Just to add to it, DFW's current largest unserved international markets are HYD, BOM, DEL, BLR, MAA, and SGN in that order. VERY India heavy. I don't doubt it's India-heavy, but is there a source for those numbers? I figured at least 1-2 European markets (e.g., MUC, MAN, maybe PRG) might be high as...
Jump to postJust to add to it, DFW's current largest unserved international markets are HYD, BOM, DEL, BLR, MAA, and SGN in that order. VERY India heavy. That's wild. Every time I visit the DFW area I'm blown away by how many Indian people/restaurants there are. Surely AA is looking into a post-Putin DFW-DEL/B...
Jump to postExcuse me for the slight topic switch here … So, I have a theory. I believe American knows the value of seatback entertainment, despite all their public statements. Since the launch of two seasonal routes out of Chicago, Jackson and Vale, back in October, the flights have been operated every single...
Jump to postSure mood lighting and PTV’s are nice but for my money, fast reliable WiFi is most important. If it’s free so much the better. Next most important thing is lounge. Admirals clubs are only marginally better than the gate and even the enhanced lounge at DCA is a bust so that’s not promising. Sky Club...
Jump to postDumb question and I apologize in advance. But I'm just curious - is there a picture floating out there of what the plug looks like with the bolts in place? With the bolts still visible of course. Basically the same "smoking gun" picture (Figure 16 in the NTSB report) but with the bolts in ...
Jump to postWow, seems as though FAA is prepared for a lengthy grounding. I would say it as "seems as though FAA for political purposes is intentionally-causing a lengthy grounding". I think it's a fair bet from what they found that the castellated nuts and cotters were never installed. Let them reto...
Jump to postNYTImes: MAX-9 inspections delayed by FAA after insufficient instructions supplied by Boeing https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/business/boeing-737-max-9-inspections-delayed.html From the article which some people may find behind a paywall. "Efforts to get Boeing’s 737 Max 9 cleared to fly aga...
Jump to postI understand there’s lots of confusion and people saying different things. A lot of it seems to just be semantics. But it is definitely not the case that the plug is bigger than the opening like doors are. At the risk of adding confusion, this isn't really true. The door plug is larger than the ope...
Jump to posta very significant chunk of PHL population has never left the region much less the country. That's a pretty bold statement. Got any data to back that up? LOL right? As if Philly is the only large city in the US that has any issues with poverty and crime. I wonder if that poster has ever been to the...
Jump to postThen explain how even AA (by all accounts a pretty terrible airline) manages to fill premium cabins on their Hawaii routes? You think the J cabin on a 787 or 777 flying DFW-OGG is full of business travelers? Nope. I'd be curious to know how many of those J seats are upgrades vs. paid. They're defin...
Jump to postFor the aircraft to be away from base that long there better be a solid premium cabin demand to offset the opportunity cost. In other words, LON-HNL isn't going to happen. I get what you're saying but what makes you think there isn't premium demand? Hawaii is not exactly a backpacker destination. E...
Jump to postHawaiian today announced frankly shockingly bad financial results this week. https://newsroom.hawaiianairlines.com/releases/hawaiian-holdings-reports-2022-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-financial-results They have plenty of liquidity, but considering the current premium tourism market boom, full flig...
Jump to postCrew lounges FULL of pilots and FA's begging to fly. This wasn't a manning problem, this was a management problem. http://scontent.fhnl3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/322805441_877599870149627_4645950981760108710_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=z4PdLzUElDsAX_K7cZg&_...
Jump to postAll things being equal if I were in the LAN area, I'd probably try to use GRR moreso than DTW. Its a far easier drive on I-96 over to GRR (and don't have to really get into the more congested part of the city, versus having to navigate into the Metro Detroit region to get to DTW. GRR doesn't have a...
Jump to postcedarjet wrote:I don’t mind sixteen hours in the air but the whole thing is in the dark. Appalling!
