If you ask me, a livery of todays times is quite bland and boring. If they were to change a livery, they ought to set the stage for GOOD liveries! Not this colored tail, white fuselage trend. Or overuse of “meaningless swooshes” (albeit their logo is a …. Swoosh of questionable meaning?) I’d give it...
Jump to postAA tried it. Cant say how well it worked out given it was prematurely cut just 2 years out. Hardly long term. . Id say we know quite well how AA's attempt worked got given it only lasted that long. Well that depends if you believe it was because the yields were trash and not worth it to AA anymore,...
Jump to postIf DL wants AUS to be a true focus city or whatever, they won’t ever find out if it’ll work out unless they get serious about service. These tiny point to pin routes aren’t going to cut it. AA tried it. Cant say how well it worked out given it was prematurely cut just 2 years out. Hardly long term. ...
Jump to postPerhaps you should contact AUS and tell them to cancel the 4+billion expansion project currently underway. I'm not even sure how you got that correlation, but that's just plain stupid to even say. I said it tongue in cheek. Of course the expansion should continue. In fact I think they should do the...
Jump to postbennett123 wrote:It is hard to see the point in doing so.
Has Sun Country ever considered a name change? I get the original premise of being a vacation airline from MSP to warm destinations, but flights like MSP-CMH don’t necessarily evoke “sun country “ destination to me. Plus the name is not recognizable outside MSP. It’s no wonder why STL didn’t pan ou...
Jump to postI wonder just how bad the traffic will be. Mass exodus or just a bad rush hour all around town? Major roads or even many boulevards?
Jump to postIt says quite a lot actually. We know what it /wasn’t/.
Of course there’s still unknowns to sort out.
Quite an overstatement.
Indeed, however, that SA still is trending pretty well, having read that they had a 13% increase YOY. That’s no small deal. That’s what AUS had then (and now?), even if the dynamics are a little different economically speaking.
Nice. Would’ve thought they’d add a frequency to MEX before they’d up gauge. What used to be an intermittent route has really matured to mainline. Interesting VB is already upgauging. Are there less busier routes that they want to reserve the smaller a320s for those ones? Their a321s have up to 244...
Jump to postLink to AAC meeting 1/10/24 https://services.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=421436 Concourse B will open with 6-10 gates with construction continuing for a total of 20 gates. Full build out of concourse B is 40 total gates. Currently AUS has EIS completed for a total of 57 gates, 37 at BJT a...
Jump to postHeinkel wrote:Oh my God! Ryanair rises the fare by 10%. Now the fare is no longer € 19 but € 20.90. We are doomed.
Worth noting Alaska tried BOI near the top of the list, albeit on a limited schedule, and pulled it Here are the Q3 2023 PDEW's out of AUS to the top remaining contiguous U.S. markets traveled to from AUS that don't currently have any nonstop service out of AUS (Source: DOT Consumer Airfare Report ...
Jump to postSupersonic speed is 768 MPH. Did these flights break the sound barrier and exceed mach 1.0?? Ground speed vs. air speed. These aircraft were traveling at normal cruise speed but the tailwinds were in excess of 250mph. Indeed. The speed of sound at sea level on a standard day is 761mph. So hypotheti...
Jump to postI wonder what the slowest flights looked like going the other way around too.
Jump to postIs it common place to back taxi aircraft on runway 27 to get to that runway end? I see there’s no other taxiway to surpass arriving traffic. I initially imagined it’d just be strategic holding to get aircraft across.
Jump to postIs it common place to back taxi aircraft on runway 27 to get to that runway end? I see there’s no other taxiway to surpass arriving traffic.
Jump to postHere are the Q3 2023 PDEW's out of AUS to the top remaining contiguous U.S. markets traveled to from AUS that don't currently have any nonstop service out of AUS (Source: DOT Consumer Airfare Report Table 6, which can be found at https://data.transportation.gov/Aviation/Consumer-Airfare-Report-Tabl...
