. Can you compare / contrast the local and flow markets with SFO-ATL? Similar competitive environments and you could see what kind of onboard mix United needs to be successful. I believe the SFO-ATL market is ~triple the size of the SFO-CLT market and UA still only manages two flights. Can't undere...
Jump to postThey aren't able to do SFO-DEL that way. I think they can do DEL-SFO avoiding Russia, but would need a tech stop to do SFO-DEL. Similar issues with EWR-BOM. ORD-DEL they were doing, but I guess it was not economical with the flight times and had occasional tech stops. Do the westbound UA IAH-SYD fl...
Jump to postThis is a direct quote from the FAA in their letter granting airlines a slot waiver in NYC this summer. ATC is only 54% staffed in NYC (as in barely more than half the necessary amount). If you think that isn't a major contributor here you are just lying to yourself. "The New York Terminal Rada...
Jump to postThe new EWR Terminal A opens this Thursday, is United going to make a formal announcement about the destinations that will be served from that facility. I know we have the the Chief Pilot's memo which has been widely reported, but what about a formal announcement from the carrier? I doubt there wil...
Jump to postIt could be United planned an overly optimistic spring schedule and is pairing it back. Anyone know what percentage cutting ~250 flights a day of the overall operation? All the majors load a dummy schedule out into the future. It used to be that the dummy was pretty close to reality, but since COVI...
Jump to postSorry but it's not about connections, quite the contrary. The daytime flight exists on London terminating traffic in the most part, it's THE most civilised way to fly Eastbound transatlantic if you're not time critical. If you have to connect beyond LHR, the daytime flight isn't the one for you. Th...
Jump to postI watched a small segment on TUL local news last week saying the airport got approval for a $3 million NYC route subsidy. I can’t find any article online at the moment. I hope it’s DL but I’d put my money on AA to LGA. Likely not specifically $3M for the one route. https://tulsaworld.com/news/local...
Jump to postatcsundevil wrote:primarily because United relentlessly pushes the FAA to raise the anticipated airport arrival rates.
Patrick Qayle, their SVP for International, has been quoted in several business publications stating this. I don't think that necessarily means bigger than AA and DL combined though that has been mentioned (google it). Last month, the airline said that it plans to boost transatlantic passenger-carr...
Jump to postAgree. With this summer's seasonal expansions, UA will supposedly have the most nonstops between the US and Europe, and there have been comments and articles suggesting UA's network will be bigger than DL and AA's combined. Not sure if that means frequency, seats, both or destinations, or something...
Jump to postSome aircraft encountered problems but mysteriously none of them reported to the tower on arrival so... Fred The cell phone companies reported more precise location data for the towers to the FAA which allowed the FAA to reduce / remove a significant number of the restrictions. There are still a lo...
Jump to postIt says PIT's CEO has attracted 7 airlines and 50 routes? I can't imagine what all of those are and if they're still around. Breeze and Alaska certainly come to mind, I’m not sure how much of the Allegiant and Spirit service has been added within the last seven years. but, is that b/c of her? I'd s...
Jump to post40 Deliveries in 2022. Will that happen? Have any been delivered yet? Seems Boeing is having issues always. I know several 78J's are built. With these delays, plus the latest paperwork hold up on the 77A's, Boeing could easily unravel UA's capacity plan much like they did to AA with the 787 delays....
Jump to postTo date, though, not a single NB has gone in for "Next" mod, which in July 2021 was reportedly coming to the in-service fleet, as well. Back then they also expected the P&W 777s to be flying by the end of the year (2021) and regional airlines didn't have a staffing problem. The interi...
Jump to postHowever, the reasons are more about the airport itself and not the operation or financial performance of the base . It was a punchline of terrible P/L across the whole industry. Indexed to average revenue performance for 2019 (100% is the B6 average): JFK 105% EWR 101% LGA 101% BOS 99% FLL 97% LGB ...
Jump to postYeah United Next seems to be yet another publicity stunt like the Boom announcement… You know they can't just snap their fingers and have airplanes fall from the sky. There is a lead time. Check out page 34 which shows the delivery schedule for this year and next, plus what is beyond next year. Sho...
Jump to postThis is a structural weakness for UA and it will continue to underperfom on domestic yield until management figures it out. UA has the highest domestic yield of all carriers when you adjust for stage length. The problem with stage-length adjustment is it is generally applied in an effort to skew re...
