I noticed this removal and was surprised, it was a convenient and busy flight, interesting that it is not possible this winter, particularly given how busy the route is in business class at the moment, with fares at their highest.it was however in terms of service quality a pretty bad product compar...
Jump to postAgree with most people. Boom does not have the money to develop even a regional jet, forget about supersonic. And no engine. And despite what the idiot journalist at Bloomberg says, it was impossible to fit a business trip between London and NY within a day with Concorde, it will not get any better ...
Jump to postAll is said above and just to reiterate, the 380 is one of the most ecological planes... as long as you can fill it with passengers. Emirates, Singapore and maybe Qantas or Korean can. Maybe even ANA or BA. The others failed.
Jump to postI like the two fare type names, Nice and Nicer! Nice means you cannot even bring a carry-on, that should be quite interesting ! All those carry-ons in the Nicer zone at the front (according to seat map, half of the cabin, all the way to the exit row) and empty racks in the Nice back? I suppose the N...
Jump to postI do not think BZ will fly near me, nor offer service I would be interested in. But my job and life are so extremely boring right now, I am glued to this thread and dying to see how Neeleman will pull this. This is a torture, when will we see this thing finally take shape?
Jump to postWow loved it. Can we go any lower? Are those people identified, fined $100,000 each and sent to jail for a year at least? Because this crap has to stop. I'll go way out on a limb here and guess that none of these extremely classy individuals have $100K to pay such a fine. Just when I thought things...
Jump to postWow loved it. Can we go any lower? Are those people identified, fined $100,000 each and sent to jail for a year at least? Because this crap has to stop.
Jump to postWill the FAs all be Utah mormons? That questions has to be asked.
Jump to postThey have changed their brand name to AirFrance with no space twelve years ago, so what you see on the planes is actually the intent.
https://www.ci-portal.de/air-frances-vi ... -changing/
I like it a lot, bold and clear. If the plane is smaller, the advertisement can still be read from far away, that’s fun and it is definitely the spirit (pun intended) of the moment anyway: big, big, big, see me see me see me. And yet still quite elegant indeed.
Jump to postUA at JFK will bring some more competition back on transcons. They might want to serve London as they did earlier, because I think a lot of transatlantic frequent fliers don’t want to land in EWR, based on either snobbery or convenience. More competition there too. I don’t see any other route really...
Jump to postWith Southwest, Allegiant, Spirit and JetBlue, there are already quite a few airlines offering a diverse array of low cost models in the US. In order to compete with them, a serious business plan is necessary, backed by a solid product and sufficient capital. ULCCs didn’t exist in the US in 2008. S...
Jump to postWith Southwest, Allegiant, Spirit and JetBlue, there are already quite a few airlines offering a diverse array of low cost models in the US. In order to compete with them, a serious business plan is necessary, backed by a solid product and sufficient capital.
Jump to postPre-clearance from Canada is useful because you can fly to LGA, which otherwise does not have immigration facilities. It is also helpful because immigration to the US is often a hassle, with long stupid lines and rude staff. It is not better when you pre-clear but at least you are not already exhaus...
Jump to postUTA, a French airline that was later taken over by AF, used to fly to Noumea in the Pacific in the 80s with a route that could be as long as CDG-BAH-SIN-CGK-SYD-NOU. The plane could go back or continue to PPT, LAX and back to CDG. I have flown CDG-BAH-SIN-CGK-NOU in 1982. My family spent two years t...
Jump to postWhat do you propose they "do"...? Bring meals and drinks back. The current onboard offering is abysmal while many other airlines still offer proper food and drinks. Fair, though the followup would be: what evidence do you have that that's high priority among their clientele at this partic...
Jump to postWhat about on-board service? It has become a joke, are they going to do anything about it? What do you propose they "do"...? Bring meals and drinks back. The current onboard offering is abysmal while many other airlines still offer proper food and drinks. Also the IFE has not been updated...
Jump to postWhat about on-board service? It has become a joke, are they going to do anything about it?
Jump to postIndeed AA seems to be the most in debt in the US aviation industry, and it will be difficult to just shed assets. If they shed assets, it is not much better than a bankruptcy as they would have to reduce service, lay staff off, etc. And then they will have a hard time finding lenders for upcoming fi...
Jump to postKL has always enjoyed significant autonomy under AFKL, which also leaves space for some of those debates. IAG would not allow this. Nobody knows who the CEO of Iberia is for example. That's why the Dutch did not want BA. They are better off in that imperfect alliance, which lets them make their own ...
Jump to postNice looks... how many seats on this? How much more oil per seat than an A350? The website says it will be able to (but will not necessarily) run on biofuel and that it will go at 1,000 mph (mach 1.7?), not as fast as Concorde’s mach 2.
Jump to postI hope Boeing can offer similar deals to its other clients, develop a new airplane and move on from the Max. I doubt they would get many new orders for that antiquated thing, their way out is to still come up with a brand new airplane ASAP. They would then offer clients a way to convert existing ord...
Jump to postSome of the comments on that NYT comment board are pretty disgusting. I would rephrase this as "a lot of passengers hate AA and it shows in the NYT comments, there must be a reason for this". This is a great occasion for them to return their 737 Max, as part of a fleet streamlining. But I...
