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jbpdx

Re: Southwest pilot broadcasts political views to pax

As I was leaving the plane I would have dropped my mask and sneezed in the fascist chud’s face.

jbpdx

Re: Delta Network Thread - 2021

Does anyone know what is going on with DL at LGB? I thought they were going to have to use slots or lose them? Have there been any new routes rumored for LGB? If Delta has LGB slots, some should be used for the unserved LGB-PDX and LGB-SEA routes that were lost when JetBlue pulled out. Southwest is...

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jbpdx

Re: Website is over-moderated

What’s happened to signatures?

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jbpdx

Re: New Orleans Aviation Thread - 2021

Alaska has scrapped PDX-MSY.

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

Not sure if anyone saw or caught it on camera, but N343CG (B738) operating as OMD506 in Virgin Australia paint swung through KHIO today. Unique visitor. Not my tweet/photos, but here it is: https://twitter.com/sabian404/status/1445847803649925129?s=10 Why was it there? “Aviation Capital Group is fe...

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

https://www.travelandleisure.com/worlds ... s-domestic

jbpdx

Re: Opinion: General Milley Should Face Charges

trump is a sociopath.
Milley is a hero.

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jbpdx

Re: Texas abortion law

https://www.alternet.org/2021/09/greg-abbott/

Companies on the #boycottTexas list.

jbpdx

Re: Texas abortion law

Get ready for boycotts. And Texas-based airlines will be in the crosshairs.

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

AC4500 wrote:
It looks like Alaska has cut PDX-DCA/EWR/JFK for October. I guess the Delta COVID variant is really starting to take its toll on airline passenger bookings...

They aren’t cutting SEA so obviously not. In fact they’re doubling SEA-JFK in October.

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

PacificWest wrote:
Alaska is slowly starving Oregon of inter-state frequency.

Intrastate.
PDX-MDF goes 6x/day in January;
PDX-RDM 4x/day. PDX-EUG is now Amtrak.

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

It’s days like these that I guess we can be thankful Spirit isn’t interested in Portland and has only one lone route out of PDX.

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

“The number of people flying through Portland International Airport topped 1 million in each of the past two months, climbing 13% in June as travelers hop back aboard airplanes — eager to shake off their pandemic isolation. Nearly 1.2 million people flew through PDX last month, by far the highest nu...

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jbpdx

Re: Alaska Airlines Fleet/Network Thread - 2021

Any update on Alaska adding Toronto or Halifax? WOW NS to SEA ... Yep, I'm sure Toronto and Halifax are major priorities for AS right now. :roll: Maybe they'll add Toronto in the near future, but certainly not Halifax. They should consider PDX-YYZ now that Air Canada has dropped the route, which wa...

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

Dreamflight767 wrote:
Appears Icelandair is a few minutes away from PDX. Is today the first day for resumption of service?

Started on 1 July.

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jbpdx

Re: Southwest Fleet/Network Thread - 2021

WN and B6 is probably the worst merger one can imagine. B6 and F9 or NK would be much better. Also eliminating that Florida competition for B6. The Biden administration is focused on expanding competition in corporate America. It’s doubtful there’ll be any mergers or buyouts approved by the Justice...

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jbpdx

Re: AS BOI focus city

Wneast wrote:
jbpdx wrote:
Alaska will not fly to Hawaii or Orlando from Boise. Get real.

Yeah your so negative did anyone think we would be seeing JFK on JetBlue I think not

That won't last. Boise is chudville.

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jbpdx

Re: AS BOI focus city

Alaska will not fly to Hawaii or Orlando from Boise. Get real.

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jbpdx

Re: AS BOI focus city

Boise has a metro population of 850,000. It’s comparable to Toledo, Ohio, and Fayetteville, N.C.

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

ooslc wrote:
First flight from KEF about to land. Has it been since 2019 or early 2020 since we've seen icelandair?

I think it was January 2020.

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

I won’t connect through SEA >.<

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

Oh your so right I like the idea of GEG-HNL. I think SEA-HNL is WN trying to go after AS in every hawaii route they do Except Washington & Oregon residents tend to vacation off Isle to Maui, Kauai or the Big Island. I know a group of Oregonians on Molokai as well. We are fiercely loyal to AS, w...

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

On the topic of WN, their PDX operations are kind of pathetic at the moment to be honest, especially during Portland's summer peak travel season period. Over the past few weeks, I have travelled through both the north and south parts of the terminal and traffic flow is VERY different in comparison....

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

Who’s going to re-establish the PDX-LGB link. It’s the only significant hole in PDX- California. JetBlue used to get 85% LF.

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

PDX Portland International Airport May 2021 Traffic Report Total Passengers. 1,044,427 61.4% of May 2019 Total Internațional. 7,736 11.3% of May 2019 Total Domestic. 1,036,691. 63.5% of May 2019 Total Flight Operations*. 7,736 50.9% of May 2019 ------- May 2019 Total Passengers. 1,701,213 Total Inte...

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

Looks like Condor has dropped PDX. Flights were scheduled to resume in early July. That leaves Icelandair as the only link to Europe this summer.

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

The Netherlands will open to all U.S. travelers on 24 June without testing, vaccination, or quarantine requirements. However, Delta will not be restarting PDX-AMS until 10 September, missing the summer season. Meanwhile, several airlines are suing the UK government for not allowing vaccinated travel...

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jbpdx

Re: Alaska Airlines Fleet/Network Thread - 2021

RWA380 wrote:
I know where lots of Portlanders have relocated in retirement...

