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Several months ago, my long-standing account (ChrisNH) was blocked from entering the forums. I could successfully log onto the main airliners.net site, but got the 'Error 502' code upon trying to go the next step into the Forums. Almost as though the main site and the Forums are disconnected from ea...

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2019

When do we find out whether JL will shift things from NRT to HND? I understand from some people that this is the most likely outcome.

Re: MINT and other Service Cuts to JetBlue, starting 9/1

I’m surprised B6 doesn’t run an advertisement saying “All we fly are mainline jets.” The more RJs DL throws at BOS, the more that difference stands out.

Re: Frontier F9 Announces 15 destinations from EWR

Frontier is like a hoodwinking carnival barker who grabs what he can at one stop before packing up and going to the next town.

Re: Unconfirmed: BA to make major 2020 TATL expansion later this week

IMO Boston has enough service already to LHR/LGW based on 2020 announcements and then of course what JetBlue eventually does down the road. Only thing I could see BA doing here is making the A380 year-round, but even that is probably a stretch.

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2019

No one is debating WN's relevance nationally. In BOS however they have become irrelevant, and they dragged MHT down along with it. This indeed has been the result. But truth be told, consolidation dragged MHT down. UA swallowed up CO; AA swallowed up US; DL swallowed up NW. None of the three 'winne...

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2019

While we're discussing whether WN needs five gates, one could also ask whether UA needs six.

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2019

I don't quite get EK bringing the A380 back for December and January before going four months with the 77W. Is there some spike in demand in December & January? Maybe they just want some winter-time practice at Logan before going year-round with it in 2020 and beyond.

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2019

With all the gymnastics at Terminals A & B, is Air Canada going have a nicer setup? I always thought I was heading into a third-world airport with them.

Re: WN ending ATL-BOS

WN has had some good success entering 'big-city' airports (DEN comes to mind, with what they're planning), but BOS is decidedly not one of them. Oh, they won't pull out of Logan. But nor will they really grow. And that's the paradox since they are going to (in my view) occupy more gates there than t...

Re: American Airlines Boston LHr, CDG and other Europe.

UA and AA are token players at Logan nowadays, and I never thought I’d see myself type that. DL and B6 have grown up around them. Across my many years of business flying, I never ‘invested’ in one carrier’s FF program until two years ago when I decided that JetBlue would achieve a critical mass at L...

Re: JetBlue Network Thread - 2019

I can't help but think WN's arrival at BOS wasn't such a positive thing for them. They hold no leverage with Massport and they can't turn their planes anywhere near as fast as they might like. Plus, I see all sorts of 'bargain' fares at BOS, signaling (to me, at least) that they are pressured from a...

Re: Japan allocates additional Haneda international slots to ANA & JAL

How likely is it that BOS gets something from ANA? We only have the JAL to NRT and I tend to think the demand for HND is equal to that, at least.

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2019

Do you think by going to LGW Delta is betting B6 fails in its quest to go to LHR? Of course, we know B6 would LIKE to go to LHR but it doesn’t mean the chips will fall in that direction for them.

Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) - 2019

N717TW is indeed on its way to Scotland from PWM right now. The ‘broken’ one is still there.

Re: AA starting 3 class 321 on MIA-LAX eff DEC 18 2019

AA yanked these off the BOS-LAX route and replaced them with ordinary A321s. I don’t know if this is signaling that JetBlue’s Mint is ‘winning’ because the route has more than those two on it. But years ago, AA ‘owned’ BOS-LAX while UA ‘owned’ BOS-SFO. Now, both carriers have been marginalized at Bo...

Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) - 2019

Noticed an interesting departure from PWM this morning. An old WN 733 (N636WN) flying PWM - KEF. Anyone know anything about this?? All I can guess is that some airline somewhere bought it...and not necessarily Icelandair. KEF just might be a fuel stop along the way to its ultimate destination. It c...

