The tweet says China Airlines will resume SEA-TPE service. When did they last operate this route? I’ve certainly never seen a CI passenger aircraft at SEA. Four carriers is way too much capacity. I’d be surprised to see three carriers sustain the route. BR is established, they’re not going anywhere....
Jump to postI would expect the 787 to be the front runner here. TS flies a fleet of mostly 332s with a couple of 333s. I think 338 would be off the table from a leasing standpoint. I don’t see a lessor wanting to carry the risk of the orphan frames. I also think a fleet made up of only 339s would be too much ca...
Jump to postThanks everyone! What got me thinking were the 11ft tall winglets on all the 767’s, an even older model. Then the 772, a much larger but somewhat similar frame didn’t get them retrofitted. I know the 764 has the raked winglet, and the 77W, so I assumed those stretched frame sizes needed them. Does ...
Jump to postI'm curious if AA would use the seat configuration on the Max 7 (if order) to be at 138 seats or even 144 seats. That could replace most the of the A319 and some A320 or upsize to the Max 8 for AA wanted to keep fleet commonality. I would think AA doesn't want to operate the 130 seat market and jus...
Jump to postQuick Look at LX52/LX53 yesterday. Westbound was 8:30, Eastbound 6:45. No wonder I was able to swing a great deal on J for the Eastbound tonight. Two weeks from now I’ll be on LH490 in Y for the same one way price as my LX53 J leg. That will be a long flight. You think that airlines adjust fares on...
Jump to postQuick Look at LX52/LX53 yesterday. Westbound was 8:30, Eastbound 6:45. No wonder I was able to swing a great deal on J for the Eastbound tonight. Two weeks from now I’ll be on LH490 in Y for the same one way price as my LX53 J leg. That will be a long flight.
Jump to postIs dispatch reliability data publicly available? That would provide the information you’re looking for. This seems merely anecdotal/unlucky to me. I had a 5 year span (2014-2019) where not a single Delta flight of mine was remotely on time, despite Delta being the most on time US Carrier in that sam...
Jump to postIt’ll be great to see the 35K flying for a US carrier. The 340 failing to enter the US Market was one of the great disappointments of the ‘90s. I doubt I’ll ever see one land in Seattle though, being an exclusive 339 hub these days. These 20 firm + 20 options gives DL the order book to replace the e...
Jump to postA grounding would be a knee jerk reaction. The 737-900NG is the same fuselage same plug door that many airlines have deactivated. Although too early to tell, I strongly believe this incident is related to this particular frame. You are missing the point. If this quality issue is not being picked up...
Jump to postAS Cargo's new 737-800 freighters, I vaguely remember a discussion about AS retaining the ETOPS certification for them and speculation as to what routes between AK and the Lower 48 would benefit. Was AS planning for the potential of increased cargo ops to Hawaii? Would a 737-800 Freighter have mean...
Jump to postHave to note how coincidental it is that the last of the “More to Love” birds just left service within weeks of a new merger being announced. Knowing AS well get some sort of new merger livery. What I really want to see is a hybrid painted 787 like the NW/KL DC-10. What time window does PoS use to d...
Jump to postA real shame we never got to see Chester on the back of the Atari Ferrari, although I completely understand the reason, part of me likes the idea of a 75 infront of the chugach range at ANC My understanding was that Boeing actually talked AS out of buying the 757. They did a market analysis and bel...
Jump to postThe Alaska A321s will get Heavy Checks now (if due or nearing) and some unique to AA mods but keep the current interior to be flown for Summer 2024 and then get full Oasis after summer flying. This will make them an extremely desirable sub-fleet for paid F and anyone not accustomed to upgrades this...
Jump to postMaybe it is just me and I am missing something, but how is UA going to have gates for all these new planes? Well over half of these new planes are for growth - not replacement. Seems to me like UA needs to figure out ways to get more gates at their hubs ASAP. And their hubs are in pretty big airpor...
Jump to postOnce this order for 787s nears 100% delivery will UA be the largest 787 operator in the world? Yes, by a very large margin. UA is already currently the second largest operator of the plane, after ANA. I believe it would be by far single largest individual widebody fleet ever (looking at individual ...
Jump to postMaybe it is just me and I am missing something, but how is UA going to have gates for all these new planes? Well over half of these new planes are for growth - not replacement. Seems to me like UA needs to figure out ways to get more gates at their hubs ASAP. And their hubs are in pretty big airpor...
