Didn't think I would be seeing the DH4 stick in FAT, but I guess that with QX now flying the E7W out of ANC and other OO/QX E7Ws doing more normally mainline routes, it'll be like this for a while until AS mainline starts bringing back airplanes. That being said, at least AS's traffic mix in FAT is ...
Jump to postONT-HNL has long been on the wishlist for ONT travelers. When HA tried the service in the early 2000s, it was on the DC-10 and later the 767 and was put on life support when they tagged LAS onto it to try to fill the plane as much as they could. I believe they also tried it in the 80s with somewhat ...
Jump to postEven if they downgraded the scheduled 73H to a 73G, it would be great. Can't help but wonder if this aggressive, preemptive 2x 73H 2x E75 schedule is AS just trying to poison the well to keep DL out of the market since DL added FAT-LAX shortly after AS, and even added 2x SEA-ONT and then immediatel...
Jump to postHoping that these AS mainline additions stick. Disappointed that the A320 didn't actually make an appearance in FAT because of the pandemic but at least AS is considering mainline in FAT again. I have been doing searching and it appears that the 738 is a placeholder for flights all of the network ri...
Jump to postCongrats to F9 and ONT. Before the pandemic, ONT was on F9's radar with anticipated new routes of MIA, GUA, SAL, EWR, LAS, and SEA. I had thought that they were going to turn ONT into their primary SoCal operation since NK was starting to set up shop in BUR and G4 was already in LAX, and F9 hadn't h...
Jump to postThanks again for the thread this week. It's a pleasure to look at, even if there are sad, deep deep cuts in it. **DL ONT-SEA NOV 0.4>2.0[0] DEC 0>2[0] JAN 0>2[0] FEB 0>2[0] MAR 0>2[0] APR 0>2[0] MAY 0>2[0] JUN 0>2[0] DL actually had me worried because originally this was bookable only for October. G...
Jump to postThey dropped the market as part of Covid cuts because there was a large reduction of conference and convention traffic going into LAS, including from the other point to point routes they served, LGB, SJC, SAN, and PDX, not due to SNA's slots. If this wasn't a slot issue, it would be fair conjecture...
Jump to postWell with NK adding SNA-LAS, I think its safe to say it will be a while before DL resumes the route, if they ever do at all. DL decided to drop out of SNA-LAS before the pandemic hit, probably due to slots if I remember correctly. It has nothing to do with Covid nor NK starting the route. They drop...
Jump to postWell with NK adding SNA-LAS, I think its safe to say it will be a while before DL resumes the route, if they ever do at all.
Jump to postWell its about time. I think its embarrassing for a legacy airline to outsource their own pampers in one of their key hubs. Menzies in DEN has been awful and I can't count on a single hand how many times we've sat waiting to go into our vacant gate because the ground crew wasn't ready.
Jump to postThanks again for posting the quality content every week. AS ONT-SEA OCT 2>4[2] NOV 2>4[3] DEC 3>4[3] JAN 3>4[3] FEB 3>4[3] MAR 3>4[3] APR 3>4[3] Big bold move by AS going to 4x daily. This hasn’t happened since before the 2008 recession. Back then it was 4x 734, with sometimes a mix of 73G and befor...
Jump to postSouthern California’s Ontario International Airport (ONT) will soon offer air travelers a new option to reach Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) when Delta Air Lines service takes off October 1. The new service is the latest in a series of welcomed airline announcements of new and restored ...
Jump to postDefinitely a sad day in aviation today. Unfortunately I think this is only the beginning of large cuts to come elsewhere in the industry. Time will tell whether other regionals will suffer the same fate. My thoughts are with everyone at EV. Unfortunately, I was expecting UA to do business with C5 in...
Jump to postI am going to look at other data sources over the next few weeks both because of the day change and cost. I would like to get it back to Sunday, but if I find a better solution I will move to that. FYI... For now it will remain on Tuesday or Wednesday... It was something I looked forward to on Sund...
Jump to postAccording to the airline pilot central forums, today there was an announcement that all 100% of ExpressJet crewmembers received WARN notices too.
Sad, rough, times ahead for the airline industry.
Anyone able to shine a light as to why OO CR2s are doing the majority of the DEN Express operation instead of the EV E45s? UA was going to invest heavily in the E45 side out of DEN but now it seems all but non existent. I was under the impression that since OO got EV’s E7S, that EV was going to ther...
