Re: Why are the 757/767 so popular?

It pretty much was, it enabled an twin jet 200 seater cross the Pacific with only on stop required. The DC-8 had to hop its way from AKL-HNL. I wonder where the DC-8 would've stopped along the way, and whether each of the legs between the stops could have been sold separately as a way to reach to a...

Re: Airports that had potential that never made it

I sure wish the moderators would show me airport names when I mouse over their codes. They've decided to take that ability away from us. Bites.

Re: Another 797/MOM Article

And as a lowly instrument pilot on small piston airplanes, I don't know what MoM is. Good gracious. MoM stands for "Middle of the Market" : an aircraft between big single aisle & small twin aisle aircraft.Hopefully it won't be a niche market. Though this overall market is bifurcated b...

Re: Another 797/MOM Article

Can anybody get or access a blue-sky illustration of the new bird?

And as a lowly instrument pilot on small piston airplanes, I don't know what MoM is, and I probably should. Good gracious.

Re: Round the World - Oneworld & VA in F and J (Part Two) + Fiji Helicopter

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Re: United ends Interline Agreements with 5 Mideast Airlines

So long as Turkish is not affected. But then, why aren't they?

Re: WN FO arrested at ALB for handgun in carry-on

I was under the impression that some captains were permitted to carry loaded weapons onboard to fight against terrorists? When did that change? Or do I have this wrong.

Re: Allegiant mistakenly boards elderly grandparents on a flight to Ogdensburg instead of Grand Rapids

Link/Source: http://www.local10.com/travel/after-mistaken-journey-allegiant-air-grandparents-to-return-on-saturday 2 Elderly grandparents scheduled to fly Allegiant from FLL to Grand Rapids, MI found themselves on a flight to Ogdensburg. Allegiant Air is claim there was a malfunction of the boardin...

Are there any failed airline hubs in the world?

... or hubs that didn't work out as expected either for the airlines, passengers or the airports involved? Did any have to retrench, radically shift their operational procedures or fail altogether? Are there any new hubs that couldn't quite make the cut and ultimately decide to call it off before it...

Re: Annoucement: Airliners.net has been aquired by VerticalScope

Dear Jeff Is there any posibility to bring back the flags to show where each member comes from? Other then that I am very happy with the website and hope that you keep it this way! Regards, Lesfalls +1 on this, and back before the big redesign, we used to have a live list of all current logged in u...

Re: Air Canada reveals new corporate livery

KLDC10 wrote:

I think it looks quite nice. Very clean, almost a retro look to it.

Re: Annoucement: Airliners.net has been aquired by VerticalScope

moderators wrote:

Thanks for the feedback and info guys.

We can look into some additional skins or color combos once we get up to speed.

Re: Annoucement: Airliners.net has been aquired by VerticalScope

yeah a.net UI needs a massive upgrade. It's actually old fashioned. There could be much better use of CSS3.. I would suggest a lighter theme based on White colour, that's the most widely used background, and black on white is the easiest to read. Some other suggestions: 1. Better editing box. Speci...

Re: Annoucement: Airliners.net has been aquired by VerticalScope

bunumuring wrote:

I am happy that a.net has a future, and I trust that you and your team @ VerticalScope with be worthy guardians and developers.

Re: Annoucement: Airliners.net has been aquired by VerticalScope

Thanks for the feedback and info guys. We can look into some additional skins or color combos once we get up to speed. Jeff M Perhaps you could also look into enabling pop-ups to unscramble airport/airline codes. Sure it takes some work, but then that's what made this such a stand-out website. Righ...

Re: Video: Jet Airways 777 intercepted Above Germany for radio contact loss

What in the world does "[Flight crew was] de-rostered pending investigation" mean?

Re: Drone Strikes Boeing 737

It's interesting that LAM Airlines has two company logos attached to this plane (but to be fair to those guys, one of them looks logoish). One on the tail, which looks like some kind of hawk, and one on the fuselage, which looks like... well, stylized LAM lettering? And I suppose you could count yet...

Re: Are black liveries "bad"?

btw why older aircrafts seems to be likely to be pained silvery? or is that just the color without painting? [quote/]If you mean actual metal finish (like a mirror) then that is "bare metal" and not paint. It was a preference, especially of US airlines, in the past but is now out of fashi...

Re: United suspends AKL

ZK-NBT wrote:

Wow interesting. NZ is daily but wil AA plus UA and NZ having added IAH maybe to much capacity? Especially in winter? LAX was always a much bigger market though.

Re: Are black liveries "bad"?

i think air nz made an interesting choice to paint from a sort-of all-white livery to an 'all black' livery... i believe air nz has started to paint 'all black' because of the rugby... who knows... The reset of the fleet has been painted with an white base, with the rear of the aircraft painted bla...

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LA1 is actually to Puerto Natales, Chile from Santiago. You'd think that LATAM 1 would either be to São Paulo or Lima with the pan-national branding (on 787?) Everyone's clamoring to trek in Patagonia (like me). Maybe it's LA's effort to pump even more tourist dollars/pesos in that area, and they'r...

Re: Flight number 1:

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Re: Speculation: UA not being very cooperative with SQ?

The less than spectacular in flight service, offering and products by UA on trans Pacific flight leave too much to be desired if one is to compare with SQ's high standard. Given the chance to fly SQ frequently from SFO, I would have never considered flying on UA while I lived in Singapore (2000s). ...

