Speaking in general, but regions that have decent metro / regional rail and don't have their airports connected directly to the terminals is a big fail.
Jump to postI wonder if they plan to replace their B712 fleet. With them doing a "modernization" of their fleet, I would assume this would be the next logical step. Maybe the A221?? HA's unique situation with the B712s has been discussed countless times. The long and short of it is that is that short...
Jump to postNon-AA hub airports with AA Admirals Club lounges: ATL, AUS, BOS, DEN, HNL, IAH, BNA, EWR, SNA, MCO, PIT, RDU, SFO, STL, TPA Non-DL hub airports with Delta Sky Club lounges: AUS, ORD, CVG, DFW, DEN, FLL, HNL, IND, JAX, MEM, MIA, MKE, BNA, MSY, EWR, MCO, PHL, PHX, PDX, RDU, SAN, SFO, TPA, DCA, PBI N...
Jump to postis there any plan from any US airline to operate LAX-ICN ? OZ & KE are flying A380 & 748i , not sure about the load factor but must be great as they are sending their large widebodies. In the short-term future while transpacific and intra-Asia flying remains depressed due to COVID restricti...
Jump to postWhy not go all-in on Airbus? Renew the A330CEOs with A330NEOs and purchase A350-1000s when the time comes to retire the 77Ws.
Jump to postNewark727 wrote:I get what they're going for, but the new logo just kind of doesn't look like anything. Also they better not do plain white + colored tail, getting really sick of those.
Philippines just announced that they will be allowing entry of fully vaxxed foreigners starting Feb. 16. When does DL start up ICN-MNL again? https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1165425 It has been a few long years, but I recall the reason for ICN-MNL on DL metal in the first place was for the KE-DL pa...
Jump to postTesla just recently withdrew acceptance of BTC for purchases, citing environmental concerns about the impact of the BTC network.
Jump to postNot surprised at all. I always found that 5th freedom flight to be odd and a relic of the past. Aside from Hong Kong and Singapore, most people traveling to Southeast Asia are tourists/VFR flyers. It is much more efficient for Delta to just throw US originating passengers bound for Southeast Asia on...
Jump to postAC is deferring A220s and outright cancelling (10) 737 MAXs and (12) A220s https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-09/airbus-s-a220-jet-suffers-blow-after-canadian-order-cancellation?cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-australia&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=australia&utm_m...
Jump to postIt’s not looking good for sure. But at what point does the world say “whatever” and move on. The entire airline industry will collapse (along with many others) if this cycle of shutdowns drags on forever. As is plain to see now, it doesn’t matter how long you keep things locked down for, nature (a ...
Jump to postNay sayers never will be convinced. Their Bayesian starting point is green bad/hydrocarbon good. Any subsequent evidence is accepted or not accepted in so far as it confirms their starting facts. What an utter non-sense. Who likes pollution? But that doesn't automatically make solar / wind power fe...
Jump to postIn this new world of possibly permanently reduced demand for exotic destinations, HA should seriously consider replacing 787 orders with XLRs. The former is even larger than the A330-200s they own which sort of doesn’t make sense anymore. The XLR has the range to make the US East Coast and Northeast...
Jump to postI'm still scratching my head as to why HA ditched the A330neo type entirely instead of buying into the A339. It would have kept Hawaiian's simple pool of "interisland" and "overseas" cabin/flight crew versus the mess the 787-9 will bring.
Jump to postThe internal pessimist believes that even the 787 and A350 will be too big to fly profitably for the next several years, with a very slow crawl back to 2019 baseline stretching through the end of the decade. The A321(XLR) and whatever long range narrowbody Boeing or whoever cooks up will become the ...
Jump to postThis weekend when the alternates are scheduled are forecasted for similar weather - scattered thunderstorms. Hopefully the weather man is wrong in this regard.
Jump to postTurboprops are viewed unfavorably by the typical US flyer, which does have an influence on the airlines; only HA and AS remain as majors that fly their colors on propellor aircraft. There’s no good answer to the regional aircraft replacement question as RJs get older. E175-E2 is the best choice but ...
