Re: AA, PVU to PHX and DFW

I dont see this posted but am thrilled to see American starting 2X daily CRJ 700 from Provo to DFW and daily to PHX. When Breeze announced twice weekly DFW service I started dreaming of an AA responce. I am a Delta diamond and am 10 minutes from PVU and have thought that should American enter thr P...

Re: Spirit to close ACY base, open new Northeast Base

B6SpiritofEWR wrote:

flight152 wrote:

Oh yes, swoop into that highly lucrative ACY market.

You have a lot of the wealthiest municipalities in the nation within an hour and a half of ACY, many of which would prefer to avoid EWR if at all possible.

Re: 4 airlines on TPE SEA

Something I have never understood with airlines. There is a city like Las Vegas, that also has a fairly large Asian population on the west "coast". There is only one Asian carrier there (KAL) operating to Seoul. Why do airlines choose to serve LAX, SFO and SEA with redundant amounts of fl...

Re: Rumor: AA to open crew base in SEA

How do you figure? AA takes on more debt to buy Alaska? Even Stevie Wonder can see AA-AS coming. I was hearing in 1999 that AS + AA is imminent. Hasn’t happened yet. I got you beat. I started with AS in '98 and it was a rumor then :)~ People seem hell bent on this Back on topic, why wouldn't AA ope...

Re: San Francisco Bay Area - 2024

BuzzmeSTL wrote:

What are the leading theories as to why UA hasn't resumed SFO-GUM? I believe they flew it pre-Covid.

Re: Hawaii Aviation - 2024

Boston is going to have two daily flights to Hawaii. Thanks for all the previous replies with links...and yeah, TWO nonstops from BOS? And DL's will be daily? Even just being seasonal that just stuns me with HA already in the market for quite some time now; there's enough traffic? I'm just surprise...

Re: Attention spotters. First Hawaiian 787 en route to HNL.

smi0006 wrote:

Any ideas what the delivery schedule for the rest are? Or where it schedule to go? As an Aussie such a shame we won’t see it in SYD.

Re: Kona airport (PHKO) is closed until further notice

Interesting to note, a 777-9 departed there earlier today for India (BOE 001). Granted the plane isn't loaded with cargo/pax, thats a lot of fuel. Maybe another thing to be blamed on Boeing

Re: 6 cities announced for Reno Air Races

I don’t see it at Thermal, which is right next to Coachella and Indio, both are growing cities near Palm Springs. Wendover would be good, middle of the desert and have places to stay at the casino hotels. This was where the Enola Gay plane and crew trained before it went to Pacific theater. Also th...

Re: Air Tahiti NUI Considering A321XLRs

Not a chance at PPT-CDG, hence the stops in LAX/YVR over the years. The route is 1,000 miles longer than SFO-BLR which UA was intending to launch and had to have some performance tweaks done just to make it work.

Re: San Francisco Bay Area Aviation - 2023

Not surprising with their interest, but airlines do have tons of destinations on their radar all the time. My insider that works for SFO can name dozens of airlines with interest. So none the less, still surprising to me

Re: San Francisco Bay Area Aviation - 2023

Porter Airlines is starting SFO-YYZ Jan. 25,2024 Full honesty, didn't see that one coming!!

Re: Interesting JSX Flight

Is it always the same tail number? What's kind of interesting is that these flights are more than 50 miles off shore, which means the aircraft is equipped for extended overwater operations IAW FAR 135.167 (basically, life vests and life raft). I can't imagine all of the JSX aircraft are appropriate...

Re: UA to start daily SFO-MNL and LAX-HKG in October

Any thoughts on if LAX-SIN could come back with the performance upgrades on the 789s or is SIN still too far? Considering double daily SFO-SIN still goes out full and SQ is doing up to triple daily at both SFO/LAX, surely UA can do at least 3-5 weekly LAX-SIN and depend on US pointof sale traffic f...

Re: Hawaii Aviation - 2023

It’s gonna be LAX because LAX has the most HA flights to Hawai’i (6 daily flights) to allow for faster service recovery should an issue arise just like they did with their A330. That's an excellent point I hadn't thought of. Although, all flights, including HA's own, are all jam-packed-full seeming...

Re: Hawaii Aviation - 2023

I could see Alaska wanting them to really bolster their size and competitiveness in the west coast/Pacific. The fleet is completely incompatible with what AS currently flies and there aren't any West Coast-Hawaii markets currently offered by HA which AS couldn't just start themselves. They'd just b...

