When all of the IAH disaster is over with, what is the plan for the parking situation for D/E? It would not surprise me if they just arbitrarily tore down the D/E garage with no intent to replace it. The parking situation based purely on a capacity perspective is a dumpster fire. Business travelers...
Jump to postI noticed the new IAH-GEO flight is now available for booking. Starts April 1, 2024. Was concerned with the dispute between Venezuela and Guyana this flight might be delayed. Glad to see it scheduled. Outbound days: M/TU/TH/SA Departure: 4:20pm, Arrival 11:30pm Return days: TU/W/F/SU Departure: 12:...
Jump to postJanuary 2024: Expect to see temporary construction walls in baggage claim and ticketing lobby areas in Terminal B. Demolition of pedestrian bridges to B North gates will begin. I just flew back into B81 on Saturday evening for my last flight of 2023. I guess that's the last time I'll go through the...
Jump to postAs I mentioned earlier, many are bigger E175 RJs which have first and wifi. Even AA often only flies a once daily LAX-IAH on a 175 so not unique to UA. UA is running low on 50 seaters so there have been upgrades to 175 or mainline in many markets. One continuing issue they are having is Mesa not ha...
Jump to postThe itinerary for the upcoming LAX-PTY and MCO-PTY flights are now available on DL's reservation page. It will be as follows: LAX DL1846: LAX 20:50 - 05:45+1 PTY (Sat) - B752 DL1847: PTY 08:05 - 11:55 LAX (Sun) - B752 MCO DL2009: MCO 10:30 - 13:50 PTY (Sat) - B739ER DL2010: PTY 15:20 - 18:41 MCO (S...
Jump to postDoes this airport not have appropriate ARFF? Pretty painful watching the local VFD put out that fire with a squirt gun. I am not positive, but I do not think this airport has any on-site ARFF. The guys in the video probably drove over from the town of Brookshire, which is like 5 miles away. I happe...
Jump to postBack in the late 70's-early '80's, MEM had short hops to HSV, BHM, BNA, LIT, and STL. Today, none of those exist. I still can't believe no one can make MEM-MSY work, but several have tried and failed. IIRC, the UA scissor hub only lasted about a year, maybe 15 months. I don't think they ever generat...
Jump to postPeople running down stairs was potentially more dangerous than someone exiting an emergency exit door. The whole theater that is TSA is just bizarre and doesn't make much sense. In today's world, probably every exit has a camera on it, why not use that to figure out the problem?
Jump to postI got one back in 2019 on a flight MEX to IAH. At the time I was flying there every 6 weeks or so to visit my b/f. So possibly they thought I could be smuggling something. Anyway, the process was done at the departure gate, and was mainly a pretty thorough search of my luggage, with a small pat down...
Jump to postBy rapidly expanding operations at DFW in 1981, AA hastened the demise of BN less than a year later, in May, 1982. BN had cash issues and Howard Putnam as President made some poor decisions, but the competition from AA put a big squeeze on BN. The DFW area was rapidly growing in the late 70's/early ...
Jump to postI'm just happy someone is working on the technology to produce a supersonic airliner again. After speed, capacity, and comfort for commercial aviation progressing very quickly from the 1930's to the 1960's, we've basically been plateaued at where we are now for the past 40 years. Maybe this particul...
Jump to postJust caught this on flightglobal: https://www.flightglobal.com/airframers/united-to-purchase-15-of-boom-supersonics-overture-financial-commitment-undisclosed/144008.article Is this a joke? It looks exactly like the Concorde (R.I.P.) Does anyone know back then for the Concorde, who are the initial a...
Jump to postAt the end of the article, it states that Southwest ceased paying his retirement benefits after they found out about the incident.
Jump to postIt really is unfortunate. Find another city this large with this dismal of service, I can't think of one. Find another city this large with a lower per capita income and lower poverty rate. I'll give you a hint, Memphis is sandwiched in between Birmingham and New Orleans on those scores. Agreed. I ...
Jump to postIt is unfortunate that MEM didn’t figure into Breeze Airways initial routes. The passenger projections for MEM are weak. Other small and mid size cities including HSV RIC TUL OKC XNA made the cut. Currently MEM does not offer a single daily nonstop to any NYC area airport. West coast service remain...
Jump to postSorry to see Interjet go. I first flew them around 2016 when they were pretty new on the IAH-MEX route, and the A320's were clean, had lots of legroom and the FA's were pretty nice. Though I flew UA more often, I still continued to fly Interjet up until January of 2020. By that time the flights were...
