Re: Seatback TVs on Continental 737s before 2009

They did not when I flew in July of 2005.

Re: Electrical Fire on SWA3386

N3340W wrote:

here was never a formal evacuation order given.

Re: How often are issues in the pre-flight walkaround are discovered, affecting dispatch?

Woodreau wrote:

It’s gotten me twice. The second time we didn’t leave until day 3 after the cowl was opened, which caused me to put STT on my never to fly to airport list.

Re: My new passport booklet arrived - where my card at?

You get them separately, though last time I renewed my passport, the card arrived before the book.

Re: Question About Sterile Areas

Though if you have a medical emergency on arrival - you do get expedited to the gate, but the guy leaving the airplane on a stretcher with the paramedics still goes thru immigration and customs before being put in the ambulance…. For whatever that’s worth… Now you have me curious, what happens in t...

Re: Longest small island to small island flight ?

So would you consider SXM to be on an island or not, given that you could drive a car to the airport. Of course. Sint Maarten / Saint Martin is way out in the ocean. Singapore and New York not so much. You can't drive to SXM from the mainland. You also weren't specific with your initial statement, ...

Re: New Tesla owner tries to put gasoline (petrol) in their car

I remember when I got a car with a push button start it took a few days for me to remember there is no ignition. Despite the fact that my dad has owned a car with a push button start for 10 years now as of today, I still keep forgetting there's no ignition. That's because I almost never drive it, a...

Re: Longest small island to small island flight ?

JFK to SIN. Are JFK and SIN build on islands? As far as my knowledge goes you can drive your car to both airports. In my opinion islands can only be reached by ferry or airplane. When you connect the land by bridges to the mainland, it's no longer an island. So would you consider SXM to be on an is...

Re: London City Airport - predictions

zrs70 wrote:

I would love to see a restart of service to NYCX - but to LGA this time.

Re: EWR Airport redevelopment

Manderson12 wrote:

Will this new development at EWR offer space for new airlines, domestic or international.

Re: AA Flight Attendants Suspect Father to be a Human Trafficker

It’s one of a number of possible solutions. I was providing it as an example. Especially given that most child kidnappings are by those who are know to the child, which is why you’d want both parents to consent. So what happens in a situation where it isn't possible for both parents to consent. If ...

Re: AA Flight Attendants Suspect Father to be a Human Trafficker

It is a soft either/or situation because we have limited resources to address the problem. Instead of implementing a program where those resources could be used to reduce human trafficking in the greatest numbers, we've gone for program that looks good, but doesn't do as much. Honestly, if we reall...

Re: Would Northwest have ordered the A321NEO?

The big 3 in the US fly now the A321NEO, so I'm sure Northwest would also. When did United start flying them. They haven't flown it yet. Those are still on order. They will get their first NEO soon, before the end of this year. Okay, you were the one who said the big 3 in the US were now flying it,...

Re: Would Northwest have ordered the A321NEO?

American 767 wrote:

The big 3 in the US fly now the A321NEO, so I'm sure Northwest would also.

Re: AA Flight Attendants Suspect Father to be a Human Trafficker

I’m a Lyft/Uber driver and we’ve had the briefest of modules put toward us. Tbh we have enough to deal with driving the car. Plus we’re a single person so it’s not as if we’re in a spot to report or confront. AFAIK this training was “In partnership” with an advocacy organization. While it’s well in...

Re: AA Flight Attendants Suspect Father to be a Human Trafficker

This doesn't seem to be limited to just flight attendants. A few years ago, I got a letter from the Florida DOT that said something about them wanting truck drivers to go through human trafficking training. I don't know if it was just a Florida thing or if other states were also doing this. In any ...

Re: Nevada decriminalized traffic tickets

WildcatYXU wrote:

And I still don't understand why should be a fishtailing back considered illegal stunt driving.

Re: How many of AA A321CEO are sharklet vs. non-sharklet?

AA has 217 Airbus A321CEO in its fleet. How many of those have sharklets, how many do not? Or is there a particular year from which on all deliveries were sharklet A321s, and the ones older than that (including the ones taken over from US) do not have sharklets? Thanks. Chris The A321CEOs ordered b...

Re: AA Flight Attendants Suspect Father to be a Human Trafficker

I 100% disagree with this. It should not the FA's responsibility for doing this. In fact it's none of their business and a false alarm like this could ruin an innocent person's life. A better way to address this would be for the U.S. to adopted the same measures that many other countries have which...

