Re: World's busiest airports announced, ATL regains title, no Europe in top10

What a strange showing for the list!

Charlotte at #6.
Denver at #3. I believe that years ago Denver peaked at #4 in terms of take-offs and landings, but lower in terms of passengers. Here they are at #3 for passengers. Ahead of O'Hare.
No Beijing, no Haneda, no Heathrow.

Re: 40 Years of the Mighty 757

It’s a lovely bird. When landing, it looks like some kind of a big insect to me. Maybe a dragonfly. Very striking. I remember watching one take off from Chek Lap Kok. I was in the main terminal looking south towards Lantau, and the thing leaped into the sky and roared off west. In the moment I recal...

Re: Will American Airlines & British Airways align their LHR-JFK/JFK-LHR schedules more when BA moves to JFK's Terminal

In the 1990s, AA had at one point, 2 daylight flights departing from JFK to LHR, one at 8:30am and one at 9:30am. BA has always had the BA 178 service which moves around departure time wise but is the BA daylight service. Pre-COVID, AA had a later daylight, departing at 10:10am (AA 142) and the BA ...

Re: United Airlines 727-222 N7264U at ONT

I could have sworn that in the last several months I saw a 727 flying somewhere, maybe into Boeing Field. Just now I went to Flightradar24 but the filter doesn’t even include 727s. Is that gap in a flightradar or are no 727s flying? You have to add in the filter/notification manually as type B722. ...

Re: United Airlines 727-222 N7264U at ONT

I could have sworn that in the last several months I saw a 727 flying somewhere, maybe into Boeing Field. Just now I went to Flightradar24 but the filter doesn’t even include 727s. Is that gap in a flightradar or are no 727s flying?

Re: A380 Value / State of the market

HiFly did that but returned their aircraft already. If they can't make it work it must be tricky. To be fair they also had the worst global aviation recession in history to contend with too. I'd be interested to see how the A380 fares on the 2nd hand specialist market once things are up and running...

Re: U.S. Hub Analysis by Airline - Destinations Served Winter 2021-Summer 2022

This is a nice exercise in market analysis. Well done! Thanks for it; several insights surprised me. I like the comments upthread how an airline might define an airport as ‘X’ while your analysis says it’s a ‘bucket four’ or whatever. In some cases these are differences in what a company says in the...

Re: A380 Value / State of the market

The engines and landing gear must be worth something. I really don't know, but would throw out a wild guess of at least $20M for engines and landing gear less than 10 years old, average cycles.

Re: Analyzing The Airbus A380’s Premature End

I entered A-net precisely because after studying the A380 I felt that it was not going to succeed. It was limited to relatively small number of airports that could handle its wingspan and had the needed passenger counts to fill it. At the time my recollection is that there was only 1 other person w...

Re: Alaska Airlines Fleet/Network Thread - 2021

Seattle is still a big metropolitan area somewhat skinny West to East but long from North to South, healthy and growing, SeaTac is limited in how much it can grow without a lot of contortions, and the Puget Sound traffic is bad and getting worse. The Los Angeles metro has several airports, the Bay A...

Re: The most 747s in a single photo

Years ago on some business trip I was spotting at Narita from the outdoor observation deck. This was when it had only the first terminal with those four round connected satellites. At each rounded embarkation area were I think six gates. At that moment virtually every gates was occupied. Most airfra...

Re: The most 747s in a single photo

Fun question! You've got a few categories: those in storage or waiting to be scrapped (which I think is least interesting), those pre-delivery, and those working frames an an airport. For the last category, I believe this nice shot includes more than twenty. Perhaps as many as two dozen. https://www...

Re: Old cross-runway at LAX

You can see from the 1963 aerial of LAX RWY 16/34 still existed: https://www.historicaerials.com/location/33.94392957889264/-118.41161004238062/1963/15 If you go to the 1972 aerial the RWY is all gone. That's an interesting photo. It looks like they used satellite buildings. Do you know if people w...

Re: Silk Way Airlines 747 Freighter Engine Failure, RTO and Burst Wheels

Can someone explain the propose of the tires deflating? I searched fuseable plugs and understand their purpose in a boiler. During a RTO is the air inside the tires so hot that it needs to be released, before the tires are damaged? I can see why brakes pads would be hot, but don’t see the connectio...

