Any idea how Holy Cross got home from Iowa City/Cedar Rapids after their loss to Iowa in the NCAAW tourney opening round?
There was an Eastern 763 that popped in Saturday night heading for Bedford Mass. I figured that they’d prefer Worcester but runway lengths could come into play.
DL is dropping CMH-DTW? No, just no mainline service. CMH - DTW is operated 4x daily, with 3 CR9s and 1 E170. They still operate CMH - LGA, JFK, & BOS on regional jets. Can CMH not support year-round mainline service to DTW? When looking at comparable airports (IND/PIT), they can support much l...
Jump to postHow does pilot staffing/logistics work for these repositioning flights to 3rd party vendors at airports with no commercial service? As simple as uber from Lake Charles to MSY or Fort Worth to DFW? Would venture to guess these are not desired assignments...unlike the hamburg trip which must be senio...
Jump to postDL’s summer schedule from CMH is looking very strong right now in terms of mainline. Using June 20: 8x ATL (all 739) 4x MSP (all 320) 1x SLC (738) 13 total mainline flights, by far the most since the pandemic For context, today DL is operating 6 mainline flights from CMH: 5x ATL (739) 1x DTW (717) ...
Jump to postBefore anyone says anything about the A359, the same thing happened when the 77L flew the route. It happens from time to time. Delta's 77L never flew to Capetown, that is a new route. The 777 flew Atlanta to Johannesburg, which Delta has been flying for more then 10 but not 20 years. They did serve...
Jump to postI’m guessing with the departure delay that the crew (pilots) have reached duty limits. It’s easy enough to position crew to Orlando or Miami for quick swap and some gas.
Jump to postAh, Southern is using the Montana dream, Billings to Helena and perhaps a few other intra-Montana routes. I believe the last attempts at this were by Great Lakes and Big Sky before that. Sadly the economy of small aircraft commercial flights is not what it used to be. I was just looking at my 1988 ...
Jump to postApparently Skywest sent a notice to Butte, MT (EAS City) that Delta is requiring 2-class aircraft on all flights under the DL brand by this October. They will be switching over to the CRJ-700/900 for the time being. Anyone have any idea if this is a wider scheme going on, or if they're working it o...
Jump to postI would support this if I get a discount as a slim person. I require less fuel than a heavier passenger. If there is no discount, then I am against this because it's just a slippery slope to prepare charging passengers by weight in the future. Do you see the contradiction in your post? You said you...
Jump to postUGH that should have said: In addition to the fact that a solid portion of the traffic at these airports is going local to/from BIL for business, government, medical treatments, etc, Too late to edit the post. Billings is something of a regional capital for the Montana plains just because it's the ...
Jump to post8 cycles a day!! Could it be to keep FO’s current without needing sims, or trying to use up cycles ahead of maintenance? Definitely unusual. Why would that be specific to FOs? Also I find it hard to believe any regional airline pilots are in need of landings. I thought the regionals were heavy on F...
Jump to post8 cycles a day!! Could it be to keep FO’s current without needing sims, or trying to use up cycles ahead of maintenance?
Definitely unusual.
It was over Northern Utah when it diverted. So it’s really strange to me that they’re headed to SFO. It seems like there would be multiple suitable airports between the diversion point and SFO. It looks like there was an aircraft swap at SFO. The DFW-SFO portion was on a MAX-9, but the SFO-PDX port...
Jump to postWhy isn’t Southwest included? They fly 700+ airplanes to 120ish destinations and are third largest in passengers carried. They may not have hubs by their own terminology, but certainly have important focus cities with flights to many destinations that would warrant being on such a list.
Jump to postHow is the number of 39 decided? It’s not really a nice round number. Is there some calculation based on number of expected routes with an allowance for a plane or two in maintenance or an operational spare?
Jump to postI know that the 764 is operated as a separate pilot group. If the 763 exits and most of the 752s, could they operate the 753 and 764 as a combined pilot group?
