The only difference might be the currency in which prices are shown, some airlines show their prices in the local currency based on the IP address. Which means they show the currency of wherever the VPN outlet is located instead of your actual location.
Jump to postFRA layout is more complex and can be confusing. IST is more straightforward, but the walks can be very long. But if they are flying LH and TG the way between the two gates might be very short, compared to (new) IST. Both airlines use terminal 1. I think I looked this up once. LH was at the Z gate ...
Jump to postHave you considered that summer in Thailand is the rainy season? Leisure travel to Thailand is best done in the winter, which is the dry season. Then it's still comfortably warm and way less humid, during the summer the humidity is killing even when it's not raining. I've been to Thailand as well ye...
Jump to postTechnically United didn't continue, they pulled out at the same time as everyone else. But not for long, they resumed those flights as soon as they could. There was just a little while when they didn't fly to TLV. European airlines are also returning one by one, usually starting off at a low frequen...
Jump to postI 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 postOthers didnt make it (but frankly were doomed even before deregulation, basically state propped up zombies distorting competition. Thankfully most have gone) Very true. I remember a certain airline called Malev. The way they were organized they could never survive the level of competition they had ...
Jump to postA319: 1501 delivered A220: 322 delivered True, but how many of those A319s were delivered before the A220 was introduced? Keep in mind the A220 is a much newer design than the A319, for a long time the A319 was pretty much the only option when it came to that size. I don't have the numbers on hand,...
Jump to posttjwgrr wrote:THIS is classic:
Maybe Allegiant can take over the ACY base, they got very little presence in the northeast corner of the US. They got a thing for secondary airports next to the major airports such as SFB instead of MCO and AZA instead of PHX. ACY can be their alternative to PHL and maybe even EWR. And if they're ev...
Jump to postI couldn’t disagree more. The current livery screams y2k. To me the Landor is timeless. Something timeless is something that works through a variety of eras and ages like well. Classic rayban sunglasses, converse, Peterbilt 379s, countless albums from past decades. If we want to focus on livery’s s...
Jump to postBring back the previous livery. That one was phenomenal - timeless with more class than the current The previous? You mean Landor? Sorry to say it but, yuck! That's hopelessly outdated. It may have suited the times back then, but it's definitely not timeless. It just screams '70s and '80s to me. I'...
Jump to postPersonally I think BAs is actually one of the few remaining timeless liveries or there. It looks good on every aircraft, truly displays the UK, and is classy and elegant. That's not too say a refresh wouldn't be a bad thing though, but a whole new livery is not needed, IMO. I disagree. There is no ...
Jump to postI feel the OP is talking about hub-to-hub on the same alliance/carrier/JV. Those kind of hubs "force" some routes. MAD-DFW is a good example (now even 2 daily) because would anyone fly this route if both airports were not hubs of the IAG/AA JV alliance? Routes like AMS-DTW (on DL). Someth...
Jump to postYYZ-ICN (this one seems a bit long for that type so I don't know) It probably had a fuel stop in ANC although I'm not sure about that. I know that KE007 did, it flew JFK-ANC-ICN. Keep in mind that YYZ-ICN in a straight line would cross Soviet airspace which was forbidden at the time, it's the very ...
Jump to postBA744PHX wrote:There was an update yesterday regarding the reduction, see below
I've personally never been nervous about flying, but I know some people who have. They absolutely don't want to fly. One guy once had to attend a meeting in Spain and went there by train. Where his colleagues flew there in a few hours, it took him over two days. And another two days back. But that w...
Jump to postAn advisory commission to the Supreme Court has just published it's advice that the experimental rule, which is the first step of reducing the number of flights at AMS, is not allowed to take place without permission from the European Commission. And even though this is just an advice, in reality th...
Jump to postThat's a pretty unusual location for an earthquake given that there are no faults anywhere nearby, it's pretty central at the North American plate. The closest fault would be the mid-Atlantic ridge which, as it's name suggests, is in the middle of the Atlantic halfway between Europe and North Americ...
Jump to postI agree, Eastern has had it's time. Too many times people have tried resurrecting it from the dead, with the same result each time. They all failed.
Just let it rest. It's a great memory, but that's all it is.
From what I could find out it interferes with the radio communication between the aircraft and the ATC, the pilots hear the noise of the phones over the radio. It's not like they can literally understand the calls but they are in the same frequency range. This can result in miscommunications over th...
Jump to postusflyer123 wrote:Ive seen UA routing IAH-ZRH via LHR/CDG/AMS.
Never on one ticket, however I've done quite a few self-connections on non-hub airports. For example EIN-BLQ-LMP. I wouldn't exactly call BLQ a hub airport, but I could make it work. EIN-BLQ on Ryanair and BLQ-LMP on Volotea. The only similarity is that they both use BLQ. On the return I did the sam...
Jump to postFlying between hubs belonging to unrelated airlines does technically count though, even if it doesn't have quite as much merit (IMO at least). I have done that indeed. For example I've flown AMS-CPH, where AMS is a hub for KLM and CPH is a hub for SAS. Nonetheless, I flew it on EasyJet (and back on...
Jump to postThis is more or less the path the Eclipse will follow:
There's a whole ray of places where the Eclipse can be seen, Cleveland being just one of them. It goes all the way from San Antonio, Texas to Burlington, Vermont. Sure there's got to be some place you can fly into to see it even if it isn't Cleveland. You could for example fly into Dayton, Ohio or B...
Jump to postThe A350 is the true 777 competitor, it's all Airbus needs in terms of large aircraft. The A380 was just too big, planes that size are never coming back. The A350 is as big as it gets and they already got it. And unlike the A380, the A350 makes a fine freighter.
