What about US citizens on the plane who were pax - they would not need a visa - were they allowed to leave and go to a hotel?
Jump to postAir India has dropped AMS from winter 2023 schedules (eff Nov 1). Dont know if they are discontinuing this flight for good. Also heard that Indigo was planning to fly to AMS if they receive the proper aircraft. If AI is struggling, I wonder how Indigo can do AMS unless they can get some feeder at A...
Jump to postIt is being reported from Brazil that tonight's BA248 GIG-LHR had to be delayed overnight as the crew got robbed, No more details available right now. https://twitter.com/aero_in/status/1699589940865048689 There’s clearly more to that story . Only an idiot would take a taxi instead of an Uber in Br...
Jump to postApparently the avoidance of Russian airspace is only applying to nations that are against Russia’s invasion. Which is completely absurd. Everyone flying to Euro countries wherever they are from should have the same ruling. They are just hurting their own airlines.. Since India has issues with Pakis...
Jump to postBut you're forgetting that Turkey is a sovereign country, (as is the likes of China and a host of others) so, whether we see it as rightly or wrongly, are free to decide what actions they want to take in regards to Russia. While it certainly won't stop the flights, the EU banning such flights from ...
Jump to postWould it be legal under international and US/Canadian and EU law for the aviation governing agencies to prohibit flights operating to/from the USA, for example, from operating through Russian airspace? It would be in the US, this is why the new US-China frequencies flown by Chinese airlines can’t u...
Jump to postThe catering is the big thing that needs to be fixed. I remember on my last Polaris flight, I was served breakfast and basically it was a tiny hash brown and a single egg with some tomato dressing. I was not impressed. I'm not expecting SQ-class catering from UA, but I am expecting something that i...
Jump to postFlew using DigiYatra the other day from my homebase LKO to JAI and it was super efficient it took less then 3 Minutes from Entering the terminal to reaching the boarding gate area.No ID checks,No Check in ID check,No Boarding Card check also a dedicated entry and security check lane for Digi Pax an...
Jump to postJFK: 3 LAX: 1 SFO:1 SEA: 1 IAD: 1 MIA: 1 DTW: 1 FRA: 3 AMS: 1 BRU: 1 MUC: 1 HAM: 2 OSL:1 So that is 18 slot pairs...what is the other? I do remember a 4th JFKLHR pair - flights 104/5 but it was only a few years in summer it operated. Maybe PA leased out a few slots? Regardless UA has an impressive ...
Jump to postI think it is more for tourists to SEA rather than OZ traffic. SE Asia (especially Thailand and Malaysia) is very affordable for middle class Indians. The Punjab definitely has enough people who want to vacation in the region.
Jump to postQatar’s timing suck HYD-DFW with a 3:30am departure. AI will probably stick to their usual timings for nonstops which are much better. I think AI should do DFW-DEL 4X and 3XDFW-HYD, LAX-DEL 4X and LAX-BOM 3X, BOS-DEL 4X and BOS-BOM 3X (for BOS I think they should use the 788
Jump to postI saw a video of the interior of the new 77W with the new seats. Looked really nice. First definitely seemed like first and not the J seats. Also it is in a separate cabin from J so VIPs will get their privacy (and not a J+ product like Virgin). I think their J is really nice - seems more spacious t...
Jump to postHere’s my take - I agree the livery looks a bit LCCish. That said, I think it will look fine on a real airplane. If you look at the interiors and the livery, I think TATAs are trying to reboot AI away from looking stereotypically Indian to a global airline that happens to be Indian. One of the bigge...
Jump to postWoohooo!!! I'll probably get blasted for saying this, but JFK is like that spoiled, enchanted child in the family. It already has tons of service but keeps on wanting more. Sorry, but I really could not picture 3x daily flights to DOH lasting given how much more competition there is. PHL is closer ...
Jump to postSo AA couldn’t even make one flight to DOH work and that too JFK (which has good traffic flows to ME and Indian Subcontinent). So much for their Qatar partnership. Let’s see how UA does with EK. I will say one key difference might be that Qatar has relatively limited number of seats to India vs EK. ...
Jump to postAir India plans to fly to Boston and LAX with the new A350-900s. "The most likely launch of Boston and Los Angeles to India nonstop flights is anticipated to coincide with the induction of six A350-900 aircraft into Air India’s long-haul fleet in October or November 2023." https://www.ind...
Jump to postUA leadership has stated they're more interested in adding depth (capacity, frequency) on existing long-hauls rather than opening a link to a new hub. An example of this is increasing IAH-EZE on it's busiest days rather than launching IAD-EZE. Further, SIN is only reachable from SFO and possibly LA...
