Southwest snaps up Transaero B737-700s
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jimntx
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Will they need them when the judge orders them to give half their gates at DAL to Delta? You know, it's just a matter of time until the final ruling comes down.
does this plane go to paris
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Jim, WN will go BK once they have the planes. As you mentioned, DL will win the case sue WN to accommodate more Compass Airline flights into DAL and using Delta's far superior GDS system force WN into submission.
Gotta love the cornfield just waiting for "new" posters to come to proclaim DL's domination. Curious as to how many times one can visit the cornfield.
Gotta love the cornfield just waiting for "new" posters to come to proclaim DL's domination. Curious as to how many times one can visit the cornfield.
FrugalFlyerv2.0
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Looks like Transaero went tango uniform.
Filed for bankruptcy at the start of October and the Russian authorities revoked its operational license by months end.
I wonder if WN will try to get some of the 737-800 that UN had in their fleet?
Unrelated question: considering that besides Moscow and St. Pete's Russia is a 3rd world country, how well maintained are the aircraft? Or do the Russian operators just not have the resources to maintain Soviet-era built aircraft and the Airbuses and Boeings they operate are well maintained?
Filed for bankruptcy at the start of October and the Russian authorities revoked its operational license by months end.
I wonder if WN will try to get some of the 737-800 that UN had in their fleet?
Unrelated question: considering that besides Moscow and St. Pete's Russia is a 3rd world country, how well maintained are the aircraft? Or do the Russian operators just not have the resources to maintain Soviet-era built aircraft and the Airbuses and Boeings they operate are well maintained?
does this plane go to paris
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Frugal,
I spent a week in Russia a few years back. Besides being a trip that I was standing in Red Square where I used to see tanks and missile's roll off in parades that were aimed at us a few years earlier, I was surprised at how non Third World they were even the countryside. Didn't travel much farther than 100 miles away from either Moscow or St. Petersburg but it was still amazing. I took one cab ride in one of those Soviet style cars that make a Yugo look like a Porsche, but at the airports I went through it was very much clean and up to Western standards.
From what I've read and seen, the Russians had many Western backers to maintain that standard and with Putin's determination to force himself and Mother Russia back on the World stage, I think that the sanctions have hurt their economy so bad that the same Western investors are just taking up their toys and reallocating back to the West. I would assume that WN or any other carrier would take at least 2 looks under the hood.
I spent a week in Russia a few years back. Besides being a trip that I was standing in Red Square where I used to see tanks and missile's roll off in parades that were aimed at us a few years earlier, I was surprised at how non Third World they were even the countryside. Didn't travel much farther than 100 miles away from either Moscow or St. Petersburg but it was still amazing. I took one cab ride in one of those Soviet style cars that make a Yugo look like a Porsche, but at the airports I went through it was very much clean and up to Western standards.
From what I've read and seen, the Russians had many Western backers to maintain that standard and with Putin's determination to force himself and Mother Russia back on the World stage, I think that the sanctions have hurt their economy so bad that the same Western investors are just taking up their toys and reallocating back to the West. I would assume that WN or any other carrier would take at least 2 looks under the hood.
