After talking with friends about this, one of them who is a retired United flight attendant, said United called him in attempt to recall him back to work because United is planning a “hub at Miami.” Does this flight attendant, out of the thousands and thousands of current flight attendants, have sp...
Jump to post[quote="airportgeek"]This thread is hilarious. I wanted to share a few thoughts. There's two conflicting hub ideas going on here: (1) UA needs/will build a SE domestic hub (2) UA needs/will build a Florida/Latin America international hub. The SE domestic hub is a tantalizing idea, with AA ...
Jump to postThis thread is hilarious. Does anyone really think the UA folks in HQ are foaming at the mouth to get their share of the tens of people flying from JAN to SAV or HSV to MYR? 1. So much of the intra-Southeast is drivable. 2. DL, AA and WN pretty much have it covered. 3. Breeze tries some things intr...
Jump to postOkay, that is never a "thing" that's done at UA. That person has no reason to lie to me / make a story up. Why would UA attempt to call back a retired FA when they have scores of young, healthy 22yo's pouring out of the training center every week? I call BS. The former MIA-based crowd has...
Jump to postDoes Star connectivity matter? If so, MIA has a good amount of Star airlines - AV, CM, LH, TP, LX, TK. Might be missing one or two.
Jump to postThanks all for satisfying my curiosity with great pictures and articles!!!! I remember my mom, RIP, talking about flying both Cubana and Aerovias Q to the US from Havana pre 1959. I am going to scour the internet tonight and see if I can find a route map for either of the two airlines in the mid-lat...
Jump to postHow about EWR-BIO? There's no service currently from the US to NE Spain/SW France. Not sure if there's a market out there for it, but UA thinks outside the box and this would be a great destination to add.
Jump to postOut of curiosity, does anyone know if Cubana (or Aerovias Q) ever flew American planes prior to 1959?
Jump to postNot sure why anyone thought these would be 'ground breaking' to begin with. AA is miles behind UA/DL in destinations served while lacking widebodies and capacity flexibility of those widebodies (only 4 types). I'd say these are ground breaking relative to the AA strategy of late that was leading to...
Jump to postNot sure why anyone thought these would be 'ground breaking' to begin with. AA is miles behind UA/DL in destinations served while lacking widebodies and capacity flexibility of those widebodies (only 4 types). I'd say these are ground breaking relative to the AA strategy of late that was leading to...
Jump to postintotheair wrote:Funny how they did a UA-style route tease. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery I suppose.
Specific to MIA, just about every vendor option has been terrible for the last five years regardless of cost for every airline. Insourcing doesn't really change the agents doing the work (as plenty will come over from vendors), it more so just provides them with better resources and leadership. At ...
Jump to postBecause our vendors are terrible. The ramp in ATL is an embarrassment, as is RIC, MEM, ORF, BNA, and CMH. United needs to continue to focus on quality control and bring back more of its of employees rather than contracting to the lowest bidder. Can’t blame the vendors, United itself is looking for ...
Jump to postWould it be feasible for UA to add BIO to its network? Seems to be an underserved part of northeast Spain and close to an underserved part of southwest France and according to this article at least, the catchment area is quite large.
https://www.flybio.eus/flybio/bilbao-airport/
Actually, the cherry blossom are IAD and the bear is Berlin I guess
Jump to postWhat's the cherry blossom and bear then? I think it could very well be CTS from SFO
Jump to postHow about the twins? What flight might they be?
Jump to postSomewhat unrelated to this post but why wasn't a new airport built in CDMX? I used to go there regularly in 2005-2007 but hadn't been back until last month. The airport was bad back then and it's just as bad now. It's too small for the amount of traffic it generates (reminds me of the old Ataturk ai...
Jump to postI don't remember which terminal or which specific club, but I remember flying MUC-CLT in late 2019 and the Admirals Club I visited in CLT was bar none, the worst airport lounge I'd ever been to in the US. For one thing, it was the size of my living room and overly crowded with no place to sit. Food ...
Jump to postHere's one just for kicks and out of left field --- DFW or PHL to CMB. Both OneWorld hubs and UL seems to have a decent amount of connectivity to southern India.
Jump to postI just flew through CLT and used the concourse B Admiral's Club. It's way too small and overcrowded for the amount of passengers it receives. I don't know about the other concourse lounges, but if they're anything like the one in concourse B, AA needs to find a way to the size of the lounges to acco...
Jump to postSaw it approaching MIA overhead as I was driving home. Couldn't tell what type of plane it was but clearly Ethiopian. Anyone know why it's at MIA?
Jump to postSo it looks like Seville was an unsubstantiated rumor from the very beginning?
Jump to postWould love to see a secondary French city---EWR-LYS or EWR-MRS. How about something really out of the box like EWR-Bilbao?
Jump to postSo what is the announcement? Can someone who knows place a link in the very first post of this thread so that those of us who do not find drivel interesting do not have to slog through it... I agree. The announcement should have been a new thread so we don't have to go thru 260 posts to find it. Bu...