Jump to postPre-Covid, AA had a decent little operation at IAH. Usually 4 aircraft at the gates during peak times. Nice to see an LGA mainline add.
Jump to postAA wouldn't need to do much at BNA to capture some high value customers. Increase service to LAX and LGA, maybe throw in SFO, BOS, and seasonal service to EGL. It looks like they are starting service to MCO and AUS this summer. Try and get more money from people in the recording and entertainment in...
Jump to postPre-lockdowns, I flew LH on FCO-MUC, then transferred to UA for MUC-IAH. This was about February 10th. The first couple of cases of Covid had been reported in Italy, I recall the FCO-MUC flight being heavily populated by Chinese customers all wearing face masks who were connecting back to China at t...
Jump to postI looked through the slide presentation that Houston Airports made which is posted above, and I don't see that they are building a replacement for the Terminal E garage above their Central Processor. Is that correct? If so, that's short-sighted. As others here have noted, the Terminal C garage is ge...
Jump to postRelying on memory (which is a bad thing), I went to MEM in late '84 or very early '85 to try out my new camera. All three concourses were built, but B wasn't fully utilized. If I recall correctly, United, Piedmont and USAir were in B. Piedmont had gate 1, while United had gates 3 and 5 (I don't rec...
Jump to postIs there a website that gives the history of the MEM facilities? Was Concourse B built out during the Republic days or did it come after the merger with Northwest? I know the RJ wing of Concourse A wasn't added until 2000. Did Republic operate a lounge or did that only come after Northwest took ove...
Jump to postNope, not at all. They should have kept the crane in yellow. I remember in 2019 seeing an odd plane parked at a gate at LHR, amidst many other planes. Could not figure it out. Turned out as I got closer it was a LH A320. If it had yellow as part of the livery, I would have known it from 1/2 mile awa...
Jump to postDoes anyone know why ElAl has been flying in to IAH from JFK semi-regularly? Been noticing that since the Pandemic, in the start it was repatriation flights, now it's cargo only, AF only doing cargo too. UA has also been operating IAH - TLV too. I've seen that El Al plane sitting out there off D a ...
Jump to postWith apologies to Neil Simon....
After the merger with NW, the MEM hub was like a television on honeymoon--unnecessary!
It was because of the BN/PA interchange service from HOU-DAL-ORD-LHR that Braniff was able to make a case to the CAB in the 1970's that they should be granted rights to fly DAL-LGW non-stop. Braniff knew exactly how many people were flying from Texas to London each day, and made a case that these pa...
Jump to postI went to college in Dallas ( Go Mustangs) in the late 80's, so I had many trips out to DFW during that time, either flying myself, or picking up/dropping off friends. Since I liked planes, friends knew I'd usually be willing to give them a ride to the airport, haha. Things of that era I remember, b...
Jump to postI agree waiting until basically 3 weeks until the next month to release the schedule is being a bit ridiculous. I was looking at booking something for Valentine's weekend, and realized there was no way I could predict which of the flights would be valid, and which would go away. Is there not a way t...
Jump to postNot a business trip, but I remember reading a trip report from a guy on here maybe 2 years ago where he flew LAX-HKG-LAX with just a quick overnight in HKG. Arrived into HKG around 8pm local time, slept in a hotel, then back on a LAX bound plane next day around noon. In economy. Just wanted to exper...
Jump to postBraniff
TWA
VARIG
National
Interjet
That last one failed just recently. I will miss their clean planes, spacious seating, and free tequila on board.
I flew CUN-LAX on Wednesday on DL. I'm diamond but was traveling with my gf who doesn't have any status. We were the only two on the upgrade list with 2 seats remaining. I've never been the only one on an upgrade list. Economy comfort had 0 people in it. Economy looked to be around 50%(of 60%), at ...
Jump to postFlorida and Texas will not do anything for enforcement. NY and California will most likely have you fill out a form with your contact details. They will then call you to ask if you are self-quarantining. It is possible you might receive a visit in New York, but in reality it is more an honor system.
Jump to postI was at IAH on Saturday, 11/14. As we taxied past D, there was an El Al ( LY) 787 parked on the ramp. Does anyone know what that was doing in Houston this weekend? I think it is the first time I've ever seen LY at IAH.
