Let's get real....The city rarely does new service or small gate change/facility change announcements. Unless this is some sort of major renovation project at ORD (one has already been announced and is starting to be implemented at MDW), I vote this is trolling.
-bcoz
Just one man's opinion, but I don't think we are in a position to second guess the crew here. All the stories I've read say it was a security concern. If it is a security concern, I think the priority would be to get the aircraft on the ground at the closest usable facility possible. I don't know ab...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/CHI787ORD" class="quote" target="_blank">CHI787ORD</a> (<a href="#33" class="quote">Reply 33</a>):<br/><i><acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare Inter...
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Jump to postThey should just go ahead and rename it "Richard M. Daley Field at O'Hare International Airport." The entire project is all Richie. And, like others, I think the focus at <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (Orchard Field) (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym> should be terminal enh...
Jump to postI'm just throwing this out there, but do you all feel that the <acronym title="JetBlue Airways (USA)">B6</acronym> and <acronym title="ACES (Colombia)">VX</acronym> brands/products are congruous? It would seem to me that the <acronym title="ACES (Colombia)">VX</acronym> brand and product would have ...
Jump to postI seem to recall they offered some sort of "all-you-care-to-travel" standby option for college students during the summer of 2005. That sound right to anyone? I remember being upset because I was a few years out of college (graduated in 2002) and couldn't take advantage of it. I flew them <acronym t...
Jump to postI'm flying <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> through <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson Int (The William B Hartsfield / Municipal / Candler Field) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym> this afternoon and I wouldn't exactly say things are going like a well-oiled machi...
Jump to postAnyone know of any domestic upguage soft the holidays with Delta? A post in the trip report forum about a <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson Int (The William B Hartsfield / Municipal / Candler Field) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym>-<acronym title="Minneapolis / St. Paul - Intern...
Jump to postIs the <acronym title="Oakland - Metropolitan Oakland International (OAK / KOAK), USA - California">OAK</acronym>-<acronym title="Reno / Tahoe - International (Cannon) (RNO / KRNO), USA - Nevada">RNO</acronym> flight seasonal? Interesting that some of the short segments that have disappeared (anothe...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ericm2031" class="quote" target="_blank">ericm2031</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i>The only problem with the dedicated la...
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Cubsrule" class="quote" target="_blank">Cubsrule</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i>It's no <acronym title="Detroit - Metropol...
Jump to postI realize I'm being a bit picky here, but I wish the city would spend money bringing <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym> out of the pre-deregulation era rather than pump money into a facility that I think, for the most part, is relatively good a...
Jump to postFor no particular reason, I found the axing of <acronym title="Houston - William P. Hobby (HOU / KHOU), USA - Texas">HOU</acronym>-<acronym title="Charleston - AFB / International (CHS / KCHS), USA - South Carolina">CHS</acronym> and <acronym title="Chicago - Midway International (MDW / KMDW), USA -...
Jump to postWhat's strange to me is the fact that they were using two different runways for takeoffs. I've been flying in and out of <acronym title="Chicago - Midway International (MDW / KMDW), USA - Illinois">MDW</acronym> for more than ten years and I don't think I've seen that before. Arrivals on one runway ...
Jump to postCan anyone clear up for me a question about the aircraft(s) in question? The woman flew from <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym> to <acronym title="Cleveland - Hopkins International (CLE / KCLE), USA - Ohio">CLE</acronym> last week and returne...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/GSPSPOT" class="quote" target="_blank">GSPSPOT</a> (<a href="#47" class="quote">Reply 47</a>):<br/><i>Quoting cjpark (Reply 46): Who knows how m...
Jump to postWhen did they drop <acronym title="Amarillo - International (AMA / KAMA), USA - Texas">AMA</acronym>-<acronym title="OLD: Denver - Stapleton International (DEN / KDEN) (closed), USA - Colorado AND CURRENT: Denver - International (DEN / KDEN), USA - Colorado">DEN</acronym>? I had a friend who lived n...
Jump to postRandom question... Does <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> run any domestic service on widebodies from <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym> other than the morning run to <acronym title="Miami - International (Wilcox Field / 36t...
Jump to postI don't think I have seen this mentioned in any of the replys.... but forgive me if it has. Doesn't the <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson Int (The William B Hartsfield / Municipal / Candler Field) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym> ground controller say "follow the <acronym title=...
Jump to postThe writer inserts graphs from FlightAware as evidence, but if you look his "top of dive/bottom of dive" screengrabs, the only thing that decreases is the airspeed, something I wouldn't think would happen in a rapid descent. The altitude seems to remain almost constant. Also -- he mentions in the bl...
