skipness1E wrote:Hey guys, huge apologies if covered already but the ex LATAM A350s that are now in service, as they still seating C30Y309 or are they in Delta config as C32W48Y226?
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/26/asia/south-korea-plane-door-opens-midair-intl-hnk/index.html An airline official said a man in his 30s who was sitting at the emergency seat seemed to have opened the door when the aircraft was about 700 feet (213 meters) above the ground and about two to three minute...
Jump to postThe core problem exemplified by DTW-BTV presents is this: The Delta Connection fleet is way too small for what needs to be covered. DL/UA/AA mainline all sit at around 890-950 frames. However, there's a big divergence in terms of their regional fleets: Eagle has 537 frames (of which 456 are not 50 ...
Jump to postHey just wondering if anyone can report on NZ1/2 which I’m going on in September AKL/JFK of course… I’m down the back unfortunately. Lots of publicity on the long flight times when they started but not much since - looking for comments on comfort service etc. I’ve also been wondering what the loads...
Jump to postQantas to return reserve aircraft to restore international capacity. Most of their fleet is flying apart from the 3 A380s and one A330 VH-EBD and two 737s. https://australianaviation.com.au/2023/05/qantas-to-return-reserve-aircraft-to-restore-international-capacity/ Is there a timeline to get the i...
Jump to postI actually do like the different faux marble surface for the drink holders in F. It better matches the side table of the Polaris seat and the design features of the Polaris lounge – none of which existed when the current F seat first started rolling out. You would think they would actually match it...
Jump to postI think that the job of a dispatcher is taken from railroads. There could be a comparable job in maritime traffic but it seems like an airline dispatcher is much more akin to a railroad dispatcher than anything involving maritime vessels.
Jump to postThe 787-10 is easily good for 12-13 hours without sacrificing seats and can carry some cargo. Really? Got evidence? UA tried 787-10 SFO-AKL and gave up. Now they say the 772 is the perfect plane for this route. Perhaps headwinds southbound plays a role SFO-AKL? I thought west coast USA - East Asia ...
Jump to postDL has no partner on the NZ end though. AA at least has JQ for domestic NZ connections, plus QF or JQ for Tasman connections. This is why I think DL will (try harder to) last at AKL - they need to serve here in order for their customers to be able to get here, whereas the others can feed onto QF an...
Jump to postWe don’t know yet, I expected UA to be daily LAX-AKL and NZ daily in NW. With UA 4x weekly, it is possible NZ keep 10x weekly and change days to allow 2x daily NZ/UA. NZ don’t usually confirm until July or so but I would expect some changes to start appearing shortly. DL announced year round. Weath...
Jump to postThe JVs are metal neutral and split profits. True, but it's not the same experience from a passenger perspective. The loyalty programs are not the same, and while I can get my UA benefits (seating, boarding, upgrades bag fees, etc) flying on UA planes, the same is not always true flying LH/OS/LX/SN...
Jump to postNow that the full March 2024 schedule is available in the booking engines, it appears UA’s new LAX-AKL route will end for the season on March 28th. As of now it appears the plan is to leave SFO-AKL around year round as daily on a 772. Will be interesting to see how that plays out, given right now i...
Jump to postFor the last few years, I've bought premium economy seats and tried to upgrade with miles to Polaris from EWR to LAX and had a pretty good success rate. I was looking for tickets today and I couldn't find any Premium Economy seating unless I go through SFO. It also looks like it's either the dated ...
Jump to postLoganTheBogan wrote:Continuing with VH-YQVs journey, it appears it opted out of MSP and is nearing LAX. I'm not sure why it changed its plan and I can't imagine any of the customs issues they had would have caused it.
I may have missed this along the way but did Delta also buy the QantasLink B717s? We've got one scheduled to fly via MSP tomorrow (they took the very long way around CBR-ASP-BME-SUB-SZB-BLR-AAN-HRG-SOF-SVG-KEF with today's segments being from KEF-YYR-MSP I know they took on the Volotea but didn't t...
Jump to postIve always wondered why law enforcement is done on a county/city wide basis rather than on a national basis, with each having their own hiring, training and SOP practices. Here the police is one centralized organisation albeit with various divisions. One point of entry for hiring. One set of traini...
Jump to postWith all of this additional capacity into AKL, this upcoming summer. How well is the domestic network, going to handle this additional demand? It seems that NZ is already bursting at its own domestic seams with lack of staffing and aircraft out of action eg 2x brand new a321N’s. Assuming they don’t...
