Since my company pays for most of my travel, I don't have a lot of leeway. Every now and then I can sneak something in. You have to be prepared to be disappointed, though, if a replacement happens. Some years back, when the A300-600 was vanishing, I bent the travel budget rules, and flew a goofy rou...
Jump to postTry "Not much of an engineer" by Stanley Hooker.
Jump to postWe moved to the area about 9 months ago and since then, unfortunately, all of my flights since then have been in and out of Evans. I agree with you; it's not a terrible terminal, I've seen worse, but it sure isn't interesting or easy to use.
Jump to postHmm. In no particular order: PIT, DTW, BOS, JFK, ATL, CLT, MIA, IAH, LAX, IAD, ORD, EWR. Oh, and PHL. (I try my best to forget PHL.) I don't think I've flown international out of SFO, but I can't be sure. As one gets older, one forgets things... :-) I have a vague memory of flying into Canada from s...
Jump to postA few days ago was the first time I've flown into CLT from an international origin. It was a complete fiasco, held at the gate without deplaning "because of customs not ready for us", and once we finally got off, a huge crowd waiting for immigration. If we hadn't had Global Entry I suspect...
Jump to post346 lives lost and yet again not one person was fired or even named as the incompetent culprit. At least that part went right. A proper safety culture is built on identifying, accepting, and fixing problems; not by blame and punishment. In fact, the best way to make sure that issues are hidden and ...
Jump to postReading these has reminded me why I haven't done a US domestic redeye in 20 years.
Jump to postSomebody has to be held responsible. No, that's not how you get results. You find the problem causing the mistake and fix it. If that's not practical (mistakes always happen), you find a way to catch it as early as possible. A witch-hunt to hold someone responsible (and presumably punish or fire th...
Jump to postMany here believe the entire Max program should be shut down and grounded. "Many" in the aviation business and with actual knowledge of aviation? I think that's an exaggeration. Only God knows how many more woes the Max will meet in the future. This Frankenstein plane shouldn’t have been ...
Jump to postEssentially Boeing partitioned itself to make Spirit then set up rules that hindered effective coordination. It's cutting off their left hand then trying to use both hands together again. When the A380 wiring was messed up by miscommunication between German and French EADS locations, Boeing suggest...
Jump to postI can probably count on fingers and toes the number of times I've used a lounge, so I'm not a representative customer. Having said that ... when I have used a lounge, it's been during connections, not at the originating or destination end. I'm new to DTW but I didn't think it was a huge connection h...
Jump to postSo, it seems that Ln 1049, which was sent for NoE rework around Nov 10, 2023, was back on the flightline by December 6, 2023. So, this begs the question - why has it been cooling its heels, since then, for now about 45 days (1 1/2 months)? Perhaps Boeing was more focused on other frames to push out...
Jump to postI can't think of anything especially unusual. Maybe a couple wrong-way flights count: PIT-EWR-MCI and PIT-IAH-LHR. The former was due to schedules and I came very close to flying right over my house on the EWR-MCI leg. The latter was a special price deal when I was flying on my own dime. I remember ...
Jump to postCalhoun is incontinent and 4yrs as ceo hasn't made the culture any better. I assume he uses Depends. Oh wait, maybe you meant incompetent. Fundamentally Boeing need to move away from a QA (quality assurance) method to a QC (quality control) method. QA: systems and procedures ensure a quality produc...
Jump to postWay too much "blame" and not nearly enough "fix" in this thread. It's distressing, if darkly entertaining, to read all the outrage.
For myself, I think I'll wait for the NTSB report before pointing fingers in all directions like a whirligig.
The year so far looks like Darwin, Barbados, Sanya (China), Seoul, and Baku. I imagine that I'll have to spread it around.
Jump to postMy first widebody flight was also my first intercontinental and foreign (other than Canada and Mexico) flight. I don't recall the exact date, but it was the LAX-SYD leg of PIT-ORD-LAX-SYD-MEL in I think late 1997. It was definitely a UA 747, probably a 744, and I made the mistake of requesting a win...
