Re: Emirates Airlines new U.S. Cities?

Phoenix or Austin? Phoenix has been wanting service from the ME for decades..and Austin is also a very tech oriented destination...

Re: Movies with airlines on them

I just saw The Bad News Bears Go to Japan with Japan Airlines which actually sponsored the movie, plus Pan Am, China Airlines and a suspiciously darkened for the film ANA L-1011 in the background lol...

Re: Why is CUN not served from Asia?

trex8 wrote:

TheFlyingDisk wrote:

What is there in CUN that you can't get closer to home in Asia, like Phuket or Bali?

Nachos and chimichanga
Oh wait thats American food

Re: Why is CUN not served from Asia?

mesasurf wrote:

bfitzflyer wrote:

Perhaps Korean Airlines could establish a hub there. It is only an hour flight to the Alamo.

What? Are you suggesting that KE fly ICN-SAT-CUN? I’m pretty sure San Antonio isn’t at the top of travel destinations for South Koreans.

Re: 2023 list of Domestic and S/Haul widebody flights

I dont personally consider this domestic but AA flies 777s from Charlotte to San Juan....

Re: 2023 list of Domestic and S/Haul widebody flights

I think Delta does 767 from JFK to PHX.

Re: My stories of timetables

I used to get the OAG free sample editions, multiple times over a few years lol, and ended up writing to the carriers with the addresses provided in the back. Always awaiting the mail that first summer was agonizing. Especially when nothing came. Still have most letters sent along with timetables, ...

Re: Fictional routes on real airlines in movies

Not mentioned by direct name, but definitely implied, per se, that Ryan Bingham - the George Clooney character in "Up in the Air" was able to fly to an extraordinary number of destinations nonstop from Omaha on American Airlines. Also, not a movie here, but a few seasons ago on Top Chef, ...

Re: Yeti Airlines AT75 crash in Nepal

Chaostheory wrote:

BoeingGuy wrote:

/330 types in that part of the world.

Re: Yeti Airlines AT75 crash in Nepal

Could this be another pilot suicide??

Re: Delta planning JFK to EZE

Wonder if Aerolineas Argentinas will pull out of JFK now that a fellow Sky member will be doing the route. Also, curious thing: to us, AA is American. To Argentines, AA is American's competitor on the route, Aerolineas. Only for the non aviation initiated. Any Argentine who knows a thing or 2 about...

Re: Breeze Airways’ Inaugural LAX Trip Report 2022: “Enhanced” Ultra Low-Cost Carrier with Reliability Problems

loved the photos great job!

Re: Arabian Aviation - 2023

Two MEA A321Neos, reg T7-ME2 and T7-ME9, were damaged by stray bullets during the new year celebrations in Beirut, Lebanon. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230101/574302baeb7d6d83db6fed58ba1af703.jpg Source: https://analytics.twitter.com/mob_idsync_click?slug=8VotXyDDlK&idb=AAAAEIB_N445cE-Vi...

Re: Delta planning JFK to EZE

Wonder if Aerolineas Argentinas will pull out of JFK now that a fellow Sky member will be doing the route.

Also, curious thing: to us, AA is American. To Argentines, AA is American's competitor on the route, Aerolineas.

Re: Arabian Aviation - 2023

When will Delta enter Saudi Arabia?

Re: DL 221 CDG-SLC diverting to Madrid

Was flying over Scotland and then turned straight south towards Spain. Quite odd as they could have diverted to DUB od any other UK outstations. Anyone know the reason for such an odd diversion? Folks…. Please. It’s been over a hundred years already. Dublin isn’t in the UK :) I know.. Thats just li...

Re: Fixed wing airlines that also operate helicopters

Mohawk Airlines, S-55 from EWR to Grossinger's Resort in the early 1950s. https://www.prints-online.com/p/164/sikorsky-s-55-n424a-mohawk-airlines-18388014.jpg.webp Grossinger's where the famous boxer Rocky Marciano (himself later to die in an airplane accident too) trained at!

Re: (airplane) Airlines that hacve also operated helicopters

CrewBunk wrote:

Air Canada

Fixed wing airlines that also operate helicopters

Off the top of my head:
Aeroflot
British Airways
Pakistan International Airways
Pan Am
Olympic

Any others?

Re: Two bodies found in an Avianca's airplane landing gear compartment

RIP

Re: Movies with airlines on them

All correct... Woke up this morning and remembered a few fictional ones from my childhood: The Langoliers - "American Pride" L1011 (based off TWA's double red stripe livery). David Morse played an outstanding captain in my opinion. Turbulence - "Trans Continental" 747-1/200 (bas...

Re: Movies with airlines on them

I wonder if Midnight Oil was trying to make a point by having a Flying Tigers 747 on their Beds Are Burning video? After all, their lead singer is still an active, ehem.... activist...

Re: Airlines serving Gothenburg airport

Airport-destination tables on the English language wikipedia are often updated earlier and more often than those on the wikipedias of other languages - and as a result the English language one may be be a better description of which airlines fly where. That said, the rest of the page about an airpo...

Re: Gothenburg airport...wow!!

Ok, their English page lists 30 airlines. Still impressive!

Re: Time to talk about.....old airlines!

The thread has accumulated 284 replies previous to this one. Interestingly, 84 was the code Boeing used for Olympic Airways. So, if the variant was -200, for example, Boeing 747-284, 737-284 or 727-284 this would mean the first operator of a specific aircraft was Olympic. Also of interest is to not...

Airlines serving Gothenburg airport

I just counted on their Wikipedia Swedish page...41 airlines? (Passenger and cargo combined)

What's going on down there???

