Re: Jetblue Network Thread - 2021

B6 Pilot Union just rejected 300% pay for OT for rest of week…they rather have long-term fixes

B6 is very short staffed this week

Re: Learjet Crash Tonight in San Diego/ Gillespie - audo/video

One of the most dangerous things to do in an automated jet is to change your runway on final.

Very sad.

Re: AS, UA, DL and others struggle to crew flights due to Omicron

Is anyone seeing evidence that a large number of passengers aren't ultimately getting on a flight? I did some dummy bookings for travel this week and was surprised to see availability. A lot of people are cancelling for Covid concerns. As I pointed out last week, all our Florida flights before xmas...

Re: NYC (JFK/EWR/LGA/SWF/HPN/ISP) Aviation Thread - 2021

https://twitter.com/terminalblga/status/1471438131882872837?s=21 The remaining CTB gates are finally getting removed today. Great news for AA and the construction process. The original plan was to keep Concourse D open and demolish one more section of the old headhouse closest to the new pedestrian...

Re: NYC (JFK/EWR/LGA/SWF/HPN/ISP) Aviation Thread - 2021

Man Delta loves their low ceilings, I guess they did some study regarding heating and AC savings with low ceilings. Looks like the renderings for the LIRR concourse at NY Penn. https://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021-12/Delta_T4_Renderings.pdf It is pretty obvious to me that the concou...

Re: AS, UA, DL and others struggle to crew flights due to Omicron

B6: Today looks worse than yesterday thus far

Re: AS, UA, DL and others struggle to crew flights due to Omicron

I think more than the omicron variant, some staff decided to stay home for the holidays ( I dont blame them) and airlines are using the omicron as an excuse. This happens every holiday, and actually every weekend on a smaller scale, and is not the major driver of the issues this week. So what is th...

Re: Jetblue Network Thread - 2021

JetBlue hit the 1K milestone today with 1,003 flights scheduled. A first since the pandemic began. Out of that 1003 scheduled flights, how many were canceled? With regards to EWR, could it be that they have to temporarily downsize when they move to the new Terminal. Not all the gates will open righ...

Re: Jetblue Network Thread - 2021

Last week, Colombia implemented a vaccine requirement for crews laying over.

Im sure that had a lot to do with it as many crew are unvaccinated

Re: AS, UA, DL and others struggle to crew flights due to Omicron

Listen we’ve been dealing with Covid for two years… I really think a lot of this is overworked and underpaid employees taking the holiday at home with their family. If it is, good for them The "overworked" is a relatively recent phenomena. During the worst of COVID, including last Christm...

Re: AS, UA, DL and others struggle to crew flights due to Omicron

Listen we’ve been dealing with Covid for two years… I really think a lot of this is overworked and underpaid employees taking the holiday at home with their family.

If it is, good for them

Re: United dropping 14 routes

avi8 wrote:

So UA won’t fly from IAD-PHL. That sounds enormously dumb.

Re: United dropping 14 routes

phatfarmlines wrote:

That's a shift in strategy - wasn't UA's networking plan to make IAD the "connecting" hub and EWR the "O & D" hub?

Re: Jetblue Network Thread - 2021

If they want LHR slots, they will buy them like everyone else, or fly an underserved route for a remedy slot.

No regulator gives a damn about B6 and their 321 flying yet another flight on JFK LHR especially when the lower fares touted actually hurt the UK airlines

Re: US Airline Booking Trends during COVID-19

Yeh I think outside NY, people dont realize how bad this is going to be (even if temporary) NY is in a freefall and panic mode much like March 2020 this week. This seems hyperbolic, frankly, and I'm unsure what led you to this conclusion. Surely you aren't basing this comparison off of raw case num...

Re: Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2021

Just booked my first cruise. Feb 28 - Mar 5, 2022 on the Carnival Breeze. 5 day Western Caribbean starting in Galveston, TX to Costa Maya, then Cozumel, than back to Galveston. Pretty excited but debating if I should purchase the alcoholic drink package or not. Has anyone been on a Carnival Cruise ...

Re: US Airline Booking Trends during COVID-19

Yeh I think outside NY, people dont realize how bad this is going to be (even if temporary) NY is in a freefall and panic mode much like March 2020 this week. How much of it is justified? Unknown. But the rest of the US better get ready as it is coming…again. I imagine a sizable drop in bookings to ...