Jump to postI imagine that the FA's at least and maybe the gate agent will get some retraining on confirmation bias. This sort of thing shouldn't happen, but it does, in every field. I've caught software bugs that multiple eyes have missed, and I've had to call on someone else to see an obvious bug that I just ...
Jump to postI very seriously considered taking one of the last series of flights being advertised by BA so that I could fly the Concorde. I think it was around $5k but I forget if that was one way or a round trip. We didn't have the money and I decided not to do it; I don't regret not putting us into (more) deb...
Jump to postOddly enough, looks like I might be flying an LH A343 late next month. I've never been on an A340...
Jump to postI've been on an A380 once, MEL-SIN which would have been my most recent quad. Early 2019 if memory serves. Prior to that, maybe 3-4 flights on a 747 (United LAX-SYD-LAX and KLM JFK-AMS are three that I can think of). A handful of flights on the BAe 146. Never flew on the A340. Trijets: definitely a ...
Jump to postIf you mean "no longer served as a non-stop", there are a ton of PIT-somewhere flights that qualify. PIT-YOW, PIT-FRA, PIT-RIC are just three that I used that don't appear to be available nonstop any more.
Jump to postI can't speak to them as a whole, but I'll observe that my recent QR flghts from/to North America were pretty darn full. There might have been a small kink in the flight path, no big deal.
Jump to post...If you limit hand luggage ... That's the sticking point. As long as airlines treat checked bags as an income source, and permit 2x more rollaboards as there's overhead space for, no boarding order is going to work without annoying someone. I'd swap it around: anything that goes into the overhead...
Jump to postWidebodyPTV wrote:... I recall that earth tones were vibrant in the terminal ...
A.net is always so dramatic about carryons. Once in awhile does a packed flight on an old plane with old school bins or a small plane require some gate checking? Certainly. On every flight is there someone who pushes the limits of what they can bring? Sure. Is it ever more than a brief inconvenienc...
Jump to postSounds like this Abe Bohrer is aiming to be our modern day Elliott Freemantle.
Jump to postA lot of people seem to be missing the entire point of this partnership. Tom is not going to be advising front line workers how to do their jobs or advising Delta on development of SOPs for these jobs. The primary goal here is to use Tom as a brand ambassador. "He will also play a role in mark...
Jump to postI've had good experiences on the A359 and 78x. Small commercial props are a lot of fun to fly but I've only had a couple opportunities. 737/A32x? Yawn. A330/777 never did much for me. I actively avoid the A380, fortunately that's not hard for me to do.
Jump to postI also detest the word 'kid' which I believe refers to a young goat. All the families I know have children, not a goat to be seen! My mom carried on about that when I was young, and it was already a lost battle back then, 60 years ago. Sorry, "kid" meaning "child" is long-entren...
Jump to post...NRT is about as far from Tokyo as SWF is from New York, and yet it works. It handles a significant amount of the city's air traffic. If it can work for Tokyo, there's no reason why it shouldn't be able to work for New York. NRT works only for small values of "works", IMO, and only beca...
Jump to postUpon seeing the thread title, my first thought was "An X-rated section? I hope they're changing out the cloth seats."
Jump to postMuch of Australia is absolutely interesting! There's lots of geography that you simply won't find anywhere else. But one thing that often gets forgotten, the place is *big*; roughly continental-US-sized. it's easy to look at a map of the continent and think things like "I'll just get in the car...
Jump to postCOMPETITION is what breeds new designs, more than anything else... But only if there's actual room for improvement, otherwise it's just repackaging and remarketing like any other maker of soap does. I think most if not all of the low hanging fruit has been plucked, and small incremental improvement...
Jump to postProst wrote:But if CCC is a small city/town without CBP what happens then?
