As someone who traveled for the eclipse, we didn't notice anything unusual before or after the eclipse. Our itinerary was BFL-DEN-LIT for mom and SAN-IAH-LIT for us a week later. Mom flew a week earlier, and we flew the Thursday before. No extra capacity was added (just an ERJ-145XR IAH-LIT), which ...
Jump to postSlightly off-topic, but relevant, I promise: Mostly, Amtrak in the United States has done its best to ensure that airport codes match the train code. For example, Los Angeles Union Station is LAX, simply because LAX has become a word in and of itself. When I am making up my own travel documents, how...
Jump to postAmerican Airlines began service to Bakersfield in August, 1984, with two daily flights to DFW, routed SBA-BFL-DFW, DFW-BFL-BUR-DFW (later switched to SBA instead of BUR), and DFW-BFL-SAN, along with American Eagle flying to LAX. Throughout the 80's other airlines came and went, most notably United b...
Jump to post[ I think its likely KLM to AMS I saw in another post that AMS is putting a limit on int'l flights. Would that be a problem for KLM or DL starting SAN-AMS service? Yes, it would. AMS is unable to expand, and in fact cannot add anymore international destinations. CDG, on the other hand, has no const...
Jump to postCan you imagine seeing that monster coming down from Balboa Park and crossing I5. that would be a sight. Back to the topic, The runway does look strong but the rest doesn't. aside from that they are all 1 jetway. It will probly never happen. I can! However, unless it is for the most dire of emergen...
Jump to postForget about Lufthansa's website. It runs like it is 1998 and we're on AOL dial-up. It times out on anything complicated. Use the Swiss International website. Shows everyone's flights in Star Alliance (at least what I saw in Europe) and even lets you mix and match. It's what an airline website SHOUL...
Jump to postIF this goes through, then here's my prediction: Like everything else, surge pricing will skyrocket. Once an airline decides it can get away with this, then everything will be surge priced. There will never be a "non-surge" moment, and the prices will climb astronomically forever. And sinc...
Jump to postSan Diego's runway 9/27 could easily handle the A380. It is the most heavily reinforced runway on the west coast. Everything else at SAN, on the other hand, is most definitely NOT capable of handling the A380. The taxiways aren't just too narrow, they are not reinforced, and are not capable of handl...
Jump to postSDQ is a "VFR" airport, meaning "visiting friends and relatives". Punta Cana (PUJ) is a vacation destination airport. MCO probably has the most children of any airport in the United States, given that the area is Disney-centric. Money-makers? At times, yes. As for AA at JFK, I th...
Jump to postA bit of a trip report to chime in: In October of 2022, the captain of our LHR-departing Virgin Atlantic 787 politely but firmly instructed the passengers to get settled as quickly as possible, as at 3 PM the take-off runway would switch from 27L to 27R, and if we missed that time, we'd have to spen...
Jump to postMy general rule is ALWAYS that I like to purchase travel and reserve lodging through the airlines/hotels own website, but I have gotten deals through other sites, so I'm not completely averse to that, and I personally have never had any issues with a third-party site. There are legitimate reasons fo...
Jump to postThe hardest plane to get on, because back in the days of "you-can't-change-your-itinerary-without-a-ridiculous-surcharge-but-we-can-change-any-time-any-plane-any-routing" airfares, I tried many times to book a 767. Several times it was done, only to have the airlines change the schedule, a...
Jump to postThanks for all the replies - I am loving reading the stories! Military transports, Douglas DC-4/6/7/8's, and Avro/BAe aircraft are aircraft I never got the chance to fly on, but an A340 of any type will be probably be in that "classic" category soon enough. I also love knowing there are lo...
Jump to postTri-jets have been covered, so how about your "4-holer" experiences? January, 1975: TWA #221, a 707 from the brand-new MCI to LAX. Even in the days of regulated air travel, TWA's coach service was a step above! Menus handed to an eight year-old boy from flight attendants with white gloves!...
Jump to post2024 only has one trip for us planned, but it's pretty exotic - the California family is heading to visit family in Arkansas for the eclipse! Mom, who lives in Bakersfield, is flying BFL-DEN-LIT a week before my husband and I fly SAN-IAH-LIT to join up. Afterwards, the three of us are flying LIT-DEN...
