Re: Which airport is the best to trasfer

Have 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...

Re: United still flying to Tel Aviv?

Technically 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...

Re: Spirit to close ACY base, open new Northeast Base

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 ...

Re: 15 years ago European legacies were struggling. What happened?

Others 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 ...

Re: A220 in Europe’s Airlines strategy

A319: 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,...

Re: BA Livery. Time for a change?

tjwgrr wrote:

THIS is classic:

Re: Spirit to close ACY base, open new Northeast Base

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...

Re: BA Livery. Time for a change?

I 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...

Re: BA Livery. Time for a change?

Bring 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'...

Re: BA Livery. Time for a change?

Personally 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 ...

Re: Ever flown O&D between two hubs?

I 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...

Re: Longest passenger flights for 747 Classics

YYZ-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 ...

Re: San Diego Aviation - 2024

BA744PHX wrote:

There was an update yesterday regarding the reduction, see below

Re: Nervous Flyers.

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...

Re: AMS putting a limit on international passenger traffic through the airport

An 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...

Re: NY earthquake, flights temporary grounded.

That'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...

Re: Eastern Air Lines Part III

I 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.

Re: Are airlines less bothered by Flight Mode?

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...

Re: Building a connection at a non-hub airport

usflyer123 wrote:

Ive seen UA routing IAH-ZRH via LHR/CDG/AMS.

Re: Building a connection at a non-hub airport

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...

Re: Ever flown O&D between two hubs?

Flying 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...

Re: 2024 Eclipse Airline Traffic

This is more or less the path the Eclipse will follow:

Re: 2024 Eclipse Airline Traffic

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...

Re: New Airbus jumbo - Does it make sense? How could it be?

The 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.

Re: Northern Europe not interested in the Caribbean?

Incorrect 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...

Re: OAK Renaming Proposal: San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport

DEN 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 ...

Re: How bad was Alitalia in the 2000s

I 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...

Re: SMS Survey