Re: Oman Air to retire A330's, cut destinations in downsizing

DXB - MCT is only 230 miles....hardly the best use for an A333. But a huge amount of traffic. 18ish flights per day across all airlines (Oman Air, EK, Salaam Air, FlyDubai) between the cities with a mix of both widebodies and narrowbodies. There's a massive amount of business and tourist traffic be...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2024

Oh wow much smaller than I thought! I wonder what IAD-GVA is? I would assume it is rather small too and that the plane is filled up mostly from connections. Anecdotal, but I flew UA IAD-GVA in 2022, connecting on to BEY on MEA. There was one other person connecting to BEY as well, but other than th...

Re: Cathay Pacific OAK-SFO diverted to LAX

My question is....if the flight couldn't land in SFO originally, why was OAK a better option. Wouldn't the weather be the basically the same. Granted, maybe winds are less challenging in OAK, but still odd. The initial diversion may not have been due to weather. But from my brief experience in the ...

AI-upscaled image on the front page

I came across this photo on the front page today. 7474551 This is the first time I've seen such extremely obvious (and frankly very bad looking) AI upscaling here on airliners.net. Photographers here have of course always used virtual tools to touch up their photos and make them look their best, and...

Re: New Royal Jordanian Livery

Newark727 wrote:

One of the liveries that has adorned both the 707 and 787 - a fairly exclusive club

Re: New Royal Jordanian Livery

I love it. The current livery is almost unchanged since 1986, with the exception of the engines, which is incredible because it looks so timeless and modern even today. It's a tough act to follow but this livery does a great job of modernizing the core elements. It reminds me of the recently refresh...

Re: Have American Airlines announced where they'll fly their A321XLR's?

Please don't bite my head off if this has been discussed before, but would it be theoretically possible to serve Europe from DCA with A321XLRs? I know it will almost certainly never happen due to the perimeter rule and perhaps other regulations, and maybe it wouldn't make financial sense, but if law...

Re: America West Green CRJ Wings

Also, transbrasil painted the wings of their 727s and 767s. As an added bonus each aircraft had a different color, Braniff-style.

Re: Washington, DC Airports (BWI, DCA, IAD) - 2023

I believe this is the interior rendering: https://imgur.com/LBMgoEQ Seems oddly claustrophobic to me with the FIS corridor above. Reminds me very much of YVR's international terminal which has a similar elevated corridor/walkway. Due to the large windows it didn't feel claustrophobic at all, which ...

Re: Royal Air Maroc revised livery

Idk about this. The pattern in and of itself is very beautiful and works well as a livery element. However, I feel that the addition makes the livery too busy. And as others said it might look like chipped/faded paint from afar.

Re: Monarch Airlines possible making a comeback

I do think it's kind of clever how they turned the M into a stylized crown (that's what I assume they were going for anyway). The whole branding is minimalistic, almost to a fault, but I don't think it's completely terrible.

Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion - 2023

Is it just me, or does the name "Discover Airlines" not roll off the tongue well, in English at least? I'm not sure it would in German either (even though the name itself is in English...). Something like "Air Discover" or just "Discover" sounds less clunky to me.

Re: Uzbekistan new livery?

I don't think it's a new livery for the whole fleet, just a temporary one for those specific frames. They just received their first LET-410 which was painted in the gorgeous standard livery. If the livery has been updated to something all white, I doubt the new LET would have been painted this way. ...

Re: US Turboprop Airlines?

. PenAir in Alaska flies flies Saabs, so that counts. PenAir unfortunately went bust more than 3 years ago back in April 2020. Ravn operates Dash 8s and Beech 1900s in Alaska, but other than that I do think Silver is the only other scheduled US airline flying scheduled turboprops bigger than a Cara...

Re: Airport Mistakes

What about Dulles International and those mobile lounges? I guess I should have researched the reason for them before I criticize, however it seems like a new airport built back in the 1960s with lots of land available to plan, could have been done a lot better. The mobile lounges were intended to ...

