Looks to be Tu,Th,Fr for flights, though year-round. Surprised they wouldn't space it out MWF or Su Tu Fr Moves to 4/week July 9th. No day of the week specified for the 4th flight, but I'd guess Sunday. In November, it looks to be bookable on both Saturday and Sunday.... Wondering if they're still ...
Jump to postLooks to be Tu,Th,Fr for flights, though year-round.
Surprised they wouldn't space it out MWF or Su Tu Fr
But this is happening. An actual RFP for services has also been sent to suppliers. That would give DEN 8 Long-Haul Int’l airlines - EI, AF, BA, LH, FI, WK, UA, and TK. I wonder who else could join in. Most of the low hanging fruit has been picked so here's my list - KLM is the biggest missing EU ca...
Jump to postIST would make the longest scheduled flight from DEN ever, correct? Just over 6100 miles.
Jump to postPrediction: By the end of this year at least one major airline worldwide will announce that they are permanently removing the MAX from their fleet. Highly doubtful. You don't just retrain your pilot and crews along with MX facilities on a whim and costs would be astronomical to do so. You also can'...
Jump to postPrediction: By the end of this year at least one major airline worldwide will announce that they are permanently removing the MAX from their fleet. Highly doubtful. You don't just retrain your pilot and crews along with MX facilities on a whim and costs would be astronomical to do so. You also can'...
Jump to postSo UA has taken advantage of the 787! It's kind of crazy to think that for the first 17 years of their DEN hub, they didn't have a consistent long-haul flight. The NRT, FRA and LHR flights both started with the 787-8's. IIRC, when I flew DEN-NRT back in 2016, they were rotating the aircraft in from...
Jump to postUA hasn't taken advantage of the increased efficiency of the 789 or the smaller size of the 788 to add long-haul routes from DEN. If they don't add any 787 routes from DEN, they ought to shut down the pilot base, open up a 777 pilot base at DEN, swap out the 789 for the 772 to NRT, LHR, FRA and MUC...
Jump to postFI makes the most sense here Coming from Europe, Asia, or South/Central America, it needs to be a carrier that flies (or will fly) to a WN 'focus city' that has FIS capabilities and substantial onward connections. In the East, that's BWI by far. Southwest "Focus cities" with Icelandair BW...
Jump to postFrancoflier wrote:Long story short, the massive engines compensate for the undersized wings.
Lots of strange omissions besides the obvious LHR.
Nothing to BRU, AMS, MUC, ZRH, DUB. Then nothing south of Mexico either?
Finally made it to the recently opened Capital One lounge. Took awhile to find it. Thought it was above the center section over the train like the BA lounge is... but it's maybe a 3 minute walk down one of the wings. Overall super nice, though food options were more limited than the Chase Sapphire R...
Jump to postCould the A350 make the trip? DL flies their A350 JNB-ATL which is 8400 miles and UA flies the 787-9 JNB-EWR which is about 8000 miles. Given it's an east-bound flight to DXB, I'd assume that either the 77L or upcoming A350's for EK could do it when they get them. EK has had the 77L for quite some ...
Jump to postAM and ANA are offering MEX-NRT non-stop I believe, which is 7000 miles via GCMap. With Denver being 2000' lower, I'd think one of EK's 777's could make it the 7700 if they do a 9PM or later flight. To hit the ideal connecting bank, it would have to arrive DXB around 7pm. That would mean late after...
Jump to postIf 'hot and high' was not a factor I suspect we would be seeing Emirates launch a non-stop flight as part of the partnership with United but all things considered, I don't see it making sense to launch at this point. AM and ANA are offering MEX-NRT non-stop I believe, which is 7000 miles via GCMap....
Jump to postAnyone have updates on the Cap. 1 lounge? Surprised they haven't said anything yet. Over a year late and doesn't really look close to being done. I'm not even sure it'll open by the end of the year I don’t think any of their additional locations have opened beyond DFW. Wonder if they’re re-thinking...
Jump to postThe big one I see is potentially UA or LX taking over ZRH and increasing frequency. LX is the only profitable airline in the Lufthansa Group, which speaks to the strength of the ZRH hub. Might be an option for DEN. Certainly a possibility -- though a concern is that it would dilute yields from MUC/...