Wow this is crazy. Surprised this isn't on any major news outlets yet.
Jump to postSome notes from AA earnings call. For financial and traffic numbers, see their earnings release. ○ Solid Q3 - record revenue ○ Remain bullish based on continued strong demand even in uncertain economic times ○ At moment aggregate demand has never been higher and remains strong looking ahead ○ Prior...
Jump to postI have been looking at the recent DL LAN-DTW load factors. Not good. Finally starting to see the data that backs up my anecdotal experiences (and apparently I am not the only one who gave up flying DTW-LAN in June 2022, when the third DTW frequency got dropped). 2022 Load Factors on DL CX DTW-LAN: ...
Jump to postIt’s Africa, among the less developed countries at that. I’ve seen passengers walking across taxiways, animals on the runway there. "Well it's Africa" is always the go to response for you guys when any strange incident occurs, as if things never happen anywhere else in the world. I wonder...
Jump to postWill China even let CX continue to exist? Only a matter of time until the CCP nationalizes it.
Jump to postSome pilots at LH earn 20.000+ euros a month. And they demand a pay raise? Shame on them. Is that take home pay? And how many of those LH pilots make that much? I'd be wiling to guess it's not that many. It's interesting how many A'neters are all about the free market, but when it impacts travel an...
Jump to postI guess it's either this or LIV, gotta spend it somewhere
Jump to postI believe UA Express served AZO with the ATP. Always a cool sight! So many different birds back in the day before everything became CRJ/ERJ.
Jump to postIt goes back to the origins of One World, so AA/BA/QF can have aligned products in certain markets. Has to do with revenue sharing and a consistent product. Not sure if its still in effect. Back when USAir first took over AA and slashed the services to pathetic levels, BA was not happy. Imagine if ...
Jump to postHow would AA’s elimination of FF impact JVs with BA and QF? It goes back to the origins of One World, so AA/BA/QF can have aligned products in certain markets. Has to do with revenue sharing and a consistent product. Not sure if its still in effect. Back when USAir first took over AA and slashed th...
Jump to postreadytotaxi wrote:Does AA really need to be seen as a First Class carrier?
jetskipper wrote:This is not sustainable. With the increase cost you are going to see the regional shrink significantly.
If the rumor is wrong then that is a mistake. If it is correct, I believe that to be a mistake as well. Meh, the bigger mistake is AA completely trashing it's domestic Y product. Very curious if ULCC management just sits idly by as UA and DL forge ahead with vastly superior mainline cabins. AA's in...
Jump to postWhatever AA does, it seems like this situation isn't good for ORD. ORD will lose UA service to the cities the CRJ-200's serve if they don't backfill, and AA just adds old, small jets to ORD routes, replacing old, small ERJ's. Customers don't win and ORD doesn't win. Huh? ORD may lose some UA small ...
Jump to postSurely they're ripping out seatback screens from intl J next, right?
Jump to postAmerican Airlines has reached an agreement for up to 60 CRJ-200s to fly out of Chicago and possibly other hubs. https://sec.report/Document/0001193125-22-225815/ I wonder how much life is left in those 200s. The contract's for 5 years, so at least that much. Gross - so presumably stations like AZO ...
Jump to postGross - so presumably stations like AZO which are exclusively E145 and retain AA service will probably switch to the CR2? Ugh.
Jump to postThinking about bit about how AA may grow both domestically and internationally in 2023 and see several things possibly happening. Int’l: PHL-GLA/HEL/MXP/BRU CLT-AMS/BOG/YYC DFW-ZRH MIA-CUZ/MTY PHX-YYZ ORD-KRK/AMS Domestic: AUS/BOS officially focus cities IND/RDU get more p2p routes (including IND-M...
Jump to postI figured that but these 2 rookie gate agents didn't know what to do and drug this out for 9 hrs when they didn't have to. The gate agents literally had zero control regarding the flight departing or cancelling. Absolutely ZERO. Yes but leaving people on the hook for 9hrs and having to call the air...
