Re: Ever flown O&D between two hubs?

Come to think of it, no, I don't think I ever have. I've always lived in medium sized cities that weren't hubs. I've flown nonstop from a spoke to a hub plenty of times, but all my hub-hub flights have involved a connection at one end.

Re: Building a connection at a non-hub airport

How can I "build" a connection on one ticket? It's easy on two tickets, but on one ticket I can only buy what is being offered. I've never tried it, but I would guess one way to do it would be to use the multi-city option when searching for flights. Instead of just searching for ORD-DEN f...

Re: What aircraft have you flown transpacific?

747-400 - Qantas

That was my only transpacific trip (I assume Hawaii doesn't count).

Re: Your best redeye flight

When this thread first started I couldn't think of any "good" red eyes I'd been on, but I just remembered one: DRW-SYD on Qantas in 2012. I was in economy, but the flight was only maybe half full, so I was able to snag a group of three seats to myself, lie down in the fetal position, and g...

Re: How many flights on a Boeing 767 do you have ?

Not very many for me.

3x Continental 767-200 (IAH-EWR, FRA-EWR, and EWR-IAH)
1x Delta 767-300 (LAX-MSP)

Re: Which US gateways have you flown to/ from internationally?

To/From Europe: EWR, IAD, SFO, MSP, DFW, ORD, AUS, LAX
To/From Australia: LAX
To/From Latin America: IAH, MIA

Re: What aircraft have you flown transactlatic?

A330:
SAS

A340:
SAS

A350:
British Airways

A380:
Lufthansa

747:
Lufthansa

757:
Continental
Delta (if KEF counts as transatlantic)

767:
Continental

777:
United
American

787:
American

Re: Your Flights On A "Four-Holer" (4-engine aircraft)

October 2003: Air Wisconsin (United Express) BAe-146 RDU-ORD and return. That was actually my first flight ever, at age 23. I flew the same route again in December 2004 and also got a BAe-146, although the return flight was a CR7 that time. February 2010: Lufthansa 747-400 SFO-FRA-BLR and BLR-FRA. I...

Re: The Worst Red Eyes You’ve Done

I once took two red eye flight two days in a row. I took a red eye SMF-IAH, then IAH-EWR, then a loooong layover, then another red eye on EWR-HAM. SMF-IAH is particularly brutal because it's too short to get any meaningful amount of sleep. But I probably slept reasonably well on the transatlantic le...

Re: Former aircraft/airline combinations you've flown on

To my previous list, add:

Pinnacle Airlines (Endeavor Air) as Delta Connection / Northwest Airlink - CRJ-200

Re: What happened to flight engineers when 2 man cockpits were introduced?

LAOCA wrote:

When did DC9s have FEs? I only remember 2 man crews, and no remnants of FEs in any cockpit....

Re: Day trip to be on a particular airline/aircraft

No, never. And I absolutely refuse that kind of thing. I book flights solely to places I want to visit for a few days or weeks. That's me as well. For me the purpose of travel is to visit a new place, not solely to fly on a particular aircraft or airline. Now, if I'm booking a trip and one of the p...

Re: The Most Unusual Routes You Have Flown?

I flew ANC-SEA on Continental. ANC-SEA isn't a weird route in and of itself, but it is kind of weird that Continental would fly it, being one of the very few flights of theirs that didn't begin or end at one of their hubs (Yes, I know it that flight continued to IAH, so technically it did end at a C...

Re: First Time Flying On A Widebody?

Mine was a Continental 767-200, IAH-EWR in October 2006.

Somewhat ironically, my first widebody was on a domestic flight, and my first transatlantic flight (which I was connecting to on the same itinerary) was on a 757.

Re: First Time You Flew on an A320?

My first time on an A320 was the first leg of the return trip of my first journey by plane ever - SEA-ORD on United in October 2003. I do not know the registration as I was not logging them at the time. I remember thinking the cabin felt a lot more modern than the 757 I'd flown out there on, probabl...

Re: Have you flown the Alphabet ? (end of 2023)

The one new airline I added this year is highlighted in green. I picked green because it's Aer Lingus. 0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 9E (Pinnacle Airlines) A - AA (American Airlines), AS (Alaska Airlines) B - B6 (JetBlue), BA (British Airways) C - CO (Continental), CP (Compass Airlines) D ...

Re: Which airline will you give most of your business toward in 2024?

I only fly maybe 2-3 times a year, and I have nothing booked for 2024 yet. So it really depends on where I want to go, and what airline is the best option to get me there.

