct flight as well especially with the new visa waiver program: https://www.croatiaweek.com/when-will-split-and-north-america-be-connected-with-non-stop-flights/ What's amazing about Split is the proximity to the sea. We landed on a BA flight into Split...
Jump to postIt's not really a cruise destination. Dubrovnik is/was the new Amalfi Coast, albeit with better night life hence why it attracts a slightly younger clientele. With the rest of Europe opening up next Summer it's unlikely that Dubrovnik will see as many American visitors. It was a hot tourist destina...
Jump to postDoes anyone know if there's a separate pilot group now for the 767-400s? I've heard that once they parked the 400s they were unable to keep the equivalency with the 767-300s and 757s given the different cockpit displays which they had originally received from the FAA which was inherited by CO before...
Jump to postWith SYD now being reopened to Aus Citizens and Perm Residents for travel (initially) - is UA restoring their service in November? UA never stopped flying to Australia. They fly daily SFO-SYD. At one point they were alternating days between LAX and SFO, but I think they've moved everything to SFO. ...
Jump to postForeign carriers take advantage of UA's relative absence of International flights out of IAH (except Latin America). Many of IAH's international routes are flown by foreign carriers. Once the pandemic restrictions are completely lifted, Air New Zealand and Singapore (via Manchester) will come back ...
Jump to postIt always seems like IAH never gets enough love lol. Amazing the connectivity that EWR will offer next year. It’ll be a true powerhouse international connecting hub. It’s because we’re basically relegated to Latin America for any international expansion opportunities. When it was clear that this ex...
Jump to postGreat additions. Though I can’t understand why IAD seems to be the hub of choice to the Middle East. Before the merger we had DXB and BAH. With EK and EY slowly ramping up at JFK, it would be nice to have a Middle East flight from EWR. UA flew to the Gulf region from IAD because of the military and...
Jump to postYemania - Yeman Airways - Pretty consistent from late 70's. Cheatline to white body in mid 90's but tail the same... 70's to Mid 90's (25 Years) 125636,2688859 Mid 90's to 2021 (25 Years) 4816221,6311149 If you're throwing in Yemenia, I'll toss in Cubana. Essentially the same design since the early...
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