This thread is quite interesting for its warped premise. LATAM has an alliance with an airline hubbed at MIA. That alliance is undone to have an alliance with an airline hubbed in ATL. Most cross-airline connecting traffic is going to move from MIA to ATL. Naturally, we should be discussing expansio...
Jump to postThe only way that old IST contrainted TK is that TK could not lose as much money as it would have liked.
Jump to postThere is more to the equipment variety from BOAC at JFK: Routes to other destinations in the UK besides London.
Jump to postThose huge windows on their supersonic aircraft drawings just tell me they more a marketing company than one than can engineer a supersonic aircraft.
Jump to postReferring to NYC-EZE as a United route inherited from Pan Am may be fair but it deserves qualification. Pan Am rarely flew the route nonstop and in most years for most days of the week the flight stopped in Rio - and sometimes in Sao Paulo.
Jump to postThe people at Delta that decided to can SEA-HKG must be feeling real smart!
Jump to postUA and AA are token players at Logan nowadays, and I never thought I’d see myself type that. DL and B6 have grown up around them. ..... Maybe you should not have typed that. AA has about 100 flights per day at BOS while DL has about 130. AA flies larger aircraft. DL has a much larger set of destina...
Jump to postSao Paulo is a much larger market than Santiago or Buenos Aires. It is also a market than can grow with nonstop service to Australia & New Zealand as tourists and exchange students jump on the easier access. The winner airline is the one that gets to connect the two strong ends first: GRU and SYD.
Jump to postWhat about LAX-Europe? LH/UA have no competition in Germany now that AirBerlin is gone and AF/DL all but have a monopoly on CDG. Seems like there would be some room for Euro growth in a market as large as LAX. As a seasonal route, instead of LAX-CDG which has a lot of service, LAX-NCE seems a lot m...
Jump to postdcajet wrote:
Except you can’t separate out ingredients from ice cream. But you can buy Cracker Jax and refuse to eat the peanuts. Same as using a hidden city ticket. The ice cream analogy is quite interesting because it does not hold. In the case of a trip with a connection, the ingredients come separate. For i...
Jump to postThere is a new T5 concourse to be located north of T5 parallel to the new third runway, as well as a new facility with gates connected to the west of the exiting T5 structure, this was revealed in the Heathrow master plan video, around 1:43 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_At_8ZfqSLo At the speed t...
Jump to post[(...) Doggie stated numerous times he will give the Association an industry leading contract, yet in five years he hasn’t. They are asking for the following: 1. Increases of outsourcing and a loss of 2,200 Mechanic jobs in heavy maintenance. 2. Increase of outsourcing of line maintenance and a los...
Jump to post[(...) Doggie stated numerous times he will give the Association an industry leading contract, yet in five years he hasn’t. They are asking for the following: 1. Increases of outsourcing and a loss of 2,200 Mechanic jobs in heavy maintenance. 2. Increase of outsourcing of line maintenance and a los...
Jump to postAzul decided to sit out and not bid. The auction legality is questionable because Avianca does not own the slots. They are distributed by the government. Azul probably had good indication that the auction will be invalidated.
Jump to postRegarding flight times, how much longer will an A321LR take compared with an A330/787 on a 3000nm-4000nm route? Will it be significant enough to become a problem? (Especially if 2 airlines operate the same route - one with an A321LR and the other with an A330/787) There's no need to guess since TP ...
Jump to post(...) We have seen that many times over the decades. Newer generation aircraft displace older generation aircraft due to the improved efficiencies and cost. (...) But the rehashed 737 from the original mid-60s design is still here holding up against the mid-80s A320. Derivatives from previous gener...
Jump to postLH has a hold on the German/Swiss corporate travel market through strong hubs in Zurich, Frankfurt and Munich. Here is how the game changes for them: US carriers will pick apart the transatlantic demand from all other secondary markets that are today loyal to LH, using narrowbodies nonstop to the US...
Jump to post(...) All the official press documents have stated widebody with narrowbody economics and have not mentioned 7ab. That is an airliners.net assumption. (...) Can we all agree that "widebody with narrowbody economics" cannot exist? Unless we are comparing different generation aircraft. Of c...
Jump to post(...) Meanwhile, Boeing should forget NMA, and go with MAX-10 and a castrated 787, because that will make the stock holders happiest? I think I'll stick with the sarcasm tags, TYVM. I never suggested any sort of yet another 737 derivative, even if just a slight stretch, nor have I brought up Boeing...
Jump to postMore on topic; I see no reason whatsoever Airbus cannot respond to the NMA sandwiching it further with a stretched 322 alongside a next-gen 8AB that has a much different focus then the original A300. <sarcasm> And if everyone is consistent they will tell you that a next-gen 8AB will undermine the 9...
Jump to post(...) Interestingly enough, LH's CEO just said the XLR is not a game changer and said it was not comfortable to spend more than four hours on a flight in a narrow-bodied aircraft ( ref: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1425571 ). Seems he is reading from the NMA play book. Wh...
Jump to postI'm afraid you really don't understand the point about 7 abreast seating. You essentially need to add the width of 2 aisles to your fuselage to gain the benefit of only one extra aisle. (...) Let me add to that. Then once one has added the second aisle for 7-abreast, it becomes irresistible to turn...
Jump to postGoSharks wrote:NRT-SFO timing is awfully rough on the body. Worse than a domestic SFO-NYC redeye. When you land at 9am, you body thinks it is 1am. Bedtime!
