Is there a way to know in advance when this frame's first flight will be?
Jump to postThat’s a nice idea, the tartans.
Frontier puts different animals on their tails. Beside them and previously BA, does any other airline sport unique tail designs for individual airplanes, or did? Not special liveries, just tails.
Their web site has a steady trickle of updates that reflect the normal progression of a startup. This one mentions Japan airlines alongside United. https://boomsupersonic.com/news/post/boom-supersonic-first-supersonic-airliner-manufacturing-facility An Aviation Week article, behind a paywall. https:...
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What a strange showing for the list!
Charlotte at #6.
Denver at #3. I believe that years ago Denver peaked at #4 in terms of take-offs and landings, but lower in terms of passengers. Here they are at #3 for passengers. Ahead of O'Hare.
No Beijing, no Haneda, no Heathrow.
It’s a lovely bird. When landing, it looks like some kind of a big insect to me. Maybe a dragonfly. Very striking. I remember watching one take off from Chek Lap Kok. I was in the main terminal looking south towards Lantau, and the thing leaped into the sky and roared off west. In the moment I recal...
Jump to postIn the 1990s, AA had at one point, 2 daylight flights departing from JFK to LHR, one at 8:30am and one at 9:30am. BA has always had the BA 178 service which moves around departure time wise but is the BA daylight service. Pre-COVID, AA had a later daylight, departing at 10:10am (AA 142) and the BA ...
Jump to postI could have sworn that in the last several months I saw a 727 flying somewhere, maybe into Boeing Field. Just now I went to Flightradar24 but the filter doesn’t even include 727s. Is that gap in a flightradar or are no 727s flying? You have to add in the filter/notification manually as type B722. ...
Jump to postI could have sworn that in the last several months I saw a 727 flying somewhere, maybe into Boeing Field. Just now I went to Flightradar24 but the filter doesn’t even include 727s. Is that gap in a flightradar or are no 727s flying?
Jump to postHiFly did that but returned their aircraft already. If they can't make it work it must be tricky. To be fair they also had the worst global aviation recession in history to contend with too. I'd be interested to see how the A380 fares on the 2nd hand specialist market once things are up and running...
Jump to postThis is a nice exercise in market analysis. Well done! Thanks for it; several insights surprised me. I like the comments upthread how an airline might define an airport as ‘X’ while your analysis says it’s a ‘bucket four’ or whatever. In some cases these are differences in what a company says in the...
Jump to postThe engines and landing gear must be worth something. I really don't know, but would throw out a wild guess of at least $20M for engines and landing gear less than 10 years old, average cycles.
Jump to postI entered A-net precisely because after studying the A380 I felt that it was not going to succeed. It was limited to relatively small number of airports that could handle its wingspan and had the needed passenger counts to fill it. At the time my recollection is that there was only 1 other person w...
Jump to postSeattle is still a big metropolitan area somewhat skinny West to East but long from North to South, healthy and growing, SeaTac is limited in how much it can grow without a lot of contortions, and the Puget Sound traffic is bad and getting worse. The Los Angeles metro has several airports, the Bay A...
Jump to postYears ago on some business trip I was spotting at Narita from the outdoor observation deck. This was when it had only the first terminal with those four round connected satellites. At each rounded embarkation area were I think six gates. At that moment virtually every gates was occupied. Most airfra...
Jump to postFun question! You've got a few categories: those in storage or waiting to be scrapped (which I think is least interesting), those pre-delivery, and those working frames an an airport. For the last category, I believe this nice shot includes more than twenty. Perhaps as many as two dozen. https://www...
Jump to postYou can see from the 1963 aerial of LAX RWY 16/34 still existed: https://www.historicaerials.com/location/33.94392957889264/-118.41161004238062/1963/15 If you go to the 1972 aerial the RWY is all gone. That's an interesting photo. It looks like they used satellite buildings. Do you know if people w...
Jump to postCan someone explain the propose of the tires deflating? I searched fuseable plugs and understand their purpose in a boiler. During a RTO is the air inside the tires so hot that it needs to be released, before the tires are damaged? I can see why brakes pads would be hot, but don’t see the connectio...
Jump to postCan someone explain the propose of the tires deflating? I searched fuseable plugs and understand their purpose in a boiler. During a RTO is the air inside the tires so hot that it needs to be released, before the tires are damaged? I can see why brakes pads would be hot, but don’t see the connection...
Jump to postThere is so much conflicting information about the Pittsburgh metro area on the web. Some say that it is in the midst of a tech boom and could some day be "the next Silicon Valley." Others say that it is in rapid decline and has minimal job growth. I seriously don't know what to believe. ...
Jump to postAs to the “next Silicon Valley” I think Austin would like a word. And while Micron is a definite feather in Boise’s cap, it’s going to be hard to be the next tech mega hub without first rate universities like Stanford and Cal-Berkeley in the area. Boise State can compete on the football field, but ...
Jump to postAm wondering how upset airports are (such as my hometown LAX) that spent tens (if not hundreds) of millions of dollars on a380 infrastructure upgrades to terminals, runways to accommodate the now-shuttered a380 program? I won't argue it was a great use of money but U.S. airports are going to cover ...
Jump to postBetween Wikipedia and that abcdlist.nl page it looks like 251 were ordered and a total of 254 have flown. Not as many as Airbus would have hoped for but it has been a fascinating story to watch unfold and then quickly fold back up. I read this 2021 thread all in one go. Rather sentimental, reading t...
