I see mention on Wikipedia or retiring the 767-300ERs in 2025. That seems too soon if they've going through a full cabin refresh. I assume that's an old date? I believe I heard 7 767-300ER’s will be retired after 2024 summer season. The 767-300ER’s will be around for a few more years with different...
Jump to postWas curious with Delta's routes to EDI that are currently operated by the 757/767. Has there been any information which aircraft will be taking over these routes in the future or is that so far in the future that no one has any idea? Thanks in advance! Both JFK and BOS are operated on a 767 (763 to...
Jump to postI know this is mostly about AF/KL AND that has the potential to start pointless speculation....but none the less: AirFranceKLM has signed an MoU to "greatly expand" its partnership with Etihad Airways of Abu Dhabi. Here is the announcement from AF/KL: https://www.airfranceklm.com/fr/newsro...
Jump to postLooks like Hainan is looking to restart service to the US (again) this winter. Boston is on 2 of the routes: PEK-SJC PEK-SEA PEK-BOS PVG-SEA PVG-BOS Given this is just a twitter post and it says there will be 6 US routes but only lists 5, so take it for what it's worth: https://twitter.com/IshrionA...
Jump to postSquandered? UA has more LHR departures now than PA did, but network dynamics of the airline industry in the 2020s are completely different than they were in 1991, not to mention the fact that business traffic (LHR's bread and butter) hasn't quite recovered to 2019 levels. The reason AA is larger at...
Jump to postSquandered? UA has more LHR departures now than PA did, but network dynamics of the airline industry in the 2020s are completely different than they were in 1991, not to mention the fact that business traffic (LHR's bread and butter) hasn't quite recovered to 2019 levels. The reason AA is larger at...
Jump to postIt is amazing how over the years UA has been slowly closing the gap between themselves and AA on US-LHR routes operated on each airlines own metal. Of course in real life we can't simply toss JV's aside but for having no partner at LHR UA continues to do quite well even with the continued delay in ...
Jump to postNearly all the growth above GDP in the domestic US industry in the past 15 years has been amongst L/ULCC. The US3 have been basically stagnant. Price is king – if DL were to launch new services from BWI, it’d essentially have to “steal” traffic from well-established players. These aren't my prefere...
Jump to postInterestingly, the Delta build out will continue further in terminal E. Apparently BOS will also be getting their new premium international business class lounge in addition to the new skyclub. No timeline mentioned in the article but they are coming to BOS, JFK, and LAX. A Sky Deck is even being h...
Jump to postWhat do you all think the AA strategy for Boston will be given the end of the NEA? Keep to core hubs? Restore northeast non-hub markets? Something else? Doubt we'll see a ton of growth given how short they are on regional aircraft but I still think BOS is going to remain an important spoke for AA. ...
Jump to postThe 757 on TATL was challenging at best from a variety of factors. Labor costs being the primary driver but also fuel costs. You have to crew it and schedule it with widebody like labor costs but have far less revenue potential. Fuel costs too. Also with how it factored into the JV balance too. The...
Jump to postNothing the pilots said isn’t publicly already known. There will 21 A321neos with lieflats, configured 16 D1, 12 Premium Select (so basically normal domestic F seat), 54 Comfort+, 66 Main Cabin. They will replace the 18 75Ss (757s with lieflats) which will be configured to 75Gs (domestic configurat...
Jump to postYou are right, they have FCO covered, but "these markets" are the huge portion of the country that will now have one stop connections to DUB through DFW. DL will have to add year-round ATL-DUB I'd they feel the need to compete. There is no guarantee that a AA's DFW-DUB route will work a y...
Jump to postTerminal E at this time of night is completely mobbed both airside and landside. If you aren’t checking bags, is there any reason you can’t go thru security in C and just walk down to E? You can do it, but for some reason the people who look at boarding passes in C get confused when you try and do ...
Jump to postThe sleuths were correct: BCNDFW 777 CPHPHL 789 NAPPHL 788 NCEPHL 789 ORDVCE 788 Extensions from seasonal to year-round: BCNPHL CLTMAD DFWDUB DFWFCO LISPHL Interesting which routes got the 789 Weren't all those extensions previously reported, except maybe DFW-FCO I'm guessing they expect business c...
Jump to posthttps://maps.massport.com/?_gl=1*1dq5o8e*_ga*MTY4MTY5NDczMi4xNTU0MTI1ODg0*_ga_R2WKTQBSGT*MTY5MjA0MDU0OC4xODUuMS4xNjkyMDQwNjM0LjAuMC4w#terminal/E/zone/departures-l3 This should bring some smile to forum members asking about the terminal E expansion.. I heard rumors from BOS DL staff 2 weeks ago it’s...
