Why was an El Al jet in Lima?

So looking at the Wikipedia an Jorge Chavez Airport in Lima, Peru, as I often check out Wikipedia for airport flight operations ranging from Heathrow to Kumasu, Ghana, I saw this picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/MINISTRO_DE_DEFENSA_SOBREVOL%C3%93_LIMA_POR_TERCER_D%C3%8DA_...

Re: Sun Country eyeing second focus city similar to MSP

Sun Country says it may build a second focus city similar to what MSP is https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/airports-networks/second-focus-city-potential-sun-countrys-next-iteration How about MKE? Sun Country also sees potential in south america MKE has potential..no airline has a hub there and...

Re: Are commercial airline pilots the highest paid profession in the USA?

ArcticFlyer wrote:

AntonioMartin wrote:

Billionaire is the highest paid profession in the USA.

Hey, it's great work when you can find it!

Re: Are commercial airline pilots the highest paid profession in the USA?

Billionaire is the highest paid profession in the USA.

Andrew Hunt vs. Sam Chui

I just thought about this: Andrew Hunt and Sam Chui are among the most prolific photographers among us aviation enthusiasts and certainly, both are among the greatest also. On the boxing website I also frequent, we frequently-pun intended-talk about head to head matchups that never took place-what i...

Re: interesting Delta and Iberia flights out of SJU in 1984

Coal wrote:

I was just telling a friend earlier today that I have only flown IB once, BOG-SDQ-MAD, in 1993, on a 742, there were fleas on the plane. Have never flown IB since and to this day I still have a very bad impression of them.

Re: Iberia launching Singapore?

Iberia in singapore would be interesting and quite honestly, a bit surprising, if you havent looked at that graphic like me when I first entered this post.

Re: interesting Delta and Iberia flights out of SJU in 1984

Especially the B-Cal one. Being a kid, the more stops the more exciting the trip. UIO-BOG-SJU-LGW. Then train to London and after a few days, a train to Glasgow. Yep, I was a spoiled brat. LOL!..we could all be like you!! Truly, it was the journey, not the destination! I had my share of flights as ...

Re: interesting Delta and Iberia flights out of SJU in 1984

I'm positive Delta never operated SJU-ONT nonstop. I believe what the article is saying is that Delta was revamping their flights to Puerto Rico BUT ALSO adding the new destinations of Richmond, Ontario, Minneapolis, and El Paso separately. Delta did operate a through flight from SJU-LAX with a sto...

Re: interesting Delta and Iberia flights out of SJU in 1984

i am reading an online edition of El Mundo newspaper from Puerto Rico where i found some interesting information from 1984: https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/elmundo/?a=d&d=mndo19840401-01.1.54&e=-------es-25-mndo-1--img-txIN-delta+airlines--------- it seems in 1984 Delta operated flights non st...

Re: interesting Delta and Iberia flights out of SJU in 1984

I flew with mi parents on B-Cal, UIO-SJU-LGW. Then in 1989 flew UIO-SJU on Iberia. 747! Great memories, ah? Especially the B-Cal one. Being a kid, the more stops the more exciting the trip. UIO-BOG-SJU-LGW. Then train to London and after a few days, a train to Glasgow. Yep, I was a spoiled brat. LO...

Re: interesting Delta and Iberia flights out of SJU in 1984

Didnt Air France too have flights to South America from Puerto Rico? Air France used to fly to SJU mainly from the French Antilles with a CAY-FDF-PTP-SJU-PAP milk route. Air France also used to operate direct SJU-Paris flights twice; the first time was with a B707 to ORY in mid-1960s, and the secon...

Re: interesting Delta and Iberia flights out of SJU in 1984

For decades, SJU used to be a fuel stop for flights between Europe and Latin America due to the limitations that long haul fleets had by that time. Carriers who operated SJU as a tech stop included Iberia, Avianca, Lufthansa and British Caledonian who not only flew nonstop to SJU from their hubs bu...

Re: interesting Delta and Iberia flights out of SJU in 1984

For decades, SJU used to be a fuel stop for flights between Europe and Latin America due to the limitations that long haul fleets had by that time. Carriers who operated SJU as a tech stop included Iberia, Avianca, Lufthansa and British Caledonian who not only flew nonstop to SJU from their hubs bu...

interesting Delta and Iberia flights out of SJU in 1984

i am reading an online edition of El Mundo newspaper from Puerto Rico where i found some interesting information from 1984: https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/elmundo/?a=d&d=mndo19840401-01.1.54&e=-------es-25-mndo-1--img-txIN-delta+airlines--------- it seems in 1984 Delta operated flights non sto...

Re: New York City sightseeing flights, any recommendations?

Ellehammer wrote:

Hi all,

Joined Airliners.net back in 2007 and just saw that my last posting was 16 years ago... - so don't say I am spamming the forums!

Airline special liveries question

With so many special liveries now (and airlines arent the only ones, Ive seen some beautiful trucks with for example, photos of a family inside it, or Coca Cola spilling all over or a Mc Donalds Big Mac with cheese coming out of it!) which airline was the first to put a special livery on their airpl...

Re: Was there a Lockheed Airlines?

Wow thanks for all the answers! very interesting!

Re: Was there a Lockheed Airlines?

Wow thanks for all the answers! very interesting!

Was there a Lockheed Airlines?

http://www.departedflights.com/ATL89.html This seems to support the fact there was a Lockheed Airlines operating in the American South in 1989 at least. I had never heard of this airline and cannot find anything about it anywhere else on the net. Did they indeed exist and if they did, were they in a...

