Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2022

PDX’s recovery is going to take a while. I wonder how G4 is doing in PDX. They don’t carry many passengers at PDX. The current routes they have don’t make much sense, with the exception being the newly announced PDX-PVU route. 3,974 passengers versus 34 flights puts the average load at 116.88 passe...

Re: Question for Mechanics

I’m not in the field myself, but I was enrolled in an A&P program for a quarter some years ago (where I learned it wasn’t my thing) and remember there being several students there who were fresh out of the military and basically only there to get the certificate required for civil employment. Th...

Re: Most Memorable Approaches as a Passenger?

The two that stick out for me are passing over Manhattan on approach to JFK as a kid and seeing a lot of the things I associated with New York City through the window of a DL 757 at once. The other would be approaching IST (Ataturk) from the northwest over the Golden Horn and taking in Istanbul from...

Re: Seattle Times 16 May : Deep SouthWest Airlines Involvement Certification Boeing MAX Safety Alert to avoid Training

Boeing could have redesigned the MAX flightdeck to make it more like the A320 which everything is grouped logically and labelled and most toggle switches replaced with push buttons and the whole flightdeck decluttered. Simplified so that it is an easy transition for the prospective airline pilot. H...

Re: 10 killed in Buffalo mass shooting.

I wonder how the site of this mass gun murder terrorist act was chosen. Did he get leads from others he knew or on line 'friends' to consider this a target. Why go 200 some miles away from home for the place of his racist act. Then there are the questions of how he got the armor vest, the gun, the ...

Re: 10 killed in Buffalo mass shooting.

But he didn’t do the job he was paid to do, protect the customers. Kinda blows up the whole good guy with a gun. Hope the supermarket withholds any payments to his family seeing he failed to do his job. The kid was wearing body armour. He came prepared, the security guard had no chance. If the secu...

Re: Is Groupon dying?

I worked at a restaurant that offered a Groupon deal for awhile and from what I recall, dealing with them was more of a hassle than it was worth. We weren’t exactly in want of regular business and frankly, the customers it brought out tended to be somewhat disagreeable. Just my two cents.

Re: Boeing moving HQ to Arlington, VA

HP probably stands out because they built net-new campus near Houston. (Getting off topic) But HP already have a large presence in Houston area that dates way back to its merger with Compaq. They're building the new campus bc their old campus (aka former Compaq campus) was damaged by flood during H...

Re: Boeing moving HQ to DC

Whats up with Boeing moving all the time? Cant be good for employee retention, doesnt it? Twice in around twenty years (after nearly 90 years in the same place) isn’t exactly “all the time.” For that matter, the folks who actually work in HQ are a tiny fraction of management, so it’s not a consider...

Re: Alaska Airlines Fleet Network and News Discussion - 2022

So photos of the new Star Wars livery got leaked. I can't post a picture since I'm on my phone but there's pics of it on Instagram out of the paint shop. It will be flying SFO-SNA as AS9565 on 5/4 as part of that sweepstakes that I posted a few weeks ago. Reg is N538AS 737-800 This is also an ETOPS...

Re: Alaska Airlines Fleet Network and News Discussion - 2022

32andBelow wrote:

Also why would it be bad to have Seattle people connect in Alaska to go to Hawaii. That’s what they are asking Alaskans to do.

Re: Red Bull Pilot Swap Stunt

This isn’t commercial aviation with unwilling participants. It’s a coordinated stunt with professionals. There’s going to be danger and that’s pretty much the whole point of it. Aviation has a long history of dangerous stunts. I can’t imagine if the Internet was around in the early days of aviation...

Re: Dallas Stars hockey charter aborts takeoff

freakyrat wrote:

What would be nice for the NHL is if we didn't have cabotage rules and every NHL team could use Air Canada JETZ like the Canadian teams do.

Re: Airports You've Transited Through In Cities You've Never Visited

Just Dallas (DFW) and Paris (CDG) for me.

Re: Airlines You've Flown Exactly Once

All in Europe for me…

Estonian Air: CPH-TLL
Finnair: CDG-HEL
Turkish Airlines: HAM-IST

Re: Paine Field (PAE) Aviation Thread - 2022

PAE could potentially add more if someone is willing to spend the money for another environmental study and meetings with the city of Mukilteo. Propeller could expand toward the west and wrap around to the north toward the tower. I believe they are prevented from expanding any further west due to s...

Re: Paine Field (PAE) Aviation Thread - 2022

Agree with all of the above but would add from the wording of the quote the cap didn't seem like a AS one but more more of a POS one. It’s likely a restriction based off of available gates. SeaTac is a gate and airfield constrained airport. It has a purpose built terminal for busing to handstands, ...

Re: Paine Field (PAE) Aviation Thread - 2022

I'm excited to see mainline service coming this year. Still really hoping a second airline comes in and starts offering flights at least to the middle of the country like DEN, ORD, DFW etc. though. UA/OO flew PAE-DEN for a while. Obviously didn’t last. I was under the impression that this route was...

Re: RUMOUR has it....UA making a play for AS soon

AS and UA have always had a close relationship prior to AS joining OW. UA almost bought QX when AS bought it. I could see it happening. Ummm…care to pull over and enlighten us on that one? I don’t recall UA and AS ever having any kind of relationship, let alone recently. They developed their great ...

Re: RUMOUR has it....UA making a play for AS soon

airlinepeanuts wrote:

AS and UA have always had a close relationship prior to AS joining OW. UA almost bought QX when AS bought it. I could see it happening.

Re: Condor launch new livery

Well, that’s totally weird and definitely not what I would have done, but now I’m onboard with it. It’s too strange not to like.

Re: Ode to Mriya, AN-225 confirmed destroyed

I don't think so? The tweet shows pictures of Gostomel including AN-124 UR-82009 damaged whilst undergoing maintenance. For reference AN-225 fuselage 01-02 is at Kiev - Svyatoshino (UKKT) and likely still looks like this: 699985 Do you know how recent this pic is? Did you even look at the photo? It...

Re: Ode to Mriya, AN-225 confirmed destroyed

Recent Tweet from @OSINTtechnical appears to show Mriya #2 intact at Hostomel: https://twitter.com/osinttechnical/status/1510034475299835916?s=21&t=4x_LNelmV_wcFGfIYW4BmQ I don't think so? The tweet shows pictures of Gostomel including AN-124 UR-82009 damaged whilst undergoing maintenance. For ...

Re: Ode to Mriya, AN-225 confirmed destroyed