There's lots of O&D and business demand between Seattle and Taipei with most of it being computing/IT (hardware+software). Taiwan with TSMC is semiconductor powerhouse. There is a reason UA now flies SFO-TPE 2x daily. Also remember Taiwan is in the US Visa Waiver Program further increasing deman...
Jump to postLATAM flies GRU-LAX with the B77W and recently downgraded it to a B789. I heard they over estimated the cargo demand from the US West Coast and cargo in transit via LAX to GRU from Asia. EK/QR/TK carry a lot of passengers via their hubs from Latin America to Asia. Also there's also the US visa requi...
Jump to postJust saw this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO55ounMblI
Is any other airline doing this? This is really innovative. Using Microsoft HoloLens VR headset and possibly the Meta Quest to do training.
andrew1996, DFW to SYD/MEL non-stop is going to stay B789 or the newer A35K due to payload reasons. When they started the A388/B744 on DFW-SYD they had payload problems and had to leave baggage/cargo behind.
Jump to postSouth Asia is still relatively cheap from a corporate perspective versus Europe/East Asia/Middle East where wages have risen to near-US levels. I wonder what the union will say about UA outsourcing positions to low cost India.
Jump to postI am not at all surprised. Its rumored UA sells out the J cabin on its 2x daily SFO-SIN flights.
Jump to postThe 781 can do a payload restricted BNE/AKL-LAX/SFO. This is for crew commonality with the existing QF B789 fleet mainly being sent to Asia.
Jump to postJust saw this: https://www.executivetraveller.com/news ... sburg-a380
I didn't know the AU-SA market was THAT large to warrant an A380!? I do know JNB/CPT is lucrative as evidenced by DL and UA and the BA A380 from LHR.
SEA-HKG with AA/AS/CX in OneWorld it makes sense. Possibly SEA-SIN.
Jump to postRemember people are flying via HKG which is a separate aviation agreement from the US to connect to the mainland. UA has been flying SFO-HKG 12x weekly.
Jump to postLA's GRU-LAX starts tomorrow and is the cheapest way to reach Asia and the US West Coast. How are the loads?
Jump to postThe ME3/TK/EU3 have the Asia traffic out of Eastern Latin America (GRU/GIG). AM/NH fly MEX-NRT non-stop daily for Northern Latin America. LA should fly SCL-SYD non-stop or GRU-SYD non-stop with possible QF OneWorld feed. LA is out of OneWorld right and now in bed with SkyTeam with DL's investment?
Jump to postUA has the numbers on connecting traffic to SE Asia via NE Asia hubs in NRT/HND/ICN/HKG. The #1 connecting destination for years was SIN. Next was MNL and then BKK and finally SGN/HAN. Demand is there post-COVID people want nonstop flights. Due to limited capacity UA is printing money easily TPAC
Jump to postDoes anyone know of the payload of QF and NZ's JFK-AKL flight especially west-bound where they have to block seats.
Jump to postThey and LATAM are going to have a monopoly on the South Atlantic. Are they going to code-share with UA out of GRU to North America? Before the ME3 came into the picture serving GRU SAA had a good business with transits from HKG/SIN-JNB-GRU with SIN-JNB operated by SQ.
Jump to postI saw that. It takes 8 hours for UA to find a crew to crew a nearly full B77W?
Jump to postMy friend is on the reverse flight and wanted to know why today's UA857 is delayed so much?
Jump to postJust saw this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12RfVl5fajw
Nothing revolutionary but there should be a larger bar/hangout area like on the A380.
Not a surprise. SIN is the regional HQ for many multinational companies and this is what makes J sold out in most cases on UA's SFO-SIN.
Jump to postSFO-TPE is large because Taiwan is in the US VISA Waiver Program. CI/BR dump capacity on North America to East/SE Asia via TPE.
Jump to postI've heard DL is interested in BOS-HND. JL's BOS-NRT is very high yielding with lots of last minute J demand. Also KE's BOS-ICN is very successful in that it was upgraded to a 77W from a 789.
Jump to postI was tracking a friends flight and noticed the aircraft turned to UA2580 SFO-ATH. As UA doesn’t fly to ATH from SFO, is this a charter?
Jump to postLAX-MNL/BKK - Largest TPAC markets not served. For BKK there's only AC and for MNL there's only PR. LAX-BNE - Australia has very high per capital income, higher sometimes than the US. Great gateway to the Great Barrier Reef. LAX-ICN - Largest TPAC market that needs a competitor as KE/DL pricing is v...
Jump to postYeah I forgot, TK now flies to MEX, CUN, PTY, BOG, HAV, CCS, GRU and EZE in Latin America.
Jump to postIt would be either JL/AA. Also I heard that the lucrative East Asia-Latin America traffic is routed mostly via Europe/Middle East. EK serves GRU, GIG and EZE while QR serves GRU and EZE. Of course you have the European majors flying to everywhere in Latin America. If they want to transit Northern La...
