Kent350787 wrote:cofannyc wrote:SYD-TYO is a long flight
*sound of all Australian travellers laughing*
Having looked I am surprised the lack of frequency in flights between Sydney and Tokyo. On legacy carriers anyway. Didn’t check the others. What frequency do you expect between SYD and TYO? I have absolutely no idea whatsoever, I just imagined there would be more than there is. I don't think 4x dai...
Jump to postI live 10 minutes from AUS but frequently my husband and I drive to IAH for three reasons: 1. We have a dog and friends in Houston will watch our dog when we travel versus paying to board him 2. I'd rather drive the 3 hours to Houston to catch a nonstop international flight versus having to connect ...
Jump to posthttps://skyteam.traveldoc.aero/
Use this site to enter your information and you’ll see what the Etihad check-in agents will see.
In domestic US markets, any connection over 4 hours is a stopover not a connection and there is a price penalty or a fare break attached to that. That would increase the fare for longer connections versus shorter connections.
Jump to postI saw an El Al 789 parked at the D gates at IAH around 0900 today (18th June) and saw that it arrived from Tel Aviv yesterday. Anyone have any idea what it’s doing in Houston?
Jump to postI’d have to imagine the Air Saint Pierre flight from St Pierre to Paris once a week in the summer season would make Saint Pierre one of the smallest airports with a long haul flight. It’s not the longest flight but it is transatlantic so I figure that counts for something.
Jump to postLeaving DFW yesterday from the low E gates, I noticed a small building with a lot of ground equipment parked around it. I also noticed a lot of hardstands for regional jets, narrowbodies, and even one widebody stand around it. Does anyone know what this building is. It's basically in the same spot a...
Jump to postThanks to non-reving, I once did AKL-MEL-SYD-DFW-LAX-SFO just to get where I needed to be for a wedding.
Jump to postI think it also depends on what role you have in the airline. I have worked at four airlines (all in office jobs at HQ). At two of them, the front line employees would absolutely describe the culture as toxic, but at HQ, the culture was amazing and they were great places to work.
Jump to postjumbojet wrote:no FF credits earned either for flights on these airlines.
DaProf wrote:Looking at the departure hall and wondering what the heck is "Texas Chicken" .. must be some small cow.
jetwet1 wrote:masgniw wrote:Bakersfield CA has almost 1m residents and is ~2 hrs from FAT and the LA area.
Ignoring Bakersfield's own airport ?
What kind of logic is that? Ack and mvy are goldmine in the summer time. Have you ever looked at their margins to these places? Yup, from places most people would usually drive to there such as New York state or Massachusetts. Plus AVY already has seasonal American Eagle service from DCA, not sure ...
Jump to postOnline check-in You can check-in online from 30 hours to 1 hour before scheduled departure. For flights to the United States online check-in is available from 24 hours before departure. Check-in and baggage drop-off at the airport The self-service kiosks are available for check-in at most airports o...
Jump to post(also, can someone explain why United also sometimes sells Japan Airlines tickets, even though it is a different alliance?) Because sometimes an alliance partner: [*]doesn't provide adequate coverage to all of the destinations that the carrier wants [*]doesn't provide adequate connectivity (long co...
Jump to postI never said that airports set MCT. Sorry that you interpreted it that way. The reality is there are the published GUIDELINES, then there are the connections the airlines actually offer for sale. The offerings made available for sale often routinely violate the carrier's own guidelines. I absolutel...
Jump to postIt's also worth noting that many (I'd say more than 50%) of Transatlantic and Transpacific fares have always allowed at least one free stopover in either direction at a connection point. However, it wasn't until recently that airlines really started aggressively marketing it. It's also why when you ...
Jump to postThe problem is you're trying to fit too much into too little time. TPA-ORD/MDW is, call it, a 3 hour flight. Adding connections includes additional time in the hour plus connection time on the ground (at least 30 minutes assuming you found a combination of flights right at the minimum connecting tim...
