Re: Brown Bear Walks Through Airport Security Check Point

Spacepope wrote:

Let’s just hope it wasn’t exercising it’s right
*removes sunglasses *
To bear arms
YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAH!

Re: American outlines A321neo network for 2019 Q2

I'm a huge fan of IFE, especially on long-hauls. I don't mind not having it on some short-haul segments, but for anything more than a couple hours, it's a nice touch. When my wife and I have traveled on longer segments, it was nice to not have to bring a tablet with us.

Re: Doug Parker: "Our crowded planes are much more comfortable."

WN is different, if I wanted to be cattle I would live in a field and eat grass. This statement stands out to me. Things used to be like that before specific boarding positions were assigned, but I feel that this hasn't been true in years. I find WN's boarding to be vastly more orderly than any of ...

Re: ATL-WAW route

I know this doesn't add much to the discussion on the viability of a potential WAW route, but if I may interject a few things, I'd say that: - 2-3-2 on a 767 is excellent for long-haul with a bit of intimacy, even in Y, but with enough cabin space to not feel too cramped on a long-haul flight. - I d...

Re: LHR - proposed night time ban, 7hrs

FYI, I live right under the approach path to MCO and unless it's one of those twice-a-year F/A-18s that ends up here, the noise is hardly anything that would interrupt sleep. I can hear the planes coming in low and really, with even a modest amount of sound insulation, it's not bad at all. Besides, ...

Re: American Airlines Just Upset Its Customers In a Way No Airline May Have Done Before

I personally thought the safety video was extremely enjoyable, and I thought the little touch at the end was very sweet. What's wrong with cheering and enjoying company pride? So what if I had just endured a lengthy delay and that popped up? If that cheering bothered me, it'd be me with the problem ...

Re: how many hours QF/VA aircraft parked at LAX not maintenance ?

no one here seems to have any idea. Saying aircraft need to sit at LAX all day everyday is just stupid. Sure they need maintenance but not that regularly. It seems that perhaps you people are giving you too much information and it's confusing you, so I'll make it simple: QANTAS AIRCRAFT FLY TO PLAC...

Re: New SAT-DCA Flight Sought by Rep. Cuellar

Not to be difficult, but the DC area needs to get with the times and IAD needs to get the brunt of the focus. I don't see the harm in switching a within-perimeter slot to one outside the perimeter as there's no capacity increase, but I also think that as other large, metropolitan areas around the wo...

Re: BA to offer less legroom than Ryanair on some planes

That's one reason why Air France was my first choice when my wife and I were in Europe for our honeymoon and had to fly FCO-CDG. It helped that they had a flight time that was right on the money, but it could just as easily have been Alitalia for a nonstop choice. I've not looked at SeatGuru in a bi...

Re: If airlines started to listen to A-netter?

- 777s would go 9-abreast universally (the same for 787s and 8-abreast seating), but IFE would completely disappear. - MIA would still not have service to Asia. - The ME3 would still operate the same way, but at least we'd be able to peek at the books and put all those debates to rest. ;) - Goodbye,...

Re: The Definition Of Baby Buses

The A318 is the Airbus Shuffle.

Re: LH Pilot strike planned 23Nov.

I find posters worry about the company and shock against union quite interesting Lets look at how things stand. The pilots have not had a contract for 4 years now. Its to be expected the union must take ever stronger line against the company. They probably should have done so 3 years ago not allow ...

Re: Singapore Airlines to announce 12 NEW destinations in upcoming financial year

^That was a joke about how DTW always seems to have large populations of (insert random ethnicity here) in the eyes of some members that should result in new DTW service to and from those locations.

Re: BA returns to 10-abreast 777 seating, increases A320 seating

Thing is - adding seats only works if you fill them.This in turn suggests that BA have been flying full for some time,turning away potential pax - except that is not the case in actuality.So it must be route 2 -stealing traffic from someone else - who? - well we know that Norwegian. So the $64k que...

Re: BA returns to 10-abreast 777 seating, increases A320 seating

Is it possible that BA is expanding their LGW fleet to 25 777s? I know that's a substantial increase, and I don't think that OAK and FLL require a double-digit fleet of 777s to operate, but could we see a more aggressive expansion coming soon?

Re: London Mayor Strongly Backs A New Runway -- At LGW ?!?

To the point about having to have airports so close to the city centers, how does one explain places like ICN that are a good ways outside? I would contend that the best option may be to just build something a little ways out and then have exceptional transportation options (like high-speed rail) in...