Jump to postFrom most U.S. cities EK serves (say, BOS), how much of their traffic is actually headed to/from India? And once AI starts flexing its muscles, will EK drop these cities down to smaller aircraft? I think the key is that EK will offer one stop destinations between large/not so large US cities and se...
Jump to postAI has flown 77W's on DEL-SFO before. I've seen one firsthand at SFO so the fact that AI's 77W can't fly DEL-SFO is false. Maybe AI is taking these 77W's to fly DEL-LAX cause I remember when AI planned to launch DEL-LAX, they wanted to fly the 77W on the route. It's either that or they want to repl...
Jump to postSo the 3 77Ws AI is leasing from SQ are super premium heavy for AI. Will they just be used on DEL-SFO or BLR/BOM-SFO? The SQ planes do sort of match AI’s 77L that I guess AI is retiring so from a seat pov, I guess the SQ planes are fine. My assumption is that the SQ 77W can do the range needed for D...
Jump to postBOM/BLR have plenty of high yielding traffic. The issue in India has always been it is a very competitive market because of ME carriers. But many airlines do send their premium configured aircraft to India. The issue US carriers had was subpar service (when compared to ME3) and very few nonstops. On...
Jump to postThe new timings seem to be dictated by the fact that United wanted a different set of times. Plus wanted to take off from Delhi early part of the day before it becomes too warm. Could be weather - I think it is more about how late can the flight leave EWR and return to EWR from DEL where it isn't t...
Jump to postFantastic news. https://twitter.com/IshrionA/status/1677902121193164801?t=WiNMZhycjYWWJrJAEezfvg&s=19 UA to add double daily on EWR-DEL. It was rumoured earlier and seems to be happening now. It has pretty good timings for connections on both sides. Hopefully this leads to lower fares. It is on...
Jump to postUnited is adding a second daily EWR-DEL flight, with a 789. I guess they are trying to figure out how to increase service to India with Mumbai and Bangalore suspended due to Russia air space restrictions. UA # 816 EWR - DEL 789 9:40AM UA # 82 EWR - DEL 789 8:15PM Good for them - took them long enou...
Jump to postUA is nor disadvantaged because it has EWR and IAD, it is advantaged. And their future is not to build out IAD more (as the IAD fanboys are saying) but to fix EWR (which they can). EWR worked just fine before the pandemic. This is a failure of UA management. What sort of revisionist history is this...
Jump to postUA is nor disadvantaged because it has EWR and IAD, it is advantaged. And their future is not to build out IAD more (as the IAD fanboys are saying) but to fix EWR (which they can). EWR worked just fine before the pandemic. This is a failure of UA management.
Jump to postI think UA has just been too aggressive in Aircraft and gate utilization at EWR. The amount of two hour wide body turnarounds is crazy. There is no room for error (this also seems to apply to crews flying in with no room for delays). Plus offloading a FULL wide body, cleaning it, stocking it for a l...
Jump to postI think AI should have launched BOM-NBO using a A321 with lie flat in J (or Vistara - who ever has that aircraft type). They would have had a better product than Kenyan. Plus the traffic is all India based or Indian origin in Kenya (for the most part)
Jump to postFor me the biggest issue UA seems to have lately are crews. They are always waiting on crews - and not just pilots but FAs. How is an airline alway short FAs in hubs like EWR. Flight after flight of mine is delayed because of crews. It’s always the same - FO coming on X flight, one FA with him one F...
Jump to postSunday 6/18 EWR to BCN flight was diverted to TER in Portugal. Anyone know what happened and what the status of the plane is. Sitting in BCN trying to get back to EWR and waiting on the plane. Thanks
Jump to postAny idea of timings of the BLR/GRU flights? VS316 LHR (11.45 AM) - BLR (02.15 AM) VS317 BLR (04.05 AM) - LHR (10.15 AM) This timing gives decent connections to American cities on VS/DL. I was surprised they gave a morning arrival / departure to BLR. I guess they need US connections and not just O&a...
Jump to postBoth BLR and GRU are good adds. Think AI will launch 3 per week LHR-BLR so VS should be fine. Any idea of timings of the BLR/GRU flights?
Do we think VS will keep LHR-TLV as 2X daily?
What does UA use the third daily seasonal SFO-LHR lot for in the winter? The third daily SFO-LHR is only seasonal and not year round, so it must go to another route during the winter and back onto SFO-LHR in the summer. UA doesn’t use all their summer slots during the winter. Not sure if they only ...