Jump to postI have a crazy theory that if this impending recession happens, it will either be: I'm not an expert at all, but I think the airport is transitory in that UA can decide whether it's a domestic connection or if it could be an intl hub someday. Denver's location doesn't make it a great candidate for ...
Jump to postIs there any plan to renovate the rest of the existing terminals to match the style of the new additions? By the looks, it wouldn't be that difficult to replace the old tile and carpet with the new white tile and get rid of the mid-centry modern overhang and replace it with the new LCD screens by ea...
Jump to postThe NEO will struggle in summer on DEN-DUB…… They have 6 XLR's on order for delivery starting next year. That should give them the range bump needed. It’s not the range, it’s the hot and high performance for that distance of flight. XLRs doing trans-Atlantic out of Denver is what I would call wishf...
Jump to postI just don’t see how DEN-DUB could work for either airline. If the 321NEO could make it (I think DEN-DUB, at about 3,800nm is within the 321NEO's 4,000nm range), then EI would be better placed to run this, including with European feed and leveraging DUB's US preclearance. The NEO will struggle in s...
Jump to postAeromexico is looking to bring a 787 into DEN for the 2023-2024 winter season. Interesting. Do you have a source on this. Would be exciting to see. This may be related as Aeromexico is almost doubling its leased space at DEN. “This request is for an amendment to the Use and Lease Agreement between ...
Jump to postIsn't AA in the middle of a massive wide-body shortage though? They seemed to let go of more than what was reasonable when they retired their a330s, 767s, and 757s (not a widebody but it fills some of the widebody roles), especially since they can't get 787s quickly enough, and want to retire some ...
Jump to postIMHO, I don't see how Denver can support any African flights, even as a tag-on "direct" flight to elsewhere in the US. We simply don't have a large black community, much less an ethnic African one and I can't imagine there being that many business ties. I would have thought TK to IST or C...
Jump to postIMHO, I don't see how Denver can support any African flights, even as a tag-on "direct" flight to elsewhere in the US. We simply don't have a large black community, much less an ethnic African one and I can't imagine there being that many business ties. I would have thought TK to IST or CA...
Jump to postThis move certainly isn't going to increase bookings for TK. It will make close to zero difference. If you think that, then you don’t understand global brand marketing. People like things that are familiar or sound familiar. If pricing is the same, people are going to likely choose a carrier that t...
Jump to postAs a few have mentioned, the country's legal name change was approved by the U.N, so it would be silly to keep using an old name for a place. It wasn't Air Turkey though. It was Turkish Airlines. Just like Swiss Airlines not Switzerland Airlines. Renaming a global brand to something that's harder t...
Jump to postLufthansa manages to brand itself in German and nobody makes a fuss. KLM's initials are from Dutch words The Lufthansa brand has been around for almost a century in one form or another and isn't hard to pronounce to westerners. KLM is the world's oldest airline, publicly branded as KLM for 103 year...
Jump to postAgreed - I was not impressed with our DEN-MUC / FRA-DEN this month in economy. The A359 hard product was good, but food was tasteless pasta as the only option with small portions, and the buy-on-board snack wasn't even available on the FRA-DEN flight yesterday. It's not just LH, the catering indust...
Jump to postFlew home from Ljubljana yesterday via FRA. Nobody asked to see the test results we took (just in case), so apparently the news spread quickly at LH at least. Won't like, it was going to cause a huge headache as it seemed like a lot of the secondary airports no longer were testing and there were lim...
Jump to postTo me it seems like Lufthansa is spinning out of control with all these extra charges as well as product deterioration. I don't think it will end well for them because they don't have low costs to match these moves with low(er) fares. It won't end well for them especially with AF, KL, BA... not fol...
Jump to postIMHO, a lot of this will depend on how long these lockdowns continue for. If things more or less open up on 5/1 (at least to some extent), I could see the economy leveling off and whatnot within a few months. If this extends into summer, then who knows. Given the current MAX issues, I could see som...
Jump to postIMHO, a lot of this will depend on how long these lockdowns continue for. If things more or less open up on 5/1 (at least to some extent), I could see the economy leveling off and whatnot within a few months. If this extends into summer, then who knows. Given the current MAX issues, I could see some...
