https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1779249616740884824?t=X44tyngiiU2fYKleEo13hA&s=19 A report that a USAF KC-135 is squawking 7700 over Iraq. That’s not entirely abnormal. There is something about military aircraft and how they transmit. The tracking services don’t interpret the data right. D...
Jump to postTK 884 and 892 both appear to have turned around to head back to IST.
Jump to postJordan and western Iraq seem to have cleared out pretty quickly, a U.S. tanker doing circuits in the area and the RAF looks to have just sent a tanker up from Cyprus.
Jump to postIt hasn’t been a secret that LGW will most likely go seasonal. Nothing wrong with that. DL has already gone seasonal on its JFK-LGW route. I believe Norse is starting to offer more of a seasonal transatlantic operation at LGW these days too. Well Delta’s JV also has 5x JFK-LHR on widebodies so it’s...
Jump to postNew schedule additions are provided through cuts to unprofitable routes and through reallocation of those assets. The aircraft shortage still exists, however, aircraft utilization will increase during the summer flying period. Yes clearly, but pickings must be pretty slim if they're pulling metal d...
Jump to postGiven their plane shortage, where is the metal to add this flying being taken from? New schedule additions are provided through cuts to unprofitable routes and through reallocation of those assets. The aircraft shortage still exists, however, aircraft utilization will increase during the summer fly...
Jump to postI was just thinking about your question (if DL would add PVU now) it’s one thing to have the ULCC/LCC carriers in PVU that don’t really compete with DL. But now that AA has jumped into the market to probably keep Breeze at bay I could see PVU being on DL’s radar to now keep AA at bay. Becase DL is ...
Jump to posthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-esX3Kpwrhs This was posted on youtube today and the first ~five minutes cover the Eastern Airlines mech strike. I was a goofy young teenager and don't remember much about Eastern at the time, especially compared to Pan Am and others I had actually flown while outsid...
Jump to postLooks like NK is adding LAX to PDX/SEA. Starts July 10, both 1x daily, Airbus A321neo operating. https://www.google.com/travel/flights/booking?tfs=CBwQAhpFEgoyMDI0LTA3LTEwIh8KA0xBWBIKMjAyNC0wNy0xMBoDUERYKgJOSzIDMzU2KAAyAk5LagcIARIDTEFYcgcIARIDUERYGkUSCjIwMjQtMDctMTEiHwoDUERYEgoyMDI0LTA3LTExGgNMQVgq...
Jump to postLooks like NK is adding LAX to PDX/SEA. Starts July 10, both 1x daily, Airbus A321neo operating. https://www.google.com/travel/flights/booking?tfs=CBwQAhpFEgoyMDI0LTA3LTEwIh8KA0xBWBIKMjAyNC0wNy0xMBoDUERYKgJOSzIDMzU2KAAyAk5LagcIARIDTEFYcgcIARIDUERYGkUSCjIwMjQtMDctMTEiHwoDUERYEgoyMDI0LTA3LTExGgNMQVgq...
Jump to postAlthough B6 lounges are reportedly planned for JFK and BOS, without serious operational improvements they'd be overcrowded disasters. Lounges are already zoos during IRROPS and at an airline like JetBlue where they're par for the course they'd continually be mad houses. I can see why B6 might feel ...
Jump to postA focus group of high-tier MOSAIC customers on the B6 side of the house in the 2015-2016 timeframe determined most customers were unwilling to incur the cost associated with such a limited network-wide lounge offering. Well that's silly for an independent B6. This airline does nothing but leave mon...
Jump to postOne issue is that for about 10 years (2003-2013) AA took very few deliveries of new a/c (maybe a handful of 772s). Then by the end of the 00's it was caught with a bunch of old, unreliable, maintenance prone A300s, MD80s, 762s, 763s and first generation 757s. So a huge order was needed. With the si...
Jump to postSpirit might be well-disciplined from a cost containment perspective, but there are strategic mistakes they've made that have contributed to their current squeeze. P&W engine reliability has lagged its peers for decades, the GTF fuel savings probably seemed tempting, but the risk that the GTF's...
Jump to postI mean that’s all interesting however I asked about how spirit ended up in it’s current situation yet you go on about JetBlue. So again since it’s a spirit thread how did it come to pass that they are in a bit of a pickle? Oh let me guess they will just turn it around no problem but JetBlue will be...
