TequilaPilot wrote:Any news about 789s next batch?
AA continues to be the weakest airline in the industry, piling on losses, on top of massive debt ($70 billion and counting). Definitely not the worst in the industry. And let’s not forget about how much of that debt AA paid down last year … so I don’t think things are as dire as you depict. “Americ...
Jump to postAir Canada has actually been doing the Stars this year. (AC 7019/7020) They've been doing Buffalo as well (AC 7021/7022) iAero has still been carrying 10 teams this season- Arizona, Boston, Carolina, Chicago, Columbus, Nashville, New Jersey, NY Islanders, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh. In addition to c...
Jump to postYet UA seems content with an all Boeing WB fleet and DL seems content on an all Airbus WB fleet. AC and NH (minus the 3 a380s they were forced to take due to a merger) do just fine with all-Boeing Widebody fleets, AF is moving to an all Airbus wide body fleet, IB and others are all Airbus...plenty ...
Jump to postIf I’m AA, I’d try to balance my narrowbody and widebody fleets between Boeing and Airbus aircraft as much as possible. On aircraft that offer multiple engine options, I’d try to balance those between manufacturers as well. Yes, theoretically, this means I’m more likely to wind up with some of my f...
Jump to postAnd DL even took the forget LATAM’s 350s, while still taking deliveries of new 330s and 350s.
Jump to postUpNAWAy wrote:FluidFlow wrote:A 778 isn’t that efficient and a 779 is simply too much.
I know for AA the 778 is a profit eater. My question is does that aircraft make money for any carrier?
Various media reports emerged over the weekend that an El Al airliner was attacked by cyber terrorists while operating a flight between Bangkok, Thailand and Tel Aviv in Israel. The cyberattack was designed to divert the aircraft from its destination but was foiled when pilots became suspicious and ...
Jump to postn471wn wrote:It’s been over a year since N193UW was damaged at LAX. Now still at PIT after many months. Perhaps they have borrowed her engines.
That's not that close. That's the same distance between New Jersey and Maine. The population density is a lot different between New Jersey and Maine (also, between which two points in those states?) than it is between CLT and IAD. This is what is crazy about IAD, United is the only airline that fli...
Jump to postglobal1 wrote:Does AA have an agreement in place or still in negotiations?
https://www.afacwa.org/alaska_vote_authorize_strike AS Flight Attendants unions voted 99% to authorize a CHAOS strike. Interesting line: "There’s no excuse: Alaska management has the money to buy another airline, they certainly have the money to invest in Flight Attendants." WOW! They may...
Jump to postAnd those other flights are staffed already. you clearly don’t understand how the operation works. This from the person who floated the false narrative that the RDU TWU controls where and what type of equipment AA flies. smh. I guess you had your hypocrisy flakes for breakfast! I've worked on the r...
Jump to postkrsw757 wrote:Boof02671 wrote:Cmac787 wrote:Bring back the GSO hub like the CAL lite days
Which failed.
Why do posters keep wanting airlines to bring back hub cities that were clearly failures?
It makes zero sense.
Why do posters take things so seriously sometimes?
Cmac787 wrote:Bring back the GSO hub like the CAL lite days
The point would not be to run either out (if UA were going to do that, they should take CLT from AA (IF they can)), but to have a place where they can run 3 to 4 banks from all those #25 to #65 CSAs that are within a couple of hours of BNA. Rather than being a nonentity in the southeast. With what ...
Jump to postI vote for BNA for your reasons plus it's the best O&D after ATL and CLT in the area. Noting again that MCO is too far south and so is TPA I am 100% sure that United would love to start a hub in BNA, but Southwest dominates and saturates the market, while AA sees it as a focus with a big loyalt...
Jump to postAirbus does not list published prices. One should be able to get a good guess looking at the financials. You will see the deposits in the CapEx for the year. DL has already said that CapEx for this order was within previous CapEx guidance so you're not going to see a jump. So it should be in the 20...
Jump to postTPA gets my vote. Not only do they have a MX hangar there and crew base, but the new terminal being designed has the opportunity for a carrier such as United to come in and take preferential lease over the entire thing. The likelihood of WX shutting down operations for days is far less than on the ...
Jump to postFLL has to be where they are thinking about. Not only are JetBlue/Spirit weak right now as everyone has been saying, but they’re borderline go out of business. They’re desperate for cash, selling planes and offering employees early exit packages. If one of them goes out of business, which I think i...
Jump to postAfter talking with friends about this, one of them who is a retired United flight attendant, said United called him in attempt to recall him back to work because United is planning a “hub at Miami.” Okay, that is never a "thing" that's done at UA. That person has no reason to lie to me / ...
Jump to postI feel like the problem with MCO isn't just that it's a saturated leisure market... A possibly bigger problem is that a ridiculous percentage of the origin/destination for any southeastern hub will be from Florida, and MCO is too close to all the non-panhandle Florida stations to have much of any l...
