Hawaiian A330 "flaps issue", lands 60 knots faster than normal at OAK

I was onboard Hawaiian Airlines flight HA 48 from HNL to OAK last night. As we approached OAK, the pilot turned the plane away from the airport with a brief message "we have to hold, will land in about 15 minutes". After 30 minutes of going in circles, a flight attendant announced "th...

Economy Smartium on Asiana A350 | SFO-ICN | A350-900 | Y+ Class

Economy Smartium on Asiana A350 http://i.imgur.com/yVL1roM.jpg Flight Details Airline: Asiana Airlines Flight Number: OZ 211 Aircraft: Airbus A350-900 Route: San Francisco (SFO) to Seoul Incheon (ICN) Duration: 12 hr 00 min Background I wanted to fly on the Airbus A350 ever since it was introduced ...

Re: Air India Business Class 787 SYD-DEL

Is their a particular gaffe you're thinking of? Another trip report of the same flight 3 years ago (originating in MEL though) shows the same standard of meal: https://www.ausbt.com.au/air-india-boeing-787-executive-class-melbourne-delhi So it seems to be normal on Australia-Delhi flights. By "...

Re: Air India Business Class 787 SYD-DEL

The meals in Economy Class style foil could be the SYD-based catering gaffe? Because when I flew AI Business Class on their 747 last year, this is how my meal was presented, that too on a 1.5 hour domestic leg -->

Re: Amtrak Cascades Train Derails over Interstate Highway

What about a route guide? A map of the rails showing things like speeds, signals and switches? Seems to me an engineer doing his job would know where the train is and what's ahead at all times. What do they do, just look out the windshield? They have all that, the engineers have done training runs ...

Re: Amtrak Cascades Train Derails over Interstate Highway

why is there no positive train control on this train which would automatically slow you down if you do exceed the speed limit? Positive Train Control is still "in testing phase" on this new route. They decided to open it up while PTC is being worked on, hoping nothing would go wrong in th...

Re: Amtrak Cascades Train Derails over Interstate Highway

Silly question perhaps but they do test runs first on these don't they? Of course. It was tested for weeks with trial trains. The one that derailed was the first commercial run with actual paying passengers. Maybe it was just sheer coincidence, maybe inexperienced driver, we don't know yet. NTSB is...

Re: Amtrak Cascades Train Derails over Interstate Highway

Lots of misleading information about this accident floating around, so let's clear some facts (I am a train fan as much as an aviation fan)- * This was a regular intercity train- Amtrak Cascades #501 southbound from Seattle to Portland with maximum permitted speed on the section being 79mph. This wa...

Re: How come Tijuana (TIJ) has no U.S. service?

Apart from proximity to SAN, TIJ literally has a walkway to walk over to the US side, and from there it is only a 30 minute drive to SAN.

Re: Alaska Airlines unveils A321neo "Most West Coast" livery

If they don't want to scrub off the PROUDLY ALL BOEING writing from under the cockpit of their entire existing fleet, I have a suggestion to edit it-

PROUDLY ALL BOEING AND AIRBUS ...AND EMBRAER AND BOMBARDIER

Re: 20 busiest airport pairs in the Americas for 2017

Mapped out the 20 routes. 18 out of 20 are fairly short "shuttle" type routes, and then two outliers being the US transcons! http://www.gcmap.com/map?P=cgh-sdu,+mex-cun,+lax-jfk,+mex-mty,+lim-cuz,+bog-mde,+lga-ord,+sfo-lax,+gdl-mex,+lax-sea,+cgh-bsb,+sfo-jfk,+bog-ctg,+lga-atl,+bog-clo,+hnl...

Re: DL moves last 747 flight

DL never advertised nor promised that this would be the last flight thus they owe you nothing. Except they publicly did announce. In a press release no less. This attitude of "let me throw the rule book at you" would be a dick move to the avgeek community from Delta. Sure, they do not owe...

