Please nor! no no no
Latam is a crap company today. Gol
is broke . And Azul has very bad TI and little access to CGH.
But if you merge the 3 it will be even worse.
I would live to see Azul buy Gol and join Star A!
C010T3, long time no talk! Hope you're doing well !!! Agree. I believe AA got very surprised with demand for the flights this year (i took JFK-GIG-MIA and MIA-GIG-MIA during past 40 days) and to my surprise, all flights were full, with even no upgrades released on last minute (only my last GIG-MIA ...
Jump to post4501 has been busy getting “upgraded” wiring done. What for, that I do not know. My guess would be WiFi. Either way, UA opted to have this wiring upgrade which consist of taking off the newly installed side panels and select seats to be done in house by UA tech ops versus factory installed Airbus. ...
Jump to postMNL flight should be landing in a few hours. Pushed 3 minutes early, expected to arrive 1 hr. 7 minutes early. Seat map shows 20 empty Y seats on the 77W. According to ual.com: 7 upgraded to Polaris, 36 left on the upgrade list to Polaris. 2 upgraded to Premium Plus, 28 left on upgrade list to Prem...
Jump to postI just found in flightradar flight UA3869 that is a ORD-GIG flight with an empty 763. The mro in GIG is already working?
Jump to postthese interlines are pretty common. I buy UA tickets with Latam flights all the time.
Jump to postSCL-PEK is ~11,800mi, and overflies LAX more or less. SCL-AKL-PEK is about 12,500mi (5% more). Id think a LAX-PEK extension of existing xxx-LAX flights, collecting all the traffic it can from existing LIM, GRU and potentially other SA flights would be a far lower risk flight Via the US, a lot of co...
Jump to postHow does the ground crew cope with the heat in places like DXB where even in the shade it can be hotter than 100°F/38°C? Do they just work very short shifts? Do they wait in an air-conditioned room between each flight they handle to minimize the risk of heatstroke? I assume they can also wait in gr...
Jump to postFigure8757 wrote:The tarmac delay on EWR-GRU made one of the FO’s hit a cumulative duty limit. Rather than cancel this was set up.
Timed out ? Don't they have an overnight stay in GRU ? I would look for more details about what exactly happened. From the reply just above yours in case you missed it: Legality depends on many factors, not just the time spent operating an aircraft. Duty time depends on number of legs (in this case...
Jump to postTimed out ? Don't they have an overnight stay in GRU ? I would look for more details about what exactly happened. Exactly. AFAIK the crew in US-Brazil flight from anywhere else than MIA (and maybe ATL) do US-Brazil arriving in the morning, 1 day off in Brazil and leaves 36ish hour latter from arriv...
Jump to postsmart move. Good market and no competition
Jump to posti believe it was thursday night into friday that 861 had problems Lots of widebody issues at IAD. F1951 SFO 18 hour delay MX F989 FRA 4.5 hour delay late arrival F 525 AMM 13 hour delay crew refusal inop apu F260 MAD 6 hour delay crew refusal F228 DUB cancelled aircraft used for MAD. F861 GRU 24 ho...
Jump to postLots of widebody issues at IAD. F1951 SFO 18 hour delay MX F989 FRA 4.5 hour delay late arrival F 525 AMM 13 hour delay crew refusal inop apu F260 MAD 6 hour delay crew refusal F228 DUB cancelled aircraft used for MAD. F861 GRU 24 hour delay. 4 aircraft swaps and 3 crew changes F978 EDI cancelled M...
Jump to postHonestly shocked GRU isn’t 2x daily to IAH. I fly that every year for work and it’s always a full flight. United also gets away with charging their US customers 10k+ return for their very mid business class on that route because of the lack of competition and corporate travel. I pay far less for tr...
Jump to postVC10er wrote:Is United expecting any 787’s this year? I wonder if GRU or GIG will see any 787’s again?
Thanks
Before this announcement, JFK-Argentina will already have 10 additional weekly frequencies come November (7x DL and 3x AA). Now there will be 13 more than today. Wasn’t expecting AR to announce JFK ahead of CUN or MAD given the additional capacity on this market. Where is this demand coming from? ....
Jump to postWhats the deal with IAD-GRU flight? It has been subject to 10-12 hours delay once or twice a week. There is not slack in the 764 fleet?
Jump to postWhen TAM ordered the 77W it was based on the capacity that such airplane would add in a short period of time when the company was desperately trying to fill the void left by Varig bankrupcity. TAM never actually needed the full capabilities that the airplane offers such as range and huge cargo bay....
Jump to postI remember flying on the 321 for the first time sometime around 1995, and being really impressed at how comfortable it was. At that time the benchmark was still tatty, rattly, noisy Dc/9s and 732s, so flying a shiny new big (and quiet) Airbus was a major improvement. comfortable? Try a Latam one ! ...
Jump to postNeo wrote:Azul is planning to start 5xw VCP-JFK flights in October this year, according to the below source:
https://simpleflying.com/azul-linhas-ae ... s-october/
so I'm supposed to fly GRU-MEX in April and I just noticed that the aircraft got switched from a 787-9 to a 767...WHY?!?!? I thought they were removing the 767 from international service after late march!! has the 767 schedule been extended? The flight is with both 789 and 763. One day each one. I ...
