I was just thinking about this topic the other day. Over my lifetime I have taken about 300 flights and not once has my plane been diverted. The closest I came was on a flight from MIA to GRU when my flight was almost diverted to Campinas, Brasil due to fog in GRU. Ironically given your name, the o...
Jump to postDCA just had a few departures off 1, but the line of thunderstorms that has passed DC is now sitting squarely on the DCA approach. Several DCA-bound flights are holding over the western part of VA. Things look significantly better at IAD right now.
Jump to postWell, NCL was only seasonal a couple years with terrible loads. BRS has been gone a long time now. BFS was cut rather recently. So there are differences. From knowing some locals in Tyne & Wear, the problem with the NCL flight was pure pricing. It just wasn't worth the premium versus connecting...
Jump to postThere's another pretty obvious angle that people are ignoring amidst all the race hoopla. To me, this looks like a pretty simple case of celebrities acting like celebrities and being shocked at being treated like Joe Average.
Jump to postBullshit! Having multiple airports is good for a city because it causes competition. This will lead to better service and lower fares at both airports. If one airport gets a monopoly position they can afford not to care about service or prices, airlines and passengers will come anyway because there...
Jump to postTerrible decision for everyone. Keeping the TXL dump open will further fragment the Berlin market, leaving airlines, passengers, and taxpayers paying for it all. Bullshit! Having multiple airports is good for a city because it causes competition. This will lead to better service and lower fares at ...
Jump to postWhy was the employee showing his girlfriend? Is this allowed by company policy? Why wasn't he doing his job? UNACCEPTABLE What a remarkably ignorant post. Log off and take your meds. He says stuff like that a lot. I've always assumed he's a troll, but he might genuinely be the most humorless person...
Jump to postApparently my longest single leg is IAD-NRT and return, 6,753 miles on a UA 772 in J. Longest in Y is AKL-SFO on an NZ 772, 6,517 miles. After those (and similar flights, e.g., LAX-AKL), it's a lot of various 4,000- low 5,000s mile flights (ranging from IAD-FRA to SFO-NRT).
Jump to postNot even remotely surprised. Copa is the Emirates of the Americas. Give it 10 years and Copa might be serving every secondary and many tertiary cities in Latin América and the US/Canada Their hub airport does not have the ability to remotely match anything like DXB. PTY is pretty tight as is (and w...
Jump to postThere are some people on this thread getting trolled pretty hard. That said, there are also a lot of nice reminiscences about the 757. Personally, I've been enjoying seeing the 753s that UA has now been running on DCA-SFO. They're a nice change from an otherwise pretty monotonous lineup of daily tra...
Jump to postIf a "therapy dog" even so much scratched me or my kids, I WILL put down that dog myself. I will by any means necessary get that animal. Then, I would yell, humiliate and get into it with that owner. What a tool that dog's owner is. I think Mr. Internet Tough Guy may be missing the irony ...
Jump to postCopa has 2 of its frequencies PTY-GRU departing exactly at the same time. Daily. I see a 15:24 and a 15:42..maybe you got them confused for the same? Yeah you're right... but still pretty much same time, isn't it? They do that on a few routes - SCL being another example, where two of the flights ar...
Jump to postSuseJ772 wrote:Yeah but fans don't fly charter.
If you wanna clump the Nationals and Orioles together (Nats Park is closer to BWI than IAD), or say BWI is a Balt/D.C. airport, then BWI has all MLB cities covered It's not, though, by driving distance. Nats Park is under 31 miles to Dulles via the normal route and it's a tick over 33 miles to BWI....
Jump to postDelta ;) ? 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...
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