https://news.sky.com/story/dubai-homes- ... y-13116616
Parts of the ramp are still flooded. Sucks for that Rolls Royce on the driveway up that got flooded out LOL
AUS is noted by Delta to be focus city not hub.
Connotations and denotation get fuzzy sometimes but no one has said hub yet.
https://www.nola.com/news/business/new- ... e.amp.html
Positive story for once.
So what would cause WN to not show viable flight options on its website? I'm looking at MSY-DEN. There's nothing that really fit my schedule/price range. I try my corporate discounts booking engine just for the heck of it. There's a MSY-MDW-DEN that appears there that doesn't show on WN's site with...
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While tangential, an article just out on market cap that then gets into profits at the end.
I would love ORD-EZE but given my choice of a 2nd IAH-EZE or EWR-EZE, I will take IAH everyday of the week. I avoid NYC for any connections due to air traffic congestion, a single cloud sneeze and the system collapses. Yes, IAH is perfectly located for Western USA to South America connections but i...
Jump to postI suppose KC-135’s wouldn’t technically count as airliners. I dont think so. But stil an awesome classic No, none were really. Though it's cousin the 707 lives on . Reminder to folks (not the op) the 135 is not the same as the 707 (135 is more narrow for example) but they have a common ancestor. I ...
Jump to posthttps://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-airport/long-lines-at-aus-airport-expects-to-break-a-top-record/ https://viewfromthewing.com/post-eclipse-turmoil-southwest-airlines-melts-down-at-austin-airport/ Major WN challenges post eclipse at AUS it seems. The bag system went down. You know, the ...
Jump to postQuestion for those who might know better. I am a little surprised Delta and United keep their lounges open at PHL when looking at frequencies. Does anyone know if they fly a lot of premium traffic? I assumed in and out of PHL they fly mainly premium traffic from their hubs. I flew PHL-IAH roundtrip...
Jump to posthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-esX3Kpwrhs This was posted on youtube today and the first ~five minutes cover the Eastern Airlines mech strike. I was a goofy young teenager and don't remember much about Eastern at the time, especially compared to Pan Am and others I had actually flown while outside...
Jump to postKinda funny that businesses in a nation that champions unbridled capitalism call for government intervention when it comes to their bottom line. Is it government intervention to have the same set of rules? The US can restrict flight paths into and out of the US, the question is will they for the fo...
Jump to postIn Indonesia they make coffee from cat poop. But it is processed so well that is high quality and expensive. So why you are averse to the idea of aviation fuel from a similar source? After all, kerosene itself is very distilled and purified. They make coffee from beans that the cat (civet) happened...
Jump to posthttps://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/ ... op-record/
https://viewfromthewing.com/post-eclips ... n-airport/
Major WN challenges post eclipse at AUS it seems.
I think one thing people need to realize is that airports are extremely expensive to run. You need ATC, TSA, Check-in staff, concessions staff, gate agents, ground staff, etc even if there is only 1-2 flights departing at a time. Bigger airports just have so much economics of scale. I hate to be a ...
Jump to poststlgph wrote:A220HubandSpoke wrote:
Southwest also isn't very profitable as an airline but I digress.
Are you posting just to be posting?
November 2023 load factors and passenger numbers by route have been calculated. As compared to November 2022, airport-wide seat count rose by 6.0%, and pax traffic saw a -0.2% decrease resulting in a -5.9% decrease in load factor to 77.9%. The route with the highest load factor in November was WN's...
Jump to postJust took UA from EZE this week. It's interesting that UA choose to go double daily on IAH-EZE. I get that NYC already has AA and DL at JFK, but would have thought EWR or even ORD so the East Coast flyers don't have to backtrack. They have to lose some people not willing to fly too far out of the w...
Jump to postare pulling out of the smaller airports like this one while in Europe they don't, European ULCCs prefer smaller airports instead of major ones. In the US only Allegiant works that way. And apparently, until shortly, Spirit at ACY. ACY is the kind of airport European ULCCs would be fighting for, onl...
