WN's point to point flying is uniquely exposed to a storm like this that impacts multiple focus cities. It's hard to recover from a milk run that goes through multiple cities with weather delays and have the plane arrive on time in the right location for the next crew.
Jump to postOn the up side, you've been to Labrador. Not an easy place to tick off. All the crews were probably peeved, too. Guessing they slept in the planes. I don’t know about this. I don’t see how you could have legal rest on an airplane. Unless they brought a 3rd crew in. Couldn't they have used an augmen...
Jump to postThe a220 I was under the impression had better shortfield performance than the 737-7 and 319. If they are looking for like for like replacement ignoring fleet simplicity then the a220 for the 319 and a350 for the 777. It just depends whether airbus can offer attractive slots and pricing to make it ...
Jump to postPiedmont Pilots will flow directly into AA service for mainline service .... Piedmont cities like many before them now will continue to shrink as aircraft age out ... If AA had a an aircraft replacement plan they would have revealed it by now ... My prediction is that PT and MQ will combine in the ...
Jump to postMy prediction is that PT and MQ will combine in the next 5 years. We'll probably see more E175 orders especially if the AA mainline fleet grows as expected. OH will operate CRJs and merged MQ/PT operating E170/175s. I wonder if merging is worth the costs if instead you can just slowly wind the oper...
Jump to postE145s will linger on for another 3-5 years at a minimum barring pilot complications. By then there may be a replacement aircraft available. Piedmont Pilots will flow directly into AA service for mainline service .... Piedmont cities like many before them now will continue to shrink as aircraft age ...
Jump to postYour solution sucks. Not every FO wants the responsibility of being a Captain. I will take his solution at face value noting that anything that is implemented will have to be bargained with the union. Going from FO to CA is the natural order that has been put in place by the industry of staff, mana...
Jump to postMy solution:
Single list for every pilot on property, everyone is qualified to be a captain in their type, pilot with more time in type is the captain for that trip. Biggest problem will be getting to a single pay scale and the initial training bubble.
AFAIK, when I've seen this discussed previously, there are a fair number of shared services between the three and between them and AA. They did all exist at one point as independent carriers, and then they continued to exist for the whipsaw, but there is less of a need for that now. In any case, it...
Jump to postGood grief, what is AA's fascination with the 50-seaters? DL and UA are phasing them out, and AA wants to add even more? And that's in addition to ZW nonetheless, although I'm not sure how long that contract runs. IMO, AA doesn't need THREE wholly-owned regional subsidiaries. When the E145s reach t...
Jump to postI feel they should invent and affordable home AED that can be connected to emergency services vi WiFi and automatically operate after the wires are connected. AEDs really don't require any real training. The ones we used at our airline would give prompts to take your hands off for analyzing and pri...
Jump to postThe way this played out sure leads me to believe the FA was right in not serving him alcohol. Obviously he said or did some things to warrant the police presence and then being belligerent with the police and even physically resisting them. Yeah, I'd say good call on not giving that guy alcohol.
Jump to postJust to note - these are just the AA/wholly owned aircraft and doesn't reflect YX or OO's parked aircraft. Highly unlikely AA would wind down Piedmont over PSA just due to the setup on the ground handling and corporate side. It is a lot easier to move pilots and FAs around compared to all the groun...
Jump to postDoesn't sound like they had him in custody, just that he heard his name being called over the airport's PA system and decided to leave. It's not like Prime Time Crime shows where they can type a few keystrokes into a computer and instantly have live satellite feed of the guy's whereabouts. It would...
Jump to postThe accountants didn't ruin Boeing, they merely presented the financial statements that the people in charge used to ruin Boeing. Most of the decision makers tend to have finance backgrounds these days. Offshoring will prevent them developing this type of talent internally. Yeah, keep telling yours...
Jump to postI thought people complained it was the accountants and bean counters that ruined Boeing. Now they’re shipping them abroad everybody is angry The accountants didn't ruin Boeing, they merely presented the financial statements that the people in charge used to ruin Boeing. Most of the decision makers ...
Jump to postFlyingElvii wrote:Southwest is over 400 cancels for the day now. This messed them up...
Single day trip is only $14,500. The 5 -8 day on to the south pole is $98,000 to $104,000. What exactly are you paying for with that cost? I understand its more than a simple cruise but $100,000 for a week? You're paying for bragging rights. That said, the cost of supporting human life there is pre...
Jump to postThis is what you do not seem to be grasping. The current DOJ leadership does not subscribe to the consumer welfare theory of antitrust, at least not in the sense that anyone would recognize that term from the past 30 years of application. I guess time will tell. Interesting that the DOJ allows thei...
Jump to postAnother reason to outlaw warbird flying. Weekend warriors who think they are real fighter pilots. They have the money but not the skill. All three pilots were US airline captains. Pretty real pilots. While “airline captains” as you put it, seem by title to have the most experience and thus leading ...
Jump to postGaruda200 wrote:Why is it that from 2010 to 2022 many US regionals have been dying out or winding down their fleet
Sounds like a business opportunity to establish luxury bus service to nearby airports. I can see business people getting their work done on the bus. That's a lot of overhead cost for a well equipped bus (of any size), driver, etc... If enough people willing to pay the kind of money it would cost to...
Jump to postYeah i wonder how they broke out into a fight in the first place. Pilots are screened for psychological suitability for the role. Part of that is being able to control emotions and communicate without causing conflict. However sometimes unsuitable types slip through the cracks, or some may have bee...
Jump to postn471wn wrote:If this has been discussed previously then forgive me, but is AA going to reactivate the 330’s or will they be retired from the fleet?