Jump to postA bit disappointed to see the announcement being this narrow as I expected to see several new routes. However, I'm glad they'll fly to Casablanca. “Of all the airports, in all the towns, in all the world, they fly into this one” Ha ha!! Quote fits perfectly for CMN. That said and although CMN is th...
Jump to postAssuming the aircraft are available, wouldn't BRU also be a good candidate for the high J 767?
Jump to postHere's an older post from the Points Guy with pictures of the premium 767. Polaris cabin looks huge and I'm impressed with the 2-2-2 layout in premium economy/Premium Plus.
https://thepointsguy.com/news/united-hi ... irst-look/
Wasn't SVQ just a rumor? I know it would just be a pipe dream but Spain-wise, BIO (Bilbao) would really be fantastic and not sure there's any transatlantic service to any city nearby. LYS -- a very beautiful, overlooked city (or maybe just overshadowed by Paris) with a good financial sector. I wonde...
Jump to postAt its peak, does anyone know how many daily flights there were between MIA-CCS? I worked at UA in the late 90s/early 2000s and we had one daily flight and for a few years, a seasonal second flight. There was even talk of a third flight. My how things have changed. That's a great question, and I ho...
Jump to postAt its peak, does anyone know how many daily flights there were between MIA-CCS? I worked at UA in the late 90s/early 2000s and we had one daily flight and for a few years, a seasonal second flight. There was even talk of a third flight. My how things have changed.
Jump to postMahan isn't really a regular civilian airline any more, its major shareholder is a "charity" called "Mowla al Movaheddin" which in turn is owned by the iranian revolutionary guard. In the past years it has been used to transport weapons as well has "human resources" to...
Jump to postIf anyone knows, what is KE's highest yielding US market and how does it do at IAD?
Jump to postPSAatSAN4Ever wrote:So who is left now flying into CCS? Air Europa, COPA, and...?
I could be totally wrong here but didn't DL have a short-lived JFK-LED flight right after the break up of the Soviet Union? BTW, US citizen here...been to Russia twice. St. Petersburg is a gem of a city and Moscow is as cosmopolitan as any of the world's great cities and didn't encounter any issues ...
Jump to postIt's all been said here - airlines don't pay the standard rate, full service vs. "do it yourself" etc.. However, as someone who travels very frequently and who lives very close to a major airport, so close in fact that the location could be considered a good layover spot (location wise), t...
Jump to postGSP psgr wrote:What about going back to Africa from EWR?
EWR-JNB/CPT 787
EWR-DKR-LOS 757
EWR-ACC 763
EWR-CAI 763
EWR-CMN 763
................. Florida (Miami, not Jacksonville), Here we go again. Jacksonville is the largest city in Florida by land area and in population, only as to the city or perhaps better said, as to the municipality. While I'm not a fan of quoting wikipedia, this list is pretty accurate - Jax, as you...
Jump to postWith all due respect, MIA is mostly a tourism destination, how can a nonstop to Tokyo be justified? There are lots of excellent one-stop connections with a short stop that is almost exactly under the flight path, like Chicago. It seems to me that Airliners.net is full of threads discussing MIA to S...
Jump to postGalwayman wrote:I think Europeans are bored with a Miami , it’s like a tiny overpriced version of Havana - unless they’re going on cruises
I just flew from LED to MXP on Rossiya (Aeroflot) on a totally uneventful flight and upon landing, the largely Russian passengers broke into applause. I've had this happen on flight to/from Latin America as well, but usually when the flight has been a little more challenging.
Jump to postI flew them in business class MIA-LHR last September on a dilapidated 747. The seat was very outdated, the inflight system was marginal and the food was pretty sub-par, memorably, bags of nuts rather than a ramekin and worst of all, for breakfast, indifferent flight attendants walking through the ai...
Jump to postI can't remember where I read, probably here on A.Net, that ORD-BOG was in the works.
Jump to postI'm new to posting btw.. Again, Jax is NOT the largest city in Florida. It is the largest city in area/size, but that's only because a lot of Duval County, where Jacksonville is located, is vacant land. Vacant land does not make for airline passengers. BreezyIAH - Welcome to A.net!!! Keep posting!!!
Jump to postas well as the largest in FL Jax is not the largest metropolitan area (in population) in Florida, it's behind, and pretty way behind, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa-St. Pete and Orlando. Jacksonville is the largest metropolitan area in Florida in area/size but a lot of the area is not populated. That ...
Jump to postDoes any airline still allow it or "look the other way"? I am an occasional smoker, but I remember flights that allowed smoking back in the 80s and 90s and it was disgusting. The smoking section was also a joke. I remember flying from MIA-LIM on UA in first class sometime back in the late-...
Jump to postMIA has come a long way and while there's still work to do on the Central terminal, the South and North terminals are very nice. While TPA and other airports may have quicker lines, I'd assume the survey is based on several other factors such as, e.g., concessions. IMO, MIA has the best choice of re...
Jump to postA few years ago, MIA would've been on that list but the North and South Terminals are actually very nice, modern and with many amenities. That being said, the F and G concourses would definitely fall into the worst concourse in any US airport. Hopefully the improvements to the "Central" te...
Jump to postHow about PTY? Copa's entire fleet is narrow body
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