Re: iAero Group files bankruptcy

It looks like they are moving some airframes to storage already. https://www.flightradar24.com/SWQ9458/349e5a38 https://www.flightradar24.com/SWQ9285/349ee81b St. Louis Blues are scheduled to leave soon (STL-BNA), but I have not found any inbound aircraft. We've had many of the SWQ aircraft, includ...

Re: UPS wins USPS primary air cargo contract

I wonder if losing that contract will affect how many more Cessna 408 SkyCouriers FedEx plans to take. They have 50 on order and have had ~18 of those delivered so far. I doubt it, when I was at FedEx ONTR, 2002-2005, we had about 12-14 C208's a day. Not a single one of them carried PML. Things cou...

Re: Eastern Air Lines — 757 Cheat Line

All the cheat lines started their upward slant at or aft of the rearmost door. Because of the way the B757 was built, to follow the typical angle up the front to middle of the tail would have required starting the upward slant well before the rearmost door. That makes sense but couldn't they have s...

Re: Student Pilot attempts to open Alaska cockpit door multiple times

AC4500 wrote:

CoThG wrote:

Embry Riddle student.

Doubtful. Flight was from California to Virginia. ERAU is in AZ/FL.

Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

balboeing737800 wrote:

Word on the street Mesa lost the DHL contract two aircraft parked in TUS, one route will be flown to the end of March then ops will end

Re: De-icing in FL

De-icing is done here at TUS in the early morning during the winter months. When I was at ONT and PSP towers it was not uncommon to have flight crews ask us if they could move around the ramp or face a certain direction to sunbathe. Back in the day AA used to have de-icing equipment at ONT for the M...

Re: Qantas Post A380

TWA772LR wrote:

They've lost a lot of capacity during COVID when they retired the 744 and 767 and will lose even more once the A380 is gone.

Re: SoCal Boneyard Storage and Activity - 2023

N661UA wrote:

May they use A300 for spare parts.No any news report say they will retire A300

Re: Rumour: Frontier Airlines removes 26 passengers due to a weight issue

I'm having trouble getting more information. I don't have the origination, destination or flight number. It appears the plane was to heavy, and required 26 passengers to be removed for weight and balance. There is a TikTok going around, but still the information is limited. If this is true, how on ...

Re: Airspace Class Demotions

It would have nothing to do about demand, it has to do with the services provided by the tower in the specific airspace. Class E would have NO tower in it. Class B, C and D all contain a towered airport with different service levels.

Re: MAS A350 right behind taking off BA A320 at LHR

Elementalism wrote:

It seems to me the A320 taking off instead of waiting is more efficient than having both sitting there.

Re: Eastern Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

Anyone know why we have one of the Eastern B772's at TUS? I work at the tower and noticed it on Tuesday when I pulled in to work. It was there Wednesday too but I'm not sure if it is still there as I was not in today.

Re: Baseball player complaining about UA

Thank you for posting this. Anthony Bass makes $725,000 / year. This means he makes more money in a month than the flight attendant makes in a year. It would be nice if he treated the flight attendant with respect and dignity, instead of acting like an entitled @$$. Actually he is in the final year...

Re: Baseball player complaining about UA

Not sure if this has already been covered on this website. I looked around and didn't see anything, but if I am missing it please link it below. Some baseball player sent out the tweet below saying a UA FA asked his wife to pick up his kid's popcorn. He included a photo in the tweet: https://twitte...

Re: FedEx forecasts weaker demand, may park some planes

Someone here likely knows specifics. The fact that FX has operations at every Part 139 airport in the L.A. Basin & environs (except, recently, LGB) is indicative of the volumes FX is moving to & through the region. Probably impractical to move much of the LAX volume to ONT. I don't know if ...

Re: FedEx forecasts weaker demand, may park some planes

In terms of late packages, is anyone familiar with how far a drive it is from ONT to the most densely populated parts of Los Angeles? I would think being so close to the west side and downtown would be a competitive advantage at LAX. How far ONT is from the most densely populated parts of LA really...