Jump to postDid it hit something or did somebody forget to lock the access panels? I don't know what on earth they could have it that would have only hit one engine and managed to release the panels on both sides. Looks similar to the Alaska 739 from a couple years ago where the cowl flew open. https://avheral...
Jump to postSo they left their niche captive market in LGB because they couldn’t get a CBP facility there and didn’t like their landlords, only to move into hyper-competitive LAX just to drop nearly all international flying anyway, trash yields, and render any intra-west coast flying unviable. The strategic bl...
Jump to postSo they left their niche captive market in LGB because they couldn’t get a CBP facility there and didn’t like their landlords, only to move into hyper-competitive LAX just to drop nearly all international flying anyway, trash yields, and render any intra-west coast flying unviable. The strategic blu...
Jump to postThe title of this thread should be changed. The 737 MAX didn't fail anything. The production line that produces them "failed" the audit. If the same line was producing the 757, the same results would have been found. Not sure that P&G had released Dawn Platinum Power Wash as an availa...
Jump to postBizarre behavior, but I'm more surprised that AS crew let him do it three times before requesting law enforcement to stop him. This was supposed to be done on the first attemp. Seeing as he could potentially face 20 years in jail, the fact that his pilot career is over is the least of his concerns ...
Jump to postAlright..which one of you played with the United Airlines voodoo doll this week? Seriously, I don’t remember the last time a spate of so many events happened back to back to the same airline back to back. Didn’t Pan Am have a string of accidents over a couple months in the 60’s? Fortunately everyon...
Jump to postThe underlying facts in his piece pretty closely follow Peter Robson’s “Flying Blind” since he cites it extensively in the visual in his skit. I think people seriously underestimate in the TikTok and IG era how not only the news spreads, but how it becomes embedded as a topic of meme and satire fodd...
Jump to postThat's an interesting thesis. Anybody with a Diio subscription care to outline AA's mainline summer SEA schedule, please? Currently on a standard Thursday: 5x CLT (all 321s) 8x DFW (all 321s) 2x LAX (all CR7s) 1x MIA (321) 3x ORD (all 738s) 2x PHL (all 321s) 3x PHX (2x E175, 1x 319) Thank you. Seve...
Jump to postAC's defense was comical here, trying to say that the chatbot they set up to deal directly with customers was something they weren't responsible for. It looks like they have since taken down the chatbot, or maybe fired the chatbot to hold it accountable for its own actions is the better way to desc...
Jump to postDid not see this posted elsewhere, but thought it was interesting. Air Canada was ordered to pay a passenger $812 for refusing to honor a bereavement fare policy that its customer service chatbot had apparently made up and instructed the passenger to do. Air Canada claimed that the chatbot was “resp...
Jump to postOver 1/3 of their wide body lift are 767’s that will be parked this decade, if Delta had a glut of wide bodies you’d see their retirement accelerated or Airbus deferrals until the 767’s are put to pasture. Seeing widebodies repositoning or flying on JFK/ATL- LAX/SFO/SEA is not unusual, gone are the ...
Jump to postThis happens every time there is discussion of a possible A350 order...... Armchair CEO's chiming in saying the order should go to the 787. Every potential A350 order doesn’t involve an existing 787 operator with a combined 90 examples and orders where the planes needling replaced are currently hea...
Jump to postAnd it's devolved into a 787 vs 359 thread...which these tend to do. :) To be fair, a lot of these people clearly have no idea what they're talking about, so I wouldn't take them too seriously. This happens every time there is discussion of a possible A350 order...... Armchair CEO's chiming in sayi...
Jump to postSEA was up 10% year over year to 50.8M
https://www.portseattle.org/page/airpor ... 0in%202024.
Looking at the AA fleet, they have around 280 A321 similar to Delta A321/757 fleet but United only have circa 60 mostly older 757 so you can see their issue with the max10 delay. AA have older A319/20 and also 737-800 to replace so could go max7 or A220/A320neo/max8 most likely as less need to go f...
Jump to postMy thoughts exactly. They are only due to receive four this year and have had to postpone 717 retirement as a result. Didn't JetBlue just defer 14 A220 deliveries over the next two years as part of their $2.5 billion capex deferral? Seems like there'd be some delivery spots opening up unless Airbus...
