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Re: Alaska / Hawaiian Air Merger Discussion

Alaska could likely drive VS out of SEA and add a third daily oneworld flight per day to LHR along with BA. IF they could get a Heathrow slot. VS is a JV with DL. Can’t see them getting “driven out.” Of the carriers currently flying SEA-LHR, load factors have shown that VS is the weakest of the thr...

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Re: Alaska / Hawaiian Air Merger Discussion

Alaska could likely drive VS out of SEA and add a third daily oneworld flight per day to LHR along with BA. IF they could get a Heathrow slot.

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Re: Alaska / Hawaiian Air Merger Discussion

I can see Alaska having service to Auckland but not to Sydney…they’ve got a good tie up with Qantas that takes care of that.

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Re: JetBlue Network - 2024

I worked for a carrier in the mid 80s that attempted to shrink to profitability. Cutting routes and even taking out seats to reduce inflight staffing. Reducing real estate and selling and leasing back aircraft and engines. It was a slow painful death and eventually the company went out of business. ...

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Re: JetBlue Network - 2024

trueblew wrote:
Jeepers! This sounds like a chap who buys a company with the intent of syphoning out all the goodies and parting it out! The end is nigh!

Look up the definition of ‘corporate raider’ and you will see his name in Wikipedia. He is a snake.

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Re: Alaska / Hawaiian Air Merger Discussion

90 days are up likely in August so September merger, baby! It’ll be a big splash!

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Re: JetBlue Network - 2024

AS doesn’t likely care too much about connectivity feeding HA flights out of JFK and BOS. If someone wants to fly to Hawaii out of most major east coast cities on ‘AS’ metal, they can fly to SEA and connect to their dozen daily flights to the islands. Also many connection options out of LAX, SAN, PD...

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Re: Alaska / Hawaiian Air Merger Discussion

I see them keeping both brands until a marketing study shows that consumers are confused and that it would be adventageous to just have one brand. What brand that will be? Who knows…but I think it will be a whole new brand/name when they bring the two fully together. Both brands are so loved that it...

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Re: Boeing’s Troubles

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna143296

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Re: Student Pilot attempts to open Alaska cockpit door multiple times

Those flight attendants have some explaining to do. THREE attempts?

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Re: Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead

This is very sad…he was fighting against ‘the man’ for so long and I’m sure it was exhausting and disheartening. These huge corporations employ the top law firms in the world to fight for them and you are just a little guy easy to squash. RIP

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Re: Boeing’s Troubles

[threeid][/threeid]Boeing is engaging in a cover-up and the gov’t is going to go ballistic on them. I guess they finally late yesterday gave up the names of the team involved that were working on the door. Their manager is on a ‘medical leave’ and unavailable. Hmmm

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Re: JetBlue/Spirit Merger Discussion thread - 2024 (merger plans terminated as of March 4)

fastmover wrote:
It’s not THAT hard to open lounges or add a 1st class product.

It’s not so much that these things are hard, it’s that they’re very expensive.

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Re: Rumor: AA to open crew base in SEA

The problem with a very small crew base is that it is more affected by absenteeism. When you have an inordinate number of sick calls there aren’t enough ‘reserves’ to cover the flying. You end up having to use crews from other bases to cover that base. It gets to the point, especially around the hol...

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Re: IAG in talks to replace BA 777s

Was looking at Club World prices for this spring YVR-LHR. It’s $1000US less r/t to fly in/out of LGW on the old 777’s (which I hate) than it is to fly in/out of LHR with the new CW seats!

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Re: Pacific Islands Aviation - 2024

If the acquisition of HA by AS is approved you might see interest in expansion of service in the region by Alaska Air Group.

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Re: Chinese carriers flights to USA now 50x weekly.

We had a wonderful trip a few years ago on Hainan to China and back from Seattle. I know they’ve had their problems so not sure if it is in the cards but would love to see them return.

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Re: CX considering leaving OneWorld

It will also leave a large hole in OW's network the region. The article states, that China Southern Airlines would replace CX in OneWorld, which would not only fill the CX' gap in OW, it would massively enhance OW's presence in that region, as CZ is by far the largest airlines in Asia. Sounds good ...

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Re: UA 757 Leading Edge Slat Delaminates in Flight

DocLightning wrote:
There’s damage to the underlying wing leading edge, too, so probably a bit more than that.

I noticed that in a photo as well…dimpling in the wing surface behind the slat. There’s more going on here than just the delamination issue.

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Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

https://youtu.be/Hn-bQCtFmyw?si=BWQ1pIf7kYQwcaFZ

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Re: Icahn Takes 9.9% Stake in JetBlue

I was a flight attendant for an airline in the early 80s that was bought out by a man that had no intention of keeping it. The company started to sell off property and then aircraft only to lease them back. Soon there was nothing left and the airline shut down. Keep your eyes open, JetBlue employees...

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Re: Alaska / Hawaiian Air Merger Discussion

This will be a done deal in a matter of months.

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Re: Alaska Airlines Network and News Discussion - 2024

I just listened to the Preview of the article and it states that SEA will receive a 2nd flight from MKE on 5/16. (As FLYKTPA stated upthread.) In fact, the schedules are already showing 2 daily nonstops between the two cities... Whoop. Moving on... bb Sorry, bb! I know you were hoping SAN! I’m stil...

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Re: Alaska Airlines Network and News Discussion - 2024

What’s this new route being hinted at from MKE?

