NTSB says they plan to release a transcript of the CVR in the next week. Will be interesting to see that. I have a question for those who work in aviation here. The NTSB says the audio quality of the CVR is poor and needs some enhancement. On this thread people have said by looking at the pictures ...
Jump to postNobody is asking the important questions. Like, how far over the Atlantic can they get before the signal is lost from the DirectTV satellite? “There’s another satellite launching in 2021 (ViaSat-3) that will give us complete global coverage and which would be important if we decide to launch servic...
Jump to postIn another article a member of the Chamber of Commerce said the service to BOS has come down to two cities--BTV and ROC. In other words, they're definitely in talks with someone. DL is of course would be the natural fit, but could it be B6 or even some UA RON mainline? It's looking more and more li...
Jump to postWaste of slots? Trashed fares and yields having three carriers on the route? Better fleet usage? Take your pick. You forgot about Acela Express. Air-Rail share is 75% rail per the below article: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2014/11/why-more-northeast-us-travelers-take-the-train-than-a-pla...
Jump to postIt would seem the solution here (if this is a problem) would be to follow the lead of many US airport renaming and call it something like Shannon-Limerick airport. I.E. Baltimore-Washington (decently closer to Baltimore, although about the same distance to Washington as IAD and way more transit acce...
Jump to postNo one whose final destination is inside the city limits (or the near northern Maryland suburbs/Arlington County) is flying via Dulles, located out in East Jesus, Virginia. They're flying into DCA, which JetBlue still serves from BOS and has never served from JFK/LGA. Basically all that's going awa...
Jump to postMore from Q2 and I think BTV is in big trouble long term. I also don't see the point in keeping PWM at 3 times a day during seasonal service. I hope you’re wrong, but I can’t argue with your reasoning. One thing I did not realize is that Delta added BTV-JFK flights this year to complete against Jet...
Jump to postWell, looks like BTV made the cut. I'm very relived. As a DC resident, though, it just got a little harder to fly JetBlue from my home. DCA/BWI to BOS is a little far out of the way to connect, but I'll manage. Cutting IAD made tons of sense, it would be nice if they could offer some way to connect ...
Jump to postI suspect that lots of people in BTV would be happy to trade JFK for something direct to Florida, even seasonal or lower frequency. I’d agree, but I highly doubt they would run direct to Florida service from BTV. It’s been tried and pulled in the past. They can make more money flying the aircraft f...
Jump to postI suspect that lots of people in BTV would be happy to trade JFK for something direct to Florida, even seasonal or lower frequency. I’d agree, but I highly doubt they would run direct to Florida service from BTV. It’s been tried and pulled in the past. They can make more money flying the aircraft f...
Jump to postGood Authority from a mid-level B6 Exec that the final list is: BTV - a little surprising but perhaps F9 will do it for them? IMO, F9 has nothing to do with it. They’re flying twice a week I think, nowhere near enough to cut into the capacity that B6 has. At the end of the day it is just a lower yi...
Jump to postI've also wondered if there might have been a Peoples Express connection behind BTV getting B6 service. Peoples Express saw considerable success in BTV before it was absorbed into CO - it demonstrated that BTV could support a low-cost carrier. I could see someone carrying their experience at People...
Jump to postBTV and Upstate NY along with ORH are served for POLITICAL reasons. New Air was many years ago...but ol Chuck Schumer is still around. It's been said that BTV was one of the inaugural B6 cities because David Neeleman is a Mormon and Vermont has a prominent place in the Mormon story. Same for SLC. I...
Jump to postThey won't withdraw from BTV/PWM. They need those to feed Florida flights and the O&D traffic also make money. Stuff they will cut are the low yielding west coast stuff. They've already reduced winter schedule on routes like MCO-LAX, JFK-PDX, FLL-LGB, which are all huge money loosers. Hopefully...
Jump to postI’m hearing there are 6-8 BlueCities on the chopping block in the very near future... a handful of which have been on the routemap from the very beginning (00-02) That concerns me greatly since BTV is in that category and as the smallest city that B6 serves, I could see it as a prime candidate for ...