Jump to postslowroll wrote:I think RDU makes the most sense. Yes, it is close to IAD. But IAD is close to EWE. It would make the most sense to add RDU and slowly de-hub IAD. RDU and EWE would make a great pair for east coast travel.
Have you all forgotten this?
https://thefloridasqueeze.com/2023/10/2 ... n-orlando/
YYZORD wrote:MCO would be a nice UA hub, it has the future capacity with Terminal C full expansion unlike any other Florida airport.
SoCalFlyer wrote:Does anyone know when Spirits earnings call is?
Ok, but that has nothing to do with which routes or what aircraft they use, like I said. FWIW every company, union or not, has provisions in place for RIFs. I don’t know or care about the specifics of AA’s agreement. I was just pointing out the fallacy of suggesting the ramp union has any input on ...
Jump to postHello all, sorry for the late post as I was on vacation (hence why I was able to see this one). On Thursday, February 1st Saudia Flight SV41 diverted to Denver originally bound for LAX. Does anyone have any news as to what happened? I have searched a couple times since then and haven't found anythi...
Jump to postAt this point, Boeing should bring back the 737-800 and offer that to all MAX customers with adequate compensation. I'm not sure they could produce those at this point without similar defects, but also, who's going to build the engines? CFM closed that line. There are still P8s and E7s being produc...
Jump to post2travel2know2 wrote:Boof02671 wrote:It was more, and that % came from Continental.Doesn’t UA own around 21% of COPA?
UA no longer owns any % of CM.
CM no longer uses Mileage Plus either.
It would also be a challenge for crewing that flight, as BOS doesn't have a 777 or 787 base. Crews would have to DH in, overnight, do the India turn, and overnight on the back side too. They could turn it into a W paring from JFK with BOS, but that would be a long, brutal trip. AA already flies BOS...
Jump to postOne would assume that if AA were to start a 2nd daily flight to India it'd have to be from the northeast, due to range and russian airspace. Is there any possibility that they'd start a flight from BOS (O&D) or PHL (connections)? Or JFK to a 2nd Indian city? BOS has a better chance of India ser...
Jump to postNot disagreeing about the need to expand aviation infrastructure, just curious where would the billions required come from? Our government, on both sides of the aisle, never met a billion they didn’t like to flush. No way carriers volunteer to pick up any portion of that tab. The Aviation Trust Fun...
Jump to postI have been on A321 where the entire row of 12 are not able to charge their own device whereas every other row can. Would be awful to stuck on that row for a long flight while none of the seats in that row can provide charging while your device is low on battery. Why not? There is a universal power...
Jump to postAnd if the government really cared (spoiler alert: they don't) about airfares they build an additional runways at congested airports or fix ATC staffing. Not disagreeing about the need to expand aviation infrastructure, just curious where would the billions required come from? Our government, on bo...
Jump to postThe ramp has station protection. They can’t be laid off or forced to transfer if they were on the seniority list as of then the last CBA was ratified. They also can be knocked down from full time to part time cause of flight cuts. Ok, but that has nothing to do with which routes or what aircraft th...
Jump to postBA have zero need to take over the LHR flight. AA have plenty of crew at RDU and staff already on duty. all of which are union employees. DL and AF swapping is because DL knew their 767 was noncompetitive, and their employees aren't union so they really have no say. it doesn't make a lot of sense f...
Jump to postAA isn’t giving up RDU to LHR, they have been flying that route for decades.
Jump to postShe might already have a spot.
And yes she’ll have to use her 7X.
atcsundevil wrote:Boof02671 wrote:ScrantonUSC wrote:My guess is that BA will be taking over the LHR flight.
No way. That route makes a lot of money for AA.
They'd make exactly the same amount if BA flew it, hence the nature of joint ventures.
ScrantonUSC wrote:My guess is that BA will be taking over the LHR flight.
STT757 wrote:seabosdca wrote:All of the US majors except Southwest went through bankruptcy either after 9/11 or after the GFC.
Continental Airlines did not, they did in 1983 and 1990 though.
American, Delta, United and Northwest
Jump to postIsom was the main roadblock why it took so long for ramp and maintenance to get joint contracts.
And I would suppose it the same reason why the Flight Attendants can’t get a new CBA right now either.
I e flown or been involved in many C-5 gear down ferry flights. No hangar at PHIK, airborne gear won’t retract headed to Pago Pago. No hangar at Honolulu, so a week waiting for the winds to die down to jacking limits. A different time gear down from RAAF Richmond, outside of SYD to Travis AFB in Ca...
Jump to postIt may be as simple AA Tech needs to jack the plane to complete the hard landing inspection. So far,nthe inspection hasn’t shown anything so damaged a ferry permit cannot be issued, so move it to a better location, indoors. AA doesn’t have maintenance there. So contract maintenance would look at it...
Jump to postThe gear isn’t damaged, the FAA would never grant a ferry permit, nor would any pilot take a plane with damaged landing gear.
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