Jump to postThis is a structural weakness for UA and it will continue to underperfom on domestic yield until management figures it out. UA has the highest domestic yield of all carriers when you adjust for stage length. Interesting. Supports the hypothesis that UAL hubs really punch below their weight when it ...
Jump to postSurely the subsidies should be about enabling as economically as possible a service which would not otherwise be viable on a purely commercial basis, not ensuring a private business is making a tidy profit at taxpayers' expense, or making sure a powerful political figure can travel in style. DOT ca...
Jump to postI'm aware of that. Am I the only one to think that $11M a year is excessive? Especially considering no other market gets more than $5M a year, and you can count $4M-a-year markets on the fingers of a single hand. Then again, I guess you can't put a Senator on a Cessna now, can you. UA asked for som...
Jump to postInteresting how SAN-IAH with a block time just 10 min less than LAX-IAH is enough to not warrant a redeye. Probably because SAN curfew would make the arrival too early. The curfew is technically 1130pm, but most airlines try to leave a half hour buffer to account for irregular operations. Last depa...
Jump to postSkywest has filed all of the 90 day intent to terminate service notices at regulations.gov. The full list of 29 stations is: Alamosa, CO – OST-1997-2960 Pueblo, CO – OST-1999-6589 Fort Dodge, IA – OST-2001-10682 Mason City, IA – OST-2001-10684 Sioux City, IA – OST-2006-23932 Dodge City, KS – OST-19...
Jump to postFor reference, SkyWest currently operates to 50 cities as part of the EAS program. This means that over half of the EAS destinations are being pulled. Sounds like some good opportunities for Contour will be available... DIK is probably the discrepancy between 49 or 50 EAS cities. Anyone know why OO...
Jump to postAs UPlog says, you have to pay someone (the counter party selling the fuel hedge) to take the risk. He's gambling that he can buy the barrels for less than he sold them to you for. And you better hope the counter party has the money to buy those expensive barrels. If he bet wrong, he could just fil...
Jump to postAs Wolfe Equity research analyst mentioned last week, at $100/bbl fuel, AA and UA would see 2022 cost rise by $4.4bil and $5.9bil respectively based on their previous projected flying levels.L. Compared to what baseline? This actually makes no sense as it implies UA burns 35% more fuel (given simil...
Jump to postThe branding of fares by region is quite silly. United flies the lie-flat seats in many other markets without the fussiness of worrying about the branding (Like Newark to Anchorage, which is farther than many Atlantic markets and way farther than PDL). They just price the cabin appropriately and add...
Jump to postflight152 wrote:Off the top of my head you missed -
ORD-YXU
DEN-YMM
Are there any updates on how the new flights from AUS are doing? Reply #56 in the Austin 2022 thread by Midwestindy states that AUS-CVG and AUS-IAD didn't do well in Q3: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=23121751#p23121751 Anecdotally, a friend of mine flew AUS-IAD and it was 100% in ...
Jump to postI think that Page Arizona deserves more routes. It only has PHX on contour. DEN and SLC would work amazing. Lake Powell is a huge tourist attraction for Utahns and it would be a hit. You can look back in the data at the performance of PGA when it had DEN. It was terrible. Some of that was ZK, but s...
Jump to postI could look, but has the GAO ever done a study on the effectiveness of the program? How many flights were sustained after the grant period? What was the economic impact? How did airports utilize funds? https://www.transportation.gov/policy/aviation-policy/small-community-rural-air-service/SCASDP T...
Jump to postjvlmd81 wrote:Does anyone know why you still can’t purchase business class tickets on EWR PDL flights?
I prefer the split threads. Nothing is worse than wading through the slop of pages on pages of paint and seat configuration posts to get to the posts about the Network.
Jump to posthere is the JetBlue release http://otp.investis.com/clients/us/jetblue_airways/usn/usnews-story.aspx?cid=981&newsid=78782 At New York-LGA, the NEA will offer nearly 200 daily departures, Assuming they did not get additional slots, this seems quite an increase from 2019 (I think close to 170 for...
Jump to postIn the post above there was a quote from Scott Kirby "We have a pipeline to let them get the experience they need on a 19-seat airplane to ultimately fly a widebody jet and retire a captain at United Airlines. It's creating an ecosystem." Who still operates 19 seaters in the US? Are they ...