Jump to postFlying JFK-LGW also offers the NYC market quite a few connection opportunities over LGW to European leisure destinations which are not offered via LHR. Easyjet etc Does anyone sell a single ticket JFK-LGW then Easyjet to EU? I've done it on two tickets and its so stressful - you need to budget huge...
Jump to postYes AI benefits, but I feel UA pulled the plug too soon. UA pulls out even if there is a slightest dip in the revenues or other issues. They were flying ORD-DEL (non stop both directions) until last month, so the Russian air space restriction did not affect this flight as all other sectors required...
Jump to postWell, when someone presents a business plan, the folks with the money also have their experts who analyze the plan and determine whether it is a worthwhile risk, so no need to second guess the quality of the decision to lend the funds. I am certain that PW and their lawyers will look at everything ...
Jump to postAgain, as much as P&W must take some blame, $1.4 billion in debt for a relatively small player in an over-capacitated market is difficult to swallow. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/indias-go-first-airways-owes-financial-creditors-798-million-filing-2023-05-02/ https://www.re...
Jump to postYeah everything beyond July is likely a placeholder. Besides June as we noted above, I’d expect LAX-EWR to at least have 3 Polaris/PP equipped planes per day. Both the Polaris and PP seats are extremely popular on these transcon routes and do very well. You are probably right that the 764 retrofits...
Jump to postYUL is just not the ideal second Canadian daily flight for EK anyway you cut it. I guess QR, TK, and now EK, all launching YUL ahead of YVR, have no clue what they are doing. Adding another daily to YYZ or a new flight to YVR would be a much more lucrative route given traffic flows (someone posted ...
Jump to postMy issue with Etihad is that they no longer offer multiple departures to many EU cities or even the US. So their connections are limited. It doesn’t surprise me they have 10k unused seats to India. Btw India has plenty of unused seats to AUH as well which the UAE won’t let Indian carriers use for D...
Jump to postIn different threads people bring up EY/EK benefitting from TLV traffic for their North American flights. I just don’t see this happening in any meaningful way (and a t a sustainable ticket price). The ME3 were able to convince people to fly EU-ME-Africa (South Africa, Tanzania etc) because there ju...
Jump to postWhere are they coordinating schedules? You insinuated that when you used the word "compromise" in one of your previous posts. This is about diplomacy wrt getting more seats from the govt of Canada. I think we can all agree that if EK doesn’t play somewhat “nice” with AC, EK will never gro...
Jump to postMy issue with Etihad is that they no longer offer multiple departures to many EU cities or even the US. So their connections are limited. It doesn’t surprise me they have 10k unused seats to India. Btw India has plenty of unused seats to AUH as well which the UAE won’t let Indian carriers use for DX...
Jump to postSo far with the JV, we have the following new routes/resumptions announced: 1) LA LAX-GRU 2) LA MCO-BOG 3) DL JFK-GIG (pre-COVID resumption) 4) Frequency increases on LIM-MIA/LAX/JFK, SCL-LAX, GRU-MCO (this was announced with LAX-GRU) What do you think will be next? I get it we are still in a quasi...
Jump to postThe timings to me point to the flight being used for (1) YUL p2p, (2) to give YYZ pax another option to depart/arrive in ME and India at different times, (3) to not use the main DXB connection wave. Again, I think EK would have definitely preferred another YYZ or YVR flight, but this is the comprom...
Jump to postThe timings to me point to the flight being used for (1) YUL p2p, (2) to give YYZ pax another option to depart/arrive in ME and India at different times, (3) to not use the main DXB connection wave. Again, I think EK would have definitely preferred another YYZ or YVR flight, but this is the compromi...
Jump to postWhy would they have been saying Wi-Fi is part of the next process the entire time then? It’s not like I think they’re just straight up lying to us. There must be some plan to add it later I guess, just makes no sense not to do it when it’s already in the factory. And live TV is a big missed opportu...
Jump to postI think the big change post Covid has been the type of business travel that is happening. I think ANA could support a SJC-TYO route because they got a good amount of high fare last min J tickets (say $12k-15k) flying P2P to Tokyo. Those types of travel seem to happen less frequently now because peop...
Jump to post[twoid][/twoid] Feel like the more difficult part will be getting ITA into Star Alliance and the UA/LH Atlantic JV. Moving from SkyTeam zu Star won't be an issue. It wouldn't be the first airline to change the alliance. Getting ITA into the Atlantic JV is a different story. Anti trust authorities mi...
Jump to postI agree no way UA does LAX-DEL. That route only makes sense for AI so it can funnel LAX pax to different points in India. UA needs to find a way to add back SFO-DEL and ORD-DEL. Travel patterns have changed over the pandemic and nonstops to India are much more popular (ironic because UA basically bu...
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