Jump to postI would hope at the very least there will be light rail (or maybe an extension of the existing monorail, if that's possible) between the new airport and the Las Vegas Strip. Don't make the same mistake as LAX relying solely on cars and buses to get people in and out. Very true. There are two kinds ...
Jump to postDoesn’t avianca still have some in the old red paint?
Indeed I am glad the 748s haven’t been downgraded by paint job. “Premium” my butt. It’s an airplane, not a bottle of wine!!
Is there any chance we could see AA replace their 772 fleet with 787-10? Its nearly 50 airplanes, very similar in size, and AA for the most part doesn't need the 772's range (S America and Europe) Most likely. They already operate 787s so it wouldn’t be a new type, and that’s around the same size. ...
Jump to postjetwet1 wrote:Right outside of arrivals, you will have no issues finding a taxi or a timeshare salesperson.
I am surprised that AA or DL haven't yet added MKE-LAX nonstop service as either carrier could likely easily fill MKE-LAX nonstop flights with the connections that either of these two would be offering through LAX to Hawaii and Oceania along with the amount of O&D demand that MKE has to Greater...
Jump to postAll it took was covid and many young a380s were retired. Especially Air France. Singapore’s oldest mustn’t have been more than 14 years old and their fleet was reduced quite appreciably. I can see a downturn cause some 747 retirements. Maybe not all but quite a few. Cargo I don’t know. A 15 year old...
Jump to postNope. They will still have outdoor, ground level boarding. It was one of the conditions of the project's approval. Of course, like they do now to this one. It is still an overall public transport downgrade. The old BUR is historically protected, so it will be interesting to see what they do. Hmm in...
Jump to postGoodbye to the hard stand gates! Never flew there but have been a fan. This will be better. Nope. They will still have outdoor, ground level boarding. It was one of the conditions of the project's approval. Yes. Part of the deal to build the new terminal is to add no more gates and keep ground leve...
Jump to postThe Concorde has been to Kai Tak before. Did it have to make several stops to get from LHR to HKG? Did it fly supersonic for some of the flight portions over sparsely populated areas? It has also been to AUS (back when it was still Bergstrom AFB) when Queen Elizabeth II came for a visit. I wonder if...
Jump to postGoodbye to the hard stand gates! Never flew there but have been a fan. This will be better.
Jump to postThe 7 contiguous U.S. markets not served nonstop out of AUS on DL that had higher PDEW's out of AUS than AUS-DFW/DAL in Q3 2023 are ORD/MDW, DEN, MIA/FLL, PHX, SAN, SFO/OAK/SJC, and DCA/IAD/BWI according to the PDEW data posted over at https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1489891...
Jump to postBurning Mexican tax payers money https://simpleflying.com/mexico-state-carrier-empty-flights/ Wow. I imagine any pax traffic now is taking the lone AM (technically 5D) flight. I'm surprised it's THAT low though, even along such a thin, thin route. Once 5D leaves it'll probably be a bit fuller, no d...
Jump to postHere are the Q3 2023 PDEW's out of SAT to the top remaining contiguous U.S. markets traveled to from SAT that don't currently have any nonstop service out of SAT (Source: https://data.transportation.gov/Aviation/Consumer-Airfare-Report-Table-6-Contiguous-State-C/yj5y-b2ir/explore/): SAT-SMF - 109 S...
Jump to postIt could sort of be tried… IIRC Volaris did some sort of partnership with Frontier. I think they only codeshared and don’t know the extent of it beyond that. Bear in mind both airlines are under the Indigo Partners firm to begin with.
Jump to post0674904 August, 1998: LAX to MLM (Morelia, MX), flight 133, a red-eye non-stop arriving at 4:45 AM. I lived with a family for two weeks, studying Spanish. Surprisingly, this family was used to middle-of-the-night departures and arrivals, with the ORD flight one of their children used frequently arr...
Jump to postA sweet airplane. Never flew on the DC9 (or the MD90). Nothing particularly special about it other than being a 737(-200) competitor but I did like it. Others may be able to chime in more in defense.