Jump to postWhat’s interesting about this statement is that DL severely cut both BOS & LAX to focus on SEA. Also interesting about BOS is that AA has maintained a significant presence given the environment/circumstances of the pandemic whereas DL’s terminal A has been a GHOSTOWN. Given AA’s committed focus...
Jump to postWhat the John Wayne airport is today should've been changed to El Toro Airport a long time ago... oh wait
QX's ERJ-175s are certified to RNP approach minima as well as CAT III auto land so it should not be an issue to operate these aircraft in AK. Operational reliability should also be better since the airplane is newer. DL has had both CP and OO fly the E175 to SIT, KTN, and FAI for quite a while and i...
Jump to postFAQ DL's schedule systemwide ASM % over prior year: JAN 106% FEB 107% MAR 90% APR 20% MAY 13% JUN 17% JUL 30% AUG 54% Interesting to see DL exit LAS leisure to the West when leisure is all that's flying now **DL LAS-LGB SEP 3>0[0] OCT 3>0[0.3] NOV 3>0[2] DEC 3>0[3] JAN 3>0[2] FEB 3>0[2] MAR 3>0[2] ...
Jump to postHA actually did this in the mid 2000s with the ONT route. They routed HNL-ONT-LAS and LAS-ONT-HNL toward the final days of them operating it because the loads weren't good enough in a D10 or 763 for them in ONT. It was their final attempt at trying to make ONT work, and even with a LAS tag it couldn...
Jump to postTo answer number 4 and 5: In the internal memo, Rob Binns emphasized that there is currently no request by UA or any other potential partner for ZW to operate the CR5 or the CR7. That being said, it would behoove ZW to pursue adding these to the certificate though if they want to stay in business. T...
Jump to postFake news/click bait. I fail to understand why Delta would be interested in more aircraft. Delta is focusing on shrinking the size of the operations. The MD-88/90 is going away sooner rather than later; that's inevitable, but they do not need more frames than the A220-300s and A321neo they have on o...
Jump to postCongratulations to Delta and SEA. CMH is a little interesting, but DFW is long overdue. When AA announced their international flights out of SEA, I knew DL announcing SEA-DFW was inevitable in the near future. Delta typically does a lot of careful planning and research before they finally pull the t...
Jump to postAccording to Frontier, the airline will launch service between ONT and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) on June 2nd with flights scheduled three days a week – Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. The route will be flown with Airbus A320 aircraft equipped with 186 passenger seats. Tickets are ava...
Jump to postAlaska's plans for expansion in each city have been somewhat of a running mystery. A few years ago AS was highly interested in expanding in the state of California with hubs in LAX and SFO and focus cities in SJC and SAN. They wanted to diversify their route portfolio and not have all their eggs in ...
Jump to postA lot of airports in the LA area do best serving the regions they're in. ONT would've been the best situated to be the reliever for LAX I agree, but I would say its objective has changed, especially with reversion back to the city of Ontario instead of LAWA. LAWA initially tried the reliever airport...
Jump to postDelta is really pushing Boeing to create the NMA. They have a sizable 757 fleet that will be hanging on for the rest of the decade because they want something more suitable to replace them with than the 737-9 or 737-10 or the A321neo, something that matches the 757 in both capacity and performance w...
Jump to postCould it be they might be looking t moving to LAX? and they don't want the Employees to hear it on MSNBC, CNBC or Fox Business? I don't even think LAX has enough gates for B6 to do that in the near future. Unfortunately, I think this may be the end for a west coast focus city for B6. BUR and SNA do...
Jump to postI think its about time AS added SEA-MRY. Seems like this add is long overdue as I would imagine there being a significant enough O&D market share between the two. I am expecting it to be successful from an early stage. This was a big gap in MRY's network.
Jump to postBeginning in April per delta.com bookings, looks like Delta is bringing the CRJ back to SEA. This seems very backwards to me as Delta has indicated they wanted only the Embraer 175 in competitive markets on the west coast and east coast, and they wanted SEA/LAX to largely be CRJ free. Due to the tra...
Jump to postCompass/Delta flying is winding down by June. Schedule right now shows SNA-SEA being operated by OO CRJ-700s when that happens. It’s an interesting placeholder aircraft, seeing as how even SLC barely has the DL/OO CR7s now as they migrate east in favor of the E7W. Are SNA’s regional slots more plent...
Jump to postI barely see any at SEA these days. Come to think of it, I can't think of any regular operators now that QX ditched them. I think UA might have an occasional LAX-SEA flight, but they might have moved those to E170s. Might be off-base on that, but I'm drawing a blank on anyone else operating them he...
