Delta ;) ? It's a joke about Atlanta being to Delta as London is to BA (a joke made earlier in the thread). On topic, Tunisair is ambiguously named after the country and its capital/hub, although the original name of the carrier was pretty clearly to the country. That said, the name of the city is ...
Jump to postI saw a Spirit plane at EWR the other day, all yellow with their name in large blue letters. Looked like a banana. Indeed, that is a visual disaster. It screams tacky and cheap. I think the letters are actually black, but I confess I try not to look too hard. And to think that's the actual livery, ...
Jump to postA 5:30AM flight is definitely *not* a red-eye. If you get the benefit of a substantial amount of sleep beforehand, it's definitely not a red-eye. I agree with you that it doesn't fit the definition of a red-eye (which to me is all about the sleep you miss while ON the plane), but your definition re...
Jump to postThe main problem with IAD for the domestic carriers is that the debt load is way too high. I believe it will be 20 years before the domestic industry will be willing to make major investments at Dulles. So go ahead in the meantime and continue to saddle DCA with artificial constraints and see where...
Jump to postSlightly off topic, but why does BA use the A380 to BOS? Such a relatively short long-haul route. I thought BA preferred to have East Coast USA flights have as much frequency as possible, like JFK. I know there are already 4 flights to/from BOS but as one of them is an A380, would it not be better ...
Jump to postLlanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Yes, that is a place :P But it doesn't have an airport. On topic, some hard to pronounce cities: Aguascalientes Antananarivo Antofagasta Antsiranana Bhubaneswar Chabarovsk Dnjepropetrovsk Enontekio Kwamalasamutu Lappeenranta Mawlamyine Nagy...
Jump to postCare to explain how my statements are nonsensical, except that they have no place on a.net. Your reference to my post 112 didn't make sense, as nothing in that post takes a position on the point you are apparently trying to reference it for. Similarly, your reference to RR does not make any sense, ...
Jump to postJust to reiterate it is not AI's fault. Thank you for your usual reply, much of which is nonsensical or undisputed to the extent that it makes any sense at all . At least you managed to sum up your post, every post, in one concluding sentence. Care to explain how my statements are nonsensical, exce...
Jump to postThe previous sentence to the one you bolded, as well as multiple statements in previous posts, are all that needs to be said as to your question. It's already been covered. I don't know why you keep responding to posts that aren't directed at you and when I've made clear I'm not interested in discu...
Jump to postYour incredulous tone aside, selectively quoting them does not prove your point except so far as it demonstrates that AI and Boeing fought about who is responsible for what can only be interpreted as a rather significant screw-up. In other words, you're not disputing that a major screw-up happened ...
Jump to postIt's a nice gesture, but there's a zero percent chance I'm doing anything work-related on a loaner machine. Even if you trust QR, you shouldn't trust the person who used the computer before you. Just for kicks, I would also love to see a Venn diagram of the people who say "Don't allow cell pho...
Jump to postDepends on who is telling the real truth, not a.net fact. Many repeating same lie many times doesn't make it a truth. Sadly that seems to be the rule on ANET. It seems you won't like it as you appear to assume from your own notions where other people get their information, but it's not hard to find...
Jump to postTo answer your point substantively: it wasn't the photos. In fact, I don't think I ever looked at the photos. Very substantive! Thank you! That explains it! You didn't see the photos. Your whole opinion is based on idle gossip picked off from a blog that based on anonymous "sources". Has ...
Jump to postI'm not sure what the heck your reply had to do with my post, in any event - it's pretty much beyond dispute that AI has had some unusual maintenance practices and issues with its widebody fleet, including a 777 that was stranded for several months at EWR, a Star hub in the US with quite a bit less...
Jump to postI am quite sure that the lawyers would have accounted for this in the sale contract.... also is Alaskan where to not pay, would it go through courts in the US or U.K.? It would be extremely unusual if the agreement did not stipulate both the location of any dispute resolution under the agreement (w...
Jump to postI don't frequently track regs (typically only on airlines or types I fly very infrequently), but two come to mind immediately - and one of them was already listed by someone else on this thread! Those two are F-HPJH, which I flew IAD-CDG and then CDG-IAD less than a week apart, and TF-FII (listed ea...