Re: Rumour: Frontier Airlines removes 26 passengers due to a weight issue

Without origin and destination and flight number how is this mind boggling? Have you scene the weather in LAS and PHX recently? Planes don't like heat and it very well could have been a long route from one of these places, that the plane was just overweight. Southwest has recently been limiting thei...

Re: UA to start daily SFO-MNL and LAX-HKG in October

SumChristianus wrote:

https://www.united.com/en/us/newsroom/announcements/cision-125277
Wow

SFO-MNL starts on a 77W

LAX-TPE also goes to 2x daily
LAX-NRT resumes

Re: VN is having huge troubles, shares face delisting risk

Maybe Vietnam Airlines should consider axing their flight to SFO. That route is clearly prestige over profit; I believe the airline even said it themselves. I have no idea what kind of traffic they are aiming for with that flight; maybe someone could help chime in on that. (If it’s VFR, they should...

Re: BR considering BOS, IAD and DFW

IAD being a Star Hub makes the most sense, however BOS and DFW could most likely support BR as well with the O/D

Re: San Francisco Bay Area Aviation - 2023

Anyone know what the deal is with this approach? https://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL969/history/20230423/1300Z/EHAM/KSFO I noticed it flying over Oakland yesterday and have never seen a similar approach to SFO I'd say there is a chance it was in a medical emergency situations. Just cut out the ...

Re: BA 287 Diverted to OAK - First A380 at OAK?

Nope, LH has diverted to OAK before. Few years back.

Yes wx diversions due to winds and low ceilings requiring the RNAV approach to the 10s. DL 757 to SJC, SkyWest E175 to SJC and FAT

Re: United cuts SNA to HNL

This route has come and gone at last 3-4 times. It ranks up there with AS SJC-PSP as a revolving door. I think HA could make SNA work if they had equipment that could handle it. I wonder how much an A321NEO would have to be weight restricted on the SNA departure. Why? HA flies LGB-HNL with no restr...

Re: EVA Air B777-300ER was stuck in snow @ YVR

braynfeeble wrote:

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4736164

3 HOURS? That is ridiculous!

Re: A220-100 in all Business Config Question

Was told that the Hewlett-Packard shuttle, that's runs between AZA,SJC,HIO,MHR has an order in for A220 to replace the current E145s. Met their Director of Operations while in recurrent training and that was the plan. I honestly can't remember if it was ordered or planned

Re: Hawaiian to fly A330s for Amazon

[twoid][/twoid] Or could this start the bidding process lol. This makes me think WN isn’t bidding on them actually. This move seems like desperation to keep revenue coming in sort of like Sun Country is doing. I think WN will wait and see what the next 2 years looks like in the economy before making...

Re: Rumor: Mesa considering filing for bankruptcy and dropping AA flying.

I think AA has been gradually moving flying to OO anyway. This would still be a hard blow to AA as they lost Compass, and Mesa. Maybe AA should find more used A319s to move regional flying to AA mainline. They didn't lose Compass, that's was Americans choice to terminate the contract due to the pan...

Re: Frontier adds service to 10 new cities from PHX

've worked in both Ohio and Indiana, amd they were definitely Midwest, and Cold! In the winter PHX might well be a nice respite. But, it's not in the middle of anything, nor is it west of the middle :bouncy: that's why I call it a stretch, but it's probably the only correct designation. It's hard t...

Re: Air India increases Vancouver-Delhi to daily nonstop

A lot of one stop competition has gone from the DEL to YVR route, with many asian carriers not serving the market now. Plus without QR and EK at YVR, there is no direct competition from the Middle East. I'm sure that plays a huge part in the success of DEL-YVR for Air India. Lets add lack of compet...

Re: United 2542 LAS-CLE 772

Is CAK too small? CAK may not have the ground support equipment. UA in Cleveland most definitely does. The Jaguars are flying in today on an Atlas 747, it's not ground support equipment. Widebodies charter in and out of CAK often during HOF week. It very well may be the Raiders are staying and prac...

Re: GlobalX acquiring B717's?

PSU.DTW.SCE wrote:

Supposedly DL has 3 out of the 4 717 simulators ever made in their training center, so makes sense for them do to contracted training.

Security Issue: A Concourse SFO

Just curious if anyone has insight on the current security issue in the A concourse at SFO? That is all that ATC has been telling flights holding for the A gates

Alaska 1273, China Airlines 4, Air France 88 and French Bee 710 are all currently waiting on taxiways

Re: What is AA currently doing in Asia?

There’s nowhere to fly to in Asia. They’re all stuck in Covid delusion. Nothing to discuss for the foreseeable. Just one correction, Sydney was lumped in but Australia is pretty much open albeit with some testing restrictions. There are plenty of open countries such as the Philippines, Indonesia, a...

