Atlanta on jetBlue A320 & E190

I had a long weekend, and was meeting some family in Atlanta. When I was looking at options, there were flights on American, Delta and jetBlue. Some of my family were flying jetBlue, so I decided to meet them in BOS and take the same flight. I was taking an overnight from PHX. I got to the airport a...

Re: Flying during Coronavirus on American & Delta

I guess I hadn't considered that many of the restaurants at even a large airport like LHR will likely be shuttered. Hopefully I don't go hungry. It was really strange seeing the airports like that. Almost all of the restaurants were closed. ORD and DTW had a couple places open. SNA and PHX only had...

Re: Flying during Coronavirus on American & Delta

CollegeAviator wrote:

Quite the scene seeing these empty flights during these surreal times. I guessing you had to quarantine after this trip? Thank you for sharing this!

Re: Flying during Coronavirus on American & Delta

I'm impressed with the bag that DL provided. Great TR. I'm sure some of those sights at normally-bustling airports like ORD and PHX were eerie. The DL flights were better, AA gave out nothing. It was definitely strange seeing the airports empty. DL only had 9 departures at PHX, the day i was flying.

Re: Flying during Coronavirus on American & Delta

I'm curious as to why PHX had ATC delays when there were so few flights departing or arriving. I am not sure the exact reason for the delay. AA just said it was due to "ATC delays". I listened to Live ATC, and one controller mentioned an issue with Albuquerque Center. A lot of flights wer...

Re: Flying during Coronavirus on American & Delta

alecdplotkin wrote:

Were you or others wearing masks?

Re: Flying during Coronavirus on American & Delta

KLASM83 wrote:

Fascinating trip report of these grim times. Many thanks!

Flying during Coronavirus on American & Delta

For the past few months during Coronavirus, I have been at home in New York. Something urgent came up, and I ended up having to fly to Phoenix for a few days. I looked at some flights and ended up booking, the two flights on AA. I originally booked a flight, with a connection in Philadelphia for the...

Phoenix - New York on American 757 & 737

At the end of the semester, I was going home for the break. Before I went home for a few weeks, I was going to go to New York City for a few days. When I was looking at flights, I saw AA had a flight to JFK with a connection at SAN. One of the flights was on one of my favorite planes, the 757. This ...

Aruba on American A321 & 737

At the end of the summer, I was meeting my family for a week in Aruba. I was coming from PHX. The rest of my family would be going from NY. I was taking a few summer classes, and had my last final the day before I was leaving. I was taking a redeye to CLT, then a flight to AUA. AA has two PHX-CLT re...

PHX-FLL American & Delta

After taking my last CFI checkride, I was going to Florida for a few days, and then home before I start my job as a flight instructor. I booked this flight because it was scheduled to be a 757 from PHX-CLT. But the night before there was an equipment swap, and they switched it to an A321. American 5...

JetBlue/United mechanical issue & diversion

This was a trip that I took a while ago. I had it written up, but never posted it. I was going home for a few days, for Thanksgiving. I had booked myself on JetBlue and United before the semester started. On the day of the flight I got to the airport around 10pm, for my 1159pm departure. JetBlue 136...

Re: American A330 Philadelphia - Los Angeles & 737-800/A319

Just a quick question as I am a little confused. You write you started pushback 6 minutes early but you have your Sched Departure time as 1604 and actual as 1621. That would be 17 minutes late. You do realize the published departure time is the pushback time and then there is the off time which is ...

American A330 Philadelphia - Los Angeles & 737-800/A319

I had some AA miles that I wanted to use, and decided to go home for a few days. I booked it two days before the flight. This trip, would be the first time I flew on an AA A330. I was looking forward to trying out another AA widebody. The only other I had been on, was a 767-300. On the day of the fl...

Re: Cartagena, Colombia on Delta & JetBlue

[quote="ramprat74"]Is that houses in the background?

Yep, there were houses right near the airport.

Re: Cartagena, Colombia on Delta & JetBlue

Cointrin330 wrote:

B6's cabins are so dated.

Cartagena, Colombia on Delta & JetBlue

For the winter break, I was going to Cartagena, Colombia. When we were looking at flights, the options for flights included either a connection in ATL or MIA. Since several people in my family would be flying from JFK, we decided to just fly down the night before. Then the next morning fly nonstop f...

