I'm not a smoker, never have after seeing the effects it had on my parents, and I can attest first hand that second hand amoke is addicting as smoking a cigarette. I personally went thru withdrawals once I was no longer exposed to it every single day. However for all those saying screw you smokers b...
Jump to postWhat about current domestic US routes.. Are either Delta or United flying them on any domestic routes? I'm especially interested in Delta.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/DL+WIDGET+HEAD" class="quote" target="_blank">DL WIDGET HEAD</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i>Surprised to see Starbucks c...
Jump to postSo I'm going to be on Air NewZealands flight # 001 from <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> to <acronym title="Arauca - Santiago Perez Quiroz (AUC / SKUC), Colombia">AUC</acronym> and then returning on 002 from Auckland to <acronym title="Los Ang...
Jump to postNo.. I am flying on Air Tahiti Nui from New Zealand to Papatee...quite familiar with them.
I am refering to the airline Air Tahiti.. website-- >>http://www.airtahiti.aero/home.php
Its from Papatee to the actual island in which I am staying on that I am flying on Air Tahiti.
In less than a month I have a trip planned to go to the French Polynesian island of Raiatea/Taha(within eye sight of Bora Bora from the resort) and part of the journey has us going from Papatee to the island of Raiatea on Air Tahiti. I tried searching but nothing seems to come up on this airline...t...
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Jump to post"T5-Knock it down and start over again, this is by far the worst terminal at the airport" How is <acronym title="Turkmenistan Airlines">T5</acronym> the worse terminal at the airport? Have you actualy been inside it? I've seen 1 and 2 and they are by far worse then <acronym title="Turkmenistan Airli...
Jump to postAren't the highpowered take offs routine, as in every take off, out of SNA due to the short runway and noise reductions laws for those down in Newport?
Jump to postWhen I flew about a month ago to Paris on Delta, <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>, <acronym title="Covington / Cincinnati - Northern Kentucky International (Greater Cincinnati) (CVG / KCVG), USA - Kentucky">CVG</acronym>, and <acronym title="N...
Jump to postMust've been one heavily overbooked flight for that equimpent swap.
Jump to postThey use the same handsets for commonality purposes only. Rather then have two sets of handsets on the same plane (the PTV type in First, the regular arm chair style or w/e in coach) they decided to have a comonality throughout. Perhaps there is also a connection to possible instalation of the PTVs,...
Jump to postI'll be headed for Paris for a week at the end of the month on Delta (<acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>-<acronym title="Atlanta - The William B Hartsfield International (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym>-<acronym title="Paris - Charles ...
Jump to postNever flown <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym>, so can't comment on their Business Class, but have flown Delta many times in BizElite so I can comment on them. Seat: very comfortable. While not a true flat bed style seat, it still is very comfortable. On the 14ish hours from <acro...
Jump to postDon't forget also that 150 being a domestic flight, they offer the 100 dollar upgrade into the "first class" cabin, which is offered on the <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>-<acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (J...
Jump to postwayyy off topic.. but to those who wish to boycott a company due to links to God/Christiany.etc.. should any of you be fans of In N Out you may wish to add them to your list. Next time any of you are at In N Out, take a look at the bottom of the fry carton and all drink cups, can not remember offhan...
Jump to postI'm taking a guess, but I dont believe Delta upgrades people to First on international codeshare routes. They only offer Business and Coach on all international flights (Codeshare and obviously their own) since they themselves only offer Business and coach internationally. So no they did not mess up...
Jump to postWasnt this also the first 767 ever to fly to Europe? Or am I mistaken?
Jump to postI have to go with the newest colors. I did not like the old new scheme, it did eventually grow on me but it gives me the feel that it is missing something. The new new color scheme also took some getting used to, but I like it byfar the best. Now, if they just added a cheatline or something more to ...
Jump to postThe original plans, pre 9/11, were to reconfigure the entire fleet into 3x3x3 coach with the over head crew comparment. 9/11 finanical concerns put the entire thing on hold, or an extreme slow down. When they decided to retire the MD11 and place the 777 on that route, they sped up the reconfiguratio...
Jump to postAnyone have the URL, or the full list handy to see the performance for the other airlines for Feb?
[Edited 2004-02-07 05:39:18]
I belive they flight out of <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> down to Cancun or something like every 10 days.. Delta handles their ground service in <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> at le...
Jump to postI look at it as no different then the system used in repainting a plane into a new livery. There is the one time cost of designing the uniforms while the issuance-or repainting-of the new uniform is part of the normal process with the current ones. Every employee at least every year, possibly more o...
Jump to postThen the same would apply to pilots reserving their comments about the overpaid CEO's, or overpaid gate agents, or overpaid ramprats. Everyone has their own opinion- its borderline insulting telling us, to put it bluntly, to shut up. Should this post have been spured by the numerous Delta pilot post...
Jump to postSean-<acronym title="San Diego - International / Lindbergh Field (SAN / KSAN), USA - California">SAN</acronym>-:<i>2cn... if <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> pilots take a 30% wage reduction, their pay rates (737-500) will be lower than Southwest pilots, and much lower than <acron...
Jump to postTwo questions: does the card ask for your age? If yes, then the next is when you BOOK a ticket, do they ask for your birthdate (which I'm 99% sure they do not) or is it upon CHECKIN ? If checkin, then I doubt they (the airline) would catch it. Obviously cant say about the seminar company.
