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RE: 787 Clear For Takeoff On 4-24-2013?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Aaron747" class="quote" target="_blank">Aaron747</a> (<a href="#68" class="quote">Reply 68</a>):<br/><i>Not so - ANA and Boeing continue to work...

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RE: United 744 Strikes Aerobridge At Melbourne Tullamarine

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/RyanairGuru" class="quote" target="_blank">RyanairGuru</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i>They are in the process of making ...

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RE: When Did UA Drop TPE?

Googling "ua cancel nrt-tpe" -- <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym>'s <acronym title="Tokyo - Narita International (New Tokyo) (NRT / RJAA), Japan">NRT</acronym>-<acronym title="Taoyuan (Taipei) - Taiwan International (Chiang Kai Shek) (TPE / RCTP), Taiwan">TPE</acronym> service was ...

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RE: United/Cont. Existing Fleet Upgrade Status 15

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/CALPSAFltSkeds" class="quote" target="_blank">CALPSAFltSkeds</a> (<a href="#92" class="quote">Reply 92</a>):<br/><i>772 Maint: N779UA sked to ex...

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RE: 50 Years Of The One-Eleven

Growing up as a spotter in <acronym title="Cleveland - Hopkins International (CLE / KCLE), USA - Ohio">CLE</acronym> in the early to mid 70's, my favorite memory of the BAC 1-11 was the crackling noise it made when taking off. IIRC, both <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> and Alle...

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RE: Gizmodo: When Flying Was Still Civilized

As far as non=smokers being right ahead of smokers, that wasn't as bad as my first time on <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym>: Non-smokers on the left and smokers on the right! Later I found out other airlines did that as well. No way could you avoid almost direct contact with th...

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RE: UA 744 N118UA Been At PEK For Nearly Two Months?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/strfyr51" class="quote" target="_blank">strfyr51</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i>8418, Is in <acronym title="Beijing - Ca...

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RE: AA/US - Chances Of Opening An Asia Hub?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/foppishbum" class="quote" target="_blank">foppishbum</a> (<a href="#34" class="quote">Reply 34</a>):<br/><i>Maybe <acronym title="United Airline...

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RE: UA And IAM Reach Tentative Agreement

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/United1" class="quote" target="_blank">United1</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>As in pmUA operating pmCO aircraft and the o...

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RE: TFR Issued For Dorner Capture (Big Bear, Ca)

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/deepunderground" class="quote" target="_blank">deepunderground</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>More realistically they didn...

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RE: How Did Reservations Work In The Pre-Computer Era?

An amusing anecdote from a friend who was a reservations agent with an airline with a relatively small operation in <acronym title="Honolulu - International / Pearl Harbor-Hickam JB (Hickam AFB) (HNL / HIK / PHNL / PHIK), USA - Hawaii">HNL</acronym>. They kept a large board at the front of the room ...

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RE: First Look At TK New Crew Uniforms. (Pic)

Yikes! Those are pretty bad. The third female looks like a North Korean grandma. Is the fourth female wearing some sort of baggy grey trousers? Or, is it some ankle-length dress/skirt? The 7 7 7 on the tails of the neckware remind me more of a casino logo than Boeing, for some reason, as well.

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RE: AA Admirals Club Design

Those orange chairs in to top picture don't look too comfortable. They are so high -- you have to hop up into them? -- that they have a stirrup foot rest. Why not a function-over-form reasonable sit-down height?

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RE: Official: New AA Livery - Jan/18 - Part 4

For those of you who struggle to see a stylized <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> in the new logo as I do -- I still can't see it: How many realize that the <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> tulip <s>is</s> was actually a stylized U and A? (Only in the slanting ...

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RE: OFFICIAL: New AA Livery Today! Part 2

I find it interesting that they chose the logo to be the one that's on a right-facing airplane. I thought most carriers with mirror-image logos on their aircraft, used the on that's on the other side of the aircraft. e.g. The <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> tulip logo on tickets,...

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RE: ANA B787 Emergency Landing/Fleet Grounding Part 2

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/spacecadet" class="quote" target="_blank">spacecadet</a> (<a href="#16" class="quote">Reply 16</a>):<br/><i>Various passengers have now been quo...

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RE: Will UA Base Its B 747-400 Fleet Elsewhere?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/United1" class="quote" target="_blank">United1</a> (<a href="#29" class="quote">Reply 29</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table><table border="0...

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RE: ANA B787 Emergency Landing And Fleet Grounding

Interesting photo on Yahoo: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/photo-taken-passenger-distributed-japans-kyodo-news-passengers-photo-124807541--finance.html" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/photos/photo-t...gers-photo-124807541--finance.html</a> What the heck are those two F/A's doing still ...

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RE: UA- How Many Tulips Left?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/coairman" class="quote" target="_blank">coairman</a> (<a href="#66" class="quote">Reply 66</a>):<br/><i> I think the new <acronym title="United ...

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RE: Capacity On SEA-NRT

SEA is the closest US mainland gateway to Japan. For connections that means a shorter overall trip than through any other gateway.

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RE: Will UA Fly To KUL/MNL?

At one point I recall speculation that <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> had considered extending the <acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym>-<acronym title="Taoyuan (Taipei) - Taiwan International (Chiang Kai Shek) (TPE / RCTP), ...

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RE: When Smaller US Airports Had Wide Bodies...

I remember my aunt & uncle taking a <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> 747 from <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym> to <acronym title="Jacksonville - International (JAX / KJAX), USA - Fl...

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RE: United To Concentrate 747 Fleet At San Francisco

Isn't <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> (s-l-o-w-l-y) in the process of installing WiFi servers on the 747-400's to deliver streaming entertainment? And also, IIRC, installing power ports in Y-class seats? If so, would that abate (I'm not delusional -- haters will still hate) the F...