Re: Hawaii & the 73G, 737-900 vs 737-800

One thing to remember with those heavy jets is that they're designed to go much farther than Hawaii to the mainland US. The 737s are flying much closer to the upper end of their range than the widebodies. All the power of the widebodies coupled with the fact that they're flying with much lighter fue...

Re: Iraqi transport minister claims first airport was built 7,000 years ago in Iraq by ancient Sumerians

I read about those spaceships. The earliest versions sat 9-across, but eventually, they switched to 10-across due to the better revenue potential. I heard that it was pretty much miserable on any flights farther than Saturn.

Re: Why didn't VS succeed in Canada?

BA has a monster hub in LHR with both short-haul and long-haul feed on both ends. All VS has at LHR outside of its North American routes are a few long-haul routes elsewhere in the world, some of which have non-stop service to Canada anyway.

RE: Why Is Frequency Great When All Are 2 Hours Late?

To the OP: there's an easy solution: book a seat on the flight scheduled to leave 2 hours before you want to leave. Problem solved.  <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/wink.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0"/> In all seriousness, I agree with you, but as...

RE: Ivy League Economist Profiled On AA3950

^"it's," not "its."  

RE: Concourse C In CVG To Be Torn Down In Aug

Be that as it may, it's not like the only people who use the airport are downtown. In some cases, the airports aren't even close to downtown. To use <acronym title="Pittsburgh - International (Greater Pittsburgh) (PIT / KPIT), USA - Pennsylvania">PIT</acronym> as an example (I have a cousin who live...

RE: Dutch Ministry Approves 2nd EK A380 Daily To AMS

I'm not saying the wages be identical, but I seem to recall plenty of documentation that, for example, flight crews for the ME3 have far more grueling schedules than their US or EU counterparts. Also, as I mentioned earlier, the airline industry seems to suffer a bit more from a price-above-all-else...

RE: Dutch Ministry Approves 2nd EK A380 Daily To AMS

I'm not disputing that a lack of quality is hurting things further, but at the end of the day, price will still trump quality for a sizeable portion of the traveling public, and there's nothing they can do about that. Consider the desire of a lot of these airlines to set up LCC/leisure-oriented subs...

RE: Dutch Ministry Approves 2nd EK A380 Daily To AMS

Not to be difficult, but I think the complaints from these European carriers are quite well-founded. A lot of the arguments for the ME3 state that the EU airlines need to step up their game and stop complaining, but what those people fail to realize is that even if the airlines do that, they aren't ...

RE: LH Pilots To Strike On Tue 8 Sept.

I wholeheartedly agree that labor needs to be cared for and I'm not a fan of carriers setting up lower-cost, lower-quality subsidiaries with lower pay and benefits, but the fact of the matter is that it is a tragic necessity in this industry. It's easy to blame management, but management isn't neces...

RE: The Street: IAD Needs A New Airline...

It'll be years before it happens, but <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym> and <acronym title="Washington - Ronald Reagan National (DCA / KDCA), USA - Virginia">DCA</acronym> can only grow so much before they start having cap...

RE: Next Big Innovation For Airlines

Sometimes I wonder if the great big technological advancements are the ones that prevent us from ever having to travel at all. With the advances in telecommunications and such, I think the focus needs to be on developing technologies that greatly cut down on the operating costs of aircraft. I think ...

RE: WN Growth Potential At BOS

WN may not be what it used to be in <acronym title="Philadelphia - International (PHL / KPHL), USA - Pennsylvania">PHL</acronym>, but it at least maintains a respectable level of service for a secondary carrier out of the airport, and with <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> being...

RE: Delta CEO Associates UAE Carriers With 9-11 Part 2

Folks, the problem is the American consumer and his/her borderline obsession with low fares and high frequency. For whatever reason, people in this country are so adamant about saving a buck or two and having 20 flights a day on a route that they don't care that they're in tiny RJs with seat pitch t...

RE: DCA Surpasses IAD In Total Passengers - Dec 2014

Part of the issue is that <acronym title="Washington - Ronald Reagan National (DCA / KDCA), USA - Virginia">DCA</acronym> can't keep growing, but air travel almost assuredly will. Convenient or not, <acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (IAD / KIAD), USA - Virginia">IAD</acronym> is goin...