Jump to postAccording to the news, it is just BTV-MCO:
https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Front ... 58311.html
It is almost definitely a Frontier announcement. The image posted on the Facebook post matches the background of FlyFrontier.com exactly. As to where, I'm guessing MCO - I know there's a lot of focus on restoring direct service to Florida.
Jump to postThe problem with nuclear power stations and nuclear energy is the long term legacy of dealing with it after it has finished it's useful life, we are leaving a problem for future generations to deal with.... I work in the nuclear industry and I know of the problems we're already encountering with de...
Jump to postAs an aside, the technology does exist to capture CO2 from the atmoshere and use renewable energy to do so. If we assume that CO2 emissions are a huge problem, why aren't governments coming up with plans to fund tens of thousands of these plants? Thanks for the kind words. Not to get too off topic ...
Jump to postI consider it as a large factor in terms of how I get around, and how I make large decisions in life, but I don't consider it on a detail basis when choosing to fly. I.E. The impact of taking a business class vs coach seat on a long haul, or flying different aircraft types or routings is not a facto...
Jump to postI've looked into it but could never get the numbers to work. Almost bought a C150 once. Instead I've gone the flying club route and have found that to be what works best for the level of flying that I do. At the moment I'm involved in a great situation - I pay $82/month and $87/tach hour (wet) for a...
Jump to postBTV has a 8,319ft runway per Wikipedia. Why is everyone concerned? I don't think the concern stems from performance issues - but rather can a small market like BTV support 145 seats on several departures for B6? I'd argue it can, in part because historically it has and a number of legacy carriers h...
Jump to postWonder what this means for their smaller markets like BTV, PWM, SYR ect. Back when I worked for B6 at BTV (over 10 years ago, at this point), it was all A320s with the exception of an E190 direct to MCO. They began to transition to 190s during my last year there. So BTV has supported larger planes ...
Jump to postI don't think it was discovered until she was going through immigration at LHR. I'm guessing they cross reference passenger names to the flight manifests as part of the process and discovered she wasn't on the manifest of the flight she says she was. My understanding is that she didn't have a passp...
Jump to postVery cool. They are also offering it in a 19 seat passenger configuration. I think it could prove popular on EAS routes and other small feeder services. Seems to be a smart move by Cessna - there are no aircraft currently produced in that segment - the Beech 1900, EMB 110/120, SA227, etc have all be...
Jump to postAccording to UPS' transit time maps, UPS Ground between Fort Worth and Phoenix is 3 days. And apparently by the tracking it went by air with a stopover in ABQ (this is typical of UPS 2nd Day Air packages that go through DFW). In looking at UPS maps, exceeding ground transit times does not always me...
Jump to postFedEx Ground uses team longhaul drivers so they don't have to stop and rest; I assume that UPS has the same kind of capability. 1100 miles is beyond what Amazon currently does in-house by road, but no reason they might not get there someday. I would be curious to see whether your "2 Day Air&qu...
Jump to postTheoretically PBG could be considered an alternate for BTV. It's in a different state and would require a ferry ride and close to an hour's drive to access, but only about 10 minutes away by jet, maybe less. No control tower but they do have airline service at PBG and an enormous runway, owing to it...
Jump to postThis is pure, uninformed speculation on my part, but if B6 were to go the route of wide bodies, I'd think the A330neo would be the way they would go. There's probably a decent amount of parts commonality with the A320, and I wonder if Airbus could offer better pricing versus the 787-9. Regardless of...
Jump to postThanks to everyone for providing such detailed reporting! It's fascinating. I'm quite excited that BWI seems to have a larger role in the operation as it's pretty close to me. I'm hoping to find the time one weekend to head up there and see an Amazon plane come in. Have we kept track of which birds ...
Jump to postI have read the AF447 report, and several others. I'm aware of the feedback issues. However, my question was about whether being right or left handed and the relative position to one's right or left had an impact on their flight abilities. No, it wouldn't. I only fly a Cessna 172, but I'm right han...
