Re: Boeing looks to FedEx to expand NMA business case

And so... passenger version alone cannot justify the launch of NMA, and now freighter version is needed to make the business case? Or as the headline says, "Expand the NMA business case." Boeing has 3 models currently produced that are very successful passenger and freight, why would they...

Re: Boeing 797 Discussion Thread - 2018

This is just getting ridiculous. Market share is not the holy grail of metrics. Especially not in a growing market. For Boeing and every other company, net income is the metric that shows health. By your logic you keep hammering, if Boeing cut their price 75%, increased production 2x, they would sk...

Re: Boeing 797 Discussion Thread - 2018

What on earth are you talking about? The 737 competed with the DC-9 then the MD-80 and then also with the A320. In the 60's and 70's you could include turboprops as competition also. What is the big deal with variants? Who said that Boeing didn want to develop the MAX 7 and REALLY didn't want to de...

Re: United daily double SFO-SIN will cancel LAX-SIN

Alll of this is true. But UA is going 2x daily on the route. This whole back and forth is around the concept of SQ easily walking over UA on this route... that is just not matching with reality. If UA had cut from daily to less than daily, maybe. But they double capacity. and it remains to be seen ...

Re: United daily double SFO-SIN will cancel LAX-SIN

Now with SQ having announced its own 10x weekly LAX nonstop, and increase of SFO nonstop service to 10X weekly as well, I think we know why UA decided to drop LAX and double up at SFO to protect its hub. Unfortunately, I give SQ the far better chance on the routes with their product and beyond conn...

Re: United daily double SFO-SIN will cancel LAX-SIN

UA is not a marginal player, has a big hub in SFO, and connections from the rest of its network. SQ might do better, maybe, but ‘far’ better is a stretch. Plus, what connections are they going after on the SIN end? ULH are targeted at the O/D. I think what he means is, UA has a marginal product com...

Re: United daily double SFO-SIN will cancel LAX-SIN

UA is not a marginal player, has a big hub in SFO, and connections from the rest of its network. SQ might do better, maybe, but ‘far’ better is a stretch. Plus, what connections are they going after on the SIN end? ULH are targeted at the O/D. I think what he means is, UA has a marginal product com...

Re: United daily double SFO-SIN will cancel LAX-SIN

Now with SQ having announced its own 10x weekly LAX nonstop, and increase of SFO nonstop service to 10X weekly as well, I think we know why UA decided to drop LAX and double up at SFO to protect its hub. Unfortunately, I give SQ the far better chance on the routes with their product and beyond conn...

Re: Southwest is America's favorite 'value airline' brand

If a flight is $100 on WN vs nearly all other airlines, what would make WN less valuable? Every ticket- no bag fee, no change fee, etc. That seems like value. First class, status, Y+, those are all FF or buy up options from economy. Well of course they are considering the racism in who can book tick...

Re: Southwest is America's favorite 'value airline' brand

OA940 wrote:

Well of course they are considering the racism in who can book tickets on them...

Re: Updated: Embraer and Boeing Partnership confirmed

I'm surprised that this deal is happening at all. In the end, I think that Embraer got a relatively good deal considering that their E2 wasn't selling. If they had waited until after Farnborough, the deal wouldn't have been as sweet unless they had booked significant amounts of orders, which was un...

Re: New Boeing corporate liveries?

Looks great on the 779, 7310, and 747-8 at in the posted picture.

Re: Updated: Embraer and Boeing Partnership confirmed

People can shout and blame a company filing complaints or a President, but fact of the matter is the commercial aviation market moved away from the smaller space and is all in in the +150 seat space. The market is driving reality there. Established airlines costs are going up and they need more peop...

Re: Comparison of AA/DL/UA routes between the USA's Largest CSA markets

Great work! Thank you for sharing, very interesting!

The US3 are really big, crazy their scale.

Re: Updated: Embraer and Boeing Partnership confirmed

And: Source: Excerpt:https://airinsight.com/boeing-and-embraer-what-it-means/ " A Cultural and Organizational Mismatch? Boeing and Embraer tend to operate in different ways. At Boeing, engineering teams tend to be organized by program, with engineers focusing on one aircraft type. At Embraer, ...

Re: AA and the A321NEO

This is my thinking too, they are just domestic planes, a very efficient one at that. I expect to be flying on A321 NEOs from AUS-DFW like the A321 CEOs do now. Do not know why everyone thinks the NEO is some long legged aircraft. I would suspect they will try to keep them on longer routes to maxim...

Re: BA not resuming OAK

I am surprised this did not last. It is probably the case of having better use/better financial return elsewhere. The Bay Area is a large population, lots of money, but hopefully Norwegian can stick around and this isn't a more macro turn down for the long haul market.

Re: 787 In Service Thread 2018

Awesome thread!

Re: Boeing has given the 3 Major Engine Manufacturers until June 27 to submit their 797 engine proposals

I am still surprised they want to do the 797 with ~230/~270 Passengers (I assume in a two class layout). That means 767-300 and 767-400 size. So there will be no direct replacement for the 757, capacity wise and the A321LR remains without any competition. The only way to compete is to make sure tha...

Re: Sun Country adds 5 routes from PDX

Skim the holiday traffic, warm weather and Lake Tahoe.

Re: First look: United Premium Plus

Looks good. Be interesting to see how UA prices it, still have a high J count and Y+.

Re: Will Boeing Follow Harley's Lead?

I think they should do it regardless. It would be a better way to hedge foreign exchange fluctuations/exposure. Airbus is way ahead of Boeing in this regard. I think it just makes good business sense to diversify production globally, particularly given how global Boeing's customer base is. How iron...

