Except the flight wasn't "overbooked"; he has dragged off to make room for non-revs. And the Contract of Carriage implies that you may not be boarded on an aircraft if it is overbooked, not that you will be dragged off subsequently. Even UA admitted they had no legitimate excuse; why are ...
Jump to postExcept the flight wasn't "overbooked"; he has dragged off to make room for non-revs. Even UA admitted they had no legitimate excuse; why are people still defending them? None of what you just wrote is true. Really? Prove it. You made the accusation. You prove it. You say he was asked to l...
Jump to postalfa164 wrote:Except the flight wasn't "overbooked"; he has dragged off to make room for non-revs.
Even UA admitted they had no legitimate excuse; why are people still defending them?
It's opening day for the white sox and UA's home plate ads are rather placeholder-y looking, and they've never used "airlines" on them before. Make of that what you will. http://i68.tinypic.com/ne7h3.png They’ve used the same style in a few stadiums for at least two years. It doesn’t matc...
Jump to postI have stated this before but no one has discussed.....if I was in the ET cockpit...and I had considered this before the ET crash after learning from the lion accident.....I would have lowered flaps to disable the MCAS while still allowing use of the electric trim. Thoughts? You would tear off the ...
Jump to postI believe the Max is safe and will be safer as a result of the changes made. Very sad people died in the crashes but the root cause seems to be poor piloting decisions spurred by failures in automation and / or faulty equipment. The bottom line is both flights should never have become accidents.......
Jump to postIs a 200 hour FO going to be proficient? Um... the 200 hours mean that he recently got out of training, right? And everyone says that this is a bad thing since he doesn't have any real flying experience, which will not help at all in such an accident. But... is that really the case in *such* an acc...
Jump to postI would pretty well agree with most of this post - in retrospect #2 is now obvious and Boeing should not have expected the level of proficiency they assumed MAX pilots had. Apparently Airbus agrees and hence why they are establishing there pilot schools. And I really hope these incidents really hel...
Jump to postnow it is quite clear that at least in the narrobody side of the business Airbus offers a far superior flight controls/flight envelope design. It’s not necessarily that the system is superior, but that pilots are better trained to respond to anomalies since the aircraft has been in service 30 years...
Jump to postcalpsafltskeds wrote:N67134 finally exited SAT after repeated attempts that must have been mechanical issues.
Why does this continue to happen? How often are non-American carriers crippled by computer failures? I’ve lived in China for 5 years and I’ve never heard of a Chinese airline grinding to a halt due to a computer glitch. Because the media in China isn’t as rabid as the media in the US, where a 40 mi...
Jump to postI haven't and I'm not a troll. I was referring to their Economy Plus that they've been selling as Premium Economy for years. I'm glad to see that they are finally catching up to the rest of the world's top airlines. It does not make them a luxury airline however, it just means they are now just as ...
Jump to postSo let me get this straight.... The initial mess up was caused by the captain accidentally hitting the toga button when reaching for the flaps lever? I did not know there was a toga button located down on the console. I thought it was up near the auto pilot console on the glare shield. So hitting t...
Jump to postIf they had the training why didn’t they just hit the darn stab trim cutout switch? It seems so so simple. As for simulator training, simulators won’t replicate every single failure an aviator might face. That’s where experience and good airmanship come into play. So I’m baffled as to why everyone h...
Jump to postQuite eloquent you are. But Premium Plus service hasn’t even started yet, so on what are you basing your observations? Clearly you’re just a troll Unless he has flown the B78X, which does have a true W section (21 W seats in a 2-3-2 arrangement). I haven't and I'm not a troll. I was referring to th...
Jump to postIn fact, to the best of my memory, every major development programme launched by either of the big 2 this century has a crash record which demonstrates the expectations of modern safety management - i.e. none. I will gladly stand corrected, but that is the context that the MAX crashes exist in, in ...
Jump to postPeople are funny. As if an agency head has anything to do with regulatory oversight. He’s not going to oversee certification. He’s not going to be a safety inspector. The whole Boeing in bed with the FAA is ridiculous. Name one aircraft program that didn’t have issues. Name an aircraft program that ...
Jump to postI don’t think they’ll debut the livery on an aircraft. Only print.
Jump to postIt looks like they updated the post, it now says "The airplane then pitched nose down over the next 18 seconds to about 49° in response to nose-down elevator deflection ." Given the change to the explicit wording above what are people's thoughts on what might have caused this? My obvious ...
Jump to postDoubt it’s the real one, but I personally like this one: http://www.airline-empires.com/uploads/gallery/album_52/med_gallery_9879_52_49218.jpg It’s smart and has hints of the Blue livery. Looks good, but it looks more like something that was thought of in 2010. That's the PMUA bottom half with a PM...
Jump to postbradyj23 wrote:PWMRamper wrote:maps4ltd wrote:They didn't follow on free messaging, so I doubt they will on WiFi.
I free message on every Delta flight I take?
He’s saying that UA/AA didn’t follow Delta and offer messaging.
Maybe the Chinese will ground the 777 tomorrow... No need to ground it. The 777 is perfectly save to fly. Only the 737MAX keeps diving and crashing. Many, many 777 have had issues. Just because nobody died and it wasn’t a news story doesn’t mean there weren’t serious incidents. Same with any other ...
Jump to postTWA772LR wrote:IAM is my union and my labor contract ended this past December. This isnt a good omen.
For everyone here saying it’s impossible for a zero flaps takeoff, you’re wrong. All it takes is the aural warning circuit breaker to be pulled and the pilots would loose the ability to quickly respond. It’s happened numerous times and has led to crashes. There are maintenance procedures that someti...
Jump to postBut you have to understand the context. Two years ago, when Southwest went after the union for essentially the same "we're unsafe until we get a raise then we're very, very safe" strategy, AMFA and WN reached a TA in the days before trial of that lawsuit. That would have been an industry-...