Jump to postA320: LAX-MLM (F-OHMJ)
722: MLM-LAX (XA-MEL)
747-8: LAX-FRA (LH 466)
A343: ZRH-SAN (HB-JMG)
787: SEA-LHR (G-VCRU) & LHR-JFK (G-VNYL)
Forewarning: This is long and rambley, so feel free to skip. Summary: LAX, SAN, SEA, JFK. That's it for entering/exiting the U.S. International transits through FRA and ZRH. As a young guy with absolutely NO money (nor parents who would ever crack open their wallets for me), I vowed that, after four...
Jump to postI believe that the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) agreement that nations sign on to for coordination and standardization of flying requires all signatories to allow any civil aircraft in distress the opportunity to land. The airline and host country will, obviously, foot the bill; ...
Jump to postThe Turkish DC-10 crash killed 346 people in the blink of an eye, all due to a "gentleman's agreement" over safety issues, prioritizing profits ahead of safety. Everything was supposed to have changed. I mean, when there's an accident, it is investigated, and changes are made. That's the w...
Jump to postWithout a doubt, flying business class on the upper deck of a Lufthansa 747-8 from LAX to Frankfurt. How can ANYTHING compare to lie flat seats with my own pillow and blanket? Even on Virgin America, with BIG reclining seats and a foot rest (I still loved this flight, though!), unless it lies flat, ...
Jump to postIf any airline is thinking of doing business with a Carl Icahn-owned company, they need their heads examined. That vampire - and I say that apologizing to legitimate vampires for the vile comparison - will do everything he can to suck every penny out of JetBlue and then leave the carcass. Long-term ...
Jump to postLet us remember that AA did not purchase TWA; they waited until it was finally killed off by Carl Icahn and then purchased the assets from the now-dead company. Icahn went to court to try and enforce the Karabu Agreement, stating, "AA purchased TWA, so the agreement stands!". The court dis...
Jump to posthttps://www.google.com/maps/@27.608869,-99.5192789,1946m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu For those with some time on their hands, here's the location, complete with a view of the former runway. Oddly enough, Google was rather difficult to work with. Trying to get it to understand LOI as an airport code led ...
Jump to posteta unknown wrote:I discovered last year the Swiss website is more generous than LH and will generate your desired itinerary - not 1 flight needs to be on LX.
Two things: A) I assume the cruise is this year, not Sep. 2025. If it is 2025 , then that's more than a year out. No, the cruise is 2025 - this was just a dummy booking for THIS year (2024) to see what LH is flying. B) I discovered last year the Swiss website is more generous than LH and will gener...
Jump to postHave you considered booking two one-way tickets instead of one return ticket? Make sure to have enough time in between your cruise arriving in ATH and your departure out of there, it's not uncommon for cruises to be delayed which would result in missing your connection. I have considered two one-wa...
Jump to postIn this day and age of airlines wanting you to "do it yourself" and skip talking to someone - and literally charging you for it - what is one to do when the flights are showing up but the itinerary comes up with a response along the lines of "Sorry, I can't figure this out, and I have...
Jump to postDelta’s purchase of Pan Am’s European assets is questionable. The purchase gave Delta overnight presence in a lot of primary and secondary European markets. However, the Frankfurt hub was dismantled*, JFK was a billion dollar money pit for decades and many secondary European markets once flown by D...
Jump to postVery well written survey questions!
By the way, if you haven't read MacArthur Job's books on major aviation accidents (such as this one), I HIGHLY recommend it!
The pacific sale was perfect for United due to their SFO operation. SFO is the perfect hub to Asia just like MIA is the perfect Latin America gateway. Not sure how American could have taken full advantage of the Pan Am pacific routes without a fortress hub like SFO. I came looking for this point. T...
Jump to postA much better result than the last time a "Southern"-named aircraft attempted a landing on a road:
https://aviation-safety.net/database/re ... 19770404-1
I agree with lots of these. I would add: - anybody who complains about crying babies on aeroplanes should be put on the no-fly list Unless you were on that Lufthansa flight with that demon-spawn from the depths of Hades that shattered every eardrum onboard (with the exception of the flight crew) fo...
Jump to postCXH-YWH. Vancouver Harbor Airport to Victoria Harbor Airport on a DHC 200. We traveled at 5,000 feet for the entire 35 minute flight, making it the most scenic route I have or ever will be on. I was one of the first on board, selecting a seat with as unobstructed a view as possible. However, the las...