Re: 50 years ago: THY DC-10 crash

Time flies-obviously no pun intended in this case.

i saw some horrible images from this accident on Google. i don''t recommend them,

Re: Frontier vs. JetBlue in the battle for Ponce.

robleroy121721 wrote:

AntonioMartin wrote:

capejet wrote:

Do any airlines fly to PSE or BQN from other points in the US such as EWR, MIA, FLL, CLT, ATL?

Sadly, nope.

Well, that's for PSE. From BQN there are other destinations as others pointed out.

Re: Frontier vs. JetBlue in the battle for Ponce.

capejet wrote:

Do any airlines fly to PSE or BQN from other points in the US such as EWR, MIA, FLL, CLT, ATL?

Frontier vs. JetBlue in the battle for Ponce.

Jet Blue stopping their flights to JFK from ponce which leaves it only with service to Orlando;..which is a route Frontier also flies ...

Any bets on who will win this one out??

Re: Delta to Brisbane

cokepopper wrote:

Would love to see Delta serve Cairns.
Maybe CNS-HNL?

Re: Delta to Brisbane

These kind of announcements are always good stuff for chatter on a.net. DFW-BNE (AA) LAX-BNE (UA) LAX-BNE (DL) Wow this is a lot. Pull out the popcorn. Did DL see that UA struggled even for being seasonal? DL has a larger market share in LAX. Maybe DL thinks they can push UA out, but I don't see UA...

Re: Delta to Brisbane

The challenge is BNE is predominantly AU POS while SYD could be 50-50. There is also negligible corporate traffic TO BNE and QF has all this traffic FROM BNE. Trust me, with the Olympics in 2032. the corporate traffic will be there, at least for a period. Question: whait is POS (I know ONE MEANINtG...

Re: Delta to Brisbane

These kind of announcements are always good stuff for chatter on a.net. DFW-BNE (AA) LAX-BNE (UA) LAX-BNE (DL) Wow this is a lot. Pull out the popcorn. Did DL see that UA struggled even for being seasonal? DL has a larger market share in LAX. Maybe DL thinks they can push UA out, but I don't see UA...

Re: Delta to Brisbane

The challenge is BNE is predominantly AU POS while SYD could be 50-50. There is also negligible corporate traffic TO BNE and QF has all this traffic FROM BNE. Trust me, with the Olympics in 2032. the corporate traffic will be there, at least for a period. Question: what is POS (I know ONE MEANINtG,...

Re: Delta to Brisbane

Me too And i expected Melbourne first but I’m happy for Brisbane I did, because of the Olympics. Im still very happy for Brisbane. They could probably expect something from Europe as well as some ore cargo I think. what? the Brisbane Olympics aren't until 2032......... Companies start early in thes...

Re: Phoenix Aviation - 2024

As far as cargo carriers, how about landing or take off slots (not gate use)? i want to see a few foreign cargo carriers come in too... I thought I made this clear in my last post — slots do not exist at PHX. There are no slots, not for gates and not for takeoffs and landings. That's not even how s...

Re: Delta to Brisbane

That was a route I certainly didn't expect from Delta! I visited Brisbane a number of years ago and absolutely loved the city. I hope this works out for them. Me too And i expected Melbourne first but I’m happy for Brisbane I did, because of the Olympics. Im still very happy for Brisbane. They coul...

Re: Phoenix Aviation - 2024

What about unused slots? can foreign airlines use American gates during hours that American doesnt? What about cargo airlines, can they make use of those vacant unused slots? Where are you referring to? PHX? There are only three slot controlled airports (ICAO Level 3) in the US — JFK, LGA, and DCA....

Re: Phoenix Aviation - 2024

What about unused slots? can foreign airlines use American gates during hours that American doesnt? What about cargo airlines, can they make use of those vacant unused slots?

Re: Emirates to launch DXB - MIA - BOG?

DXB-BOG non stop is similar in length to ATL-JNB. If they weren't short on 77Ls I would have thought they could make it non stop. Seems like it is a fifth freedom flight between MIA-BOG, so they must see some lucrative moeny there. Wonder how AA will sit with that. And Avianca, and to a lesser exte...

Re: Venezuelan airline 747 cargo flight sets off alarms in Argentina

This helped me remember the airline, so i looked for sources about the incident and was able to write an article on the airline at Wikipedia.

Re: Classic South American aviation question

iRISH251 wrote:

There was Air Berlin USA, a US carrier based in West Berlin in the 1970s-1980s.

Re: Classic South American aviation question

PB26 wrote:

It's just to show where the airline is.

What's VARIG? VIASA? Avianca? LAB, so the airlines added the country name to passenger recognize where the airlines is.

Re: Air India Exploring DFW as its next US Destination?

Once again the PHX metro area doesnt have enough....despite it looking the other way when you drive around...with all the Indian businesses and stuff we have here. Not sure what you’re trying to assert here - but PHX has pretty decent service given its size and business base. BA and AF are nothing ...

Re: Air India Exploring DFW as its next US Destination?

Once again the PHX metro area doesnt have enough....despite it looking the other way when you drive around...with all the Indian businesses and stuff we have here.

Classic South American aviation question

i noticed a lot of times airlines of South America had their last name as a last name on their fuselage. Like Viasa Venezuela Varig Brasil Avianca Colombia Faucett Peru Athougt Ansett also did it with Ansett Australia..Dan Air was Dan Air UK... And so on.... National pride or what else could it be? ...