Re: ANA 787 in AUS today (5/15)

On a slightly different note, I cannot imagine the logistics that go into a diversion like this, from crew to pax, etc Pretty brutal EK diversion from IAH to AUS a few years ago. They circle out over the gulf for an extra 2 hoursish before diverting to AUS. They ended up driving the outbound crew t...

Re: Cargolux 747 landing incident @ LUX

hull damage seems to be restricted to fairings, dont think the pressure vessel got affected. Gear, well... that is another story. The 747 wing gears are designed to break at their FWD attachment points, to avoid tearing off the wing in case of a wing gear collision. Depending the damage found at th...

Re: Nastiest Airline Rivalries

Tayo826 wrote:

OzarkD9S wrote:

UA and CO at DEN in the 80's. Vicious, then a couple of decades later they got married. Can't make that mess up.

Both UA & CO happened to be founded by the same guy, Walter Varney.

Re: Oldest surviving complete airliner?

davidjohnson6 wrote:

The original Wright Flyer is in the Smithsonian Air&Space in Washington. Does that count ?

Re: MAS A350 right behind taking off BA A320 at LHR

Elementalism wrote:

It seems to me the A320 taking off instead of waiting is more efficient than having both sitting there.

Re: Proposed Rulemaking for Controllable Disruptions

There's certainly a subset of maintenance issues that are controllable, but I can't agree that they all are. Stuff breaks sometimes. And stuff breaks in inconvenient places sometimes. I could see an argument that airlines ought to be responsible for compensating passengers for maintenance delays gi...

Re: First FX MD-11 parked

I didn't know the MD-11 was ever painted in that livery.

Re: Proposed Rulemaking for Controllable Disruptions in the USA

Would airlines just add another 3-5 hours to timetable times and therefore every flight has exceptional on time performance or is consistently arriving ahead of time? ;) Two problems. First, if a flight gets in too early, a gate might not be available, so now you're sitting there burning fuel. Seco...

Re: Multi City Airports - that are usually referred to by just one city…..

BDL (Hartford/ Springfield)…. Who ever says they are flying to Springfield? It’s typically just called “Hartford.” zrs70, in contrast, many crew members refer to it as "Bradley;" i.e., "I'm doing a Bradley turn today." e38 True - but the same can be said for many airports: Logan...

Re: A350 landing at LaGuardia?

For comparison's sake, 22L at EWR only has 8,200 feet of available landing distance (due to displaced threshold) and 4R at JFK is only 8,400 feet long. Both of these runways regularly see widebody arrivals. Not having flown either the 777 or the A350 I'm not sure if there is a weight penalty on tho...

Re: A350 landing at LaGuardia?

The runway at Teterboro is equally as long as the runways at LaGuardia at 7,000 feet. The problem with an A350 trying to land there is part of the runways sit on piers, so I don't know if they were designed to support that kind of weight.

Re: Plane collides with aircraft tug on airport tarmac in Colombia

ABpositive wrote:

During this tow, could pilot have applied the breaks, or perhaps it all happened way too fast to react.

Re: GoFirst (GoAir) files for bankruptcy, due P&W GTF faulty engines

DGCA has ordered GoAir to immediately suspend all future ticket sales. 20 further aircraft are due to be repossessed over the coming days. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/indias-go-airlines-asks-tribunal-urgently-pass-order-insolvency-plea-court-2023-05-08/ Which planes are being...

Re: Plane collides with aircraft tug on airport tarmac in Colombia

Yes, if you want power for AC and other electrical systems. Wouldn't that be what the APU is for? But where does the APU get its power? You do understand that when the airplane is getting pushed back from the gate, it's being powered by the APU, right? At that point, the ground power is already dis...

Re: Gusty Day At NRT - WJA Landing Fun

A few times a year there's a nasty day like today with 35+ knot winds blowing down the crosswind runway NRT has not been able to build. Some gusts got over 50. WS was reported on both arrival runways most of the day. For extra fun, sand/dust were blowing all over the field from the beaches and farm...

Re: Proposed Rulemaking for Controllable Disruptions in the US

EssentialBusDC wrote:

And should there be a limit on cars and trucks driving on I-95/Jersey Turnpike because Amtrak is an option?

