Centered in New Jersey it seems felt Philly through NYC . Even further north and east than that. A friend of mine in New Hampshire felt it. A friend of mine a few hours north of Toronto felt it. Which is bizarre. Also 10s is long for a 4.6 4.8, I wonder if they won't upgrade it. Duration and magnit...
Jump to postI’ve only flown Volaris a handful of times, each time with no issue. Everything has been on time and operated to plan. My anecdotal observation is that they will cancel low-LF flights and get everybody onto other, fuller flights. If a route is served 5x/day they may cancel two but fly the other thre...
Jump to postSun Country was to set up a PDX focus city complete with a pilot and flight attendant base. Then COVID happened and those plans were shelved. Perhaps they are thinking about restarting this. I would love to see them give this a proper try. If the fares are right it will even entice people in the SE...
Jump to postAirAsia X, KUL-OOL was a really good overnight flight. We paid a few extra bucks to pick seats in the front ‘quiet zone’. The back was packed to the gills but there were less than 10 of us up front. Everybody spread out and got 3 seats to themselves. It was the best sleep I’ve ever had on an airplane.
Jump to postI don’t fault you, I fault the system. If checked luggage was still generally free, there would be more space in the cabin and some more wiggle room for one-off exceptions to be made for circumstances like yours. If baggage arrival at the carousel was more timely across the board, fewer people would...
Jump to postAfter the terminal improvements are over, will there be a gate for international flights for people to get into the terminal and clear customs and immigration or will it continue to have people use buses to terminal? The new terminal project is changing nothing for immigration. I think maybe where ...
Jump to post^ Exactly, and not the first time.
Probably their first time flying, unaware of how any of it works and how detrimental FOD can be.
It’s been a kinda rough 2024 for AS. And the intense media spotlight on them doesn’t help… would this even be newsworthy if the previous events weren’t fresh in our minds? Will this warrant any kind of investigation or is it just a maintenance thing? At least the door was its own failsafe, plugging ...
Jump to postJust watched the show and like mentioned above nothing new for us. But it does good job of showing the sum up of all problems and puts the ball in the courtyard of the C-suite and the board room. I found it quite surprising he was asking for new leadership in such a prominent way on national TV. Al...
Jump to postA220 is my favorite interior at the moment. I love the lav window, too. If you look closely at the Sky interior toward the front of the 737, where the bins taper in, they overlap the ceiling lighting in a really clumsy way. The Sky interior is okay otherwise, but that overlap is a real design oversi...
Jump to postANC flying: Assuming even a 70% load, avg fares of $280 ish (base). 126 x $280 = $35,280 per flight. That's gotta be MORE than they're getting on ONT/BNA. FAI flying would get more, no nonstops to either. Avg base of $300 - 70% load - $37,800 per flight. (base fare of $300 would be about $335ish af...
Jump to postLooking at FR24 track, if this is accurate they took off more than halfway down the runway. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/oy-gdc#340bbf81 Also interesting that they spent nearly an hour in the air. I assume they were checking out control surfaces and did a low pass first to ensure the...
Jump to postAnother option I could see happening eventually is AS adding PDX-Costa Rica. As much as I would LOVE to see this (I just returned from Costa Rica on AS), they don’t even fly to CR out of SEA so I don’t foresee it happening out of PDX anytime soon. But having service out of another city besides LAX ...
Jump to postCNN has posted the pdf if you can’t get it from NTSB:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/06/business ... index.html
There are websites where you can pre-book 4-6 hour day rooms at normal hotels… I have taken advantage of this after redeye flights. The last one, we had a Volaris redeye LAX-MEX which was very short. Our hotel was on the west side of the city and check-in was not until 2. We booked a day room from 7...
Jump to postMy LIR-LAX flight coming up in a couple days has been scheduled as a -900 forever but a -9 has been assigned in its place. They’re probably letting the -900s get in for maintenance to close out all the MELs they have accrued over the last few weeks of overtime.
Jump to postPDX or SEA-DFW is always an unpleasant redeye. It seems that flying two time zones east is kinda the sweet spot where the stage length and time change makes it especially miserable. A few years back I flew PDX-SEA-DFW-ICN, and having the SEA-DFW redeye only a few hours before the morning trek to Seo...