Jump to postIf IAH-LOS doesn’t work with oil traffic, connections, and healthy O&D, what makes you think DFW would work without oil traffic, and inferior O&D?
Jump to postThis might be a dumb question: Since the High J, ultra Premium 767’s will have such a new layout, would it go directly into international service or do some transcontinental runs first for training purposes? Ex: 787-10 Not training per se, but wouldn’t be surprised to see them on some PS for utiliz...
Jump to postGo ahead and read the article and then tell us about his greatness. I already have. It actually moved him up a few spots in my book. And there we have it. I find it funny, that when one side accuses the other side of something, they’re often times doing the exact same thing. Bottom line, people can...
Jump to postArt at ISP wrote:Scott Kirby has contempt for high spend flyers
bob75013 wrote:
WN employees got 10.8% profit sharing , so up the WN number to $42.75.
Since when is profit sharing considered part of your hourly wage? That’s one of the most insecure and variable metric to use for compensation. If you want to argue that it should be included, you’d have to also admit that everyone at UA took pay cuts this year, since profit sharing levels are at all...
Jump to postBase wages AA is $42.39 UA is $42.34 WN is $38.59 DL is non-union Base pay is misleading. With license premiums, shift differential, longevity etc, AA, UA, and DL avarage closer to 50 for a topped out mechanic. That doesn’t include healthcare and retirement, which is almost equally important. AA, U...
Jump to postIf they are still talking six years later, trying to hash out details, I think that's fine because they are still at the table working out things together. That's even more important because it shows a respect for the other side that they're willing to work through all the details with a due dilige...
Jump to postAnd honestly it's quite simple... calling a colleague by the N-word and pictures of sexual "intercourse" with animals? Why would anyone even try to defend that with empty buzzwords like "snowflake", "PC" or desperate whataboutism? What motivates people to defend behavi...
Jump to postI think it’s just another sign UA is struggling to compete at LAX on legacy routes. I bet if you look at AA, DL, or any other airlines flying LAX-SYD in the same time period they’ll all look the same. Low loads, low yields. UA just has the network to spread out. DL and AA are confined to a single g...
Jump to postGBNWB wrote:
No doubt the real issue is just a personality clash and he is making it racist as it is the only thing that he thinks will stick.
UA777FO wrote:our pilot costs are the same, it’s up to management to compete with the pilot contract that they signed, with scope they agreed too.
Aeroman has only 163 certified mechanics while they have 2,231 non-certified mechanics. http://av-info.faa.gov/repairstation.asp?certno=RJEY598H That's a little misleading. Actually, a high percentage of their workers have the Salvadoran-authority's equivalent of an A&P, and, rather unusually, ...
Jump to postAeroman has only 163 certified mechanics while they have 2,231 non-certified mechanics. http://av-info.faa.gov/repairstation.asp?certno=RJEY598H But they’re an excellent facility. I’m sure those 2,231 non-certified mechanics are highly skilled and know exactly what kind of corrosion they’re looking...
Jump to postBoth LAX and IAH to SYD will get trim for Northern Summer season eff March 29 till end of Oct. LAX-SYD becomes 3x weekly, and IAH-SYD 4x weekly. Ultimately frees up two frames do to something else with in the summer. So MEL stays at daily with SYD less? Seems funny to keep IAH at a higher frequency...
Jump to postWell, given what the WN unions are saying, I guess I would rather have my aircraft done in El Salvador, which is by all accounts an excellent facility. And I would be happy to have my car worked on in El Salvador, or Cuba for that matter, because they actually know how to fix things rather than jus...
Jump to postLikewise, a mechanic may have a particular assignment, but his overall duty always includes inspecting and looking for discrepancies. Attempting to censure a mechanic for doing that is a very, very dangerous thing, and in this singular case, SWA was caught. Everybody who believes this was an isolat...
Jump to post400lbs of jet fuel is around 59 gallons so that works out to $182-$194 per hour at the current weight. If that’s the case they should replace the entire 145 fleet with the 550. The economy plus up sales will pay for the cost difference and then some. That is assuming it has the range, but then mayb...
Jump to postUA857 wrote:Why didn’t United have a 747 base in EWR?
I don't understand the complaints... a CRJ with less seats, first class with a snack station, and wifi. What's not to like? It says UNITED on the side. They could also add beauty pageant winners who hand feed you grapes while the IFE produced gold bars that you can take home, and people here would ...
Jump to postjumbojet wrote:mcdu wrote:[
You do realize that the seat pitch is going to be greater? e.
Well, when we are talking something that had pretty horrible seat pitch to begin with, that doesnt say much,
The aircraft was unairworthy. It never should have flown. Blame MCAS all you want, but the system was broken. Any critical system that’s unairworthy is unsafe and if you don’t fix it you’re on the disaster count down. Imagine the scenario where you have four engine flameouts in a row due to fuel co...
Jump to postThe aircraft was unairworthy. It never should have flown. Blame MCAS all you want, but the system was broken. Any critical system that’s unairworthy is unsafe and if you don’t fix it you’re on the disaster count down. Imagine the scenario where you have four engine flameouts in a row due to fuel con...
Jump to posthttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Travel/2016/February/fat-airline_2107136a-large.jpg?imwidth=480 If it was me, I would've kindly asked for another seat and give the 2 passengers a dirty look on my way to the next seat. Both overweight passengers at fault for not purchasing just an extra seat...
Jump to postThese two overweight individuals traveling together were subtly called out by this lady for gaming the seat selection process unfairly to the disadvantage of ALL their fellow travelers and the airlines; “caught in the middle” (no pun intended) of this unfortunate situation. What game? You buy a tic...
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