WN CEO confirms the "network effect" strategy for Hawaii service. “But it has a very important role in that it [Hawaii service] really supports our California business ,” Nealon said after Southwest reported its profit fell 21% partly due to higher costs and lost revenue from the Max groun...
Jump to postSanDiegoLover wrote:SWA didn’t want to make any rash decisions on closing any outstations or large changes to their schedule.
A lot of the cutting has been on longer, low-frequency routes, primarily so they have to cut fewer flights/routes and can reaccomodate passengers over other hubs. It's been stuff like BNA-BUR or IND-OAK. Correct. The cuts are driven by fleet utilization. Cutting longer, low-frequency routes allowed...
Jump to postEx-LAX to HNL, in F, if you can't book DL 611 in F (1-2-1, full lie-flat, full foot rest, big LCD), HA's 332s are next best, half a footrest, 2-2-2, and an iPad). HA usually has better food, but I get to practice Japanese with the bilingual FAs on DL. Related to this thread... IMO HA must retain A33...
Jump to postThe context of my comment was a captain or FO addressing enplaned pax (given the poster). I probably should have PM'd him (or her). Mea culpa. In that context, however, I think the Star-Advertiser/Advertiser/Star-Bulletin database reflects appropriate usage that is commonly understood.
Jump to postNo argument that AS and WN (and HA) network planners are smart, and time will tell, with some more clues next week.
https://newsroom.alaskaair.com/2020-01- ... al-results
http://investors.southwest.com/news-and ... -210223381
OGG has no curfew or noise restrictions.... so the root cause is... low demand.
Jump to postIntra-island on a 737 works but back and forth to the mainland is painfull. 4 hours on a 737. Yuk!! 4 hours? Have they bumped the speed of a 737 up a LOT? No, but WN now has an ETOPS seaplane.... repainted the restored Sikorsky S-43 at Pima. /humour https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/sik...
Jump to postAgree. WN may not launch Hawaii service from LAX, but they need to serve Hawaii ex-LAX in the long term. First, though, the low hanging fruit, esp. ONT., even less than daily. Leisure and VFR can accommodate <7x, and avoid the "parking lot" commute.
Jump to postIMO WN's Hawaii service has made HA even more dependent on the F cabin. HA's replacement of A332 lie-flats with A321 recliners in F on some city pairs (e.g., HNL/SEA, HNL/SFO) is probably causing attrition in F traffic (pax looks for a better value).
Jump to postGotta love that binary math, and Edge is now a Chromium fork.... "We adopted the Chromium open source project in the development of the new Microsoft Edge to create better web compatibility for our customers, and less fragmentation of the web for all web developers." https://www.microsofte...
Jump to posttph, thanks for the numbers... (from OAG, FlightGlobal? I don't think bts.gov provides such granularity). I will miss the A332 lie-flats to CONUS on HA. See pax comments on HA's downgauge to the A321.... https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Hawaiian_Airlines/Hawaiian_Airlines_Airbus_A321neo.php "W...
Jump to postI have to believe that there's a market for other than LAX flights, at least seasonally. ...Anyway, its a dream. The convenience of not having to brave the LAX traffic and insanity would be wonderful. Wait for the MAX gap to close. Other than LGB, the LA Basin is WN's for the asking. AS is too dist...
Jump to postThought maybe we would find trouble both on and off airport property but nope, nothing but positive feedback since day one. Aloha spirit is real. It's a big reason pax from the E. Coast fly to Hawaii rather than the Caribbean. (BTW, it's "Neighbor Islands"). Saying "outer islands&quo...
Jump to postTrue, and optimizing the network (even with negative yield on certain segments) for overall network profitability is the art of network planning... but it's much easier with 4th or 5th gen NP software than with 3rd gen. Since I left network planning, IDK what gen any operator is using. Back in my NP...
Jump to postPost-acquisition of VX (Dec. 2016), why didn't AS rebuild its network to focus on Hawaii, to steal the march on WN? AS' network planners certainly had the data they needed, and ops had the frames ... but AS didn't act. AS could have done exactly what WN did, but didn't, and now faces a slippery slop...
Jump to postMy fav frame (from a pax POV) these days is the A359. I like CI's the best. I have nothing against Airbus... may the best VLAF frame win the orders. An A389F twin? Dust off archives and make sure all the workstations are on the same version of CATIA.
Jump to postIntra-island on a 737 works but back and forth to the mainland is painfull. 4 hours on a 737. Yuk!! Stop at 4 hours of flight time to or from HNL and you're in the water. There are plenty of mainland 4 hour 737 flights on all the majors. What makes Hawaii any different? The difference that makes 5 ...
Jump to postThought maybe we would find trouble both on and off airport property but nope, nothing but positive feedback since day one. Aloha spirit is real. It's a big reason pax from the E. Coast fly to Hawaii rather than the Caribbean. (BTW, it's "Neighbor Islands"). Saying "outer islands&quo...
Jump to postWhat's the evidence that WN is filling inter-island flights with RR redemptions? Only anecdotal, asking families with heavy sunburn if they are on award tickets. Maybe a third say yes ... I don't ask if ALL the family members are on award tickets. What the evidence that WN's inter-island flying ear...
