We need to stop comparing COMAC with Airbus or Boeing. They are doing their own thing and when/if time comes than they will be noticable. Why? Just because someone doesn’t want these aircraft to be comparable, it doesn't mean they aren’t. Are you insinuating that the market is going to ignore the c...
Jump to postThe whole Ramp needs a rebuild. Delta had to move their Gate 5 jets over to the former Gate 4 area because the concrete is thicker. When they built the new terminal they should have rebuilt the whole parking ramp with heavy reinforced concrete. That was Shalliol's fault. Musical gates because of th...
Jump to postI wonder why G4 hasn't tried to start with destinations that have USCBP Pre-Clearance such as NAS, AUA, or BDA. Airports with Pre-Clearance still can only fly to FIS airports in the US. The destination airport has to be able to process international flights. Not correct, the most well known example...
Jump to postWhat? Why would you give anyone a government sanctioned monopoly? The situation already is foul. Dallas should rebuild the gates and provide enough room for anyone that want to serve DAL to have the space they need to operate a credible level of service. WN is hardly subject to being "killed o...
Jump to postdabpit wrote:I wonder why G4 hasn't tried to start with destinations that have USCBP Pre-Clearance such as NAS, AUA, or BDA.
I think that the current design was far ahead of its time and is being too casually dismissed. With half the current costs of the proposed design it could be updated to something as efficient as needed with room to grow. Luggage movements, as learned by DEN, could be automated further. I see the new...
Jump to postI don't see DL adding any London routes because there is no close partner in London like DL has with AF and KLM. AA or BA to London would be next and DL or KLM to AMS on the third. IMHO AMS is vastly superior to make connections over CDG however that is secondary to point-to-point revenue that Lond...
Jump to postDHL are no longer a United States company being fully owned by Deutsch Post, the company is therefore no longer allowed to operate domestic flights between U.S. airports or overseas flights from U.S. airports, DHL contracts these to other providers. That is not true. Deutsche Post acquired the majo...
Jump to postDHL are no longer a United States company being fully owned by Deutsch Post, the company is therefore no longer allowed to operate domestic flights between U.S. airports or overseas flights from U.S. airports, DHL contracts these to other providers. That is not true. Deutsche Post acquired the majo...
Jump to postAt what expense to the CDG flight? Excellent question. LHR-IND would get boosts with cargo based upon the RR plant in Indy if the the CFM (GE/Safran) model holds true (CVG-CDG). The pax numbers would also, supposedly, be better because of Indy and London businesses ties (RR and Eli Lilly). I think ...
Jump to postUse Google Earth. It also has a time slider so you can see the changes to areas over time. PVG is quite fascinating to look at 2002 through today.
Jump to postSince DHL seems to be back inn business inn the USA, I was wondering, where can I see some DHL branded aircraft in the USA these days? Thanks in advance! DHL has always been in the US (DHL was a US cargo operator before being acquired by Deutsche Post). In 2008 DHL discontinued local service within...
Jump to postIt would have to roll seriously for the wing tip to hit a sign, doesn’t seem possible. The wingtip is 12.43 feet off the ground and the top of the sharklet is an additional 7.97 feet off the ground. https://www.airbus.com/content/dam/corporate-topics/publications/backgrounders/techdata/aircraft_cha...
Jump to postAs far as I know, I don't even think FedEx has "everything" figured out yet. I think you are right. They are currently performing an upgrade to the current sorting equipment, there is at least the additional building expansion, and the airport authority has stated that 25 more FDX cargo g...
Jump to postThe issue isn't the railroad company owning the PanAm trademarks if they have no current involvement in aviation. This is the aviation company that prevents any other company from using the trademarks: https://panamacademy.com/ Pan Am Railways not being in aviation doesn’t mean you have the right t...
Jump to postFYI on at least a part of FedEx IND expansion: https://bgabuilders.com/wp-content/uplo ... treach.pdf
Jump to postThe issue isn't the railroad company owning the PanAm trademarks if they have no current involvement in aviation. This is the aviation company that prevents any other company from using the trademarks: https://panamacademy.com/
Jump to postLooks pretty aggressive, especially the third picture, which looks like dozens of mid-rises....... I wonder how much of that is filler and how much of that is actually planned. I also wonder when all of this construction is supposed to take place. This is obviously prior to FE's new construction pl...
