Re: Hypothetical: ORD without AA

There is a key difference though in DL dehubbing at DFW vs AA hypothetically dehubbing ORD. To the east, DL already has significant operations at ATL obviously, but they also have significant operations at SLC and LAX to the west. If AA dehubbed ORD, they have PHL to the east, but to the west? Noth...

Re: What was American Like Before the Merger

PM AA was kind of boring to me. They were due for a refresh before they went into bankruptcy in my opinion. Fares were of course pretty high, at least compared to other airlines when I shopped fares. The new merged brand is not as good as the old AA either. More can be done to better the customer e...

Re: Hypothetical: ORD without AA

The problem with AA is that it will never "dehub" ORD per say, but if AA doesn't commit it's attention and DP decides to just let it continue as it always has, UA will gradually gain a stronger foothold in the market, and slowly but surely make AA irrelevant, especially with Kirby at the ...

Re: Hypothetical: ORD without AA

It could be argued that having a one airline market is better than the alternatives. A good case study for this is LAX. None of the US network carriers (US3) is that much stronger than the others. While they are busy squabbling for market share among themselves International carriers continue to sw...

Re: Hypothetical: ORD without AA

The problem with AA is that it will never "dehub" ORD per say, but if AA doesn't commit it's attention and DP decides to just let it continue as it always has, UA will gradually gain a stronger foothold in the market, and slowly but surely make AA irrelevant, especially with Kirby at the h...

Re: Court rules in favor of Kuwait Airways when it decided not to carry a Jewish passenger

Why is it relevant that this passenger was Jewish? I assume there would have been no issue had the passenger held a German passport. Actually, the passenger had either an Israeli stamp on his passport, or was an Israeli passport holder. Israel has no bilateral relations with any country in the Leva...

Is PEK-CAN the only domestic A380 route?

I believe LH and QF are the only other A380 operators with a second A380 hub (MUC/MEL) but I don’t know if either of those have domestic A380’s between their hubs.

Re: Rumour: UA to launch SFO-PPT in 2018

Is it going to be a 772 or 787?

Re: Does SFO have a flawed design?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BpDoaH8Hcs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLiZCkVQwqk Its safe to say that the FAA rather not have planes takeoff or land this close together even in VFR conditions. Huh? Parallel landings happen all the time there. And the one video shows one of them. It may be a ...

Re: What was American Like Before the Merger

AA premerger was bankrupt. AA postmerger is profitable. I would make the argument that the US leadership has been great for the success of the airline. So were DL and UA. Both are profitable now, it's a zero sum game. The economic situation of DL, UA, and AA before and after the merger is basically...

Re: Does SFO have a flawed design?

It may be a flawed design, but where else are you going to go if you want to experience a parallel landing!

Re: What was American Like Before the Merger

There is some truth to this, but the reality is, bad management can ruin anything. I'm not a DL fanboy or UA basher by any stretch of the imagination, but anyone that has been in this industry for more than a few years knows that DL under Anderson worked out remarkably well and UA under Smisek was a...

Re: Etihad to retire the 77L

This is yet another sign of one of two things:

1. EY is in deep shit
2. EY is finally making sensible decisions

Re: Hypothetical: ORD without AA

ORD would probably have a much greater level of Int'l service from UA than it currently does with AA to compete with. While great for the customer, the reality is that having two mega carriers dilutes yields and basically splits any route into two and results in an almost inevitable tit for tat situ...

Re: Major Air Service Announcement for PIT 11/15/17

Is this a foretelling of Amazon HQ2 coming to the PIT region? My guess is the area could use that sort of economic shot in the arm... It could be another clue. City officials have had quite a bit of swagger dropping hints lately. No There have been like 10 cities listed as top contenders. And AS is...

Re: DFW F: State of affairs?

Oh fun! I like project manager hats! I would begin construction concurrently on a central terminal building in the median on the south side as well as construction of the East-west aligned concourse where terminal F would have been. As an amendment to the idea presented above, I would build a sweep...