Re: EK secures rights as only airline allowed to serve Moët&Chandon, Veuve Clicquot and Dom Pérignon

Im flying Emirates from now on!

Re: Your Most Flown Airline?

Ive only flown 14 times...monetary reasons mostly..(spent a total of ten bucks combined on those 14 flights)..anyways my number is Eastern and American, 4 times each. How can 14 flights cost 10 usd in total? On what airlines were the other 6 flights? The thing is, all the other flights, the ticket ...

Re: Rock N Roll Heaven - Who's in the band?

Lennon and Harrison.

Re: Five Word Story Thread - Q4 2022

As we all do it

Re: What 2 or more airlines would you like to have be partners?

China Eastern, China Southern and China Southwest Airlines. Together, they could be called China Eastern Southern United Airlines!

Jokes aside, I don't know.

Re: Any ‘CHIPS’ fans here ?

I think Jon felt jealous of the attention Ponch got. Also, from what I heard, it seems the actor who played Jon was a bit racist in real life? But Im not sure. Never saw anything to infer he was a racist. Only that he served his country honorably in the Marines before he became an actor. I read it ...

Re: Any ‘CHIPS’ fans here ?

I watched this TV series as a youngster, I was a big motorcycle enthusiast and thought their KZ1000’s were really nice machines It may seem like a corny show now but it was something quite different, each episode would often have a positive message and the best part was it didn’t glorify the use of...

Re: Any ‘CHIPS’ fans here ?

LCDFlight wrote:

Loved the show. It (and Three’s Company, different type of show) both made California look really good in the late 70s early 80s. Positive lifestyles and people being good to each other.

Re: Any ‘CHIPS’ fans here ?

NIKV69 wrote:

AntonioMartin wrote:

Im a CHPS fan who met Erik Estrada in person! I also a big SWAT and what was the name of that fire department show? fan.

Oh, I remember now...Emergency! Plus, Charlie's Angels!

Jaclyn Smith hair flick!!!!!!!!!! I lived for that.

Re: Any ‘CHIPS’ fans here ?

Im a CHPS fan who met Erik Estrada in person! I also a big SWAT and what was the name of that fire department show? fan.

Oh, I remember now...Emergency! Plus, Charlie's Angels!

Re: Former U.S. Airline Brands

MartijnNL wrote:

BoeingERJ1000 wrote:

Other than that, I miss NW because of the Bowling Shoe livery. It’s my favorite livery of all time, and I wish I’d gotten to see it in person.

How can you miss something that you have never seen?

Re: Air Canada Inaugurates Only Flight Between North America And Bangkok

e] All with a stop in Asia. So again, what's changed? Oh, ok I didn't know that. When Delta served BKK and Thai the US, I was just a teen who liked seeing the name of Bangkok on my Delta destinations shirt and mostly cared about keeping my Schabak airport model updated, my newest Airliners magazine...

Re: Air Canada Inaugurates Only Flight Between North America And Bangkok

I don’t mind sixteen hours in the air but the whole thing is in the dark. Appalling! BKK certainly underserved from N/A. Based on what? Every major feed market for BKK can get there in 1stop with multiple options, usually over both oceans. If yields weren't generally trash, they'd have less stops t...

Re: Greatest movie ever

SL1200MK2 wrote:

Howard the Duck

Re: Movies with airlines on them

Planes has an American Airlines jet which I think in the UK was a British Airways, in Turkey a Turkish and etc...

Re: Movies with airlines on them

Isn't there a glimpse of an AA 727 in Top Gun? Or am I thinking of another Tom Cruise movie? Jungle 2 Jungle with Tim Allen has a scene of a Servivensa or Avensa 727 departing from what I assume is CCS. The next scene is him in his seat talking to his new-found son. Cool Runnings has two AA scenes,...

Re: RIP Kirstie Alley

She made a good show very good. R.I.P. It's tough to replace one of the main characters on a show and do it successfully. Her character on Cheers was a radical departure from Shelly Long's and that's part of what made it work. Same thing when Woody came in to take Coach's place. The writers did a g...

Re: RIP Mills Lane

Mills Lane was a US Marine and a boxing referee in some of the greatest fights Las Vegas ever saw. He and another US Marine, Richard Steele, gave the boxing ring in Vegas at that time style, elegance and substance as superb referees. Lane was also the referee when Marvelous Marvin Hagler fought Robe...

Re: Antonio Brown weirdness

They have also been able to detect brain damage at least since 1985. I know a boxer who had to retire in 1985 when it was discovered he had brain damage after, of all things possible, getting hit on the head during a pickup association football game (Chilean Adolfo Medel)! "Real" Football...

Re: RIP Kirstie Alley

Good actress and beautiful woman...rip.

Re: Greatest movie ever

I just watched Almost Famous and it has to be there. i can relate to almost all the characters, even the female ones. Even the autograph hunting weirdo. (I used to belong to an undercover group of autograph hunters that even had connections at the airport-which I could detail in another thread lol)

Re: PHX RDU Nonstop

jplatts wrote:

AntonioMartin wrote:

A CK? Whats a CK? A ...Calvin Klein???

A CK is an ConciergeKey membership, which includes AAdvantage Executive Platinum status and a few other perks.

Re: Antonio Brown weirdness

Obviously not, but it's still worth looking into after he's in custody for the sake of other football players' well-being. You can't diagnose CTE on a living person. Only after death can you dissect the brain and see. I think they are working on it and are quite close to being able to detect it in ...

Re: Greatest movie ever

scbriml wrote:

AntonioMartin wrote:

B777LRF wrote:

Shaving Ryan’s Privates .

Saving Private Ryan?

Tell me you don't watch porn without telling me. :lol.