Jump to postIf CX wants to rid itself of 777X orders and go for 787, here’s an idea: go away from Boeing and go for A330neo. It is a cheaper aircraft, a direct 1:1 replacement. Pilot pools will be unified with a A350/A330/A330N fleet. Go all Airbus CX it’s the smart thing to do.
Jump to postQuick history lesson: The quickest vaccine ever to be developed was the mumps vaccine. Development time: 4 years. So no, there probably won't be a COVID19 vaccine 'in a few months'. And even if by a miracle there would be vaccine by say December, it is going to take months if not years for those va...
Jump to postCould DL just cut their losses in Australia if VA goes under? That and continued depressed demand could lead the carrier to de-hub Los Angeles.
Jump to postWent spotting twice last week at Imperial Hill, from approx 7:30pm to 9:30pm. Though I realize it's anecdotal, on the first night, we counted an average span between departures (from any of the four runways) of 4min38sec, for both 2hr periods combined. If you don't count cargo-only ops off of 25L, ...
Jump to postI don't see MSP and DTW both surviving as hubs after this is over. One is going to have to go unless they cut MSP-East Coast and reduce services to the South East in favor of DTW. Services DTW and W/SW would go too. Again with this website's perennial obsession. Every airline's hubs will be seeing ...
Jump to postThis whole "will emerge a smaller airline" is bullshit. DL, UA, AA, were all making record profits. Why the hell would they not want to go back to those numbers? Travel will rebound. Plus, airlines HAVE to grow because their costs go up each year. Yes they may retire certain fleets now, b...
Jump to postDL has been confirmed as the anonymous takeover of 10 A350s that LATAM dropped earlier this year. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbus-a350-idUSKCN21W1PU Thinking out loud - 30+ orders for A339 and now 20+ orders for A350. That's quite a lot of capacity for an airline that plans to be downsizin...
Jump to postSNA - KOA / AQ
MNL - NRT / NW then DL
Is anyone bullish on LAX and/or IAD if the “smaller carrier emerges” theory continues? I know those two topics have been beaten to death over the years but the hub consolidation theory many are discussing seems to leave those two without a clear purpose beyond an AA @ JFK tailored presence. LAX is ...
Jump to postLAX is a huge market, but its split and its expensive to operate in; the US3 + WN have stations that are much more cheaper to operate in. The chance for LAX being dehubbed is very much a possibility; possibly being a focus city or a simple outstation, with TATL, TPAC, and Latin American services bei...
Jump to postJust my personal feelings, but I don't think it's right for all airlines to come out of this crisis unscathed. Could VS transition to a charter only operation? It is no longer appropriate for it so serve legacy routes with the highest costs. With VS's new shiny, but very expensive fleet, unlikely t...
Jump to postLAX is too competitive and too expensive to ever be a true hub for any airline. While the Los Angeles market is large, its primarily O&D and market share domestically is brutally split between all of the majors save F9 and G4. International is a bloodbath. Expect further drawbacks from all airli...
Jump to postThinking out loud (and for selfish reasons) but I wonder how long will it take for the industry to recover at a jobs level? The notion of a pilot shortage existing at all is optimistic at best, pure marketing by schools, airlines and “influencers” at worst. And airlines downsizing will make that a d...
Jump to postEnd of an era, but DL is more than correct in realizing that it has no future in the Japanese market aside from the O&D from its major hubs and Hawaii and as such move towards HND a more premium and convenient airport for business and tourism alike. Its future belongs in Seoul and KE taking on D...
Jump to postCC-BBF (one of the 787-8s) is in the air supposedly making its way back to SCL per FR24 as LAN111. Still find it strange with the amount of idle LATAM widebodies at LAX, especially the Brazilian registered 77Ws which are not a usual visitor. And that they all came from GRU which has no normal schedu...
Jump to postSo an update on my question earlier in the thread - it wasn't a glitch, Interjet ferried a total of four Airbuses to Chino, California (CNO) via Tuscon today, along with a couple others to Goodyear. I don't think I've ever heard of passenger jets being stored at CNO before - I'd at least expect SBD...