Jump to postShocking UA can’t sustain IAH-Hartford. Or is this a question of aircraft availability? I'd suspect that first. It is the twice weekly announced Avelo New Haven to Hobby-HOU service that has them worried... On a serious note, the Boise drop surprises me a bit just based on colleagues stationed in I...
Jump to postCentered in New Jersey it seems felt Philly through NYC .
Jump to postPhilly is still the 4th largest media market and has a massive metro GDP that rivals all the cities of its stature. I don't mean to take the conversation here, but Philadelphia really suffers from an irrelevancy problem. Yes, PHL might have a large GDP, but to say that it rivals other metros is rea...
Jump to postIf WN wanted to add more gates to HOU or MDW they could. WN are adding more gates at HOU; 6 of the 7 new gates in the west concourse are going to Southwest (which they are helping to finance). That many gates would presume more expansion, which also presumes Boeing delivers planes by then. https://...
Jump to postWe used to get a few people a month wanting to be in SJO but ended up in SJC! Good to know that happens with other places too. Every so often we will get a passenger that was intending to go to CMH (Columbus Ohio) but ended up in CSG (Columbus GA). I have seen it happen just in cities with multiple...
Jump to postIsn't that the exact strategy AA just attempted and failed at and now are cutting/have cut most of the routes because of the lack of demand? And doesn't AA have a larger FF base in Austin due to the proximity to DFW than DL has? #1 - Delta’s not competing against its own hub 45 minutes away. . Live...
Jump to postWhich begs the question: what was an El Al plane doing near the Atacama desert? I know there can be a myriad of reasons but Im really curios...was this a technical? a charter? A plane being fixed? Thanks! Not to be too pedantic, but Lima is nearly 1,600kms/1,000mi from the Atacama desert :-) That s...
Jump to posthttps://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240326-uajul24us Looks like a good amount of frequency cuts across the board, but DEN and IAD see some decent adds. Makes sense with the delays in fleet growth and now potential FAA oversight. Here is what we have based on this based on weekly flights: The Losers ORD:...
Jump to postTapping into premium leisure demand, but it is also about capacity, broadly. FCO is a goldmine right now, in peak season. The NY Area to FCO market is huge, with 3 x daily on AZ, 3 x daily on DL, 2 x daily on UA (EWR), + Norse and the 2 AA flights. My God! WTH is with Rome this year??? How can ther...
Jump to postIf you are premium passenger flying to Asia from the PHL metro area, I assume most of those people would opt to drive to EWR to have a widebody to SFO or LAX over a 737 directly from PHL. The folks in Marlton, Medford Lakes and Cherry Hill would prefer the daily 737-8MAX from PHL. Having lived in C...
Jump to postFA staffing is not solely based on the 1 for 50 concept. It depends on how the aircraft is certified as well as the length of the duty day scheduled. It is the long duty day on flights such as SFO-SIN and SFO-MEL where UA has to add additional flight attendants, thus you always see 10 FA on the 787...
Jump to postHow many flight attendants do United 787's and 777's leave for ULH flights? I flew LAX-MEL last week on the 787-9 and it had 10 FAs and 4 pilots. I know 4 pilots is the max for the longest flights, but I believe the number of FAs is based on the number of seats, so for example if I was on SFO-MEL w...
Jump to postThe daily AA BTR-DCA is going six weekly through early August (cutting Saturday both directions). I am still hoping the flight sticks. My most recent flights in January and early Feb were at or above 80 % LF AA said they needed but no idea how things are looking overall. I have not seen official num...
Jump to postNew Jersey geographically is a small state, tons of United frequent flyers in the State who usually fly from EWR may like Philadelphia as an option. no kidding..., I lived there many years and still own a house in South Jersey; if anything the leakage in South Jersey for UA fliers will head north t...
Jump to postUnited should start PHL-LAX. Why? Six daily flights in April by AA including two widebodies plus a daily Spirit flight might make that a tough nut for UA to crack. New Jersey geographically is a small state, tons of United frequent flyers in the State who usually fly from EWR may like Philadelphia ...
Jump to postRMTAviation wrote:United should start PHL-LAX.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-c ... 00651.html
Some news, not earthmoving or anything but interesting.
