Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2020

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2020

I’m hearing rumors that the concourse connector is going down at Pdx in early January. Sounds like a new one will replace it, but there won’t be a seating area to relax as in the current one. If that’s true, that’s a bummer. I've also heard that from people who work at the airport, so I'd assume it...

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2020

Boutique does not fly out of the new Atlantic terminal. They converted the front office of the old Skywest hangar into their FBO. Thanks for the update Ramprat74.....Did the Port of portland shelve plans for redoing the north ramp to accommodate more RON?? I haven't seen any movement in that area.....

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2020

Boutique may just end up the way of Seaport... Their MX is questionable at times, blind investors, dart board destinations... They are just vultures flying around the nearly dead carcass that is Pt121 aviation at this time. I liked SeaPort, too. Flew on them once from BFI back home to PDX. It was a...

Re: Boeing Considers Closing 787 Production in WA

Purely a political move. Production will not leave WA. Also, SC not NC.. Why do people always mix up NC/SC? The RNC the other day had a posting describing Charlotte but used references the whole time to Charleston. I sure hope this is true... However, Boeing does have a history of shooting themselv...

Re: END OF PRIORITY SCREENING FOR COVID-19

I don't think the Priority Guidelines are followed at times, for instance shots of a Delta A350 at PDX added today, yet there is nothing in the guidelines that says such a frame would be considered newsworthy (the plane was doing a Troop Charter). It is what it is. Charters are acceptable as priori...

Re: Coronavirus Aviation Related News & Discussion Thread - March 2020 - Part II

So sad seeing the impact on travel. I flew Alaska PDX-SNA on Friday morning. The loads are usually pretty dense for Alaska's flights from Portland to California, I would presume at least 85% full all the time based on what I've seen. There was no more than fifty people on the flight. American seems ...

Re: Abuse of the Priority Uploading privilege

And he apparently thinks people will just buy that they are legitimate when they clearly are not. Dude, you stalk people and create Instagram accounts just to harass people that work @ PDX, and you want to call me out. Seriously, do you want to go there? You should ask your friends to get this thre...

Re: Abuse of the Priority Uploading privilege

. yet this photog is having several images added, in my opinion, out of order, which makes the rest of us wait longer. What? Were you forced to wait longer after uploading another generic side on shot of a new reg at PAE? Perhaps you're waiting for another upload of a generic biz jet on the ramp th...

Re: A photo that is never going to be accepted but a nice one to share

These photos are excellent! Sometimes interesting weather conditions make for the best pics. And the location really adds to the quality of the subject matter.

Re: Question On Priority.

Fair enough! I thought it may fall under the rare visit rule but it's okay.

Question On Priority.

This one should be a relatively easy topic to solve, as priority upload guidelines are pretty straightforward, but still would like to ask to err on the side of caution. One of the priority guidelines is a rare visit of a military jets at airports that rarely sees them. We had a RAF KC3 Voyager visi...

Re: Redirect ads on mobile

So I'm not the only one that this happens to.. Happens to me all the time it seems like. Sometimes I'll even close the tab and come back to the site and it will happen almost immediately again, and then it won't happen for a while. Not the biggest issue, but certainly annoying.

Re: Why are UA´s 777-300ER designated as 777-322ERs?

As many people have stated, it's the customer code. For example, Continental's 737-800's are 737-824's, Southwest's 737's are 737-7H4's and 737-8H4's, Delta's 737's are 737-832's and 932ER's, and so on and so on. So, what was the point in repeating it yet again since you've already admitted that ma...

Re: Why are UA´s 777-300ER designated as 777-322ERs?

As many people have stated, it's the customer code. For example, Continental's 737-800's are 737-824's, Southwest's 737's are 737-7H4's and 737-8H4's, Delta's 737's are 737-832's and 932ER's, and so on and so on.

Re: Blatant hit pumping - how can it be stopped?

I emailed the site manager several days ago asking him to look into this (not the first time I asked). He choose not to respond. It should be pretty easy to see which user account(s) are voting for what photos. I see another one of my photos has made PC again. It is a shame that someone is selfish ...

Re: Blatant hit pumping - how can it be stopped?

Is the photographers choice now being misused too? It has been gamed in the past on a few occasions if I remember right. I wouldn’t have looked there if it weren’t for this topic. I’m not naming anyone or pointing at any photos. Quite clearly this is the case. Some people just want to blame and acc...

Re: Blatant hit pumping - how can it be stopped?

If you can post an example of me uploading a photo and getting more than a couple hundred views in an hour, aside from something that’s being promoted as new, then please do.. How about N80GB with 7K views within less than 24 hrs? It's a nice Skyvan, but nothing special and the light is actually qu...

Re: Blatant hit pumping - how can it be stopped?

If you want to take pictures in poor light - more power to you. But, cheating to get views is weak. Of course the weather was not ideal, but I’m not afraid to take chances and get shots in poor conditions. That doesn’t mean it’s a terrible shot. Tell me how sharing the one or two photos I upload a ...

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2019

Has anyone booked on PAE flights actually gotten rebooked or heard back from AS yet? I've only gotten the "You will be confirmed on the closest available Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) flight." email. My buddy had his flight rebooked to SEA instead of PAE for the first weekend...

Re: Alaska/Virgin Airbuses

The titles on the aircraft should always be filled in as airline 1. The actual owner should then go as airline 2. So: So if it’s an A321, for example, in the Virgin livery but now obviously being operated by Alaska, should I put the airline as Alaska Airlines (Virgin America) or just Alaska Airline...