Jump to postI haven’t heard of any. UA uses the NG for the caribbean ops. The only MAX I see flying outside the US is IAH to GUA/BOG. does anyone know if the united B38M/B39M are experiencing engine issues when operating in warmer climates? American is sometimes troubled by it but Caribbean Airlines has been h...
Jump to postAll this IAH talk reminds me of a lot of the discussion around DTW in DL threads, especially about 6-7 years ago. Both are huge and important hubs for their respective airlines, but neither of them really get the sexy destinations that the other hubs do. I think it's great to see the TATL network t...
Jump to postEven prepandemic the DOT was rather generous in giving airlines leeway on startup delays and usage of limited entry markets for host of operational and marketing reasons. Look at cases to Brazil, China and Haneda itself. If summer 2023 becomes the first "normal" season to Japan (which won...
Jump to postIt was announced in MSC (the ship company) that a new solution from their portfolio. MSC Air will fly 4 772F from Air Atlas.
https://www.msc.com/en/newsroom/press-r ... ket-demand
Azul needs a closer relationship with UA. They do codeshare in some routes, but there is limited links between the hubs. AD has a great hub in vcp in the brazilian point of sale but they don’t really can distribute pax in US. Tomorrow I al flying from my city to DCA by VCP-FFL-DCA using Jetblue in F...
Jump to postHope they followed the Geneva Convention Rules. I'd figure they'd go with Marquis of Queensbury rules in the parking lot after they left the airport.... Wouldn’t be the first time, believe me… About 10 years ago the captain and the FO of a Latam (at that time Tam) got in a altercation before take o...
Jump to postCool to see a 77A go back across the Atlantic like they started their life. Gonna suck for J passengers expecting Polaris. This frame though was mainly a Pacific bird (like the rest of the N21xUA 772As) which spent more time flying to Tokyo via Guam than the small exception of flights it did to Spa...
Jump to postI’ve seen no MAX -8s out of ORD and only some MAX -9s. MAX 8 N27256 is operating an ORD-MIA this morning. That said, they do seem to stay pretty concentrated in IAH and EWR. Heavily utilized in EWR and IAH but only domestic flights. I have yet to see any of the Max fleet flying international Caribb...
Jump to postI did it in the past. I flew CUN-IAH-GRU 10 years ago. Long layover in IAH. Took a cab, went to the Galleria Mall, bought one new lugagge, fill it with lot of gifts for my kids. Took a cab back to IAH and dispatched the new piece.
Jump to postWhoever has to travel to/from Buenos Aires will use whatever airport there is and currently that is EZE. These "predictions" that if a flight to Miami goes to the AEP this new market will be created is difficult to believe, EZE handles the same market even 30 miles from town. Can the AEP ...
Jump to postAF carries the Schlumberger contract and UA never broke into that (but neither did CO). That is a huge a piece of the premium market. Given the position of UA's other hubs, it makes sense to me why UA doesnt fly IAH-CDG or why it wont start it from DEN. Agree. The fact that there is really only 1 c...
Jump to postCurious if anyone has a list of all United Fifth Freedom routes in the 2000s/2010s. Off the top of my mind I can think of the following: There was also a domestic flight in Brazil (GIG-GRU, 777-200) IIRC, but I'm not sure if they were operating that as an Eighth Freedom flight or not. Am I missing ...
Jump to postI am finding in the booking engine that IAD-GRU resumes on January 4th. Did UA say they intended to move up the route to mid-December? The only thing I've seen about this is from Aviacionline — nothing from United, nothing from other sources. I'm choosing to take this reporting with a grain of salt...
Jump to postTexasAirCorp wrote:VS planned to fly to GRU in 2020 but cancelled it because of COVID, since then they seem to have scrapped the plan.
Thanks for posting all the photos and links. In the third link (comprehensive dossier) there was a lot of info about their routes and I noticed they flew from LAX to Tokyo. Were they able to carry local traffic on that route or were they restricted to passengers originating in Brazil? Yes, most def...
Jump to postThe reason why LA is retiring all A350 is because they are not just at CH11 Bankruptcy, the economy of Brazil etc is now getting much worst too even before the pandemic and it's much more worst now to me. They will be cutting more flights within Brazil right after ending operation in Argentina. I a...
Jump to postLATAM Brazil is in dire moments. They closed several routes. Yesterday I was at CFN, the airport of the third most important capital in the country and Latam had only 3 flights in the day. They barely fly to the rich interior of SP state anymore. Azul is getting a lot of market share. I have been to...
Jump to postLatam Brazil today is a shadow of its past. Completely lost in business losing marketshare every day. The Cuetos never knew how to make money in Brazil and made several mistakes in the past few years. I have an feeling that Azul will buy Latam or it will dye.
edit for typo
Antarius wrote:Why is LA keeping the 77Ws?
Can't the 787 suffice for the forseeable future?
According to a message sent to workers LATAM will retire the A350. 7 will be retired today and 4 next week. The message was signed by the CEO.
Jump to postIf tou take covid out of the equation you still have lots of traffic USA-Brazil due to economic, government and academic ties between the two countries. Regarding BOS, Latam usually fly this route daily in a 767 (before covid). Even with COVID US still fly pax daily to IAH and now EWR. But when/if m...
Jump to postJFK-GRU is O&D. All connecting traffic to Brazil is thru MIA or DFW.
Jump to postx1234 wrote:Does FedEx fly to EZE and SCL?
Approaching to IGU in Brazil will
most of the times make you overfly Paraguay and/or Argentina