Re: Have you flown the Alphabet - 2024!

Somehow I missed the 2022 thread. So for me, new airports added in 2022 are underlined , new airports added in 2023 are in bold . As usual I added a couple of new airports, but no new letters. A: ANC, ATL, ARN, ADD, ATH, ALB , AUS B: BOS, BLR, BWI, BRU C: CLT, CPH D: DEN, DTW, DFW, DUB E: EWR, EBB F...

Re: Two airports with same name

masi1157 wrote:

Wikipedia has a list

Re: What happened to the aircraft you had your first flight on?

2003 on an Air Wisconsin (United Express) BAe-146. That was before I cared about keeping track of registration numbers, but they have all been retired from airline service by now. A few got converted into firefighting aircraft. Statistically, the one I flew on probably wasn't, but it would be cool i...

Re: Former aircraft/airline combinations you've flown on

Air Wisconsin / United Express: BAe-146 Alaska: MD-83, 737-400 American Eagle: ERJ-140 Delta: MD-88, MD-90 Qantas: 747-400 SAS: A340-300, 737-600 Skywest / United Express: EMB-120 United: 737-300, 737-500 Defunct airlines* Continental: 737-300, 737-500, 767-200 Mesaba / NW Airlink: Saab 340 *For de...

Re: Former aircraft/airline combinations you've flown on

Air Wisconsin / United Express: BAe-146 Alaska: MD-83, 737-400 American Eagle: ERJ-140 Delta: MD-88, MD-90 Qantas: 747-400 SAS: A340-300, 737-600 Skywest / United Express: EMB-120 United: 737-300, 737-500 Defunct airlines* Continental: 737-300, 737-500, 767-200 Mesaba / NW Airlink: Saab 340 *For def...

Re: JetBlue Network - 2023

I asked this question in Polls & Preferences last week but I didn't really get a satisfactory answer there, and now I realized this thread is probably actually the best place for this question... Is B6 no longer offering Mint on SMF-JFK? Apologies if it was already discussed; I tried searching b...

Re: Routes you've flown that are no longer served

I flew EWR-HAM on Continental back in 2006. I don't believe anyone serves that route anymore. I've flown MSP-LSE several times, on Northwest and then Delta. Delta just dropped LSE earlier this year. I just realized I misread the OP's statement that if a city pair is still served but from a differen...

Re: Will plane-train intermodal travel takeoff globally?

I always thought there was a good opportunity along the I-95 corridor, mainly from BOS-DCA, for airlines to partner with Amtrak for local connections. Continental used to codeshare with Amtrak for flights out of EWR. I recognize passengers can and do do this already, booking separate tickets, but t...

Re: Last time you flew on a tri-/quad-jet

Last quad: September 2016, Lufthansa A380, D-AIME, FRA-SFO
Tri-jet: Never

JetBlue not offering Mint on SMF-JFK in December?

Yesterday I booked SMF-JFK and back on JetBlue for around Christmas. I thought this year I would splurge and book myself a seat in Mint for the eastbound leg, but when I bought my ticket their website said Mint was not available on my flight. The seat map showed a standard non-Mint A321. I had thoug...

Re: Routes you've flown that are no longer served

I flew EWR-HAM on Continental back in 2006. I don't believe anyone serves that route anymore.

I've flown MSP-LSE several times, on Northwest and then Delta. Delta just dropped LSE earlier this year.

Re: Defunct Carriers you have flown

Northwest
Continental
Estonian Air

I think that's it for me. If we count US regionals I could probably include more.

Re: Have you ever been in a lighter-than-air craft?

As a kid I briefly went up in a hot air balloon that was tethered to the ground, much like the OP's experience. I think maybe it was some sort of fundraiser.

Re: How's the airliner variety where you live?

At SMF, well, I hope you like 737s. Southwest is the dominant airline, and from everyone else it's still mostly 737s and A320/21s, with some E175s and CRJ-700s thrown in. The few flights that aren't one of those are: A220 from DL and AC (Sadly DL doesn't send the 717 here anymore). A332 from HA 763s...

Re: How many diverted flights have you been on?

Back when I worked at Intel I used to fly on their corporate shuttle to HIO a lot. On a few occasions we ended up having to divert to PDX because of fog at HIO. When that happened Intel would charter a bus to take us over to HIO. But there was one time whey we couldn't land at either HIO or PDX, and...

Re: What are your longest flights this year?