We could use more reliable nonstops to PVR, where we’re in the process of getting a second place. At least weekly in summer would help. Right now a connection is necessary and fares are very high.

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

Good to see Alaska is backing off the idea that they have to shuttle seems like almost everyone into an overcrowded SEA. No reason southbound PDX passengers should have to fly north to SEA to go south, and no reason some ANC, GEG and PAE etc. passengers couldn’t route thru PDX instead. AS should foc...

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

Here’s an odd one: Sun Country just landed from MKC, Kansas City’s old downtown airport. Must be cargo but rare.

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

Air Canada just arrived from YVR. Is this the first re-link flight?

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

How many gates does Southwest have in the new E Concourse? Today (11 June) they have a total of 23 departures between 0500 and 2100. That's an average of 1.5 departures per hour. How many gates would that require?

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

If Sun Country could fill 50-75% of a 737-800 for 4x weekly PDX-BNA, than AS could easily make that 80-95%. PDX-BNA Q2 2019: 321 passengers/day (161 EW) Q3 2019: 378 passengers/day (189 EW). Q4 2019: 295 passengers/day (148 EW). New Orleans and Tampa are great adds by Alaska (I wonder if Allegiant ...

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jbpdx

Re: PIT Update Discussion Thread - 2021

flyPIT wrote:
With NK adding 30 cities from MIA I was a bit surprised PIT was not one of them. But perhaps I shouldn't be.

At least you have 8 destinations on NK from PIT. We have one from PDX.

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jbpdx

Re: Spirit to Launch MIA with 30 Routes

I call foul! I live in Charlotte (CLT) and we STILL have only ONE airline connecting CLT and MIA. Look at all the cities who have 3 to 5 airlines connecting them with MIA, yet the fifth busiest airport east of the Mississippi River only has ONE? I travel the world regularly and I frequent Miami, bu...

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jbpdx

Re: Alaska Airlines Fleet/Network Thread - 2021

PDX is not re-starting, on Oct 7th, they return to PSP, which is no surprise to me given the domestic patterns of our travels recently. That's odd, I"m looking at two nonstops on their website: Thu, Oct 7 Alaska 2057 PDX 10:55 am PAE 11:47 am 0hours 52minutes | Nonstop Alaska 2054 PDX 6:25 pm ...

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jbpdx

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2021

BNA’s biggest holes are ABQ, PDX, and IND in my opinion. WN should be able to fulfill that. You're missing SMF! In addition to those 4, I would like to see some smaller markets added such as TUL, LIT, RIC, etc. I wouldn't count on WN adding PDX-BNA. As we're frequently told in the Oregon thread, if...

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Re: COVID-19 News and Reference Thread

https://news.sky.com/story/passengers-a ... t-12324103

jbpdx

Re: Alaska Airlines Fleet/Network Thread - 2021

https://newsroom.alaskaair.com/2021-06- ... pring-2022

jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VOI956

jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

Lost nonstops to BNA (SY), BWI (WN/AS), HOU (WN), PHL (AS/AA), YYZ (AC), LHR (DL/BA), LIH (AS), LGB (B6), OMA (AS), SAT (SY), MSN (SY?) Domestic service either reduced and/or slow to resume: IAD (UA), DAL (AS/WN), BUR (AS), JFK (DL/AS) International service either reduced and/or slow to resume: AMS ...

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

Delta has pushed back the restart date for AMS to 10 Sept. Routesonline has an article "Delta sees normal summer for domestic travel The airline believes it will be back at 100% of pre-COVID-19 domestic leisure travel levels by next month." It also says "Alaska Airlines, meanwhile, sa...

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jbpdx

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2021

PDX runways are 150’ and handle AN-124.

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jbpdx

Re: Spirit Airlines Discussion Thread - 2021

AC4500 wrote:
If AS doesnt start PDX-MSY, I don't think anyone will.

I’m beginning to question Alaska’s commitment to PDX.

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jbpdx

Re: Spirit Airlines Discussion Thread - 2021

jplatts wrote:

On the other hand, NK re-adding PDX-ORD nonstop service might be a possibility once demand recovers with the stronger demand that was there for PDX-ORD nonstop service on NK 3 years ago.

They might try PDX-MSY, an unserved route. Time it for connection to Cancun and Tampa.

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

Looks like Cathay will be sending two 744 to PDX tomorrow morning from LAX. Is this normal ? Nope, not normal. So close in timings (CX83, CX3281), probably a dupe flight. Won’t really know until they get in the air. Will be watching, thanks for the heads up. Saw something in the news about the Port...

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

midway7 wrote:
We had some weather in the area around that time yesterday. They were likely taking radar vectors around it as opposed to flying the standard departure. The weather was not in the area long. Typical Portland.

Yeah. 85F the other day and just over 50 now. Montana is about to get a snow dump.

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

Hawaiian is flying the A330 to HNL today in addition to the A321. Also subbed in the A330 Friday for the A321.

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

The Icelandair PDX-KEF flight appears to have recently increased from 3 to 4x weekly, which is a great sign of returning demand. When the resumption of PDX-KEF was first announced I booked the flight with the strong possibility that I would be rerouted through SEA. I'm glad that I probably won't ha...

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jbpdx

Re: Oregon Aviation Thread - 2021

As of now, Condor restarts FRA on 28 June, Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri. Air Canada restarts YVR on 19 June. Icelandair restarts KEF on 2 July, Sun/Tue/Wed/Fri. WestJet restarts YYC in August. Delta restarts AMS on 6 Aug. Alaska restarts FLL on 8 Sept., still alternating days with JetBlue, and Cancun in November...

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