Phoenix - Seattle on Delta and Alaska

I was going to be a little short in qualifying for elite status on DL. I decided to take an extra flight to make sure I qualified. I originally had a flight on another airline, booked to DEN. Then DEN-SEA on DL. My flight ended up being delayed, and I would have missed the DL flight. After calling D...

Flying back to where I started from AA & UA

In August I booked my flight home for thanksgiving. I decided to go with AA for the flight out, and UA for the return. I originally booked PHX-SFO-ORD-SYR. A few weeks after booking, there was a schedule change, and I switched to PHX-LAX-CLT-SYR. I was glad I made this change because on the day of t...

Re: American Airlines Phoenix - New York with multiple delays & cancellations

Not to veer too far off-subject, but why is there a policy of requiring the exact routing on an award ticket during IROPS? Seems like an arbitrary rule that only makes things more difficult. I get it if it is a voluntary change, but why not allow them when things go wrong? (Obviously they *do* allo...

Phoenix - New York City on Southwest & jetBlue A321

I had plans to go to New York City in November. I originally booked myself on AA from PHX-LAX-JFK for the outbound, and B6 A321 for the return. When I was looking at flights, I noticed that B6 was going to be using the A321 for the JFK-PHX flight. This is the first time they have sent the A321 to PH...

Re: American Airlines Phoenix - New York with multiple delays & cancellations

Seems like a typical "AA" experience, especially of out NY. There's a reason why they are far behind Delta and now getting further behind United. I prefer DL and UA over AA, but this time a lot of the delays were due to weather. I was pleased the way they allowed me to change my flights b...

Re: American Airlines Phoenix - New York with multiple delays & cancellations

stl07 wrote:

Very nice if the AA agents all around. I'm extremely impressed.

American Airlines Phoenix - New York with multiple delays & cancellations

After school ended, I decided to go home for a few days. I was planning to finish up my multi engine training before I went home. I booked a flight with miles about a week in advance. I gave myself a couple extra days, in case there was any delays with the checkride. As it turns out there was weathe...

Re: Cathay Pacific 777-300 YVR-JFK

stl07 wrote:

No Preclearance?

Re: Cathay Pacific 777-300 YVR-JFK

MCGYVR wrote:

Great report,

I don't know how you could be on the go for that long, I can't sleep at all on planes.

I booked myself on the reverse route in biz in February and can't wait.

Re: Cathay Pacific 777-300 YVR-JFK

Kent350787 wrote:

Looking forward to my first CX flight in December (SYD-HKG-BOS)

Re: Cathay Pacific 777-300 YVR-JFK

BWIAirport wrote:

Wow. How did you manage to stay rested going from the west coast to the east coast and back in 24 hours?

Cathay Pacific 777-300 YVR-JFK

A few weeks ago, I read that CX was ending their flight from YVR-JFK. When I heard this, I decided I wanted to take the flight before it ends. I called AA and found the flight in October, was available for 12,500 miles. This also gave me the opportunity to use a DL credit that was expiring. I was lo...

Re: Alaska on Air Canada Beechcraft 1900 & United 737-800

maps4ltd wrote:

I remember when they cut SYR-YYZ. Was big news here on anet.

Re: Phoenix - Cancun DL & AA

dfwjim1 wrote:

Nice report and cool that you got to fly on a 763!

Re: Phoenix - Cancun DL & AA

SESGDL wrote:

Great report and pics! I enjoyed reading it!

Jeremy

Re: Phoenix - Cancun DL & AA

Longhornmaniac wrote:

Nice report!

Must be a shock going from Cancun to Minneapolis in just 4 hours.

Interesting that you got two N898*Ns on back-to-back flights!

Alaska on Air Canada Beechcraft 1900 & United 737-800

This was from a trip i took 3 years ago. I had written it up, but forgot to post it -- Over the summer we decided to go on an Alaska cruise. After looking at different options mainly from SEA and YVR, we eventually decided on YVR. Once we had that settled, we had to choose our flights. We decided on...