Re: Silk Way Airlines 747 Freighter Engine Failure, RTO and Burst Wheels

Can someone explain the propose of the tires deflating? I searched fuseable plugs and understand their purpose in a boiler. During a RTO is the air inside the tires so hot that it needs to be released, before the tires are damaged? I can see why brakes pads would be hot, but don’t see the connection...

Re: PIT Terminal project to get underway soon

There is so much conflicting information about the Pittsburgh metro area on the web. Some say that it is in the midst of a tech boom and could some day be "the next Silicon Valley." Others say that it is in rapid decline and has minimal job growth. I seriously don't know what to believe. ...

Re: AS BOI focus city

As to the “next Silicon Valley” I think Austin would like a word. And while Micron is a definite feather in Boise’s cap, it’s going to be hard to be the next tech mega hub without first rate universities like Stanford and Cal-Berkeley in the area. Boise State can compete on the football field, but ...

Re: AS BOI focus city

A lounge?

Re: How upset are airports that spent massive $$$ on a380 infrastructure?

Am wondering how upset airports are (such as my hometown LAX) that spent tens (if not hundreds) of millions of dollars on a380 infrastructure upgrades to terminals, runways to accommodate the now-shuttered a380 program? I won't argue it was a great use of money but U.S. airports are going to cover ...

Re: Airbus A380 Production/Delivery Thread - 2021

Between Wikipedia and that abcdlist.nl page it looks like 251 were ordered and a total of 254 have flown. Not as many as Airbus would have hoped for but it has been a fascinating story to watch unfold and then quickly fold back up. I read this 2021 thread all in one go. Rather sentimental, reading t...

Re: AA large AUS expansion

The quote in the press release from the Director of Travel Sourcing at Oracle was a nice touch.

Re: Flights between metro area airports

In the early 1990s I had a business trip from New York to Los Angeles. For reasons I no longer remember my itinerary was such that I ended up my business on the eastern side of the huge LA Metro area. Rather than drive all the way across the metro in my rental car I figured out that I could ride a l...

Re: North Pole / South Pole / Antarctica Routes?

It looks like a PER-EZE flight wouldn’t pass too far from the South Pole.

Re: Alaska Airlines limits Emotional Support Animals

Good for them and I hope other airlines quickly follow suit. People have been abusing the policy for years. I know a fellow, nice guy, who got a new dog. When he and his wife travelled somewhere they got a vet to certify it as an emotional support animal, even though that was clearly BS, in order to...

Re: Petition to Change China Airlines name to Taiwan Airlines as Countries Mistakenly Ban it Over Caronavirus

I'm wondering what those "Taiwan themed logos" might be. Taipei 101 was pretty distinctive when first built, but it's no longer the world's tallest building and probably not a good choice. A map of Taiwan? The Taiwanese flag?

Re: beluga medium

When has the Dreamlifter transported Airbus Components? I thought the Dreamlifter was for the exclusive use of Boeing (unlike the Beluga which can be leased out). Im not sure if Airbus has used the Dreamlifter, but it is not just used by Boeing. The Dreamlifter has been doing covid supply runs, for...

Re: Airbus A330 reached its 1500th delivery

It’s not a bad looking frame, but not great. Looks a bit bland but friendly to me.

The A330 has given me many nice memories, including some frequent trips from Hong Kong on DragonAir.

1,500 is an impressive number for a true stalwart. Congratulations A330 and Airbus!

Re: Airbus A380 Production/Delivery Thread - 2020

I’m surprised; I thought they were going to be made until 2021. Today I looked up A380 news and saw the last one is nearing completion. Quite some years ago I predicted here at A.net that over its lifetime 440 A380s would be delivered. In the end only 62% of even that small number. It’s sad to see t...

Re: Cathay Pacific DC10 order

Anyway, a story I thought worth mentioning as I don’t think many people knew it and I’m curious to see if anyone can photo shop a Cathay DC10 ? It's not completely unfamiliar to me, but I couldn't give much detail since I head/read about it last century. http://flyingwithfish.boardingarea.com/wp-co...

Re: Boeing 777 Production/Delivery Thread - 2020

In that BA777 photo above, the back landing gear looks like a four axle arrangement.

