Re: US Airports with 1 flight per day?

While looking on Google Flights recently, I noticed that Binghamton, NY (BGM) is going to be down to only one round-trip per day* starting in January- a 5:55 AM departure to DTW, and then a return at 9:20 PM. This got me wondering: how many airports are there that just see one airline flight a day,...

Re: Boston Aviation - 2023

Hey all, Does anyone know of all the pilot and FA bases in BOS? I know B6, DL, and AA have them, but does anyone know the breakup by aircraft type and regional affiliate? There hasn't been a DL pilot base in BOS in decades; although there are still a fair number of pilots who live in BOS and commut...

Re: West Coast Florida (TPA, PIE, SRQ, PGD, RSW, APF) Aviation - 2023

I am surprised that RSW doesn't have any nonstop service to LAX past March as there is likely enough demand for RSW-LAX nonstop service in April/May/June with the PDEW of RSW-LAX/BUR/LGB/ONT/SNA being 114 passengers/day in Q2 2023 according to DOT Consumer Airfare Report Table 6 data that can be fo...

Re: 2023 NFL Charters

So the Patriots appear to be airborne on VS 676 FRA to BOS. Just curious, why does VS have rights between those cities?

Re: LH458 16OCT24 diverts to OAK because unable visual approaches.

ScottishDavie wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong but I didn't think October 2024 had happened yet.

Re: West Coast Florida (TPA, PIE, SRQ, PGD, RSW, APF) Aviation - 2023

Frequent RSW traveler with a home in Bonita... I would welcome a Sky Club at RSW, but keep in mind that RSW is not one of those airports that people arrive at hours in advance because of local traffic uncertainty or significant TSA delays. I often arrive so close to priority boarding time that I wou...

Re: West Coast Florida (TPA, PIE, SRQ, PGD, RSW, APF) Aviation - 2023

What is the current update on the RSW Terminal Expansion Project? Was down there in May going back next month and curious how the project is coming along. Scheduled completion is still a year out. C1 and 2 remain unusable. Some internal ops rooms are completed, but the majority of public areas are ...

Re: Rocket attacks into Israel — effects on airline operations

There's an Omni International A330 shuttling between TLV and ATH. I suspect this is an American government charter. Yes it is. Both DL and UA have added additional flights from ATH to NYC to repatriate those pax being ferried by Omni from TLV to ATH. https://news.delta.com/delta-adds-direct-flights...

Re: KL597 (AMS-CPT) 12th Oct - Double diversion

I have zero information on this, but I suspect that there were enough CPT destined flights that had to divert to JNB to either create an arrival delay into JNB or enough extra arrivals to create gate/ramp issues.

Re: Rocket attacks into Israel — effects on airline operations

There's an Omni International A330 shuttling between TLV and ATH. I suspect this is an American government charter.

Re: Rocket attacks into Israel — effects on airline operations

From AF site/app: “Scheduled services to Tel Aviv remain suspended until further notice and flights to and from Tel Aviv on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 October, 2023 have been cancelled. Air France is reassessing the situation on the spot on a daily basis. For further information, check this page reg...

Re: Rocket attacks into Israel-affects on airline operations

Flightaware.com shows about 20 current airborne ships inbound to TLV. And several recent departures. So based on the fact there are continued inbound and outbound flights, I would doubt those claims by Hamas..

Re: Boston Aviation - 2023

Aeromexico to relaunch BOS-MEX flights in 2024 https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2023/10/02/2753021/0/en/AEROMEXICO-DELTA-PARTNERSHIP-TO-INCREASE-TRANSBORDER-SEAT-OFFERING-BY-MORE-THAN-30.html Well now we see why this route didn’t launch on DL’s own metal. Any opportunity they can get t...

Re: Boston Aviation - 2023

Furthermore, of all the cities mentioned in that post, the most PAX on any is 78, which would barely fill an E175, and no way would that be used on flights as long as anything mentioned here. If CRJ 200s were still a thing, maybe BOS-GSO or BOS-GSP I could see, but certainly nothing else on this li...

