FRA layout is more complex and can be confusing. IST is more straightforward, but the walks can be very long.
Jump to postJackson Hole is not a huge airport, but in season I’ve seen several mainline jets there at the same time, and it has no jetways. In season, it has nonstop service to most major hubs.
Jump to postI don’t think the legacies will touch TKI or FTW. Avelo or Breeze or Frontier seem more likely outcomes. Could SWA make a go at FTW? They can avoid DFW and serve the two primary airports that straddle the Metroplex. Recently, they said DFW expansion was likely, but maybe that is a head fake. Also, ...
Jump to postSFO officially protests: >>SFO Expresses Serious Concerns Over Oakland International Airport's Proposed Renaming Effort Airport anticipates customer confusion, especially abroad SAN FRANCISCO – April 1, 2024 – The San Francisco International Airport (SFO) expressed serious concerns over a proposed i...
Jump to postSFO and SJC simply have almost no expansion room, while OAK does. It’s that simple: growth of air travel in the Bay Area will require more traffic to OAK, regardless of the airport’s name. At this point, predicting which airlines and destinations will expand into OAK is pure speculation. One guess I...
Jump to postI assume that STN has only basic catering facilities, given FR and EZY dominate operations. If so, that didn’t deter Emirates, which has extensive catering needs. Does anyone know how they obtain catering for their two flights? Do they truck in from LHR, or is there a closer supplier? Does the avail...
Jump to postI’ve never kept a log, and specific memories fade over the years as to dates, but I want to mention my trips on older airplanes not mentioned much if at all so far. I greatly enjoyed trips on the Convair 880 flown by TWA and the Convair 990, flown by American. Both were touted as faster than 707s an...
Jump to postThanks for an excellent report; your photography skills are impressive.
Jump to postThanks for a very interesting and entertaining report!
Jump to postThe simplest way to explain why I choose business class on longer trips is “stress reduction.” Flying economy class involves a lot of stress, from the crush at the gate to ensure getting access to the overhead bins to the physical discomfort of hours in a slim line seat. Bad food and skimpy portions...
Jump to postI’d be interested in gross revenue more than profitability, as that would indicate the size of premium demand. I’d have to guess New York City has the highest revenue and probably profits as well. Other premium rich cities would include Los Angeles, Tokyo, Singapore, and Sydney/Melbourne.
Jump to postSAN is adding gates through its T1 expansion, but it'll be inevitably maxed out as the only major single-runway international airport in the world. That’s not even close to being correct. Two others have been mentioned here already in LGW and LIS… Perhaps you meant busiest single-runway internation...
Jump to postHow appealing is a 3 per week flight for business travelers, you know, the ones that buy business class seats? If Delta loses a lot of this traffic, can the route become successful enough to merit daily flights?
Jump to postBefore I retired, UA (or Star) out of SFO for international, East Coast, and longer distance domestic flights (except Delta for the South and MSP/DTW - not loyal enough for points to risk delays via connections, except Delta’s frequencies out of ATL mitigate the risk of serious disruption); WN out o...
Jump to postThe only thing I can say is how I’m always amazed. I wish I could have flown the AA that AA fans thought AA was, because it never existed. Definitely not by 2013. AA in the early years of the jet age was a first class operation. They had the first transcontinental jet service, and I believe for man...
Jump to postIcahn is a predator. Predators thin the herd of weak members, improving the breed, as lions and cheetahs do with gazelles. That’s the theory behind the raw exercise of capital market logic. I’ve personally seen a very well managed company that built up a lot of asset value for their shareholders imp...
Jump to postAs Bette Davis said in “All About Eve,” “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride..”
Jump to postThis rumor is an awfully thin basis for speculation, but since the topic has withstood moderation, I would observe that UA’s lack of a domestic hub competing with Atlanta and Charlotte leaves it weak in the most populous AND fastest growing quadrant of the country. MCO and FLL do little to help this...
Jump to postAre there any new airports being built or planned in the United States? Including general aviation. I mean entirely new airports... like, there was previously nothing there. If I had to take a guess, the one that is supposed to supplant or relieve LAS roughly 30 minutes out from town. I've just see...
Jump to postA technical question. When airliners pressurized at 8 or 9,000 feet land at La Paz and other airports that are higher, do they depressurize the cabin on landing to prevent the doors being pushed outward by air pressure when they are opened? Someone who visited La Paz in 1971 told me that arriving pa...
Jump to postIs United still flying EWR-HNL with no meals in economy?
Jump to postIt’s true that GRB serves the Appleton/Neenah/Oshkosh cluster, but to an even greater extent, ATW serves Green Bay and it’s surrounding cities. After years of GRB serving as the region’s primary airport, ATW surpassed GRB about 5 years ago and has been increasing its lead every year. In terms of en...
Jump to postI don’t recall the time frame, but I do recall Varig 747s flying to Narita.
Jump to postBangladesh is becoming a low cost manufacturing powerhouse, so factory owners and managers and customers would generate a reasonable amount of traffic from Japan, which has a lot of design but little manufacturing Spot on. Moving production out of higher cost developing countries like Vietnam will ...
Jump to postCould this aim at connecting passenger from Japan to Latin America? It seems like it might be the longer way around the world, but I have not checked the travel distances compared to transiting in Canada or Mexico. I exclude the US because it makes transit passengers go through customs and immigrati...
Jump to postI suspect Delta has made a long term strategic goal of building a full hub in AUS, to compete with AA in DFW and UA in IAH, as well as WN in LUV and HOU. They must believe that AUS will continue to grow to be able to support that level of operations over the next couple of decades, matching the Texa...
Jump to postjohns624 wrote:That must suck to not even be able to go to places like Yellowstone, Aspen or Vail.