Jump to postIt's puzzling that even with interline and FF agreements on HA's intrastate segments, the US3 and AS did not have the growth in CONUS/HI traffic that WN has achieved. https://hawaiianair.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/230/related/1/session/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xNTc5NTQ5OTI5L3NpZC9DSGlYNXB6bw%3D%3D h...
Jump to postCredit cards are keeping AA in the black... CFOs notice big revenue streams. WN is the first interisland competitor of HA with an established FF base. IMO, that is a major reason WN has thrived, and will survive, interisland.
Jump to postMU's HNL/PVG fares were always on the north side of cheap. One stops HNL/PVG had significantly better soft product for less money... so traffic on that MU route was almost entirely O&D tour groups from PVG. Not sustainable, but interesting to see MU tails at HNL.
Jump to postWN's ITO service starts.
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/01/ ... b6669fada8
I'm just curious why anyone thinks it will be Boeing by default. There is nothing stopping Airbus from beating them to the punch. Disregard the Beluga as an outlier. Airbus has built and sold 38 A332Fs and TMK there have been 2 A333 P2Fs. Airbus has unfilled orders for 4 A332Fs. https://www.airbus....
Jump to postSolid rationale. Conclusion: conversion of an 8i is highly unlikely, esp. if there are 777Fs around. IMO, when the 748Fs time out, BCA will have a VLAF with a nose door ready.
Jump to postAs soon Comac can certify a SP a/c and the CN3 can write the rules, CAAC will certify both the a/c and the operators for SP ops. I think the time frame is 10 years, 20 years at the outside. Supporting facts: high speed rail in China. Deng Xiaoping saw Shinkansen in a visit to Japan in 1978. He said,...
Jump to postDutchy wrote:The pilot lobby is quite strong.
OP, baseball players in the minor leagues take the first offer they receive from a major league team, because then know they may never see a second offer. That said, if life has no meaning without a UA uniform, take your 1500 hours, and pulse, to one of UA's eight regionals.
Jump to postI infer that you haven't lived or worked in China....
I mean nothing untoward... but if the CCP decides the CR929 or CR939 will operate SP, it will happen.
Agreed... but the operators (airlines) and regulators run on statistics. If the CCP statisticians provide the right numbers, CAAC, CA, MU, CZ, Comac, et al., jump onboard.
My guess is that SP commercial ops is already in some Five Year Plan in China.
What's missing... is any mention of a remote second pilot.
Not an R2D2 or bounty droid, but a human. I think droid ops at Creech are one pilot flying one drone. The real risk arises in one (remote) pilot flying as multiple "FOs".
IMO, this is the CCP's solution to China's worsening pilot shortage. Abracadabra... twice as many ops. Problem solved. The advantage of a single entity controlling the regulator, the manufacturer, and the airlines. /sarcasm
Jump to postOptimized for SFC for a given frame.
Jump to post(Speculation about) Why the delays with JA8362? Structural problem? The engines aren't Trents or GTFs, avionics are plug and play.... ergo, structural problem?
Jump to postIIRC, some charters have done the polar route, with a fuel stop in ANC.
Jump to postHNL808 would know better, but TMK, all EU/HI charters make a fuel stop in N. Am. No nonstops, yet.
Jump to postSkycrane! Strange... but true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q--ZwolycbM at 2:27 and 4:22. Wheels in the water! Scary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRPO_Fg2h_I at 1:24... a more cautious pilot.
My ARFF vocabulary just expanded. Thx, GF.
Two additions: crash tender, and snozzle.
1. obtain flight number, e.g., UA1880 2. go to flight tracker site (there are several) or simply google the flight number and the first hit will usually be a flight tracker site 3. zoom in on the map at the arrival airport https://www.flightstats.com/v2/flight-tracker/UA/1880?year=2020&month=01&...
Jump to postAnd its predecessor, the CL-215.
So... that's 3 types, purpose-built.
blrsea wrote:Is there any reason the expired person can't be moved to a location away from other passengers?
When will AMZL open negotiations with BCA for a bespoke VLA freighter that is unlikely to cube out TPAC and to S.Africa? (37% serious post)
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/amazo ... wn-2018-11
Be-200 is one of the few (the only?) purpose-built waterbombers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriev_Be-200
I see BOS/GSO and/or BOS/AVL as the next steps in the "DL:Georgia::AA:NC" chess game. Eaton, GE Aviation, and other biz travellers in AVL, many financial industry travelers in the Triad, all of whom would rather not connect through the nightmare that is CLT in bank-time.
Jump to post9Patch wrote:Have any 747 passenger models ever been converted to a freighter with a nose door?
Any ideas about what is driving the growth in demand? It can't be shopping in Dubai, or v.v. Cheaper one-stops to the EU? New Emirati-funded infrastructure project? Whatever the network planners see, it's good for Taiwan, and some good work by the TW Commercial Office in Dubai.
Jump to postFirebomber in Russia and Australia. Waterbomber in Canada. Airtanker and Firebomber (Coulson) in the States. Or...… Avion bombardier d'eau in French (Bombardier LOL) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avion_bombardier_d%27eau And now we know what the strange second water system is on all BD aircraft tha...
Jump to postJay, I don't think one seat more per row would justify a redesign. Three seats would do it, maybe two. Redesign means new wings and new hull, which means a complete redesign.
Jump to postWho typically makes the final decision to divert if the CPT and flight-following/dispatcher/ops don't agree?
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