Jump to postUA’s orderbook is just bonkers right now. 673 planes, 73% of the current fleet. Firm orders to bring the 787 fleet to 221. And they still have 100 787 options. Whole lot of potential growth on the table. IAD already has expansion in the works, ORD and LAX have projects about to get underway. I’m won...
Jump to postLooks like an incredible seat map for LX. Swiss has been my favorite way to get to Europe since my first flight with them and these A350s should only reinforce their premium reputation. In terms of seats it’s a perfect replacement for their 330/340 fleets. The extra real estate being used to dramati...
Jump to postThey have ended the removal of the lavatory and instead are going to keep 4 lavs but add an extra row of first. This is made possible by some new slimline seats that Recaro has, some pitch and galley changes, reducing premium by one row, and a reconfiguration of the emergency exit rows to be more s...
Jump to postAccording to weebly some MAX9 deliveries after N990AK will be getting new post number letters. Numbers appear to be N7** AL . Don't think AS planes have had AL before. https://alaskafleetstatus.weebly.com/737-9.html Other than the change in tail number, will there be anything to differentiate the A...
Jump to postLiving in Arizona during the summer meant these sorts of things were very common for me. I remember one trip in particular. Sold out 739 (DL, 180 pax) to Kennedy. OAT was 116F, and we got delayed by an FA falling ill that morning. Boarding had probably been delayed by 90 minutes by the time a replac...
Jump to postReturning is the right call. Too many complications with crewing in event of diversion. The FAs have no idea whether the passenger will escalate their problems over the course of a long transpacific flight. I hope UA is able to throw the book at the passenger. Dramatically inconveniencing 350+ peopl...
Jump to postORD-ZIH? Did I read that right? Other than the VX DAL routes that didn’t last, would this be the first route originating from the central timezone in the AS network? It’s going to need a lot of support from AA to work, and probably more MX Beach adds to come. Seems like an odd route with little chan...
Jump to postColor me completely surprised! Nassau? On Alaska Airlines? Makes me excited for what the MAX 8 is going to bring. Happy to see AS going back to the Caribbean after the Cuba experiment. I’m also surprised by the LAS-Mexico adds. I mentioned them as an outside possibility upthread but I would’ve thoug...
Jump to postAS just posted on their SM a route map without city labels for an announcement next week. My initial thoughts are SFO/SEA-CLT and two new RNO-SOCAL. CLT-SEA/SFO makes sense. I would also guess RNO-SAN and RNO-SNA. If the SE dot isn't CLT, I would have to guess it's another Florida airport. Maybe PB...
Jump to postAS just posted on their SM a route map without city labels for an announcement next week. My initial thoughts are SFO/SEA-CLT and two new RNO-SOCAL. I’m not sure how the geography would work if LAX-GUA were one of those routes. That would almost require an SFO-GUA which doesn’t make a ton of sense, ...
Jump to postAnswer is quite simple but nuanced. The LH group has 3 different weight variants of the A330, LH,SN and LX all have relatively low MTOW variants that aren’t designed for any routes beyond 9hrs. EDW had 2 high mtow A330s that where the only auch variants within the LH group, at the same time as EDW ...
Jump to postThermodynamics and engine intricacies not being my strong suit, would it make any difference with the Engine temperature issues to hang A321 engines on an A319 and never run it with max thrust? Or would takeoff still require a high enough thrust setting to make it moot? The best of the bad options i...
Jump to postI don’t remember UA having much at SEA beyond hub routes in 2002 besides NRT. There was a lot more mainline than there is now, but I can’t think of anything beyond LAX/SFO/DEN/ORD/IAD/EWR back then. Maybe BOS? EMB-120s were a common sight in SEA up until ~2014. They flew to PDX, GEG, even internati...
Jump to postWhat about the hard product? Sat wifi on the E75s is a leap, actually, given that AS uses them on some longer segments, with nothing between E75s and 737-700s. AA/DL/UA don't have/haven't announced(?) plans for sat wifi on their ~1,000 2-class RJs. Forget about lie-flats. AS just doesn't have the r...
Jump to postSo SEA is just going to continue to get more and more packed. I don’t think anything other than a greenfield to outright replace SEA would work. At this point, even if every airline that isn’t AS or DL transfers their ops to another location SeaTac would still be packed. WN, B6, NK, F9, HA, SY, and...
Jump to postIt’s impossible now, but when the third runway was being built, the ideal option would have been to drop to 1 runway ops on 16L/34R. Two runway ops before the 3rd runway wasn’t practical anyway. And in the space between todays 16R/34L and 16L/34R, build a Sky Harbor T4 like facility with access from...