Incidentally, I have high regard for the way many carriers have accommodated my medical needs, as they are required to do under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act. But other than Lufthansa, no FAs ever helped me stow the heavy batteries in the overhead compartment, for use in sequence...
Jump to postIf you can’t lift it, maybe checked baggage is required. Asking an employee to risk injury because of a passenger’s bag can’t be lifted is pretty thoughtless. Speaking of thoughtless, you either didn’t read or didn’t comprehend the original post. The heavy cabin baggage was specified to be medical ...
Jump to postWere the passengers allowed to deplane and go through customs in OAK? I’m not even sure there were customs officers on duty at that time of night at OAK, which doesn’t receive that much international traffic. If so, were passengers trapped on board? For how long? I wonder if the crew timed out, nece...
Jump to postAir India is prioritizing US routes for its aircraft with upgraded hard product. Perhaps because fares are higher than UK routes?
If soft product upgrades continue as the relationship with Singapore Airlines deepens, the ME 3 will face a serious challenge to a big revenue source .
I just returned from a transatlantic trip on Lufthansa and was quite delighted that flight attendants volunteered to help me with stowing and even carrying cabin baggage. Owing to a medical condition, I must have some heavy cabin items inflight. On US carriers, I have never received comparable help ...
Jump to postI wonder if Delta hub MSP will finally get nonstop service to Scandinavia beyond the short-lived Northwest flights on 747s? Scandinavians remain the largest ethnic group in Minnesota and Upper Midwest.
Jump to postClearly, some see “major” as implying global hubs, with many long haul overseas flights, and a large enough O&D to attract multiple global carriers. These airports are famous throughout the world. Others see total traffic, which in some cases mostly is due to hub status, as the relevant criterio...
Jump to postI am curious if anyone has any idea of the composition of front cabin traffic out of SAN to Europe (and Japan). The city does have a thriving biotech industry, but I suspect a fairly high percentage of the forward cabin is occupied by affluent San Diegans, many of them retirees who moved there for t...
Jump to postI enjoy the reviews by The Flip Flop Traveler, who stays anonymous and always posts what he paid for flights. He never shows his face and keeps his last name secret, so that crews cannot spot him.
Jump to postThe fitness level of passengers is the responsibility of airport designers? Come on now. Space is finite and gate expansions will inevitably be further from existing functional areas. Yes, airport designers must take into account the fact that a certain percentage of passengers are physically chall...
Jump to post[/quote] Naturally, but Pan Am was touting themselves as the 'the world's most experienced'. Fact of the matter is they were sending advanced equipment into many parts of the world where navaids and weather were less than ideal, so the skygod mentality was not making matters better.[/quote] I happen...
Jump to postWhat’s wrong with Oakland-San Francisco Airport?
OAK is my choice when flying to destinations with nonstop service. Otherwise, it’s SFO.
Tijuana is a business/industrial center, as much or more than a tourist destination. According to this site https://www.economia.gob.mx/datamexico/en/profile/geo/tijuana businesses there had almost $38 billion in foreign sales in 2020. Most of this is maquiladoras, and there is business travel assoc...
Jump to postBack in the earlier days of CAB route authorization, AA served Kalamazoo for many years, on a milk run schedule across Michigan, from Detroit to Chicago. Stops included Grand Rapids and Battle Creek. In the 1960s, the route authority was transferred to North Central Airlines, a regional carrier that...
Jump to postI have a fall trip SFO to MUC currently showing an A359, and wonder what difference there might be in the business class seats if the A346 is substituted. Does anyone know what seats the 2 models in the LH fleet use?
Jump to postIndian aviation is on a spectacular growth vector, as a huge and growing population is now capable of paying for air travel. Having recently taken four domestic flights there, I was impressed with the newish terminal facilities at four airports and the very low airfares. I wonder, however, if the ru...
Jump to postFort Worth Amon Carter Field, demolished and the land now part of DFW, had a gorgeous waiting room, with a bas relief mural of Texas history done with gold leaf. You can see a picture here https://www.cardcow.com/782568/fort-worth-texas-main-lobby-terminal-building-greater-international-airport-amon...
Jump to postEA v. DL, you can close the thread now. At ATL, each would try to steal passengers at the the gates. Back when Delta and Eastern had separate concourses in the old terminal, they each had “catchers” at the entrance of the other’s concourse, offering an earlier departure, after asking passengers whe...
Jump to postUsually, it is the biggest cities that have more than one airport with scheduled commercial airline service. For obvious reasons. But there is at least one smaller city with 2 commercial airports boarding over a million passengers a year: Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland. It has both Belfast...
Jump to postEA v. DL, you can close the thread now. At ATL, each would try to steal passengers at the the gates. Back when Delta and Eastern had separate concourses in the old terminal, they each had “catchers” at the entrance of the other’s concourse, offering an earlier departure, after asking passengers whe...
Jump to poststrfyr51 wrote:strfyr51 wrote:[quote="friendlyskies22"
United has a museum of sorts at SFO in the cafeteria where they have pictures and archives up the wazoo. they have a 1936 dodge Power wagon that was at the Sheridan Wy Maintenance Base that they keep in the Maintenance Base Garage that only comes out during anniversary 0week and the open house or when the Blue Angels come to town during fleet week. The B29 hangars are national monuments they couldn't even tear them down if they wanted to and It's where I worked at SFO.
I knew Pan Am had rivalries with both TWA and BOAC, but I didn’t know they had a rivalry with Eastern that was so vicious. This TV ad campaign was purely aimed at the Eastern Shuttle as Pan Am entered the market and had to induce fliers to leave the Shuttle and try Pan Am. It was not part of a larg...
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