Jump to postBut, the FAA regs. probably don't permit the kind of ride-sharing that Uber and Lyft offer for auto owners. You can replacement 'probably' with 'definitely.' There have been numerous FAA rulings on this in recent years. The FAA won't even allow someone to offer up a seat in their aircraft at cost v...
Jump to postIf the airline wants to avoid no-shows, just send an e-mail/text 1 week and again 1 day beforehand reminding them of the flight details where you can confirm simply by replying. Maybe even give an incentive to reply (e.g. $10 off your next ticket) or to report if they won't make it (e.g. partial re...
Jump to postyycdel wrote:Should have kept red text
http://imgur.com/a/jecm2
USPS is not the big show at Amazon, UPS and FedEx are. For Prime Air stuff, you are absolutely correct, but not for everything else. UPS and FedEx still take on the overwhelming majority of packages, though as more distribution centers open in metro areas that is changing. My experience is that it ...
Jump to postNot exactly the same as the Concorde, but similar idea. Actually that design is closer to the Concorde than you would think looking at that from the side: 0208007 Growing up, I flew on that aircraft between MSP-SEA (or SEA-MSP, I forget which). I was probably 11 or 12 at the time. I have a photo of...
Jump to postThat having been said, I believe rafts are only mandatory if you stay within a certain distance of land. I will have to look up the specific rules again though. Greater than 50 miles from land triggers the life raft requirement for part 121 (airline) carriers. There is a nice chart summarizing the ...
Jump to postIt really depends on how many people still CARE by then. As I said, the Waratah was lost before the Titanic, but the public was obsessed with the Titanic I guess because of the Europe/New York visibility. Look at all the movies that were made between 1912 and 1985. ( I would suggest that the reason...
Jump to postWhat small airports call themselves 'international' without on-site customs facilities? I can't think of any. The international signifer has meaning, even if there is no commercial service - it signals to me as a general aviation pilot that I can use it as an airport of entry into the country. For a...
Jump to postThanks for the updates everybody. It's all interesting to see. I'm interested in knowing when they will start international flights outside the U.S. The way it's going now, there's nothing planned if I'm seeing it correctly(?) Maybe in 2017? A388 I don't think it will occur that soon. I sell on Ama...
Jump to postIs that a new procedure? The reason I ask is I've always wondered exactly how the mail moves once it is handed over to FedEx. I've seen several pictures where FedEx is clearly sorting bags of USPS material (particularly Priority Mail). Here is a good example: http://media.jrn.com/images/55239.jpg Al...
Jump to postI believe FedEx moves a majority of United States Postal Service's packages. Therefore, a lot of FedEx's air freight is not their own FedEx packages. Someone PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong. That's correct. They handle upwards of 90% of USPS domestic volume that goes by air. And with service standar...
Jump to postI've flown a C172 many times between 9,000 and 10,000 and have never noticed much of a difference other than the cooler air.
Jump to postI really can't fathom why anyone would give a shit about a livery on a cargo plane...its flying boxes. I think a significant element is Amazon's shift in strategy: until recently, the entire air freight program was under wraps with Amazon not wanting to comment significantly about it. Now, they're ...
Jump to postBurlington, VT (BTV) has seasonal service to Toronto (YTZ) via Porter.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Eagleboy" class="quote" target="_blank">Eagleboy</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>Small quad copter, designed to ram other q...
Jump to postTo clarify, are you interested in waste from airport facilities or waste pumped from aircraft (or both)? Here in the DC area, <acronym title="Washington - Ronald Reagan National (DCA / KDCA), USA - Virginia">DCA</acronym> and <acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (IAD / KIAD), USA - Virg...
Jump to postI work in revenue management for a major transportation provider (not an airline, but it is a very similar environment). I'll weigh in with my opinions below. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/slcdeltarumd11" class="quote" target="_blank">slcdeltarumd11</a> (<a href="#43" class="quote">Reply 43</a>):<br/><i>Amtrak is super popular on V...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/NASBWI" class="quote" target="_blank">NASBWI</a> (<a href="#21" class="quote">Reply 21</a>):<br/><i>AFAIK, <acronym title="JetBlue Airways (USA)...
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