Re: How comes EasyJet uses jet bridges at Gatwick and some other airports?

Maybe it's a European thing - enplaning/deplaning at hardstands?? I know when I worked at MIA parking a live flight at a hardstand just wasn't done, at least not in recent times. If your gate wasn't open, you just held until one was. The hardstands were mostly used to position aircraft for light mai...

Re: Atlas Air 747-8 - Engine fire, returns to MIA

All this bother about ''oh, my GOD, it's another Boeing issue.'' Last time I looked, Boeing doesn't manufacture the engines. You've got GE, Rolls Royce, CFM, Pratt/Whitney, and a couple others. The MAX issues are another matter, but this looks like an engine failure, not related to the issues Boeing...

Re: Eastern Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

I'm wondering if Tx governor Abbott is using Eastern for his sending of migrants to places they don't want to be. I noticed in a news story as migrants were deplaning, they showed the side of the plane they were on and the cheatline was distinctively the EA old livery. I don't know if they even have...

Re: Spirit Unaccompanied Minor put on wrong plane

How the heck does this happen? https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/24/travel/spirit-airlines-6-year-old-wrong-flight/index.html Isn't a family member supposed to be at the departure gate to see the child off? That was my immediate first thought as well. I've worked lots and lots of flights over the years w...

Re: AA Flight attendants barricade galley in flight

AAtakeMeAway said: I have experience with this sort of thing from a corporate-level hotel & resort perspective. What slvrblt describes sounds very similar to my experience. What they're saying is, is the ghost rider would be booked into the F, J (or Y) cabin, depending on what specifically they...

Re: AA Flight attendants barricade galley in flight

Miamiairport wrote: Again, cabins particularly the premium cabin is booked full. Prior to 9/11 planes were about 70% full and there often empty seats in premium cabins. Where is that "ghost rider" going to sit? Tell me the number of premium passengers that will be happy to trot back to 27...

Re: AA Flight attendants barricade galley in flight

Miamiairport wrote: Again, cabins particularly the premium cabin is booked full. Prior to 9/11 planes were about 70% full and there often empty seats in premium cabins. Where is that "ghost rider" going to sit? Tell me the number of premium passengers that will be happy to trot back to 27...

Re: AA Flight attendants barricade galley in flight

Pre-9/11, AA had periodic checking of service standards exhibited by employees, both in the air and on the ground. Ground employees (ticket counter and gates) had ''secret shoppers'' that would pretend to be traveling, would even buy tickets, check in for flights, and would rate the service of the a...

Re: Is AA's international strategy benifical for its partners?

And now AA wants to throw their hat in to the HND slot bid with JFK-HND....well, ok It is interesting, as AA has flown the JFK-HND route before..........it just didn't last all that long, NRT was a far better performer. Times change, though, maybe they're seeing an opportunity out of JFK somehow, p...

Re: UA 772 "plunges" 28k ft in 10 mins due to pressurization

I saw the headline early this morning when I first got up and was having coffee.....even before I read it I thought, 'here we go, more unnecessary sensationalist drama.'' Having pressurization troubles, of course he had to get down to low altitude ASAP but it was done it a controlled manner, not the...

Re: HQ Video of 'Urban Route' Approach and Landing at HND/RJTT

Very cool, thanks for sharing! As you said, great views of the city, I love the labels too.

Re: SQ sued over "slobbering, farting" dog

LAOCA wrote: Nope. Didn't miss a thing. And wasn't arguing anyone's point, or opining. Simple stating a fact about my region. But I have a question about your post: Why would "the ESA crowd.. cry up ADA rules"? ADA rules do not apply to emotional support animals. You are correct - but tha...

Re: SQ sued over "slobbering, farting" dog

I'm sick of the nonsense with the 'emotional support' type animals. Over the years there have been so many incidents with them (negative ones) that I'm surprised any carrier takes them. A notable one is the dog that bit the face of a passenger on a Delta flight, seriously hurting the passenger. Tha...

Re: SQ sued over "slobbering, farting" dog

Looking at the picture of that dog in the link by the OP, it's a snub-nosed bulldog-type animal. The technical term for it is brachycephalic. Most airlines now don't allow them to be checked in the belly of the aircraft due to their breathing problems. They'd have to be carried in the cabin as a cab...