Jump to postThe earliest non-stop flight in is on United, which arrives at 0848. If you drive up to MCO, there is a Southwest non-stop that arrives into Midway at 0820. If you're trying to avoid paying for a hotel room on the night before, you could take the UA flight to SFO that leaves the night before at 1920...
Jump to postWell... using the example above - BA 572 LHR to MXP is carries the AA codeshare AA6583. If you go to AA.com and search for a flight LHR to MXP using carrier AA, nothing comes up - the standalone AA code flight is not bookable: https://checkout.na0.netsuite.com/core/media/media.nl?id=1488&c=TSTD...
Jump to postIt is also going to be specific to the combination of carriers involved and the options the marketing carrier has (plus the rules for the fare you are pricing). For example, B6 allows a standalone booking on the EK BOS-DXB flight using the B6 code. This makes sense because B6 doesn't cross the Atlan...
Jump to postI just did one of the Vegas redeyes this week. LAS-IAH on UA. Departs LAS at 1:00, arrived in Houston at 5:22 with less than 2.5 hours in the air.
Tons of these kinds of flights out there around the world.
The leading cause would be the same reason AA doesn't have non-stop service in the market: TPA - LAX is 2,158 mi TPA - IAH - LAX is 2,166 mi or 8 mi longer than the non-stop TPA - DFW - LAX is 2,164 mi or 6 mi longer than the non-stop Combine that with: (1) the flight being very long thus tying up a...
Jump to postKONT is a little too much in a corner of the US for a hub, real or not. So you’re telling me that an airport in the area of the second most populated city in the US is just a corner of the US? He's means it's quite literally in a corner. So it makes a bad domestic connecting hub because it adds unn...
Jump to postGCM doesn't work. Because it's Cayman Airways operating the flight the flight operates as GCM-TPA-GCM so in order to do a TPA-GCM-TPA round-trip, you would have to overnight at GCM. Silver (3M) flies TPA-NAS-TPA...but it looks like the turnaround time in NAS is too short. WN flies TPA-HAV-TPA with a...
Jump to postLooks like they just listed DFW-KEF and DUB-MSP... Love that they edit the article as criticism pops up on this site, but don't bother to credit anyone who corrected their article. Absolute garbage. The article was updated on July 16 at 1:11 p.m ET to correct an error on the displayed units of meas...
Jump to postEWR-NCE on B0 is still running and on the 757. It is 4,007 miles and thus they missed the longest flight. DUB-MSP on EI is on the 757 at 3,735 miles and they missed that too. And EWR-ORY is not completely neo on B0...there are still 757 flights in the next few months until the retirement of the airc...
Jump to postBut according to their website, they only interlined with NH, TK, QR, EY & WY https://www.malindoair.com/news-events/2017/08/21/MALINDO-AIR-AND-ANA-FIRMED-NEW-INTERLINE-PARTNERSHIP It may be out of date or it may be the only carriers they WILL interline to, but they certainly have the ability t...
Jump to postMalindo CAN check bags through to EK. They have an interline baggage agreement. There's never a guarantee that they WILL, but they CAN.
Jump to postIt's well known that Piedmont has an airframe shortage and has since the transition to the ERJ. Piedmont doesn't fly a route with a load factor less than 95% regardless of any agreement. With the exception of Lubbock and Tyler, nobody cares about those tiny towns in Texas. I fly with Piedmont quite...
Jump to postThe load factors on DFW-ABI are well above the Envoy system average (both for all aircraft and for the ERJs specifically) so you can't possibly call them subpar loads. SJT does have a marginally higher year-round load factor at 82.23%, but with a lot more variability across the year compared to ABI....
Jump to postOkay so...you've determined that there is no demand on DFW-ABI as a result of 2 empty flights that you were on. Then, from that very limited sample, you have also concluded that American Eagle doesn't know what it's doing and needs to shrink. I hate to ruin this logic with numbers...but there are a ...
Jump to postLongest: IAH-AKL on NZ29 (B777W) - 14:52
Shortest: HYA-ACK on Cape Air (Cessna 402) - 00:07
You could do 127 of my shortest flight in the time of my longest flight...