Jump to postNot at all surprised. Didn't the 77W "overperform" after EIS? From what I recall the unexpectedly good performance of the 77W is what led to the slowdown in 77E orders. But the 77E is still a very capable plane.
Jump to postJust wondering, what is the demand like for flights to Congo? I'm no expert about Africa, but the media has a lot of negative potrayal of the DRC and how unsafe it is, which in my opinion could impact the load factor and yield of a lot of international flights there from a lot of countries. Regardl...
Jump to postSo sad to see. Though with the demise of 50-seaters this was probably more or less inevitable. What would be cool though is if someone posted a weekly thread summarizing all the major airlines' schedule changes. That would be a cool feature of this forum. We used to have this and then it got tossed...
Jump to postSo sad to see. Though with the demise of 50-seaters this was probably more or less inevitable.
What would be cool though is if someone posted a weekly thread summarizing all the major airlines' schedule changes. That would be a cool feature of this forum.
Company rumor is that the configuration of the 77W will be the same in W and Y, with 60 J seats. Just a rumor amongst the crews. That would make a hell of a lot more sense. I wonder if there is any talk of expanding the W cabins? Particularly on the 789, the W cabin is entirely too small IMO. And i...
Jump to postThe 77Ws are supposed to lose First Class as they go through heavy maintenance. IIRC the configuration will be 36J 24W and 305Y Company rumor is that the configuration of the 77W will be the same in W and Y, with 60 J seats. Just a rumor amongst the crews. That would make a hell of a lot more sense...
Jump to postchepos wrote:FLYFIRSTCLASS wrote:ContinentalEWR wrote:
The 77Ws are supposed to lose First Class as they go through heavy maintenance. IIRC the configuration will be 36J 24W and 305Y
Since when?
Air India has officially published across all major gds systems that it shall be increasing its YVR-DEL-YVR nonstop services to daily effective 31Aug 2022. The airline currently enjoys a monopoly on this high demand VFR centric market segment. All flights to be operated by the B77W with a block tim...
Jump to postAZO got caught in the frequency and price death spiral too where it’s just becomes a lot easier to go to GRR for better schedule/frequency/pricing and you are where it is today. So true. With the reduced frequencies on AA, flying OKC-ORD-AZO for us now usually means a 4+ hour layover each way. Then...
Jump to postI’m surprised they are cutting PHL - MAD. Both sides are oneworld hubs, they have a JV with Iberia and they can’t fill up a 787-8? Is it soft demand or lack of 787s? So far this season Athens has had the best loads from all 3 bases it operates out of. The Athens loads make routes like Rome, Barcelo...
Jump to postWow interesting, so ORD-AZO for example could be switched to the E170/CR7? Ugh, in reality that probably means more stations dropped doesn't it.
Jump to postALK is about to become extremely vulnerable due to their current network which focuses on transcons and regional strongholds, which is exactly what JetBlue is working to get away from with the acquisition. Not sure that’s accurate at all. AS position as a OW member provides them a much stronger net...
Jump to postXP AZO-MCO? Dang, I was hoping for something that actually offered beyond-connectivity, like a hypothetical DL AZO-ATL or AA AZO-CLT. That said, I assume that this flight will do good. And better MCO than nothing. Maybe I could use XP/EK on separate tickets AZO-MCO-DXB-KHI when I next visit family....
Jump to postAny idea what AI's premium cabins will look like on their new widebodies? They need to step it up from that 2-3-2 nonsense in J. Plenty of affluent Indians who would pay for an actual J product, so it would behoove AI to step up their game.
Jump to postEY wasted money with nonsense like the Residence as well. They didn't have the network EK or QR do, even in their heyday. And QR smartly (IMO) joined oneworld, giving them access to oneworld frequent flyers who I'm guessing would always choose QR. I know we always fly QR rather than the other two. E...
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