Sport team charters can be very time-critical. What is NPA's dispatch reliability these days? It wasn't good at the beginning.
Jump to postHHR-CEC-HHR is not TSA screened because the HHR Jet Center is not a secure terminal. CEC-OAK is because it uses the secure concourse in OAK. People doing that HHR-CEC-OAK fan trip have to deplane to the landside terminal lobby and be screened into the secure gate area. Ticket and boarding pass requ...
Jump to postIt's just been officially announced that the Oakland A's will finish out in Oakland at the end of this season and will play in Sacramento (West Sacramento to be exact) in the minor league River Cats home stadium, Sutter Health Park, for the next 3-4 years before moving into Las Vegas. So I expect al...
Jump to postHHR-CEC-HHR is not TSA screened because the HHR Jet Center is not a secure terminal. CEC-OAK is because it uses the secure concourse in OAK. People doing that HHR-CEC-OAK fan trip have to deplane to the landside terminal lobby and be screened into the secure gate area. Ticket and boarding pass requi...
Jump to postFWIW, LF did ferry the plane from MFR to CEC this morning, I assume to pick up equipment and maybe any stranded crews from last nights diversion. Then departed for VEL.
It appears LF/VTE 502 landed CEC just as AN/WSN 92 was taxiing out. I wish I'd been at the airport to get a pic of the two.
Contour ended it's Northern California service (OAK-CEC) Saturday, 16MAR. Del Norte County transferred the AEAS contract in mid-term to Advanced Air/AN/WSN. As bad luck would have it, CEC abruptly fogged in and the last flight, LF3202 up from OAK eventually diverted to MFR, and terminated. Final pas...
Jump to postContour's OAK-CEC service ended today, with the last departure from OAK. As bad luck would have it, CEC fogged in abruptly. 5 loops and two missed approaches later, the plane was headed back to OAK before it did a hairpin and diverted to MFR. Those folks will arrive CEC by bus. Going back to OAK wou...
Jump to postI know LAT - Lockheed Air Terminal did ground handling work. For example, LAT handled Braniff Air Freight and below the wing in SMF when I started working there in 1979. (I had friends at LAT; I didn't work for them.) They also had push-back and RON servicing for Frontier (V1), push-backs for Air Ca...
Jump to postWhere is the data that shows LAX or SEA is unprofitable? This is bluster until proven otherwise Both are profitable. Just less so than the hubs where DL has greater dominance and more connectivity. Shocker. This is a point I think keeps getting missed. When an airline has more than one hub (or a st...
Jump to postHow about Contour and Advanced Air operators of EAS service to CEC (a few miles from the PNW). Are they any more stable than the carrriers who serve/have served small communities from PDX? Contour has been pretty stable, though the airplane currently based at OAK has not been terribly reliable of l...
Jump to post{pssst... It was Dan-Air London.}
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Seeing lots of new routes in G4's system, and with EVV having an announcement on Monday, assume this is part of a broader route announcement: Some of the routes I've seen that I believe are new: SBN/BLV/JAX-TYS RFD/LRD/MFR-LAX EVV-PIE MDT-JAX Wouldn't expect a large scale announcement given G4's cu...
Jump to post[ And then really BA too. You will see a lot of 787-10 flying to east coast and midwest USA and Caribbean destinations where the 777-200 currently serves. And to the West Coast as well. BA 48/49 SEA-LHR-SEA switches to the 787-10 in mid-March. 9-10 hours. I'm on it in May and June, in J. Looking fo...
Jump to postAA 195 departed SNN but is now diverting to JFK, I assume for a crew change. Then on to PHX.
I wonder if the passengers went through pre-clear at SNN or if they'll have to clear at JFK. I suppose they could be locked on board at JFK and not clear until PHX, but that seems a stretch.
La Paz is the main destination for foreign visitors but it has elevation issues that make service there tricky. When AA flew to LPB, it had to be tagged with another destination because the layover was not long enough for the crews to adjust to the altitude. Right. AA operated MIA-LPB-VVI-MIA for t...