Jump to postIf the situation was as dire onboard as it seems, opening the emergency exit was the only thing that could’ve returned them to the gate quickly. Phone calls to authorities, yeah no. (Also doors closed, phones on airplane mode… is that rule ok to break to call authorities?) It’s not the guy’s fault f...
Jump to postMeanwhile in Portland news re: the return to service… “Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplane makes safe arrival at PDX” https://www.koin.com/news/alaska-airlines-flight-1282/boeing-737-max-9-airplane-makes-safe-arrival-at-pdx-after-previous-emergency-landing/ So many other ways to headline the return to service…
Jump to postGlobalTWA wrote:Will Alaska provide travelers options to change flights without the difference in fare if they don't feel safe flying the MAX9 on Alaska?
rj777 wrote:I bet there's still gonna be some passengers who will have concerns about flying on the MAX9
The other thing that could have gone much, much worse is if it behaved slightly differently in the airstream, and smashed into the horizontal stabiliser. This. I wonder if the NTSB is going to do any simulation/modeling of the plug trajectory, accounting for both the accident scenario and for other...
Jump to post797-200 Base Size. 198 seats @ 32" single class. 222 seats HD. 797-300 Stretch. 234 seats @ 32" single class. 264 seats HD. What’s the reasoning behind always starting out at -200? Why not start it at -100? It’s just weird to me that even though a -100 was initially offered for the 757 an...
Jump to postMy first thought with it being in an exit row was for emergency evac… end up in the grass or worse yet, in the jungle, any snakes not scared away by the sudden arrival of an airplane would need to be kept at bay. Probably not even close to correct, but it’s kinda cute to envision a flight attendant ...
Jump to postSo I read this to say that you cannot even ferry an aircraft to a maintenance base? They are completely grounded. "Special flight permits, as described in 14 CFR 21.197 and 21.199, are allowed only for unpressurized flights." Basically, yes you can request a special flight permit if you n...
Jump to postThat's impressively generous. The accident and grounding will cost Alaska millions, but adding another $200,000+ as a gesture of goodwill is something I wish wasn't surprising. That amount is neither impressive, nor generous. There are going to be passengers who suffered serious, lifelong PTSD from...
Jump to postI made a special trip to get on DL’s inaugural A220 flights a few years ago. I flew NK PDX-LAS-DFW, crashed overnight in DFW with a friend, then flew the inaugural DFW-LGA flight the next morning. Hopped their second LGA-BOS flight a couple hours later. Had a quick overnight in Boston before flying ...
Jump to postTo add to that, what would they have done differently if they had known it was designed to do that? I would think airline policy would have been different, to secure checklists and other important things so they couldn't be sucked out of the cockpit. Nail the checklist to the dash? Require headsets...
Jump to postAmazing coincidence that 26A and 26B were unoccupied. Imagine if AS had blocked those seats due to having known about an issue with the plug. Perhaps earlier passengers had complained about noise or air flow or something. I know I’ve sat next to exit doors before and been very cold. AS didn’t block...
Jump to postAlaska announces compensation of $1500 per passenger and mental health counseling. Almost insulting in my opinion. Why is it insulting? Nobody was physically injured. If they are offering mental health counseling, that will allow people to get mental help to deal with the event if necessary at no c...
Jump to postOK, according to this article ( https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alaska-airlines-cancels-boeing-737-192817226.html ) Calhoun has clearly stated that the root cause was an error by Boeing. Fair use excerpt: Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun told CNBC separately on Wednesday a "quality escape" was at i...
Jump to postThis would appear to confirm the teenager + mom sitting on the affected row (in seats B and C) and moving seats after the depressurization event... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-airlines-flight-door-plug-jack-teenager-shirt-passenger-kelly-bartlett/ Nothing in that article supports they were ...
Jump to postrj777 wrote:wonder when the next press conference will be?
United found loose bolts in 5 of their 737 MAX 9 https://theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatches/united-finds-loose-bolts-on-plug-doors-during-737-max-9-inspections/ Incredibly concerning if true. Either: These bolts were loose to begin with (from assembly). Or they loosen up in flight/cycles. I’m hopefu...
