Sooner787 wrote:aemoreira1981 wrote:Ground stop at the NYC area airports after a moderate earthquake. The towers likely had to be evacuated.
Plus I imagine the airports are doing quick field inspections before flights resume
Ground stop at the NYC area airports after a moderate earthquake. The towers likely had to be evacuated.
Jump to postToronto was served by Star Alliance partner Air Canada with a daily CPH YYZ 767-300ER, presumably now a 787. That will be less desirable for SK frequent fliers as they can’t earn points, so I wonder what will happen there. SK starts A321neo service or let it go? SK only has three A321LRs. They woul...
Jump to postI can’t see the JFK service lasting…even on an A321neo. JetBlue and Delta are a combined 9 times daily from JFK. Frequency is a must on this city pair.
Jump to postAmerican has announced that the B789 will replace the B77W on JFK-DEL starting with the northern winter 2024 season (effective October 27 from JFK, October 29 from Delhi). However, that would require at leas one other route to also be a B789 route out of JFK to get the plane there. I wonder if LHR a...
Jump to postThe only true home bases were pretty much ended in 2020 with the pandemic (legacy US 757s assigned to PHL, legacy AW 757s assigned to PHX, and legacy US A330s assigned to PHL). Before that, you had the MD-11 pretty much out of DFW and the A300 pretty much out of JFK and MIA.
Jump to postToday at Newark, strong winds are doing a number. The AirTrain was briefly suspended, and the morning flights have been on only Runway 29, which is only 6700 feet (the normal departure runway, 4L/22R, is 11000 feet). I wonder how a 747/777/787/A350 can accept a 29 departure.
Jump to postHopefully HZ-HM1A if it’s still airworthy gets preserved. I’m surprised that YV3531 was scrapped so quickly.
Jump to postWith respect to the A319 and A320 fleet, this seems to be where the A320neo and the MAX 8 could be replacements. The A320neo has effectively supplanted the A319 in hot and high missions. For stations served today by the A319 that absolutely cannot accept the A320neo, like EYW, I expect them to go to...
Jump to postHow will Delta make this profitable considering how UA struggled and the lack of a JV? That's my question. If UA can only make LAX-BNE work on a seasonal basis with a large hub at LAX, and with QF already on the route (not to mention AA's upcoming DFW-BNE service), I'm not sure what DL's thinking h...
Jump to postHumble questions... A Venezuela AOC A Venezuela Registration (YV-) Plane in Argentina Iranian Crew So, why on Earth USA needs to get their hands on a bloody old 743 civil&cargo that passed through a lot of companies/airlines outside US along his life, and resting and rusting under the sun for t...
Jump to postWith the huge 787 order, does that mean that Thai Airways is basically coalescing around just 2 fleet types: A320 and 787? The amount of 787s ordered is greater than their current wide-body fleet count now. Europe is well within reach of the 787-10 from BKK, meaning I could see a mix of B789s and B7...
Jump to postAccording to skyliner-aviation.de, A330-332P2F MSN127 EI-HEB was yesterday (31 Jan 2024) ferried to St Athan (DGX) for part-out/scrapping. Nowadays a lot of A330s 10 years old or younger are cheap to acquire for conversion, DHL doesn’t need to keep 3 old frames with PW engines. Heck, Altavair AirFi...
Jump to postI don't know if it was already noted, but 4 x Eurowings A332s were scrapped at MUC towards the end of 2023. D-AXGA,C,D,G. These had been stored engineless outside the LH hangars since covid. The area is now cleared. Given that the aircraft were leased, I’m surprised the lessor let the scrapping hap...
Jump to postflyaa757 wrote:I'd guess the 4 789 are to replace the 5 788...
Airbus can smell blood. With Calhoun saying no new Boeing design for the next 10 to 15 years why wouldn't they go for a clean sheet. Especially when it took 9 years for the A350 (once announced as the XWB) to go from announcing to firming to first test flight to first revenue flight. It has also pr...
Jump to postJetBlue is deferring some A321LR and XLR deliveries. I wonder if those slots could be available for United.
Jump to postN503JB made sense to retire as it was approaching 90,000 hours. But N509JB still has life in it. As for the 6 leased E190s in maintenance, I suspect that they are for end of lease checks for return to lessor and then onward sale to Alliance. Two have already been delivered to Alliance and have been...
Jump to postI have to wonder how much it would have cost Boeing to design a clean sheet 6-abreast narrow-body that could adequately compete with the A320neo family (since the A320 was introduced, the only clean-sheet narrow-bodies have been by Embraer with the E-Jet and the C-Series, now the A220). The basics o...
Jump to postN503JB made sense to retire as it was approaching 90,000 hours. But N509JB still has life in it. As for the 6 leased E190s in maintenance, I suspect that they are for end of lease checks for return to lessor and then onward sale to Alliance. Two have already been delivered to Alliance and have been ...
Jump to postInto JNB, LY is ending its flying programme effective the end of NW23 as demand has collapsed. El Al had been serving JNB since 1949 or 1950. https://airwaysmag.com/el-al-to-suspend-johannesburg/ Your post would have been better placed in the Southern African & Indian Ocean thread. In respect t...
Jump to postCan AA do DFW-SYD in its configuration? QF can on the B789, but it's MUCH more premium heavy with just 236 seats as opposed to 285 on American. The route is 7460 nautical miles, and NTL is only 80 nautical miles away for a diversion (with a 10,000-foot runway), but headwinds must be accounted for as...
