Re: AS to acquire HA; operate as separate brand.

The main reason Southwest can fly 737s inter island is that WN knows how many flights, cycles , they do with a 737 inter island. They keep rotating 737s between the Islands and the mainland. When the 717s of Haiwain reach thier retirement point HA is is going to be up a creek with NO paddle. The onl...

Re: AS to acquire HA; operate as separate brand.

This is just my opinion. Alaka Airlines may be acquiring Hawian Airlines as Hawiian is on the ropes. Alaska's real intention may be to operate Hawaiian as a wholy owned supsideriry like it does with Horizon Airlines. Their aircraft are basically painted in Alaska's livery. I think Alaska Airlines wi...

Re: Why didn't Delta Air Lines using retro aircraft livery paint?

DELTA HAS NOT AND WILL NOT paint any aircraft. in the livery of any airlines they have acquired. The ONLY exception is after the "merger" with Northwest is that the DELTA LOGO on tail or vertical points in a northwest direction on the left side while the delta on the right side also points...

Re: Hawaiian Air CEO looks for a 717 replacement

Currently Hawaiian has only two options. One is fly the 717s into the gound due to cycle limitations, corrosion, the aviability of parts and green time engines or power plants. There may be some lower cycle 717s in the desert that could be resurrected by robbing parts off other 717s in the desert or...

Re: Alaska 738 damaged by hard landing in SNA

According to the FAA N-NUMBER registry the aircraft is owned by Willington Trust Company as Trustee. Therefore Willming Trust along with their insurance company will make the final decision wheatheer the aircraft will be repaired or written off. Lease companies do not like spending a lot of money to...

Re: Airbus 318 and 319 ... Why were they discontinued ?

The 757-200, smaller version, greatly outsold the larger 757-300. The 757-300 came very late in the game at the end of the production of the 757. Northwest bought about sixteen but Boeing actually convinced Northwest actually take all 757-300s but then go back to the 757-200. Northwest took deliver...

Re: Airbus 318 and 319 ... Why were they discontinued ?

The 757-200, smaller version, greatly outsold the larger 757-300. The 757-300 came very late in the game at the end of the production of the 757. Northwest bought about sixteen but Boeing actually convinced Northwest actually take all 757-300s but then go back to the 757-200. Northwest took deliver...

Re: Hawaiian Air CEO looks for a 717 replacement

The Mad Dog 717s can only fly so long before it becomes cost prohibitive to operate and maintain also with poor parts availability. Hawiian needs to be planning ahead for what aircraft can work well for them. Once Delta stops fly their 717s the 717s will become history for Hawiian. They may need to ...

Re: Reintegrating Russia.

Few if any aircraft the Russians have stolen will be of any use as the will have sat so long they will not be worth the cost performing a D Check on them. The residual value will be close to zero. The only exception may be the Boing 747-8F freighters if they can be maid worthty enough to fly to a We...

Re: Boeing 747-400 Fleet Movements / Write-Off / Retirements / Scrapping - 2023

I know this is not a 747-8F thread but I have read somewhere UPS is buying two 747-8F freighters from Qatar. Qatar is replacing them with two 777s which will be delivered in2024. At that time the two 747-8Fs will be turned over to UPS. I am curious if the ten or so 747-8Fs that Air Bridge Cargo that...

Re: Looks like Trump's 757 is back in service

davidjohnson6 wrote:

How many people will follow it on FR24 ? Is it N757AF ?

Re: 747 Final Flyaway

Joe Sutter engineered and had a prototype built in a little over two years along with the help of more engineers and the like. They basically did this without the use of computers. It was built from about 1968 until the last one was completed and flown away from Boeitng's Renton airport in late Jan...

Re: 747 Final Flyaway

Joe Sutter engineered and had a prototype built in a little over two years along with the help of more engineers and the like. They basically did this without the use of computers. It was built from about 1968 until the last one was completed and flown away from Boeitng's Renton airport in late Jan...

Re: 747 Final Flyaway

Joe Sutter engineered and had a prototype built in a little over two years along with the help of more engineers and the like. They basically did this without the use of computers. It was built from about 1968 until the last one was completed and flown away from Boeitng's Renton airport in late Janu...

Re: Amazon Fleet News and Discussion - 2023

Delta Air Lines might have an interesrt in the Hawaian A330s if they are to be retired. Delta does the Heavy Maintenance on them at MSP and they should have all the mainannce records. Also, Sun Country which flys 737-800 for DHL is adding more 737s to their fleet. I do not know if it is for passeng...

Re: Amazon Fleet News and Discussion - 2023

Delta Air Lines might have an interesrt in the Hawaian A330s if they are to be retired. Delta does the Heavy Maintenance on them at MSP and they should have all the mainannce records. Also, Sun Country which flys 737-800 for DHL is adding more 737s to their fleet. I do not know if it is for passenge...