Jump to postThey can't "fudge" the numbers. This isn't the 90s. The SEC would be all over them for such antics.
Jump to postSo a team of 140 employees can design, build and certify a supersonic jetliner within eight years until EIS? Dream on. That must be a joke. Even if these 140 people are the R&D engineers only, how many R&D engineers work on relatively simple B737 or A320? At the Volkswagen R&D at Wolfsb...
Jump to postThe viability of supersonic air transport depends primarily on the development of technologies to reduce the supersonic boom to tolerable levels for most people. Until this technology exists, any supersonic civil aircraft project is pure fantasy. The development of such a technology would easily co...
Jump to postI have questions! I apologise if the linked news story answers my questions, the link does not work in the EU. 1) How did he get onto the wing? 2) What was he trying to achieve? RE: #2, he is an individual known to police for having severe mental illness. He was not trying to achieve anything and i...
Jump to postI predict a redefinition of "dangerous number of infections" to keep this a crisis even if cases go down. They will seasonally go down anyway since it is following flu season closely. We really won't know what impact a vaccine has until Fall 2021, although it will be interesting to see if...
Jump to postJAC tower opens at 7:00 am and airlines do not schedule flights before then. The airlines don't seem to have any issue with landing after the tower closes, however. JAC has a curfew. Cannot depart before 0700 by law. Not accurate. "Voluntary Curfew: A voluntary noise curfew is in effect to min...
Jump to postDLASFlyer wrote:JAC tower opens at 7:00 am and airlines do not schedule flights before then. The airlines don't seem to have any issue with landing after the tower closes, however.
CR7 going to GoJet to become CR550 https://aeronauticsonline.com/united-modifies-regional-contract-with-mesa/ they don't have much of a choice to not comply with the ALPA contract. Now the question will be? Are they going to Hire the laid of Pilots leaving United? United is not laying off any pilot...
Jump to postQ3 Operating Revenues (adjusted) DL: $2.6B UA: $2.5 B The starkest contrast is that UA put up equal revenue to DL while flying ~20% less capacity. I would note that DL isn't flying lots of cargo-only flights, UA is flying a substantial amount, so you can't look at seat capacity as that metric. UA's...
Jump to postpanamair wrote:
Q3 Operating Revenues (adjusted)
DL: $2.6B
UA: $2.5 B
Great quarter from UA. Biggest takeaway: United expects that third-quarter revenue performance will be the best, even in a historically difficult environment, among our large network competitors - once they have all reported their quarterly results. By almost any revenue measure, the company expects...
Jump to postMy best friend since childhood was always interested in aviation. Yet he never pulled the trigger on learning to fly or buying an airplane due to the cost. However, his boat, truck or camping trailer (he has all 3) are each about the budget I'd spend for a personal plane. But none of those thing co...
Jump to postAppreciate these enilria and all you do. It’s a joy for me every week. Not sure why but many of the AA numbers have been incorrect for a few weeks now. For example, take ALB-ORD or CMH-ORD. There are 2x daily on aa.com and even 3x some days except Wed throughout the month. On Wed, AA Is cutting mos...
Jump to postThank you for the information. Relatively new to how to read this? Do I see that as going from 1 daily to less than one daily (i.e., Daily to Ex Mo, Tu)? HA OAK-OGG SEP 1.0>0.5[1.0] HA OGG-PDX SEP 1.0>0.5[1.0] HA OGG-SAN SEP 1.0>0.5[1.0] HA OGG-SEA SEP 1.0>0.5[1.0] HA OGG-SFO SEP 1.0>0.5[1.0] HA OG...
Jump to postJarring? I'd say this is a reaction to B6's encroachment into EWR. UA has a lot of planes and employees sitting around...why not try to inflict a little pain on a growing competitor? Not much to lose for UA. It looks like an awful lot of non-B6 flights for this to be just a B6 thing? UA BOS-FLL NOV...
Jump to postI'll admit to being perplexed by these routes. Cherry-picking point to point stuff has a place these days, I'm sure. But when traffic is so depressed overall, and capacity, why wouldn't a major hub carrier amp up their hubs? Concentrate traffic and use the fortress hubs--that's why they're there fo...
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