Alaska/Virgin Airbuses

Ok so this isn’t really a question about feedback, but a question about uploading and I figured this was an okay forum to ask this in. Just curious as to how I should put the airline for Virgin Airbuses after Alaska took over before they’re repainted to Alaska’s livery. So if it’s an A321, for examp...

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2019

Some hornets came into PDX this evening around 4:00. Overheard break on 10R and went to Atlantic. Not sure what unit but they were single seaters... Not sure if Legacy Hornets or E model Supers.

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2019

derek0aa wrote:

Does anybody know why a C-32 is parked in front of the Flightcraft hanger at PDX right now? I was driving down Marine Drive and it was a nice little surprise.

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2019

m0ssy wrote:

Hello From EUG! Hope all are well!

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2019

Happy New Year, all!!!

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2018

PDX Portland International Airport September 2018 (% compared to 2017) Total passengers 1,641,939 +3.9% Domestic 1,563,127 +3.7% International 78,812 +7.6% 2018 year-to-date (% compared to 2017) Total passengers 15,013,211 +4.3% Domestic 14,337,455 +4.0% International 675,756 +13.4% Cathay Pacific ...

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2018

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2018

m0ssy wrote:

Happy Friday everyone! The weather is ugly and I’m stuck at work. Miss the MD-80 at EUG, even if it was never on time.

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2018

Hello again from EUG with another low res shot from my phone. Ducks inbound charter from SFO taxis to the cargo apron, with some company "practicing" the 34L approach. http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/JamieSanders/Mobile%20Uploads/FCE5878F-C354-4A3A-AFEF-10D31B858A2C_zpsqn2lu8ro.jpg...

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2018

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2018

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2018

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2018

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2018

Re: AS Employee steals Q400 at SeaTac

DiamondFlyer wrote:

rosecityspotter wrote:

ucdtim17 wrote:

Did the F-15s come from PDX or somewhere in Washington?

PDX “ROCK 01”

It’s actually 41 & 42, not 01

Re: AS Employee steals Q400 at SeaTac

ucdtim17 wrote:

Did the F-15s come from PDX or somewhere in Washington?

Re: Why so many LAX Overhead Pics?

mast2407 wrote:

What really irritate me about these photos is that they’re classed under the “air to air” category.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s “air to ground”. AmIRight.

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2018

BNA has up to 4 flights a day to SEA. PDX should be able to have at least 1... I would clearly include Nashville with the geographic group I highlighted previously...the lack of that non-stop from PDX still confounds me. Unless I’m confused, hasn’t Alaska done seasonal nonstop to BNA in the past or...

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2018

FC Barcelona is heading to Portland, most likely for Nike promotional stuff before their men's and women's teams tour the US. Anyone gonna be around to get a pic of the aircraft...? ;) It looks like it's leaving back to Madrid at 9:00 PM: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/IBE2880/history/20180725...

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2018

Interesting read. Just goes to show how significant the rapid growth of the Pacific Northwest regions really are in comparison to other metropolitan cities within the U.S. The correlation of "cranes" to economic growth definitely makes sense. Both Portland and Seattle are rapidly growing ...

Re: Airbus Claims that A350XWB is quieter than B787, but is it really?

Airbus also claims that the A380 makes 300 flights per day... Which is absolutely ridiculous. LOL

Re: Man in underwear climbs onto a DL plane wing at Atlanta

He was using Apple Maps. Here at PDX, we actually had some guy drive on to the air field through one of the open construction gates and was stopped at one of the security checkpoints. He claimed that's how the app on his phone told him to get to the airport as he was picking up his wife... He was l...

Re: El Al will launch flights to San Francisco Q4 2018

wenders825 wrote:

why would they announce this so far in advance? this is like QR announcing LAS

what's the advantage going to be over UA? timing?

Re: Boeing 777X Production Thread 2018

I wonder if Boeing is using the Dreamlifters to bring in large plane parts from Japan like the fuselage panel shown above? Being alloy won`t the fuselage & wings be built in-house like previous triple 7 models? Even if wings are carbon-fibre covered ( didn`t they buy an autoclave for the wings?...

Re: First 777 ever built heading to Museum of Flight

I wonder whether bland modern airliners really merit a place in a museum. There will be loads of these about for many years to come. And in my opinion displaying an aircraft with no engines is just gross. I wonder why anyone wants to display all those Spitfires and Lancasters? We need to move on fr...

Re: SY flight from MSP - LAS forgets the luggage!

Just baffles me that they would forget luggage like this...

Re: Fatal Incident Where Plane Returned to Service

The Southwest 737 that had that engine explode and the one woman died departed PAE today after getting fixed.

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2018

5026823 Some nice late evening light on HAL 40 arriving from OGG. Just a couple more days and the Neo will be back ! According to FlightView, PDX-OGG is 767 until 15 August. Google flights has PDX-OGG back to the A321 on 14 June: https://www.google.com/flights/?f=0#search;f=PDX;t=OGG;d=2018-06-14;r...

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2018

Why does Frontier bother staying at PDX? They only operate one year-round daily destination (DEN) and two seasonal 3-day/wk (AUS, CLE). Their connections are pretty much horrible. Right...?! I don't get it at all. Who the hell would want to take a PDX-DEN flight that leaves around 1:00 AM and arriv...