Jump to postDoes anyone know what the FedEx $1.5 bil expansion look like when done? As far as taking over MEM I am doubtful. Can IND do it, yes. My reasons (as imperfect as they may be) MEM has a lot of day sort that IND doesn't. I say this because when I look at FR24 FDX traffic at 12:00P ET traffic that the M...
Jump to postAround 1981 TWA opened a gate section that was a dogleg L shape off what is currently F concourse. It had 6 to 8 gates as I recall that pointed north at the end. FLL was a big part of their deregulation expansion. I believe the initial expansion was 10 flights primarily using 707s, 727s, and a coupl...
Jump to postjfk777 wrote:FIS facilities should only be at airports which have lots of flights to smaller US cities which are not big enough to have customs.
Let's ignore census data for a second because it's not that great at measuring catchment area. Let's look at the entire Traverse City DMA - that's 257,600 households. That makes it only slightly smaller than FWA and PIA, twice the size of CKB, 2.5x the size of ELM, significantly larger than DLH. No...
Jump to postLet's ignore census data for a second because it's not that great at measuring catchment area. Let's look at the entire Traverse City DMA - that's 257,600 households. That makes it only slightly smaller than FWA and PIA, twice the size of CKB, 2.5x the size of ELM, significantly larger than DLH. No...
Jump to postAt that price it would be a cost effective primary residence parked at SJC.
Jump to postenilria just did a schedule update. Anyone have a clue on:
*UA EWR-SBN JAN 1.0>0.2[1.0] FEB 1.0>0[1.0] MAR 1.0>0.8[1.0]
Gosh, I was hoping for daily service. DL does not even run CVG/MSP/BOS/SLC/RDU/LAX-CDG daily during the winter (only DL flights, no AF codeshares). This is perfectly normal. Only JFK/ATL/DTW/SEA see daily service year round. I agree. If IND-CDG was so strong to support demand for year round service...
Jump to postI do totally agree high speed rail to SWF (Stewart) could be done and is extremely easy compared to what is proposed here. SWF is also a way better location. My point is that sadly they can't even get that happen. America won't invest in high speed rail. I really would support a Stewart rail line S...
Jump to postI'm still in disbelief or maybe more so disappointed, that they haven't even connected the light rail line to the airport. Must be a California thing. SJC, SAN, LAX, and SMF don't currently have light rail directly to the airport. SMF is particularly bad because the bus that takes you from downtown...
Jump to postGE puts the LEAP-1A engine cores on the IND-CDG flight for final assembly in Paris. Since I don't know for a fact, I don't want to speculate about the capacities of the A319 and 767 I think the opposite is true. I think the engines produced are for domestic (Boeing and Airbus) use and, if anything,...
Jump to postIt is my understanding that current hypersonic flight is limited to rocket technology and scramjets are still in the development phase. Although there have been some success in scramjet testing those successes are limited to boosting a small engine to operational speeds via rocket engines. Has anyon...
Jump to postOk, lots of questions here. What exactly does GE put on the flights? Re SEA, Does an A319 really have enough space for a lot of cargo? And on CDG around what volume of the 767 space is PAX bags vs cargo? GE puts the LEAP-1A engine cores on the IND-CDG flight for final assembly in Paris. Since I don...
Jump to postOne thing to keep in mind that largely affects AS and to a much lesser extent UA is the SFO gate restrictions. Even if the flight is marginally profitable AS will rededicate the resources to routes that are strongly profitable. One possibility is that AS is seeing tech bookings from the south bay an...
Jump to postIf I remember, AA at least announced if not flew, SJC - TPE for a year or so in the early 90's. Different times, but SJC always seems to ride business cycles hard so wouldn't last an economic down turn for sure,. It was for six months during 2001. AA started and ended TPE and CDG from SJC on the sa...
Jump to postThis won't make me friends on here, but isn't time we have fewer flights, larger aircraft, and gulp - high speed trains between some cities (at least in the US)? As you probably know, there is high-speed train service on the Northeast Corridor connecting Boston, New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Balt...
