Re: Alaska Airlines unveils San Francisco Giants A321 livery

A bit strange to use the registration number for a VX A320 (which at one point did have the SF Giants logo on the engine) but use a mockup of an A321ceo with IAE engines. 3987799 Lack of tail graphic is pretty...meh, it kinda shows they're unsure whether they want to just say "we're Alaska and ...

Re: JetBlue using area codes for flight numbers

When UA still served JFK I remember JFK-SFO being 415 which is SF's area code (well, one of them anyway, the other being 650), and SFO-JFK would use a NYC area code, although which one specifically escapes me. Nowadays 415 is used on LAX-EWR.

Re: When did you fly on your first 737 and A320?

Unless AA had some 737s going between SFO and the PNW I'd say my first 737 flight was SFO-SJD-SFO on AS in 2000, which would've been my second or third (or fourth?) roundtrip by air (vaguely remember one trip to Europe before I even had much memory of anything let alone if there were 737s). First A3...

Re: On which airliner have most people taken their first flight?

I believe it was an AA MD-80 of some type between SFO and SEA, but I'm not even sure if AA had a route like this in the late 90s. I just remember it was a trip to Vancouver/Victoria.

Re: UA announces IAH-SYD, starting Jan 18, 2018

In no way was I expecting in this, I was expecting: NZ AKL-ORD UA SFO-MEL QF SYD-ORD Will be great to see three UA tails in SYD, with no star alliance feed in AU, kudos to UA for holding their own! Yeah surprised they found this more economical than SFO-MEL. SFO-MEL is considerably shorter, and SFO...

Re: Hubs you have flown through but not visited the city

IAH (SFO-IAH-MCO-IAH-MCO) NRT (SJC-NRT-MNL-NRT-MNL) BOS (SFO-BOS-LHR) DFW (LGW-DFW-SFO) FRA (SFO-FRA-LJU) ARN (OAK-ARN-CPH) OSL (OAK-OSL-ORY) YVR and SAN come to mind as two whose cities were destinations in my youth, but to the point I that don't remember too much from those trips, but as of late h...

Re: Do you consider inflight wi-fi a necessity for your travels?

More often than not, WiFi would fall under a splurge/self-treat for me personally and wouldn't necessarily fall into the planning stage when booking, WiFi considerations or availability would only come after price of fare, convenience of schedule, the airline itself/loyalty program, preinstalled IFE...

Re: Gatwick Express vs. Southern Rail routes - how comes they both take the same time?

When I visited London with a bunch of family a couple months ago, we probably would've ended up on the Gatwick Express if not for the ticket agent (said in his career he sold a significant amount of F tickets on the Concorde as a reason for being so cool-headed when dealing with my overworked mom, w...

Re: Ben Franklin to adorn the tail of a Norwegian 737 MAX

Benjamin Franklin is a great place to start! I would also vouch for: Abraham Lincoln Sojourner Truth The Wrights Martin Luther King Jr. Charles Lindburgh Amelia Earhart Well, it turns out Sojourner Truth will indeed be on a tail, presumably EI-FYE. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sojourner-...

Re: Best looking livery

I like Air New Zealand's, night and day compared to the first iteration which was simply the font change and black tailfin compared to the previous green/blue pacific colors, which I also liked. The extra black with the fern along with getting rid of the gray belly color was all it needed to look pe...

Re: Level A330 in SLC

Level's down half their fleet. As mentioned, IB subbed in one of their own A332s, EC-MJT, for the flight today: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ECMJT. I've been watching the inbound flights and so far I haven't seen any special cargo flight come in, though that's assuming the engine needs to be ...

Re: 5 DY 737's currently over the Atlantic

luv2cattlecall wrote:

OP: what website is that great screencap from?

Re: HA Seeking Money From Disruptive Passenger

I am guessing that most people on this site will side with HA. We can all scream and yell about what we think should happen. I am more curious about what will actually happen. Will HA really push for this and set a precedent? Will other airlines follow if they do? Or will public sympathy get HA to ...