Jump to postIn a quick matter of time, LAX-AKL went from only NZ, but now with AA, DL, and UA on the route. Sorta. It's really only the addition of AA and DL. NZ is dropping from 10X weekly and UA 4X is picking it back up. Essentially the UA/NZ joint venture is replacing a NZ airframe with a UA one. Furthermor...
Jump to postcv5880 wrote:Does anyone in the tower look for low flying large birds before take off clearance is issued or is it just a case of blow and go and too bad for the birds?
We could trade words about the meaning of “rushed”, but two of the latam birds recently delivered are rumored to be getting the retrofit already and delta has already contracted out that work. There’s certainly a recognition at delta that the latam configuration isn’t optimal from a premium perspec...
Jump to postWeird Almost like lax-akl is a premium leisure travel market, delta talks about the premium leisure traveler on their investor calls, a lot, and that delta wants to convert these latam a359 as soon as possible to their standard configuration There’s no support for the assertion DL is trying to get ...
Jump to postI would think NZ would be looking for something for 2-3 years? In terms of growth NZ have said they see a long haul fleet of 23-24, it was 29, they dropped LHR/EZE/RAR-SYD/LAX which in peak season frees up to 5 aircraft and all other routes are back now, bar the seasonal KIX, frequency is down on s...
Jump to postFor everybody complaining about TSA lines - where are they so bad? I fly out of BOS, JFK, LAX, SAN, SFO, MIA, ORD pretty regularly and unless it is a major holiday it’s pretty much consistently 10mins tops. TSA hate is some kind of weird fetish around here. >10min can definitely be observed in in t...
Jump to postAA on LAX-AKL? Transpacific flying this NW is going to be wild lol. I wonder if by then, NZ or QF will increase their JFK flying beyond 3x weekly too. JFK is a waste of a aircraft route, it’s more for prestige than anything. On the JFK-AKL sector NZ has had to limit the head count to 160-170pax! So...
Jump to postHello, I am old enough to be tempted suggesting renaming this thread "The decline in passenger experience at Airports". Seriously, it was all so nice and simple, yet special, with a distinct sense of occasion back in the olden days... Flying these days is tiring, stressful and needlessly ...
Jump to postHere are the top AA domestic destinations without AA nonstop service to DFW by total number of domestic passengers in 2022 (across all airlines serving that airport): PVD - 3142725 ALB - 2568779 ROC - 2326824 HPN - 1798796 MHT - 1294630 RDM - 1024427 MFR - 1007198 ACY - 921851 (AA currently only se...
Jump to postHello, I am old enough to be tempted suggesting renaming this thread "The decline in passenger experience at Airports". Seriously, it was all so nice and simple, yet special, with a distinct sense of occasion back in the olden days... Flying these days is tiring, stressful and needlessly ...
Jump to postI am interested in the architectural experience. In the days of yore, airports were exciting places to be. Heck people used to visit airports just to visit the airport, without actually flying anywhere. This led to some pretty wild airport terminal designs such as the TWA flight center and Pan AM W...
Jump to posthey random question. I am flying UA SFO-AKL next month. What is the meals setup. Normally to Europe they do one pretty quickly but its something like a 11 pm departure and that seems late for "dinner" but with the length I am guessing there are a couple. Thanks I think dinner and breakfas...
Jump to postI had the opportunity the visit CHC in late December 2018 (their summer). I was so excited to visit as I’d heard good things about the city. I have to be honest - I spent 3 days there and was ready to leave. The downtown area where our hotel was located was still in shambles from the earthquake 7 y...
Jump to postSTL aside, I think UA directing most connections through SFO as the departures for Aus/NZ depart later in the evening, would be interesting to see if there are more domestic flights to the SFO hub for NW23/24 timed to connect to those flights. Keeping in mind SYD goes double daily 77W out of SFO an...
Jump to postI'm sure there are many articles across the web about this topic, but I grew up around KMCO and went there as a kid to see family fly out. KMCO was a tiny single story airport terminal back in the day, and its evolution that began in the 1980s (including the opening of its newest southern terminal)...
Jump to postSorry all. Can't seem to find the post from a few months ago, but can someone repost the expected return to service months of the remaining QF A380s? I don't know if there is something more definitive out there, but Qantas posted an IG story about the A380s yesterday saying that they are all expect...