Re: Icelandair announces RDU

This route is almost laughable. You know there are markets outside of the NYC area right? Not a very big one from Durham to Iceland…I can tell you that much. And as for St Louis, 20 years ago, when it had a flight to Europe, it had close to 50,000 more people…which really says it all. Either way, g...

Re: Icelandair announces RDU

This route is almost laughable.

But STL FRA was announced this week so I guess anything is possible

Re: Delta Network Thread - 2021

When discussing connections and non Boston O/D traffic, the other issue is that BOS does not have the best international to domestic connection setup… because DL international/domestic have to be in separate terminals. Great geography sure, but using BOS for connections really only makes sense if t...

Re: Delta Network Thread - 2021

Quick question on the BOS hub: it seems like not many connections are offered. Looking at flight radar, only a few flights every hour land and depart. Meaning it’s not a banked hub. I know it’s location makes it A bad connection point but even SEA has more flights per hour on certain times of the d...

Re: Delta Network Thread - 2021

DLASFlyer wrote:

Routes that have failed out of SLC:

SLC-ASE
SLC-EGE
SLC-ELP
SLC-GJT
SLC-COD
SLC-IND
SLC-DRO
SLC-CPR (saved temporarily through city subsidy)

Colorado in particular just does not seem to work for them. Really unfortunate.

Re: Jetblue Network Thread - 2021

Nothing EWR? They need to use the slots at JFK and LGA asap. I believe EWR will probably get something, they recently scaled back due to the construction and off peak but from what I heard they are going to ramp back up and do a little more than past summer for summer 2022. they just made it a base...

Re: Jetblue Network Thread - 2021

$9.6 billion. Wow. T1 definitely needs a rebuilt, but thats a hefty price tag. LGA's entire project was $8 billion. Why does B6 need to expand into a new T6? T5 is the best terminal at JFK and is still fairly new. T6 will net B6 one gate. The rest are for other carriers. T5 is about to burst at the...

Re: Jetblue Network Thread - 2021

I don't think there is anyway we can know the bookings this early on. We won't know the performances for a while. A couple of pieces of new from today. - T1 is getting built for $9.6 billion. If you think T6 was expensive, well things are only getting more ridiculous at JFK. I think B6's decision t...

Re: JFK Terminal 1 Redevelopment Moves Forward

Why do people assume Emirates and Etihad would move when they have very customized lounges and infrastructure in T4. Having their own lounges and infrastructure in T4 doesn't mean they will/can stick around. Just look at Swiss, for example - they will be moving from T4 to T1 starting Feb 1 2022. Th...

Re: JFK Terminal 1 Redevelopment Moves Forward

Is T1 made A380 capable or do they have an aircraft size or passenger number limit? They have the most 380 gates at JFK at T1. The gates were reconstructed early on T1 takes a lot of crap on this forum, but TOGA has been an excellent management team. They built and have kept the terminal in pristin...

Re: JFK Terminal 1 Redevelopment Moves Forward

Correct. This would also allow the carriers of T7 to be distributed to the other terminals. Oneworld would go to the expanded T8 and UA can go to T1. I view the new T1 as like OHare’s Terminal 5: has a lot of international support, but still has carriers like F9 and WN using it. Going to T-1 is goi...

Re: JFK Terminal 1 Redevelopment Moves Forward

https://www.anewjfk.com/projects/terminal-4-delta-jfkiat/ Here are the first renderings Ive seen of the new, scaled down plans for DL at T4A. I must say it is quite a disappointment to see that we are simply building an RJ hut. I sure hope this is only temporary. That is really on Delta. It only af...

Re: JFK Terminal 1 Redevelopment Moves Forward

For those balking at the cost, it's effectively replacing two terminals (T1 and T2) and includes a major rework of the AirTrain stations that will result in a single station for the new T1. And $9.5bb now is not the same as $9.5bb spread over the next four years. I imagine there are significant all...

JFK New T1 begins 2022, cost $9.5B

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-plan-build-world-class-95-billion-international-terminal-jfk-airport

Re: DL Adds JFK-ARN

ContinentalEWR wrote:

Someone83 wrote:

Isn't this the 3rd time they try ARN-JFK?

Something like that, yes.

Re: Jetblue Network Thread - 2021

Pilots told that there’s a route announcement coming shortly. From an executive at a recent mixer.