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Re: DL flight from AMS to DTW turned around after maggots fall on passengers

This is absolutely disgusting. How did someone not notice the stench that must’ve been coming from this person‘s carry-on bag?

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Re: Attention spotters. First Hawaiian 787 en route to HNL.

Congratulations to everyone at Hawaiian for the arrival of your new baby!

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Re: AS FA's Authorize strike

lets say they want a 6 figure salary. 4 FAs on a 737. Thats 400K not including the salary of the pilots FOR 1 flight. Nahhhhh too much money lol Plenty of AS FA’s make six figures…it all depends on the efficiency of the trips you fly and if you’re willing to have the bare-minimum FAA-required days ...

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Re: Alaska Airlines Network and News Discussion - 2024

That press release today was written by an ignoramous and is inviting a lawsuit from American. You can’t start calling the Alaska lounges ‘Flagship Lounge’ as I’m sure it is copyrighted by AA.

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Re: Alaska / Hawaiian Air Merger Discussion

You mean the 12 787s HA ordered? I though these were for the Pacific. HA’s 18 A321neo’s have the range for many new routes to HNL from the mainland. Their 24 A330’s, with a range over 8000 miles, were likely pegged to be replaced eventually by new 787’s but can all be retained with lease extensions.

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Re: Alaska / Hawaiian Air Merger Discussion

Alaska flies to a good dozen more middle America cities than JetBlue does. I’d say that makes them better known than just on the coasts. And I’d be willing to bet that some of them will soon have new non stop service to HNL.

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Re: Condor announces FRA-BKK/HKT daily A339Neo

Very exciting news for Condor!

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Re: American airlines announcement 2/1

Shucks I was really hoping for Oslo!

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Re: Boeing narrows losses but holds off on 2024 guidance as 737 Max 9 crisis looms

https://news.yahoo.com/caused-problem-b ... 53077.html

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Re: AS MAX9 Returning to service Friday

I think in all the big uhhh I’m not sure about the max10 statements they are really just fishing for a big discount Boeing is printing up several "BOGO" coupons for AS to use on their next few MAX 8 frames. ;) I imagine Boeing is having to print them out like Kohl’s cash at the moment. Th...

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Re: AS MAX9 Returning to service Friday

When I was at HNL yesterday, I saw 4 MAX9 for AS there. Are they inspected there, or are they waiting to be ferried back to the mainland? I think they’ll need to do it there. They couldn’t ferry those planes to the mainland flying at 10k feet…they wouldn’t have enough fuel. Some mechanics will be t...

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Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

Gates did not confirm what the whistle blower said. He confirmed with a source that what the whistle blower said was consistent with what his source knew. Right. I don't think Dominic Gates would print this article without being confident that he is reporting the truth. He's got the reputation of b...

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Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/alaska-airlines-found-more-loose-bolts-boeing-737-max-9-ceo-says-rcna135316 Alaska and United CEOs are both pissed that their inspections found "many loose bolts" on MAX-9 aircraft. This article says United is rethinking it's order of the MAX...

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Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

I really hope that Boeing is designing a 737 replacement that should have been released 15-20 years go. The usefulness of the 737 frame has reached its ceiling its capable of and in hindsight the Max should have never been built. Pretty common knowledge that WN’s insistence of cockpit commonality i...

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Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

I remember shortly after the MAX events, a.net was pretty much unisono that a 3rd catastrophic event of the MAX could be the one ending this product, and disrupt Boeing as well. As AS1282 was in climb mode, wasn't that 3rd nightmare just 20 minutes short of happening? 2m2 of a hole in the hull open...

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Re: JetBlue/Spirit Merger Discussion thread - 2024

I really doubt that NK could raise their fares too much. I’ve walked by their ticket counter and sat close to their gate plenty of times and have seen what an absolute #%*& show their operation is. I highly doubt anyone would pay a higher fare to fly that disaster of an airline.

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Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

The way I understood it was that those 40 aircraft are serving as guinea pigs for a potential repair. I thought were looking at those aircraft to see what percentage, if any, of those aircraft had a similar problem with the plug door.

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Re: AS adds SEA-YYZ

So happy to see this! It’s been a long time coming!

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Re: JetBlue Network - 2024

trueblew wrote:
December17 wrote:
hiflyeras wrote:
What are ‘BlueCities’?

Cities that JetBlue flies to. It’s internal speak.

It has an air of culty corporate Newspeak with the added bonus of being unclear to those outside the cult.

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Re: JetBlue Network - 2024

What are ‘BlueCities’?

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Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

Thank you all for clarifying. I read that Alaska’s grounded aircraft are scattered throughout their system. Once the ball gets rolling, I imagine they would like to get them to a maintenance base.

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Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

So I read this to say that you cannot even ferry an aircraft to a maintenance base? They are completely grounded.

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Re: Alaska Airlines Fleet - 2024

So does this mean we can stop talking about the Airbus aircraft? Moving on…

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Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

Alaska extends flight cancellations but only until this Sunday. I think this could be a very good sign!

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Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

My pet peeve is when something was discussed ad nauseum in previous pages but the thread is too big and people bring it again when the thread resurfaces. What about the 737-900? It has the same type of doors! Shouldn't they be grounded? But wait, they've been flying for years. But it's the same des...

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Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

I got to thinking…what would’ve been likely the last time that that plug door was opened before delivery to the customer? I’m guessing it could’ve been at the Renton paint shop. They would have to open the door when painting the fuselage so that the paint goes around the lip of the opening. They wo...

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