Phoenix - Cancun DL & AA

For spring break, I had plans to go CUN. After looking around at some flights I eventually settled on AA on the way there, and DL for the return. I was taking a redeye to MIA, and then to CUN. My flight was scheduled to leave at 1:20am. Being one of the last flights out for the night, most of the ai...

Re: Israel/Poland, Lufthansa & LOT A380, Q400

Nice trip report and pictures. LO has a decent-sized operation at TLV (flights to Gdańsk, Kraków, Lublin, Rzeszów, Warsaw–Chopin, Wrocław). What was the purpose of your trip? Visiting family, tourism, etc.? An announcement was made that beginning 30 minutes prior to landing, all passengers would ne...

Re: KLM/Delta 777 to AMS

Great report. Very detailed. Thanks for posting. Delta’s product on that 777 was disappointing. Not even a choice of pretzels or nuts vs the Biscoffs with the first beverage service. Not everyone wants a cookie with their cocktail. It was not the best DL flight i have been on. The person's TV next ...

Re: Israel/Poland, Lufthansa & LOT A380, Q400

AR385 wrote:

Excellent trip report, Thanks. LH is the only airline I fly when I go to Europe. Glad it remains as I know it.

Re: KLM/Delta 777 to AMS

SESGDL wrote:

Nice report, great pictures!

Re: Israel/Poland, Lufthansa & LOT A380, Q400

lychemsa wrote:

I avoid Lufthansa. Awful legroom like being in a cattle car. And Frankfurt Airport is a mess.

Re: Israel/Poland, Lufthansa & LOT A380, Q400

krisyyz wrote:

Great TR! Always love to see pics of FRA. Thanks for posting this.

KrisYYZ

Re: Israel/Poland, Lufthansa & LOT A380, Q400

Nice TR... A chocolate and drinks on an 3+hrs on LOT is disappointing, as well as the non IFE equipped A321 on a 4+hrs flight on LH - especially for *A and a 5* carrier. Next time swiss A330 or B777 to TLV, with meal service and IFE! Way better to go! Yeah, the LOT flight was nothing special. The s...

Israel/Poland, Lufthansa & LOT A380, Q400

In July I went to Israel and Poland. I was looking forward to this trip. It was going to be my second time going to Israel, and my first time in Poland. Also it was my first time on Lufthansa and LOT, and on the 747 and A380. On the day of trip, I had a 6am flight on DL from PHX-JFK. I landed in JFK...

KLM/Delta 777 to AMS

For spring break I was going to Europe. After looking at a few options we settled on AMS. I had originally booked a DL flight from JFK to AMS via DTW. Later I booked SYR-JFK separately. A few days before the trip I was planning on flying on a redeye from PHX-JFK, and then to SYR on a CRJ. The day be...

PHX-JFK-PHX DL E175 A332 & A320/21

I had a 3 day weekend in January, and had plans to go to NY for the weekend. I was originally supposed to fly on a DL 717 and 757-200 through SEA in the morning. I needed to switch to a redeye, so I ended up on a E175 and A330-200 through LAX. The new concourse in T3 had opened about 10 days prior. ...

PHX-LGA daytrip on DL & B6

In February I discovered that a credit I had for a JetBlue had expired. I called JetBlue and was able to get the credit extended for one week. Since I had no trips planned on JetBlue , and a credit on delta that was expiring in March I decided I would do a day trip. After looking at a few options I ...

Re: Brussels Airlines JFK-TLV A330/A320

I avoid SN as much as I can in Europe. I’ve not had one single flight with boarding or arrival on time, the 320 cabin with the open galley looks like a true bus, they offer short connection times which they hardly make and get you stuck. At one point I had a flight from LIN to BRE via BRU and becau...

Re: Brussels Airlines JFK-TLV A330/A320

lychemsa wrote:

So did you like SN? .

Re: Brussels Airlines JFK-TLV A330/A320

On this flight everything was for sale including water. Sad to see that SN is getting more and more low cost - even on the longer flights to Israel, Egypt and Cape Verde). Until recently, longhaul connecting passengers could redeem free drinks against their boardingpass (like a voucher). As well as...

Re: Brussels Airlines JFK-TLV A330/A320

N983AN wrote:

Were you by chance on a Birthright trip?