Hello everyone, I understand that it's very difficult to get clearence from the faa to be a pilot if you have / had adhd or take / taken adhd medications? Does the same apply for airplane mechanics? Im in school and I just want to know now before it hits me. Thankyou I had an ADHD mechanic working ...
Jump to posteventually? Boeing will have to replace the 757/767 with new technology . I still think they're waiting for a breakthrough in new engine Technology like the Pratt GTF to get reliable and Scalable to the 55-65K Thrust level without coming apart AND Staying on wing for 25K-35K hours. They aren't there...
Jump to postIt came down to costs basically. Less complex machines tend to be easier and cheaper to build, maintain and replaced. Servicing and replacing parts for 2 engines would be cheaper compared to 4 engines. Many people didn't take into account all the expensive spare parts that they need to buy to maint...
Jump to postClark had tried in vain and intensively to convince Airbus in particular to build a successor. "A [new] double-decker super four-jet aircraft could operate 20 to 25 percent cheaper than the A380," said the Emirates boss. He recently presented the Airbus board with detailed plans for a new...
Jump to postUnfortunately for Airbus, I am not sure what cards they could play here seeing as they are stuck with RR as the sole supplier and for (good) reasons stated above, GE has no reason atm to get into the A350 program. Just like most airlines not putting all their eggs into a single basket when purchasi...
Jump to postIt would be cool see UA launching EWR-SIN or EWR-SYD… Maybe a reason to order the 77X? :D Qantas was considering the 777-8 as a Project Sunrise aircraft but picked the A350-1000XLR due to the high gross weight of the 777-8 and a whole myriad of other reasons. However, at some point I do see United ...
Jump to postThe UA Fleet Site is showing the second A321 (N14502) to be arriving CLE on Nov. 28th and leaving CLE for TPA the same day as UAL3850. Will this be in TPA for induction if UA even does that at TPA? Typing in "UA3850" into flightaware also shows the flight schedule to TPA: https://www.flig...
Jump to postAs someone who knows not that much about the operational end, the AC759 incident a few years back, combined with stories like this , and this have me questioning just how safe it is to fly into SFO. As an East Coaster, I've always thought LaGuardia and Logan were as bad as it got, but having parall...
Jump to postFavoring consumers is the goal. If merger is allowed all connections to American Airlines must be dropped. One World affiliation also must be dropped--anti competitive that? is pure opinion and not one I espouse either. American was in CH-11 when the merger happened as did the UA/CO merger. Whateve...
Jump to postI would rather the DOJ focus its efforts on the current anticompetitive practices of the big players like gate squatting, ticket price collusion, and loss making ticket prices when a new ULCC enters a market than blocking mergers of the smaller players. As an example, at my home airport, MKE, NK ma...
Jump to postIt’s wild to me how even the DOJ admits the big 4 carriers are doing price collusion and use it as an argument against the B6/NK trial, while simultaneously not investigating or sueing them. Isn’t that illegal in itself ? And? Exactly When was this Collusion and by Whom? And you REALLY believe the ...
Jump to postHarsh thing for me to post but often i look at some of the airlines and some of the unions and they are cruising in the R.I.C.O. part of town but then return to their own turf. DOJ someday needs to do an internal investigation on some of the corruption in the airline industry. So? Is this a fishing...
Jump to postI‘m a bit surprised about the general feelings in here and some rather ridiculous comments. Everyone seems to be convinced that the two brand-strategy will not be upheld, If this surprises you, then you don't understand the complexities, costs, logistics, and resources involved with maintaining two...
Jump to postSome people are saying that there could be a counter-offer for Hawaiian. But from who? The DOJ certainly would not approve an acquisition of Hawaiian by any of the big four so your only options are Alaska or JetBlue…and JetBlue is a little busy right now. The only possible airline that could purcha...
Jump to postThis would give them access to a small long haul international operation and widebody fleet. They’d also dwarf UA on Hawaii-mainland and certainly bolster their West Coast credentials. On the flip side they remain weak everywhere else and become even more leisure oriented. BOTH separately right now...
Jump to postI think UA should seriously consider jumping in. It probably isn’t going to be a super profitable route, it’s brutally competitive with JetBlue and Spirit in there (not to mention DL and AA’s large number of flights to MIA). However, it’s a big market that’s missing from UA’s LAX portfolio. Seems l...
Jump to postGreetings all - Am interested in knowing if United had ever given acquiring the MD-11 any serious thought? United operated quite a few DC-10s and many DC-10 operators went with the MD-11. I know United was involved in the development of the 777, but if memory serves the MD-11 program was devised se...
