Re: United intl route announcement Monday 4/19

UA has the best social media team out of the Big 3 Looks like widebody routes: I'd put these out as options, assuming they are all widebody routes, I'm not sure whether they'd put a widebody on a new route to the Caribbean ORD or IAD-ATH ORD or IAD-KEF I'd be surprised to see any India Very good ca...

Re: Trigana Air B734 off the runway written off after landing incident at HLP

On a different note, I like Trigana Air’s color scheme.

Re: 30 Years Ago Today: Eastern Air Lines Ceases Operations

RIP Eastern.

Re: Top 5 most missed Airlines ?

1. Hughes Airwest
2. PSA
3. Air Cal(ifornia)
4. Pan Am
5. Braniff

I also loved People Express.

Re: Delta pilot sentenced for nearly flying under the influence

[quote="VMCA787] Alcoholism, I don't care if you agree or not, is a recognized disease. It is not a crutch or malady, it is a bonified disease. It has to be treated as such. Some raised the issue of the pilot lying. What do you expect, he is an alcoholic and is an expert at lying. That is one o...

Re: United Closing Flight Attendant Tokyo Hub

What I meant was Non-Green card holder....cant edit my post now.... But what I know is that UA continued to pay the foreign base FAs (non green card holders and US citizens) that are not covered by the CaresAct with CaresAct money. As a US tax payer...UA needs to be called out on it! For example I ...

Re: Pacific Airlines (former Jetstar Pacific) revealed its livery after rebrand

The livery looks like that of a chemical company. The only I can say I like is the font of its word mark.

Re: New Airline Annoucnement KSNA

I think JetBlue has made it pretty clear that their Southern CA strategy is to concentrate most of their operations at LAX. I don’t think SNA plays into that plan.

Re: Where was Legacy pre-9/11 UA Bigger at SFO or LAX?

SFO was much larger. Although UA had acquired Pan Am’s Pacific routes in 1986, it was CEO Stephen Wolf who had designated SFO as UA’s primary trans-pacific gateway. LAX was not established officially as a hub by UA until 1995, but for UA, SFO has historically been its cash cow. For the past 30+ year...

Re: UA will close FA bases in NRT, HKG, FRA

. I also didn't realize that UA still had a F/A base at LHR. The LHR crew base was opened in 1970 by Pan Am and came as part of United’s LHR asset purchase in 1991. There are still many former Pan Am’ers based in London, and a few who have been there since the original base opening in 1970. I was p...

Re: UA will close FA bases in NRT, HKG, FRA

mmahpeel wrote:

I adore the FRA, HKG and particularly NRT crew and am quite sad for them…

Re: UA will close FA bases in NRT, HKG, FRA

CONTACREW wrote:

Yes they are AFA represented and yes they can transfer to any base with vacancies (excluding LHR)

Re: UA will close FA bases in NRT, HKG, FRA

As the previous poster stated, LHR was the only crew base inherited from Pan Am. FRA, HKG, & NRT all opened 25 years ago...in the summer of ‘95. Each of the affected bases have Americans who will be able to transfer back to the N. American domiciles. Those who are not green card holders will not...

Re: Frontier launches 18 new routes for Summer 2020

Are people actually traveling to Florida in summer?

Re: New York Air vs Eastern Air Lines 1981

For the record, CO and EA never shared/swapped each other's equipment....not by a long shot!! CO outright STOLE EA A300s, 722s, and had begun transferring EA 752s to CO for promissory notes of about 5% of their value when EA shut down. This is how I remember it as well. Eastern’s System One GDS was...

Re: Oil at $20/bbl. What does it mean for the 747 and A380?

I think this means that Family Airlines actually thinks they may have a good business model.

Re: EWR - LHR - Becoming a niche market?

There is simply no comparison between EWR and JFK. The only reason airlines fly to EWR is because it is cheaper than the main NYC airport. And then those airlines can BOAST that they fly to NYC. I have always seen EWR as the NYC version of London Stansted - i.e. not to be taken seriously by any ser...

Re: Porter Airlines (PD/POE) suspending all flights at the end of the week. Planned to resume flying June 1.

Under the circumstances, I think all airlines should be doing this.

Re: Taos Air to Hawthorne Airport & Carlsbad Airport, CA

Just to report that I flew Taos Air From Hawthorne municipal airport to Taos and then on to Dallas last Thursday. It was my birthday gift to myself. :) The flight is excellent, a great experience to fly scheduled private, and everyone from the pilots, FA, and ground crew were super nice. There's st...

Re: Swiss Airlines : aggression between pilot and passengers

No. No matter how inappropriate the passenger is behaving, we do not use physical force. In the United States, that is considered assault. The captain should’ve called for airport police to come and remove the passengers. As crew members, we do not touch customers.

Re: AA to make SEA an INT hub/launches SEA-BLR in Oct 20/AS to join OneWorld

x1234 wrote:

ndia needs to develop freeways like the rest of the developing world.

Re: Aegean new livery

You can actually sort of see the titles below the white tape on that last photo. They certainly look large, and fairly plain typeface-wise. Not only can you discern the title, but with some basic photo manipulation you can clearly see two large "strokes" on the tail. They correspond to th...

Re: Official: Moxy Becomes Breeze Airways (Livery Photos)

I think this is exciting.

Yute Air Commuter Plane Crash Kills 5