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- Thu Sep 21, 2023 6:59 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Aviation - 2023
- Replies: 427
- Views: 76476
Re: San Diego Aviation - 2023
socalspotter wrote:Does anyone know the fate of the viewing area at Harbor Dr. and Laurel St.? It not has temporary construction fence around it. I appears to be part the the new T1 construction.
It's going away unfortunately. A recent post by the San Diego Airport (on Instagram and Twitter/X) confirmed this. Jump to post
- Thu Aug 25, 2022 6:36 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2022
- Replies: 447
- Views: 82953
Re: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2022
United is keeping SAN-LAX. 2x as of 10/30. https://thepointsguy.com/news/united-los-angeles-san-diego-route/?utm_medium=social&utm_term=Editorial&utm_campaign=facebook&utm_content=55416ED4-2260-11ED-A517-12112152A482&utm_source=facebook Yes! I had a hard time believing they would ax...
Jump to post- Sun Jul 10, 2022 5:57 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2022
- Replies: 447
- Views: 82953
Re: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2022
Looks like Swoop is pulling out of SAN after July 18th. Does anyone know if this was planned (and if they will be coming back)?
Jump to post- Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:11 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2022
- Replies: 447
- Views: 82953
Re: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2022
It appears UA is dropping SAN-LAX from 10/29, all future flights have been removed Ugh!! I'm a big fan of the early morning UA flight up to LAX so that I can connect to a wide variety of other more convenient flight options (to pretty much anywhere). The 6:30am flight has been 100% full every time ...
Jump to post- Wed Apr 27, 2022 12:50 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2022
- Replies: 447
- Views: 82953
Re: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2022
Last time I flew out of T2 a few months ago I had a good laugh - the pre check line was 3x the length of the regular line yet pre check folks keep piling in their special lane. Logic escaped the vast majority that day. It’s not just time savings. I could see myself choosing a longer PreCheck line s...
Jump to post- Wed Sep 15, 2021 1:11 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2021
- Replies: 667
- Views: 111948
Re: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2021
As much as I'd LOVE to see KE announcing service to SAN, it's hard to imagine that they'd do it now with such low demand for international travel. Can't wait to see what this is! And like a few others have said, I'm going to be disappointed if it's just a WN or AS announcement.
Jump to post- Thu Mar 12, 2020 7:01 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2020
- Replies: 756
- Views: 100639
Re: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2020
About an hour after I posted this, I saw the JL flight from NRT pass overhead. I don't know what the yields are like due to the coronavirus. I took that flight a couple weeks ago. Load factor was about 50% on the way to NRT, but I don't know what it was like on the return since I flew another airli...
Jump to post- Wed Feb 05, 2020 11:16 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2020
- Replies: 756
- Views: 100639
Rumor has it there is a new Primeclass lounge coming to T2 in the near future. Details are thin at this point (not sure if it will be T2W or E), but it looks interesting nonetheless.
https://thepointsguy.com/news/new-loung ... irmingham/
- Sat Feb 01, 2020 3:15 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2020
- Replies: 756
- Views: 100639
Re: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2020
Sitting here in the Airspace Lounge at the airport that started my obsession with commercial aviation as a kid with their “Flight Times and News of the Port” wondering where DL was prior to T2W. Can you refresh my memory? Thanks! I remember flying Delta out of T2 East (both a 757 and a 727) to CVG ...
Jump to post- Fri Jan 17, 2020 7:49 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2020
- Replies: 756
- Views: 100639
Re: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2020
AirFiero wrote:Hey, is the YouTuber “SANspotter” here?
Yup, I'm here! Lurking in the shadows since '99 or so. lol
I don't spend much time on a.net as much as I used to, but I'm always following the SAN threads. Jump to post
- Sun Dec 09, 2018 2:14 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread - 2018
- Replies: 618
- Views: 85964
Re: San Diego Thread - 2018
Starting January 29, 2019, all Alaska Airlines flights will operate out of Terminal 2 East On that date, you will find our ticket counters, kiosks, gates, curbside check-in, and baggage office in their new locations in Terminal 2 East. That's sooner than I expected! I'm flying AS out of SAN on Jan ...
Jump to post- Sat Oct 13, 2018 1:13 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread - 2018
- Replies: 618
- Views: 85964
Re: San Diego Thread - 2018
I found something interesting regarding DL between SAN and SEA -- they will be all 738s on the route beginning on or about Nov 4! I found this on Wikipedia and checked it out on DL's website and it appears to be correct -- four daily flights now, all mainline. Oddly enough AS is now the only cx in ...