Jump to postPutting that new SBP terminal to work. PDX is a good add, not sure how viable SAN is in the long run.
Wonder if we're going to see SEA/PDX-MRY next too.
Also interesting to see ONT-SLC go up to 5x in May. Hasn't been that way since the early 2000s. 1x 738 and 4x OO E7W-SC is a great fit. DL is really stepping up their game in ONT again. Of course we won't see 763s as other a.nutters have been so quick to have to point out, but hoping for 739s, which...
Jump to post[*] This is definitely slot-sitting **DL LAS-LGB OCT 0>0.3[0] NOV 0>2[0] DEC 0>2[0] JAN 0>2[0] FEB 0>2[0] MAR 0>2[0] Thanks for the thread enilria. I wonder if this route aligns with their strategy of providing LAS service to markets in CA that aren’t LAX, rather than slot sitting. I’m expecting thi...
Jump to postThank you for complying these data again. It is very interesting to see how much the CR7 and CR9 have been reduced in SLC in favor of the E7W/E75. Everytime I’ve connected in SLC, I’ve seen more and more CP planes replacing them as they more get based east. Even markets like FAT and ONT are going E7...
Jump to postHandling by a competitor is extremely common, especially in the regional world. Not unusual for vendors like Envoy(AA), or DGS(DL) to handle every airline at smaller stations. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe DGS handles all airlines here at FAT. That would be one example. Not quite, Alaska’s ...
Jump to postThe generic term ERJ is misleading as most avgeek and airline personnel think 50 seaters (CRJ as well). The 175's are noted in res systems as E75 or E7W. Quick aside...has anyone ever served SEA with an ERJ-135/145? I'm fairly confident I've never seen one around here and don't recall any scheduled...
Jump to postI can tell you that AS uses an OO branded CR2 from FAT to SEA fairly regularly. The contract for OO branded CR2 operating for AS ended before summer. It was only a temporary solution when QX was facing cancellations due to staffing shortages on their side. Since the OO CR2 contract ended, OO/QX E17...
Jump to postBecause 9E has so much experience operating the 175 or the ability to immediately staff 36 airplanes? Because 9E is the wholly owned regional of DL. It has been long rumored that 9E would get E75s. With 9E being owned by DL, a training program could get put into place rather quickly, if they haven'...
Jump to postCompass dosent own any of its fleet. AA and DL own their own jets Which doesn't mean anything. We already operate Mainline owned aircraft in addition to the majority of republic owned aircraft. I would be surprised if any TSH flying leaves the new combined RAH/TSH company. Go jets will likely see a...
Jump to postWould definitely explain how their large order of E175s will fit into their future plans. Those new jets would serve as fleet renewal for both the RP side and the CP side, plus a bit of growth. Gojet's flying will likely be absorbed by either RP or a different regional, and Gojet will go away. UA's ...
Jump to postFigured SEA was in the running for the new service from HKG by CX. Nice to see SEA will finally get A350 service. I think this flight will be successful, because it allows for ample connections on the HKG side, which DL's flight did not do. This seems like the right equipment, with the right timing....
Jump to postCould be an order for E-175SC models similar to the DL deal. 70 seats with the option to configure them to 76 from the manufacturer down the road. As far as which regional will operate them, that’s the big question. Wonder if they got a special deal between the two with the Boeing/Embraer merger tha...
Jump to postWith the opening of these new gates, does AS have any plans to move their ops to Terminal 2?
Jump to postIt's rather confusing, because DL somehow managed to get away with merging their 73G and 738 in the same safety card, simply marked as a B737 with the blue colored top. When the 739 was introduced at DL, they kept the B737 safety card the same and merely added a separate B737-900ER safety card with ...
Jump to postThe current DL hangar in SEA was also a former NW property. I'm assuming that SEA was also a maintenance base, in addition to being a pilot and flight attendant domicile.
I would also go as far as to say that DL's current SEA hub is a product of NW's former influence there, post-merger.
AS doesn't use regional planes at ANC? This ended a few months ago. QX was in ANC for a while flying 3 DH4s to Fairbanks, Deadhorse, and Prudhoe Bay. This at first was a solution to retiring the 732. QX pulled out of ANC early this year since they deemed the operation "too costly" for the...
Jump to postJust like FSDan's threads for AA, DL, and UA, I've made one for AS. Since AS's route structure is a lot more point to point and relies more on focus cities instead of just hubs like the others, I've included SJC and SAN. Just like FSDan's disclaimers: *This data was collected by hand, so it's possib...
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