Re: 727 Aerosucre is down

A crash like this makes me wonder "what if" the pilots had actually aborted that takeoff at the end of the runway. Looks to be relatively flat and wide open for a good distance. I mean no doubt the plane would have extensive damage after eventually hitting a tree or two, but so many situa...

Re: B6 removes pax for harassing Ivanka Trump

I'm no Trump supporter, but regardless of how you feel about a politician, their family should be off limits. I'm glad this guy was dealt with accordingly.[/quote] [/quote]Actually when the family member puts herself into the political spectrum she's an open target. At the same time as she is "...

Re: B6 removes pax for harassing Ivanka Trump

I keep getting Ivanka and Ivana mixed up. Ivanka's the daughter, right? And the mother is Ivana? Either way, the punk deserved to be booted out the door; Ivan(k)a was in the right. But shouldn't B4 have waited a few days before booking the creep again? Why would they book him on the next avail? He w...

Re: Crop & insert pic not functioning

Not sure what you mean, are you trying to add a photo to a post? Yes I am. Well, upload a profile photo. After resizing a profile photo I'd like to use so that it fits the parameters and hit save, it doesn't go anywhere from there. It won't upload. The profile photo I used before has mysteriously d...

Re: New Airliners.net Homepage Preview

[quote="airkas1"]Profile photos can be changed in your MAIN account. I recommend contacting the support department if you have a question how to do something. Ask for Johnny [/

Crop and insert photo not working. I give up.

Crop & insert pic not functioning

Sorry crew, but I couldn't post this under "site," wouldn't let me.

Re: New Airliners.net Homepage Preview

But the reply tool is still only semi-functional, especially when you want to quote somebody in a prev post. If I have to edit HTML in the reply box to make it work right, the thing is broken. Not sure what the concern is... granted it doesn't work like the old forum, but this post took less than a...

Re: New Airliners.net Homepage Preview

But the reply tool is still only semi-functional, especially when you want to quote somebody in a prev post. If I have to edit HTML in the reply box to make it work right, the thing is broken.

Re: New Airliners.net Homepage Preview

I don't think that's doable. That was a very unique feature of the old site platform that functioned poorly in the later days. Why not? It might be -- I'm no expert -- but there were a lot of really unique things about the old site (many of which didn't function well over the past few years) that w...

Re: New Airliners.net Homepage Preview

atcsundevil wrote:

slvrblt wrote:

it would be nice to have some of the old capabilities back, like the hover over airport city codes that would tell you what the location was.

I don't think that's doable. That was a very unique feature of the old site platform that functioned poorly in the later days.

Re: New Airliners.net Homepage Preview

STILL no airport/airline flags. I have written them a half-dozen times about this and I don't even get courtesy of a response.

Re: Lowcost Hub Europe - Asia, AMAZING opportunities

I think you have a point. A colleague of mine had to arrange a trip to China on short notice. The best-buy (in J) was Turkmenistan Airlines. Some years ago one carrier offered flighty from Geneva to .... (forgot the name, somewhere in that region) operated with B727-200 :-) Boy would I love to see ...

Re: Etihad overtaking Emirates?

This year alone I had 3 round trips (all in Y Class) between NA and India on EK. As others mentioned I have seen both ends on a satisfactory scale. Here are my observations on EK flights. On the positive side: 1. In flight entertainment is exceptional. From Live TV to top charts, documentaries and ...

Re: Etihad overtaking Emirates?

[quote/] I spent a couple of years in Doha and I would avoid dealing with anything related to the Qatari bureaucracy at any cost...including QR. True, millions of people visit and transit Doha every year but having spent time on the inside of their systems, I cringe at the thought of being at the me...

Re: Etihad overtaking Emirates?

I personally like EY more than EK, especially the new EY livery looks great on their 789s. I don't think the OP is talking about liveries and personal taste... EK looks good, but they're not that diverse (which is probably a good thing) as they only have two aircraft in their fleet, and both are la...

Re: No snow on the main page this year ???

I see. So that's the kind of company that forbids criticism rather than taking it under consideration to make it better.

Re: Etihad overtaking Emirates?

GamingPolaris wrote:

Nope, Emirates is far bigger than Etihad. Overall Emirates is almost twice as big, serves many more destinations.

Etihad overtaking Emirates?

Has Emirates lost its shine i.e. service levels, comfort, on-time performance, etc. now that Etihad has snuck up from behind? On returning home to Ecuador from the UAE, I have no problem driving two hours from Dubai to Abu Dhabi to catch a flight. I would also get to avoid the complete mess at DXB.

Re: No snow on the main page this year ???

There are a lot of things this website refuses to do. Rolling your mouse over the two-letter airline identifiers to see the full name is only one of them. That drive me nuts because then I have to google it. Another one is the disappearance of country flags next to users' names. It's not the moderat...

Re: Did Turkish drop premium economy MIA-IST?

grbauc wrote:

prob for reasons you note I bet. I wonder if it was over priced?

Did Turkish Turkis drops premium economy MIA-IST?

I fly every so often from Quito to Istanbul to Tbilisi via Miami on Turkish. In planning for an upcoming trip later this week, I noticed that TK does not offer a premium-economy fare anymore on the MIA-IST route. I used to be one of only about a dozen passengers to ever sit in that section of the ca...

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