Jump to post- Wed May 23, 2018 1:31 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread - 2018
- Replies: 618
- Views: 85964
Re: San Diego Thread - 2018
The current FIS facilities are located in T2E, using gates 20, 21 & 22 and a big chunk of terminal space on 2 levels. On July 1, FIS is moving to T2W. Therefore, starting in July, my assumption is AS will begin remodeling T2E, including some of the vacant FIS space, along with their future gate...
Jump to post- Sun May 13, 2018 8:26 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Airline Livery Design Tools
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3470
Re: Airline Livery Design Tools
There are no special tools for this. I'd wager to guess that most design agencies are using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to generate the design, and Maya/3D Studio Max/etc. for final renderings and animations. That's the way I do it anyway, and I haven't found a better solution (and I've been in ...
Jump to post- Sun Apr 22, 2018 12:17 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread - 2018
- Replies: 618
- Views: 85964
Re: San Diego Thread - 2018
Just an interesting tidbit of info I discovered just now as I was searching for SAN-OGG flights on HA for an upcoming trip: it looks as if most dates in May and June are on the 767-300 instead of the A321. Does anyone know if this is an upgauge due to demand, or just the result of A321 teething issu...
Jump to post- Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:48 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread - 2018
- Replies: 618
- Views: 85964
Re: San Diego Thread - 2018
So it's open to the public and bookable? I'm really tempted to do it just for the novelty of it...
Jump to post- Sun Feb 04, 2018 10:00 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread - 2018
- Replies: 618
- Views: 85964
Re: San Diego Thread 2018
hawaiian717 wrote:
HU7926 MEX2330 – 0045+1TIJ0345+1 – 0805+2PEK 787 135
Ouch - I didn't notice the 3:45am departure time out of TIJ. That alone will make this a lot less appealing to me (and I suspect many others). Jump to post
- Sat Feb 03, 2018 1:12 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread - 2018
- Replies: 618
- Views: 85964
Re: San Diego Thread 2018
Well I guess we aren't going to see Hainan at SAN anytime soon. If they are expecting their TIJ service to draw lots of China-bound travelers from North of the border, I think they will be disappointed. IMHO, if an airline wants to tap into the San Diego market, they will simply need to fly in and ...
Jump to post- Sun Dec 17, 2017 5:33 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Re: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
Didn't see anything above about the rumoured expansion of international services at Tij which will mean that cbx will get busier & become a 2nd airport for san diego. Would suit long haul lcc's. With slight rearrangement of gates at tij would make it very easy to fly out of cbx. No need to ente...
Jump to post- Thu Sep 14, 2017 2:11 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Re: What's happening lately at SAN?
In this week's Board meeting materials, there's a discussion about mechanical troubles that Edelweiss had and prohibited them from meeting their planned number of rotations for 2017 (30 rotations rather than 40). Anyone know more about this? And a letter from WK says too that bookings have "fa...
Jump to post- Wed Sep 13, 2017 11:57 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Re: What's happening lately at SAN?
In this week's Board meeting materials, there's a discussion about mechanical troubles that Edelweiss had and prohibited them from meeting their planned number of rotations for 2017 (30 rotations rather than 40). Anyone know more about this? And a letter from WK says too that bookings have "fa...
Jump to post- Fri Aug 11, 2017 12:50 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Mokulele to swap SMX-LAX for SMX-BUR
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4539
Re: Mokulele to swap SMX-LAX for SMX-BUR
These are interesting (and fun) flights, so if you get the chance, do it! I still find it weird that Mokulele is flying these routes, but it's nice to have them there to fill the void at SMX.
Jump to post- Tue Jul 25, 2017 2:18 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Condor Drops San Diego After 2 Months...and LH Announcement
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6537
Re: Condor Drops San Diego After 2 Months...and LH Announcement
I had the chance to fly Condor SAN-FRA last week in business class, and I've got to say that I was impressed. It was my first experience with the airline, and it wouldn't have been my last if they decided to stick around. The flight was packed to the gills though, so I'm sure LH is going to do well ...
Jump to post- Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:06 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Re: What's happening lately at SAN?
Thanks 'rooster for the explanation as to why that JAL 787 has been sitting for so long. I too thought it was a Comic Con charter. Speaking of Comic Con charters, I was looking at the departures board after flying in on AC from YYZ this morning, and I noticed that there was a Delta flight (403 I thi...