Jump to postS&P Ratings is not too excited about the deal Says Alaska's purchase of Hawaiian Air "will modestly benefit Alaska Air's competitive position, but Hawaiian Air losses and debt will weaken Alaska Air." As result S&P is changing its outlook on ALK from stable to negative, signaling ...
Jump to postJust imaging UA gobbling up AS on the West Coast, and then JetBlue on the East Coast - wow that would make the best airline network of all time. Especially if UA was able to do it without giving up any AS gates at LAX or SFO… With complete respect to you, that is a horrible idea. It would never pas...
Jump to postAccording to an Air Belgium pilot on JustPlanes, where they show the A340 flying CRL-FDF (or something like that), the pilot explains ‘340 is a cruise plane, not a climb plane. Can you imagine how much fuel you save?’ as well as ‘Airbus built 340 with four engines so regulators cannot say anything’...
Jump to postIt would be cool see UA launching EWR-SIN or EWR-SYD… Maybe a reason to order the 77X? :D Qantas was considering the 777-8 as a Project Sunrise aircraft but picked the A350-1000XLR due to the high gross weight of the 777-8 and a whole myriad of other reasons. However, at some point I do see United ...
Jump to postThe A340 is one of my favorite jets, yet I never could quite know its purpose With the 777-200 coming out 2 years after the A340 and better ETOPS regulations, why did airlines keep buying it until 2011, what purpose did it serve for the airlines that bought it like CX, AF and LH? the A340 was the n...
Jump to postClose enough.. That’s not how laws work. :lol: Basically, it is. Did you not notice the DOJ suit to break up the NEA? It’s the same procedure that is being used to try and block this merger. Trying to claim the two are completely different is disingenuous. the NEA and this merger and Nobody can sto...
Jump to postNot sure why people are skeptical, fares are sky high for this route, SLC - Hawaii is vastly underserved (and it has slightly more originating pax than Denver when you include PVU and Ogden). Seems like this is no different than HA serving PHX, SFO, LAX, SEA etc, except this is even less competitiv...
Jump to postIt’s getting so hard to keep track of which plane has which interior. I thought next would simplify that but I guess not, since the 737-900 has a different next interior than the 737-800. What’s the difference in IFE on the Neo? Boeing wants to boost the -10 to have a range that could fly IAH-SYD? ...
Jump to postEven if there was enough demand to fill a WB on DEN-LIH, a WB can’t land at LIH. Once the 752 retires, I suspect DEN-LIH will be dropped and UA will only serve LIH from LAX/SFO on the Max 8. Unless a Max 8 could make DEN-LIH, seems like that’s pushing it though? I believe a Max 8 is the biggest pla...
Jump to postA220-500 with enough meat and MTOW to do transcons will be too heavy and expensive to do what it’s needed to do. The majority by far of 225 type flying is not Coast to coast, but shorter haul stuff. You start trying to overbuild it and you’ll end up with an A340-600. I’m not sure how much more you ...
Jump to postI have been reading some of the posts about the NEXT refurbishments for the 737-900 and I am still not perfectly clear. My upcoming flights this Saturday from IAH to EWR is on a 739 in First. The UA website doesn’t say “MAX” so I assume they will be the OLD, old First Class seats? Did I read that t...
Jump to postThat’s a good point - that’s probably a good XLR market. That’s valid - since they really didn’t have any planes to grow next year they might just be waiting until they have excess planes to add a route like CPH. Just thought it made sense this year given what the competition is doing. My bet is on...
Jump to postWould Spirit's Neo fleet be able to make Hawaii work in their current cabin configuration, or would that particular destination have to wait for the XLR? Hawaii has to be NK's top unserved market at this point. If the NEO fleet can fly Trans-Con? they can fly to Hawaii. their airplanes would have t...
Jump to postThere's very little in it for the Japanese government to currently give access to LX considering that no Japanese carrier flies to Switzerland presently. I'd say if NH/JL wanted to start GVA or ZRH there would be a stronger incentive to revisit the bilateral agreement. Out of interest, why don't Ja...
Jump to postThis obsession with price makes no sense to me without also comparing product. I’ve been on awful transcon flights on United and Delta where I’ve been stuffed in the back with no room to move. That’s never happened to me on Jetblue. Let Jetblue to merge up to compete with the major airlines in a se...
Jump to postIf the ulcc model isn’t “broken” what explains the poor performance of spirit and frontier? Many on here said they are the future of ulcc travel yet…. Definitely jetblue is having issues hence the merger they know what they need to do. They need size and scale and a diversity of routes. The mess fr...
