airboss787 wrote:

Anyone know why Vistara's 787s make occasional trips to ICN from Chennai? Is it a cargo flight?

Passenger charters. I was at MAA when one of these were boarding. Before Vistara, AI had the contract and used to fly once a week or so.

CPS001 wrote:

airboss787 wrote:

Anyone know why Vistara's 787s make occasional trips to ICN from Chennai? Is it a cargo flight?

Passenger charters. I was at MAA when one of these were boarding. Before Vistara, AI had the contract and used to fly once a week or so.

Interesting. Do you know more? Is it private charters or business charters? Who are they carrying? I am assuming it is MAA-ICN and an empty return? Or is it occupied both ways? Who needs a charter once a week?

airboss787 wrote:

CPS001 wrote:

airboss787 wrote:

Anyone know why Vistara's 787s make occasional trips to ICN from Chennai? Is it a cargo flight?

Passenger charters. I was at MAA when one of these were boarding. Before Vistara, AI had the contract and used to fly once a week or so.

Interesting. Do you know more? Is it private charters or business charters? Who are they carrying? I am assuming it is MAA-ICN and an empty return? Or is it occupied both ways? Who needs a charter once a week?

No idea on the specifics, but there are a lot of Korean companies in and around Chennai who might need to move employees/cargo, with the absence of the usual one-stop options (BKK, KUL, HKG etc). Not sure if it's occupied on the ICN-MAA sector, might very well be.

CPS001 wrote:

airboss787 wrote:

CPS001 wrote:

Passenger charters. I was at MAA when one of these were boarding. Before Vistara, AI had the contract and used to fly once a week or so.

Interesting. Do you know more? Is it private charters or business charters? Who are they carrying? I am assuming it is MAA-ICN and an empty return? Or is it occupied both ways? Who needs a charter once a week?

No idea on the specifics, but there are a lot of Korean companies in and around Chennai who might need to move employees/cargo, with the absence of the usual one-stop options (BKK, KUL, HKG etc). Not sure if it's occupied on the ICN-MAA sector, might very well be.

Awesome. Thanks for the info.

airboss787 wrote:

Awesome. Thanks for the info.

Supposedly there are several South Korean restaurants in and round Madras to cater to the expats.

What do people think about Akasa Air? They have ordered 72 737 MAX 8 and are planning to start operation next year.

Do you think they will get off the ground even? Or do they stand a chance?

How did they come up with the figure of 72? Do they know where they are going to operate?

DIJKKIJK wrote:

What do people think about Akasa Air? They have ordered 72 737 MAX 8 and are planning to start operation next year.

Do you think they will get off the ground even? Or do they stand a chance?

How did they come up with the figure of 72? Do they know where they are going to operate?

Not sure of the people sentiment on the ground but Akasa Air should be waiting in glee for Spicejet to collapse. Not neccessary it will happen, but if it does, that's one competitor out of the window.

As for B737MAX, Boeing has some NTUs still lying around which can offer to Akasa Air really quickly. Jet Airways's NTUs are all taken up already.

They have yet to announce their routes apart from being based at Bangalore, but their big dream to have 70 airframes in 4 years can be a disaster if they do not plan carefully.

Fleet Movement Update December 18, 2021
Out:
1. Airbus A320 -232 4491 OE-LDL Air Lease Corp ferried 16dec21 SNN-LJU after paint into all white ex VT-IHX
2. Boeing 737 -8GJ 37365 3539 VT-SGQ SpiceJet ferried 13-15dec21 DEL-IST-SNN on return to lessor
3. Boeing 737 -9GJER 34953 2466 VT-SPU SpiceJet ferried 13-15dec21 DEL-IST-SNN on return to lessor


In:
1. Airbus A320 -251N 10689 VT-IIP IndiGo Airlines delivery 13dec21 TLS-DEL ex D-AVZI
2. Airbus A321 -251NX 10497 VT-IMC IndiGo Airlines delivery 14dec21 XFW-DEL ex D-AYAW
Source: https://www.skyliner-aviation.de/regdb. ... av4&page=1

Does anyone know how AA's JFK-DEL is doing?

I am part of a H1B/H4 Visa group on FB and someone had posted a very negative and quite frankly surprising review of AA. Apparently they flew SFO-JFK-DEL on AA and were told the flight was out of water (!?) about 4 hours before landing and were not served the last meal because per FA announcement "they ran out of time". I am a bit skeptical about this but multiple people in the replies have echoed similar or at least extremely negative feedback. So just thought I'd ask the question.

VTORD wrote:

Does anyone know how AA's JFK-DEL is doing?

I am part of a H1B/H4 Visa group on FB and someone had posted a very negative and quite frankly surprising review of AA. Apparently they flew SFO-JFK-DEL on AA and were told the flight was out of water (!?) about 4 hours before landing and were not served the last meal because per FA announcement "they ran out of time". I am a bit skeptical about this but multiple people in the replies have echoed similar or at least extremely negative feedback. So just thought I'd ask the question.

I flew JFK-DEL on 12/1 and it was a pleasant flight. The route taken is weird apparently because AA does not have permission to use Russian airspace for this flight but other than that nothing out of ordinary. Flight left slightly late, but reached on time. Service was typical AA - not memorable but professional.

DIJKKIJK wrote:

What do people think about Akasa Air? They have ordered 72 737 MAX 8 and are planning to start operation next year.

Do you think they will get off the ground even? Or do they stand a chance?

How did they come up with the figure of 72? Do they know where they are going to operate?

Ultra Low cost.... would mean low salaries & only Line maintenance with Higher checks going to MROs.

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