RE: US Carriers In Talks About Open Skies With ME3

Every time I read one of these threads, the folks who disagree with the actions of the EU, and now US, carriers who complain have 2 common arguments: 1) It's a free market. Let all the carriers have at it. 2) The complaining carrier(s) should up their product offering. Perhaps that's what is holding...

RE: BA A380 To Washington 25th December

If I'm not mistaken, BA has actually been running an A380 on this route since October. I still need to get down there to catch it.

RE: Air Canada To Launch 3 Weekly Toronto-Dubai

At the risk of being devil's advocate, there's a lot of comments about onward connections on the <acronym title="Dubai - International (DXB / OMDB), United Arab Emirates">DXB</acronym> end benefitting <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym>, but isn't the same true for <acronym...

RE: Southwest Announces Costa Rica

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mercure1" class="quote" target="_blank">mercure1</a> (<a href="#51" class="quote">Reply 51</a>):<br/><i>Anyhow, look at <acronym title="American...

RE: WN Proposes New DAL Flights

One thing to keep in mind is that were <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> to move to <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym>, the airport would obviously expand. The whole point of <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - Internat...

RE: AA To Put Livery To Employee Vote

Personally, I think it would have been cool to take the current livery but carry the stripes all the way along the upper half of the fuselage. THAT would have seriously stood out.

RE: WN To Close JAN, BKG & EYW

I don't follow some of this logic at all. Why is it somehow <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym>'s responsibility and no one else's to keep fares low? One could argue that <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym>, <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym>, or <...

AA A319 Inaugural On Sept 16, 2013

Wait, I saw one in CLE a week ago. Were those just test flights?

RE: "13 Million Seats...Gone!"

The point I was trying to make was that the government has two choices: 1) deny American and US the same opportunity granted to <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym>, <acronym title="Continental Airlines (USA)">CO</acronym>, <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym>, <acronym...

RE: "13 Million Seats...Gone!"

How can the government in good conscience say no to this one when they said yes to the others? Once the door is opened, you pretty much have to allow it to play out. If the government is this concerned about it, they never should have let Delta and Northwest join up and start this whole issue. Perso...

RE: Branson: UA Acting Anti-competitively Against VX

I can see both sides of the issue. On the one hand, I have no issue with competitors dumping capacity if they have it available to protect their turf. I do, however, agree that using Chapter 11 as a get-out-of-jail-free card, thereby putting everyone who has avoided it at a massive disadvantage, oug...

RE: Qantas Old And New: 747 SYD-NRT Rtn

I very much enjoyed reading this trip report, partly due to a long-held desire to fly on <acronym title="Qantas (Australia)">QF</acronym>. That desire is hopefully going to be fulfilled starting this weekend, and wanting to avoid starting a new thread on the subject, does anyone know if the 747 oper...

RE: Official: New AA Livery - Jan/17 - Part 3

If somebody with Photoshop skills has the time, I'd be curious to see what it would look like if the tail design was extended the length of the fuselage. That should give a pretty cool thick red cheat line.

RE: Boeing 747SP - Will We Have It Again?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Stitch" class="quote" target="_blank">Stitch</a> (<a href="#33" class="quote">Reply 33</a>):<br/><i>Chief project engineer Bruce Dickinson noted...

RE: IAD - International Arrivals Capacity?

Weird. I flew <acronym title="Lufthansa (Germany)">LH</acronym> back from <acronym title="Frankfurt am Main (Rhein-Main AB) (FRA / FRF / EDDF), Germany">FRA</acronym> this summer on the first of their two flights and once I made it to the main hall, I was through in no time. There was a bit of a bot...

RE: United Ups The Baggage War: $100 For 2nd Bag Intl

My question to all of those who say that they don't feel they should be subsidizing those of us who check bags would be the following: assuming it is really you who is subsidizing free bags, you did it for decades without complaint, so why is it a problem now? None of you would have said anything if...

Why Qantas Board Should Be Sacked

Just one question regarding the whole <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym>, <acronym title="Etihad Airways (United Arab Emirates)">EY</acronym>, and <acronym title="Qatar Airways">QR</acronym> causing problems on the Kangaroo Route bit, and I'm open to the fact that I may be...

RE: CPH-LHR On SK, LHR-SYD On VS

Ah, OK. I hadn't considered the travel agent possibility. However, it does seem that the original post is worded in a way that makes me think they're purchased directly by the poster.

RE: CPH-LHR On SK, LHR-SYD On VS

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mortenbaek" class="quote" target="_blank">mortenbaek</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>Out of pure interest - could you elabo...