Re: GoFirst (GoAir) files for bankruptcy, due P&W GTF faulty engines

DGCA has ordered GoAir to immediately suspend all future ticket sales. 20 further aircraft are due to be repossessed over the coming days. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/indias-go-airlines-asks-tribunal-urgently-pass-order-insolvency-plea-court-2023-05-08/ Which planes are being...

Re: Report: FAA overruled engineers, let Boeing Max keep flying

Avatar2go, Boeing gave some information to FAA and NTSB about the potential connection between the two crashes. Boeing never recommended the grounding. The report didn't mention that nor the final report of House Committee on transportation and infrastructure. Please provide evidence that Boeing re...

Re: Is the CRJ-200 that bad? IAH-AMA on UA

So is the CRJ-200 that bad? Well honestly, yes it is. It's a very uncomfortable for anyone over 6'2 due to its crammed quarters. True, I totally agree. But I am looking forward to the "new" SkyWest Charter Part 135 operations. The aircraft will be retrofitted with only 30 seats ! I think ...

Re: Old Boeing 777s and 737s

I would guess United has the oldest 777 fleet, given that they were the launch customer. As long as proper maintenance is performed, these planes can fly a very long time. Keep in mind that they were grounded for a period of time when the kerfuffles related to the PW engines occurred, so there was a...

Re: GoFirst (GoAir) files for bankruptcy, due P&W GTF faulty engines

Since day 1 airbus knew that PW GTFs gonna be a mess as on the maiden test flight with the PWs they had an engine shut down during the flight, shorten the flight, Landed and taxi with 1 engine. I mean, Boeing had a PW4084 surge shortly after take-off on one of the first flights on the 747 (I think ...

Re: Ex-Pan Am Employees at United

One of the most famous ex-Pan Amers that eventually ended up at United is Dorothy Kelly, the heroine purser on the Pan Am flight in the 1977 Tenerife accident. She was based in LHR with PA when UA acquired PA’s LHR routes, but was unfortunately laid off. She was eventually rehired by United after a...

Re: Ex-Pan Am Employees at United

[twoid][/twoid] I live in the Bay Area and fly out of SFO with my family on United. I know that UA acquired Pan Am's Pacific Division in 1985, which included Pan Am's hubs at SFO, LAX, and NRT. UA also acquired Pan Am's hub at Heathrow in 1990 and Pan Am's Latin American Division in 1991. With all t...

Re: Tailstrike at HNL?

Returned to HNL after Tail Strike indication in cockpit. It did indeed strike the tail, maintenance performed required inspections (tail strike/overweight landing), and aircraft was returned to service on the delayed 372. Aircraft has now flown two flights safely as you mentioned…..372 and 1509. Do...

Re: Tailstrike at HNL?

Considering the aircraft in question flew to SFO after the fact, and the same aircraft is now heading back to HNL as we speak, it’s fair to say it was all precautionary in nature. Better safe than sorry, as they say Returned to HNL after Tail Strike indication in cockpit. It did indeed strike the t...

Re: UA Calls Out WN for Misleading DEN Ad

WkndWanderer wrote:

United doesn’t seem to have any qualms about jabbing WN in ads recently, they also recently ran the ads making fun of Southwest’s boarding process and lack of seat selection.

Re: Can pilots/flight attendants refuse flying to certain destinations?

Because I can’t take my firearm on international so I have to check my firearm into the airport when I leave the US and retrieve it when I get back. But if I get back in a different city and the pairing doesn’t go back thru the city. Then I have to go back on my time off to retrieve my firearm…. Ag...

Re: Tailstrike at HNL?

Must have been UA372. It took off, flew around over the ocean for about 1hr 15 minutes and returned to the airport. It was a 21yr old B753. Tail # N75851 Was on the ground for 3 hours, and resumed the flight 40 minutes ago. A quick listen to LiveATC would confirm that United 372 returned to Honolul...

Re: GoFirst (GoAir) files for bankruptcy, due P&W GTF faulty engines

It would take a bit, but Airbus could re engineer the planes to accept a different engine option so that can be retrofitted with different, more reliable engines. This would show a real effort to support their customers. It's doable, just not overnight. Sure, it could be done, and has been done bef...

Re: The last Endeavor CR2 took it final revenue flight

tjwgrr wrote:

CarlosSi wrote:

They should do a “water cannon salute”, except for a totally different reason: thank heavens it’s gone!

Replace water with a live shell.....

Re: How much time do you spend with your kids every day?

I don't, but then again, no kids.