Has some credibility

Re: AA adding NYC to Doha, cutting back international due to 787 delays

sagechan wrote:

jfklganyc wrote:

Plus any domestic flying on top of that

AA claims it's pulling all domestic widebody routes except for reposition flights. Guess we'll find out Sunday

Re: AA adding NYC to Doha, cutting back international due to 787 delays

Plus any domestic flying on top of that

Re: AA adding NYC to Doha, cutting back international due to 787 delays

Where are all the peeps on here that told me AA had enough planes to fly their international schedule after they parked their widebodies?

I called this last year…

Re: Finnair adds Seattle

When are they resuming SFO which is more important? They only fly to JFK, ORD and MIA right now. SFO has higher J traffic due to Silicon Valley and the Nordic Silicon Valley (e.g. Nokia HQ and telecoms). Tech J traffic is dead, as most companies have adapted to collaborate via zoom-no need to trave...

Re: Growing US airlines

LCC and ULCC are growing

Legacies kind of stagnant give or take.

Really wasnt a hard question…not sure why guys above are making it seem tough

Re: NYC (JFK/EWR/LGA/SWF/HPN/ISP) Aviation Thread - 2021

Does AA still staff the ground control tower at LaGuardia Concourse D? West side of old Concourse D is still on 129.22 Everything else went over to 131.47 Terminal B ramp Is AA going to hold a special ceremony for the last Concourse D flight? Have they decided what the final route will be? This is ...

Re: NYC (JFK/EWR/LGA/SWF/HPN/ISP) Aviation Thread - 2021

blacksoviet wrote:

Does AA still staff the ground control tower at LaGuardia Concourse D?

Re: DXB (1970s) and MEM Terminals--Similar Design

I like the Newark terminals. Frankly I’ll miss the design once it’s gone. Very manly and mathematic in its design. Nothing dainty about 60s construction at all.

Re: JetBlue at LGA

They started split ops on 11/1 The biggest issue was interline bags with AA In a crazy but true story, there is no road connecting the MAT and Main Terminal area within the secure area. That means pax with bags connecting from AA to B6 had a problem. This setup facilitates connections between the tw...

Re: Jetblue Network Thread - 2021

Anyone have an update on the London Heathrow schedule past March?

Re: 20 years without Trans World Airlines

My sole TWA experience was on LGA-STL back in 1998. It was the first time I ever flew on a 752, and the first time I saw drop-down LCD monitors onboard an aircraft...I remember thinking how modern the cabin looked compared to other aircraft that had those clunky CRT monitors above the aisle. As alw...

Re: Trump's Parked 757 N757AF

wonder what the new paint job looks like

Re: NW/KL alliance in 1993 and DTW-AMS history

https://simpleflying.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Northwest_Airlines-KLM_DC-10_hybrid_livery_Spijkers.jpg https://simpleflying.com/northwest-dc-10-klm-livery/ This alliance was so strong that they painted a DC-10 in mixed colors NW/KL LIKE wish we had that function! One of the few lasting allianc...

Re: JFK and the lack of low-cost carriers

This is a bizarre title for this thread.

Literally a 170 flight a day hub for a LCC.

Combine the other LCC operations at LGA EWR and ISP and you dont even come close to B6 at JFK.

Perhaps the title should be: why does JFK have so many more LCC ops than the other NY airports

Re: JFK and the lack of low-cost carriers

Though it was going through a very hard time back then, US was never “just weeks away” from Ch. 7 in 2004. It wasn’t until 2005 that US even had access to money that HP would have provided as part of the merger. It was filing for Chapter 11 that saved US from creditors until it was bought by HP, wh...

Re: Planes Trains and Automobiles Movie

Every year. Those aren’t pillows! That movie would be so different if made today. "See that bears game last week?!" :lol: Sadly it might be getting a remake with Will Smith and Kevin Hart. :? https://screenrant.com/planes-trains-automobiles-remake-development-update-kevin-hart/ There's a ...

Re: Planes Trains and Automobiles Movie

USAirKid wrote:

KBUF wrote:

jfklganyc wrote:

Mid flight from LGA to ORD shows an exterior shot of a 4 engined plane 707 or 880.

It's a 707. The footage was actually re-used from Airplane.

Ahh. Did they keep the propeller sound? Or did it get replaced with a jet engine sound?