Re: Delta Exercises Options for 12 Additional A220-300's

The history of the DL A220 / C-Series Order Apr 2016: 75 CS100/A221 + 50 options and the ability to substitute the larger CS300/A223 (75 A221, 0 A223) Jan 2019: Orders 15 total of 90, and exercised the ability to swap for A223s (40 A221, 50 A223) + 50 options Jul 2019: Orders 5 additional A221; now...

Re: Boeing’s Everett factory

The 737 built by those Renton folks in ancient buildings (?) is, has been, and will be the profit king of Boeing commercial. Just noting. Until it isn't. I think everybody, including Boeing, agrees that MAX is the last iteration of the 737 family. You cannot squeeze out more of that design anymore....

Re: Final Boeing 747 rolls out tonight December 6 2022

Twin engine jets are always one engine away from an emergency.

Re: Delta Introduced First Of 33 Recently Purchased Used Boeing 737s

Delta has bought a lot of airplanes over the years from other operators. Before the ones mentioned there were also Ex Eastern 727 and L-1011 in the fleet. I also recall there were a few 767 and 737 Classics that were second operator airframes. Yes. And on the Northwest side of the lineage, a whole ...

Re: Delta Fleet Thread - 2022

I will add this about Delta acquiring any of United's 767-400s. I do not think it will happen. Northwest Airlines bought two very late build 747-222 aircraft. United Airlines could only sell them if Northwest Airlines converted them to freighters. The United pilots contract prevented them from being...

Re: Question RE: PW4077 powered 777s

If I am not mistaken the Southwest Airlines 737-700 that had a major failure of a fan blade that caused the death of one passenger who was almost sucked out of the aircraft had CFM-56 engines. It declared an emergency and made a successful landing at Pitsburg, PA. several years ago. I belive I read ...

Re: China Southern Will Operate Its Last Airbus A380 Flight On Sunday

I wonder if the last flight will be to LAX means it will be ferried to MHV? Will it ever fly again?

Re: Delta Fleet Thread - 2022

Anyone know why B777-232ER N863DA has moved from Victorville to Marana? N863DA was bought by "Trust", who ever that is, on Aug 18, 2022 and moved to MZJ on Aug 19, 2022. N864DA was also bought by "Trust" on Sep 28, 2022 and moved to MZJ on Oct 4, 2022. This information is on RIZ...

Re: Delta Fleet Thread - 2022

Anyone know why B777-232ER N863DA has moved from Victorville to Marana? N863DA was bought by "Trust", who ever that is, on Aug 18, 2022 and moved to MZJ on Aug 19, 2022. N864DA was also bought by "Trust" on Sep 28, 2022 and moved to MZJ on Oct 4, 2022. This information is on RIZ...

Re: AA908 EZE-MIA compressor stall at take off from EZE tonight

Northwest Airlines used to ferry engines on one of their 747 Freighters, especially accross the Pacific, usually Japan. Originally they fifth poded a 747 engine on the wing with the fan blades locked in place so as to prevent them from turning as this is a problem. The fish pod was a factory install...

Re: Alaska Orders 52 MAX

What is Alaska Airlines going to do with the ten Airbus A321 aircraft they inherited from the merger with Virgin America? Will they need them?

Re: MH set to return A380's to Airbus

Airbus probably is taking Malaysian's six A380s as it allows Airbus to produce twenty A330-900 aircraft that Airbus would not be manufacturing. Malaysian possibly owns them and can not sell them and would loose money scraping or storing them. Airbus possibly is giving Malaysian less than scrap value...

Re: Airbus reshapes A350 cabin to better accommodate 10 abreast

One word............"SQUISH"

Re: Deltas Old A320s

[quote="747-600X"]A couple notes - Pilots dislike the older A320s for some surprising reasons. The vent fans in the cockpit are incredibly loud on the earlier aircraft in the family. It's like a wind storm up there (in terms of noise). I'm not sure what Airbus did to solve that on later ai...

Re: Deltas Old A320s

When Northwest bought the 320s originally, it made a deal with the State of Minnesota to build a hangar at the Hibbing, Minnesota airport to perform maintenance on them. I have forgotten what the state provided in return, but it must have been some sort of subsidy or guarantee. Does anyone know if ...

Re: Deltas Old A320s

Boeing tried selling Northwest Airlines the 717 to replace their aging DC-9s. Northwest's answer was to upgrade the DC-9s interior to something similar to the interior of the the 717 for a whole lot less money. The only noticeable diferance was the three and two seating arrangement was swapped. The ...

Re: Russian Official Suggests Pilots Should Learn To Repair Aircraft

Weren't some flight engineers mechanics beforehand? And if I remmber correctly, most Russian types need a FE still. So they could back-up as a mechanic. Just an issue of spare parts. In the days of earlier aircraft many mechanics became flight engineers. That made it easier for a person to eventual...