Re: Did KLM ever fly to LNK?

A ton of stations all over the midwest had KLM signage back in the day, IIRC AZO had that for a while also among others At Marquette's MQT (both the old KMQT and the new/current KSAW), the Northwest counters had massive KLM logos that took up 50% of the background. I think I have some pictures of t...

Re: 30 Years of Airbus A340 Operations

I thought I had flown on my last A340 until this past winter when I was fortunate enough to ride on Lufthansa's D-AIFD from BOS-FRA. Something about seeing that 4th engine out on the wing is magical. I was also fortunate to fly during a full moon, and got to experience some incredible views cloud-sk...

Re: Propeller aircraft with leading edge slats?

Zenith STOL light aircraft have these "built in slats" for lack of a better term. No idea what they're called or how they differ aerodynamically from 'actual' slats. https://s28490.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/zenith-stol-ch-701-comparison-scaled.jpg.optimal.jpg It's really interesti...

Re: The last Endeavor CR2 took it final revenue flight

Americans seem apt to not hop on a turboprop en masse and the airlines are moving to larger frames. How should these small communities, as well las markets that demand frequency but not the gauge of a 175 or 737, maintain air service? Or mass movement service of any kind for that matter? I'm wonder...

Re: The last Endeavor CR2 took it final revenue flight

I have a love/hate relationship with the CR2. On the one hand, it represents the end of the Saab 340 era with NW/DL to me- a fun turboprop replaced with a 'boring' jet that had awful window placement and somehow felt even more cramped than the objectively smaller Saab. On the other hand, it still ha...

Re: Evolution of the Passenger Experience at Airports

IIRC it had to do with 9/11, at least partially. With increased security times at airports, you needed to get there a lot earlier. You're left with more people sitting around for a long time with nothing to do. Perfect captive audience for shops and restaurants. This coincided with the entrenchment ...

Re: DWC expansion set to restart soon

IIRC, wasn't the government going to kick all non-EK airlines out of DXB and move them to DWC, while EK remained due to DXB's proximity to the center of Dubai? I can't remember if it was an actual publicized plan or just speculation.

Re: Detroit Aviation - 2023

Interesting movements today.. AA 787-9 Diversion EnRoute LHRORD LH 748 - Diversion EnRoute FRAORD CZ Cargo 77F- Diversion EnRoute ANCORD all weather related obviously This cant be the first time a 748 or 77F has been into DTW right?? I know LH Cargo used the MD11 but I dont think FX or LH Cargo has...

Re: Detroit Aviation - 2023

"Detroit, Michigan is in the eastern time zone..." is now only heard in English throughout the terminal (Japanese and Mandarin announcements have been removed). How long until Spanish announcements are added in replacement? Always loved how the guy says it "Dee-troit", not "...

Re: Emirates unveils first new livery in 24 years

Titles on the A380 are definitely quite a bit larger. On the current livery they are mostly bounded between the two decks. On this refreshed one, they extend below the lower row of windows and go a decent amount further back as well. I wonder if the titles on the 777 and upcoming A350s and 787s will...

Re: Specific aircraft that got you into aviation

As per my username, the Saab 340. It was the plane we would fly to get to/from my hometown, and as a family we lived part-time overseas for my parents' work so we flew a decent amount. I just loved everything about it- the spinning props, the shifting sound pitch as we taxied, the noise and vibratio...

Re: Washington, DC Airports (BWI, DCA, IAD) - 2023

People are surprised at the Calgary service and not Vancouver service. Do we have actual PDEW numbers for IAD-YYC and IAD-YVR to compare? WAS-YYC/YVR would also be interesting to see.

Examples of Government aircraft in livery of national airline?

I think it's relatively uncontroversial that airlines can be used to bolster a nation's image and "soft power". An interesting example of this that I thought of is the tendency of some governments to paint their VIP transports in the livery of their national airline- either with slight mod...