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panamair wrote:Schedule posted so far:
DL065 LAX 2230 AKL 0735+2
DL064 AKL 1400 LAX 0605
Yep it’s true. They’ve been recruiting Help me to understand what they would need/use it for? Don’t they only have 1 RON at LHR (2 in the summer)? All others turn back to a hub within 3-4 hours and don’t even vacate the gate, right? UAL.com is showing 2 RONs currently. 772 from EWR and 763 from IAD...
Jump to postJust how much TATL demand do you think those airports create every day, really? Do you have any data for that? They aren't IND, CVG or PIT, that once sustained their owned TATL flights. I don’t have counts. But where else would DTW TATL connections be coming from? Large markets will already have th...
Jump to postFWIW I did a quick look-up of the current flights in the air and I think this shows how DL deploys the 220s very differently than the 717s: Ident Type Org Dest Duration DAL1380 BCS1 BOS LGA 0:40 DAL1565 BCS1 JFK BOS 0:46 DAL2453 BCS1 LGA DTW 0:49 DAL1371 BCS1 SMF LAX 1:02 DAL1455 BCS1 SMF SLC 1:17 ...
Jump to postI really have to wonder why SkyWest doesn't try this with Dash-8-200s if they can find those with decent time left or with life extensions carried out. Those are naturally 36-37 seat planes. It’s a new type.. more training, parts, etc. CRJs are a known commodity for them, likely amortized and proba...
Jump to postSo, just brainstorming here and this is probably a dumb idea but curious what you all have to say about it. Looking at the DEN satellite view, it seems like taxiway EA, which I doubt is highly used, on the southeast side of the airport could be turned into a small east/west runway and be a simple w...
Jump to postYep, it’s to avoid testing for air travel. A NHL team recently did this.
Jump to postHas DL restricted capacity in some markets? Example my hometown of CID used to see upwards of 11 daily flights between ATL (3) MSP (4) and DTW (4). It’s now down to a total of 5 flights a day - one daily 319 to ATL and 2 CRJs each to MSP and DTW and the flights are spaced out throughout the day. I ...
Jump to postJust saw this - Looks like Delta is going to keep LATAM's hard product on the 2nd hand A350s. They will have Delta seat covers though... https://thepointsguy.com/news/delta-air-lines-airbus-a350-outdated-cabins/ I’d imagine there’s both a (significant) cost and timeframe to secure/modify additional...
Jump to postWhat % of LHR flying is on London based crews with United? W/O getting into specifics and from before COVID hit, London crews were doing one of the IAD, ORD & SFO flights per day. Those are the routes I used to fly as a pax before COVID. Not sure about EWR or IAH. The London crews are a lovely ...
Jump to postCody - Yellowstone Regional Airport (COD) hopes to bring in AS to counter the loss of DL service next summer:- https://www.codyenterprise.com/news/local/article_23fee69e-6e6a-11ec-89fc-e7270697e0e9.html Quoting from the above article:- Through their efforts to find flights to replace the 1-2 daily ...
Jump to postI liked this article from when Allegiant first ordered new Airbus aircraft. https://skift.com/2017/05/04/for-the-first-time-allegiant-air-learns-what-its-like-to-configure-a-new-airplane/ Since they always bought secondhand, they didn’t have a team in place for new deliveries. In typical fashion, th...
Jump to postDL is cutting everything from their former focus cities, just because they are cutting doesn't mean it is failing. CVG April 2019 79 flights April 2022 41 flights RDU April 2019 83 flights April 2022 52 flights LAS April 2019 65 flights (13) April 2022 40 flights (10) IND April 2019 41 flights (13)...
Jump to postDelta is slashing SLC all over the place, PIT, CLE, Indy, and more, I don't think there's anything to see here specific to Columbus or personal about Columbus. Really this ought to be a discussion on the Delta network thread or the SLC thread, so much for SLC being viable competition to DEN. I thin...
Jump to postHow does WN ‘flex’ on Saturdays to add 60 additional flights in Orlando? Seems like they’d need better gate utilization, more equipment, and additional Saturday staffing. It’s impressive they can do that.. but from a logistics standpoint that’s a lot more fuel/supplies/resources. Anyone have any in...
