Re: BA invents new airport. "San Francisco Oakland"

It's very normal to name an airport after a neighbouring metropolitan city. Even if the airport is not actually within the city borders, that's what it serves and we cannot deny that Oakland airport serves San Francisco. Therefor it makes perfect sense to call this airport San Francisco Oakland. Of...

Re: BA invents new airport. "San Francisco Oakland"

99% of people in Europe have never heard of Oakland. It is like Norwegian was to start TATL flights to EIN or CRL tomorrow... who in the US knows where Eindhoven or Charleroi are? Oakland is over twice as big as both of those cities, so not exactly the same, but yes it is not well known compared to...

Re: WN schedule extension 8/28/17

To those living in Fresno, a good route for Southwest would be OAK - FAT - LAS - FAT - OAK or would the route between OAK & FAT be "too short"? Well that seems to be a recurring debate on this forum. Flights to the bay area are pretty well covered by United, in fact they just flew the...

Re: Level A330 in SLC

Ah! Ok so this explains why my LEVEL BCN-OAK flight on Sunday (30th) was on IB livery A332! The plane supposed to fly me was chilling in SLC... IB/LEVEL handled the change in aircraft and resulting loss of 26 seats absolutely terribly at BCN. There was no announcement made about the change until bo...

Re: Potential accident involving AC 759 prevented at SFO.

They thought the lights on the runway were abnormal but thought nothing of the lack of approach lights?

Re: Horizon Air scheduling havoc will continue into the fall

Seattle to Reno should be jet service. All the long Q400 routes that most people think should be jet service seem to be at the back of the line for E175 service. Perhaps next year when they start returning Q400s. They prioritized expansion over a. flying their existing routes and b. putting appropr...

Re: Horizon Air scheduling havoc will continue into the fall

Yes...QX is not having issues with the E-175 flights. The CRJ-700's are coming in the help with the Q400 flights. Seattle to Reno should be jet service. All the long Q400 routes that most people think should be jet service seem to be at the back of the line for E175 service. Perhaps next year when ...

Re: Horizon Air scheduling havoc will continue into the fall

amcnd wrote:

OO starts AS 700's operation tomorrow. Covering QX 175 routes. (That was quick!)

Re: OAG Changes 7/30/2017: DL adds MKE-SLC; HA Drops OAK-OGG; UA Adds MMH, Drops HGH

HA OGG-OAK - I thought this was doing pretty well. Guess not. That seems pretty unlikely? Perhaps a temporary thing while they figure out the 767 retirements and A321 deliveries. If they're having trouble filling an A330 on this route, it seems like you'd put A321 on it before putting it daily on O...

Re: Norwegian 4th 787 engine shutdown in 2 months

I would imagine that this does not make them less accountable to IFSD rates and the problems that with that? I think one of these was a flight that departed SFO and went as far as YYC before shutting an engine down, and then if the reporting is.was correct, returned to SFO. That is over the top and...

Re: AS 30 more markets by 2018

It will be interesting to see what short haul regional markets AS chooses to compete with UA out of SFO. If two airlines can compete regionally out of SEA then SFO should have some good intrastate city pairs. Everything you mentioned is a possibility. Isn't there some sort of rule against props at ...

Re: AS 30 more markets by 2018

I think that most of this flying will be with the E-Jets, as they only have some A321N on order, as well as 11 739s. That being said, I could see the E-Jets replacing some mainline and Q400 flying to start new transcon routes with the 737 and A320, and I hope that some Qs displaced from SEA and PDX...

Re: Norwegian 4th 787 engine shutdown in 2 months

I saw LN-LNB departing OAK for Oslo yesterday morning (http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NAX7964/history/20170725/1430Z/KOAK/ENGM). Whatever the problem was it looks like it necessitated a longer stay at OAK than the 12 hours in the linked report. Not sure how the passengers got to Oslo between Sat...

Re: News Report Says AS Likely to Make Announcement About an All Boeing Fleet in the 4th Quarter

However Alaska main line does not operate these aircraft. They are operated by Skywest for Alaska. So technically speaking Alaska has determined that the main line fleet should remain all Boeing. Also by Horizon, which is owned by Alaska Incorrect. Alaska Airlines and Horizon Airlines are separate ...