Jump to postI really wonder why Ryanair never ordered the MAX 9…too few seats above 200 to justify the 5th flight attendant?
Jump to postInto JNB, LY is ending its flying programme effective the end of NW23 as demand has collapsed. El Al had been serving JNB since 1949 or 1950. https://airwaysmag.com/el-al-to-suspend-johannesburg/
Jump to postI have to wonder if there is ANY airline that JetBlue could acquire, or if any airline could acquire JetBlue, and satisfy antitrust concerns, given its major East Coast presence. William Young is a Reagan-appointed judge. As I see it, the only potential merger partner that could get approved is Alas...
Jump to postIs either carrier planning on an appeal, although that could take up to a year?
Jump to postI would be surprised if at ATL, SK isn’t using a DL gate with DL also doing the ground handling. SK is switching to SkyTeam.
Related, at JFK, I’d be surprised if SK doesn’t eventually co-locate with DL/AM/KL/VS there (with DL doing the ground handling for all of them).
Now that we know everyone got off the plane, I wonder how many tried to grab their carry-on first before evacuating. This wasnt in a Western part of the world. The Japanese are model citizens for being socially responsible, so you wont see anyone with luggage evacuating. Also, I would think that th...
Jump to postI wonder how SK is flying that with only 3 A321LRs if 2 will be dedicated to JFK and one to OSL-EWR.
I also wonder if with the switch to SkyTeam coming, if the IAD flight will move to ATL.
I could see this going daily too…perhaps even double daily once the A380s are retired. Gatwick really needs that second usable runaway. I am also surprised that SQ doesn’t serve Busan. That could work 4-5 times weekly on the A359. I reckon it will be more than double daily. Heathrow is just too big...
Jump to postI could see this going daily too…perhaps even double daily once the A380s are retired. Gatwick really needs that second usable runaway. I am also surprised that SQ doesn’t serve Busan. That could work 4-5 times weekly on the A359.
Jump to postMaybe MUC might want to talk to HEL on how to handle snow? Helsinki Vantaa hardly ever closes; only freezing rain would cause major issues (and there is no real guide to fight freezing rain).
Jump to postI wonder what happened for AZ to drop a route it had been flying for decades. Would this city pair be doable on the A321XLR in say, B6’s configuration?
Jump to postI suspect this is a final response to AC759 (which unintentionally lined up with a taxiway at SFO but went around just in time). While that was resolved without incident, the plane flew around too much for the black box to be usable when the incident was finally noticed by FAA brass.
Jump to postI’d be surprised if the MAX order isn’t all for Vueling…or possibly LEVEL if it goes short haul outside of Spain. I can’t rule out Iberia Express though.
Jump to postThat actually seems cleaner, although I wish it made it to a 787 as well, particularly PH-BKA (which currently has the 100 years livery)…Orange is the national football team’s color, but the flag is also proudly represented more prominently.
Jump to postCurious: is it possible to ever have an ILS approach into CGH on either the 17 or the 35 ends?
Jump to postN1120A wrote:A passenger cap is far more productive, given that SDU's runways limit it from receiving anything larger than already operates.
Forget everything you have read on this thread thus far. The Brazilian government made a 180 turn and changed its mind over imposing a perimeter at SDU. Instead, an effective JAN2024, it will impose a capacity cap on the airport: 6.5M pay/year from the current 10.2M/year, without restrictions in te...
Jump to posthttps://onemileatatime.com/news/delta-poorly-performing-seattle-hub/#comment-5049399 Not a 100% guarantee of anything, though the source material seems pretty solid. Enilria, the former prolific poster here who frequently had great information, pulled data that shows 95% of DL’s SEA routes are in t...
Jump to postThe A35K already exists and is in service while the 777X is delayed. This is a warning shot to Boeing—get your act together. Japan Airlines choosing the A35K to replace its B77W fleet when it is a longtime Boeing customer should have been a warning. That 322t variant is going to swipe off a lot of 7...
Jump to postI wonder if any of the Air India Express B738s are going to be available soon. Those are mostly short field package frames.
Jump to postI am more worried about the 4-year old child.
Jump to postSaying the same thing over and over, again and again, does not make it true. It is not right to say Delta/KLM have a "monopoly" in the northeast, as United also flies to AMS from EWR and IAD, and AA flies there from PHL. There are choices - and no monopoly.. JFK is historically a separate...
Jump to postThe other issue...on the USA end...is monopoly status. On JFK-AMS, the KLM/Delta JV will have a monopoly effectively. This has the potential to get really ugly. Currently DL has a round trip pair and KLM has 3 round trip pairs. Cargo flights have elsewhere in the Golden Triangle to relocate...such a...
Jump to postThis now makes their case stronger as there could be essentially a monopoly on some city pairs. But again, the party is one against whom the government is engaged in active litigation.
Jump to postEirules wrote:Don’t rule out DUB. They’re getting a truck load of DUB-OZ traffic via DXB & LHR
If an airline is buying an aircraft capable of flying significantly further than a standard A32x family aircraft... why would they schedule it to fly lots of short distance routes ? A carrier may be acquiring an example for the increased MTOW to fit 240 passengers and more luggage. For instance, Fr...
Jump to postAY has pulled down its TLV schedule from now until the end of the winter 2023 season (it had previously been 3 weekly on the A321 with a near midnight arrival and departure). KE has suspended TLV until the end of the month at least and could go further (it was 3 weekly with a late evening arrival an...
Jump to postI am surprised that El Al and Arkia aren’t seeking to relocate their fleets to Greece for the time being.
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