davidjohnson6 wrote:Another unusual route - Madrid every 2 weeks to Uzbekistan... not just Tashkent but also Urgench. Anyone able to say why this exists ?
https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/231219-2wns24uz
Got to find somewhere to put the planes that aren't going to Cuba anymore. What happened to Cuba? Increasing US sanctions on Cuba have made travel to Cuba unattractive. Iberojet will be dropping the Spain-Cuba market entirely from January. Also TUI will not be resuming its MAN-Cuba flights next sum...
Jump to postI mean this might be the first TATL on a commercial AOC, but I worked for a company that was doing SAF before it was called SAF and they definitely sent the corporate jet (I want to say a Challenger) from US to France on 100% "green jet fuel" as it was being branded at the time around 2012...
Jump to postaviator2000 wrote:Iberojet to launch 2 really interesting seasonal routes from Spain next summer:
Madrid - Bangkok: 1 weekly A359
Barcelona - Port Louis: 1 weekly A339
https://x.com/AeroinfoBCN/status/172473 ... 59989?s=20
Binter is starting 8 daily flights to MAD (4 from TFN and 4 from LPA) starting February 2024. https://ofertas.bintercanarias.com/canarias-madrid It will be interesting to see how Binter compete with their Embraers facing Iberia, Air Europa and Ryanair. Great news and I hope they'll be two very succ...
Jump to postBinter earns avios and even status points on IB, too. Plus it's infinitely better than the I2 sardine can Iberia is running down there. I'm willing to bet they get a sizeable market.
Jump to postWhat are the growth opportunities for narrow-body long-haul once IB starts to operate the A321XLR? IB & TAP used to have a competitive advantage being able to fly the A319/20 to ACC, SSG, TMS and LOS where other European carriers would need to send widebodies to reach Central and Western Africa...
Jump to postThank to both of you, very interesting.
Jump to postSo I understand that standard cabin pressurization altitude is around 8,000 ft, so what sort of procedure is there when leaving or arriving to very high airports (thinking of LPB at over 13k ft). Do they just adjust the outflow valve to slowly get close to field altitude before landing?
Jump to postBad day in IBZ as an LH 321 blew some tires and closed the airport for around 4 hours.
https://avherald.com/h?article=50e7601a
Gosh. No new routes. The ongoing pilot shortage will continue to crimp capacity/network growth unfortunately. I don't think IND is going to suffer too much from it since there's not really a shortage of mainline pilots. It's felt really heavily at the regionals and one of the solutions is to upgaug...
Jump to postI feel like there's a lot more acceptance of driving further to get where you need to go in Galicia though so SCQ has less of a problem with catchment area. I've always joked that any two points in Galicia are a 45 minute to an hour drive apart no matter the distance. I get people in Vigo or Coruña ...
Jump to postAlso since 2019, high speed to Galicia has opened so that might cut into a lot of SCQ/LCG/VGO traffic. Things are in fact more complex and interesting, and to some point a bit irrational. Those are the figures for July 2023 VS July 2019 for Galicia: SCQ 398477 / 302093 / +96384 LCG 117205 / 125605 ...
Jump to postThe full numbers: https://www.aena.es/sites/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1576864104955&ssbinary=true There had been quite a few records. Málaga, Valencia (1st time above 1M), Santiago (shy of 400k) or Asturias (1st time above 200k). Not sure ab...
Jump to postWhat is Madrid like these days for connecting flights? Tomorrow I will be arriving from France (EU) but travelling to the UK (Non-EU), the connection time is 1hr 30mins. Is this enough time to change terminals and go through passport control to ensure I have enough time to make my connection? I am ...
Jump to postWhat is Madrid like these days for connecting flights? Tomorrow I will be arriving from France (EU) but travelling to the UK (Non-EU), the connection time is 1hr 30mins. Is this enough time to change terminals and go through passport control to ensure I have enough time to make my connection? I am ...
Jump to postRyanair loads into the system 2 weekly Madrid-Aqaba: https://twitter.com/SeanM1997/status/1689218418971406337?t=nv4ybltqIHzHYrla8z9nrg&s=19 RYR has been flying to AMM from MAD for a couple of seasons now. I flew the route in February 2022 and both flights were completely full. I dont't know if ...