Jump to postAmerican has no obligations to the former TWA employees per consistent rulings in Israeli courts. This is untrue according to a PR Newswire article from Feb 3, 2014 (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/former-twa-employees-in-israel-escalate-battle-against-american-airlines-for-rights-estimate...
Jump to postThe Airports Council International (ACI) Airport Service Quality Awards (ASQ) are fairly meaningless.. 1. The awards are base on surveys taken at the participating airports. Surveys do not reflect the quality of one airport compared to another they only reflect the tabulated survey results at each a...
Jump to postWould the AS arrivals from Mexico still have to go the international terminal since T2 doesn't have FIS? Are there any plans for a FIS facility at T2? Pretty obvious if they bring back the Mexico flight it would be cleared at the International Terminal. The aircraft could be tugged over to T2 for d...
Jump to postIt was always expected that the AS/VX merger might mean an overall decrease in flights since operating out of both International and T2 is unworkable in the long run. Ticket counters will be combined at T2 so any flights out of International will require passengers to take a shuttle or make fairly l...
Jump to postAll subsidies are not created equal. Some are perfectly legal from an agreed trade (WTO) standpoint, some aren't, and some are called subsidies idiomatically rather than legalistically (Chapter 11 Bankruptcy for example). The US government, in general, does not provide corporations any capital infus...
Jump to postI don't live in LA and I never have. If I have a choice between interline transfers at LAX or any other airport with a root canal, I will choose any other airport with the root canal.
Jump to postSame applies to the 717, except for the part about having other planes on the same production line. Great value at used prices, but if you're going to buy new, much better options are available. ONLY other options apply. I doubt kind words and big money will be enough for Boeing to inventory to see...
Jump to postTry making that argument: Say acquisition cost overall is 25% of Direct Operating Cost. Say an A380F costs $250mn in 2018 dollars. Say the marginal price of an A380 UD Loader versus a standard heavy freight loader is $3mn/unit. Say you have to purchase one UDL per A380F. This is a valid argument fo...
Jump to postI'm going to hazard a guess that cargo infrastructure like loaders and such are owned and operated by the carrier and not the airport / facility. So any airport that would see scheduled A380-800F service by a carrier would have the necessary A380-800F specific infrastructure already in place by tha...
Jump to postAs a heavy-lifter, the A380-800F likely would have been utilized on select routes that benefitted from it's capacity and capability so having equipment at those locations would not have been a major issue. And honestly, "lack of flexibility due to infrastructure" applies just as much to a...
Jump to postTWA, originally stood for Transcontinental and Western Airlines. Eventually the airline split apart becoming TWA, Trans World Airlines and Western Airlines. Continental Airlines, originally from Varney Speed Lines, was named because it flew along the Continental Divide. I think the route was El Pas...
Jump to postTWA = Try Walking Across! When it comes to TWA I can't help but recalling that old joke: Passenger: "Miss, may I please have another TWA coffee?" Stewardess: "Sorry, Sir. Right now I just can offer you a TWA tea". That quote (nearly) is in the movie "Crimes of Passion"...
Jump to postYou want something like that? https://i.imgur.com/DAF9IOm.jpg Impossible. Can't block bay access from any land, can't use land not currently apart of airport. Not a NIMBY issue but legal. SFO is owned by the city/county of SF however San Mateo county surrounds it. The airport can't force itself ont...
Jump to postThe upper deck loading required specialized/new loading equipment. This is an additional cost for an item that could be used for a variety of aircraft but is required for the 380 and would not be an item that would be purchased and deployed widely. This would have made the aircraft limited in its ro...
Jump to postGSP's Achilles Heel isn't ATL but CLT. CLT is on the west side of Charlotte so there is no fighting any cross town traffic and is 85 miles with a 1:15 to1:50 hr drive from GSP. That puts Greenville and Spartanburg within the CLT catchment for many flights. I find it easier and cheaper to drive to CL...
Jump to postIcahn tried to turn the airline around. He sold some assets, bought Ozark and hubbed at Ozarks STL. The whole deal was done to shrink the airline back into the black numbers, but what he tried failed. So everyone is blaming Icahn these days for TWAs failure, totally ignoring the fact that the airli...
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