Jump to posthttps://youtu.be/7rdapQfJDAM?si=ll2fi2UkaOVxxIwh VAS aviation video regarding LH458 from MUC-SFO on October 16, 2024. The aircraft was assigned the “Visual runway 28L” but the pilots declined because company policy prohibits pilots from conducting visual approaches at night, instead requesting an I...
Jump to postPSA is offering a $250k signing bonus to FedEx pilots. How many decades were regional crew told that their companies couldn’t afford to pay at mainline equivalent rates? Now in many cases captains and check airmen are exceeding their mainline peers even at a 3+ year longevity. At this point anythin...
Jump to postOne can wish! Their service was so much better than Alaska. It is too bad that merger was allowed. It would not have been allowed under this current administration. They were also going broke as far as I understand....No merger, I think they would have disappeared anyhow. Branson would have helped ...
Jump to postWho owns the rights to the Virgin America brand? Alaska owns the brand. Whatever happened to the hullabaloo over the franchise payments Virgin came after Alaska for? Did they pay up??? If not, franchise rights could be up for grabs, no? up for grabs with What airplanes? Alaska parked most if not al...
Jump to postHere in the southern portuguese Algarve province wich capital city is Faro all the local newspapers, radios and news sites were keeping all the day refering about the UA starting flights New York/Faro/NY. For more than one decade we are watching here in the Algarve (Portugal very touristic southern...
Jump to postCan someone explain this “ What are the consequences if a pilot delays the aircraft’s rotation during takeoff?“ http://aeropeep.com/what-are-the-consequences-if-a-pilot-delays-the-aircrafts-rotation-during-takeoff/ as long as there is runway remaining for takeoff? Nothing. But at some point above r...
Jump to postThis is quite a long-shot, but would Spirit and/or JetBlue have a case against the government regarding the previous mergers of the big three if this one fails? I realize it’s a stretch, but one could argue that a large reason why smaller carriers struggle to compete is because of the mergers of th...
Jump to postIt is 10 years out (at best) and I'm not sure it makes complete sense to do it. At current wage levels, it isn't the pilot or mechanic cost that is going to break the bank (combining carriers would likely shrink down the size of some Line MX stations as redundancies are cut), it's the rest of the o...
Jump to postIt is 10 years out (at best) and I'm not sure it makes complete sense to do it. At current wage levels, it isn't the pilot or mechanic cost that is going to break the bank (combining carriers would likely shrink down the size of some Line MX stations as redundancies are cut), it's the rest of the o...
Jump to postPorter Airlines is starting SFO-YYZ Jan. 25,2024 Full honesty, didn't see that one coming!! Finally some freaking competition on that route. With the UA-AC JV, the fares on YYZ-SFO have been absolutely insane lately. I hope it lasts and I hope AC is humbled by their insane pricing. you can't be ser...
Jump to postCan anyone explain what is happening with Spirit lately? It seems like ever since the merger rumors started, Spirit has been in a nose dive. They were rapidly growing, making profits, and appeared fairly healthy. Yes, Covid made an ugly presence. But Covid is no longer a crutch to make excuses. I w...
Jump to postThis is quite a long-shot, but would Spirit and/or JetBlue have a case against the government regarding the previous mergers of the big three if this one fails? I realize it’s a stretch, but one could argue that a large reason why smaller carriers struggle to compete is because of the mergers of th...
Jump to postAlso if a pilot is sick of flying week-long cargo trips all over the world, as it does take a lot out of your body and personal life, this could be attractive especially if they don't have to start at the bottom of seniority. the FEDEX Pilots re flying Mainline Equipment and there's Nowhere and No ...
Jump to postbob75013 wrote:Now if WN coud just get the first one ....
the Chinese recently stopped American carriers from PEK due to covid they claimed. The US immediately cut Chinese airlines flights by the same amount whereupon the Chinese Cancelled their restrictions. As it should be. You will fly no flights to the USA that we cannot fly to your neck of the woods. ...
Jump to post3500nm range is with 2 ACT tanks (what Airbus calls the 5-tank model). FWIW, the A320neo has 3500nm range without ACT's. There is no way the A321neo could go that far on the same fuel capacity..... The 3-tank A321neo is significantly more capable than the non-ER 739. The neo doesn't have the landin...
Jump to postIf the 321neo doesn't have the range to go EWR-SNA UA will have real problems with the 321neo that would be similar to the 739nonER, which is mostly relegated to mid-continent flying The 739ER has a 2950NM range and does transcons and Hawaii. The 321neo w/o aux tanks has a 3500nm range according to...
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