I was browsing through the B-52 cockpit photos and notices the pilots are wearing oxygen masks. Which begs the question. Are the B-52s pressurized? I know the B-29 was so surely the Stratofortress should be. If it is, then what's with the masks? And if not, why aren't the pilots also wearing G-suits...
Jump to postI don't think <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym> will have too many 5th freedom flights involving the US. <acronym title="Milan - Malpensa (MXP / LIMC), Italy">MXP</acronym>-<acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">J...
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/cle757" class="quote" target="_blank">cle757</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>Maybe Frontier should move it's <acronym title...
Jump to postWill all the airlines in <acronym title="Cleveland - Hopkins International (CLE / KCLE), USA - Ohio">CLE</acronym> be consolidated into one terminal? I think <acronym title="Cleveland - Hopkins International (CLE / KCLE), USA - Ohio">CLE</acronym> is the only airport I don't like. Terminal C is so c...
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/MesaFlyGuy" class="quote" target="_blank">MesaFlyGuy</a> (<a href="#22" class="quote">Reply 22</a>):<br/><i><acronym title="Dublin (- Collinstow...
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/UA444" class="quote" target="_blank">UA444</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>DirectTV has always been a humongous rip-off</i>...
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/jetblastdubai" class="quote" target="_blank">jetblastdubai</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i><acronym title="Los Angeles - In...
Jump to postDo they have 5th freedom rights on <acronym title="Dublin (- Collinstown) (DUB / EIDW), Ireland">DUB</acronym>-<acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> and <acronym title="Dublin (- Collinstown) (DUB / EIDW), Ireland">DUB</acronym>-<acronym title="Add...
Jump to postIn <acronym title="Houston - George Bush Intercontinental (IAH / KIAH), USA - Texas">IAH</acronym>, 15L/R are usually the runways for take off, and its closest to terminal A so the prime real estate goes to <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym>, <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)"...
Jump to postSJC in the <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> days had <acronym title="Tokyo - Narita International (New Tokyo) (NRT / RJAA), Japan">NRT</acronym>. Now brought back with <acronym title="All-Nippon Airways (Japan)">NH</acronym> on the 787. <acronym title="Cleveland - Hopkins Intern...
Jump to postManufacturers can cone up with all the specs they want. But you never really know until well within the flight test program where you find out if it met, exceeded, or fell short of expectations.
Weather or not the manufacturer was close to the actual number is another thing!
<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="#62" class="quote">Reply 62</a>):<br/><i>If you mean the American Navy, my question wou...
Jump to postI heard UA managed to get one or two flights out.
Who's doing ATC for that area? Does the Navy have a carrier out there?
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mrcomet" class="quote" target="_blank">mrcomet</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i> <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emira...
Jump to postI can see an AF/KLM Max/neo order.
Supposedly MH is gonna go through restructuring, maybe they will dump their 777s and 747s for 787s.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mahajanta" class="quote" target="_blank">mahajanta</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i> TWA772LR: Thanks for replying! <acronym...
Jump to postHasn't this been proposed before?
Also, didn't some Iranian airlines have it on order? What happened to those?
I'm a pax service agent for a major international airline (through a vendor), and I see this every day. Your best course of action is to go to the city ticketing office or the actual ticketing desk at the airport A FEW DAYS <acronym title="MAT Macedonian Airlines (Greece)">IN</acronym> ADVANCE to st...
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Jump to postFor me, the best thing for ANY flight in Y is an aisle seat, and a pretty lady sitting next to me! <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0"/> On longer flights, adjustable headrests go a long way if you want to sleep,...
Jump to postDelta had many paint jobs within a relatively short period of time. 4 within 12(?) Years. Now Spirit just rolled out their "bumble bee" (I hope that sticks!) Scheme. This would be their 3rd scheme in about five years. Its not cheap to paint a plane. Let alone 100+. Even more so with multiple liverie...
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/DocLightning" class="quote" target="_blank">DocLightning</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i>Never underestimate a megalomaniac...
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/UGA777" class="quote" target="_blank">UGA777</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i>'m curious to know what the md80 fleet count i...
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/AA737-823" class="quote" target="_blank">AA737-823</a> (<a href="#53" class="quote">Reply 53</a>):<br/><i>fuel tanks. According to my training (...
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/MaverickM11" class="quote" target="_blank">MaverickM11</a> (<a href="#31" class="quote">Reply 31</a>):<br/><i>What on earth does <acronym title=...
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/lesfalls" class="quote" target="_blank">lesfalls</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i>What would they operate that route with. <...
Jump to postOf course they could have. But they didn't. They should have though. I believe the only TATL route they flew was to London, and I assume it was with the L1011 since the A300 didn't have TATL range until the -600 came out. If they would've had a fleet of 767-200/300s and started a large European netw...