Jump to postNwairlinkfo one flaw in your argument- Southwest pilots make far less than the Delta pilots, and still would make far less even after a wage concession, yet they are no more safer or more dangerous than the Delta pilots. They are not going to be making minimum wage, be reasonable in your argument (...
Jump to post<I>Right now, there's about 1140? or so Delta pilots on the street because of the furloughs. There would be 250 more, if it hadn't been for ALPA and some greviences filed. The pilots aren't going to buy into management's bankruptcy theme quite so soon. If they were smart, they'd take DALPA's offer, ...
Jump to post<i>Minimum wage? <acronym title="Dallas - Love Field (DAL / KDAL), USA - Texas">DAL</acronym> doesn't have any rampers working for minimum wage. But I can't see a <acronym title="Dallas - Love Field (DAL / KDAL), USA - Texas">DAL</acronym> ramper making more than say a US Airways ramper. And a <acro...
Jump to postWhen they lowered the terror alet, all but a few airports lowered their level of security as well. <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> is one of the three or four airports still on a heightend level of alert. The airports who are still on a heigh...
Jump to postIf you take the 55 west (Costa Mesa Freeway) exit to the airport it isnt bad at all- the times I have been through the area on the freeway and looking over, during what I would think would be rush hour periods, that check point has not appeared to have been backedup.. it appears to be a little known...
Jump to postI think like most here that non revs should definately be allowed up front if there is room. My dad works for Delta and has something like 35+ years of senority with the company, so if we (or I) plan the flights right, we generally do get first class. It was far easier before they began the optional...
Jump to postLast time I flew on <acronym title="Dallas - Love Field (DAL / KDAL), USA - Texas">DAL</acronym> in coach, the service was actually quite good. So what there was no meal, big whoop. If there was a meal, instead of complaining about no meal everyone would complain about how bad the meal is.. the serv...
Jump to post<i>Personally, I think they should, considering that they are new, carry large passenger loads, and are the second largest aircraft in Delta's fleet once the <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-11s are gone.</i> Passenger wise they are Deltas largest plane- the 777 carries 277, the MD11 car...
Jump to postThe F/A's will prolly have a little more work to do as meals (both a snack during early and late night and a hot meal -breakfast, lunch, and dinner) are coming back to more and more flights- free in first class, and available for purchase in the back... know for sure one of the routes is <acronym ti...
Jump to postOff topic, but what is with the AA plane on that page (the one that seems to have a picture with blood in it) Whats the story behind that one?
Jump to postFrequentFlyKid: Seat pitch was okay, but not "first class," like the add states.
it doesn't state first class anywhere in the press release, they aren't caling 36" of pitch first class (it is just two inches less than first class).
<i>I agree. If the war were about the oil our gas prices would have dropped already. They haven't. They've risen.</i> I dont think they've been able to securely setup the process at the oil fields yet and work out all the details about who gets what.. suposedly that is how they will (or were) to fun...
Jump to post<i>It would be cool to see four Delta liveries on the tarmac at <acronym title="Atlanta - The William B Hartsfield International (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym> at the same time!</i> There is a photograph out on airliners.net someplace where it shows four Delta paint schemes (The old, the...
Jump to post<i>I like it...Tell me that they will get rid of the $5 charge but then say, $2 if you want the headsets. Not exactly an elimination of the fee. </i> It is an elimination of a fee. You no longer have to pay 5 dollars in Economy class to take advantage of the IFE, regardless of whether you use your o...
Jump to postI vote for the 777.. not only because of the above points that WGW2707 stated, but correct me if I am wrong, but it was the first airplane to be entirely designed on a computer, as well as a completely round (sorry its too late for what I think is the better term for what I am describing) fusealage?
Jump to postOn the <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>-<acronym title="Salt Lake City - International (SLC / KSLC), USA - Utah">SLC</acronym> route, they only are loosing one flight, the one that departed <acronym title="Lan Chile">LA</acronym> at 6:10 and a...
Jump to postGoingBoeing: those 20 people probably we medalions who boarded at the start of the process.
Jump to postlongest trip for me was <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>-<acronym title="Atlanta - The William B Hartsfield International (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym>-<acronym title="Tokyo - New Tokyo International / Narita (NRT / RJAA), Japan">...
Jump to postthe Delta ones are cool since like others have said, they show the range, the size of the aircraft (similar to what is on their website, or exactly, where it shows the mesurments of the wingspan and the length) and a seat chart... along with all the other information for the flight. I love it when I...
Jump to post<i>The room on the 777/M11 fleet is awesome and the room is good on the 763. The seats are comfy enough for a 6-7 hr flight, however, once you get into the 12hr range, you need a bed</i> Actually, on the 13-14 hr flight to Tokyo from Atlanta, it was still comfortble.. I'm sure a bed would be better,...
Jump to postRoughly a month ago I nonrevd to Tokyo on Delta, both ways was in BusinessElite. It was great, no complaints at all about service, and the seats were definately quite comfortable for the 14 hour flight.. the IFE however on the plane going and comig back was acting up, alot of static on the video cha...
Jump to postDL- 763,764, MD11, L1011,777
CO- DC10, 747-200?
What is the address for the Delta store?
Jump to postOn a flight a while back from <acronym title="Atlanta - The William B Hartsfield International (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym> to <acronym title="Santa Ana - John Wayne / Orange County (SNA / KSNA), USA - California">SNA</acronym>, sitting in first class, after landing noticed a couple ha...
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