I've only taken one trip by air this year, but the longest leg was LHR-LAX.

Re: Airline had planned new city but never made to flight

Back in the mid-2000s, around the time I joined this site, there was much discussion about US Airways proposing a PHL-PEK flight. IIRC they even stated they planned to acquire secondhand A345s to operate the route.

Re: Weirdest commercial direct route in USA?

Geminijets101 wrote:

Not USA but Condor does FRA-YXY

Re: Scammer Scams Vacationing Maui Family Wanting To Fly Home

This is unfortunately an increasingly common scam, and not just for airlines. The scammer buys an ad from Google, such that if someone searches for "[company] customer service", or "[company] tech support" for example, the first thing they see is the ad with the scammer's phone n...

Re: OAK considering airport name change

If you have the name San Francisco in the name of OAK's airport, it will absolutely cause confusion among less experienced travelers. I can see a problem with that. It might, but I don't see how it would be any worse that Chicago-Midway vs. Chicago-O'Hare, London-Heathrow vs. London-Gatwick, and th...

Re: OAK considering airport name change

If you have the name San Francisco in the name of OAK's airport, it will absolutely cause confusion among less experienced travelers. I can see a problem with that. It might, but I don't see how it would be any worse that Chicago-Midway vs. Chicago-O'Hare, London-Heathrow vs. London-Gatwick, and th...

Re: OAK considering airport name change

I'm sure the rebrand can't hurt, although I'm not sure if the main problem is lack of awareness that OAK is near San Francisco. I have encountered people who knew that the city of Oakland was near San Francisco, but they were unaware that Oakland actually has an airport. They just assumed SFO was th...

Re: Discontinued routes that you wish could come back

MSP-LSE -- Delta claimed it was only "temporarily suspended", and I hope that's actually the case. I can still get to LSE on AA via ORD, but AA's schedule was always less convenient, and more circuitous when coming from the west coast. And usually more expensive to boot. The connection ove...

Re: Airports with the worst access by public transit

for a European capital city, DUB is pretty crap. I actually just flew into DUB a few weeks ago. From an American perspective, I thought the transit was reasonably good (although perhaps not as good as other major European cities). I took the Dublin Express bus to the city center, which dropped me o...

Re: Airports with the worst access by public transit

I think many small and mid sized cities in the US would likely qualify, just because most small and mid sized cities in the US have terrible public transit in general. I have lived in the Sacramento metro area since 2005. Ever since I have lived here there has been talk of building a light rail line...

Re: What airline of the South Pacific is the most interesting ?

Nauru Airlines is probably the most "interesting", just for being a tiny airline consisting of 3 passenger planes and 2 freighters, and being the national airline of the world's least visited country (at least in terms of tourism). But I don't think I'd want to fly with them. From what I u...

Re: Have you FLOWN the alphabet (delayed from 31-12-2021)

Since this thread's been bumped, I'll take the opportunity to update my list from 9 months ago. I just realized I forgot to include ET back then, and now I have EI to add as well. 0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A - AA, AS B - B6, BA C - CO D - DL E - ET, EI F - G - H - HA I - J - JQ K - L -...

Re: Furthest you've ever been away from an airport?

For me it's probably somewhere in the middle of Australia. While on a tour I rode a bus the entire length of the Stuart Highway from Adelaide all the way to Darwin. I have no idea at what point I was farthest from an airport, I would bet at some points along that trip I was more than a day's drive f...

Re: Aviation Terminology Derived From Railroading

TrafficCop wrote:

Always thought term "cattle car" for coach cabins came from the railroads

Re: Your most extreme airports by Latitude and Longitude

North: ANC - Anchorage, Alaska, USA: 61°10′27″N South: MEL - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: 37°40′24″S East: SYD - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: 151°10′38″E West: LIH - Lihue, Hawaii USA: 159°20'20"W Equator: EBB - Entebbe, Uganda: 00°02′41″N Prime Meridian: LHR - London Heathrow: 000°27...

Re: Multi-airport cities where both airports are considered “premium”

LHR and LCY could probably both be labeled that way for London.

Re: Multi City Airports - that are usually referred to by just one city…..

zrs70 wrote:

Durham

Re: What was the largest carrier at your home airport in 1985? And today?

I don't live there anymore. The way I interpreted the question, I posted my home airport for where I live now, and largest carriers at that airport for both 1985 and now, even though I didn't live here in 1985. I noticed other people (I don't mean to single you out, it was just a convenient example...