I still think you are thinking too big. NMA-S could be about 752 Capacity and NMA-M 753 Capacity - albeit with longer range. The A321 XLR won't be 48.5T OEW - The NEO is already over 50T and the XLR could be 51-52T with the new heavier gear and bigger fuel tank/plumbing. The NMA could be more in th...
Jump to post(...) If you run as follows: Schedule ex NRT at 21:00 and arrive in SFO at 09:30. Schedule ex SFO at 11:00 and arrive in NRT at 09:30. You then can't use the aircraft again ex NRT until 18:00 earliest (06:30 arrival into SFO). The time differences and the block times mean that your realistic utilis...
Jump to postIndia has gone to space. Is that the announcement?
Jump to postHere is how the the world consumes aircraft for 2800-5000mi flights today: Number of departures per day Distance Miles - Wide - Narrow 2800-2999 - 222 - 103 3000-3199 - 178 - 67 3200-3399 - 251 - 62 3400-3599 - 289 - 23 3600-3799 - 300 - 24 3800-3999 - 313 - 7 4000-4199 - 287 - 1 4200-4399 - 240 - 0...
Jump to postThey replacing meal service with the meals-in-a-pill used by astronauts.
Jump to post(...) I think A321x is the 757 to NMA's 767. At PAS Randy T described A321 as holding a "sliver" of the market NMA is targeting. I think this indicates the NMA really isn't aiming for the same market as A321. (...) I think the narrow body has never been on the table because it would provi...
Jump to postWe don't have to be in an either/or situation. The market supports a "warmed over" A330neo with a lot of overlap with "clean sheet" 787 and A350 that have more seats, more range and even better economy. The market can support "warmed over" A321neo/A321lr/A321xlr with a...
Jump to postThe smaller NMA, I agree there's a market and potential for growth for more route openings. It can also be densely configured for shorter routes. The longer 2 class 270 pax would only take away 787-9 sales. Airbus do not care about A339 taking some sales away from A359 because it cost them just 2B ...
Jump to postgatibosgru wrote:I hope they run these out of MIA too to places like BSB and CNF.
https://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2018/7/6/9932311-1530882192901148_origin.png Ref: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4185774-boeing-797-sales-potential-175-billion ] This chart shows there is indeed a gap in the market, but it does not show the whole story. Our planet does not need this chart...
Jump to postI see more of fear on your part. The 777 killed the A340 because it flew farther and faster with more passengers than the A340. ETOPS was the icing on the cake I see the same scenario with the NMA. Fly farther with more passengers (....) :crowded: ___ :crowded: Fly farther with more passengers gene...
Jump to post(...) The opportunity is for NMA to be to A321XLR what 787 is to A330, bigger, mostly CFRP design, better fuel burn, lower maintenance, etc. All this careful scrubbing of the business plan should tell us that if they do launch they are confident that they can make money building it. I think you are...
Jump to postWhat I have in mind is more about the productivity of the aircraft. If the NMA can save a significant time spent in cruise compared to the XLR, it could allow some airlines to squeeze one extra flight per day, hence providing more revenue generation potential than the XLR. This could be a way to ju...
Jump to postThere is great demand for an aircraft such as the -XLR. The most evident one is Transatlantic, where the 757 is still used and a replacement is overdue. But there is also Europe to the Middle East and Africa, intra-Asia, and North-South America. There are other thin and small markets out there and w...
Jump to postIt’s outsourcing according to the CBA agreed to by AA and the union. So you are wrong. Every US airline has multiple aircraft sitting all day long in GRU. Having some sort of decent facility there so that aircraft can land in the US clean for more flying makes very much sense. Now, no foreign compa...
Jump to postI do not see AA as particularly hostile to other airlines. DL is at least as much. While I lover traveling LH, I think they spare no one, and play a very rough game even with their partners. LH is much more aggressive than any US airline.
Jump to postAvianca Brasil (O6) schedule is a work of fiction. They have not flown to the US since April. A few weeks ago they trimmed their domestic Brazil schedule to only 4 airports - Rio, SP, Brasilia and Salvador. They had been hoping to keep a modicum of operation to auction assets and slots. They were gr...
Jump to postSad to see JFK-GIG go. Wonder what it was for? GIG has almost come full-circle boom-bust back to 2004. At that time, for a few months, TP and AA were the only foreign carriers offering nonstop service to the US and Europe. Most other carriers that served the airport had a hop from GRU. It is still ...
Jump to post1. The Argentina air market continues to grow, both domestically and internationally. Keep in mind that while outbound travel is down ~5% YoY, inbound travel is up by 15%, fueled by record arrivals of tourists into the country, (...) Depending on the month the seat supply in and out of Argentina is...
Jump to postairbazar wrote:TP has an interline agreement with DL. ATL is a huge DL hub. TP should have no problem getting a fair bit of connections at ATL.
gatibosgru wrote:
Crazy how there's virtually no lcc competition between Brazil (or deep South America at that) and the US
I think QF would have no trouble selling PER-LHR twice daily. The choice of departure and arrival times would draw passengers now flying on other airlines.
Jump to postBecause many Americans (rightly) recognize it as a sub-standard experience (weather!) and won't put up with it. Just how quickly did AS order E75s and start jet-bridge loading (and parking Q400s) as soon as DL brought competition to SEA-regional routes? I agree with that. While I enjoy the experien...
Jump to postPTY as a destination for ANA? Really? ANA is a premium-heavy airline. They have large business class sections. A flight to PTY would drill a financial role the size of the Grand Canyon.
Jump to postThat was just a typo on Delta's part that generated 700+ comments in a.net. They meant to say Delta will be serving India-na in 2019!
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