Jump to postNo, I don’t. But from a scheduling point of view it’s more difficult to plan around. An issue on the first leg into CDG from JFK or ATL leads to down line cancellations. 6 days are more prone to disruption than a 3 day, when staffing outstations in the middle of the sequence. If the crew doing CDG ...
Jump to postJoanna - How much more of a beating can we dish out? She's an HR exec in the role of COO “Exec” is a stretch, apart from her defacto position. She’s a lawyer and she’s always been way out of her depth. Hopefully if the merger goes through we can say “thank you for your service, we’ll take it from h...
Jump to postI guess it is good that OAK is trying to attract more people by make poeple aware they are close to SF. I am not sure it is their main problem. When WN has over an 80% market share the general consensus in the population is probably, "Unless you are flying WN don't bother with OAK." Not s...
Jump to postIt may not be a seat for seat replacement, but it is a type replacement. There is no such thing as a seat for seat replacement. But the 339 trip cost is not much higher, and offset by the extra revenue when averaged over time. If there was such a thing as a 210/230 pax plane that had a competitive ...
Jump to postIt does surprise me with the DUB-BOS demand alone, Aer Lingus hasn't ran a morning departure, even if on a narrowbody for say 3 months in the summer. Probably because they haven't had to run it... so why bother...for the reasons listed above, the red eyes capture connecting traffic on both sides of...
Jump to postWould there not be a significant/substantial enough acquisition cost difference between the A338 and A339 to justify an order for the A338? You would think that Airbus would give them a screaming deal to justify ordering it and it is certainly the closest aircraft for a seat-to-seat replacement for...
Jump to postIf this was the late 90's then B6 was not in existence yet and was out of the picture. This most likely was late 90's because any time when B6 existed would have been after 9/11 and terminal dreams would have been dampered. IMO since Delta had acquired PAN AM's JFK-to-Europe hub in the early 90's I...
Jump to postIt will be interesting to see how OO handles the switch. DL connection is scoped out at 325 large RJs with a number parked due to staffing issues. If they contractually have to maintain a service level, it could really stretch their operation. Does the scope clause include EAS flying, or are those ...
Jump to postOr some of us might recall the 90s/early 2000s when terminal E was undergoing its reconstruction, quite a few international carriers flew out of C for several years I sure remember SR and SN flying from C back when they were DL partners. BTW, DL blocked a gate to fit SR's 747-300 into their pier on...
Jump to postRelative to the afternoon it feels like an abandoned terminal :D Up until 10:30am or so we have what? HA, S4, AA, BA, and a few B6 Caribbean arrivals. Am I forgetting anything else? EK, TP, and EI all operated form C at one point, possibly all at the same time, and all with widebodies including EK'...
Jump to postWill Delta now forge a relationship with Etihad. The only US3 without ME partner? Etihad is flying to Boston in addition to NYC now. Depends if they grow out of the mentality that the ME3 are the reason to blame everything on, especially why they can’t make India work. I also think they have a code...
Jump to postI’m curious what time you think that would be. There’s really no seriously under utilized time at E. Even the mornings are busy now. Even hardstands are difficult to come by these days. Relative to the afternoon it feels like an abandoned terminal :D Up until 10:30am or so we have what? HA, S4, AA,...
Jump to postWow, Holy S*** that T5-T6 terminal complex for 1990 was so ahead of its time. I feel like today's T1 and T4 copied from it in some ways. There was a much earlier plan TWA had to modernize the T5/T6 terminal complex around 1990. Check it out: https://www.airporthistory.org/blue-concourse/a-forgotten...
Jump to postWow: Etihad Airways Launching Boston Flights - One Mile at a Time https://onemileatatime.com/news/etihad-airways-boston-flights/ This could be a fun route. BOS-AUH Going to be right in the middle of the gate constraints though. Nice. Call it the JetBlue effect :) B6 connections, AUH pre-clearance, ...
Jump to postI wonder when this frame's next C or D check is due. Will play a part in deciding if its fixed or not, depending on the costs involved already? N189DN is one of the 76Ks, 4-class aircraft that recently got the Premium Select mod. It most recently went through a heavy check in the 2021/2022 timefram...
Jump to postSCL-PEK is ~11,800mi, and overflies LAX more or less. SCL-AKL-PEK is about 12,500mi (5% more). Id think a LAX-PEK extension of existing xxx-LAX flights, collecting all the traffic it can from existing LIM, GRU and potentially other SA flights would be a far lower risk flight Via the US, a lot of co...
Jump to postCorrect. Lima serves this purpose and will continue to. Avianca has BOGBOS covered. Nobody will be joining it anytime soon. LATAM Colombia is a small regional airline with a total fleet of 14 narrowbodies. It only serves two cities outside of Colombia, Miami (from BOG and MDE) and Orlando (from BOG...