Re: Cases where enhanced models were not so well received?

All the 747-300 really offered was a stretched upper deck. Other than that not really much. It was still a there man crewwith a Flight Engineer. It may have had a heavier duty main landing gear. Nothwest bought two of Swiss Air's retired 747-300s for their main landing gear to use on their earlier 7...

Re: A321neo Second-Hand Market

If I am NOT mistaken Delta Air Lines operate Airbus A330s with three diferent types of engines, Power Plants. The A330s they got from Northwest have Pratt & Whitney engines. Delta then ordered A330s with GE engines even though the new aircraft were similar to what they inherited from Northwest. ...

Re: I flew on an interesting A319 yesterday

This A319 is owned by ILFC and was leased to the previous operator. It and a few other A319s were leased from ILFC by United Airlines as it was probably easier and cheaper to lease the aircraft from ILFC. Probably can return the aircraft to ILFC with a 30 or 60 day notice as part of the lease agreem...

Re: Egyptian 747-8 visit to SNN

What are "competing" sites? Is there a list? So what is the lineage of this 747? This aircraft was built for Luthansa as D-ABYE, according to RZJETS.NET in about 2011 and not taken up, NTU. It was most likely not built to the specifications that Boeing guarentted. Most likely it was overw...

Re: Airline seats too small? The FAA may soon change that

First class seats now are the same size as what business class seats used to be, smaller in width. Busines class seats are now what coach seats used to be, smaller in width. Coach class,seats, which I refer as steerage, now are even narrower. There was a time when airlines made oversize people buy a...

Re: Boeing 767: 40 years in airline service

It is indeed a great aircraft. I've flown on all the variants and my favorite is the -400. One thing about it that has always perplexed me is the main cabin door design. Up until it entered service Boeing had used one where the open door rested outside the airframe. The 767 utilizes one that retrac...

Re: American Airlines orders Boom Overture aircraft

AA really does not have the cash to be throwing away on non refundable deposits. They need to get their house in order, pay down debt and improve their onboard product first. AA is literally ranked dead last in the USA. I don't think AA will survive to even be around when these start deliveries. Yo...

Re: DL 941 757-300 gear problem

Many years ago Northwest Airlines had a 747 blow 16 tires on takeoff from ORD to Tokyo and the air temperature was very hot at ORD. The gear was left down and the aircraft was flown to. MSP. That was Northwest's mani base and maintanance faculty. It gave the airline and airport time to prepare for t...

Re: Cargolux select the 777-8F to replace their ageing 744Fs

The 747-8i aircraft will NOT be reconverted to have a nose cargo door as it is designed and built as a passenger aircraft only. It would be cost prohibitive to install a nose cargo door as there may not be any new cargo doors available. Used doors would be the only possible option and certifying the...

Re: Tim Clark: A350-1000 too small to be largest Airbus offering

Tim Clark missed his chance. He could have ordered the 747-8i but he did not. Once Emirates had ordered the A380, the 748i was never going to happen for them. Let's be honest, the list of customers for it is very short. Tim Clark wants his cake and eat it too. He should of used his head for more th...

Re: Tim Clark: A350-1000 too small to be largest Airbus offering

Tim Clark missed his chance. He could have ordered the 747-8i but he did not. He wants an aircraft that has two power plants that has the diameter of the aircraft fuselage. Can't be done unlees the landing gear is extended longer and if one power goes out or fails the pilots will need to fight like ...

Re: Aircraft stored at Bruntingthorpe scrapped (RAF Tri-Stars, VC-10's, Super Guppy)

Sraping the ex Airbus Super Guppy was totally unnecessary but busines is bususines. Shame on them.

Re: Venezuelan airline 747 cargo flight sets off alarms in Argentina

This aircraft spent some time in February, 2022 in Minsk, Belarus. Do not know why. A/C registration YV.3531.

Re: United's supersonic purchase... one year hence

It is a pretty picture. Thats all. Probably will never fly much less have any buyers..........

Re: Braniff International 1982 - 2022

I’ve always been curious as to why the original 747 “Big Orange” never received the “Ultra” livery. Does anyone have any insight why Big Orange didn’t get it. Big Orange was supposedly one of the highest utilization 747s in the world flying DFW-HNL-DFW. Probably could not afford to take it out of s...

Re: Braniff International 1982 - 2022

Truth is ( to me at least) BN deserved death. For the last year of it's existence service was absolutely awful. After the airline had grievously wronged me three times, it wronged me one final time on an ORD/LBB connection - stranding others and me at DFW at midnight .4 of us rented a car and drove...

Re: Braniff International 1982 - 2022

When Harding Lawrence was head of Braniff he went nuts and over expanded Braniff's route structure with the beginning of of deregulation applying for more routes than Braniff could fly. Just to keep them Braniff needed to fly red eye flights with little or no passengers. That was the beginning of th...