Jump to postFor better or worse those restrictions aren’t going to stay in place or be extended. There’s major pushback from all sorts of places, of which can be appropriately discussed elsewhere. I worry that the lifting/expiration on said restrictions will send a false message of “everything is alright” and t...
Jump to postMust be airline specific internal designations.
Officially all Boeing aircraft after a certain point in time no longer have designators beyond the type and specific model. Customer codes are gone, and Boeing never did engine type/rating specific codes like Airbus ie A350-941.
CaliAtenza wrote:Will US domestic passenger flights be grounded?
Akwagon wrote:Mandatory 14 day quarantine for ALL flights coming into Hawaii...
https://apnews.com/9a9267e5e23aa5cd66b1 ... WestRegion
One can argue that LAX is already not a hub for DL or any airline, rather a focus city that feels like a hub because of the sheer size of Los Angeles and the large O&D demand. It is impossible for LAX to be to a carrier like SFO to UA, ATL to DL, DFW to AA, etc. Regardless, LAX is a place where ...
Jump to postEU261-like consumer protection rules and further protections for workers should be a condition for accepting any money from the government. Otherwise, airlines can ask for money from the government in the form of loans they have to pay back, or use shares in the company as collateral. The practices ...
Jump to postThe US government won't allow Boeing to collapse plain and simple - the company is too vital to the US manufacturing sector and employs enough people directly and indirectly to populate a large suburban city. Intervention if things get really bad is inevitable - cash injections, tax breaks, or even ...
Jump to postFWIW, per the DL website on March 10, the following regions are seeing these reductions: Pacific down 65%, Trans-Atlantic down 15 -20%, domestic down 10-15%, Latin [America?] down 5%. The following are posted reductions in service: SOUTH KOREA • Service between Minneapolis/St. Paul and Seoul-Incheo...
Jump to postWN could follow the model of WestJet and Ryanair and create offshoot companies. Such an offshoot could bring in economical planes like A220 and implement ULCC tactics that go against their supposed ethos. Like others have said WN is pretty much a legacy in disguise and their big pros like free bagg...
Jump to postWN could follow the model of WestJet and Ryanair and create offshoot companies. Such an offshoot could bring in economical planes like A220 and implement ULCC tactics that go against their supposed ethos. Like others have said WN is pretty much a legacy in disguise and their big pros like free bagga...
Jump to postHow soon will United pull the plug on this flight school. Welcome to the wonderful world of aviation fellows. It takes the better part of 2 years, often times more than that to get an eligible person off the street and into the right seat of a regional. Even with it being brought in house (the exte...
Jump to postAlmost all of these cuts are Corona related, even if indirectly. Every company has basically instituted a travel ban. Business travel is not going to be a thing for a while. I'd imagine lesser hubs like PHX are probably going to be the most hurt in this. I get the distinct impression that WN droppi...
Jump to postAS has no orders for A321XLR. And them setting up Trans-Pacific flights would be a great way to light money on fire.
Jump to postThe rules are very clear - 80% utilization for a slot pair over the year or the airline forfeits it. No exceptions. That's why these ghost flights are happening. And the merits of making an exception in extraordinary circumstances like this versus regulators putting their foot down and refusing any ...
Jump to postI think this is another indication Delta is serious about overtaking Alaska to become the number one carrier in Seattle full stop. Which isn't going to happen I’d argue that DL will overtake AS in the PNW. Like what it did to AA in JFK. DL has a massive operation that can subsidize growing SEA into...
Jump to postDL is matching AA/AS tit for tat at SEA. Not sustainable for all parties long term. SEA is gonna see a capacity glut to LON, which is good for the flyers bad for the companies. I expect Norwegian to tap out and draw down its LGW flight. And DL is big enough and cash filled enough to take on the AA/B...
Jump to postGlad to see E2 operators being happy with the jet, which should assuage some doubts about the program. It’s a shame that Embraer couldn’t make the E2 scope compliant for the US market. I doubt that mainline carriers will pay mainline salaries for E2 pilots.
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