Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion Thread

What happened at HVN today? FlightAware showed that XP 302 from MCO diverted twice to ALB? What was the weather like. There’s been a strong storm system that’s blowing through the country right now and maybe they couldn’t land safely at hvn METAR at the time they tried to get in: KHVN 111853Z 21012...

Re: Aeroflot finally resumes service to Cancun CUN.

itripreport wrote:

Not sure if this is the right place to say this, but as a Mexican citizen, am I able to take this flight to Russia without restrictions? Or even with a layover?

Re: AirBaltic A220 Slides Off Of Snowy Runway at Riga

That runway looks to be completely covered in snow .. why would they have even been trying to operate in those conditions?

Re: Breeze airways adding PBI and ISP

well .. they sure weren't kidding when they said "secondary markets" ...

Re: DL201 diverts to SJU

Since winter brings headwinds and likely diversions, why not swallow your pride (Delta, i mean) and just schedule a fuel stop during the winter months. This way you're not blowing entire planeloads full of pax's connections when one becomes necessary. If none is necessary, then great .. you go nonst...

Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

cloudboy wrote:

What is the largest plane ORH can handle?

Re: Teal Color Inside A320neo Pratt & Whitney Engines

CarlosSi wrote:

You mean it's not a mint-scent so the jet blast doesn't smell as bad ?

Re: DL201 diverts to SJU

Boof02671 wrote:

The plane can’t take full fuel, passengers and cargo due to its limitations.

Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion Thread

I took a spin this afternoon down to Tweed to check things out and to watch the afternoon turnaround (because I am that kinda geek!). I watched the Avelo staff turn what looked to be a heavily loaded MCO arrival around in only about 45 mins back to RSW. I wasn't counting pax, of course, but it looke...

Re: Spicejet Goes longhaul with 777s from Boeing

A two plane daily operation? HA! All sounds good till one of them breaks down.

Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

AA switching ORH-PHL to ORH-JFK. 1-5-2022 Good way to kill the service. Fly to an airport with fewer connections. https://spectrumnews1.com/ma/worcester/news/2021/11/17/american-worcester-airport-jfk-philly Except they are hooking it into the NEA, so not that crazy considering AA switching ORH-PHL ...

Re: The End for Kenya’s Classic Airliners? Kenya auctioning derelict planes.

You can all keep the Russian ones .. I want just one F27 and L1011 .. for my backyard! LOL

Re: AirBahn acquires its first aircraft

Golly .. another all-white A320 with billboard lettering ... they put an amazing amount of thought into that livery.

Re: Flybe 2.0 receives first DH8-400

...They're coming back ?

Re: Lufthansa to launch buy on board for long haul

All this means is that FAs will hide out in the galleys with the curtains snapped shut if they know theyll have to tell pax suddenly that whatever they order outside normal "free" hours are gonna be a charge .. and need to figure out and use a credit card machine. It's always hilarious wa...

Re: DB Cooper - 50 Years Ago Tonight

DaCubbyBearBar wrote:

I wonder if he will ever come forward?

Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion Thread

I heard from an Avelo manager that the load factor out of HVN is “off the charts” and the future bookings are looking very strong. Now I hope UA will take notice and be the first to use the idle jet bridge. HVN-ORD. I'd love to see those EMB175s or CRJ550/700/900s back in HVN doing ORD. That just s...

Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion Thread

I'm sure Avelo will have significantly higher loads for the Holidays both West and East. It will be interesting to see how they due in January, February and early March. Remember the huge numbers of snowbirds who fly between New England and Florida all Winter. There is also school vacations in Febr...

Re: Lufthansa to launch buy on board for long haul

All this means is that FAs will hide out in the galleys with the curtains snapped shut if they know theyll have to tell pax suddenly that whatever they order outside normal "free" hours are gonna be a charge .. and need to figure out and use a credit card machine. It's always hilarious wat...

Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion Thread

unofficial but hearing from a friend that HVN is significantly outperforming BUR already. Most MCO/FLL/TPA flights are going out and returning 140pax or more RSW lags slightly behind but is still healthy and PBI bookings are strong. I didn't hear "not Florida and not midwest" that's inter...

Re: Leeham News: An exclusive Boeing operator is in talks for A220 and A321neo

Cargolux.

Re: British Airways mulling (threatening?) to leave LHR

downgrade to long range narrowbody at LHR or smaller widebody, filter through Madrid or Dublin. Adjust algorithms in booking engine to distribute traffic through other channels in the network. British Airways retains slot, fills a narrowbody BA plane and increases load factor on a plane passing thr...

Re: British Airways mulling (threatening?) to leave LHR

Uh .. right. Heathrow Airways leaving LHR? HA!

Re: Breeze Airways E190 ✈ CMH-ORF in former Air Canada business class seats

These are some pretty iffy sounding routes they serve ... CMH-ORF ... SDF-CHS .. CMH-BDL ... CAK-CHS .. CHS-BDL .. HSV-CHS . .. are they actually filling any of these planes ? I wish them the best, though .. its great to see another new airline flying (just like Avelo) ... and Breeze certainly does ...

Re: EquAir, new Ecuadorian airline with 737s

How do you pronounce that? And what are all the "j"s down the side of the fuselage? And why nothing on the tail? So many questions here.

Re: What was FedEx using for long I ternational Routes prior to introduction of MD-11?

Shorts 330.

Re: Flypop secures A330 leases for start-up.

"FlyPOP" ... everybit as stupid sounding as PLAY or WOW or SCOOT or SWOOP ..makes me wonder whats next: BURP? BELCH? PUKE?

Re: Brussels Airlines “New Chapter”

Agree that "Brussels Airlines" was always a stupid name for a carrier flying such a large network as they do. If it was a small regional carrier centering on BRU, i could see it. But calling what's essentially the national carrier of Belgium "Brussels Airlines" is kinda like nami...

Re: Presidential Airways 146

Funny how that same livery somehow morphed into Leisure Air .. and then USAirways (the "Hudson River" livery, i mean)

Re: [VideoOnly] Rara Avis: Flying the Time Machine, LADE's Fokker F28

These are such amazing videos .. loved the little F28 ... one of the original RJs! I am curious ... did they have any kind of cabin service on these flights? Beverages .. snacks, etc?

Re: What defunct Airline would you have liked to have flown on, but never got to ?

TWA actually .. lived near NYC all my life and have flown all the other classic US carriers, but for some reason, just never TWA.

Otherwise: Swissair

Re: A320neo at US carriers, why is it unpopular?

The NEOs are great planes to fly in. Got my first A320NEO ride last month on Frontier .. beautiful airplane and seemed quite a bit more quiet in general than the usual A320s, both engine noise-wise and with all the weird noises and barks and sounds the older standard A320s make.

Re: Your favorite plane that you haven't flown on

VC10 and L-188 Electra. I'd love to have flown on both of those!

Re: Where does Cubana fly to right now?

Whatever happened to Cuba 's expression of interest in 4O 's SSJs? By some reckoning, those were just about the only aircraft remotely attainable by CU for these short sectors..... http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=HAV-CUN%2FMEX%2FPTY%2FYUL%2FYYZ&MS=wls&DU=nm Although YUL and YYZ might push the ...

Re: Last scheduled passenger transatlantic crossing in a prop aircraft?

Below is an article about the final year of turboprop flights over the Atlantic. https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/28/archives/the-cheapest-slowest-and-most-hip-way-to-fly-the-atlantic-the.html The WOW air of its time lol Actually the current day Icelandair is pretty low rent too. Here they are the n...

Re: Last scheduled passenger transatlantic crossing?

Loftleiðir flew their Canadair CL44 "Monsters" TATL JFK-KEF (and onwards to LUX) until 1971: https://travelupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Loftleidir-Icelandic-Canadair-CL-44J-TF-LLJ-Rotterdam-1968-The-Mighty-Eight-1278x640.jpg They were the only non-cargo operator of the type. That...