Re: Why did DL 122, BOS-EDI, just divert to PWM? (First DL 757 at PWM since 1996)

A replacement 757 (9970) is expected to come up from JFK but hasn’t yet departed, according to FlightAware.

Re: Rumor: Airbus to launch A350-1000ULR

If Airbus goes ahead with the 1000ULR to win 'Sunrise,' isn't that a fool's errand? I mean, who besides Qantas and Singapore would want this plane? Development costs could only be spread among those carriers, who would 'expect' favorable pricing from Airbus I would reckon. Is there any money to be m...

Re: Delta international announcement later today

I think swapping metal in Boston was smart. I never got the sense that Virgin built much of a following at Logan, and the whole thing becomes better by virtue of DL flying these routes. So I guess that leaves Virgin with the lone flight to LHR...back to the future.

SAS and Boston.

I know that SAS uses a too-big A330 on the Boston route and was wondering whether they have a new aircraft coming along that would make it more viable and sustainable than it is now.

Re: Manchester (UK) Thread - 2019

I think with DL building out Boston in a big way, switching to their metal makes sense. They are fortifying Logan against the eventual arrival of JetBlue on the transatlantic scene, and that isn’t necessarily saying that JetBlue is coming to MAN. But they are connecting dots where prudent. I’m also ...

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2019

User001 wrote:

Delta to launch daily Manchester and Gatwick from 21st May 2020, 3rd daily Heathrow from 28th March 2020

Re: Norwegian plane loses small pieces over inhabitated area at FCO

While a sad and unfortunate set of circumstances, it ended up with a HiFly A380 doing Rome-Boston-Rome today.

Re: Norwegian to cancel all TATL MAX routes

What a rollercoaster for them. And an A380 was used today to get folks from Rome to Boston and then back again.

Re: Moxy - News and Discussion Thread

Summer 2021, that is an awful long time. Long enough for the competition to derail your route plans. I would believe their start-up would be a lot sooner. On the surface, I'd agree. But this whole thing might not be a venture worth trying to 'derail' inasmuch as they are going PTP and supposedly st...

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2019

Looks like CX is a casualty of the upheaval in Hong Kong. Seeing that these flights operate nearly 100% full, that's a lot of people new itineraries need to be crafted for.

Re: Haneda slots

I’m going to Kyoto next month from Boston and the JAL nonstop to NRT makes things a bit more complicated... not less. So I’m taking Korean’s 787-9 to Seoul and backtracking to Osaka. Same in reverse. A HND nonstop from Boston would certainly have kept me on JAL metal (or someone else’s).

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2019

Another BOS A380 data point: EK brings theirs back on Jun 1, 2020, just as they did this year. That leaves BA to commit, which they will likely do. That means three daily A380s at Logan for the summer 2020 season.

Re: Rumor: American to make huge announcement

They’re gonna give up on Boston and leave it to DL and B6

Re: Lufthansa Polling On Which City To Send A380 To (ORD, SEA, TPA, DFW)

BOS, from what I gather, is one of the tighter places to maneuver the A380...yet will have three of them visit next summer...BA, LH, and EK. We know LH will; BA and EK currently use it and would presumably reinstate service next spring (no one is using it here through the winter, aside from a brief ...

Re: SFO and BOS to go year round from MUC

BOS is NOT scheduled for full-year service on the A380; only SFO is. BOS will get it during the summer 2020 season but will likely revert back to the 346 after.

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2019

It sure would be a P.R. dream at DL to announce BOS-HND at the same time B6 announced details for service to Europe. "Sticking it to the Man," as that old commercial said.

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2019

Or, Delta might be wise to try Haneda-Boston now that they're ditching NRT. They're the only U.S. carrier with the capability and the enthusiasm for Boston.

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2019

Is there anything precluding ANA from flying to Boston from Haneda? Would the agreement between both countries prohibit or allow it?

Re: Philadelphia Aviation Thread - 2019