Jump to postThe name is a fusing together of the Spanish word "VUELO" (meaning either "Flight" (noun) or "I fly" (verb) and the English "-ing" suffix, creating the idea of "Flying" in 'Spanglish'. Excellent post. That's always how I've understood it and pronoun...
Jump to postIt's that joyous time of year again. AA1209 SMF-DFW and Eagles from GJT and BRO are in Abilene. I commuted between SMF and DFW weekly for a solid 4 1/2 years 1989-1993 and again for 9 months in 2000, and was very lucky never to be diverted. However I was often late or canceled due to T-storms and t...
Jump to postIt's stretching the definition of "light" rail, but BWI is served both by Amtrak and by the MARC commuter lines that run between Baltimore and DC. They're on the same tracks and I'd call MARC more of a heavy-rail commuter service (like Caltrain), but BWI does have both a local/commuter an...
Jump to postIt's stretching the definition of "light" rail, but BWI is served both by Amtrak and by the MARC commuter lines that run between Baltimore and DC. They're on the same tracks and I'd call MARC more of a heavy-rail commuter service (like Caltrain), but BWI does have both a local/commuter an...
Jump to postIt's stretching the definition of "light" rail, but BWI is served both by Amtrak and by the MARC commuter lines that run between Baltimore and DC. They're on the same tracks and I'd call MARC more of a heavy-rail commuter service (like Caltrain), but BWI does have both a local/commuter and...
Jump to postYou keep saying that, but you provide no evidence except your own personal view of the language. Please see this link from 2007 in which Randy Tinseth at Boeing describes LAX-BNE as "point to point", which is described as "nonstop vs. flying through a large hub first." (http://w...
Jump to postPoint to point is a synonym for spoke to spoke. A hub is not a "point". You keep saying that, but you provide no evidence except your own personal view of the language. Please see this link from 2007 in which Randy Tinseth at Boeing describes LAX-BNE as "point to point", which i...
Jump to postI dont know what alternate universe some of you live in, but checking personal electronic devices containing lithium type batteriesis widely allowed. Things like cameras, tablets, phones, laptops, etc are carried every single day in checked luggage. Additionally, in the US, other types of batteries...
Jump to postPutting delicate electronic equipment in the hold so the ramper can play rugby with it. Considering the marks on my Samsonite the chance of my camera working again would be close to zero. Not to mention putting dozens, if not more than a hundred, laptops with lithium ion batteries in the hold to cr...
Jump to postAnd what has one thing to do with the other? Do you want to imply German managers are evil? Or what? It implies that other countries in addition to Pakistan have a habit of preventing non-citizen executives of corporations suspected of malfeasance from leaving. It's not always (or particularly ofte...
Jump to postIt's a safety issue. More people are overweight, having to shoehorn themselves into their aisle seat. It makes evacuation more difficult for that passenger, and any other passenger on their row. Legislation is necessary for safety. At some point surely a passenger being overweight enough not to fit...
Jump to postFrom article linked to above: "...Pakistan has barred the German chief executive of Pakistan International Airlines from leaving the country due to an investigation into corruption at the loss-making carrier...." There is an interesting parallel in the USA where a judge in Detroit will no...
Jump to postI thought I should jump in and let everyone know that the OP, LeCoqFrancais who's real name is Sébastien C. Tourillon, passed away last Saturday (11 March). He was only 20 years old. RIP. His obituary was in today's La Presse (largest French-language daily in Canada). I had read in one of his posts...
Jump to postThere is no freaking way a A380(or any) landing gear will survive on a banked circle, if one edge of one landing gear first touches the runway. Which is, you know, why they talk about changes to aircraft design that would be necessary to make this feasible. You're being extremely condescending for ...
Jump to postYou're assuming that QF has had a hard time filling their A380's. I have never heard of such a thing. No, I never said that. I said that's easier to fill a 748 than a A380. Both airplanes are intended to do the same missions, and would be a simpler task to make the 748 work on the QF structure. You...
Jump to postAS/QX did SJC-GEG for a short time. Supposedly the flight did well, so not sure why they pulled it. It's interesting that AS is still expanding SJC even with the VX merger and their SFO presence. Okay here is my two cents: BOS FLL DCA AUS ORD It won't be DCA because of the perimeter rule there. You...
Jump to postI wouldn't expect your lawyer to receive a particularly worried response to a strongly worded letter regarding a decision based on flight safety (dubious as it may have been) that inconvenienced you by a couple hours. It would probably consist of a single paragraph quoting the CoC and basically tel...