Re: Indigo Partners to order 430 A320s at Dubai

It takes a lot, but this really makes EK look like child's play

Re: Delta's Official Goodbye Itinerary for the Iconic 747

Looks like DL is charging its own employees to fly on one of these farewell flights. At a discount and all proceeds go to charity. United didn't do that. United had a bidding process but didn't charge. Thoughts on this? Honestly, I think it's crap. Not just charging employees, but the way in which ...

Re: Country policies/laws that benefit their local airline(s)

Probably Dubai takes the cake. Every regulation is tailored to suit Emirates. No labor protection laws, lax aviation regulator, zero % financing from regional neighbors, city leaders constantly scouring for liberal BASAs, and undisclosed arm length transactions to name a few. Yup, and that's why EK...

Re: Delta's Official Goodbye Itinerary for the Iconic 747

You need to be logged into Delta.com to see the bidding. Here is the direct link, https://www.delta.com/content/www/en_US/skymiles/skymiles-experiences.html No, you don't need to be logged in, and that's the wrong link. http://www.skymilesexperiences.com/iSynApp/allAuction.action?sid=1101601&rc...

Re: DFW F: State of affairs?

There's a big mess involved with the whole thing. First of all, American and the airport are at odds. It was discussed here recently that new AA wants DFW to demolish the whole terminal complex, and rebuild in a more efficient design, some sort of mash up of DEN, IAH (future linear IAH, not past ho...

Re: Delta's Official Goodbye Itinerary for the Iconic 747

Just got this via E mail from Delta. Basically, as we already know, the last commercial flight on the DL 747 is on 12/17, ICN-DTW. Then, on 12/18, there will be a hangar party in DTW. On the same day it flies from DTW-SEA where there will be another hangar party. On 12/19 it will fly from SEA-ATL f...

Re: MCO has longest customs lines, PHX has the shortest

I don't think this belongs in the polls and preferences forum, mods can this be moved to civil aviation?

Re: MCO has longest customs lines, PHX has the shortest

masgniw wrote:

Also from the article:

...we looked at the average wait at airports that processed over 500,000 international passengers between October 2016 and September 2017

Re: MCO has longest customs lines, PHX has the shortest

Does anyone know if terminals A and G at SFO share a common CBP facility? I believe terminals 1, 4, 5, 7, and 8 have their own individual CBP at JFK, and MCO has 2 separate CBP facilities at Airside 1 (most South American carriers), and at Airside 4 (Delta Int'l flights, Emirates, and European carri...

Re: MCO has longest customs lines, PHX has the shortest

masgniw wrote:

Citation? Or speculation?

MCO has longest customs lines, PHX has the shortest

Fastest: PHX CLT MSP Slowest: MCO SFO JFK http://milecards.com/1588438843/2017-customs-airport-wait-time-study/ I don't know how many widebodies arrive simultaneously at SFO and JFK, but at those airports, there's usually only one 747 or A380 arriving during the peak arrival time, and everything els...

Re: If the L-1011 had only 2 engines, would it have been a success?

VirginFlyer wrote:

I seem to recall later on the programme there was a proposal for a "Bistar" but it didn't leave the drawing board.

DFW F: State of affairs?

There has not been much news about the status of DFW F in recent time. Most agree it will be built at some point (hence the empty skylink track south of D and west of E) but when? Are there any updates on the project? I have heard the groundwork has been laid (literally), but not much else.

How many of UA's 777's are older than their 747's?

I have frequently seen the old age of UA's 744 fleet cited as a reason to retire them. However, UA was the launch customer of the 777, so I would imagine that a good portion of their 777 fleet must be older than the 744's. Does anyone know many of UA's 777's are older than the 744's, by how many yea...

Re: Air Transat to unveil new livery November 13th

Just to clarify, was this an accidental leak or an unofficial rendering?

Re: What's Next For TPA (Route Wise)?

Looks like LH goes mainline 28OCT18

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