Spot on, by RyanairGuru. Same reason you can't search JFK-LGA or LHR-LGW and expect to get results. I suppose you could book it by booking a round trip CHI-MSP and selecting different Chicago airports for the outbound and the return. You could then just tell everyone you booked ORD-MDW if that's imp...
Jump to postRJNUT wrote:cofannyc wrote:It's a CRJ700 with 10 first class, 20 economy plus, and 29 economy seats. Plus 4 large closets for rollaboard suitcases that usually have to go in the hold. It is not an all business class plane.
Probably just a typo isn't it just 20 economy seats?
Alright so I have worked in Revenue Management in a few airlines and had control over group pricing and group policies so here's some thoughts: 1. Have there been any aircraft size changes? Many carriers use % of total aircraft capacity to cap the # of group seats sold on any one flight so if DL had...
Jump to postIt's a CRJ700 with 10 first class, 20 economy plus, and 29 economy seats. Plus 4 large closets for rollaboard suitcases that usually have to go in the hold. It is not an all business class plane.
Jump to postI am an Emiartes gold member and I have never faced this issue. If you have an additional luggage , you pay the luggage and if you have excess Kg then you pay the excess. Again, my issue is not that,my issue us that never in my life with all the airlines I have travelled from all over the world , I...
Jump to postAccording to T-100 data (which goes back to 1990), CO operated IAH-JFK from Sep 2000 to Sep 2008 and CLE-JFK from Jul 2006 to Sep 2008.
I only searched on the CO code so potentially there was other CO marketed, other carrier operated service, but I haven't done a deep dive into the T-100 data to see.
IAH still sees the BA744 and the LH748
Jump to postA little off topic but what is the driver behind staffing CBP agents at many of the small secondary and tertiary airports in the US like FWA, GRB and SBN when the staff and financial resources maintaining such services could be allocated elsewhere? I’m sure many of us have US CBP “horror stories” a...
Jump to postAmerican calls the pit stop for AA1161 BOS-LAX in MSP a "Redirection" rather than a diversion. That is a foolish conceit on AA's part. From Merriam-Webster : Definition of diversion 1 : the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : DEVIATION Bad weather...
Jump to postFrom OAG for the month of February: Air France: ABJ-CDG - Flights in Feb: 30 CDG-JFK - Flights in Feb: 28 CDG-JNB - Flights in Feb: 56 CDG-LAX - Flights in Feb: 56 CDG-MEX - Flights in Feb: 48 CDG-MIA - Flights in Feb: 50 CDG-PVG - Flights in Feb: 56 British Airways: HKG-LHR - Flights in Feb: 48 IAD...
Jump to post* Don't feel like you have to eat just because things are free. I spend a lot of time in lounges and on planes, but never feel a compulsion to eat everything and drink everything just because it's included in my ticket price The last one really resonates with me. If I get upgraded to first class I ...
Jump to postA couple of things that I do when traveling that has allowed me to keep losing weight through 2018 and into 2019 even though travel was quite high: * Wake up in the morning to get some sort of physical exercise in (I would normally work out at night, but too easy to make excuses after a day of work)...
Jump to postSince AA is moving to retire the MD80 fleet over the course of the year, I pulled the top airports for December 2019 to see what the picture looks like at year end:
ATL - Atlanta, GA, USA
THR - Tehran, IRN
MHD - Mashhad, IRN
MEM - Memphis, TN, USA
CCS - Caracas, VEN
EvanWSFO wrote:I've always been curious if the U.S. ever gets to a point that we would see five-digit flight numbers. Using the out and back method makes sense yet I'll guess it may confuse infrequent flyers.
What's the origin? JetBlue has plenty of good connections via JFK, FLL, and MCO. For example, from BOS, I see northbound and southbound options on JetBlue via JFK with 2 hour connections that aren't significantly more expensive than longer connection options.
Jump to postWhat's the origin? JetBlue has plenty of good connections via JFK, FLL, and MCO. For example, from BOS, I see northbound and southbound options on JetBlue via JFK with 2 hour connections that aren't significantly more expensive than longer connection options.
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