Re: UA SFO DEL and BLR / AC YVR DEL

[*] Are their US flights timed so as to offer connections onto their domestic network? UAL definitely has timed its DEL-SFO flights for connections in the US. I've flown UAL868 from DEL-SFO and connected onto a flight to LAX all on United. Don't know much about AC though. That's not to hard to do co...

Re: Allegiant Air announces Provo (PVU) as next base

Good for PVU but once the terminal is up and running, it wouldn't surprise me to see AA add service (and maybe UA). What's your reasoning for that? I don't see PVU service by AA or UA doing anything other than reducing SLC frequencies and yields. That's what happens when you start service to anothe...

Re: Hawaiian Partner's With Elon Musk's SpaceX Co. To Offer Free Inflight WIFI

JSX and Hawaiian signed up in one week. Impressive

Re: San Francisco Bay Area Aviation Thread - 2022

The only military presence that really supports SFO is Travis. There is occasionally large groups of AF personal on the SFO-HNL connecting to HNL-GUM to support Anderson AFB operations

Re: Qatar Airways Cargo Dallas to Ostend diverting to Liege

I saw it depart DFW and it was already showing the diversion prior to takeoff, so must have been operational and pre-planned

Re: AA B777 to SFO

Not sure why this is so noteworthy, a cool A/C sub yes. But this is by no means the first or last time AA will fly 777s or wide bodies into SFO. The 777s have been scheduled before and as Cloudboy said the 330 was norm for a while. I will say its the first time I've scene the 777 or 330 since they h...

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion Thread - 2022

A tad surprised nothing from/to TPA was added. Granted almost all those cities already have service on another carrier flying on it. SBD maybe down the road. SFO is TPA's 1st 'Breeze Thru' via SDF. "I wonder if "Breeze Thru" will offer a "nicer fare" on same route vs Nonsto...

Re: San Francisco Bay Area Aviation Thread - 2022

johnboy wrote:

A little surprised that SDF isn’t on that list.

BTW, I always enjoy your info jplatts

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Routes are live! SFO, LAX, SBD, LAS, BNA, SYR, SAV, JAX, RSW, SRQ SBD-SFO appears only for 6 weeks in AUG/SEP?! I wonder if there is more coming for SBD? The timings could seem that way…. Or thats a really long sit for an aircraft. SBD-SFO: 0800-0930 SFO-SBD: 1010-1140 That's the worst time of day ...

Re: DOT issues EWR Slot Reassignment Solicitation

Manderson12 wrote:

I would prefer that it be Breeze, EWR is already saturated with traditional routes, this service should be given to an airline that provides air service to airports with little or no service to N.Y.

Re: Top U.S. airports not served by G4, XP, MX, F9, B6, WN, NK, or SY

JNU and KTN also seem like very unlikely targets for the ULCC crowd. Perhaps EGE would be possible for the likes of MX with A220s? 319s and 73Gs can operate there, but not sure how high density versions like these airlines have would do. I've only commented on the airports with perceived operationa...

Re: When will Virgin Australia return to LAX?

With 2 of the 5 777s sold off, probably not anytime soon. The new partnership with UA, to me, also indicates they may not return soon.

Re: Sun Country Emergency Landing LAS

Southwest friend told me their MX has been asked to assist. The right gear strut went up through the wing. Currently there is a crane out at the aircraft

Re: BA flight windscreen shattered after a lump of ice smashed into it at 35,000ft

kalvado wrote:

I suspect worst case scenario would be going into the engine. A hard object, unlike softer birds, can be an issue.
And I doubt thing had a lot of horizontal velocity after being in free fall for some time.

Re: Airport Authority Requests That Boutique “Withdraw” From Jackson, Tn. Due to Poor Service.

Bring back Air Choice One!!

Re: Cleveland Aviation Thread - 2021

Finally! Alaska Airlines to start CLE-SEA service effective 6/16/22. https://newsroom.alaskaair.com/2021-10-28-Were-rockin-our-way-to-Cleveland-Alaska-Airlines-will-serve-third-city-in-Ohio But CLE is SO expensive, whined Allegiant. :lol: I don't know if comparing a ULCC to one of the most finicall...

Re: VN officially launches nonstop SGN-SFO scheduled service using the 787-9

There is still a significant Viet population in San Jose. Besides that, the S.R. Vietnam Consulate is in San Francisco which may make SFO a little bit more sensical, as the service is still being considered as a national (political) mission than a simple commercial route. That's an interesting angl...