Just another waste of fuel - nothing to see here. If nothing else, it provides valuable training for the RAF should a real threat actually emerge. Let's hope we don't see that.
Jump to postFlying a new type and checking the box is a thrill only an avgeek can appreciate - I recently added the Boeing 767-400 to my list, for example. Many regular Delta and United flyers probably laugh at this, and admittedly it is not the most exciting type to add, but considering only two mainstream air...
Jump to postWhat's wrong with it? My personal opinion is that the greyhound-esque logo was built for the winglets, should have been done years ago. I certainly like it better than the tail design, which after many years, I have become used to but not grown fond of. I don't think it is tacky in its execution. AA...
Jump to postStop being cheap JetBlue, buy some wide bodies and put this in one of those and you will have an absolute Blockbuster of a plane. Oh yeah, because you think they can just go out and buy widebodies during a pandemic? B6 committed to the A321LR for TATL, and maybe in a post-COVID world these will be ...
Jump to postThe DFDR has been read out - https://youtu.be/wqqoYs6bFJg I expected the extraction process would be more sophisticated, but if it survived an impact at 400+ mph one screwdriver poking around is nothing. Also never expected they would rinse the board in water, then in alcohol unless it's to remove ...
Jump to postIn my opinion, the Captain (or any crewmember) was right to ask the passenger to remove the hat. I agree with the decision. Admittedly we don't see the whole conversation or know what else transpired, but the optics are that it seemed to be handled poorly...the Captain not wearing a mask and being s...
Jump to postI don’t understand why people obsessed with “shots across the bow.” If you work at an airline right now, and you were not just an enthusiast with a keyboard, They are just trying to survive. Not just B6...every airline. EWR and LAX were planned...the crisis allowed it to happen sooner. Everything e...
Jump to postwhy wouldn’t you just go to Cabo or Hawaii? That would require opening a new station. Which they seem to be hesitant to do right now.. Pretty sure JetBlue doesn't have the aircraft to fly to Hawaii right now, and why would they want to do that during COVID? I love the state of HI but they are basic...
Jump to postPlease stay on topic here, folks. There have been several posts that moved into the realm of politics and virology, which is not what this thread is supposed to cover.
Jump to postThere was a post on a different thread at the beginning of Covid, and it basically said this virus will be the end of four-engine pax ops around the world. Given the number of A380s in EK's fleet, not sure a lot was given to that sentiment at the time (mid-March), but now it is not too far-fetched o...
Jump to postThe other aspect that is being overlooked is the impact Chpt 11 filing by one airline would have on the other airlines. Let’s say hypothetically AA does go through Chpt 11 and sheds much of its liabilities, and emerges a leaner carrier on the other side. What then happens with DL and UA? Basically,...
Jump to postIf there has ever been an even bigger joke of a thread, can someone please link here? I don't think the prospect of a major US airline going out of business is a joke. This wasn't just suggested by a random person on the street talking to Jimmy Kimmel, this was the CEO of one of the biggest compani...
Jump to postSetting aside the serious issue of what this will cost DL at a time when they don't need any extra/unexpected expenses, everybody needed something like this to provide a good laugh. And insurance money.... At least one or three of those will never fly again. I'm not buying that. Granted these are l...
Jump to postWhat will be the lasting effects of the worldwide pandemic on the aviation industry? The Coronavirus thread is now into Part II and has thousands of posts as I write this...it's quickly becoming one of the largest threads ever on this site. I wanted this to be its own topic and not part of the mega-...
Jump to postI'm not sure any airline is feeling much like a winner at the moment...
Jump to postI'm not sure any airline is feeling much like a winner at the moment...
Jump to postCoronavirus may only last a few weeks or months but I'm betting it will change the airline landscape and having a long-lasting effect. Weak airlines will disappear, strong airlines will survive but will have to rebuild their cash fortresses (imagine another outbreak later this year or early next yea...
Jump to postAnother way to put a rapid end to this thread is to point out they basically have no flights to the most delay prone airports in the USA such as NYC-3 aiports or Philly. HA does fly to JFK you know. Once a day, same as BOS! Their flights times at both JFK and BOS are not during the busiest times of...
Jump to postMrBretz wrote:I always pay for premium economy to avoid this stuff.
You forgot: zero bankruptcies and zero mergers with other airlines over the past two decades. The latter will happen sooner than you realize Richierich And you know this how, exactly? Don't make such cryptic quotes without some form of backup. He doesn't know, he's simply trying to get under the sk...
Jump to postjfklganyc wrote:
FYI: No Profit Sharing for B6 employees this year. Last year 0.2 percent Profit Sharing.
Totally not true they got 75 exemption slots created for them. If my history is correct other than the international bank wasn’t jfk so slow you could go bowling midday on one of the runways? Yeah they got slots we wouldn’t want a new airline to come in and grow an airport or anything. Seems like n...
Jump to postBoof02671 wrote:They got their JFK slots for free.
I read the article on CNN.com and I think the report is inaccurate when they stated that the flight time from JFK to LHR was about 2 hours shorter than normal. I dont think the flight takes more than 6 hours on that route. I actually flew IAD to LHR in about 6 hours in the past. It takes about 7 ho...
Jump to postBluegrass60 wrote:I could see this happening with secondary markets....and it would be welcomed. example: LHR-SDF-STL-MCI-STL-SDF-LHR
Many yeasr ago I used to fly BA to Chicago regularly. I remember there were three flights back to LHR each evening. One of these flights originated in Houston, Flew up to Chicago and then back to LHR. Correct! I think ended about a decade ago. [I always wondered what those ORD-DFW flights were like...