Re: Planes you have been with

In order from memory (or my FlightMemory): MD-80 on AA 737-700 on AS (or whatever ran SFO-SJD in 2000), WS and WN 747-400 on VS, NZ, UA (first and only time flying J, which was a free upgrade) and JL 737-800 on FR, CO (I suspect an 800 anyway, dating to 2002 on SFO-IAH-MCO and back), WN, DY and TO 7...

Re: What new routes do you want from your home airport?

Waiting for UA to one day begin SFO-MEL, or maybe even QF could do it when the 789s come online. I'll also humbly consider OAK as a "home" airport as it's every bit as accessible as SFO to me, and seeing OAK-AMS on DY would be neat supposing they'd be able to get slots, even with 10x weekl...

Re: Ben Franklin to adorn the tail of a Norwegian 737 MAX

I usually thought it was only a matter of time, especially with all their expansion to the US to mirror their expansion in non-Scandinavian countries where individuals from Spain, Ireland, and the UK also got the tail hero treatment. Ben Franklin has to be one of the most solid choices for introduci...

Re: Colorado offering incentives to start DEN-CDG

You're right, that really is too easy to piece together!

Re: DY7088 (LAX-ARN) diverted to KEF after engine failure

Another Dreamliner (G-CJUL) now landing in KEF from OSL. Presumably to pick up the stranded passengers. Seems like it was delivered to them just 4 days ago. This one is registred in UK. How does it work, i guess pilots can't fly both LN- and G- registred planes since it's actually different compani...

Re: easyJet pick Austria for the new AOC

Was expecting them to choose Ireland, but nonetheless there's their EU AOC.

Re: Air Transat leases 10 A321neoLRs

To me it seems a lot like when AA replaced the transcon 762 with the A321, although of course the circumstances are different. AA being a network carrier while also keeping an equal amount of F/J seats for the high-frequency JFK-LAX/SFO routes, making switching to the narrowbody that much more effic...

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

But, wasn't the A321neo inaugural from SFO to DCA? Or am I just dumb? It was, but VX's SFO-DCA is also one of the 20 beyond-perimeter slot pairs. Discussed is that while WN has 2 slot pairs from DCA to AUS it's rather unlikely that WN would change one of them to SAT, and that Rep. Cuellar and his c...

Re: Norwegian Air Q2 earnings slump

I wonder how much they blew on ad-hoc charters after the Kirsten Flagstad 787-9 was out of service for over a month in CPH (hence the A332 lease from EB/Wamos on LGW-JFK) or the A343 lease from 5M/Hi Fly Malta last month, even if that was only for a week? I noticed that while they've been adding 787...

Re: Can we expect Norwegian to order more wb aircraft soon ?

Make that at least 28 787-9 still to be delivered. 19x from the order with Boeing and there are 9x 787-9 known allocated production slots via leasing companies (CIT & Aercap). For any future expansion you should expect more 787s, most likely more -9s. I thought it was only 18 left to be deliver...

Re: Can we expect Norwegian to order more wb aircraft soon ?

From my past months lurking here I've seen the 787-10 brought up as a possibility, and from my uninformed opinion I'd still probably go with that model first and foremost before either of the other two. With regard to the 777X I remember bluefltspecial having an insightful reply with the CASM being ...

Re: Edelweiss to start Denver-Zurich

It was only a month or so ago that it was mentioned in the Swiss Aviation thread that DEN was in talks with WK. Is the lead time normally this short?

Re: Norwegian starts CDG-BOS and OAK, increases LAX/JFK

Just wanted to point out (it's in the article but in French) that EWR doesn't begin sales until the 14th whereas OAK and BOS are already bookable. How are they going to handle all of this expansion as far as having enough planes? Don't they only have something like 12 787s? At the moment they actual...

Re: Two new Norwegian routes - Gatwick to Chicago/Austin

I noticed on the inflight map when I went in May/June that Chicago was among one of the labeled destinations that you could read up on (as well as Rome before it was announced), although some other previously-announced destinations like Singapore and Denver weren't labeled whereas Seattle still was....