Jump to postIncorrect since Sweden owned Saint Barthélemy for 100 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_colony_of_Saint_Barth%C3%A9lemy Okay, I didn't know that. But still, it was sold back to France in 1878. That's a long time ago and nowadays very little in St. Barthelemy reminds of it's Swedish day...
Jump to postDEN is really nowhere close to Denver… It serves Denver, that's what matters. It's actual location is irrelevant. And that's the case with Oakland as well. It serves the San Francisco area. Who cares that another airport is closer to San Francisco? Who cares which airport is slightly faster to get ...
Jump to postI wouldn't say it was bad, but it was loss-making. Their product was outdated, but other than that it was good. It just wasn't profitable. One of their issues was a huge staff surplus which they couldn't get rid of, each time they tried the unions went on strike. That huge amount of staff did mean t...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:
Not corporate lingo, pretty well established term in aviation, rail, trucking. The FAA, NTSB, TC, EASA, ICAO all use and have for 20 years. The USAF used it in the 90s. I must have never got the memo, then. I drove trucks for almost 8.5 years and never heard SMS get used at all. Neither have I. In ...
Jump to postIt would help if you could explain what SMS exactly is and what it stands for. To you this might be obvious, but not to everyone. Keep that in mind. I don't mind filling out surveys, but this one? How can I if I don't understand the questions? If you don't mind me saying, but the survey itself gets ...
Jump to postHave you looked at KLM routes to the Caribbean yet? I guess when the OP mentioned northern Europe he was talking about Scandinavia, not the Netherlands. There are plenty of direct flights from the Netherlands to the Caribbean instead, mostly to the former Dutch colonies such as Aruba, Curacao and S...
Jump to postThe busiest airport I could find that doesn't have them is London Luton, although Milan Bergamo is not far behind. Pisa only has one jetway, which is connected to the non-Schengen terminal. The Schengen terminal doesn't have any. Even in airports that do have jetways, some airlines prefer not to use...
Jump to postfallap wrote:Moving on to the Boeing 737-500, the Albanian airlines Albawings operates three of the type.
... the longest flights without being served a meal To answer your question, I wonder if St Petersburg/Moscow-Vladivostok would be the longest domestic one globally, but I'm not familiar with the service of the carriers flying those routes - does anyone else know if any airline opetating these rout...
Jump to postAir France - KLM, as the biggest Skyteam airline in Europe, might be interested. Not about the airline itself, that's not worth much. But it would give them the opportunity to develop an additional hub. Specially convenient for flights to Asia as PRG is further east than AMS and CDG. Besides, AMS ha...
Jump to postThe fascination with carry-on is fascinating, I’m going on the 2-day trip to CLT next month, checking my bag. It’s far enough enough to drag it from the cab to the counter. With just about all airlines charging for checked baggage nowadays, traveling with hand luggage only is a good way to save som...
Jump to postDepending on how you count it I'm currently traveling with three carry on bags as well, although in my case it's fully within the allowed limits. Although I do admit that I am pushing them. No issues so far and I'm already halfway through my trip. I got a trolley (large hand luggage for in the overh...
Jump to postI can be very short about that:
B787: Norwegian
That's it, that's the only aircraft I've ever flown across the pond.
There are no BAE 146's or Avro RJ's flying anywhere in Europe anymore. The closest I could find is Air Libya, a Libyan charter airline based in Benghazi. But because they're a charter airline they don't have any regular routes, they fly wherever anyone pays them to fly. So they might be difficult to...
Jump to postAlbawings, an Albanian low-cost airline, still flies the 737-400 around to various airports in Europe from their bases in Tirana and Pristina.
Jump to postNot overall, but you can go to the Wikipedia page of the airline's hub and see which destinations they serve from there. That gives you a pretty good idea and is usually more convenient than the overall destinations page. Of course this is less convenient with a multi hub airline but it works for a ...
Jump to postSomeone buy this man an Atlas..... Europe is a geographic area. The EU and Schengen are political orgs and structures. Not all of Europe is in the EU and even less so, Schengen. The UK is the only European country that requires a passport for entry , which can be seen as a limitation. To be pedanti...
Jump to postIAH-BCN should be one because of its great connections with Latin America The thing is, international-to-international transfers in the US are a nightmare. You need to clear immigration only to get back airside immediately after, which isn't logical. Most other countries don't have that requirement...
Jump to postTWA772LR wrote:LAX-FRA?
Bari, Italy Lamezia Terme, Calabria Bologna Guglielmo Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Turin Catania–Fontanarossa Palermo Pisa Marseille Basel Bordeaux Nantes Toulouse Oslo Helsinki Copenhagen Lyon Yes, definitely with the A321XLR (many of them would be "seasonal" and not necessarily "daily&...
Jump to postSeems like UA have added a second daily rotation for S24 on EWR-OPO. With services to secondary cities like Palma, Faro, Tenerife, Shannon, Dubrovnik, Porto, Naples - why is UA not present in cities like Helsinki, Oslo and even secondary cities such as Glasgow and Manchester in the UK. They are rea...
Jump to postGood luck with that. "Low cost" and "network carrier" are two terms that don't fit together very well. Long haul low cost is the problem more than anything. Southwest is a perfect example of a successful low cost network carrier. Many LCC sell connecting tickets which makes them...
Jump to postHave you considered booking two one-way tickets instead of one return ticket?
Make sure to have enough time in between your cruise arriving in ATH and your departure out of there, it's not uncommon for cruises to be delayed which would result in missing your connection.