Jump to post- Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:32 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Yeah, that's awesome 'rooster! You need to make more of those videos!
redrooster3 wrote:A really cool video I recorded the other day of Edelweiss taking off into a perfect sunset. https://youtu.be/JoeijUqm3nc
Yeah, that's awesome 'rooster! You need to make more of those videos! Jump to post
- Thu Jul 06, 2017 2:56 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Is Sun Country in a league of its own?
- Replies: 97
- Views: 20034
Re: Is Sun Country in a league of its own?
I usually fly to MSP once a year from SAN (I've got family there), and Sun Country is my airline of choice for that route. As a matter of fact I just flew SAN-MSP-SAN over the last few days on SY, and as usual, it was a great experience. I'm definitely a Sun Country fan!
Jump to post- Fri Jun 16, 2017 1:08 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Re: What's happening lately at SAN?
Wow, this is huge news that I totally missed until reading this thread just now. Congrats to LH and SAN!! And all the local spotters too of course. lol
Fingers crossed that we'll see OZ or KE here in SAN next year.
- Sun Jun 04, 2017 12:11 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: International flights at SJC and SAN
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3929
Re: International flights at SJC and SAN
But! We now have scheduled A343 service on Edelweiss (WK) which is awesome! I tried pricing out a 1-way economy fare for ZRH-SAN this summer, and I couldn't find any seat for under $3500(US). Crazy! I was able to book a Condor SAN-FRA seat (in July) for a reasonable price though so I'm looking forw...
Jump to post- Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:00 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: US3 S17 widebody utilization thread
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2320
Re: US3 June Widebody Fleet Utilization
Looks like no DL wide body service to SAN this summer. First time in a long time that's happened!
Jump to post- Sun Apr 16, 2017 12:38 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Re: What's happening lately at SAN?
Wow - AS in T2E sounds great!! It would be very weird to get used to though, as AS has been in T1 ever since I moved to San Diego in 1997. It makes sense though with all the expansion they are going through, and there's really no need to have the less-frequent airlines taking up space in T2. I'm con...
Jump to post- Mon Apr 10, 2017 3:04 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: BA Considering Long Haul Buy on Board
- Replies: 65
- Views: 13364
Re: BA Considering Long Haul Buy on Board
At the very least, it's been interesting watching BA go from being a world class airline to basically what amounts to an LLC. It's a race to the bottom, unfortunately.
Jump to post- Mon Feb 13, 2017 12:38 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Air Canada reveals new corporate livery
- Replies: 588
- Views: 99709
Re: Air Canada reveals new corporate livery
I don't care what anyone says - I really like the new livery!
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 1:04 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Re: What's happening lately at SAN?
Good morning all! And a good morning it is, thanks to WN...!!!! FIVE new nonstop routes will begin this June: EWR, IND, SLC, BOI and GEG!! If I'm remembering correctly, that's the most new routes at one time ever for SAN by WN. (Heck, maybe the most by any airline here!) It really fills in WN's rou...
Jump to post- Wed Jan 04, 2017 1:03 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Re: What's happening lately at SAN?
What do y'all think of SAN-MNL on Philippine Airlines? While it may seem far fetched, the Centre for Aviation article linked below says that PR was, at one point, considering launching SAN flights (the large filipino population in San Diego was sighted as a possible reason for this service). Speaki...
Jump to post- Wed Jan 04, 2017 12:54 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Re: What's happening lately at SAN?
timf wrote:SANMAN66 wrote:I think DL is also using a 753 here. (That 757 looks a bit too long to be a 752.)
They were using the 753 on an extra DTW-SAN flight last week.
To ATL as well - I was on a 753 from SAN to ATL (flight number 1692) on the 23rd. Jump to post
- Mon Jan 02, 2017 12:31 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Re: What's happening lately at SAN?
Happy New Year all! SAN "folks!" The past couple of weeks I've seen some interesting aircraft taking off from Lindbergh (from the excellent spotting location at Liberty Station) : First of all, I noticed DL has been running a 764 in the morning hours, I saw it last week, and thought it wa...
Jump to post- Mon Dec 19, 2016 1:24 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Two 747's enroute to SAN 12/18/16
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2203
Re: Two 747's enroute to SAN 12/18/16
There was perfect low winter light out there right about that time so hopefully someone got some good pics!