Re: Christmas Tree in the Skies

But why are they using a A380? They could do the same pattern using a A320neo. Unnecessary carbon emissions. Because you can't do a pre-delivery test flight of an A380 using an A320neo? Every time Boeing or Airbus does these "drawing" flights it brings out closet environmentalists shoutin...

Re: HA Announces More A321Neo Routes, Inc SAN-OGG

With SFO-HNL and HNL-NRT both getting A321neo, will this be the first/only one-stop Pacific crossing on a narrowbody available in 2018?

Re: Singapore A350 #SQ422 mistakenly made final approach to small Juhu airport instead of Mumbai

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/sq422#fb9a1d5 ? The FlightRadar24 track does not look to me like they were aligned for Juhu runway, it looks like they were aiming straight for BOM RWY 09 and just did a standard go-around for whatever reason. They would have to be coming in a lot more nor...

Re: Want to know about AI's B777 fleet usage...

I can tell you one thing- out of the 3 77Ls, VT-ALF and VT-ALG are slogging hard between AI173/174 and AI103/104 while VT-ALH has not flown since Nov 7. It last flew a ferry flight to Nagpur where AI's maintenance facility is located, so best guess is it is undergoing a heavy check. I checked flight...

Re: Maps of Airports

Take two: I am currently mapping all of the airports* in every state of the U.S. I have finished the map for my home state of Michigan. I would appreciate any suggestions on which one to do next. It doesn't have to be a U.S. state. It can be any region from any country! Michigan: https://drive.goog...

Re: Rumour: LATAM to return to SFO

Don't mind connecting at PTY (up to 3 hours) and fly LH in a 737, i'll be on vacations. I have flown Copa 737 LIM-PTY-SFO and although I was initially apprehensive about such a long flight on a small plane (PTY-SFO is scheduled for 7h:37m) it was one of my best international flights in economy clas...

Re: WN 7M8 First Day Routings October 1st

All Day 1 routes mapped! Talk about a busy first day at a new job... :lol: :airplane: http://www.gcmap.com/map?P=PHX-STL-SFO-PDX-PHX,+MDW-BHM-DAL-MCO-DAL-MDW,+DEN-DAL-MCO-CMH-BNA,+DAL-DEN-MSY-MDW-DAL,+HOU-DAL-OAK-BNA-STL-HOU,+BWI-LAX-BWI,+DAL-HOU-SAT-DAL-HOU-PIT-LAX-PHX,+HOU-DEN-MSY-MDW-DAL,+PHX-LAX...

Immigration at Guam (GUM) any different from other US Ports of Entry?

I am working on an itinerary to take the famous United Island Hopper from Guam to Honolulu. For this, I would be flying in to Guam from Tokyo, and would like to know first-hand experience from those who have passed through immigration in GUM if there are any restrictions for non-US citizens in Guam ...

Re: United new safety video!

They still have that same video?! I guess when you pay for a Broadway production, you have to get your money's worth... Yes they do, and when you have to watch that on a 6am flight, it is sensory overload. No Virgin, when I have not even had my first cup of coffee, I am NOT for TONIGHT GET READY TO...

Re: United new safety video!

Oh gee another 4+ minute long safety video! These look nice on Youtube but on actual flights about a minute or two in, even the few passengers who do pay attention to safety videos (a vast majority do not) lose focus and start looking elsewhere. I fly Virgin America once a month at least, and that s...

Re: TK720 IST-BOM odd routing

As of 22:52 UTC it has entered Indian airspace and seems to be on a course to land in DEL. BOM had terrible weather with heavy rains few hours ago, I wonder if it is a diversion due to that.

Re: KLM to operate 747 relieve flight CUR-SXM

So... are there going to be any spotters at Maho Beach for this? Is there even a "Maho beach" left as of now?

Re: Alaska Airlines unveils San Francisco Giants A321 livery

The world isn't going to end when Chester shows up on an Airbus. No, but at that point, Alaska needs to start removing the "PROUDLY ALL BOEING" painted under the cockpit of all their mainline planes. Maybe replace it with "PROUDLY ALL MANUFACTURERS" since they will have Boeing, ...