Jump to postAgain Australia has very high per capita income, sometimes higher than the US allowing UA to price TPAC itineraries higher. The only other market in Asia that has this is Singapore and Japan although Japan has a lot of competition.
Jump to postAAtakeMeAway, I believe the airspace is managed by NK. See this for NE Asia airspace boundries: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/a-look-at-airspace-in-north-korea-and-the-surrounding-area/ The east side of NK has NK managing airspace far from its borders so flights from Russia to Japan have a SE d...
Jump to postI noticed El Al launched TLV-NRT flights 2x weekly. The return flight is flying over Russian airspace. Is Israel not with the West on not flying over Russian airspace due to Ukraine? https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ly92#2fbe7468 Also is El Al ever going to resume PEK/HKG-TLV? PEK/PVG-TLV ...
Jump to postI was saying this all along, DL should take ex-AA/US's A330s with RR engines (highest payload/range) and possibly the older PW A333s. Its a fire sale of old but usable aircraft.
Jump to postSQ canned YVR-SIN and operates SEA-SIN 3x weekly. There is more than enough capacity for AA to launch SEA-SIN /w AS.
Jump to postI heard there was tredmendous demand for China flights with VFR and business after being closed for months. So far of the US3 they currently fly the following routes:
UA: SFO-PVG
DL: SEA/DTW-PVG
AA: DFW-PVG
What is the schedule of the CN3? Hopefully LAX/JFK?
I don't know if its still true but HK passport holders have Visa Waiver access to Canada. This was the driving force behind HK-Canada traffic. Singapore unofficially is a US ally and like Japan/South Korea/Taiwan is part of the US VISA Waiver Program. Flying YVR-SE Asia is faster from hubs in NE Asi...
Jump to postAny chance of AA flying MIA-PDX? The only major city in the US without flights to the Latin America/Carribean gateway.
Jump to postThey need capacity into IAH/DFW first before MSY. Didn't they pull out of MSY?
Jump to postSFO-MNL and SFO-BKK are higher in priority than DPS. Only KE/CX/BR/CI fly to DPS non-stop from their hubs and there's only 1 flight by GI on NRT-DPS just shows its chasing low yielding tourist traffic.
Jump to post1 of the flights to EWR non-stop and possibly ATL or DEN.
Jump to postThe highest yielding Asia market from Mexico is already served by NH on NRT-MEX daily. AM used to fly NRT/ICN-MEX pre-pandemic and will resume NRT soon.
Jump to postThe JFK-TPE flight is 17 hours instead of 15 usually due to it avoiding Russian airspace. Its possible the pilots/HQ have to redo the payload calaculations and remove cargo to make it non-stop.
Jump to postDL is interested in markets with limited and no competition with a fare premium. This started with Africa (JNB, CPT, LOS, ACC, DSS) and now in Oceania.
Jump to postAA's longest flight pre-COVID was AA125 DFW-HKG 16-17 hours west-bound. DFW-BNE is a little less than that with QF flying the longest AU-US sectors (SYD/MEL-DFW) and AA the shortest (AKL/BNE-DFW). AKL has been launched and AA maybe flying BNE-DFW.
Jump to postHow is AA's AKL-DFW doing now its daily competing with QF's 6x weekly SYD-DFW and 3x weekly MEL-DFW. I heard rumours of AA/QF adding BNE-DFW. AA's mega-hub is amazing serving every major North American city within 4 hours and the most popular Latin American destinations like NZ's AKL-IAH.
Jump to postTicket prices to China are in the thousands from the West due to this crazy lockdown. Glad the Chinese government finally changed their mind. The question now is will this affect crew operations to PVG (and possibly resumption of PEK/HKG/SZX/CAN) as currently PVG is served with a turn in ICN.
Jump to postIts due to more cargo. LHR is the CARGO HUB of EMEA and the A33x aircraft can take LD3 containers/pallets side by side while the B76x aircraft have smaller LD2 containers/pallets.
Jump to postI heard LAX-MEL. Only recently have the planners at DL realized AU/NZ-US traffic is high yielding akin to the Pacific version of US-EU.
Jump to postJust saw this pop up on my YouTube feed plus the WestJet thread. I feel this announcement is significant and deserves its own thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM3CbsZDpqs
https://onemileatatime.com/news/westjet-tokyo-route/
There must be some subsidy for this route. Can the A321neo fly HNL-GUM with full payload? The islanders in Guam are SICK of the UA monopoly.
Jump to postJFK only supports the A380 at T1 and T4. I read that BA/AA are going all 77W/A35K on JFK for a better hourly schedule.
Jump to postUSA-Australia/New Zealand demand is great being allies and high income countries. How is DFW-AKL doing? Will QF/AA add another DFW-SYD/MEL? UA seems to do pretty well on its Oceania routes.
Jump to postEevry carrier has its strengths and weaknesses. AA is LatAM, UA is TPAC+TATL, DL is TATL+LatAM.
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