...2) If the APU is inop, there is no ground A/C cart which can produce the same output. Even for a 737 or A320. Alas, if the APU is inop the airline has one of two options: Cancelling the flight or boarding the flight knowing crew and passengers will be uncomfortable until the engines come on line...
Jump to postI think many small and mid sized cities in the US would likely qualify, just because most small and mid sized cities in the US have terrible public transit in general. Exactly. PIT, for instance. There's a bus with moderate frequency from downtown and a couple other places such as the Oakland area,...
Jump to postLol this is what they get for selling off and outsourcing vital parts of their business. To those saying Boeing doesn't have any control over this.... yeah right, they are a massive amount of Spirit Aerosystems' business. They have the financial muscle to control essentially anything and everything...
Jump to post... Just because something has worked to this point doesn't mean it always will, and that mentality is antithetical to an effective safety culture in aviation. People who are smarter than you and I have clearly examined the issue and determined a need, so that's pretty much that. (emphasis added.) ...
Jump to postI always check bags, for the same reasons that GalaxyFlyer enunciated. (Plus, nearly all of my flying involves at least one connection, and I don't want to bother hauling a bag around.) I've had a bag misplaced exactly 3 times. Two were a couple decades ago, one PIT-IAD-BGI and the other BGI-IAD-PIT...
Jump to postI really have to wonder about the reading comprehension skills of some of the posters here. What parts of: "New Zealand’s Civil Aviation Authority is asking ..." "The program ... is a way to gather data on the weight load and distribution for planes" were not clear? although I wi...
Jump to postNorth: KEF - Keflavik, Iceland 63°59'06"N
South: USH - Ushuaia, Argentina 54°50'36"S
East: AKL - Auckland, New Zealand: 174°47'30"E
West: I think PDX - Portland, Oregon US: 122°35'49"W
Meridian: LGW - London Gatwick: 0°11'25"W
Equator: SIN - Singapore: 1°21'33"N
Yep, I don’t understand the lack of rhyme or reason why renewals are approved ‘Instantly’ and some take many months, despite nothing material changing. Exactly, when I renewed mine for a second time at the start of COVID I was approved within three weeks so expected similar results for my wife. :op...
Jump to post... Also, wasn't line replacement of the CRTs quite a pain? Whereas LCDs are basically plug and play? I would think that aircraft CRT's would have integral yokes, which massively simplifies things. Even with a pre-converged yoke and ring setup, I would expect there to be a certain amount of adjustm...
Jump to postI take comfort in the fact that the FAA will review all this carefully, before they authorize another launch. Very very scary. They don't need a bunch of career civil servants who know nothing about launching an 18 million pound thrust rocket gumming up the works. That's the absolute last thing the...
Jump to postSpeaking of FedEx, parent company will be merging Pittsburgh headquartered FedEx Ground with FedEx Express and other units. What will this mean for the FedEx Ground corporate headquarters and the roughly 2,000 people that work there? Given the dumpster fire that Fedex Ground seems to have turned in...
Jump to postVS11 wrote: If the pilots are physically and mentally fit to perform the job, let them do it. Everybody is different though - different genes and lifestyles contribute to how one performs with age. But age alone should not be the factor Absolutely this. No one should be arbitrarily forced to take r...
Jump to postCrosswind787 wrote:Will the new landside terminal connect to the old mid-field x-shaped concourse or is that being demolished and replaced?
another SNAFU appears to have shown up - this time software related causing delivery delays of up to 12 months for aircraft reassigned to other customers. Appears the same is true for the 787 :crazy: Not really confidence building and kind of difficult to understand. :shakehead: Relations with the ...
Jump to postGoogle for "A380 window depth" and you can see plenty of examples of the tunnel window effect, as well as some that look normal. It's definitely a thing; what I can't tell (and don't have time to dig into), is where in the plane you get the tunnels and where not. I doubt that it's an airli...
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