Recent content by desertsun

It's pretty well known by the beancounters that from a P&L perspective, you don't fly wide-bodies domestically due to the higher CASM and opportunity cost to deploy on more profitable routes. The reason why DL and UA do it so much is because their fleet just has so many of them. Even DL...

Did he really say that? If so, I bet there are alot of shareholders who would like to know. Could he be setting the stage for concessions?

Hmm... seems like somebody here said that the flight to HNL would be on the "list". somebody said there wasn't a "list"... hmmmm.... Unbelieveable....

Fly to RIO and get stuck with US ~ SWOOSH.

They should put it in Tempe Town Lake, and sell boat rides to tourists to expand on their ala carte offerings.... They could have the ticket booth over at corporate headquarters on Rio Salado. Maybe offer deals under US Airways Vacations packages or .. buy a ticket on US Airways get half off...

I don't have the capabilities to research, but since say December 1, how many times has DL/NW ATL-HNL diverted?

DOT Consumer Rule Limits: • Prohibits airlines from scheduling chronically delayed flights (those arriving > 70% late in a quarter), subjecting those who do to DOT enforcement action for unfair and deceptive practices; • Requires airlines to designate an airline employee to monitor the...

It would be from the Department of Transportation (i.e. Chronic late flight list) - happens all the time. As for "swimming", that will be remidied by either permanently publishing a stop or dropping the flight. My prediction is this route ceases mid September. This should be published...

I'm interested to see what the response will be.... if the status quo remains, bad fines are on the way, with some press time (cnn.com, etc.)

Obviously us is pricing atl hnl through clt very low to draw atl local pax off of the dl nonstop and putting them over clt I.e. Sending a message to dl. However, dl doesn't need to react due to their connecting network and general ff base. Seems to me us is losing money on these people...

IMHO, One of three things will happen at some point: 1. This flights on-time performance will be (or is) so bad, it will appear on the D.O.T.'s list of chronically late flights. This will put even more increased focus on this situation (i.e. somebody will have to do something about it or the...

Absolutely. Happy Holidays to everyone!

I'm curious - do most of us work for the company or industry? I don't - just an interested aviation nutt.

Sorry Jim. Being new to posting, I need to learn to better express myself :-) I meant that given the low yield route, why not fly the bird on a normal domestic routing to say PHX and do a turn back - then in the summer, put the plane back on Europe, etc. (if management doesn't wish to...

IF that's the case, why not just retire the plane rather than flying routes (for example Hawaii) that do not make $?