Re: Boeing looking at 777F conversion program (again)

Might be possible there are some engineering companies or projects that are kicking the tires and Boeing is doing this to create some fanfare/urgency. Shame to see any plane scrapped.

Re: United Airlines Top 50 Longest Routes

Very cool list, thank you for putting this together and sharing!

Re: AA and the A321NEO

The NEOs are coming in as domestic planes. They will find their way on 757 routes over time (PHX-Hawaii, South America and then East Coast to Europe) but they are primarily domestic birds. This is my thinking too, they are just domestic planes, a very efficient one at that. I expect to be flying on...

Re: AA and the A321NEO

The NEOs are coming in as domestic planes. They will find their way on 757 routes over time (PHX-Hawaii, South America and then East Coast to Europe) but they are primarily domestic birds.

Re: Why do some airlines but not others operate their own Cargo fleets?

Planes these days carry a lot of belly cargo. Running dedicated cargo planes is very expensive and airlines have their cost/revenue models optimized to run passengers.

Re: Did Boeing miss out? Success of Embraer E-175

Simple answer is no. Boeing's smallest plane is nearly 2x the size of the EMB. Boeing and Airbus are where the money is.

Re: Do airlines discriminate based on routes?

Airlines do and that is good business. The more competitive the flight, the better the product should be. The opposite is also true. Then there is also utilization, airlines fit in short flights between longhaul. Now if the airlines had the identical offering ala Ryanair/Southwest/any of the single ...

Re: EK221 DXB-DFW diverts to MSP?

Yet another slap in the face to DTW

Re: AUS to become a Delta Focus City

Agree with others above, this will be to maximize O/D, will be interesting to see where they choose. WN/AA/UA aren't going to just let them have the market share, so this will be fun to watch.

Re: FedEx orders additional 767 and 777s

Great to see orders for both these planes. Still lots of MD11s/A300s to be retired and nothing in the pipeline from A or B to replace them. There are no direct replacements FOR them! The B777 isn't enough?? That is my point, there are a lot more 763/777 for FX to order if they are going to replace ...

Re: Norwegian Announce Dublin-Toronto Hamilton

This is very cool add.

Re: Will Ryanair order 737-9/10 MAX

If I am not mistaken, they are the only airline to order the 737-8MAX200 ? How uncomfortable must the 8-200 be if we are already complaining about the AA 737-8Maxs? Do you think Ryanair will go for the -9 or -10 eventually? Considering they must not be too much more expensive to operate? Comfort is...

Re: Delta orders 20 CRJ900 with new interiors

Replacement for GoJet's CR7s? They have 22, and they're some of the oldest CR7s. As far as I can see they're owned by DL too. Disappointing though that DL continues to buy CR9s when the far superior (for the passengers) E170 line is available. The new interiors look pretty good. Plus for many missi...

Re: FedEx orders additional 767 and 777s

wedgetail737 wrote:

airzona11 wrote:

Great to see orders for both these planes. Still lots of MD11s/A300s to be retired and nothing in the pipeline from A or B to replace them.

Fedex still has MD-10's (DC-10's) to retire.

Re: Management layoffs coming to AA

Post-merger cleanup

AA new seat maps

Has anyone seen any new seat maps for AA? Particularly interested in the A332/772/77W with the PE layouts.

Re: David Neeleman Raising Funds for New U.S. Airline

There is a massive supply( that becomes oversupply) of new planes coming into the market. Maybe he uses the position of cash to buy cheap assets in the next downturn. Might be a great way to get planes.

Re: FedEx orders additional 767 and 777s

Great to see orders for both these planes. Still lots of MD11s/A300s to be retired and nothing in the pipeline from A or B to replace them.

Re: Reuters: Airbus is studying A321XLR with extended range over LR

Fuel is going higher at the moment, this makes something like this less desirable. I would think if Airbus were to stretch the A321 that would be a more desirable play vs adding fuel tanks. What market would this A321 super long range be targeted at? With no cargo revenue and a long thin routes, hi...

Re: Reuters: Airbus is studying A321XLR with extended range over LR

Fuel is going higher at the moment, this makes something like this less desirable. I would think if Airbus were to stretch the A321 that would be a more desirable play vs adding fuel tanks. What market would this A321 super long range be targeted at? With no cargo revenue and a long thin routes, hig...

Re: Next Lufthansa Group longhaul destinations

chepos wrote:

On another note, while I would love to see PHX return to the LH network I believe it is more of a DE route. They (DE) have recently launched this route 2 times a week. Let’s see how they make out.

Re: GRound stop at CLT, DCA, and PHL

Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.

Re: Will CX/HX/UA start HKG-SEA-HKG anytime soon?

LAXdude1023 wrote:

airzona11 wrote:

What is the PDEW?

Roughly 60.

Re: DL launches LAX-Europe on B77L today

Great use of aircraft and optimizing the JV.

Re: Will CX/HX/UA start HKG-SEA-HKG anytime soon?

What is the PDEW?

Re: UA launches helicopter shuttle service in Manhattan, connecting 3 helipads to EWR

Very cool. There is a lot of competition for the ultra-premium crowd in NYC, this seems like something that can get traction.

Re: DL S18 Departures By Hub And Aircraft Type

Actually, KLM isn't completely wrong. In many situations where a routing over CVG makes much more sense, the connection via out of the way ATL appears in the first 5 or so results. DLs job is to maximize revenue with lowest costs, therefore if it made "much more sense" DL would be showing...

Re: AA S18 Departures By Hub And Aircraft Type

Thank you for this awesome thread. Always one of the best on Anet!