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/KarelXWB" class="quote" target="_blank">KarelXWB</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>Well yes, Etihad is installing a new manag...
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/skyhawkmatthew" class="quote" target="_blank">skyhawkmatthew</a> (<a href="#12" class="quote">Reply 12</a>):<br/><i>See my reply above – Austral...
Jump to postA couple years ago, a person made an a.net profile to get aviation facts for a movie. The movie is called "Left Behind", based on an early 2000s low budget movie staring Kirk Cameron. Well, while watching Pawn Stars, in the commercial break, I saw a trailer for a movie. The movie? "Left Behind". And...
Jump to postCO and <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> are still seen as different airlines internally, so "s" stands for subsidiary, or "sub". <acronym title="Solomon Airlines">IE</acronym>, " My 737 pilot from <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acr...
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/VirginFlyer" class="quote" target="_blank">VirginFlyer</a> (<a href="#13" class="quote">Reply 13</a>):<br/><i>I think you may have misunderstood...
Jump to postCould PanAm be counted as the first fixed wing all long haul airline? Non fixed wing would probably be the predecessor to Deutsche Lufthansa, the one that operated the TATL airships.
Jump to postAlso, <acronym title="Albenga (Villanova d'Albenga) (- Clemente Panero) (ALL / LIMG), Italy">ALL</acronym> Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network shows. The crap these days just doesn't compare. John Glenn flying in the Space Shuttle. Even though I don't remember it, when <acronym title="LAPA (Argentina)">...
Jump to postIs E still going through renovations? I haven't been there in over a year but used to fly out all the time. I would walk around E and D and ride the train after getting rolled over from every <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> flight to <acronym title="Houston - George Bush Intercon...
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/zhiao" class="quote" target="_blank">zhiao</a> (<a href="#16" class="quote">Reply 16</a>):<br/><i>So are the <acronym title="Continental Airline...
Jump to postHow about Atlas? Their only scheduled (semi) pax service in <acronym title="Houston - George Bush Intercontinental (IAH / KIAH), USA - Texas">IAH</acronym> to <acronym title="Luanda - 4 de Fevereiro (Belas) (LAD / FNLU), Angola">LAD</acronym> and that's a 14 hour flight on a good day. Don't forget a...
Jump to postI think a better question is does anyone remember the 60s? <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0"/> I remember DC9s, 727s, DC10s, Northwest, TWA, Continental, kindergarten, C141s, the WTC, Cooker (a restaurant in 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/DocLightning" class="quote" target="_blank">DocLightning</a> (<a href="#11" class="quote">Reply 11</a>):<br/><i>Why? If you're going to put a re...
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/N867DA" class="quote" target="_blank">N867DA</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>I don't know if <acronym title="Northwest Airl...
Jump to postLet's say the demand is there. The <acronym title="Lina Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)">GC</acronym> distances are as follows from longest to shortest: <acronym title="Doha - International (DOH / OTBD), Qatar">DOH</acronym>-<acronym title="Honolulu - International / Pearl Harbor-Hickam JB (Hickam AFB) (H...
Jump to postSince there is a similar thread about <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym>, I figured I can make one about my birth airport, <acronym title="Memphis - International (MEM / KMEM), USA - Tennessee">MEM</acronym>! Please share your experiences and...
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/NWAROOSTER" class="quote" target="_blank">NWAROOSTER</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i>Wouldn't Southwest need to operate the...
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/JoeCanuck" class="quote" target="_blank">JoeCanuck</a> (<a href="#101" class="quote">Reply 101</a>):<br/><i>Ryanair needs the 767MAX.</i></font>...
Jump to postHow about <acronym title="London - Gatwick (LGW / EGKK), United Kingdom">LGW</acronym>/<acronym title="Oslo - Gardermoen (OSL / ENGM), Norway">OSL</acronym>-<acronym title="San Diego - International / Lindbergh Field (SAN / KSAN), USA - California">SAN</acronym>? Everyone is saying San Diego should ...
Jump to postI think it's time for another "When will Southwest fly to Hawaii?" thread. They started flying international, and have ETOPS planes and have a HUGE customer base. So... what's stopping them? Is it because <acronym title="Alaska Airlines (USA)">AS</acronym> beat them to the punch? Are they afraid of ...
Jump to postI know <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> said no to the CSeries, bit I'm still holding out on a 50 jet order from them. Stranger things have happened. IMO, they need to get it into service quick so they can get hard numbers for the type so airlines can be more interested. But we ha...
Jump to postI've thought about this too. And came to the conclusion that it may be better as a steam turbine attached to a variable pitch propeller.
Jump to postIAH-AUA is always marginal and is cut every now and then. I don't think UA gives a crap about a beach destination with horrible yields.
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