Jump to postI posted this by accident in the United Fleet Discussion Thread (Oops). Anyone have any idea where the plug went? Speculation? Another area (though quite a few miles away) to think about would be Mountain Park/Lake Grove/Lake Oswego. My hypothesis is from YouCanSeeATC’s video showing the track of A...
Jump to postI like the Max and don't necessarily feel inclined to avoid them in my travels. That said, I’m a Window seat Fan with no love for the exit row and now, also Row 26. I really wish I wasn’t assigned to 26A for my AS -9 flight next week. But it’s a saver fare and I don’t have a choice in the matter. H...
Jump to postVery lucky that the seat was empty, and have to wonder if someone there asked to change seats because it was unusually cold... During takeoff? This happens significant before reaching cruise when a seat switch seem possible. Very unlikely that this was coincidence that from the seven free seats in ...
Jump to postWith the AS MAX 9 now grounded for the foreseeable future, how much flexibility does AS have in the fleet to be able to maintain their schedules? I saw in the thread regarding the 1282 incident that it’s around 25% of their 737 fleet… is that accurate, and does that correlate to a similar percentage...
Jump to postUmmmm okay, I have 26A on an AS -9 flight next week. Not even joking. It’s a saver ticket… I wonder if they will let me change??? Or if they will start blocking out row 26 out of an abundance of caution?
Jump to postThe wing was designed in the 1990s. It was completely re-engineered for the 737NG based upon 777 aerodynamics, materials, and design principles. But the point still stands. Re-engineer the wing all you want, but if it still has the same attachment point to the fuselage and a very similar ground cle...
Jump to postDoes everyone realize that every bad thing that has happened regarding the MAX from the crashes that grounded the airplane to the whole reason the airplane even came to be are either directly or indirectly related to these “fuel efficient” engines from GE. MCAS wouldn’t have been necessary but beca...
Jump to postI've been trying to think of how PDX could improve the international arrivals experience, assuming the international gates remain at the end of Concourse D (either as-is, or in expanded international concourse). It's not easy. If they wanted to replace the bus with a secure corridor the most logica...
Jump to postI had this happen last week at MCO, first time. I doubt it’s any kind of ID-matching tech since RealID has not officially rolled out yet. If anything it’s a simple name and birthdate match to passenger lists. The other lane was scanning both ID and boarding pass, my lane had the boarding pass scanne...
Jump to postNot necessarily exclusively ... Notice reference to west coast 'hubs' plural ... Ben Minicucci: “... the 787 fleet comes into play; that will give us a lot of options on where to put the 787s. Either continue to grow Honolulu; or position them in our hubs of strength on the West Coast. So we’re exc...
Jump to postAny thoughts about how the AS/HA merger might affect NP's transpacific plans? My immediate (and quite possibly incorrect) take is that it's extremely unpromising. With HA already flying to Japan and South Korea, the merged AS/HA could easily undercut anything NP tries to do from ANC to Asia in the ...
Jump to postI also hadn't had to show a boarding pass for a while- But on one of my recent trips, the TSA officer looked at me like I was crazy for not having my boarding pass ready to give them. It can vary literally from one passenger to the next at the same checkpoint. I don't think you were 'wrong,' but we...
Jump to postI was on the very first DL A220 flight a few years ago.
Jump to postHonestly, from my experience in traveling to Mexico multiple times the differences between peak and off-peak seasons is not that significant if you do it right. Eat your meals at small restaurants and street vendors instead of fancy restaurants and resorts with huge menus of American food. Take your...
Jump to postI have a rule to not fly anytime near Thanksgiving but this year for a multitude of reasons it was necessary to visit my partner’s family in Florida. Got some cheap tix on AS on the PDX-MCO seasonal redeye that started last week… and then we are headed back to PDX early next week. It is nice to have...
Jump to postNobody is here defending cheaters or people willfully doing the wrong thing, at least generally. But as I said earlier, I do appreciate watching the just desserts when obviously impatient people don’t get their immediate service. If it takes a nefarious actor or two to teach you some patience, cool....
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