Will this flight arrive into the MAC? If so, will it use one of NW's swing gates? If so, it would be one of the smallest jets at the A gates.
Jump to postWith <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> leaving <acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW / KDTW), USA - Michigan">DTW</acronym>, I think it makes perfect sense that <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> would keep a second <acronym title="London - Gatwick ...
Jump to postAeroflot made a movie congratulating their <acronym title="Safair (South Africa)">FA</acronym>'s.. It's in Russian, but it has song about Aeroflot in English... which has a line that says "Flight attendants that look like high school beauty queens." It's quite funny. I guess Aeroflot really likes th...
Jump to postI've actually always wanted to help aeroflot in this respect, i just don't know whom to contact. It would be a great summer internship in Moscow. Maybe next summer.
Jump to postNow the <acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW / KDTW), USA - Michigan">DTW</acronym>-<acronym title="Dusseldorf - International (Rhein-Ruhr / Lohausen) (DUS / EDDL), Germany">DUS</acronym> flight has no allotted aircraft type. It says just N/A, so maybe <acronym title="Detroit - M...
Jump to postAccording to an Aeroflot press release, China Southern is now in the skyteam alliance, and aeroflot bonus members can now earn and redeem miles with china southern (CZ). Congrats to China Southern, and to skyteam for getting better access to China. I guess this makes complete sense now that China So...
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Jump to postI don't see the flight anymore on KLM's timetable. Maybe we prompted them to remove it already? I tried my search on <a href="http://www.klm.com/travel/nl_en/travel_information/travel_planning/timetable/timetable_online.htm" target=_blank>http://www.klm.com/travel/nl_en/trav...ing/timetable/timetabl...
Jump to postYou have to see which hub is more effective. Maybe <acronym title="Amsterdam - Schiphol (AMS / EHAM), Netherlands">AMS</acronym> is a better connecting hub than <acronym title="Philadelphia - International (PHL / KPHL), USA - Pennsylvania">PHL</acronym>. Just because US offers <acronym title="Philad...
Jump to postI think the airline industry is a unique cross section of the overall world economy. In one of my economics classes, we were talking about subsidizing corporations (i.e. the Renault Example in the 80's) and how it affects competing enterprising specializing in similar goods. Airlines (especially non...
Jump to postI'm trying to ship something from Germany to the United States, and i was wondering how does NWA's or any other airline for that matter, Cargo division work. Can normal individuals schedule a shipment, say Frankfurt-Detroit with <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> to get their goo...
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Jump to postSorry, I wanted to say one more thing... Although not to the same degree, the <acronym title="Minneapolis / St. Paul - International / Wold-Chamberlain Field (MSP / KMSP), USA - Minnesota">MSP</acronym> hub can be related with <acronym title="Houston - George Bush Intercontinental (IAH / KIAH), USA ...
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Jump to postNW started <acronym title="Minneapolis / St. Paul - International / Wold-Chamberlain Field (MSP / KMSP), USA - Minnesota">MSP</acronym>-<acronym title="Paris - Charles de Gaulle (Roissy) (CDG / LFPG), France">CDG</acronym> because <acronym title="Minneapolis / St. Paul - International / Wold-Chamber...
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Jump to postSo when is the announcement supposed to be made today?
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Jump to postI think that all of you worrying about Putin should think deeper into the matter... 1) Putin will not be President when many of these aircraft will be sold to the west... His term runs up next March. And secondly, albeit that you may not like Putin, he is very intelligent, and he is not going to ris...
Jump to postActually I think that the <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> and <acronym title="China Southern Airlines">CZ</acronym> will run their own flight daily direct. Here is the press release from Detroit Metro's website. <a href="http://www.metroairport.com/uploads/docs/NR_China_Southe...
Jump to postWith Aeroflot acquiring JAT, it will be a win win situation. When <acronym title="Aeroflot (Russian Federation)">SU</acronym> was considering buying <acronym title="Alitalia (Italy)">AZ</acronym>, they wanted to position themselves in Southern Europe, as well as be able to buy foreign aircraft witho...
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Jump to postIf Air One does end up buying Alitalia, I don't really see how things will change in Italy. The same mentality will exist and nothing will end up being changed in the end. In fact, I see this hurting Italian consumers as two independent airlines will effectively merge into one. Even if the governmen...