Re: CDG to be temporarily renamed

I appreciate the intent behind this - and though I don't have any strong feelings one way or the other - I just wonder if this might be confusing for people. I don't think it'll be anything more than mildly confusing for a minor number of people. It's not like the IATA code on bag tags will be chan...

Re: Will CSA Czech Airlines ever survive

It can be done. MEA of Lebanon serve a small country, don’t get any help from the government, and Lebanon has open skies, any airline can fly to or from Beirut to anywhere (well anywhere except one), and they’re a profitable company. Even a handful of long haul routes to West Africa (Accra, Lagos, ...

Re: SYRIAN 202

rutankrd wrote:

Syrian Airbus YK-AKH squawking 7320 north of Amman .Now stationary of FR24 worrisome

Re: The BA World Images that never were...

Something I haven't seen floated, is couldn't BA have found some way to keep the concept but in a more subtle way? For example- maybe painting 1 or 2 examples of each aircraft type in the fleet with a unique World Tail instead of all of them. Or maybe putting the artwork on the engines, or perhaps p...

Re: Mutiny Bay DHC-3 Otter crash

First the hijacked king air threatening to fly into a walmart, then the citation lost off the coast of Sweden, and now this. What a horrible weekend for GA.

Re: American Eagle News and Discussion Thread

So, with Envoy eliminating E145 flying what will happen to flights to MQT (Marquette, Michigan), given the maintenance base there? Will the airport see 175s (which I'd be surprised if they can fill), or might something else happen? God forbid the maintenance center gets shut down.

Re: Washington, D.C. Airports (BWI, DCA, IAD) Thread - 2022

I was just in the Gaithersburg/Germantown area and noticed AF55 coming in overhead with the gear down- odd so far from IAD. I looked on flightaware and it looks like it departed Dulles before making a u-turn near the Delaware border. Does anybody know what might have happened? Hot brakes or somethin...

Re: Washington, D.C. Airports (BWI, DCA, IAD) Thread - 2022

It made it on a few news sites, but I was on DL 306 today. We were about to land from the south at DCA when the pilots hit the go around and made a hard right turn. A few minutes later they told everyone DCA initiated a ground stop because a UAV was over the runway. Looking at flight aware around 1...

Re: USBC Open Championships: ATL-LAS-ATL on Delta (Pics, long)

Great report, I especially love the images, thank you! Record scraaaaaaaaaaatch. Finnair flies here? Didn’t realize there was this large contingent of Finns visiting Las Vegas. I flew back to Vegas myself last month and saw a Finnair A350 as well, which definitely threw me for a loop. As it turns ou...

Re: Washington, D.C. Airports (BWI, DCA, IAD) Thread - 2022

What are the best planespotting (photography) locations at IAD? The only decent one I’ve found is the #1 Daily Garage. Washbalt spotters has this great PDF outlinting all the places to spot in the area. https://www.washbaltspotters.net/files/iadspots.pdf Garage 2 was the best on-airport place to sp...

Re: Turkish Aviation June 2022

It probably won't make much difference. English speakers will still call the airline "Turkish," and the country Turkey, which is how most English speakers would pronounce the new spelling, Türkiye, anyway. A lot of cities and countries, by tradition, have different names in different lang...

Re: United States Essential Air Service (EAS) Thread

I found it fascinating that they mention Skywest going to fly 30 seats, like it's already in the works. / That is very interesting. Here is the quote from the article: That would continue until SkyWest could become certified as a Part 135 carrier, Airport Manager Dennis Hext said. They could then f...

Re: Alaska Airlines Fleet Network and News Discussion - 2022

I'm booking a flight to BIL and it looks like all SEA flights are Q400 before June 16, and all E175 after. Is this just the summer schedule or are the Q400s being permanently pulled from Billings?

Re: Skywest cutting 29 more markets

As far as the two affected airports in my home state of Michigan, My opinion is as follows: 2. Driving from downtown Houghton to SAW takes approximately two hours. I still do not consider this a hardship case. As someone who has done the drive from CMX to Marquette, it's not an easy drive especiall...

Re: Frontier and Spirit to Merge!