Jump to postHope I'm not repeating a post here. I did a quick scan and didn't see anything. See the story below from WMAQ here in Chicago about yesterday's diversion of WN722 (<acronym title="Chicago - Midway International (MDW / KMDW), USA - Illinois">MDW</acronym>-<acronym title="Sacramento - International (M...
Jump to postI simply cannot fathom that you can have a pilot flying a 777 full of passengers who is "uncomfortable" flying a visual approach in relatively great weather conditions. I mean it almost doesn't even compute to me....
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Slider" class="quote" target="_blank">Slider</a> (<a href="#22" class="quote">Reply 22</a>):<br/><i>So what's the difference between this event ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/dragon6172" class="quote" target="_blank">dragon6172</a> (<a href="#33" class="quote">Reply 33</a>):<br/><i>Seems to me the 17000 ft at 5:37pm s...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/AR385" class="quote" target="_blank">AR385</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i>Could that be a FlightAware glitch. Even for a...
Jump to postSome of the characterizations made in the story are very over the top. Also --- I don't really buy the "they fixed the plane in 1 hour and it flew on to Baltimore. Looks to me like they canceled the leg of that flight Tuesday night. That being said, FlightAware does indicate that they did indeed exp...
Jump to postRandom observation: Flew in a week ago Saturday from <acronym title="Seattle / Tacoma - International (SEA / KSEA), USA - Washington">SEA</acronym> on AS26. We flew a BULLZ arrival but landed on 28C (keep in mind that there was very, very minimal traffic at this point on a Saturday night) We exited ...
Jump to postNorthwestern @ Cal - UA 752
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/U...3/history/20130830/1615Z/KORD/KOAK
Haven't seen this posted yet: <a href="http://newyork.newsday.com/news/new-york/airtran-tosses-100-nyc-yeshiva-students-from-laguardia-flight-to-atlanta-1.5407351?qr=1" target="_blank">http://newyork.newsday.com/news/new-...a-flight-to-atlanta-1.5407351?qr=1</a> 100 high schoolers on an aircraft? If...
Jump to postSY is taking my Mizzou Tigers from COU to LEX this evening
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/SCX8601
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/UALWN" class="quote" target="_blank">UALWN</a> (<a href="#46" class="quote">Reply 46</a>):<br/><i>Exactly. <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)...
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Jump to postHi folks- My apologies if this was posted elsewhere, but I couldn't find anything on it in a quick search. See the following story (AP) from the Washington Post: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/faa-suspends-operation-that-led-to-near-collision/2012/08/07/224d2f32-e0a7-11e1-8d48-2b124...
Jump to postI spent an entire night in that hallway back in July of 2000. Was going <acronym title="Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS / KBOS), USA - Massachusetts">BOS</acronym>-<acronym title="Covington / Cincinnati - Northern Kentucky International (Greater Cincinnati) (CVG / KCVG), US...
Jump to postI know that the technology issues facing <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> have been documented and discussed here quite extensively, but I thought this warranted its own thread (couldn't find it elsewhere). For the third or fourth time in as many weeks, <acronym title="Southwes...
Jump to postAt the risk of speculating here... It could be possible that the guy simply cracked up. Technically, that would be a medical issue... And I'm sure B6 doesn't want to put out a statement that says, "Our aircraft diverted because our captain cracked up."
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/wepaman" class="quote" target="_blank">wepaman</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>No link yet, but is comming. Republic Airway...
Jump to postIs there some sort of link? And by "Republic is pulling all services" are we saying that F9 will no longer fly to MKE in any route/any capacity?
Jump to postReally enjoyed your <acronym title="Transbrasil SA Linhas Aereas">TR</acronym>, Alex. I'm actually doing something similar next month. My college buddies and I always go to Las Vegas for the first weekend of the NCAA basketball tournament. While they usually take only a few days off and come out Wed...
Jump to postI flew <acronym title="Chicago - Midway International (MDW / KMDW), USA - Illinois">MDW</acronym>-<acronym title="Albuquerque - International Sunport (Kirtland AFB) (ABQ / KABQ), USA - New Mexico">ABQ</acronym>-<acronym title="Lubbock - International (LBB / KLBB), USA - Texas">LBB</acronym> last wee...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Santi319" class="quote" target="_blank">Santi319</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i>It was very pointless in my opinion.</i></...
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Jump to postSo very sad. It's hard to imagine that, for lack of a better term, lightning can strike twice. Eerily similar to the crash in 2001 as part of the <acronym title="Columbus - Ohio State University (OSU / KOSU), USA - Ohio">OSU</acronym> men's team was on its way back to Stillwater after playing <acron...
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