Re: Alaska Airlines Network Thread 2020

ANC-NRT is probably within the range of the 737-800 as CM has operated 737-800's on its PTY-EZE nonstop route (3313 mi), which is almost as long as ANC-NRT (3433 mi). ANC-NRT is 600 miles farther than the farthest flight currently operated by AS, ANC-ORD. It'd be within the range of their 321 NEOs ...

Re: Busiest 747 Airports (of the past)?

NRT consistently had a bunch at one point, alongside wide body trijets. I’d guess that IF LHR or JFK had more in total in those years, then NRT would have seen a higher percentage of 747s compared to the full set of all airplane types on any given day.

Interesting question.

Re: Question: UA from SFO-SIN on 787-9

as739x wrote:

Usually with some bummed cans . . .

Re: DFW Airport Is Now The World's Busiest Airport

Fun! This is an quirky effect of coronavirus. Even in normal times, in one hour slices, the world’s busiest airport could be different depending the hour of the day. Anchorage claimed a one-day Saturday title based on movements, and it seems DFW similarly won fair and square for May. Presumably Atla...

Re: OAG Changes 5/31/2020: JUNE GLOOM; WN Makes Move for ATL;AA Exits OAK-PHX,PHL-YOW;DL Exits YOW-DTW/LGA;FI Exits PHL/

Nice to see the little increases from Cathay and ANA. Steps in the right direction.

Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments - 2020

What a great event to witness. I had forgotten about it (shame on me!) but my kids had it on the TV. They were thrilled; the first time they saw a rocket launch live.

Re: Will The 777X Beat its Efficiency Goals

Their customers are just trying to survive these months, and emerge as undamaged as possible. Right now the broader world of newshounds and analysts care more about furloughs, production rates and when the Max will get delivered. If Boeing are seeing positive numbers they might share them with custo...

Re: My handmade airports (1:500 scale).

Very interesting!

Re: What was the rationale for 2-5-2 configuration on older widebodies?

2-5-2 used to be pretty common.

Fortunately I flew that DC-10 middle seat only once, and it was a short hop between two cities in Texas.

Re: OAG Changes 3/8/2020:AA Drops PHX-PIT/TPA,CHAPHL,DFWOAK Adds ORDHNL;DL Drops KIXSEA;UA Drops IAHCAK,FLLSFO,IAHYEG,MS

This IS very interesting. I worked for Kenmore Air last summer at BFI, they only have 3 land based Cessna Caravan’s , in the summer the flights between BFI-ESD/FRD were completely full and they operated at about 5-6 daily each plus they also operate the mountain scenic to Rainer/Helens. I wonder if...

Re: Delta Announces SEA-LHR For 2021

Interesting. It’s still not completely clear whether the new AA SEA-LHR flight is complementing or replacing BA’s 2 daily flights during peak season, but either way, by S21 we should have either 6 or 7 peak daily flights between SEA and LON: 2.5 from VS and DL, 2/3 from AA/BA, and DY 3x/week from L...

Re: Alaska Airlines Network Thread 2020

More to come. Bigger planes? I think Alaska might tweak LAX to better feed AA’s transpacific flights. Maybe more capacity from Austin to Seattle, to feed Bangalore. In that other thread the chatter is only about AA but OneWorld is bigger than that. I wonder what else it might sense for AS to do.

Re: Dr Peters: "Onward demand for the A380 is almost non-existent."

When they part out an A380, are the pieces used only for other A380s, or can they be applied to other aircraft types? I guess seats and toilet units and maybe galley components could be used elsewhere, but would they do that? Life vests and life boats? Engines, landing gear, wing pieces, door and ev...

Re: Boeing 777-9 first flight 24 January 2020 (weather permitting)

It wasn’t a total disappointment. Two Dreamlifters landed, and one took off, plus a real pretty China Southern 773. And it was nice seeing the 779 tiptoe around the property. I’m sure I won’t see first flight now, but I can lay claim to seeing First Flight Attempt.

Re: Boeing 777-9 first flight 24 January 2020 (weather permitting)

She taxid back past the hill at the north end of the runway… Those wings are so big.

Re: Boeing 777-9 first flight 24 January 2020 (weather permitting)

Every once in a while the wind dies down to calm, but then a healthy gust comes out and the breeze returns.

Regular sun breaks though.