Re: Boston Aviation - 2023

Here are the Q1 2023 PDEW's out of Greater Boston to the top contiguous U.S. markets traveled to from BOS that don't currently have any nonstop service out of BOS (Source: https://data.transportation.gov/Aviation/Consumer-Airfare-Report-Table-6-Contiguous-State-C/yj5y-b2ir/explore): Greater Boston-...

Re: Boston Aviation - 2023

A-B connector would be a stopgap for DL growth if Massport can find another location for AC, but I suspect the project DL would want is an expansion of the A satellite into South Cargo. Is this really a possibility or is it just a pipe dream? I have long felt that the entire South Cargo area was fa...

Re: Portuguese President flies commercial

On December 26, 1973, then-President Richard Nixon became the only sitting president to travel on a regularly scheduled commercial airline flight when he flew on United Airlines flight 55 from Washington Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport, "to set an example for t...

Re: Boston Aviation - 2023

The transfer from terminal E to A is a hassle, but if you really analyze it, it is really not much more of an ordeal than ATL F or E to terminal A or T... or AMS arriving B and hiking to E or almost any connection at CDG. Ultimately, Massport needs to build some sort of AirTrain between A and E simi...

Re: DL157 ACC-JFK Diverts to TER

Those 763s always giving headaches. Data, or loose anecdotes? These are just the ones on Av Herald in the past year Incident Delta B763 over Atlantic on Sep 8th 2023, backup oxygen system problems Incident Delta B763 at Prague on Sep 1st 2023, engine shut down in flight Incident Delta B763 over Atl...

Re: Why can TK traverse EU airspace from Russian airports?

Also, are the Russian airlines flying to Kaliningrad flying through International airspace(maybe outside each countries own airspace) or through European airspace? Or is there a kind of, lifeline air corridor that is in place? Those flights are traveling many hundreds of extra miles to avoid iverfl...

Re: Why Are Any Airliners Departing the US allowed to Cross Russian Airspace?

A US citizen can buy a ticket on SU if they wanted to... just would have to find a credit card that works on SU. my original premise is that the FAA and other relevant agencies from other western nations should have simply ruled that no flights to or from US territory shall be operated over Russia d...

Re: Why Are Any Airliners Departing the US allowed to Cross Russian Airspace?

The countries you mention have no sanctions against Russia and, as sovereign nations, can do as they wish and what benefits the interests. US and EU law only applies to it's own entity and has no jurisdiction outside it's boundaries. Any 'difficulties' experienced by US/EU carriers is a matter betw...

Re: Why Are Any Airliners Departing the US allowed to Cross Russian Airspace?

The US and Canada can certainly deny a clearance to a carrier, say Air India, that would route it eventually over Russia. This would avoid issues like the AI B777 that had to do a precautionary landing in Siberia a few weeks back. So a "neutral" carrier may be free to overfly Russia, but i...

Why Are Any Airliners Departing the US allowed to Cross Russian Airspace?

Various airlines hailing from " neutral" countries like India, the PRC and some Middle Eastern countries are allowed to overfly Russia on flights to their home countries on flights that originate in the USA Canada or E.U. American, Canadian and E.U airlines are not permitted to overfly Rus...

Re: Gender reveal party turns deadly when a Piper PA-25 crashes in front of guests

First, after multiple viewpoints were examined, the plane did NOT hit a tree at any point. In all likelihood, that wing failed as a result of undetected spar corrosion, not because of any excessive overload. Wing spar corrosion is an issue in the Piper ag aircraft, and we have no idea how this aircr...

Re: Hurricane Idalia - Airport Updates

RSW has had at least one SWA divert to MCO after holding for a bit. Just heard on LiveATC of a 47 kt wind gust with a passing band. A few other arrivals have done a couple or three turns in holding northeast of RSW, but are currently making the approach to RWY 24. A UA flight ORD-RSW briefly divert...