Re: News Report Says AS Likely to Make Announcement About an All Boeing Fleet in the 4th Quarter

Alaska has determined that an all Boeing fleet is what works for them. Just like Southwest, Ryanair and others. Note that AS operates Embraer aircraft, there is no such thing as "all Boeing fleet". However Alaska main line does not operate these aircraft. They are operated by Skywest for ...

Re: Horizon Air scheduling havoc will continue into the fall

Some 737 flights are showing up on PDX-OAK for Sept/Oct. Hopefully we'll see more; it's pretty limited as of right now.

Re: Unserved domestic markets from OAK (Oakland)

I don't see Southwest adding PHL-OAK, as Southwest is small in PHL, really doesn't like doing transcons, and can get some PHL based fliers to use BWI. I think MCO-OAK and FLL-OAK, albeit also transcons, have higher likelihood being added from Southwest than PHL. Of note, WN has flown OAK-PHL in the...

Re: HA adds PDX-OGG, on A321

wedgetail737 wrote:

It looks like a significant reduction in available seats to Hawaii our of OAK. Although, the A321 interior looks pretty nice.

Re: Unserved domestic markets from OAK (Oakland)

I hope WN will move into more transcon markets as they take more Maxes and add red eye flying (OAK-EWR year round, OAK-BOS, OAK-PHL, etc. OAK-JFK?). OAK will be a likely focus there in addition to whenever Hawaii starts. The legacies have shown no inclination to increase service after slashing it in...

Re: HA adds PDX-OGG

Initial A321 flight OAK-OGG Jan 8 Portland (PDX) and Kahului, Maui (OGG) – flights launch on Jan. 18, 2018 Oakland (OAK) and Lihue, Kauai (LIH) – seasonal widebody service now offered through Sept. 4, 2017 resumes April 11, 2018 as a daily A321neo flight. Los Angeles (LAX) and Kona, Hawaii Island (K...

Re: OAG CHanges 7/23/2017:AA Drops DCA-FLL/LAX-CUN, SY Drops DCA, UA Adds LAX-SGU/DEN-PUB

SFO does dominate the Bay Area, but WN is the dominant intra-CA player, not a minor player, and WN dominates at OAK and SJC. 14x LAX-OAK and 11x LAX-SJC move a lot of people. WN's domination still leaves OAK and SJC as minor players in the intra-CA, and especially inter-CA, markets. What does it te...

Re: OAG CHanges 7/23/2017:AA Drops DCA-FLL/LAX-CUN, SY Drops DCA, UA Adds LAX-SGU/DEN-PUB

That's an incomplete comparison, though, since AA has a large hub right down the road from FLL. That, as much as anything else, is clearly what has driven AA to make the decision to exit the NYC-FLL, and apparently now also WAS-FLL, market/s. AA can still cater to the segment of NYC-South Florida a...

Re: OAG CHanges 7/23/2017:AA Drops DCA-FLL/LAX-CUN, SY Drops DCA, UA Adds LAX-SGU/DEN-PUB

If I was going to SanFran for tourism I wouldn't even consider OAK, but that's just my bias I guess. Regardless, I don't think there's much parallel between SFO/OAK and MIA/FLL. The cruise component alone is a huge difference. Yes the name "San Francisco" and the lack of knowledge of Bay ...

Re: Level to USA

Make that OAK for both DY and Level I am referring to official company ads, they fly to "cities", not airports. LCC style Oakland is a "city." But your technically correct. In the past, they used to call out Oakland/San Francisco. They currently use Oakland-San Francisco. Althou...

Re: Potential accident involving AC 759 prevented at SFO.

I'm guessing you haven't read the whole thread, but this has been a pretty common hypothesis in general. To say the least... :) Adding to this hypothesis, is there a chance the airframes obstructed the green centerline lights for the CA crew? There were three pretty big ones there in line and UA1 a...

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

stl07 wrote:

...OAK is for San Francisco...

Re: Next new international carrier/route for SJC?

If DY preferred SJC they could have started flying there instead of OAK. Why would they move now? And what better connection ops? They don't codeshare with anyone. There are no connections on the California end. Also DY is a leisure airline that caters to tourists and OAK is much closer to downtown...