Jump to post'24 predictions: KE announces ICN 4x weekly AF or DL announces CDG 3x weekly AM starts MTY and GDL DL adds 4-8 new routes All IMO: 1. IIRC Asia is still weak from the US compared to what it was before. If covid hadn’t happened, I’d say this would’ve been a big possibility. 2. Possibly given how lib...
Jump to postMiami (MIA) MIA-FRA MIA-CDG (it's back, but seasonal) MIA-MXP (cut at the beginning of the pandemic, and not returned since) MIA-TLV MIA-ASU MIA-COR MIA-LPB-VVI-MIA MIA-GRU-ASU MIA-MAO MIA-CNF (ended in 2018) MIA-VCP (response to Azul, ended quickly) MIA-BSB MÍA-CWB MIA-POA MIA-REC MIA-SSA MIA-FOR ...
Jump to postThere’s also Tegucigalpa. The infamous airport is now for domestic flights, and a new airport northwest some halfway across Central America (sarcasm) is its new international gateway. A local told me it’s a good couple hours away at least as opposed to before.
Jump to postOct 2023 was the busiest Oct ever: https://www.austintexas.gov/news/october-2023-passenger-cargo-traffic-austin-bergstrom Other notables: WN pax 794,448, up 4.1% AA pax 467,027, down 6.4% DL pax 276,770, up 21.2% UA pax 245,388, up 11.5% DL continued its growth over UA; it was last March when DL de...
Jump to postKLM plans to fly its 787-10 to Austin (AUS) instead of the 787-9 from April 1 through June 1 https://www.threads.net/@ishrion.aviation/post/C1aJ1vNuY8J/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== Very nice. KLM has “big dreams” in AUS. Eyyyy? They used it a few times last year too. It is to pick up all the extra conn...
Jump to postmalev2012 wrote:KLM plans to fly its 787-10 to Austin (AUS) instead of the 787-9 from April 1 through June 1
https://www.threads.net/@ishrion.aviati ... IwNjQ2YQ==
Wow! Totally can't see why this airline was made /s I appreciate Ciudad Victoria (hometown of my mom’s side of the family). It was served by aeromar and then AM connect, but is now being dropped presumably in response to Mexicana “saturating the market”… of one flight. I think that really should ha...
Jump to postRoute map posted https://i.ibb.co/ygPTLss/2023-12-27-221038.png https://i.ibb.co/ygPTLss/2023-12-27-221038.png Wow! Totally can't see why this airline was made /s I appreciate Ciudad Victoria (hometown of my mom’s side of the family). It was served by aeromar and then AM connect, but is now being d...
Jump to postDid they have the fish?
What symptoms are they all experiencing?
EAGaviation wrote:YL is reg of -8
It was a Lufthansa 747-400, in May 2013. EWR-FRA. I have a nice photo of it I’ll always remember, seeing it at the gate. First time I was ever so close to such a mammoth. I believe it was D-AB… YL? I forget. I have the reg stored on my drive.
Jump to postFor those who haven't been to Austin in a minute. This is from last week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEfOegrXmt8&t=206s Comrade I have to say that just the skyline itself doesn’t say more about the amount of people living here! It’s growing, and delta should try to slowly take some share f...
Jump to postThis just doesn’t seem like the way to go for.. anything. BNA makes sense. RDU makes sense (hint, already served).
ELP, MSY, PHX, or other dense markets with few competitors make sense.
Edit, also SJC..
You are correct. There is a decent amount of O&D traffic from MAF and MFE to Dallas, Houston, and Austin/San Antonio because both markets are sufficiently large and distant enough to where flying makes sense. Whereas virtually all passengers from airports like ABI, ACT, GGG, TYR, etc. are conne...
Jump to postI am sure LAXDUDE1023 has them, but MAF-Houston (IAH and HOU) is a big local market due to the energy industry. Same reason UA started Hobbs, NM to IAH a while back, oil. You are correct. There is a decent amount of O&D traffic from MAF and MFE to Dallas, Houston, and Austin/San Antonio because...
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