Jump to postI actually like the late night <acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW / KDTW), USA - Michigan">DTW</acronym> departure as connections in <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym> are not so bad, since there is a bank at around 1pm. Otherwise, if ...
Jump to postI see <acronym title="Aeroflot (Russian Federation)">SU</acronym> beginning its expansion to Skyteam hubs where it can pick up passengers from other cities connecting at one facility. If <acronym title="Aeroflot (Russian Federation)">SU</acronym> were to start services to Texas, it would most likely...
Jump to postWow a 762 from <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym>-<acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW / KDTW), USA - Michigan">DTW</acronym>. Wouldn't it be cost saving to use larger aircraft on highly dense city pairs like <acronym title=...
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Jump to postAt the Le Bourget Air Show, Aeroflot Russian Airlines confirmed their deal with Airbus for the 22 frames that will upgrade it's longhaul fleet between 2014-2017. This will push the number of Airbus aircraft in it's fleet up to 65. Aeroflot also signed an agreement with Rolls-Royce for the servicing ...
Jump to postWhere are they getting the additional A330's from? being that it is summer season? If they have so much time to do a west coast pair, why don't they normally schedule the bigger planes for these cities. LA could defenitely use the extra capacity.
Jump to postMaybe, this is an indication that an airline can be more efficient if it used larger aircraft on certain routes. The fact that <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> uses DC9's and a319 to and from <acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW / KDTW), USA - Michigan">DTW<...
Jump to postThe secondary cities in France are also much smaller and less global than those in Germany and England. While Frankfurt is the center of European banking, Dusseldorf and it's environs is huge.... ME<acronym title="Garuda Indonesia">GA</acronym>, in fact, <acronym title="Dusseldorf - International (R...
Jump to postIt's very easy to book award tickets with <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym>!!! All you do is go to their award travel section, and seach the individual sections for your routing. For instance if you wanted to fly to Rome from <acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan Wayne County (...
Jump to postOn a British Airways flight that I was on, they repeatedly asked customers to make sure their cell-phones were switched off during the approach pattern as it was clear that they were having difficulty communicating with the tower. After two announcements that the <acronym title="Safair (South Africa...
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Jump to postHere is my best translation of the article, and the web domain does seem to signify some reliability. Gazeta.ru is well known across Russia, and Kommersant is a respected news agency. "At the St. Petersburg forum, Aeroflot plans to buy 22 Boeing 787's. On Saturday, at the 11th annual St. Petersburg ...
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Jump to postHey, I was checking some of <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym>'s timetables and i came across a link for a new interactive route map that they have. It seems like this could be the replacement for their awful current routemap which is totally incorrect. This route map still seems...
Jump to postAZ prolly isn't leaving skyteam as Aeroflot is likely to pick it up.
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Jump to postI think the reason <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> and <acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym> can codeshare on the <acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW / KDTW), USA - Michigan">DTW</acronym>-<acronym title="Paris - Charles de Gaulle (Roissy) (CDG / LFPG),...
Jump to postI doubt that <acronym title="Minneapolis / St. Paul - International / Wold Chamberlain Field (MSP / KMSP), USA - Minnesota">MSP</acronym> will get exclusive European routes over <acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW / KDTW), USA - Michigan">DTW</acronym>. <acronym title="Detroit -...
Jump to postAll I can say is two things: <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> has fantastic employees (95%) and a couple of disgruntled ones (5%). I have to thank Abbey, Francois, and basically the <acronym title="Safair (South Africa)">FA</acronym> based in Annapolis fortheir ongoing professi...
Jump to postMost people probably don't know this, but this is huge for Russian aviation. The fact that there can be two national carriers in Russia in the foreseeable near future (how many does the US have? 5) is big. Aeroflot is the only carrier, and as much as I love Aeroflot, I think that domestic competitio...
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Jump to postWow, didn't know that Aeroflot-Nord even had such a route. Interesting... What type of aircraft?
Jump to postMost logically, at least for me, at this point would be for <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> to split up the route authorities so that both the East coast/Midwest, and Westcoast passengers can benefit from their existing China route authorities. Wouldn't it be possible for <acr...
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