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RE: First Flight-Dec 17th, 1903 (and A Stupid Seag

"Sorry, the offer you tried to access has ended."

Well, that didn't last long.

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RE: ORD/MDW To Obama? Inevitable?

With a further nod to history: O'Hare/Obama/Orchard International AIrport?

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RE: Cathay Pacific Crews Threaten Holiday Strike

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/CX+Flyboy" class="quote" target="_blank">CX Flyboy</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i>You know as well as I do and as well a...

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RE: UA 6869 SFO To SFO

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/CALPSAFltSkeds" class="quote" target="_blank">CALPSAFltSkeds</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i>747-400 N104UA was rumored to ...

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RE: Snake On Egypt Air Flight

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/BreninTW" class="quote" target="_blank">BreninTW</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>A lot depends on how old the snake was ..j...

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RE: Crew Rest Area On AA's 77W

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/fxramper" class="quote" target="_blank">fxramper</a> (<a href="#25" class="quote">Reply 25</a>):<br/><i>Why does <acronym title="American Airlin...

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RE: DOT Tentatively Grants DL SEA-HND

IIRC, during the initial award of <acronym title="Tokyo - Haneda International (HND / RJTT), Japan">HND</acronym> slots the DOT denied <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> the <acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym>-<acronym title="T...

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RE: United FA Domicile/transfers Questions

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/AADC10" class="quote" target="_blank">AADC10</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>The rumor is the current batch in training are...

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RE: Likely New United Routes Over The Next Year Or So?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ANA787" class="quote" target="_blank">ANA787</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>Starting <acronym title="Tokyo - Narita Intern...

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RE: Is UA Considering Service To Cape Verde?

How about Cape Verde as an intermediate fuel stop on flights to deeper Africa that wouldn't support a large nonstop long-range aircraft?

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RE: What's Left Of UA Operations At JFK?

Initially, after "Pac Day" in 1986, <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> flew twice daily 747SP's <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym>-<acronym title="Tokyo - Narita International (New Tokyo) (NRT / RJAA), Japa...

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RE: Breaking News: Taca A321 Out Of The Runway At SJO

Hey, good a*net sources here: a good friend of the captain, someone trained by the copilot, and someone whose son was on the flight. Let's get to the bottom of this!

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RE: Airlines Open Cabin Doors From Outside

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/GT4EZY" class="quote" target="_blank">GT4EZY</a> (<a href="#26" class="quote">Reply 26</a>):<br/><i>I've never truly understood why some airline...

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RE: Compass FAs Authorize Strike

I snicker when I think of how many people who think the F/A position is unskilled, implying just anybody could get hired, would get past the preliminary first interview.

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RE: AA Cancellations Continue - Part II

"American Airlines said it will cut back on passenger capacity until mid-November, extending reductions from September and October as it cancelled hundreds of flights, citing aircraft maintenance issues <b><i>and pilots reporting sick</i></b>." <i>source:</i> <a href="http://news.airwise.com/story/v...

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RE: AA 757 Overwing Exit Slide Deployed At LIH W/PIC

AAR90, are you sure that <acronym title="Melbourne - Tullamarine (MEL / YMML), Australia - Victoria">MEL</acronym> quote is not specifically referring to slide-<u>rafts</u>? The overwing slide is not a slide-raft. Hard to believe that an aircraft could be dispatched with NO slides operative. Easier ...

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RE: Is The UA Computer Switchover 100% Fixed Yet?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/BEG2IAH" class="quote" target="_blank">BEG2IAH</a> (<a href="#33" class="quote">Reply 33</a>):<br/><i>Didn't someone mention 2-3 week training s...

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RE: Full 3 Class Configuration's On The 787

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/jfk777" class="quote" target="_blank">jfk777</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i> Will any US airline ever have a real Y+ with ...

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RE: Is The UA Computer Switchover 100% Fixed Yet?

I may have the month wrong, but the cut over to SHARES at sUA was rushed because their contract with Apollo was expiring/due for renewal in April. Ideally, s<acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> would have continued using Apollo until the GUI overlay for SHARES was available, but rathe...

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RE: Why Did UA Pull MNL?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/LAXintl" class="quote" target="_blank">LAXintl</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>One bit of trivia - Manila had one of the hi...

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RE: AA Cancellations Continue

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/commavia" class="quote" target="_blank">commavia</a> (<a href="#51" class="quote">Reply 51</a>):<br/><i> "The system" - including crew schedulin...

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RE: 727-200 On The Aleve Commercial

Any link to a video of the commercial?

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RE: AA Flight Attendants To Start Using Galaxy Note

I wonder how extensively they tested it with the more senior F/As, the ones with less-than-laser-sharp eyesight? Won't it be a challenge to do their preflight safety check with a 5.3" screen to look at? If they take meal orders on it, as mentioned in the video in the article, it may also be a challe...

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RE: DL To Offer Onboard Streaming Thru WiFi

Is this the same type of WiFi streaming that UA announced a while ago that they were going to install on its 747 fleet, presumably to save a more expensive upgrade to its Y-class entertainment system?

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RE: Sky Chef Employees Stole 7500 Minibottles Weekly

The article quoted above says: "The IG's office says Sky Chef food service workers swiped 7,500 bottles off American Airlines planes daily."

DAILY, not just weekly!

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RE: Boeing's 737-900ER Surpasses 500 Orders

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/817Dreamliiner" class="quote" target="_blank">817Dreamliiner</a> (<a href="#40" class="quote">Reply 40</a>):<br/><i>The highest densiy 788 is 33...

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RE: Airline Responsibility After Medical Diversion?

What % of travelers have travel insurance, though?

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