Way back in 1986, I was returning home from visiting family. My home airport was and is Cincinnati (CVG), and I was traveling on the original Republic Airlines (RC) via Detroit. When I arrived there, I went to the gate for my flight to CVG and was surprised to see that we had a pre-departure diversi...
Jump to postHonestly, I have never logged on to the Simple Flying website, so I can't comment on their articles. However, I do watch their YouTube videos. They are not my favorite aviation videos on YT (that distinction goes to DJ's Aviation ), but I find them to be bright and informative. My favorites are thei...
Jump to postLike I said, other cities have moved their airports out of the city because they were too close and too many people were disturbed by them. Yes! All of us AvGeeks remember Kai Tak. And, wasn't Narita originally supposed to replace Haneda? Also, weren't the new offshore airports built on landfill, l...
Jump to postI scrolled back up to the first post, clicked on the link again, and this time looked at all four of the pics. There is a LOT of damage there, not just to the plane's broken nose in the first pic, but also to the engine in pic (foto) 3.
Jump to postSomewhat unrelated since the incident aircraft was taxiing, but keep in mind pre-conditioned air units at the gate are not all built the same. Some at my airport can barely cool the cabin of a 73G in 25C weather... a 757 in 40C+ would be a sweatbox unless the units are very powerful. What condition...
Jump to postComair (OH), the BEST North American regional airline EVER!
Jump to postORH in Worcester MA Yes. Worcester (ORH), which had Northeast Airlines "Yellowbird" Boeing 727 service 50 years ago, is hampered by the fact that it has no direct access to any interstate highway. Also, Lexington, Kentucky (LEX). I love the airport, and I REALLY love the view of the horse...
Jump to postWhile flying the three heavies from the USA, did any carrier also fly Airbus A300s / A310s?
Jump to postI wish Alaska Airlines well with their new service to Nassau, but trueblew (poster #21 above) is correct. Whoever wrote the article on AS's website flunked geography. The Bahamas are in the Atlantic, not the Caribbean. This is not to say that the Bahamas are any less beautiful or desirable a place t...
Jump to postWhat airport is GSW? Ft. Worth Greater Southwest/Amon Carter Field. Don't know if that was the proper code,I just copied the OP. If you want to know more about Ft. Worth's Greater Southwest International Airport / Amon Carter Field (GSW), here is a link to the most comprehensive and interesting art...
Jump to postSo, which airline is SkyTeam going to get to replace ITA in Italy and Southern Europe? Or, is a replacement for ITA really necessary?
Jump to postWhat a great thread! I'm almost ashamed to admit how much time I have spent reading it! Anyway, here is my contribution . . . When my family was visiting my grandmother in Louisville back in the Sixties, my Dad would take me to Standiford Field (SDF, now Muhammad Ali International Airport) to watch ...
Jump to postOn the evening of Tuesday, 23 May, I posted a note of congratulations to the City of Denver, Colorado, and the people who work in and around the Denver International Airport on the thread "Denver Mayor Proclaims 'United Airlines Day'" in Civil Aviation. The next evening, I logged on and sa...
Jump to postUA will be resuming DAY-DEN nonstop service on 9/29/2023 according to https://www.united.com/en/us/newsroom/announcements/cision-125273. :bouncy: :highfive: :praise: :thumbsup: FANTASTIC ! ! ! I've been advocating for more service to DAY for years! Not just this, but also new service from DEN on Un...
Jump to postCongratulations! I am very glad for DIA and for all of its people. DIA needed a big shot of good news, and this is great! Congratulations also to United. Southwest and Frontier, please take notes.
Jump to postI read the article, and it leaves me holding my breath for jetBlue Airways and all of its employees, contractors, shareholders, passengers, and everyone else who is gainfully employed because jetBlue operates. Now, I also wonder about the viability of their proposed buyout of Spirit.
Jump to postColonies / former colonies / overseas territories Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands = United Kingdom Speaking of Montserrat, how is access to that island at present? They lost their international airport and their capital, Plymouth, when the Souf...
