1701 has completed mods and is now a 76Z https://fr24.com/DAL28/10bc7a60 That was fast! Two weeks for the prototype... I presume the other ones will take 7-10 days so should be done in quick order prior to summer heavy schedule. Interesting that the seats were stripped in SBD and cargo'ed over. No ...
Jump to postAgain if you consider LGA to be an AA hub, the only remaining AA non-hub routes I can think of on AA are: BOS-SYR; BOS-ROC; BOS-PIT; BOS-MDT; BOS-CDG (seasonal); PIT-RDU; and some weekend seasonal sun routes. BOS-CDG is gone. AA still flies FLL-PAP 2x daily, which is technically not hub to hub (alt...
Jump to post"Reasonable crew member instructions" is completely subjective. Why have a law at all at that point?
Jump to postHow many rights are available? From the article, it sounds like 4 daily plus one Sunday-Friday? Honestly, I think it makes sense for UA to be awarded their additional requested Sunday-Friday frequencies, even if it's on an E75. An E75 is not a "50-seat regional jet" as JetBlue seems to thi...
Jump to postInstead of focusing on connecting all the terminals, it would be nice to see the involved parties concentrate on getting aligned partners under the same roof. Since there are dozens of airlines at JFK (probably 80% of which don't need to facilitate connections to each other) and since the footprint...
Jump to postInstead of focusing on connecting all the terminals, it would be nice to see the involved parties concentrate on getting aligned partners under the same roof. Since there are dozens of airlines at JFK (probably 80% of which don't need to facilitate connections to each other) and since the footprint ...
Jump to postWN must be seeing some decent success with their Sunday-only flights. That still seems kind of odd to me - who are these Sunday flights targeting? I'd imagine there are a decent number of corporate travelers who would head out on Sunday afternoon for a business trip, but they would probably want to ...
Jump to postMercedes left NJ for GA. This route, I suspect, is on life support. Remember, TXL and DUS out of JFK were supposed to start on Eurowings this summer. Not happening. Mercedes-Benz/Daimler is based in Stuttgart, so I doubt they were contributing much to the DUS-EWR route to begin with. DUS-JFK is ind...
Jump to postDoes this mean that DUS-EWR will no longer be part of the UA-LH Transatlantic JV?
I do think it makes sense for LH Group to consolidate their Rhine-Ruhr long haul ops at DUS. Once that happens, I believe their U.S. routes will be DUS-SEA, DUS-LAS, DUS-MIA, DUS-RSW, DUS-MCO, DUS-EWR, and DUS-JFK.
I find both of these routes to be very interesting. I assume these exist largely for connections between Brazil and Europe? Or are there significant ties between Brazil and Morocco that I just don't know about?
Jump to postSo are all the 787-8 based at ORD? Amazing how many 787 flights will operate from there. Seems like none are lef for DFW! The 788s are based at ORD, but at least for the first part of the summer (all the way through July), DFW-PEK will still be operated by the 788. There's a ORD-DFW rotation to pos...
Jump to postGoing by the DL fleet updates thread, there are something like 17 752s that don't have winglets.
Jump to postTwo comments: 1) OZ technically doesn't have any 777-200LRs. They use the code 77L, but they actually have 777-200ERs. 2) I don't know if the additional 3x weekly ORD-MUC service on LH materialized. It was announced, but an OAG thread a little while back showed ORD-MUC going back to daily on LH, and...
Jump to post- No DEN service this year, so A332 (MSN 535) which is being acquired this year will be retained as an operations reserve aircraft for the Summer. Unless EI is planning on obtaining an extra A330-300 before summer, they're going to need this 332 just to cover the scheduled long haul flying... By my...
Jump to postOops, meant to say the SFO-PHL AA A330 will stay as well. This is in response to Phatfarmlines question, #25. Yes, the 332 on PHL-SFO was extended again until at least late July. So PHL-LAX/SFO will both have a 332 rotation through much of the summer. No surprise on JFK-PHL. I thought they might ac...