I would think that HOU could eventually serve as a bridge between the east and west networks. Down the line HOU-BUR and secondary California markets could work well. There's definitely a willingness/desire in the recent HVN additions to move beyond leisure-heavy markets and into larger cities/busin...
Jump to postIAH-Zurich or Rome is a possibility. Houston isn't really a financial center so there's not much business traffic to ZRH. For LH Group connections ZRH doesn't really offer much that's not covered by FRA/MUC. I'd see BRU as being more useful from a network standpoint. I'd agree on FCO if ENI had a l...
Jump to postJshank83 wrote:HOU showing up in the dropdown. Not sure on others
Those of us who use PHL noticed there has been an uptick in the homeless in certain baggage claim areas. Looks like the new mayor is taking care of that: https://www.inquirer.com/business/phl-homelessness-resources-training-20240319.html I remember seeing homeless people in the concourses at PHL in...
Jump to postStats for intl 2023 Cancun 458,235 London 416,672 Montego Bay 249,898 Toronto 230,730 Punta Cana 227,765 Doha 223,669 Dublin 222,632 Rome 151,482 Lisbon 132,702 Paris 126,742 Nice to see Lisbon pop up there going year round. Ahead of AMS, MAD, ZUR and CDG despite not being year round early in the y...
Jump to postDid not see this posted, not sure if it warrants a new thread just now. Southwest Pilots think WN may be on the verge of another acquisition. Could be a quick fix for more capacity with 7M7 delays, not sure of options with a common fleet type. Sun Country, Avelo? Petty much anything else would be a...
Jump to postThey have their own special fares and the school kids pay even less. It is a mix. I didn't know that. The water-taxi service connects both San Pedro and Caye Caulker to Belize City regularly and reading the above post, both 9N and 2M are also catering a sizeble component of the O&D traffic dome...
Jump to postEven before the merger, AA/DFW was much larger gauge than CO/IAH. Though AA had a lot of ER4 flying, it was much more mainline, and consequently carried more passengers, than CO at IAH. Pax numbers are not part of the history discussion, it was number of flights, so he was spot on in his analysis. ...
Jump to postNo, while IAH was large it was still a smaller hub than ORD for UA and still considerably smaller than the mega hubs today of ATL and DFW. Jeremy Not sure I really agree with that. IAH and DFW were almost the same size before the mergers, CO had about 650 at IAH and AA about 700 at DFW. Since then ...
Jump to postInternal flights are very much used by locals. So, their primary leisure stations would be SPR, CUK and DGA, allowing non-stop flights from both BZE and TZA. I've just counted up to 44x daily flights linking Belize City and San Pedro Ambergris, one way. Regards. I fly them often but as I said local...
Jump to postYou missed ORZ for flights intra-Belize. The route map displayed above showed the destinations flown currently on either 9N Tropic Air and 2M Maya Island Air. These airlines also supply chartered services to other stations that may not appear before, like Orange Walk, Corozal, Kanantik, Caye Chapel...
Jump to postBelize is leading the amount of domestic flights regionally and all served by means of Cessna Grand Caravans. Belize City supplies two airports for these operations: Goldson International [BZE] and Municipal [TZA]. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/1276/8a0oox.jpg CUK: Cake Culker SPR: San Ped...
Jump to postThis is all so depressingly true. There is revenue potential that exists right now, for WN to take. Redeyes, for example, is an easy way to increase revenue. But they can't do it because they don't know how. There are countless international markets within range that would increase revenue over sen...
Jump to postBased on the route UA82 took last week, I think EWR-BOM is definitely possible. https://i.imgur.com/e8kZAhC.png But that is not the route it would take daily nor does it account for the winds and routing on the return. As Steamgauge noted (who is a pilot for AA) other factors are involved. Possible...
Jump to post.... 2. IAH-MAD continues dreaming since United flies very little from Houston internationally , .... Wait, WHAT? UA flies a lot internationally out of IAH. To Europe it flies to LHR, AMS, FRA, MUC and CDG. You did not say Europe initially you said international of which UA flies much from IAH and ...
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