Jump to postI'm sure Qantas will pick these up My thoughts exactly. They are only due to receive four this year and have had to postpone 717 retirement as a result. Didn't JetBlue just defer 14 A220 deliveries over the next two years as part of their $2.5 billion capex deferral? Seems like there'd be some deli...
Jump to postA more close up view, they were very fortunate.
https://twitter.com/fl360aero/status/17 ... 3577671820
Today’s Aviation Week podcast is an interview with Doug Parker. I found it striking when talking about the merger he talks about how AA had a more combative culture toward its unions than he expected when US literally had split workgroups, although in fairness that was largely pilot driven, but it’s...
Jump to postnwcoflyer wrote:Veigar wrote:American Airlines is a zombie airline run by America West.
Who is left from America West at the top ? You can’t tell me the frontline supervisors that are in a few places are running the airline ?
Sooner787 wrote:Wish they'd bring back the clAAsic livery. I know bare metals is no longer an option,
But NWA managed to find some proper silver paint for their final livery
Normal people working normal paying jobs don't have to pay taxes in states where they do not reside. There are specific laws that tax athletes and entertainers (and sometimes other very high earners) when they work/perform in a state that is not their state of residence. Flight attendants (and over...
Jump to postI was a big fan of USAir, always the underdog and nine lives. I think what’s interesting is that they had a period with the 767-200s to Gatwick that their product was above average, but seemed to go downhill over the years so when it came to the merger, they actually were probably the more distress...
Jump to postUGH...it's an anniversary I'd like to forget. As a longtime AA flyer, I feel nothing positive came out of this merger from an AA passenger perspective. I do wonder sometimes what AA would look like if it had been able to come out of bankruptcy as a standalone carrier. It was a bit decrepit and lagg...
Jump to postIAnd AA has already agreed to pay 50% of the regular flight hourly rate during boarding in their bargain. With the two largest U.S. airlines having implemented a boarding pay solution, the no boarding time pay is going the way of the dodo bird, everyone else will have to come up with something in t...
Jump to postDoes AA have an agreement in place or still in ? They’re still in bargaining, but APFA and AA have already agreed on boarding time. “American and the union representing its flight attendants have now agreed to boarding pay similar to Delta's, says APFA president Hedrick.” https://www.npr.org/2024/0...
Jump to postAs I understand it, flight attendants only get paid for the time the aircraft doors are closed to when they open. Is there an advantage to this for the workers? I don't see one, but it seems to continuously get re-ratified. It’s an industry standard. Always has been. And no one wants to be the firs...
Jump to postI feel like I’ve seen some newer planes on Delta maybe? that don’t have illuminated no smoking signs at all anymore, only the seatbelt sign and a “WiFi Available” illuminated sign, I’m guessing those are under some alternate compliance/ waiver as well?
Jump to postSRQLOT wrote:Wasn’t he banned from dealing with airlines???
The proliferation of open skies has made some of the purchases seem less relevant as time has passed, but at the time, access was very valuable and not something that good just be done organically.
Jump to postIt seems many here are queueing-up to bash RR`s T1000 even though it`s durability issues have been addressed & a few who revel at the news that it`s lost out to it`s rival the GEnx. There`s no doubt T-1000`s reputation has been damaged and it`s fair to say the issues were challenging, but it mu...
Jump to postFlyingHonu001 wrote:On the Delta reddit thread there are some photos of the new cabin on a 757
https://www.reddit.com/r/delta/s/tSXUBsJhbR
A lawsuit has been filed stating that passengers on a prior flight in the plane had reported unusual whistling noises near the door plug: “According to the complaint, passengers on the earlier flight heard the sound “coming from the vicinity of the door plug.” They brought it to the attention of fli...
Jump to postThe cabin redesign is part of a larger branding redesign that will include a livery refresh , new uniforms, airport (Check-in, Gate, etc) branding and marketing and advertising. The work has been going on for some time — slowed down and then redirected. Delta worked hard to develop and maintain its...
Jump to postcedarjet wrote:Much as I dislike and avoid the 787, this makes sense for Thai, I bet they got a bargain too.