Jump to postI don't know what other folks are finding but after looking around the schedules effective June 5, I'm seeing incredible flight counts on all of SAN's high-frequency routes: SAN-DEN - 7 weekday flts; SAN-LAS - 13 weekday flts; SAN-OAK - 12 weekday flts; SAN-PHX - 11 weekday flts; SAN-SJC - 16 weekd...
Jump to postnovarupta wrote:eal46859 wrote:I'm not understanding something.. SJU makes sense.. but why would they divert to BOS instead of just going to ATL? The flightware maps shows it flying directly to BOS.
Because BOS is closer to JNB than ATL
Yes, LHR-AMS flew. It was a blind sector with connecting passengers only. Also, at one point in the early -90's, a few 727-200's were based at LHR briefly to fly multiple LHR-Germany routes. Instead of the usual 12 seats in F, they had 24. I flew LHR to AMS as an exchange student to the Netherlands...
Jump to postAre there retired aircraft passenger or cargo that could provide donor pylons and/or associated parts?
I don't know about engine overhauls but could there be more available cores and support to justify the capital expense?
It’s bringing in the European Team for the Ryder Cup. It’s being played at Whistling Straits.
Jump to postI could see an additional wide body order if they have a deal in place to sell more 763/764 for freight conversion.
They’re opportunistic buyers and I could see them acting on gently used or unplaced aircraft from a lessor.
42 feet clearance at Denver Intl Airport. https://flightaware.com/resources/airport/KDEN/remarks At 41 and change, has anyone seen a Boeing 737 NG go under? I presume it would likely be Delta since they’re the only ones besides Frontier at that side. I wonder if a nose wheel flat or gear collapse w...
Jump to postInsurers cover stupid all the time. It comes down to the covered perils and the contract.
It’s likely covered. It would look bad if they denied coverage for every instance of operator error. What’s the point of insurance then?
UpNAWAy wrote:yeh I butchered that. Don't know why I thought Grace Slick sang that and not peter. Paul and Mary.
Another one YYZ by Rush. As a kid I had know idea what YYZ meant, I just assumed it was some rock start lingo.
What about Time for Me to Fly by REO Speedwagon or Learning to Fly by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers?
Jump to postDid they buy some old Delta 767/777 seats and have them recovered? They look very similar.
Jump to postTo bring this back around, so what's going on at BZN with fuel issues?? Seems to crimp their new growth if there are these big of issues. In the last week it was very windy, several thunderstorms, and hot in the central Montana area. There were a number of weather diverts and these variables can af...
Jump to postDtwramp wrote:Fuel issues in bzn.
Delta has loaded a 767 frequency on CVG-ATL beginning July 7. This is the first time we've had a regularly scheduled domestic widebody route in a long time! Awesome news to hear about CVG with the 767. Hypothetically, if CMH was ever to get widebody service ( I know it's very unrealistic), but coul...
Jump to postGermans love traveling to Utah. Also SLC serves as a gateway to the NP’s of Zion, Bryce, Yellowstone, etc., since it’s cheaper to fly into instead of JAC, SGU, CDC, etc. Also Salt Lake City itself is nice to visit and the surrounding metro area has a lot of outdoor activities. Grand Teton is south ...
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jplatts wrote:AS is going to be starting SEA-CVG nonstop service on May 20th.
Does anyone know what gate AS will be operating out of at CVG starting on May 20th?
I'm a DL Diamond Medallion and have been since 2015. I have a trip next month where DL changed the operating carrier on my first segment from DL mainline to connection carrier Republic Airlines which normally opens you to a free change. The challenge is: 1). DL will only allow me to change the date...
Jump to postMy understanding is that Delta hasn't purchased a used widebody since the late 90's, so the odds of purchasing used aircraft to replace 767-300ER's seems remote. Correct. Whereas DL has purchased several used narrowbodies, they've very rarely purchased used widebodies. The last bunch was 7 763s in ...
Jump to postjbmitt wrote:Wneast wrote:Where could southwest add later on to BZN
I wouldn’t be surprised to see OAK, LAX, PHX, or MDW/DAL/HOU seasonally