Re: West Coast Florida (TPA, PIE, SRQ, PGD, RSW, APF) Aviation - 2023

The land mitigation project that they’ve been working on, is in preparation of the 2nd runway. It’s coming. The terminal expansion is quite a few years away. As of right now the only expansion being worked on is for the centralized security checkpoint. I believe the extra pier is part of this curre...

Re: West Coast Florida (TPA, PIE, SRQ, PGD, RSW, APF) Aviation - 2023

The full RSW build out has a proposed terminal layout featuring 75+ gates. You can't fill 75 gates with one runway.

Re: West Coast Florida (TPA, PIE, SRQ, PGD, RSW, APF) Aviation - 2023

RSW new tower is up and running! RSW is currently in the midst of a major terminal expansion project. It actually amazes me that the current projections don't call for the need for the second runway to be built and operational until 2038-2043! The layout for the second runway, parallel to the curre...

Re: Delta Air Lines Network - 2023

EADSYABSOB73857 wrote:

Looks like DL quietly axed the BOS-MEX flight before launch. I don’t see the flight for sale anymore.

Re: Close Call at Boston Logan on Feb. 27

The Lear pilot in the left seat admits he wasn't feeling very well that night. "Unfit to fly?"

Re: First US carrier to TIJ (in a while)-- AA PHX-TIJ

I have always wondered why various US carriers did not serve TIJ, an airport which serves a metropolitan area with a population of over 2.5 million. I would think that service to LAX, PHX, SLC and even DFW and IAH would serve to attract customers to the domestic and international systems of the vari...

Re: Boston Aviation - 2023

With all this A to E connector talk, what ever happened to the notion of relocating the Fedex facility and expanding passenger gates out that direction? https://earth.app.goo.gl/?apn=com.google.earth&isi=293622097&ius=googleearth&link=https%3a%2f%2fearth.google.com%2fweb%2f%4042.36141416...

Re: Boston Aviation - 2023

With all this A to E connector talk, what ever happened to the notion of relocating the Fedex facility and expanding passenger gates out that direction? https://earth.app.goo.gl/?apn=com.google.earth&isi=293622097&ius=googleearth&link=https%3a%2f%2fearth.google.com%2fweb%2f%4042.36141416...

Re: Boston Aviation - 2023

[photoid][/photoid][threeid][/threeid] Did anyone catch the news about the ship that was interrupting landings on Saturday? I'm curious about the issue. https://www.universalhub.com/2023/hundreds-bound-logan-diverted-other-new-england I live out by castle island and I heard lots of horns in the harb...

Re: UA 63 Diverting to SJU

This didn't seem like a flight diverting to a random airport to me. Based on the flight track and FR24 info it seemed as if this stop was planned, at least before it departed GRU. The mere fact the aircraft didn't spend long in SJU also tells me perhaps a replacement crew was already in place. I do...

Re: DL & El Al to form partnership

Maybe I am way off base, but I can see this making sense from a code-share perspective: 1. DL has hubs in BOS, LAX and JFK (cities LY serves), which can provide feed opportunities for LY (definitely JFK, don't know about BOS or LAS) 2. LY opens up another routing to India for DL (LY is starting bot...

Re: Air India 777 on an India-SFO non stop made an emergency landing in Magadan, Russia

Probably a silly question, but how does a place with an airport and runway that can accommodate a 777 not have a reasonable hotel? There are airports all over the world that serve as emergency diversion fields that really don't have the equipment to service a 777 or other wide body aircraft. I have...

Re: Air India 777 on an India-SFO non stop made an emergency landing in Magadan, Russia

The issue at hand must have been pretty bad for the plane to be put down in Magadan. I get it'd be an ETOPS diversion airport but I wonder if this specific issue was really bad enough to exclude ICN, NRT or ANC/CDB as diversion points with a lot better accommodations for the plane, pax, and crew. F...

Re: Air India 777 on an India-SFO non stop made an emergency landing in Magadan, Russia

As far as I know, there are no restrictions for US citizens to visit Russia and for Russian passport holders to visit the USA. I suspect carriers lthat still fly to Russia, like TK and the ME3, transport quite of few in each direction.