Landed 27L this afternoon which is a new one for me…even the pilots commented that it was pretty rare. Anyone know why they’d run in this configuration? My theories are that there’s less conflict with landing 17 (which I also observed), or something about the longer available length due to the heat...
Jump to postThe cargo expansion is not going on the economy lot. I believe it’s earlier in this thread, but it’s going west of de ice and north of taxiway S so it’s adjacent to current cargo city. I was told the economy lot closure is to accommodate construction equipment entering/exiting the airfield for that ...
Jump to postI've seen in prior PHL Master Plans a proposal to extend this runway to full-length (>7K-8K ft) to allow mainline runway usage. Is that still in the works? Unsafe flying over for people in the terminal. It can be disastrous if take off or landing crash error stall or microburst or engine stall to k...
Jump to postAll good until a private jet over runs and blocks 17/35 when a passenger jet is taking off or landing. As said before, this is ludicrous. The 26 RSA extends through Rwy 35 and even to Twy E on the west side of 35. During a 26 landing both 35 and Twy E are treated as if they intersect the runway unt...
Jump to postPHLspecial wrote:Also another problem is PHL I believe doesn't have a tug capable for the A380.
General question, how many widebody gates does PHL have? Also is there any widebody gates outside of terminal A? I’m not entirely sure about this but I was watching a YouTube video with a US B762 that sure looks like it’s at gate B11. https://youtu.be/wSfR0G89cT0 It's hard to tell from that video. ...
Jump to postUPS has had the B748 at PHL at least 3 times now. I've seen it on UPS2194 Friday afternoons 2/8, 2/15 and 3/1. It always departs that night back to SDF at 10:15pm (forget the flight number but that's the proposed time for the flight plan). As noted the 2/22 UPS2194 was a B744 but stayed until Sunday...
Jump to postPHL is definitely not capable of support regular A380s. They're only barely able to handle diversions, and that's only using 27L/9R and parking at the hard stand near de-ice. Three weeks ago EK diverted one of their JFK A380s here and it was a giant cluster.
Jump to postI've had aircraft cross on at least 5 different taxiways all at the same time while I had a departure holding in position, all while I had an arrival landing on the intersecting runway that's parallel to the crossing taxiways. That's called being efficient. And as far as conditional clearances go, t...
Jump to postI've had aircraft cross on at least 5 different taxiways all at the same time while I had a departure holding in position, all while I had an arrival landing on the intersecting runway that's parallel to the crossing taxiways. That's called being efficient. And as far as conditional clearances go, t...
Jump to postCurrently I see 9L/27R as 9,500ft, does 1,000 ft make a difference for airliners needing extra runway? Also wasn't 9L/27R supposed to be extended some time in the future, may have been really old news. I'm assuming if the Bos-China flights are payload restricted so would the Nyc-china flights too? ...
Jump to postThe 27L/9R extension to 12,000ft just opened at the end of July. Service to Asia is imminent. What is it about a 12,000ft runway that makes service imminent? Boston only has a 10,000 ft runway and has had no issue attracting flights to Asia. And PHL is only 50-100nm further than BOS to NRT, PEK, an...
Jump to postUnless you're in Essington/Tinicum I highly doubt it would cause any appreciable noise increase since 27R departures are only about 1500 feet farther north than a 27R departure. Sorry but I am going to have to disagree with this. The difference is pretty substantial in Ridley Park. 1500 feet is ove...
Jump to postInterestingly, Eagle is launching 6x daily JFK-PHL flights, and presumably, this would allow for two-stop connection itineraries (e.g. Origin -> JFK -> PHL -> Europe): New York JFK – Philadelphia eff 03APR18 6x daily Envoy Air Embraer ERJ140 This is in addition to LGA-PHL frequencies on both mainli...
Jump to postWas AA PHL-JFK really meant to be 6x daily? The route was announced recently but it hasn’t actually even started operating yet! I’m thinking it was either a mis file or some move to hold slots. I’m seem to remember when they route was announced it was for 1 daily so I’m not sure where the 6 ever cam...
Jump to postGenerally speaking yes, but not necessarily. If the wind is light we may not bother. As I said it's generally supposed to be reserved for arrival pushes only as working a lot of departures at 27R is more difficult. Depending on the wind we may land 27R and the Liberty Visual 27L approach.
Jump to postIts been around since at least last summer, but as I said its only used during southerly/southwesterly winds so its not more than a couple times a week and even then before new year's we hadn't used it very much for a while. Generally we also only try to use it during heavy arrival pushes, not depar...
Jump to postThere have been no changes to departures in any way. 27R departures are part of a relatively new operation to land 27L and 17 during southerly winds rather than trying to force landing 35 in a tailwind all the time.
Jump to postPHL tower is most certainly not 207 ft tall, it's considerably shorter than that. I'd be surprised if we're even 150 ft.
I assume you're using the height of the AA Ramp Control Tower which has absolutely nothing to do with ATC.
As of today (1 Aug 2017), BA only flies the 380 to LAX and SFO in the United States. We will probably see the return of former routes like MIA and IAD, but can you see BA flying the super to ORD, DFW, PHL, CLT, or any other cities in the US? ORD and DFW possibly (ORD is more of a frequency route, a...
Jump to postThere is no other option below, except for organizing search results in a single column. The only one for opening hyperlinks in a new window says in parenthesis next to it that its for photo search results only. Perhaps something that is only available to crew members only right now?
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Although I see the "open in new tab or window" only applies to photo search results. Is this coming to any hyperlink site wide?
Anyone prefer the old functionality of the site that when clicking a photo thumbnail it opened in a new tab? That's been a big annoyance of mine since the new site debuted. Its a small gripe, but with pages loading slower on the new site, after I'm done viewing a photo I have to click my browser's b...
Jump to postDifferent railroads have different signaling rules in different parts of the US, but all are similar. Generally speaking, the bottom light you see is used for a diverging route (not going straight at a track switch). Since you said this signal is usually yellow over red, it's probably a distant sign...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/usairways85" class="quote" target="_blank">usairways85</a> (<a href="#35" class="quote">Reply 35</a>):<br/><i>Interestingly, over the past few w...
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Jump to postI was actually going to be booking <acronym title="Philadelphia - International (Municipal) (PHL / KPHL), USA - Pennsylvania">PHL</acronym>-<acronym title="Zurich (- Kloten) (ZRH / LSZH), Switzerland">ZRH</acronym> and return shortly for this coming September and had been looking forward to the A332...
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Jump to postThe <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> A380 made it in to <acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (IAD / KIAD), USA - Virginia">IAD</acronym> after doing several laps in a hold on the 1R localizer. I got word of the <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> 380 and was about...
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Jump to postFunny story I can add to this. I work in ATC at <acronym title="Philadelphia - International (PHL / KPHL), USA - Pennsylvania">PHL</acronym>. For a few months a year or so ago there were both <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> and US flights numbered 1776 (airlines love employing ...
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Jump to postIf you search the photo database for US Airways and <acronym title="Eagle (Vail / Eagle) - Eagle County Regional (EGE / KEGE), USA - Colorado">EGE</acronym> you'll find 7 photos of US 757s from the 2006/2007 time frame there. Photo captions indicate service from both <acronym title="Philadelphia - I...
Jump to postAnyone have any solid information to exactly where in relation to the runway threshold this was taking place? As an Air Traffic Controller on the other side of the pond, I find it strange that one helicopter would disrupt operations that much (unless there were many involved and we just don't know i...
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