Jump to postFollowing an icestorm around 1989-1990, I witnessed an AA DC10 on the next gate doing a power-back to assist the pushback tug that couldn't get any traction on the ice. I got to the terminal on a van that essentially had to crab against the curbs to keep from sliding away. There was a series of sto...
Jump to postFollowing an icestorm around 1989-1990, I witnessed an AA DC10 on the next gate doing a power-back to assist the pushback tug that couldn't get any traction on the ice. I got to the terminal on a van that essentially had to crab against the curbs to keep from sliding away. There was a series of stor...
Jump to postDo I remember correctly that at some point, displaced BA flight engineers were offered cabin crew positions for a while to avoid redundancy?
Jump to postI haven't followed STL, so apologies if this has been asked a million times. Has the slack from the draw-down of the TW/AA hub been completely filled? I'm just curious from reading in other threads that this airline and that airline needs to open a new hub (for themselves), yadda, yadda .... but onl...
Jump to postI suppose LF throwing in the towel at CEC makes sense for them. They started out with this the only West Coast market for the AEAS. Then they added SBA, SMF, LAS and the subsidized PGA-PHX, which became interconnected. Bigger base at OAK, at least 2 aircraft and more crews. But the non-subsidized ro...
Jump to postI know for a fact I will never in the rest of my life have any need to ever go to Hawthorne. Sorry Mr. Cooley, but count me in the crowd that will continue to drive to Medford for network carriers. So you know already that for the rest of your life you will not visit the LA area from Crescent City?...
Jump to postI would not dumb it down by saying it's one off. If that door hit stabilizer or person got puller out, it would be disastrous. In order for that never to happen they need to find the root cause and fix it You're right, I get that. I'm not sure how to say it so it doesn't sound like that, but I thin...
Jump to postACV can be often be foggier than CEC. UA is the only network carrier (Avelo doesn't fit that need) but I try to avoid SFO for connections. More importantly, while I have a chunk of UA Miles from when UAx/OO served CEC, the bulk of my miles and redemption are with AA and AS. I'm retired from AA, so I...
Jump to postIn looking at FlightAware, UA has canceled a slew of 739M flights as well, I assume for the same inspections. I think the hysteria over the Max is at play here. These exit plugs have been around for a long time in the 739NG. I see this as a one-off, though Boeing needs to step up their quality contr...
Jump to postGeez! I'm blown away. I just flew Contour this past weekend. Very nice job. Advanced is not going to do any better without connections. And they can't do any better with fog. It comes and goes at will, not confined to night and morning. (For outsiders, CEC is on a point sticking out into the cold Pa...
Jump to postThis thread seems to have gone off the rails. In Post #6, YYZSpeedbird939 said " Imagine if Porter and Transat merged ....." (emphasis mine). Suddenly the discussion goes off into siting a merged HQ, government approval, other airline mergers, employees relocating, etc. Good grief! It's no...
Jump to postzonks wrote:ANA787 wrote:2024 predictions:
UA Announces the return of PDX-MEX
Did you mean PDX - LAX by any chance? Otherwise, this makes zero sense.
AA SMF-MIA is already running. AC SMF-YYZ was introduced as seasonal, but will be back with more flights weekly and on a 737. And AC will be increasing the YVR to double daily. Wish list: that Contour takes another shot with at-risk flying, adding CEC-SMF (with or without a bounce at ACV as they nee...
Jump to postChugach beat me to what I was going to chime in about. (#10). I hope AS rebuilds its PDX local markets. More local connections should translate to more longer-haul trips. One trip a day MFR-PDX is just crazy. I'm not going to sit for an 11 hour layover from the morning MFR-PDX trip for the evening B...
Jump to postThey have to follow the money. It doesn't do any good to fill a plane with fares that are too cheap. Many years ago now, I was told by a friend somewhere in Revenue Management that, as an example, the old ORD-MUC route (at the old airport) had good full loads in coach, but too many consolidator tick...
Jump to postAh yes. My early days were at SMF with a blend of commuter carriers. Due to fog, we had a few diversions over to the old airport, SAC with C402s or an HPJ Jetstream. Mostly inbound, but a few outbounds back before Security applied to them. I put 7 peeps and their baggage in my '69 Impala alone and d...