Jump to postI wouldn't expect your lawyer to receive a particularly worried response to a strongly worded letter regarding a decision based on flight safety (dubious as it may have been) that inconvenienced you by a couple hours. It would probably consist of a single paragraph quoting the CoC and basically tel...
Jump to postGood job HA, diverting an A330 full of customers over someone not wanting to pay for an overpriced blanket. Heck when I flew to Hawaii even AA gave free blankets out in coach. If I was a customer on that plane I would definitely be sending HA a strongly worded letter from my lawyer. About what? The...
Jump to postGood job HA, diverting an A330 full of customers over someone not wanting to pay for an overpriced blanket. Heck when I flew to Hawaii even AA gave free blankets out in coach. If I was a customer on that plane I would definitely be sending HA a strongly worded letter from my lawyer. About what? The...
Jump to postThe only way a twin isle 200 passenger aircraft can possibly be economically competitive is if has some sort of advanced elliptical fuselage like the "kermit cruiser" otherwise its going to have to be single isle. I'll be the first to say that I love and prefer "short" fuselage ...
Jump to postEngine parts are difficult to come by. New parts are outrageously expensive and used parts of acceptable quality are less common. I'm not doubting you, but that's particularly surprising given that UA still operates 763s that also have PW4056s. I'm no engine expert, but I'd imagine there's a decent...
Jump to postThat is pure B/S and is irreivent as domestic laws do not apply outside the US. The U.S. antitrust laws, which are the specific area of law he mentioned, have fairly broad extraterrorial application. There are a variety of defenses (some uniquely related to state owned entities), but committing an ...
Jump to postWhat a bunch of bollocks. Unless the plane is making craters in the sand, there is no such thing as "inappropriate missions." Would you also argue that 77W's doing OSA-HND turns all day is also inappropriate? All your other "analysis" in called subjective conjecture. If the choi...
Jump to postThe UA*/Air Wisconsin discussion got me thinking about how often 50-seat RJ’s are used for “appropriate” or “inappropriate” routes in the US, specifically by airline brand. So I crunched November 2016 stats to do some evaluation. The appropriate/inappropriate decision is rather subjective, but I ba...
Jump to postJetBlue and EasyJet are very comparable airlines, offering more or less the same product on different sides of the pond. But Luton is not the largest base for EasyJet, that's Gatwick. But first let's see how this works out. In addition to being far different than a La Compagnie 757, I don't think i...
Jump to postGiven the user name and apparent blinders, one wonders how the OP would feel if GIG had taken the cancellation so its assigned plane could head up to BOS to pick up stranded passengers.
Jump to postI have always thought it neat that even when UA or other airlines refer to Newark as New York/Newark, it's still in the same place it would otherwise be in alphabetical order! I was going to mention SNA as well. Also, it's usually still prefaced with "Washington" so people will still be a...
Jump to postHSBC is on the verge of collapse if they don't cut costs and change strategies. So you might not see those much longer. Hyperbole much? HSBC is nowhere near collapse, it's profitable to the tune of US$7.1 billion (yes, billion with a B) in 2016. Now that's a big drop in profit from 2015 and there a...
Jump to postWell, considering the 764 and the 332 both use exactly the same technology/fuel efficiency level engines (PW4000-94"/100" and CF6-80C2/E1) and the 332 engines are larger to carry the extra weight plus more drag from larger wings and fuselage, the 764 should (in theory, at least) wipe the ...
Jump to postAccording to the fleet list on airfleets.net (which is generally reasonably current), a handful of them are still flying. Doesn't look like any still in scheduled passenger service, but a few seem to be still flying boxes for DHL and FedEx
Jump to postShe was obviously disconnected from reality. I did have a co-worker summer associate attorney get grease on his shirt while changing a flat on the way to work and, buff guy that he was, show up at the office wearing his suit but no shirt and tie. He actually thought this was the right solution -- d...
Jump to postHi all, Just curious as to what are some of the more difficult night flights out there in the US market right now? I'm primarily referring to red-eyes that are relatively short but take advantage of the timezones well. I know back in the HP/US LAS hub days these were much more common, with some pre...
Jump to postBoof02671 wrote:I have non-revved from LGA-GSP before 9/11 on US.