Re: Alaska new livery update

32andBelow wrote:

So the VX planes don't actually have mood lighting? The LED lights in boeing sky create any color they want.

Re: Alaska Airlines unveils San Francisco Giants A321 livery

Ummm plain white tail? I hope they throw in either the Virgin logo or the Alaska Man on it. This looks very "naked".

Re: Alaska new livery update

That is assuming VX's cabins have "real" programmable mood lighting. They may just have a purple film/cover (blue for aisle ceiling lights) over the light housings/bulbs to provide cheap and "dumb" (for lack of better term) mood lighting. Just got off a Virgin America A320 fligh...

Re: Alaska new livery update

the colours remind me of the Aurora Borealis in a night sky, and overall I really, really like it. More than Aurora, they remind me of the Pacific Northwest - the sky blue and shades of green is so quintessential Washington-Oregon feel! Alaska smashed it outta the park with their livery refresh, an...

Re: Wealthy and Celebs get their own private $22 Million private terminal in LAX

To those saying celebrities don't fly commercial, go speak to the FAs on all those half a dozen A380s that call at LAX daily, they will regale you with tales of how many Hollywood A-listers they have served. The First Class Suites are wayyy more comfortable than flying halfway across the world on a ...

Re: Brits on Holiday in Romania left stranded due to Wizz Air aircraft that had to undergo "unscheduled" maintenence wor

A week? Last I checked Europe has a dense extensive rail network. So, could not the "stranded" passengers have taken a train to a bigger city and taken an alternate airline/flight to UK? At least that is what I'd have done if I was stranded more than a day or two.

Re: SJC woos EK, QR & KE (rumor)

I saw OAK does BA & DY service to LGW and IB does OAK-BCN... where is all of this need coming from, or has the bay area been severely under-served? Prepare to be surprised- OAK does not do just LGW and BCN, they now have DY non-stops to CPH, OSL, ARN with CDG and FCO starting soon! And oh, for ...

Re: First Airbus A380 parked amid search for new operator

I am still hoping Southwest would pick up a few of these and convert them to all-Economy free-for-all seating 800 seater monsters! Imagine the joy of getting boarding position J37 or K49, and the adventure of walking across two decks looking for that coveted empty seat. I know I know this is not gon...

Re: Do any US airlines offer economy meals for domestic destinations?

Right? One most Asian and European airlines, a full meal will be served in economy for a 2 hour flight. But on a 6 hour flight here, it's just one serving of some crackers. Even a second serving of snacks would be fine. Southwest and Delta will often do two drinks service on coast to coast flights,...

Re: BA invents new airport. "San Francisco Oakland"

Norwegian and LEVEL both also refer to OAK as Oakland-San Francisco, that's pretty common.

Since BA flies to SJC too, will they call that airport "San Francisco San Jose" too?

Re: AA commits CRJ's to HVN

Leave aside Dash-8 or CRJ-200, the bigger question is, why are you guys flying from PHL-HVN when you can take Amtrak Acela Express city center to city center in 3 hours? Even if the flight is 1hr, getting to airport, security, and getting to city from airport doesn't save much time over the train!

Re: Norwegian Schedules new LGW-JFK-LGW and challenges Europeans to See New York City in 1 day

Now *YOU* (yes, you) can see the amazing customs and TSA facilities of JFK Terminal 1, conveniently 17 miles ... or a 2 hour ride by car which you don't time for ... from where YOU really want to be. Arrive JFK at 08:50 Immigration queue 1 hour (typically lesser), out of terminal 10:00 AirTrain to ...

Re: BCN-OAK on LEVEL - Putting the Lows in Low Cost Carrier

vhtje wrote:

One question: did the aircraft have a business class cabin, and was it occupied for the flight? Presumably they put the Premium Economy passengers in the business class seats?