Jump to postI guess PDX eventually fogged in too, as a few flights bound for fogged-in MFR diverted to SMF instead of a more logical (and closer ) PDX.
Jump to postLooks like the El Al partnership is going at the end of June, if social media is to be believed. The AS website hasn't been updated yet. Not a major loss, except for LY frequent flyers, who will now have to deal in Sky pesos. https://viewfromthewing.com/deltas-partnership-with-el-al-is-now-live-el-...
Jump to postThe Air California/AirCal General Office (the G.O.) was at 3636 Birch St, Newport Beach. Being from Northern California, I walked over from the airport once when I was down for a meeting. As I recall, it was only a block or so over and 5-6 big blocks down. I got stopped by NBPD for suspicious behavi...
Jump to postAA was in at SNA before the AirCal merger. In fact they got those slots when the County started pulling slots from incumbent OC and RW to give to new entrants: AA, PSA, AS?, WN, etc. As to noise, OC and later PS got the DC-9-80s to reduce noise volumes, followed by the 737-300 (OC) and the dreadful ...
Jump to postJust read in the Eureka (CA) Times-Standard that Avelo is dropping the ACV-LAS service again, in January. Short lived this time around. Crap flight times, but really, the market is too small for a 737. (ACV-BUR is doing fine at 4x weekly.)
Jump to postBremen got a diversion as well. I'm surprised so many flights were launched. Ryanair included.
Jump to postI haven't seen any news updates in hours, but it must still be going on. Sun Express XQ670 from AYT, the first thing showing inbound this morning, just diverted and landed at HAJ.(09:22CET)
Jump to postWhoa..... SMF-EUG daily? I don't see that doing much, even if it's a tag on to a strong market. EUG-SMF-xxx. Not the right times for Hawaii. What else?
Jump to postMontana State on Allegiant A320 to SMF to face Sacramento State: https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight ... /KBZN/KSMF
(UC Davis has a bye this week.)
Along with animals, the VX airbus couldn't haul DG cargo. Both of those are on just about every AS flight between ANC/FAI and SEA. Unsurprisingly VX went super cheap when they ordered so the belly didn't have the proper ventilation. Heard around $300K to retrofit post delivery. Not to step into the...
Jump to postI didn't realize the brake fans were optional. I know America West had them on their 320s as I was across the room from a deicing training meeting in progress. (Don't spray in the hubs, unlike a 737, because of the brake fans.) My only experience with hot brakes was with one of the six BAe-146s in t...
Jump to postAlong with animals, the VX airbus couldn't haul DG cargo. Both of those are on just about every AS flight between ANC/FAI and SEA. Unsurprisingly VX went super cheap when they ordered so the belly didn't have the proper ventilation. Heard around $300K to retrofit post delivery. Not to step into the...
Jump to postAre these newly created VP positions or did a lot of heads roll?
Jump to post71.87% for PSP-STS in summer is pretty good, no?
Jump to postPersonally, I wish they would include the previous operator titles as well. The "American" titles frequently clash with the retro-liveries and are a bit awkward. They could easily just place a small sticker by the L1 door that says "Operated by American Airlines". Agreed. If the...
Jump to postThe previous retro AW livery is quite nice too. Shame it got repainted with the US-AA merger If I recall correctly, there was some sort of trademark dispute that made HP change to the later livery, so AA probably needs to avoid that. I don't know how US got away with it, although that may be why th...
Jump to postOzark, Mohawk, Lake Central were not absorbed directly into AA, so I wouldn't see them being retro candidates. Allegheny, Piedmont, PSA and America West were not either, but their retros pre-existed AA with US. AirCal and Reno were direct acquisitions. The only missing direct merger/acquisition is T...
Jump to postThe earthquake destruction in Marrakesh will probably put a damper on visitors to Morocco for while, as it was one of the highlights. I have no idea what plans they have to rebuild with any sort of historic authenticity, but perhaps it will be on pace with the RAM fleet expansion. Otherwise they wil...
Jump to postCan Coviasa get parts and service that Mahan can't get? Fix her up and then sneak it back to Iran?
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