Jump to postSo SEA is just going to continue to get more and more packed. I don’t think anything other than a greenfield to outright replace SEA would work. At this point, even if every airline that isn’t AS or DL transfers their ops to another location SeaTac would still be packed. WN, B6, NK, F9, HA, SY, and...
Jump to postSo SEA is just going to continue to get more and more packed. I don’t think anything other than a greenfield to outright replace SEA would work. At this point, even if every airline that isn’t AS or DL transfers their ops to another location SeaTac would still be packed. WN, B6, NK, F9, HA, SY, and ...
Jump to postWouldn’t the NK/Airport IT system tell agents if someone’s Passport needs to be verified? Either way it’s a moot point because PR is in the United States so passports aren’t required for travel from a US city.
Jump to postOf course they’d be flying A321neos. The A321 would have first appeared on property when it came time to replace the first batch of 752s. RJs and additional A320s would have likely covered the remaining DC-9-30s and the 12 -40s. The DC-9-50s would fly as long as NW could keep them flying. A321neos w...
Jump to post[twoid][/twoid] I would agree with this statement. The onboard service has decreased significanty and the operations have been less than stellar, more often than not I expect my flight to be late. At least not the cancellations they used to be. Pretty much all the posts on this page regarding degra...
Jump to posthiflyeras wrote:If I’m flying FC to the Islands it’ll be on HA. I hope they fly the 787 out of SEA!
Right off the bat LAX, LAS, SFO, SEA, NRT, and HND can probably all support the increased capacity of the 789. Should be a great airplane for HA. I knew 9 abreast was a given. That being said, I wish they’d gone with a 2-4-3 layout, kinda like NH’s old 77W fleet. The Hawaiian market is heavy on coup...
Jump to postMAX 9 #46 N967AK has delivered and is on its way to Oakland for post delivery work. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N967AK The Max fleet now matches the largest the MD-80 fleet got. While there were 48 total, two of the 82s appear to have been WFU prior to the delivery of the final two 83s. It’...
Jump to postPortland isn’t a healthy market right now and the passengers don’t really have another option. They could backtrack to SFO I suppose, or in the interim connect through HND. But DL will probably be happy to shove everyone through SEA onto the DL and KE metal operating SEA-ICN. More pax through SEA eq...
Jump to postFlew domestic F on another airline today and it got me thinking, when, if ever is AS going to bring back PDBs in F? Since the pandemic I’ve been hard pressed to get a box of water in F before takeoff let alone some orange juice or a cup of wine. While not a huge deal, it’s something that really upgr...
Jump to postNew Alaska Statehood special arrived in ANC this morning https://twitter.com/yukonedgmon/status/1656160421047603200?s=46&t=GEvonVOe8cTI6DlybeLm0g Love it! Really celebrates Alaskans, and I think anyone who is a part of The various Coastal BC and Coast Salish nations will also find a semblance o...
Jump to postWesternDC6B wrote:PSU.DTW.SCE wrote:....and water is wet?
How many years have we been hearing about this A225?
Get your production rates up, then we will talk.....
But, will Ryanair and Southwest buy them?
SEA-LHR is no surprise. Route has a ton of capacity and the European carriers are performing far better. AA/BA can better use the slot somewhere else, and I’d they really want 3 SEA flights, probably best to fly them BA metal since it’s such a competitive route.
Jump to postI think AA moved to A when it opened in its current form in 2004 when US was still in N with UA, but I’m not 100% sure I’m remembering that correctly. US, AA, and DL all moved into A once it opened. A's been open for decades. I suspect you meant the expansion beyond A6? Growing up in the 1980s I re...
Jump to postand by some strange twist of fate Delta were to order some 787s I'm sure Boeing would find a way to meet Delta's delivery target. That, or they could (not saying they will) just do what they've done for their last few major orders, and wait until the line is nearly done.... then basically corner th...
Jump to postYes,, your ordering is correct. Did AA move to the A Concourse to align themselves with US Airways at that time? I think AA moved to A when it opened in its current form in 2004 when US was still in N with UA, but I’m not 100% sure I’m remembering that correctly. US, AA, and DL all moved into A onc...
Jump to postIt was specifically stated that the cause of the halt was not provided. So I don't see where you get your fact that the pause of mods was to get frames in the system? IIRC there was some criticism of the new mod so its totally possibly AS wants to work through some issues before putting additional ...
Jump to postHow does this happen in the first place? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to look at some blueprints before groundbreaking and say “this doesn’t look right”. The amount of space available didn’t shrink. This screams poor project oversight from the port. Gates don’t need to be added. Would it not b...
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