Jump to postGood spot for Allegiant or Avelo. Possible Allegiant service to Vegas or Florida a few times a week, but BDL is a 25 minute drive from there at the very most. Would take a lot of advertisements and very low fares to get people to fly out of a place most don’t know where it is to use a flight that r...
Jump to postThe upstairs of that render looks like a slave ship for children. I guess if the exits are blocked on the left, and the fire is bad enough, it's a great airplane if you hate kids... I’m all for a separate, sealed off cabin for kids- bring it on! [emoji16] But yeah it doesn’t look like anyone though...
Jump to postFor YOW, most common is YUL/YYZ/YHM/YQB. For YYZ a mix of YOW/BUF/YUL and YHM/YXU/YQG weather permitting. YWG usually carries YQR/YXE and FAR as the regular alternates. I have seen a few YUL flights divert to BTV over the years, although I doubt it is the preferred alternate since it is in the 'wro...
Jump to posttravaz wrote:Anyone know why AA60 (N802AN) NRT DFW diverted to ANC? 787-8.
For YOW, most common is YUL/YYZ/YHM/YQB. For YYZ a mix of YOW/BUF/YUL and YHM/YXU/YQG weather permitting. YWG usually carries YQR/YXE and FAR as the regular alternates. I have seen a few YUL flights divert to BTV over the years, although I doubt it is the preferred alternate since it is in the 'wro...
Jump to postEK seeing strong demand for Premium Economy here. Chris Lethbridge, Emirates’ regional manager in New Zealand, says the airline is seeing soaring demand for the 56-seat cabin. “Looking ahead, our premium economy cabin already has an 80 per cent load capacity over the next two months, indicating tha...
Jump to postBurlington Airport renamed for Senator Leahy: https://vtdigger.org/2023/04/03/burlington-airport-to-be-renamed-for-former-sen-patrick-leahy/amp/ Didn’t see that coming. Joins what seems to be a growing trend of naming facilities after living individuals. Mineta San Jose International Airport (KSJC)...
Jump to postGiven the tech industry's slump, any insights on how AKL-SFO is performing for NZ-UA? I've wondered the same thing. Also with the reports SFO-BNE isn't doing great. I believe SFO economy is struggling and capacity as a whole is down more than 20% at the airport from pre-covid whereas most airports ...
Jump to postTonyClifton wrote:A blizzard in MSP will do that.
For those who keep track of rare appearances BTV had a visit from two F-35s and a 707 tanker from the Israeli Air Force on Tuesday night. They flew in from BGR, spent a few hours on the ground and then returned to BGR: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/IAF ... /KBGR/KBTV
Jump to postThe master plan has already been developed for some years. In order to progress to detailed design / planning / construction PAPL need QFs agreement (specifically on costing/charging). I dont think QF object to moving just what its going to cost them. Correct. Unfortunately Airports in Australia do...
Jump to posttakeorf wrote:Just noticed a few odd paths of some flights off the east coast of Florida. Many flights seemed to avoid a specific area and a few even did total turns before continuing north. Any ideas what it's about?
Good question! I have been notified My flight from SRQ in July has been changed, but no info as to what and my new options. When I go to do a dummy book, my flight is still available to be booked even though internally it has been changed so I don’t know what gives. Usually I get an updated schedul...
Jump to postI was not paying nearly as much attention in the early days as I am now, but I believe that most of that territory was taken with little or no opposition. It would still count as victories. If you start from Feb 24, then Russia is still +2.5 on the victory ledger. Give them +.5 victory for Bakhmut ...
Jump to postFrom the Darth Putin account on Twitter: Months - 13 Victories - 0 Friends - 0 Casualties - 169,000+ Sanctions - Infinite Border with NATO - 1300km longer Economy - Toilet Rouble - Toilet Paper Arrest warrants - 2 Wanted - in 123 countries Oil & gas - Sharply down Tank tech - 1950s Baltic Sea -...
Jump to postI believe this was discussed long ago… When these domestic High Density 772’s reach their last days, what might UA do to replace so much lift? I who know nothing still can’t see them putting new or newish 787-10’s in HD to replace them, right? Would they keep some of the current 772’s that are flyi...
Jump to postNZ seeing strong demand for Skycouch on ORD/JFK. Operating the New York route since last September and the resumption of flying to Chicago had allowed the airline to monitor passenger behaviour, and more of them are booking Skycouch ... “The interesting thing is that on those routes, Skycouch is in...
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