International Expansion for US Airways PHX Hub
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WhatBag?
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yup!
Travelpro72
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Well it seems that US can't charge the fares they want to make LAS profitable so I dont' think it really matters. LAS is a vacation market. Always has been and most likely always will be. At least this is US's thinking.
Pacemaker
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But why bother with the truth when it contradicts the party line Jim?
CLT-Douglas
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Isn't there like 2 or 3 brand new A340-500's that were supposed to go to Kingfisher just sitting in Toulouse waiting on a new owner? Why not try making a deal with Airbus for those?
I think one is spoken for. The problem is unless you are committing to having that aircraft long term its expensive just to bring one or two aircraft on site. Spare parts, training, etc. I know there is alot of commonality between the 330/340 fleets - however just by design there have to be some different parts - landing gears, etc.
With that said - I really wish we had a the money to bring them on and start the PEK and NRT from PHL. It would be great to have PHX and PHL going to NRT. Lots of good connecting traffic in NRT to SIN/BKK etc.
SegmentKing
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Actually Airways did firm up on the E190 order (took all 25, and now they sound like they are going to sell them).
I wish there was a way, but I remember Wolf ordering HUNDREDS of A319/A320/A321s, and I thought that the company had 50 EMB 170's on order, but only took delivery of 28.
I wish there was a way, but I remember Wolf ordering HUNDREDS of A319/A320/A321s, and I thought that the company had 50 EMB 170's on order, but only took delivery of 28.
A320 Driver
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Can airbus get the A350 (a330 ripoff) off the drawing board first please?
The design was finalized last year. It will have better range and payload capability than the 787. Based on what I've seen so far, the only thing the 350 shares with the 330 is relative size. It even has a dandy flight attendant rest area built in. Also, the cockpit design shares much of the 380 improvements and technology.
To be fair, it did start life as a 330 knockoff, but went through a near total redesign at the request of the potential customers. Slots for the aircraft are highly coveted right now.
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DO you have a Link to the 350 new design, or website where you got the info from? Thx. I hope PHX sees some Transatlantic service soon, and hope the PHX crews are trained appropiately to fly these routes.
AIRWOMAN
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Here's info......................all things Airbus can be found at www.airbus.comDO you have a Link to the 350 new design, or website where you got the info from? Thx. I hope PHX sees some Transatlantic service soon, and hope the PHX crews are trained appropiately to fly these routes.
Specific to the 350.
http://www.airbus.com/en/aircraftfamilies/...ency/index.html
AirbusA310
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PHL-NRT would make more sense than PHX NRT, but than again the brains in the golden cactus in Tempe are not know for making sense in their decisions.....great example CLT HNL yeah that will make money.....looked at it for dec-jan booked to nothing and yet QIK shows all classes of service zero out and only full Y or F available for purchase at over $1800 bucks, sure everyone lining up to buy those seats...also 3rd longest flight for company after TLV and GIG(if it ever starts) and yet we doing inflight cafe on it....I'm sure we will have bout 10 meals available to sell and everyone else can suck some ice cubes for 11 hours
Im from the East but if PHL can be marketed as an alternate international gateway for NYC/WAS/BOS then why cant PHX be an alternate for LAX and SFO? The name of the game is to FLY a plane as far as you can to produce yeild and there is not an aircraft available to US right now on a assembly line to go PHL or CLT to Tokyo!