Re: AA ending 27 routes

An awful lot of these are Eagle routes anyway and not mainline AA .. so its not really as dramatic as it sounds re: the AA labor situation.

Re: Southwest Employee assaulted, taken to hospital

If a FA (or anyone) is being physically attacked, they most certainly can and should respond with force. They have every right to defend themselves. While I agree with you in theory, in practice, it's a great way to get let go by your employer. But yet FAs are allowed to tackle and duct tape/restra...

Re: Southwest Employee assaulted, taken to hospital

That’s like trying to inspect quality in rather than designing and building quality. You can’t force proper behavior, it has to indoctrinated at an early and we’ve failed miserably. That's very well said, thank you. In the meantime, should we - and how can we - help flight attendants defend themsel...

Re: Midway Airlines suspended operations 30 years ago tonight.....

My then-GF and I were dozing off in my apartment in Dallas that night, when the phone rang. It was a former GF who I had met on a Midway flight to NY years before. She had been my f/a, and we went out in Manhattan the night that I met her. I lived in Chicago then. We had stayed friends after the br...

Re: Willing to spend four hours on hold? NYT on airline res service experience

Most of us would pay $50, even more, for an airline employee to take care of all of the hassle for us during those various meltdowns. I wonder if FAs who have retired early, or stopped to raise a family could be a well paid resource for this sort of thing, in effect a custom travel agent. This sort...

Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion Thread

Avelo would clean up on HVN-SJU. Other routes I can think of, thinking outside of the box...Nassau. SJU for sure .. theres a huge Puerto Rican community here in Southern CT (Stamford, Bridgeport, New Haven, Hamden, Meriden) ... that route would clean up! NAS very interesting too .. I'd love to see ...

Re: Willing to spend four hours on hold? NYT on airline res service experience

JetBlue and Spirit (in my recent experience): "Your call is important to us ... Due to high call volume, your estimated wait time is 395 minutes". Classy, right? Not any worse then Southwests, “We’re sorry. Nothing we can do” when you trust them to get you somewhere within a reasonable am...

Re: Willing to spend four hours on hold? NYT on airline res service experience

JetBlue and Spirit (in my recent experience): "Your call is important to us ... Due to high call volume, your estimated wait time is 395 minutes". Classy, right?

Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion Thread

Would SJU be an option from HVN with the current fleet? Or would it require ETOPS?

I think if they could, HVN-SJU would be an incredible route for them. I'd love to see that.

Re: AA Pilots Union Rejects 150%/200% ExtraPay Offer for Working the Holiday Periods

I've seen it all now .. a company resorting to bribing their employees not to call out sick. Pretty humiliating .. and talk about setting a bad precedent.

Re: American shutting down The Shuttle.

It is a shame historically speaking, but I'm surprised it didn't happen before now. There's just not a need for so many flights and airlines each day in these markets. Especially with new airlines like JetBlue joining in .. has to be an awful lotta empty seats flying around up there on BOS-LGA-DCA n...

Re: Spirit Airlines sued for FA sexual assault in the air.

Unless he has some special needs mentally (which may be possible, I have no idea) he, and every other adult male on the planet knew what they were going to the rear galley for…nuts that werent peanut. Consent can be revoked at any moment. Yes is valid all the way until no is said. Maybe he wanted t...

Re: Spirit Airlines sued for FA sexual assault in the air.

So, he followed the FA back to the rear of the plane .. he clearly knew what the FA was inviting him back there for after having winked, given him his phone number and a bunch of free booze. "Flight attendants are "in charge while the plane is in the air," so M.B. complied , the comp...

Re: Spirit Airlines sued for FA sexual assault in the air.

VS11 wrote:

SRQLOT wrote:

What did you think was going to happen in the back of the airplane????

Get more free booze?