Re: The LITTLE KNOWN FACT thread

EA actually operated multiple daily FLLMIA nonstop flights - traveling a distance of just 21 miles - and some were with widebody aircraft. EA also at different times operated the B747, the DC-10 and the L-1011. Two other US carriers did, too, UA and DL. PA also operated all three types at different...

Re: USAir And The 727

US Air operated a bunch of PSA 727-200's after that takeover. many of them went east as US failed to operate any of the West Coast routes they got from PSA. the PS airplanes were set up for short haul as they were originally had limited galleys on most of the 727-200's and had the JT8D-7A Engines o...

Re: USAir And The 727

The deal created space for USAir to purchase the shuttle entity (it was known as "Shuttle Inc"" but branded USAir Shuttle, from 1996 onward. In 1997, USAir Group bought out the shuttle in its entirety, but continued to operate it as a wholly separate entity, with different seniority ...

Re: FedEx forecasts weaker demand, may park some planes

FedEx would really benefit from merging their networks…the best way I’ve ever heard UPS vs FedEx compared is FX is a cargo airline that has trucks and UPS is a trucking company that has airplanes. And to some degree it benefits 5X cost wise. UPS moves a ton of air volume over the ground. FedEx love...

Re: Los Angeles Basin (BUR/LAX/LGB/ONT/SNA) Aviation - 2023

Odd to see ONT in east/reverse ops today under cloudless/unlimited visibility/calm wind conditions! If the winds are less than 8 knots out of the west ONT will run the noise abatement CONTRA operation. Between 10pm and 7am all arrivals land RWY26L/R all JET departures will depart RWY8L/R. Oddly eno...

Re: SoCal Boneyard Storage and Activity Thread - 2022

thedreamthejohn wrote:

Make a plan for the first UPS MD11 retirement Monday Morning. 280 heading that way. 283 next

Re: Fate of N777UA?

The other problem is that when it was first introduced the 777 was not the runaway success that it later became. The alternatives (767, 747, MD-11, A-330 and A340) all (except perhaps the MD-11) were not outclassed, and each had their own niche. Wait, what? It got orders from most of the US legacie...

Re: UPS Fleet Thread

AFAIK N701UP was purchased by UPS at 30 April 1985, at that time the UPS aircraft were operated by by several contractors, including Evergreen International Airlines, Interstate Airlines, Ryan Air, and Orion Air. In 1986, in an effort to obtain service rights to Japan, UPS entered into a joint vent...

Re: New retro liveries American could do this decade:

Sooner787 wrote:

All I want for Christmas is an AA 77W in the clAAsic chrome silver livery

Re: Hawaiian to fly A330s for Amazon

re warehouses, now Amazon is starting a new 4 Million SF warehouse adjacent to Chino (CA) airport, which will be on 93 acres. Largest Amazon warehouse in the world. Unknown if it will use that airport (7,000' runway) or truck stuff up to ONT. (7 miles away) Currently Chino has 3 major problems, the...

Re: SoCal Boneyard Storage and Activity Thread - 2022

Ex Southwest 737-300 N633SW exited storage VCV-TUS. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n633sw Interesting to see that it was filed for OPF and diverted here, to TUS. I work at the tower and drove past it last night, it is sitting at Ascent Aviation. I'm not too sure why it would be there t...

Re: Air Cargo (non Amazon/DHL) Thread - 2022

Our friends at Skybus Jet Cargo continue to amaze! They recently acquired 53.2 year old DC-8-60/70 N155CA, an aircraft with many former operators, the most recent being National Airlines. Is this just for parts or is it possible she will be returned to service? Seems unlikely since N155CA has been ...

Re: Movies with airlines on them

Didn't the end scene in Die hard 2 have an Evergreen international 747? Yeah but I really don't count that, seeing as the plane was not in Evergreen colors. On the other hand, there were a few ATA jets visible too, in ATA colors.... Also I just saw Black Rain which has a few scenes with a Northwest...

Re: Airline buildings

Ok I know this will probably get zero responses, maybe one or two. USAirways had a big building here in phoenix, it now belongs to American Airlines. .. The old US Airways/ America West HQ in Tempe, AZ is not an American Airlines building, they moved out years ago since the HQ for AA is still in DFW.

Re: Alaska Charters to Havana