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Train is not as certain from HKG to CAN as in Japan, as twice the train we wanted to take between Hong Kong and  was sold out.  Nothing worse than arriving in HKG after flying from the states and trying to by tickets to CAN , but finding there are no seats for sale between HKG and CAN. I would...

AA announced today that they will begin service from LAX to HND in January with a 787.  The inbound flight arrives at 11 PM and the outbound leaves at 1:30 AM.  For me, this is a far better departure than an early AM departure, as one still can take public transportation if one takes the 1:30 AM...

  Although maintenance is one of the problems, allocation of personnel, training, problem solving are not AA's song suits in my view.  For example, a good example of AA's problems reside in the DFW-HKG cancellation I mentioned above.  Let me explain what happened in my view.  THE BOOKING...

I  have been an EXP for a good number of years and this is the first year that I have joined my wife as a lowly Platinum-Between us we are approaching 9 Million BIS miles in AAdvantage .  As a Platinum, I have been disappointed that I had a 3 hour wait for AA to call me back for me to book 2...

  I have found the AE credit card that I have had for the past 10 years with Starwood hotels superior to the Citibank card I have with AA.  I need a credit card to augment my AA miles and for me, the Citbank Master Card fills the bill. do not use the Citibank card for admission to AA's lounges...

My choice would have been the Wings Of Pride that flew for TW and I had hoped that same plane would be repainted in her original Wings Of Pride Livery.  However N948TW (she had a new tail number when AA purchsed her) went to the desert on July 2 with 72015 total hours on her airframe adn 37644...

MCI:  It has been hard for both you and me as I knew a number of people on that flight, but as my wife continually tells me, it is similar to the shooting in Dallas where President Kennedy was shot.  One has to honestly weigh all the evidence, and based on this evidence come to a decision.  I...

MCI:  It is time to move on.  I have done so, and it was very difficult, as I had been on 19119 many times and even had seen it undergoing an overhaul on one of my trips to the TW maintainence facility.  My wife and I were in England at the time, and the London press had many reports of a...

Looks like both 351AA and 355AA are back in DFW after spending a couple of weeks in Tulsa for repairs. If AA gets delivery of their 787-9s in 2015, that means that these 2 and other high time767-323s will be over 110,000 hours of total time. I've flown on a lot of aircraft in my years of...

Some of the AA 767-323s are fast approaching the highest time 767-300s with about 104,000 hours on their airframes. I found the highest time 767-300 was taken out of Martainair service almost two years ago with slightly more than 104,000 hours, and that most 767s that have been parted out had...

Here is a 4 part video entitle "Airbus Down" demonstrating how quickly one of AA's former airbuses (#55) was chopped up. Doug Scroggins, owner of the company doing the work, also has some shots of TWA's N610TW also being chopped up on his web site, with the cockpit going off to a museum. Even...

Mike, the plane is N31019, which formerly was TWA Plane #21019. Hope all is well with you. Best regards, Pete

This same aircraft (N961TW) was nearly written off on 6/20/06 when it landed with the nose wheel unable to be lowered at ORD. Although nearly fully nearly fully loaded with LAX passengers at that time, no one appeared to be injured. It seems to me that a 10 year old MD-80 with only 19000...

Mark, it will be great to see you again after all these years and I look forward to being on one of your LGA flights. I don't know how you have been able to hold out so long in expectation of returning to flying. However, so much has changed in the past 5 years, as it no longer is fun flying...

[img src='http://www.usaviation.com/idealbb/images/smilies/8.gif'] These A/C will find homes with other carriers such as DL, NW, AM, or even UA, but two years ago, only a few of us predicted the personnal tragedies soon to befall some of the finest employees in commercial aviation industry. It...