Jump to postI think the idea that ORD is stopping IND from getting service is a myth created on airline forums. ORD is a hell hole. The drive there sucks and international arrivals are the worst. IND did so well pre pandemic that it was a serious contender for a second route. It's definitely not a myth... 1) T...
Jump to postChina Eastern will fly PVG-MAD-EZE this year . World longest flight . MU265/266 33E/33H/359 Would that be a regular flight or a one off? Have you got a source? Also, how would it be the world’s longest flight? Beth PVG/EZE-MAD are currently flown and neither are the worlds longest flight. It wasn't...
Jump to postI also think IND suffers from its close proximity to ORD and so many nonstop destinations from Chicago. British Airways is doing extremely well at BNA. Nashville is booming with growth, and its tourism and entertainment attractions are international draws. Connections at LHR are also strong. With t...
Jump to postAren't these new carriers (IB, AY, etc) flying to DOH a risk to QR? They all offer a worse product than QR, and some QR customers might end up disappointed to end up on an IB plane versus a QR one, expecting QR's product. I know when booking it will say "operated by", but IMO a number of ...
Jump to postYeah, everyone is talking like Tijuana is a suburb of San Diego. By pure population, it'd be San Diego that's the suburb of Tijuana (obviously not the whole story). But definitely seems aimed at Mexicans who would rather deal with the border at the airport in PHX and have significantly cheaper parki...
Jump to postDoes QF's Emirates partnership have an expiration date? I'm sure AAB is eying that like crazy. Though hard to beat EK's presence in the UK, particularly to secondary cities.
Jump to postIs Qatar subsidizing OneWorld flights to Doha? Finnar, Iberia, Japan Airlines.. I don't see what sense those flights make when Qatar Airways is better positioned in terms of planes, brand and product. Especially since Iberia supposedly has a shortage of long haul fleet... I wonder if it will be yea...
Jump to postHow is BA doing with Aruba, will this continue next season? I haven't seen or heard anything concrete but going on the loads alone I'd be surprised if it continues. There are few other options though really. I don't think St Maarten is that popular with Brits, nor the US Virgin Islands. St Juan was...
Jump to postIm curious, what makes AF think Indiana is a good move? Besides the Indy 500, what do French travelers want to do in the state? Or is for business travelers? (Forgive me Hoosiers, I just moved to your state) Aside from leisure travel, Purdue and IU both have IND as their main airport. Obviously all...
Jump to postSaw an article in Spanish today that Iberia is pressing hard to coordinate with ADIF to make sure train schedules work well into the new high speed station at Barajas. I could definitely see that being a plus for the government to help the merger to get more traffic onto its own rails and presumabl...
Jump to postSaw an article in Spanish today that Iberia is pressing hard to coordinate with ADIF to make sure train schedules work well into the new high speed station at Barajas. I could definitely see that being a plus for the government to help the merger to get more traffic onto its own rails and presumably...
Jump to posthttps://twitter.com/thatjohn/status/1663455027573272582
John Walton has a thread about how this airframe has illegal seats installed.
Also, one of the big threats of IB getting a bunch of Boeings is to Lufthansa Teknik. Iberia runs a pretty massive MRO but obviously caters to Airbus. They could get a lot of 737 and 787 business if they become part of the IB fleet. Also, the 787 feels like a much more natural fit for a lot of IB ma...
Jump to postWith national elections now on July 23, what will happen with Air Europa specially if the current president/party is not reelected? I am still convinced that all the "wasted" time on this "telenovela" is just Iberia buying time until Air Europa goes bankrupt. https://www.hostelt...
Jump to postYes likely announced this week to have maximum impact on the elections tomorrow.
Jump to postAvianca is launching SAL-MAD to compete with IB.
Source: https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/230410-avsal
The recovery of El Salvador in general has been quite remarkable.
Not that I necessarily agree or disagree here, just playing devil's advocate, because the comparison is a bit apples and oranges.. For one, those mergers occurred under very different circumstances. KLM/AF merged nearly 20 years ago, and Lufthansa's takeover of Swiss and then Austrian happened in t...
