Re: Global Airlines buys an A380 from Doric for UK - US service

HiFly is a serious business. They know how to operate the A380. The issue is still the questionable business concept of the Global venture and their entire organisational and legal setting. It seems Global is more an internet self promoted amateur charter brand and far from being any airline. While...

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Re: Pilot protesting single pilot operations

I don't think it is safe at all. There will be no more FO's? How would a pilot progress to a Captain's role if there are no FO's? Or would the automation be the Captain and everyone else an FO? Long haul?

Re: Phoenix Aviation - 2024

As a 29 yr resident of the Grand Canyon ( Now in PHX) most people would put PHX around Yuma. A vast majority of people (including Americans) believe the Canyon is near LAS. LAS has done a far better job of promoting GC than Arizona!! :dollarsign: :?[/quote] I don't know about the Yuma bit, but you'r...

Re: Phoenix Aviation - 2024

I thought Europeans were better versed in geography especially compared to most Americans so that surprises me a bit. Everyone knows where LA, San Francisco, New York and Chicago are. Outside of that, it's geography lesson time. I usually say Phoenix is between Mexico and the Grand Canyon. Or, if I...

Re: Phoenix Aviation - 2024

Just found this; AA cutting 335 jobs in PHX: https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/american-airlines-is-cutting-335-jobs-in-phoenix-here-s-what-we-know/ar-BB1hrSMO?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=67619544f4e54a43948e63eb9cbc135b&ei=80 This means you will now struggle with bad accents and scr...

Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

I am wondering what happened to the sub contractors that were tasked to fix the faulty rivets near the left plug door? If they merely painted over the rivets instead of fixing them they should have been fired for falsifying the repair. Boeing should have gone to Spirit in an outrage for Spirit fakin...

Re: Avatar Airlines is back seeking investors

Ever heard of Rent-a-Wreck? You are basically describing their business model, and seem relatively successful in their niche. You beat me to it. Although I don't think they are still around, at least not in my area. Used them once in the '90s when my vehicle was down for a few days. They had a fran...

Re: Global Airlines buys an A380 from Doric for UK - US service

It might be fun for us to read all their promises and what they possibly consider to sound like "a real airline's PR statement" but it is no fun if people get lured into investing money in these phantasy projects because they start to take it serious. Don't advertise this vaporware withou...

Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

The FAA has stated that 40 planes have had the inspection completed. It says it will carefully review the findings. I dont know how long this will take but either there were loose bolts or other defect or there wasn't. Don't know why this would take much time. In my uneducated guess I would think t...

Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

The FAA has stated that 40 planes have had the inspection completed. It says it will carefully review the findings. I dont know how long this will take but either there were loose bolts or other defect or there wasn't. Don't know why this would take much time. In my uneducated guess I would think th...

Re: Global Airlines buys an A380 from Doric for UK - US service

Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

Any news on when they will life the grounding? There is this that just came out on Bloomberg... "Boeing Makes Progress With 737 Ungrounding After First Checks" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-17/boeing-makes-progress-with-737-ungrounding-after-first-checks?srnd=premium&...

Re: AA 1581 Returns to DFW after Emergency

I personally don't mind threads like this as I find it interesting to see what the problem is. I have been on 4 Aircrafts that have declared either a Pan Pan or Mayday. My first flight was in 1967 so there have been a lot of uneventful flights, 1. AA 727 precautionary landing in TPA for possible ele...

Re: Phoenix Aviation - 2024

Thanks ATCsundevil and MO11. I should have known better because the Government would be involved!

Re: Phoenix Aviation - 2024

In following your debating above, I think I'd have to say that investing in a ULCC terminal would be a waste of money. NK very possibly may disappear into B6 which isn't a ULCC or even really a LCC. G4's ops at PHX are very small IIRC and from what I've seen they drop markets so often that what the...

Re: American Airlines Network - 2024

I have a question about America West that does not deserve its own thread. Since American Airlines is the successor organization, this seemed a good place to go. 4993281 What was America West doing with 747s? Losing a lot of money with them. I heard the NGO flights were almost empty all the time. S...