Jump to postGood to see JFK-PHL reduced on AA in favor of some more useful short haul connections!
Jump to post- No DEN service this year, so A332 (MSN 535) which is being acquired this year will be retained as an operations reserve aircraft for the Summer. Unless EI is planning on obtaining an extra A330-300 before summer, they're going to need this 332 just to cover the scheduled long haul flying... By my...
Jump to postSJC NH already flies SJC-NRT, and can draw from the large UA frequent flier base in the Bay Area. JL would have an uphill battle in this market... You could say the same for SEA. Except JL already flies to SFO in the Bay Area, so there would have to be a really compelling reason for them to start S...
Jump to postgsg013 wrote:Can someone post the status of the A320's that now have the AVOD system like the A319's and A321's already have?
Yep, DL's HPN-ATL service has had a premium cabin on every flight for years (CR7/CR9).
Jump to postIt still feels weird to me to see SY adding routes from anywhere other than MSP and maybe DFW. This is a particularly different route for them as it's basically a transcon.
Jump to postI'm not sure if this was loaded in this schedule release, but noticed a ton of UA upgauges in CA for June...many on routes that were exclusively CRJ200 routes not too long ago and some still are right now. I think this is the first UAX E75 service for MRY, SBP, RDD SFO-RDD 1 E75, 3 CRJ SFO-SMF 1 ma...
Jump to postklm617 wrote:SJC
To respond to the question in the thread title: DFW is pretty built-up already... Over the past few years AA has vastly decreased the amount of 50-seater flying out of DFW in favor of moving in a ton of CR7/CR9/E75s. As the M80s have been getting retired, huge numbers of larger 738s and 321s have be...
Jump to postSo let’s see the nonhubs that UA serves are: LGA, served by DL and AA BOS, served by B6 and Spirit (summer only) DCA, served by AA MKE, served by WN MCO, RSW, FLL, served by B6 and the ULCC LAX served by Spirit Then the oddball weekly/occasional routes SJU (if it returns), CUN (served by F9), I bel...
Jump to postI noticed that AA will going to 1x 737 and 1x 321 on LAX-DCA and keeping 2x 737 DCA-LAX. Why would they only go with one 321 going east and not have one going back west? It balances out across hubs. Looking at 5/21 as an example (and only looking at 738, 321, and 32B aircraft types for simplificati...
Jump to post3 airlines on SEA-NRT is overkill. What does JL offer SEA that NH or DL doesn’t? I don't think it's overkill. DL has a daily 763 and NH has a daily 789 - that's not all that much capacity (423 daily seats) for what must be a pretty big local market, not to mention connections beyond NRT on NH and c...
Jump to postI thought that the German news magazine "Der spiegel" and the aviation magazine AERO reported this a while back. (sorry, no links) MUC will be the only base of the A359's. 5 A380's are to be moved there. A346 will be retired and A333 will be split between FRA and MUC. Also, Eurowings will...
Jump to postSo in terms of widebodies, LH will have in the future: FRA.- A333s, 779s, 748is and A380s. MUC- A359s and A380s. Is this right (assuming the retirement of all 744s and A346s, and the phase out of all A343s)? LH at some point mentioned that maybe they had ordered too few A359s and too many 779s. Is ...
Jump to postI'm not sure if this was loaded in this schedule release, but noticed a ton of UA upgauges in CA for June...many on routes that were exclusively CRJ200 routes not too long ago and some still are right now. I think this is the first UAX E75 service for MRY, SBP, RDD SFO-RDD 1 E75, 3 CRJ SFO-SMF 1 ma...
Jump to postNot surprised at all. As these are added, I'm sure the 346 will disappear from MUC.