Jump to postThe quote in the press release from the Director of Travel Sourcing at Oracle was a nice touch.
Jump to postIn the early 1990s I had a business trip from New York to Los Angeles. For reasons I no longer remember my itinerary was such that I ended up my business on the eastern side of the huge LA Metro area. Rather than drive all the way across the metro in my rental car I figured out that I could ride a l...
Jump to postIt looks like a PER-EZE flight wouldn’t pass too far from the South Pole.
Jump to postGood for them and I hope other airlines quickly follow suit. People have been abusing the policy for years. I know a fellow, nice guy, who got a new dog. When he and his wife travelled somewhere they got a vet to certify it as an emotional support animal, even though that was clearly BS, in order to...
Jump to postI'm wondering what those "Taiwan themed logos" might be. Taipei 101 was pretty distinctive when first built, but it's no longer the world's tallest building and probably not a good choice. A map of Taiwan? The Taiwanese flag?
Jump to postWhen has the Dreamlifter transported Airbus Components? I thought the Dreamlifter was for the exclusive use of Boeing (unlike the Beluga which can be leased out). Im not sure if Airbus has used the Dreamlifter, but it is not just used by Boeing. The Dreamlifter has been doing covid supply runs, for...
Jump to postIt’s not a bad looking frame, but not great. Looks a bit bland but friendly to me.
The A330 has given me many nice memories, including some frequent trips from Hong Kong on DragonAir.
1,500 is an impressive number for a true stalwart. Congratulations A330 and Airbus!
I’m surprised; I thought they were going to be made until 2021. Today I looked up A380 news and saw the last one is nearing completion. Quite some years ago I predicted here at A.net that over its lifetime 440 A380s would be delivered. In the end only 62% of even that small number. It’s sad to see t...
Jump to postAnyway, a story I thought worth mentioning as I don’t think many people knew it and I’m curious to see if anyone can photo shop a Cathay DC10 ? It's not completely unfamiliar to me, but I couldn't give much detail since I head/read about it last century. http://flyingwithfish.boardingarea.com/wp-co...
Jump to postIn that BA777 photo above, the back landing gear looks like a four axle arrangement.
Jump to postANC-NRT is probably within the range of the 737-800 as CM has operated 737-800's on its PTY-EZE nonstop route (3313 mi), which is almost as long as ANC-NRT (3433 mi). ANC-NRT is 600 miles farther than the farthest flight currently operated by AS, ANC-ORD. It'd be within the range of their 321 NEOs ...
Jump to postNRT consistently had a bunch at one point, alongside wide body trijets. I’d guess that IF LHR or JFK had more in total in those years, then NRT would have seen a higher percentage of 747s compared to the full set of all airplane types on any given day.
Interesting question.
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Fun! This is an quirky effect of coronavirus. Even in normal times, in one hour slices, the world’s busiest airport could be different depending the hour of the day. Anchorage claimed a one-day Saturday title based on movements, and it seems DFW similarly won fair and square for May. Presumably Atla...
Jump to postNice to see the little increases from Cathay and ANA. Steps in the right direction.
Jump to postWhat a great event to witness. I had forgotten about it (shame on me!) but my kids had it on the TV. They were thrilled; the first time they saw a rocket launch live.
Jump to postTheir customers are just trying to survive these months, and emerge as undamaged as possible. Right now the broader world of newshounds and analysts care more about furloughs, production rates and when the Max will get delivered. If Boeing are seeing positive numbers they might share them with custo...
Jump to post2-5-2 used to be pretty common.
Fortunately I flew that DC-10 middle seat only once, and it was a short hop between two cities in Texas.
This IS very interesting. I worked for Kenmore Air last summer at BFI, they only have 3 land based Cessna Caravan’s , in the summer the flights between BFI-ESD/FRD were completely full and they operated at about 5-6 daily each plus they also operate the mountain scenic to Rainer/Helens. I wonder if...
Jump to postInteresting. It’s still not completely clear whether the new AA SEA-LHR flight is complementing or replacing BA’s 2 daily flights during peak season, but either way, by S21 we should have either 6 or 7 peak daily flights between SEA and LON: 2.5 from VS and DL, 2/3 from AA/BA, and DY 3x/week from L...
Jump to postMore to come. Bigger planes? I think Alaska might tweak LAX to better feed AA’s transpacific flights. Maybe more capacity from Austin to Seattle, to feed Bangalore. In that other thread the chatter is only about AA but OneWorld is bigger than that. I wonder what else it might sense for AS to do.
Jump to postWhen they part out an A380, are the pieces used only for other A380s, or can they be applied to other aircraft types? I guess seats and toilet units and maybe galley components could be used elsewhere, but would they do that? Life vests and life boats? Engines, landing gear, wing pieces, door and ev...
Jump to postIt wasn’t a total disappointment. Two Dreamlifters landed, and one took off, plus a real pretty China Southern 773. And it was nice seeing the 779 tiptoe around the property. I’m sure I won’t see first flight now, but I can lay claim to seeing First Flight Attempt.
Jump to postShe taxid back past the hill at the north end of the runway… Those wings are so big.
Jump to postEvery once in a while the wind dies down to calm, but then a healthy gust comes out and the breeze returns.
Regular sun breaks though.