Jump to postI always love hearing the different arrangements of "Rhapsody in Blue" while in the tunnel between concourses at ORD. I hope that United always keeps and uses it, even if only occasionally, as part of their branding from now on. On the other hand, and speaking of Chicago, "Rhapsody in...
Jump to postCA, Many people are wondering about what you are asking. These are good questions, and I hope that I can clear at least some of this up for you. Here in the USA, I am sure that none of our airlines were looking to dial back their services before the pandemic. But, the pandemic caught us all by surpr...
Jump to postAlso interesting seeing extra flights/destinations from Spirit. Doesn't seem like they'd cater to the kind of crowd that would travel to Louisville for the Kentucky Derby. Have you seen the infield? :lol: HAHAHA.... Admission to the worst part of the infield with no view is running $80 pp and the b...
Jump to postNumerous reports give the species of bird involved as Canada geese, Branta canadensis , which are the same species that collided with US Airways Flight 1549 off of LGA on 15 January, 2009, resulting in the "Miracle on the Hudson". These geese are large, heavy, and--trust me on this-- very ...
Jump to postDifferent question, what's going to happen to the Republic birds? More hub-to-spoke flying, or other route development? There are a lot of them flying to & from CVG now!
BTW, I love Republic's callsign, "Brickyard".
Largest - While Atlanta and Dallas-Ft. Worth are both plenty big, for my money (and my aching legs) it is Denver International Airport, no question! Smallest - I'll go with the London-Corbin Airport (LOZ) in Kentucky. Fifty years ago, I flew into there aboard a Piedmont FH-227 turboprop from Louisvi...
Jump to postI plan to keep reading about this. I like science fiction!
Jump to postWould these carriers have insurance for hull loss when operating into Khartoum? Imagine you'd have to pay quite the premium to have it. Having no expertise in Aircraft Insurance dont most policies have a Force Majeure clause? I’m not sure this qualifies as force majeure and I would expect the incid...
Jump to postHere is a link to KVERT, the Russian website (in English) about Russian volcanic eruptions, plus earthquake & tsunami info . . . http://www.kscnet.ru/ivs/kvert/index?lang=en Spacepope, you are an aviator, a geologist, and a frequent contributor to A*Net. If you have a copy on this thread, please...
Jump to postI was not a great fan of Mr. MacVeigh's videos until I saw this. I have seen the first video, and I plan on watching the rest in the series. Highly recommended!
Jump to postWhat’s their incapacitated pilot procedure? The one I’m familiar with is very clear and doesn’t mention bringing in an offline pilot. Would not surprise me if there is a little internal backlash over this. Will help if the pilot was in CASS and run through it before boarding. Back in the late Ninet...
Jump to postThe CBI tournament will be in Daytona Beach so may be some charters there, not sure if the CIT is occurring (haven't seen anything to suggest it would or wouldn't be), and we always see charters for the NIT. Big week ahead FYI, I have searched many different websites but found nothing about any Col...
Jump to postWhy are so many people going to Orlando during the summer? Why not? As someone who has lived both down there and up here, I can give some insight. Sure, Orlando is in the South, in Central Florida, and it gets hot in the summer. Southerners deal with their hot summers like Northerners deal with the...
Jump to postI'll add to the Braniff focus city of IAH. I guess I'm obsessed with all things BI. Would PTY qualify, too? As for others, New York Air had focus operations at IAD and RDU. North Central, while headquarted in MSP, had a focus city in DTW that ultimately became a hub. TWA at MCI, Northwest Orient at...
Jump to postHere's some that I remember . . . Braniff (BN, aka "Braniff I") - DFW (DAL before 1974), MIA, MCI Eastern (EA) - ATL, BOS*, DCA*, LGA*, MCI, MIA, SJU, MCO (They were the original "Official Airline of Walt Disney World" and the sponsored the If You Had Wings ride in the Magic King...
Jump to postI am surprised that no one yet has mentioned the new service between Lexington (LEX) and Las Vegas (LAS) on Allegiant (G4), beginning in June. I saw the report on Channel 18 during their noon news report. Details are on their website and others. Here is the link from LEX . . . https://www.bluegrassa...