Re: SQ sued over "slobbering, farting" dog

I'm sick of the nonsense with the 'emotional support' type animals. Over the years there have been so many incidents with them (negative ones) that I'm surprised any carrier takes them. A notable one is the dog that bit the face of a passenger on a Delta flight, seriously hurting the passenger. That...

Re: DL loses passenger’s dog at ATL

usdcaguy wrote: The burden facing customer service representatives at international outstations can be really overwhelming, especially when there are only a handful of agents to process the flight. Restrictions on the import of pets are not available in Timatic, which is what agents use to determin...

Re: DL loses passenger’s dog at ATL

Vicenza wrote: It shows absolutely nothing of the sort. Agreed. There's no 'red flags' for traveling with a pet, these days especially, people love to travel with pets. The problem is, internationally, pet parents are often blissfully ignorant on the requirement to check the importation rules for p...

Re: DL loses passenger’s dog at ATL

And its also very likely that the dog was the reason she was not allowed to be admitted, as currently you cannot import a dog from the Dominican Republic to the US per US CBP: https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/protecting-agriculture/bringing-pets-and-wildlife-united-states So if it is crystal cle...

Re: Alaska 738 damaged by hard landing in SNA

I agree with the others above, this doesn't seem to be an overly hard landing at all, and seems therefore to point toward there being something wrong with the strut assembly, maybe corrosion. I've landed in SNA before, 737's always seem to come down abruptly, and I posted in another thread about my ...

Re: Hijackings in the '80s

No one mentions the Cuba hijackings, but those were happening left and right in the early '80s, especially out of south Florida, Some Cubans, even some disillusioned Americans wanting to go back to the island. Delta had some, Air Florida had several. https://avgeekery.com/air-florida-couldnt-overco...

Re: Hijackings in the '80s

No one mentions the Cuba hijackings, but those were happening left and right in the early '80s, especially out of south Florida, Some Cubans, even some disillusioned Americans wanting to go back to the island. Delta had some, Air Florida had several. https://avgeekery.com/air-florida-couldnt-overcom...

Re: United hard landing at IAH?

airtran737 wrote: I am not new by any means and still thump them on now and then. Not every landing is a greaser. It's just not possible.

Re: United hard landing at IAH?

I was on a 737 the other day and it was a hard landing. Definitely felt it more than other landings. I wonder if it has something to do with the airport. LOL. With the airport, I definitely think so, we'll see what the pilot people on here think. My experience, in the late 70's/early 80's was with ...

Re: United hard landing at IAH?

Not a pilot. But as a non-rev traveler, I've been on lots of flights; not counting weather-induced hard landings, I think the hardest landings I've ever experienced were, without doubt, on the 727. They flare, they float, but then, it's WHAM. And you're down. The 737 too, have had lots of hard thump...

Re: UA20 diverts - Unruly passenger due to unavailability of preferred meal

reednavy wrote: Okay, but to divert an international flight, get kicked off the plane, and face a multitude of fines and even potential criminal charges is an appropriate response? Get out of here with that take. Absolutely the right take. Get the hell out of here with that entitled attitude. Poor ...

Re: UA20 diverts - Unruly passenger due to unavailability of preferred meal

What about all the other passengers on that plane that paid "top dollar" all the way to the lowly coach passenger that paid to arrive at their destination and beyond? How many of those passengers will have their connections/travel plans ruined because some person flops around like a spoil...

Re: Major Delays @ NYC Airports June 25

Ehhh, I know the NE weather sucks but I think United ops is a mess right now. On FlightAware UA is showing 367 cancellations, vs Delta at 61 and AA at 32. I know UA is big at EWR but DL and AA both have significant ops at JFK/LGA, and the impact is not the same.

Re: Law Suit Filed Against Sea-Tac, Alaska, and Delta Over Health Concerns

Gawd. NIMBYS are like pimples on teens, they just won't go away. Like flyoregon above said, the airport has been there since 1944. Sell your damn house and move away. Problem solved.

Re: Jetliners who made mistook airports in the past cities