Re: Phoenix Aviation - 2024

@ Atcsundevil excellent explanation. It truly makes sense when you stop and consider the Airport operation environment.

Re: Nashville (BNA) and UPS Air.

Back in 2002 the company I worked for was HQ in PHX and we were a small office in Tucson. Payroll would go PHX OAK TUS via FedEx

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Re: Phoenix Aviation - 2023

Good Morning and Merry Christmas to all. Does anyone know why planes are all taking off on 08 and Landing Aircrafts are using 07L. Don't see that very often. And as soon as I post this they reverted to normal configuration of landing on 07R and departing on 07L :white: And I just received an alert ...

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion - 2023

As someone who lives in PHX I have not seen one ad for MX. I have friends that are also AV geeks and know of MX but refuse to fly on them for fear of MX pulling service. I have no ax to grind and hope any new airline prospers and grows but reliability and consistency is key. PHX is not an underserve...

Re: Phoenix Aviation - 2023

Good Morning and Merry Christmas to all. Does anyone know why planes are all taking off on 08 and Landing Aircrafts are using 07L. Don't see that very often. And as soon as I post this they reverted to normal configuration of landing on 07R and departing on 07L :white: And I just received an alert t...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

As a customer I always thought that beverage service on a 40 min flight is totally not needed. I can do without a small plastic cup of diet coke. As someone who spent 20 years in a transportation safety management position (non Airline) I would have argued against doing something like that. FA's sho...

Re: Los Angeles Basin (BUR/LAX/LGB/ONT/SNA) Aviation - 2023

Hi all...never been in this thread before now and not going to search thru 8 pages of posts, so please forgive me but can somebody just quickly/simply explain...what's the major-looking work being done on 24R at LAX? I've been seeing it in spotting vids on YouTube. Resurfacing? Thanks in advance! P...

Re: AS to acquire HA; operate as separate brand.

So do we think the A321s will go at some point? That would give them a fleet wide Boeing fleet aside some A330 cargo jets once the 787s replace all the A330s eventually. I don't think so. As mentioned earlier (hawaiian717's post on this page), the problem AS had with the A321 had less to do with th...

Re: Phoenix Aviation - 2023

Does anyone know what the occasion is for the official government plane of the Netherlands to visit Phoenix today? They landed at Luke AFB first and then ferried over to Sky Harbor. I was over at Luke and saw some official looking Suburbans/Tahoes lined up where the plane parked. Couldn't tell from...

Re: AS to acquire HA; operate as separate brand.

I guess you could call this a pipe dream but with the acquisition of 787 could we see some AS TATL ops?

Re: Flybondi to allow pax to resell tickets

I wonder if people will speculate on this. Especially if it spreads to many Airlines. I don't see this becoming widespread IMHO.

Flybondi to allow pax to resell tickets

Argentinian Airline will allow passengers to resell tickets through a tech startup called TravelX. It seems like airline tickets will be like a ticket to a ball game or concert that can be resold on a platform like Ticketmaster. The ticket can be sold for more than what you paid for it and you keep ...

Re: Boeing 737MAX Production/Deliveries - 2023

Love the updates and especially the pictures!

Re: American Airlines Network - 2023

In my case I live in and fly out of PHX but if I want to go to BDL (Family in the Hartford area) I can only do so by flying thru DFW or another AA hub. So a lot of the traffic is connecting.

Re: SoCal Boneyard Storage and Activity - 2023

I have enjoyed this thread for years and appreciate your efforts. I wish you luck in your quest for employment in the industry. Thanks for all the interesting info over the years.

Re: Washington state senator arrested on arrival in HKG with pistol

As someone who owns and enjoys many firearms and carries quite frequently in AZ, I normally dont put any firearms in anything I am taking with me to travel. I still go thru any luggage and or carry-on items to ensure there is nothing that shouldn't be in the bag in there. Pure stupidity on his part.