Jump to postCGK-NOU on UT, 1982
LIL-ORY on VD, 1993
BIA-CFE on A5, circa 2015
JIB-RUN on UT, 1989
JFK-LYS on DL, circa 2000
TWA772LR wrote:Hourly shuttle to LCY problem solved!
I can see 3 scenario's. -A hostile take over at bottom share price -insolvency -Norwegian government take-over Either way, the original DY is toast. It seems like it is the end for them. They grew too fast but the product itself was not so bad so I will miss them. Maybe a hostile takeover will happ...
Jump to postIt is crazy to see a country that is so rich and yet wastes its resources so stupidly. At the very least those planes should have been scrapped long ago to get some $ out of them, free up some space and reduce pollution. But no they are sitting there and noone cares. And this country is not that ric...
Jump to postI understand they are large airlines but I am sure Southwest and JetBlue would be able to fill the void domestically. Internationally, foreign airlines would nab whatever is left of their sorry businesses. It will be easy at the start since everybody is flying empty planes and thus the space is alre...
Jump to postMy last trip on United saw terrible service. Now they changed their rules due to corona and instead of refunding tickets for two-hour schedule changes, they require 25 hours! In other words they are desperate and it smells bad. AA are also deep in debt. If people keep being terrified of flying, I am...
Jump to postThey need to re-start service betweenJFK and FDF. Too bad that did not work.
Jump to postThose travel restrictions are not very helpful, they might slow the virus down but they will not stop it. It also seems that the virus is already present in many areas, including the US, it just has not been detected yet, so this is coming too late. Those measures are taken because they make people ...
Jump to postThe A380 was the solution, not a third runway.
Now they are left with neither.
Other places have similar problems, or soon will, e.g. SIN, HKG, JFK...
If I fly VS with a VS ticket and enter my Flying Blue account number, do I get XPs or miles only? Not clear from the announcement.
Jump to postOK, thanks all, I need to reload the page to see it.
Jump to postHas it landed? Flightradar is not very clear. It seems to be on the ground in Everett...
Jump to postAccording to planespotters.net, D-AAAU & D-AAAV have been scrapped in August 2019 at Schwerin (SZW). Those were the last 2 of 5 that were parked there. The other 3 were ferried to TEV & AUH. Does anyone have pictures of the scrap process? Was not able to find something... Better than pictur...
Jump to postGround transportation in NYC is a mess. Elon Musk should come with the Boring Company and dig a tunnel from the N train in Astoria to LGA. Then run automated Teslas like in Vegas or an hyperloop.
Later on, extend the tunnel to JFK eot the East and to Grand Central, Penn Station and EWR to the West.
I see a 99% likelihood of a human error and a missile sent at the plane. Not great for the Iranian government, after a badly organized funeral where 50 additional people died in a stampede, they likely mistakenly shot a civilian aircraft with 170 people on board.
Jump to postNYCDM wrote:I didn’t think PHX was possible from LGA?
How advanced is the LGA rebuilding? Will one of those tarmac overpasses be completed in 2020?
Jump to postGiven how high the cost of living in Seattle is, and the low unemployment, why would people deal with a bad job and harsh conditions? I would look for a better job and go. I do not blame them at all.
Jump to postIf I were in the leadership team I would acknowledge that I have made big mistakes and deserve to be fired. On the other hand I would still be one of the best people in the world for the job due to my knowledge of the program. So until there is a clear way out of the problem I would keep doing my jo...
Jump to postThey are a commodity. If you live in one of their hubs or you have some frequent flyer status with them you fly them. Otherwise if the they’re the cheapest you take them. Nothing particularly special going on . I could not agree more. I fly AA when the price or timing make it obvious. If DL is only...
Jump to postThe US being the place where terrorists boarded a plane with zero check, and as a result created an id check protocol which is ridiculously excessive, but that almost anyone can bypass for a $20 fee, I am not sure they have much to say. I trust Euros for implementing a strong security that meets gre...
Jump to postEvery time I fly DL internationally in business the flight attendants are very reluctant to serve champagne, they seem to try and content the passengers with other alcohols. I thus think that the bottles end up in their bags or in their traveling friends’ bags. As far as I am concerned I see this me...
Jump to postAmericans have for years been miffed at seeing Airbus make more and bigger planes than Boeing. India blocked the type to protect its own airlines. The 2008 crisis forced airlines in most countries to aim low. Airbus made the mistake of not predicting this, and on top of this mishandle the developmen...
Jump to postBabyshark wrote:WNCrew wrote:I was expecting the spoilers to extend but, do ERJs not have them?
They should have popped up
This must be a joke, a new 767? Why not a DC-3 Max? The thing is heavy, loud, sucks gas like a youknowwhat, most of the people who originally engineered it or know how to pilot it are geriatric or dead. Boeing is becoming the Haunted Mansion.
Jump to postI found this: https://skift.com/2019/10/04/aero-raises-16-million-for-air-service-for-millennials-travel-startup-funding-this-week/amp/ So they are not really an airline, more a company chartering the services of other airlines, so I guess no certificate of operation needed. Still at $2k a pop, I wo...
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