Jump to postMore info and links here . . . http://www.aviation-safety.net/wikibase/308233
Jump to postSure is a weird airline. None of their routes make any sense. Au contraire, mon ami. Cincinnati (CVG) to San Francisco (SFO) is a route that many Tri-Staters have wanted back for years! MX presently has no competition on the route. The flight's timing is nearly perfect, and the loads have been grea...
Jump to postOn the one hand, the FA shouldn't have acted that way... however , with the amount of Karens flying today, I can certainly understand why she acted in the way she did. Somehow, some of you are giving the stewardess a pass and assuming the passenger was being a 'Karen' (which makes anyone who says t...
Jump to postOn the one hand, the FA shouldn't have acted that way... however , with the amount of Karens flying today, I can certainly understand why she acted in the way she did. Somehow, some of you are giving the stewardess a pass and assuming the passenger was being a 'Karen' (which makes anyone who says t...
Jump to postWow. My first flight on a 757 was in June, 1989, PHL-CVG, on Delta. We departed Philly at 6:30 A.M. and went up to FL410. I remember an announcement from the flight deck about what time we were expected to touch down at CVG, and they were accurate to the minute! In February, 1999, I had a non-rev tr...
Jump to postWhich movie used a Sud-Aviation Caravelle painted in Soviet Aeroflot livery?
Jump to postI am showing my age, but when my parents and I visited the New York World's Fair in 1964, we took a ride over the Fairgrounds (and the newly-built Shea Stadium) in a giant Westland 30 helo that had TWA livery. I have been unable to track down any pics of it. Does anyone else remember that and/or wh...
Jump to postI am showing my age, but when my parents and I visited the New York World's Fair in 1964, we took a ride over the Fairgrounds (and the newly-built Shea Stadium) in a giant Westland 30 helo that had TWA livery. I have been unable to track down any pics of it. Does anyone else remember that and/or why...
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I hope 2023 is the year United adds LEX-DEN. Seems LEX-DEN did exist a few years ago? Hope they get it back! LEX-DEN today would be fantastic. Yes, there was direct service from LEX to DEN, and it was quite a few years ago, in the 1980's in fact. That service was provided by the original Frontier (...
Jump to postAlright y’all. What new destinations do we forecast for GRR this year? I’d love to see new airlines as well. Maybe Breeze this year? I have already gone on record elsewhere as predicting that service from Grand Rapids to Canada will be restored in 2023, aided by GRR's new FIS office. It very well m...
Jump to postWell, even people who should know better can be taken in by a conspiracy theory. Here is an example regarding TWA 800 . . .
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Pierre_Salin ... Flight_800
AA now has most flights from SDF with mainline continuing to replace regional Anthony Gilmer keeps delivering! He deserves a nice XMas present! That's awesome, and very satisfying. I'm old enough to remember when American pulled ALL service from Louisville in 1982. In 1984, when they returned to SD...
Jump to postPerhaps this should be for another thread, but it just occurred to me that whenever I read one of these nostalgic threads, no one ever posts fondly about having flown on the original PeoplExpress (PE). I wonder why?
Jump to postAs a former Piedmont Airlines employee, who began his career in 1981, I dearly miss those early days of excellence and southern charm. Which U.S. brand do you miss the most over the past 40-50 years, and why? I flew on Piedmont in the 1980s, and I miss them, too! I loved the Boeing 727s, 737s, and ...
Jump to postHmm, even if the airports had all of that extra snow removal equipment, would they have the trained staffing necessary to operate all of the machines? I doubt that that is as easy as calling the neighborhood temp agency and saying, "Send me fifty snowplow operators!"
Jump to postAA now has most flights from SDF with mainline continuing to replace regional Anthony Gilmer keeps delivering! He deserves a nice XMas present! That's awesome, and very satisfying. I'm old enough to remember when American pulled ALL service from Louisville in 1982. In 1984, when they returned to SD...
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