North: LYR - Longyearbyen, Svalbard: 78°14'46"N South: FTE - El Calafate, Argentina: 50°16'49"S East: WLG - Wellington, New Zealand: 174°48'19"E West: HNL - Honolulu, Hawaii USA: 157°55'13"W Prime Meridian: LCY - London, England: 0°03'19"E Equator: EBB - Entebbe, Uganda: 0°0...
Jump to postLufthansa will experience a strike of ground personnel at all airports on Wednesday.
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/ve ... a-101.html (link in German only).
No word as to whether other group airlines (i.e. EW) will be affected as well.
I will be doing another INTL-JFK-DOMESTIC connection this summer and am wondering whether there is any way of predicting whether a domestic DL service will be using T2 or T4. Does T2 (theoretically) have wide body capacity or do all widebodies use T4?
Jump to postThank you, This is helpful.
Judging by the reports of the situation in AMS and various UK airports, I wouldn't call them the worst in Europe. Just very different from ARN's stellar performances when I visited/transited before.
I am currently booked on a DL ARN-JFK sector in a few weeks. As ARN has (apparently) experienced some of the worst queues in Europe earlier this month and last month, I am wondering what to expect and how early it would be sensible to arrive (regular queue, no priority whatsoever with DL, need to ch...
Jump to postUS airlines do this AFAIK. Like AA might do something like JFK-LHR-RDU-LHR-JFK. That’s how they get the 777 to RDU, for example. Or I could see DL doing something like ATL-ICN-PDX-ICN-ATL. These are hypothetical examples but they often do something like this. I thought these were called “scissors” ...
Jump to postHei OSL anetters, Has anyone recently transferred international-to-domestic at OSL. I understand that there is now a mandatory covid testing requirement on arrival and I’m wondering whether this necessitates leaving the secured area with all arriving passengers or whether there is a separate process...
Jump to postThe situation in Ethiopia appears to be rapidly deteriorating day by day, however it appears the western media is only starting to pick up on it yet. ET flights out of ADD are reportedly filled with expatriates and foreigners leaving Ethiopia, and there is a real possibility if the security gets wo...
Jump to postIn light of the recent reports of Ethiopia's horrific conflict reaching the city of Addis Ababa, I wanted to start a thread on the conflict's impact on aviation. In recent years, state-owned Ethiopian Airlines have made significant investments in expanding its Addis Ababa hub, expanding its fleet an...
Jump to postI can't agree with this SK is all that bad sentiment. SK is one of the very few European airlines I am willing to pay extra for on short-haul flights. I really like the optics of their hard product. It is of course very subjective but I feel their wooden panels and the colour of their seats gives of...
Jump to postSo like FRA T2 on steroids? No, Frankfurts T2 is too big, too costly and not functional enough for me. More like Tegel (remember the hexagon?) but built as one straight line of modules (uninterrupted). Like a line along the runway resp. apron. Simplicity and just a walk through terminal. I would us...
Jump to postfreakyrat wrote:flyjay123 wrote:Someone83 wrote:And you can use both a jetbridge on the front door, and stairs on the rear, for quick turn arounds
I've never seen that.
I've seen JetBlue do that for deplaning passengers quite a bit at Fort Lauderdale.
Very spotty depending on state and local authorities everything from spot visits by police to nothing. What about states that are home to the biggest international gateways such as California, New York, Illinois and Florida? Only based on my New England experience, the most, for US citizens, will b...
Jump to postThe problem is that Russia still maintains individual bilateral air services agreements with the individual EU member states, which means that - in general, barring any peculiar bilaterals - FR would be restricted to fly to SVO only from countries where it has an AOC and where such bilateral rights ...
Jump to postFlemish is not a language. Flemish people speak Dutch. With a 'Flemish' accent but the language is Dutch. Time people learn this. Saying people speak Flemish is like saying Americans speak "American"... On topic: all Brussels Airlines staff are trilingual Dutch - French - English. (When i...
Jump to postAs mentioned before, SYD Domestic is accessible by foot. The route is actually somewhat popular for people wanting to save the airport station fee which adds roughly $ 10 to your otherwise $ 4 ticket if you get off at Mascot. I have definitely also walked from Cairns airport into town which is not t...