Jump to postSpoke to my DL contact tonight and he confirmed again, that LATAM/DL plans to turn BOG into a connecting hub. Whether this comes through in the next year or 10 who knows, but they plan to build up BOG, and he said the eventual plan is to run A330s from ATL, JFK and BOS to BOG. He stated DL is in th...
Jump to postKeep in mind; with DL being the most profitable airline in the world, I don’t see them further investing (from multiple hubs) in a poor performing route. If history is any indication, often enough we see the opposite in order to keep competition away. Airlines that are unprofitable or operate on sl...
Jump to postThe OP isn't talking about denied boarding (relatively common) but people seated in the airplane having to disembark, not exactly the same thing. I've seen it once long ago, only a few passengers had to leave, 4 or 5 I think, and the crew offered something like 500€ vouchers to volunteers, there we...
Jump to posthttps://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/rtx-raises-2023-sales-outlook-boosted-by-aviation-recovery-2023-07-25/ What will be the impact on DL's GTF-equipped aircraft now that PW has announced further issues with the engine? This engine can't seem to catch a break. I am assuming none. DL d...
Jump to postUA is only flying single daily’s to HND and NRT. If DL felt the need to compete with UA and AA they would have added flights to NRT. Shove all the leisure fliers on the NRT route and shove all the business fliers on the HND route and no one would really complain. My guess is that they don’t actuall...
Jump to postUnited announced another Asia/Pacific expansion this week, they're now going 2x daily to Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore from San Francisco. Prior to COVID they were also 2x daily SFO-PVG. They are also going back to 2x daily Los Angeles-Tokyo. For Delta to try and offer up competition t...
Jump to postNot too difficult to back that statement up. It was Richard Anderson a few years earlier wanting to move the Narita hub to Haneda for a level-playing field with the JVs. Anyone can deduce that it is easier to get ALL seven gateways changed on already existing markets proving some kind of Tokyo dema...
Jump to postrsgolfpunk wrote:Does anyone know if SkyWest will continue CRJ 200 flying for DL indefinitely or whether DL has told them to retire their 200s?
Out of curiosity, when is the E1 checkpoint open? I walked by it late at night last month and assumed it was no longer in use. Too bad plans for the people mover have been scrapped. Between growing int'l connections, new CC lounges opening up, and increased ramp congestion, it would make sense. Tho...
Jump to postNLINK wrote:N717TW wrote:N717TW wrote:
Its hard to plan a trip that includes a wide body domestically on Delta given their smaller than planned fleet.
Delta operates more wide body aircraft now than pre pandemic.
Is DL operating or going to operate any domestic A-350 flights? Other than LAX-JFK, does DL operate any widebodies within the lower 48? Plenty. DTW-ATL sees 3x weekly A350s as well as ATL-LAX 4x weekly. In addition to daily 763 frequencies on JFK-ATL, ATL-MCO and ATL-LAX. The domestic flight schedu...
Jump to postIs DL operating or going to operate any domestic A-350 flights? Other than LAX-JFK, does DL operate any widebodies within the lower 48? Plenty. DTW-ATL sees 3x weekly A350s as well as ATL-LAX 4x weekly. In addition to daily 763 frequencies on JFK-ATL, ATL-MCO and ATL-LAX. The domestic flight schedu...
Jump to postQuick question: with DL only flying to ICN/HND from SEA, what exactly is SEA’s role as a hub in DL’s network? It seems like getting to Asia is no longer a differentiating factor. Serious question, where else do you expect them to go at the moment? SEA isn't SFO. Wont ever be SFO. At best outside of...
Jump to postConverse argument: MXP is inconvenient for many (hence the joke that "MXP is closer to Switzerland than Milan") and much of north Italy is broken up by smaller airports and people selecting to connect via MUC/FRA/ZRH/AMS/CDG instead. Ha! A connection to LIN will definitely be an option fo...
Jump to postI have a fear regarding the elliptical fuselage with the long axis in the horizontal that the floor structure required to counter the compressive forces that it will experience - well not without significant weight penalty. I understand your comment (as much as a history and Econ major who went to ...
Jump to postAmericans just do not go to MXP, BRU, GVA, and even FRA in large numbers.[/quote] MXP, gateway to Northern Italy, just to New York, 7 to 8 flights a week. But no Americans ?[/quote] Pretty sure there are 5 or 6 flights per day during peak season between JFK/EWR and MXP. Granted the banking, art and...
Jump to postMAN, LGW, SNN, FRA/MUC? Only ones there I’d say are unlikely are SNN and MUC, considering DL doesn’t even fly them from JFK. LGW was planned before Covid, so that’s very possible. Would love to see the second JFK TLV come back. The fact they are not served from JFK, I see that as higher likelihood ...
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