Jump to post- Sun Dec 11, 2016 12:59 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Official US Domestic (ex HI) Widebody thread 2017
- Replies: 110
- Views: 20985
Re: USA domestic widebody thread 2016
DL 767-400 ATL-SAN for a few weeks this month and next.
Jump to post- Mon Dec 05, 2016 1:46 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Re: What's happening lately at SAN?
Thanks for the pics 'Rooster! I had no idea that one was coming.
Jump to post- Wed Nov 23, 2016 12:56 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: How Usable is TIJ as an Alternate to SAN?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2705
Re: How Usable is TIJ as an Alternate to SAN?
I flew out of TIJ for the first time earlier this year (via the Cross Border Xpress) and it was really fast and easy. I was certainly skeptical about it beforehand, but I'm sure I will do it again for future trips to Mexico and points south.
Jump to post- Sat Nov 05, 2016 3:40 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Alaska Airlines new special livery
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4325
Re: Alaska Airlines new special livery
Wow - I think I'm going to like that quite a bit. It's bold, that's for sure!
Jump to post- Thu Nov 03, 2016 3:13 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Re: What's happening lately at SAN?
I can assure you there is no long haul announcement for SAN tomorrow (Thursday). I wonder if its the impending Hainan announcement of PEK-TIJ-MEX. Dang it. Well, hopefully soon we'll get another international carrier here at SAN. At least they seem to be preparing for expansion by moving the FIS fa...
Jump to post- Thu Nov 03, 2016 12:03 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Re: What's happening lately at SAN?
Long haul announcement Thursday. Anyone care to speculate? :o Maybe a BA flight to LGW, like OAK and FLL? Lufhansa maybe? Korean? Thomas Cook? Any guesses? I'm hoping it's going to be Korean Air (how cool would that be?), but something along the lines of Thomas Cook or Norwegian wouldn't surprise me.
Jump to post- Wed Nov 02, 2016 11:59 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Re: What's happening lately at SAN?
I've been curious to see what Delta is going to replace the 767-300 with on some of it's ATL runs, and initially (as of a month ago) it looked to be all 737-900 and some 757-200. But good news: I was just browsing flights for a Christmas trip I have planned and it looks like the 767-400 has been pu...
Jump to post- Mon Oct 31, 2016 11:51 pm
- Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
- Topic: Rare planes you can fly: 2017
- Replies: 99
- Views: 14372
Re: Rare planes you can fly: 2017
VS is also still flying the A340-600. I just flew on one from LHR to JFK a week and a half ago.
Jump to post- Tue Oct 04, 2016 12:30 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Re: What's happening lately at SAN?
I've been curious to see what Delta is going to replace the 767-300 with on some of it's ATL runs, and initially (as of a month ago) it looked to be all 737-900 and some 757-200. But good news: I was just browsing flights for a Christmas trip I have planned and it looks like the 767-400 has been put...
Jump to post- Mon Aug 29, 2016 12:03 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Delta LAX terminal plans updates and discussion thread
- Replies: 474
- Views: 137176
Re: Delta LAX Terminal Plans Revealed
I'm really surprised that HA is only getting 2 shared gates out of all this. I thought they had a much bigger presence at LAX than that.
Jump to post- Thu Aug 04, 2016 12:02 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Re: What's happening lately at SAN?
I am convinced that Alaska will add a San Diego to Detroit link, I have seen comments about it before, but I would like to add that the market is there for an additional airline, and hopefully provide competition to relieve us and San Diego from premium pricing. This route would be surprising to me...
Jump to post- Sat Jul 16, 2016 12:07 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: San Diego Thread 2016-2017
- Replies: 672
- Views: 101970
Re: What's happening lately at SAN?
In terms of Asia expansion service out of SAN, I do see HX starting SAN-HKG as well as OAK-HKG and SEA-HKG in a few years. Perhaps in 2018 when the A350 XWBs and A330-200s orders are delivered for long haul expansion. Oh yeah - I would LOVE to see nonstop service to HKG from SAN. I'd certainly make...
Jump to post- Sat Jul 16, 2016 12:04 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: HU Applies For PEK-TIJ/MEX
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3085
Re: HU Applies For PEK-TIJ/MEX
Plus, remember CBX. They can nominally fly to TIJ and actually serve San Diego. Not bad IMO. Absolutely. I tried the CBX last March, and it was enough to convince me that flying out of TIJ is a reasonable option now. It was super easy (and fast) to get across, so I'd actually consider HU service to...
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