Jump to postI feel like every jetblue announcement is made to be much more dramatic than it really is. Every time. You mean the infomercial that is jetblue? Over promise under deliver and extra hype everything? No. Not jetblue. How is B6 hyping this announcement and making it more "dramatic than it really...
Jump to postflyby519 wrote:LSC, SSC, DCO, JSC all expire in 2022-2023
First off I work in Airports. Second LSC is gone after the lease is up. They are going to move everything to OSC, and only leave small offices in JFK AREA. Take a moment and look at routings. RDU-BOS ( dL-6 /B6-6/aa-3/f9-1). We need to look at more opportunities. I don't mean to sound rude but ther...
Jump to posthttps://www.express.co.uk/videos/610099 ... ar-airport
Apparently it is near the airport and not actually the airport terminal itself that is on fire.
The FAA is super focused on runway incursions, as they should be. They should have stop bars then, and pilots only enter a runway when stop bars go out. What are stop bars? I'm thinking something like a stop light except on the taxiway. Nm, I Googled it. Yes, major airports like JFK, BOS, ORD, DFW,...
Jump to postI thought the same. One single western missile hitting one single Ukrainian airliner at 630am with nothing else hit or launched by the west. I'd give it about a 0.00% chance. Well given this happened about 45 minutes after an Iranian missile attack on American military bases in Iraq is there not a ...
Jump to postThe best timings for west coast to Europe are to leave as late as possible (BA’s 268 being a star pupil, dep 2100 arr 1600+1) or route via the east coast with a short red eye eg LAX EWR connecting to a day tripper across the pond, land at 2000 and home to bed. Landing at dawn, and your body clock t...
Jump to postThis is devastating news to Washington where the BA 747's have been flying for nearly 50 years. Not happy about this and it is a degradation in service to boring smaller twin aircraft with no dome. Boring. Guess I will fly Lufthansa now. Over reaction of the year right here... Especially from someb...
Jump to postIt's due to 787 engine issues. Evelop is performing a wet lease on the LGW-JFK route for BA to allow a LGW based 777 to operate the LHR-BWI sector. Back on September G-VIIP was doing the same thing. It's just temporary. That makes sense...thank you for the info. Not to get off-topic, but has anybod...
Jump to postMy understanding of the current arrangement is that Maryland is effectively guaranteeing that the flight will be more profitable than the average BA US route. If it doesn't reach that level, then Maryland will pay the full amount of the guarantee, even if it misses the average by a small amount. Wi...
Jump to postSo production of the 747 ends with a whimper and not a bang. When the final B748 is delivered to UPS, UPS will be operating 41 Boeing 747s simultaneously. I believe this will represent one of the largest 747 fleets ever operated by a single airline at any one time. I find this to be amazing conside...
Jump to postI find the success of BOS-HNL a bit surprising. Growing up in SEA, Hawaii was it for those seeking warm beaches and such. The western Mexican destinations (Cabo, Mazatlan, PVR, etc.) were also popular destinations, but places like CUN generally weren't mentioned often by folks up there, presumably ...
Jump to postThis is the weirdest thread I have ever read o_O It hasn't got any better. I don't know where this thread went off-topic, but it sure did in a big way. If this incident happened as it has been alleged, then pilots should have known better in 2017. Much much better. This would have been a very serio...
Jump to postWell then maybe there should be some sort of statutory compensation for when an airline (or in some cases, airport) mishandles your bag and it doesn't get to your final destination with you... only fair.
Jump to postDALMD80 wrote:The Post article is wrong. The author says it's WN policy for 2 crewmembers to be in the cockpit at all times, however, it's actually required by the FAA. It's common knowledge.
Good lord - THERE WAS NO CAMERA. Thanks for screaming. And what? Did I miss something? The article alleges she saw live streaming video from the pilot's iPad while he was in the lavatory. Ah, I now see the SWA post (after mine) in which the airline says it was all a prank. If that is so (the link t...
Jump to postThe same question applies to LHR-JFK if anyone is able to advise? As a flagship route, the B744s that BA schedules to JFK will all be refurbished ones. In the past two years, I have flown G-CIVV and G-CIVY from JFK and both had the new cabins. You have to look pretty hard to notice that these are 2...
Jump to postPacoMartin wrote:Do you think that these accidents helped kill the orders for new B757s?
I was looking at the flight history for VS128 from JFK to MAN and some of the flights take as little as 5 hours 20 minutes according to this website: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/vs128 Is that right?? Appreciate that that is flying time, not block time, and the B747 is a fast aircraft...
Jump to postDoesn't this happen quite frequently, albeit with varying details? How many times do we hear about somebody who got on the wrong flight or was on the wrong plane? I've personally boarded a flight and seen somebody at my seat who was on the wrong plane (probably the next scheduled flight from the gat...
Jump to postThat's amazing...their first living non-human 'customer' was actually a cow?? Congrats to KLM on a terrific milestone!
Who's next? Lufthansa?
http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-windsor-locks-bradley-international-airport-plane-crash-20191002-jfkph65krrfhxlrlb3eehksdiu-story.html?fbclid=IwAR3zxXoqeHavWn7ZSB9VWyAswhfrUCCGeZhVgShBMWbFzwW4FDO6hVH6vXQ The Hartford Courant is reporting "at least two dead", multiple injuries to...
Jump to postThank you so much for such a kind reply! So flying on a 20 yr old (I think all delta 737-800 that old) NG would not bother you even though checks on that age are being done within a week? That is reassuring although I don’t know if I can feel better! The plane has been at my regional airport for 22...
Jump to postMy luck has not been great with flying compared to most. Have lost many family, friends and neighbors (including babysitting for the children at the time their mother was killed) in commercial and private flights. My cousin even walked into a propeller! I don't get any comfort from statistics and t...
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