Jump to postI really hope a good chunk of them are lifted before December holidays. Existing evidence for the benefits of travel restrictions shows that they only help during containment in early phases, but have limited effects later as the disease spreads in the community... So hopefully governments will not...
Jump to postLufthansa leased in 767s on at least two occasions.
Jump to postFRA has closed T2 entirely and has mostly consolidated to T1B
Jump to postPetropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy-Anchorage on Yakutia, a few flights each summer
Jump to postI personally think that it will be difficult to generalise Russian holiday-making patterns given the size and diversity of Russia. Generally speaking though, outside places in Southern Russia you will encounter a certain demand for outbound travel to beach destinations. The choice of destination wil...
Jump to postLong story short, it is legal. And it happens all the time on Euro flights and if you connect intl-to-intl depending on the destination and it’s pre-departure check requirements it might happen too. In Germany, there is no statutory requirement to check for IDs other than for immigration reasons whi...
Jump to postI would not categorically rule out the odd Brisbane flight. There is some demand that is generated by virtue of states becoming independent in their own right. The odd diplomatic mission will open up and the occasional UN representative will arrive. Also, some of the POM flights will become obsolete...
Jump to postThis is saddening. Following the closure of the Easyjet base at HAM, this is really a blow to operations there. @OP: You mention the termination of the HAM-DUB route which gave me personally two of the greatest short trips ever but I can't find any mention of that in the links. Is it staying or am I...
Jump to postMy favourite story still is the time I flew ZNZ-ADD-FRA with a 12 hour layover at Addis Ababa which I used to explore the city (there would've been an earlier ADD-JED-FRA flight on LH who partner with ET). When I arrived in FRA, my bag was nowhere to be found and so I notified ET who were nice enoug...
Jump to postI could see MIAT wanting to make ULN-Europe non-stop. AFAIK their (longstanding) route to Berlin operates with a 737 and makes a stopover in Moscow Yes, probably. I am no expert, but I believe some scepticism is warranted. From a 737-800 shared between MOW and BER, to a dedicated 789 to BER. I mean...
Jump to postA very good question! I don't think there is an answer at this time as the LA shift away from OW is mainly about the Americas. In the long run, I see it both as a challenge and an opportunity. It's a challenge because a significant chunk of LA's Europe traffic is MAD O&D and they will want to re...
Jump to postOver the years I have seen quite a few spectacular things, some of them that I remember particularly well are: The Volcanoes on Approach to Petropavlovksk-Kamchatskiy on the Russian Pacific Coast (SU SVO-PKC 77W) Uluru on approach to AYQ (QF ASP-AYQ B717) Sydney Harbour when approaching from the Nor...
Jump to postEdelweiss (WK) is part of the Lufthansa Group and operates to YYC as well as YVR on seasonal basis. I also heard that Eurowings (EW) is looking into more US/Canada destinations next year. If you solely consider Canada than my guess would be YYC or YHZ since Condor (DE) is currently serving those ro...
Jump to post5th freedom = vestige from a very different industry Push is for ever more nonstops. 1-stops and 5th freedom don't make much sense in most cases anymore. :checkmark: Industry trend is very much moving away from 5th freedom and milk run routes. For U.S. carriers look at how they have almost entirely...
Jump to postSingapore has always had a very cautious approach towards codeshares although they do cooperate with Lufthansa and Air New Zealand now but I would imagine that United wouldn't have too many destinations that it would want to send passengers to via Singapore. As for TK, I would assume it's the same ...
Jump to postUA also do not codeshare with Singapore Airlines, Thai & Turkish, you'll notice. Is it for the same reason that they don't codeshare with AI? (Opposition against SQ, TK, and Thai being in *A) TG definitely is due to Thailand's FAA security rating not permitting codeshares by American carriers. ...
Jump to postI personally believe that the 80% figure could be accurate. Firstly, as others have mentioned before there is a sizeable share of the world's population that lack the financial means for air travel or that live in countries where air travel is not sufficiently developed. Secondly, there is a signifi...