Jump to postAs of April, United is down to two flights a day: BFL-SFO (morning) + SFO-BFL (evening), and DEN-BFL (departing Denver BEFORE the first bank of flights, so no connections can be made), with an immediate return of BFL-DEN. And that's it. It's not like they have to justify poor loads in order to have...
Jump to postAre there any other two-airline cities about to become one-airline cities? Or three-airline cities about to become two-airline cities? Yes, and probably a few one-airline cities will become zero airline cities, or lose daily hub connections to be replaced by 2x/3x a week leisure destination stuff. ...
Jump to postUnited has also dropped a large amount of smaller cities/towns and flies to fewer places domestically as it moves away from regional jets. I have a thread in polls & preferences that's going nowhere about this topic. Specifically, "should United pull out of BFL completely?"; however, ...
Jump to postI'm usually one to avoid these kinds of topics (pure speculation), but recent events have me wondering if this is in the cards... Here's the situation: mom is flying to a family reunion in Arkansas; my husband and I are flying separately. Her original itinerary, booked in September, was BFL-DEN-LIT ...
Jump to postI find myself loving these polls more and more... What was your first widebody flight? Mine was August, 1987, flying LAX to JFK on a TWA 747. I wish I had noted the registry, but it was almost certainly a 747-100, given that there were only a couple of -200 models in TWA's fleet at the time. The fli...
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 postSpeaking of China, I forgot to mention it in the original post, but I've heard that flights there often take a convoluted route due to the amount of restricted airspace. Only 30% or so of the country's airspace is open to commercial aircraft, which means that the route a plane takes between two cit...
Jump to postWith regards to the thread about the article on "dominant regional jet airports" (and the consequent non-surprise that all the airports listed were "hub" airports plus LGA and DCA), I'd like to hear the thoughts of the forum on the "non-hub" airports. What would truly b...
Jump to post1) hub 2) hub 3) hub 4) distance/slot restricted 5) distance/slot restricted 6) hub 7) hub 8) hub 9) hub 10) hub Here at a.net, I would be shocked if anyone was surprised by this. The rest of the world, possibly. Indeed. It would have been more interesting to see what airports have the most RJs /ou...
Jump to postMust be Southwest pilots. I was going to say ex-Continental pilots, as the stories I have heard of their operations at IAH are legendary - especially if thunderstorms are about to hit the area. Unfortunately, airfleets.net has no information on this plane. Aviation-safety.net lists it as a -321C, s...
Jump to post1) hub 2) hub 3) hub 4) distance/slot restricted 5) distance/slot restricted 6) hub 7) hub 8) hub 9) hub 10) hub Here at a.net, I would be shocked if anyone was surprised by this. The rest of the world, possibly. That greatly oversimplifies it, when, as noted, the world's busiest airport by passeng...
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2) hub
3) hub
4) distance/slot restricted
5) distance/slot restricted
6) hub
7) hub
8) hub
9) hub
10) hub
Here at a.net, I would be shocked if anyone was surprised by this. The rest of the world, possibly.
Last year I'd booked a mid-day ATL-EWR flight, exited to try out JetBlue. Then they cut several routes from EWR, and I was rebooked. ATL-FLL-EWR, departing at 0600, with an 8 hour layover in FLL. With a total trip length of 12:30 hours on what was booked as a 2 hour trip. Well, I ended up flying AA...
Jump to postI need to go back and check my Lufthansa flight book from 1988 to see if FRA-BOG was being served by LH back then. I do remember, thanks to the horrific crash in 1983, that Avianca flew from Bogota to Frankfurt - via Caracas, Madrid, and Paris. Which plane is better at the 8,300 foot altitude - the ...
Jump to postThanks to the operational meltdown at British Airways, they surrendered $5000 of money we had paid them because their computers told everyone to "p**s off!" In December, 2021, I purchased tickets for my husband and myself to fly SAN-LHR on BA, departing on Monday, September 19 (arriving on...
Jump to postCall United Airlines, and ask them to re-schedule you for an earlier flight to IAH. Explain to the agent that you do not feel comfortable with just a 30-minute connection, and you'd like to have more time. See what they can do. I have seen near-riots on planes as passengers with tight connections to...
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