Jump to postIt's expected that the CS100 will be based on the coasts (NYC, LAX, maybe some SEA flying), while the 717s are retrenched to ATL, DTW, and MSP. I'm not sure if SLC will end up continuing to see 717s, or if they'll rotate CS100s through from LAX.
Also, what would HA possibly do with 91 717s?
In terms of departures, last time I looked it shook out something like this: B6: ~105 WN: ~90 NK: ~65 WN may have more departing seats than B6 because they operate exclusively 737s while B6 has a decent number of E90s, but either way those two are pretty close. WN has a broader domestic network from...
Jump to postOn a semi-related note, does QR still split their ops between T7 and T8, or are they entirely in T8 at this point?
Jump to postI think the T4 FIS closed. For a while AA had to bus passengers over to TBIT whenever an international flight docked at T4, but I think that since the T4/TBIT connector opened, there is a sterile connection inside (please correct me if I'm wrong on that). If I remember correctly, the TBIT FIS is op...
Jump to postFolks, I'm not sure this is the right forum, but I am dealing with a legal matter that involves someone processing through UA's FIS facility. (I'm a lawyer) Neither UA, nor LAX or is a party to the action - its a private civil matter. We had our subject arriving recently on a nonstop UA flight from...
Jump to postSorry if this is off-topic but why is DTW-AMS such a popular route? I didn't think DTW was a particularly big port of entry. Lots of automotive professionals flying it? The importance of this route goes back to the NW days. DTW was the main Transatlantic hub for NW, and AMS was their hub (JV with K...
Jump to postThere are probably close to a dozen routes out of ATL that have at least 12 flights at some point in the year. BOS, LGA, DCA, FLL, MCO, DFW, ORD, and LAX come immediately to mind. Of those, I would think MCO has the highest overall capacity. In international long-haul, my guess is DTW-AMS has the m...
Jump to postShould be LAX-ICN already announced on the A350. Other routes I see going to the 350 are ATL-AMS, NRT. My long shot prediction is MSP-ICN, but I'd assume it would start with a 777. Also in the coming months you'll start seeing one off flights to various cities on the 350 as coverage for the 777s ta...
Jump to postSounds like they've got at least two that'll be in their hands soon, do they have more coming quickly as well or will it just be two 9's for a while? The loaded schedule from June 7 requires at least 3 frames, and I'm guessing there might be a spare too. Looks like UA is showing these as "737-...
Jump to postLink/Source: https://worldairlinenews.com/2018/02/13/united-to-introduce-its-234-seat-boeing-757-300-on-june-7/ The 234 seat UA 757-300s for United will begin service June 7th out of Chicago to Denver, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Economy plus will have a 34-38" seat pitch and Economy will h...
Jump to postIs the new Terminal One supposed to have FIS facilities? Or will it just be a collection of domestic airlines?
Jump to postDoes this mark the end of AA 763 flying in DFW, or are there still some short haul rotations planned? I'm finding some 763 flights to MIA in July. Yea, there is 3x daily flights from DFW to MIA this summer. I don't think the domestic widebody schedule for summer is finalized yet... May does appear ...
Jump to postI would imagine that an upcoming venture with Jet Airways is the kind of strategic investment DL can use to capture USA - India traffic for those wanting a lower cost option. I don't think there is much of a market for DL to move into it's own with USA to India traffic, but perhaps a more extensive...
Jump to postiahcsr wrote:789
N24974 Last of the -9s (for now anyway) B1-ed today 10Feb
It looks like all the 3 class 763's are now based in ORD. I'm sure the LHR/AMS/CDG/BRU travelers are underwhelmed daily. With only 7 ships in service pending Polaris mods, it won't be for very long. The summer schedule (looking at late June) appears to only need 4 3-class frames, with probably one ...
Jump to postLAXintl wrote:DOT authority granted today.
skipness1E wrote:Any sign of B77W domestic flying this year?
plinth857 wrote:One difference between the other legacy carriers... you get 500 EQMs for any flight under 500 miles.