Re: AS Horizon Cancellations due to Pilot Shortage

It's also the fact that they planned a big expansion with the E175 without having an adequate plan to backfill crews to fly the existing and continuing Q400 schedule. If they did a little more replacing long Q400 flights with E175 and less expansion/replacing existing OO E175/AS 737 flying perhaps t...

Re: Next new international carrier/route for SJC?

olddominion727 wrote:

Even DY could do well in SJC. Take it from OAK and give it better connection ops

Re: Next new international carrier/route for SJC?

olddominion727 wrote:

It would also seem as big and busy SJC is getting, AC would give YYZ another crack, or UA into IAD, or Maybe AS would expand into another tech city and re-open SJC-RDU?

Re: SFO's 5th runway idea

Since you are from SF, do they ever use 1L/19R and 1R/19L? Like ever? Yes. Like always. Almost all domestic narrowbodies and some lighter widebodies use 1L and 1R for takeoffs. When weather is bad, SFO changes arrival pattern and all landings happen on 19L and 19R. Very very rarely when winds and w...

Re: SFO's 5th runway idea

I have said this in the past and worth repeating here- building a 5th runway at SFO is almost impossible in tight squeeze, a better option for low-weather ops would be to build a 2nd runway at OAK and an underwater tunnel linking the two airports, or a cheaper option a fleet of high-speed ferries w...

Re: UA Plans LAX Push in Comeback Effort

With Kirby's focus being domestic flying, I would expect them to beef up that first at LAX to give UA a more appealing and pertinent schedule offering. Top 10 O&Ds from LAX are: NYC, SFO, CHI, SEA, DC, DFW, HNL, LAS, BOS, MIA/FLL, there is good room for them to grow frequency and even add new m...

Re: Which second-tier US cities can support Trans-Atlantic Flights?

Efficient market hypothesis - airline edition. There are no viable routes that aren't already served to the exact optimally efficient level. Just like how you can't really find a $20 bill on the sidewalk; if it were real, someone would have picked it up already. Right Right, I forgot... Delta, Sout...

Re: Which second-tier US cities can support Trans-Atlantic Flights?

Because it is until somebody officially announces IND-LON it is an unserved market and will continue to be when it gets announced then we can say it's viable. If it was a viable market there would already be service on the route Honestly that is an extremely poor argument. Until a few years ago IND...

Re: Which second-tier US cities can support Trans-Atlantic Flights?

Neither SJC nor OAK has any history of consistently supporting overseas service. It's nice to see carriers building service at both airports, but let's see what survives the next recession or fuel price spike. You could envision a Norwegian or WOW trying SMF at some point, but for now there's room ...

Re: Which second-tier US cities can support Trans-Atlantic Flights?

Neither SJC nor OAK has any history of consistently supporting overseas service. It's nice to see carriers building service at both airports, but let's see what survives the next recession or fuel price spike. You could envision a Norwegian or WOW trying SMF at some point, but for now there's room a...

Re: Big Southwest Airlines events in 2019

I vote for Hawaii and first class

Re: Southwest schedule extension June 22, 2017

OslPhlWasChi wrote:

jplatts wrote:

Otherwise, maybe a flight to OAK or LAX but that is just me dreaming.

Re: Why No JetBlue In MIA?

slcdeltarumd11 wrote:

The same reason United doesn't serve JFK and Jetblue doesn't serve SNA. They have a hub right up the street and its an expensive airport to operate out of.

Re: International flights at SJC and SAN

Also SJC has OAK to compete against with too. OAK and SJC really don't compete with each other. SJC competes with SFO for the high yielding O&D traffic while OAK is all about low cost. If SJC were that much higher yielding than OAK, there was nothing stopping WN from shifting their Bay Area bas...

Re: International flights at SJC and SAN

BA must be doing at least ok at SJC; if they weren't, it seems unlikely they'd start OAK as well to add yet more local capacity. The only reason BA is flying to OAK is because Norwegian does it. Same thing with BA's LGW-FLL route. Yeah but what I said is still true. If they were flying half empty p...

Re: International flights at SJC and SAN

BA must be doing at least ok at SJC; if they weren't, it seems unlikely they'd start OAK as well to add yet more local capacity.

Re: IAG's Level Inaugural Flight: BCN-LAX