Jump to postQuite interesting. So when the merger KL-AF produced - no problem! When LH acquired Austrian Airlines - no problem! But now, suddenly we have a problem? Not that I necessarily agree or disagree here, just playing devil's advocate, because the comparison is a bit apples and oranges.. For one, those ...
Jump to postCDG has ORY nearby FRA has CGN, DUS, DTM and FKB nearby AMS has EIN nearby LHR has LTN + LGW nearby MAD has nothing nearby - unless you want to go a LONG way away. Ryanair tried using CQM as a surrogate for MAD - it failed pretty quickly - they learned that MAD has no surrogate airports. I think Wi...
Jump to postOne difference to today was you needed agents for everything. You would not just browse the web and select a ticket and pay yourself, but you would need to see a travel agent with complex ticketing knowledge. The same for check in and baggage drop. In this respect - if things work as advertised - t...
Jump to postSo one thing I find a bit counterintuitive is that given the hard cap on PFCs in the US, you'd think US airports would be even worse about trying to get every cent of retail revenue possible. But just from a very subjective POV, it feels like many airports in Europe are far, far worse on that front ...
Jump to postT4 main seems to usually have free gates and T4S is expanding. As far as fleet strategy, I don't know about the 737s, but I've always thought the 787 made a ton of sense for IB for thinner routes into Latin America. Would easily make MDE, CLO, ASU, GDL, etc.. much more viable options. On top of that...
Jump to postAnyone knows what is the status of the Air Europa acquisition by IAG? Any progress? The last news seems to be pending regulatory approval from Brussels. And as an aside, it's Iberia buying rather than IAG. So it would be another airline within Iberia (though will probably be folded into IB) rather ...
Jump to postAn interesting thing IIRC that at least used to be the case was that for DFW-SYD on QF, SYD was the alternate. The flight didn't have enough spare fuel for the calculations of the whole trip so it dispatched DFW-BNE and then would "divert" to SYD when close buy and could guarantee the fue...
Jump to postAn interesting thing IIRC that at least used to be the case was that for DFW-SYD on QF, SYD was the alternate. The flight didn't have enough spare fuel for the calculations of the whole trip so it dispatched DFW-BNE and then would "divert" to SYD when close buy and could guarantee the fuel...
Jump to postaviator2000 wrote:American Airlines will be temporarily cancelling Philadelphia-Madrid during the month of May.
LEVEL to increase flights out of Barcelona during W23. - EZE from 7 to 9 weekly. - SCL from 4 to 5 weekly. - JFK from 3 to 5 weekly. https://twitter.com/AeroinfoBCN/status/1641135863420551173?s=20 Iberia will have up to 4 daily flights between Spain and Argentina on selected days during W23 (2x d t...
Jump to postSorry, there's really not much more summary than what I put. If you look, it's a 5 graf article and a lot of that is fluff. Preferente is a good news source but they will publish a lot that's basically just the information and little else. Literally the last paragraph is a single sentence saying VGO...
Jump to postThey just rebuilt the terminals, then they were going to spend another $7 Billion on an Airtrain or Subway extension. That is a lot of money, how many people would actually benefit? JFK's Airtrain had about 20,000 daily riders in 2022. Let's say LGA's saw similar numbers, that's $7 Billion for 20,0...
Jump to postUnited is upgrading it's capacity in Barcelona for S23 on its IAD-BCN to 772. Seems that UA is having a lot of success in Barcelona After the announced new route ORD-BCN, and also the EWR-BCN upgrade on the 781. What could be expected in a short-middle term? SFO-BCN? SFO will probably be the next t...
Jump to postThe question now is... Have Iberia/IAG done the lobbying needed for convince Brussels and Competition tribunals this acquisition can be approved? The consumer minister in Spain is a member of the communist party. So if they get him, should have Brussels. Especially since they look at the European m...
Jump to posthttps://www.preferente.com/noticias-de-transportes/noticias-de-aerolineas/lo-mejor-es-dejar-que-air-europa-fracase-y-se-hunda-325135.html Barclays analysis concludes best for IB is to just let UX fail and expand in their place. Can't find the actual analysis but don't know if this takes into conside...
Jump to postIsn't IAG trying to concentrate its maintenance/engineering with the Iberia MRO in Madrid? Given the difference in cost of operating between the two, that would make sense.
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