Jump to postWow, is that what passes for an airport security checkpoint in Russia? :o I realise it's not Moscow or St Petersburg, but still... I could be wrong, but I don’t think there’s any way in or out of the area other than by ship or plane. This is not any different from the security situation I’ve witnes...
Jump to postWhen I studied in Sydney, it happened all the time where there was a requirement that you would check-in in person for departing overseas flights which led to situations where on SYD-AUH-FRA and SYD-SIN-DPS tickets I could check-in online for the second leg but not for the first one.
Jump to postLongest - SYD-AUH on Etihad (Airbus A380-800)
Shortest scheduled - AUA-CUR on Insel Air (Fokker 50)
Shortest unscheduled - PBI-MIA on American (Boeing 767-300ER)
The way things are going with TCG events may overtake the sale of the airline and it could quickly go bust. Then it will be a case of picking over the carcass. No doubt a lot of airlines with grounded or non-arrived B737MAXs will be looking to use any aircraft returned to leasing companies. I highl...
Jump to postHow long do you guys reckon a sale process would take to become effective. I assume neither party would be interested in disrupting the profitable and already booked out summer operations at this stage and with antitrust clearances necessary I assume that even if do see a decision on a potential buy...
Jump to postLuisvalero wrote:Best fares from Europe are from Saudia. I ‘ve paid 500€ for MAD-BOM-MAD with stop in RUH. Insely Cheap!
I've flown them quite a few times before and what I have to say is that there onboard product is pretty unspectacular but definitely okay. Except the food options to be mainly focussed on their key Chinese clients. The only hassle is always that PEK is super-crowded (including immigration and the no...
Jump to postFirstly, has anything happened in the meantime or are we again looking at one of those rumours that just went as quickly as it came Why is 11 pm departure considered horrible, it is a good time. After a day's work, the traveller can relax before catching the late flight. Also traffic will be lighter...
Jump to postIs it just me or is the dark blue also substantially lighter?
Jump to postIt's interesting that both would launch the routes to their respective partners and that we don't see MU going for LHR and CZ going to CDG because ultimately they could leave the other route to their respective partner as I don't see how you would be a successful business airline out of Daxing when ...
Jump to postIf we look at the UK as being split only into four constituent countries, then yes indeed you will find them in England (ie LHR-MAN) and Scotland. In Norway, you will also find intra-county flights due to the inaccessibility of some remote towns on the shoreline or in the far north. In Spain, you wi...
Jump to postYes, except that China is ( and to some extents Turkey and Israel) clearly taking over and cannibalizing the African market – not for the best! I totally agree. TK does wonders in connecting a country like Somalia to the world and China does wonders in paving roads - but in the long run, this will ...
Jump to postNotice, this article is written in traditional Chinese and holds perspective of “Republic of China”. I have personally never heard of that; but based on the “destination naming for foreign airlines” incident, I suppose it be a new chapter of influence conflict. I won’t go beyond it such that I invo...
Jump to postThis is more HK newspaper BS (which they are famous for), not something official from Beijing and its in Traditional Characters. Finally the Vatican is culturally part of Italy and there are no border checks. To start, what BS? This is Sing Tao not Apple Daily or even Oriental Daily. Ultimately, Pa...
Jump to post..European airport: FRA - Frankfurt, Germany ...N-American airport: MIA - Miami, Florida ...S-American airport: GEO - Georgetown, Guyana ...Asian airport: AUH - Abu Dhabi, UAE ...African airport: WDH - Windhoek, Namibia ...aircraft: Boeing 747-200 ...widebody aircraft: Boeing 747-200 ...turboprop ai...
Jump to postQuite a few students are going to Europe, way cheaper in Spring! Just had some over this week. Interesting, I must be getting old! :old: Or I must be living in a bubble :D No, in all honesty, you're average American college kid doesnt go to Europe for Spring Break but some do! But even though our f...
Jump to postWhy would AA NOT challenge a major international competitor at their fortress hub? You expect them to sit back and let a competitor take bookings from them in a market they otherwise dominate? I'm only surprised they didn't start the route sooner. I think you have it backwards. The point of sale is...
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