Jump to postI'm not sure how many more of the 5 outstanding 78J deliveries are coming by next summer, but I imagine ORD-BRU, ORD-FRA, and ORD-MUC will all be 78J routes. The aircraft could rotate to ORD from EWR via BRU/FRA. All three routes are JV hub-hub routes that could likely support a capacity increase. ...
Jump to postHey all, United posted that they'll move or start their long awaited 787 base at ORD, according to their twitter. https://twitter.com/united/status/1166364998303719425 I wonder what routes? Maybe Asia? Starting off with Europe and then Asia will be added later on. Starting off with the -9 & -10...
Jump to postI guess I am interested in where UA would be willing to draw the line in regards to making exceptions for customers and what "proof" they would require from customers. Case in point: a friend of mine flew EWR-MAD-IAD-EWR the other day. At the time of booking, her itinerary in that order w...
Jump to postI don't know how they can legally do anything, and no, I don't care what it says in the fine print of the "contract". Airlines would have a hard time proving damages as you did pay and they'd likely end up reselling that empty seat anyways to a standby passenger. I've done it a couple of t...
Jump to postWhy hasn’t Boeing made a ULH version of the 787 that can fly routes like EWR-SIN that can complete with the A350ULR? tiny tanks. The 787 can carry 126.000 liters of fuel, the A350ULR can carry 165.000 liters of fuel. The A350 doesn´t burn 30% more fuel/hour, but rather some single digit percent mor...
Jump to postBeing at TXL during the peak hours is an adventure. Berlin airports belong to the worst airports worldwide and the mayor should do his best to open the new one before even thinking of inviting Emirates. I've flown out of TXL 3 times, twice for long haul (when AB still existed), and once on a FRA-TX...
Jump to postSince this could be a major strategy change for Frontier, I think this has to justify its own thread. F9 will take 18 A321XLR. With the acquisition of the A321XLR, Frontier will have the ability to take on transatlantic routes to the U.K. and Western continental Europe. From Frontier’s main hub in ...
Jump to postI personally have no problem with it, I use my own smartphone or laptop with my own selection of entertainment during flight. Eventually people are going to prefer inflight wifi over limited selection in airplane TVs. I agree - personally, on short haul, I'd much prefer using my own laptop/tablet. ...
Jump to postI see no reason why the 772A's wouldn't get repainted. They were just retrofitted with new lay-flat seats and 10 abreast in economy for longer domestic runs. They aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
Jump to postThats what happens when you lack interline agreements with other airlines in cities you fly in. Not as easy to just rebook on lets say... United or AA This has always been an issue with WN. My GF and her family had her flight home from ABQ-MDW cancelled a few years back around the holidays. Earlies...
Jump to postIt will be a brave airline that orders the MAX at the moment. Because of an issue that will be resolved well before any airframe that would be ordered would even be in pre-production? hmmm .. maybe. With all the revelations that boils up I'm not so sure. No, not "maybe". My guess is that ...
Jump to postStTim wrote:It will be a brave airline that orders the MAX at the moment.
This is fairly typical for this time of year. Spring break is basically over so the east bound flights have lighter loads and the west bounds usually have heavy loads through the first week in April then will drop off. This is the second time Spring Break was mentioned in this thread. I have to won...
Jump to postSomewhere there is an overhead picture of a 737 and 707, I believe military versions. The difference in wings is striking. The 707 wings look like they could be made out of sheets of plywood. Out of curiosity, was the original 707 wing design out of lack of experience from engineers at the time to ...
Jump to postThese MAX posts are getting quite absurd.. If AA wanted to, they could cancel the MAX and order 150 C919s, however they won’t.. I’ve seen a lot of posts and a lot of airlines say they’d cancel the MAX and yet they haven’t? Likely because after this sh*t storm ends and the media moves onto its next ...
Jump to postI really can’t see how it gets ranked so high. Inconvenient location (for local travelers). Parking/rental cars are so far away they add 15-20 mins of travel time to get to the terminal. Crowded trains to the concourses. Nasty, stinky, noisy restrooms with broken locks and 1-2” gaps in the privacy ...
Jump to postVerry likely for the general population, but I for exemple, am not going to fly a MAX before a long time and it has statistically proved itself. It already has. Hundreds of thousands of flights. Even without a software fix and training change, you're still statistically around 20x more likely to di...
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