Envoy just sent out a company email. They will pick up 15 additional ERJ-170s, transfer 15 EMB-145s to Piedmont, and become solely a ERJ-170/175 fleet. This will bring the fleet totals to 27 ERJ-170s and 101 ERJ-175s. It was obvious that this was the long term plan when Piedmont was first given the...
Jump to posttheBlingGoblin wrote:The guy is a super popular language YouTuber with over 5 million subscribers. He hardly needs such publicity to draw attention to his site.
Stories based on the word of one passenger are almost always hyperbolic and inaccurate. The only thing worse is the need for so many people on this forum to jump straight to the expectation of discipline for any employee involved, or merely present.
Jump to postI'm still a bit perplexed why the fixation persists on the NEA with respect to a B6+NK transaction. The NEA is restricted to NYC and BOS where NK has a very little presence, and B6 has already stipulated it would be willing to divest NK assets if required to close the deal. Thus the DOJ would have ...
Jump to postExcellent article in USA Today on how the PRC works to exert it's illegal claims to territories. All the more reason for the RAAF and others to keep probing their defenses. China is relentlessly trying to peel away Japan's resolve on disputed islands https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/asia/japan-china-...
Jump to postI personally don't get the hype, it's as tacky as the man who owns it imo. The flag on top of black looks atrocious and now the only gold on the plane is the titles leaving all the elements of the design looking arbitrary. As the old adage goes, "money doesn't buy taste". Agreed, I though...
Jump to post"Piedmont Airlines" might not mean anything to modern travelers, but AA might still hold enough value in it to preserve the trademark so no one else can use it to start/rename an airline. That said, consolidation between AA's wholly owned regionals is inevitable. It's a lot of unnecessary...
Jump to postThere is no way it makes financial sense to pay regional pilots that much to fly 50 seat planes at $100+/barrel oil when you could be paying them the same to fly A320s and 737s. Is it even possible for the airline to show a profit on these flights under these circumstances? What are the chances tha...
Jump to postI've wondered if there was a market for this type of configuration as CR2s and ERJs get parked.
Jump to postOnce AA gets more planes (especially the A321LR), I could see PHL-AGP, NCE, MXP, LPA, VLC, ALC, OPO, CMN. For all the A321LR prognostications you would think these planes are solving all AA's problems. Sure there will be some PHL, CLT, ORD and JFK flights to Europe added and even Miami to Deep Lati...
Jump to postRandomly hearing rumblings about a potential merger amongst the AA wholly owned subsidiaries. I don't have any substantive sources but pilots are talking and the most logical merger would be MQ and PT because some commonality amongst the Embraer aircraft. If they continue having difficulty attracti...
Jump to postI understand that SWAPA has taken a position recently of increasing the mandatory pilot age in the US to 67 or 68. Is there a position taken by ALPA or APA? It seems like changing retirement age or accepting lower standards are the options that the FAA considers when there is a pilot shortage. All ...
Jump to postThis isn't just a US thing either. Here in Canada we are not paid for boarding and FA pay, generally speaking, goes from "doors closed to doors open". As an example, there is an IAH turn. The total duty is 8h57min. The "credit" i.e. pay is only 6h37mins. So that 2hr20mins is unp...
Jump to postThe ruling was based on a novel interpretation of the word "sanitation", not in line with what I can see as past or current understanding of the word during a brief search online.
Jump to postThe best solution would be to convert NAS Key West to a Joint use facility with a modern commercial terminal with room for more aircraft. Parking, pickup and rental could shuttle off site if they aren't able to allocate adequate space in a publicly accessible area. They could then use the existing ...
Jump to postEYW is in tough shape given how much traffic has increased and the fixed space on the ramp there. I was there a few weeks ago - the DL A319 inbound from ATL sat for 45 minutes (!) waiting for a parking space due to a DL E175 that went tech and was taking up a parking space. I could hear the DL supe...
Jump to postYou guys are still going on about the contracts? There will be a transition agreement between the unions and the company as to how the process will go forward. Everyone will be on the same page, and all three sides will be protected. Nobody in their right mind is going to expect everything to sudden...
Jump to postDoes anyone else think B6 is out of their mind for thinking that they can keep NEA if this acquisition is allowed to go through? I feel like they will have to give up some portions of the NEA at the very least. The domestic part at least is toast, especially on New York to Florida and possibly part...
Jump to postHave the 190s had significant weight restrictions on those routes? The EYW terminal is going to be bursting at the seams with the increased pax load. The new terminal can't come soon enough! From what I've seen, the new terminal is only going to have six gates. That isn't going to help with all the ...
Jump to postPiedmont E145 N602AE is en route from SBY-BNA-ABI-MZJ for retirement. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/N602AE Any idea how many PT frames that are scheduled for retirement? Obviously it's a pretty old fleet and I'm just wondering how much longer it will last especially with the prospect ...
Jump to postTo be honest usually a buffer zone is required for peanut allergies and thats it. So why couldn't AA provide a buffer zone on this particular flight? We don't know where she was sitting; the first row of Y can still be close to the last row of J. If the woman made her allergy sound bad enough, they...
Jump to postIt seems to me that the media and FAA are making a much bigger deal out of this than it really is. I know the statistics show "thousands" of incidents and many times what they were previously but in the grand scheme of air travel there aren't really very many issues. I am a pretty frequen...
Jump to postThat’s not applicable to the US. The career trajectory you describe is basically the old regional model, but with the requirement for 1500 hours nobody can go from flying school to a commercial airliner. In Europe people are flying A320s and 737s with 250 hours. That’s a HUGE difference, and means ...
Jump to postThe barrier to entry is the cost of flight training. The easiest way to attract pilots is for the network carriers to launch ab initio programs similar to some of the carriers in Europe. Using AA as an example: - High school student recruited - After completing high school, student attends AA spons...
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