Jump to postI'm no expert, but I had a collection of TWA timetables in the '80's ( which my Dad threw out when I went away to college, grrr) and all I ever remember from that time period was STL-LGW and STL-Paris ( probably CDG). I recall 1 stop single plane service to FRA via JFK. I'm pretty certain they only ...
Jump to postWhen WN is down to flying things like DAL-SAT/AUS 3x a day, and HOU-DAL 9x a day, it's bad. Those are the routes that they basically started with. Those were almost hourly routes as far back as the mid-80's and the "Just Say When" ad campaign. That's just sad. And AA is making some major c...
Jump to postI think when WN closed it's IAH station in 2005 the only route served was IAH-DAL. That's it. It was there to satisfy the local business community that had offices in north Houston/The Woodlands and would not commute down to Hobby. I would be shocked to see them serve much more from IAH than DAL, DE...
Jump to postI flew some 3+ hour flights this weekend on UA. Planes were pretty full, at least 85% LF. The problem I see ( just my personal opinion) is that the carriers have cut the schedules so much, everyone has to jump on the few flights running, and it becomes harder to distance yourself. I think if someone...
Jump to postI'm in the USA. There is a route I fly about 6x a year to visit my elderly mother. Until Covid, there were 2 carriers on the route, WN and UA. I have flown WN once, felt it was a hassle to do their boarding process, and so I fly UA all the time. Both company's fares are practically the same. I also ...
Jump to postCUN and other Mexican beach destinations getting some extra service this winter. One of the few countries US citizens can enter without restrictions. At least it will benefit the locals that rely on tourism dollars ( or pesos).
Jump to postThe above answers are correct as to costs, but I felt at the time that keeping the Continental livery was also a way to throw a bone to the exCO employees. Their airline was re-named United, and the HQ was moved to Chicago, with job losses considering the redundancies. There was a lot of bad blood o...
Jump to postLAXDude, I didn't realize the DC metro had caught up that closely to Houston. When I lived up there 20 years ago, it seemed like everyone was from Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, and Kenya. A trip out to Alief in Houston shows you a thriving west African community here. I'm curious, where did you get yo...
Jump to postI read through all the responses here, and have 2 points that I've not seen others make yet. First, a common criticism of IAH is that it is too far south to capture East-West flows. If that is the case, TPA is too far south to capture intra-SE flows. It would really only funnel flights from north of...
Jump to postRemember folks Delta flies JFK-LOS/ACC/DSS and ATL-LOS. Delta's ATL-LOS was tagged with IAH-ATL-LOS. O&D comes first and the majority of West Africans are in DC. Also ET (Ethiopian Airlines) flies from Togo to Newark. Actually, Houston has the largest Nigerian population in the US. Houston also...
Jump to postwhy not launch more routes to Houston? I think the last one was Sydney, even LAX and DEN have received new routes in recent years, because IAH does not :( Geographically IAH is too far south or west for most new routes. EWR/ORD/IAD can do US-Europe turns and only need 1 frame per flight per day and...
Jump to postThe alpaca, map of Newark, 4903 ( miles), S America weather map, and 763, lead me to think they might want to start EWR-SCL. I think SCL is the only deep South American station only served through IAH. (Well, ok they cancelled the EZE-EWR route). All those range calculations, along with the cell pho...
Jump to postUSAirways 762 Envoy class seats around 2012, Padding was flat because they had been there so so many years. Not true lie flat. Just awful. I was rebooked onto this because my original flight on a different carrier cancelled.
Jump to postUA took a butcher knife to the October schedule this weekend. EWR was really diced. 4x a day EWR-LAX! 4x a day EWR-IAH, and 2x a day to LAS. That's limping the hub along. It kinda makes me mad that they have a full compliment of flights for sale in November ( 12/day EWR-LAX), but will likely cut tho...
Jump to postDoes anyone who works at UA know if the October schedules are now firm? I'm looking at booking an October ticket, and it seems like there is more capacity on some routes in October than there is in September. Given that the funding dries up the end of this month, I'm a bit hesitant to think that UA...
Jump to postDoes anyone who works at UA know if the October schedules are now firm? I'm looking at booking an October ticket, and it seems like there is more capacity on some routes in October than there is in September. Given that the funding dries up the end of this month, I'm a bit hesitant to think that UA ...
Jump to postIt reflects the new reality, and does give people on the fence a push to book seats. I gotta say, it was nice being able to extend my July vacation by a day and United not charging me extra to come back a day later.
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