Recent content by vc10

$10? $7 if you use the A train (from Howard Beach or Jamaica) ($5 for the AirTrain, $2 for the subway). $10 if you use AirTrain plus the Long Island Railroad from Jamaica. The only issue is that it's a bit slow. What's needed is a single train all the way to Manhattan. Still, the options...

The tail logo is way too small. The reality is that of all of the four heritages, this is the one that is probably least remembered -- and I speak as someone who flew Allegheny from the early 70s onward. Piedmont, yeah, that had a good reputation. PSA, they had a great west-coast low-cost...

Uh, the combined carrier is called "US Airways". So why shouldn't there be a few things that recognize the America West legacy? Why is that so unfair?

Well, getting out to the airport from Cornell and doing the TSA shoe dance in Ithaca will take the better part of an hour (or more). Same getting from the airplane to downtown in NYC. So bus takes about 50% more time (4.5 hours vs 3 hours). However, bus is comfy (full size bus with only 27...

Another indication that US Airways' airfares to upstate NY are deep into the diminishing returns area: Cornell University (which is by far the dominant business in Ithaca NY) is now running daily luxury buses from Ithaca to New York, which apparently started last May. http://c2cbus.com/...

Be interesting to see what the response is to AirTran's entrance into ROC-BOS. Interesting timing on that one by AirTran -- almost tag-teaming with JetBlue (no, I don't think this is a conspiracy). One thing's for sure, there's more competition on Boston to western NY than there has been in...

Remember that reporters aren't always in control of what they write. Editors can and do assign stories to be written, even when the reporter knows that it's not really news. Fitz is a good guy.

In bankruptcy, a company can change all of those things if they are pre-bankruptcy agreements. Any agreement made after the filing cannot be so easily undone. The Republic agreement was made after the second filing. If there was a third filing, it too could be undone. So, if you want to dump...

Since when does the 757 come with a GE engine?

It's almost certainly the case that PIT-BOS is not being priced relative to US Airways' costs but instead to maximize profitability. The fares are so egregiously high, and so far as I know there's no competition. This is truly an example of a market where US Airways is utterly screwing its...

Somewhat misleading, if the previous post about how non-union PDT wages are actually higher than PSA union wages. If that's true, how is this unusual version of outsourcing a bad thing? Would you prefer the employees remain union, even at the cost of lower wages?

Actually, it had that refurbishment sometime in the recent past and actually looks pretty good inside these days, considering it's a 70s building and so is, in some ways, fundamentally screwed up (the interior configuration has never made a lot of sense to me).

http://enplaned.blogspot.com/2005/12/unmit...ed-garbage.html

http://enplaned.blogspot.com/2005/12/no-am...-newcastle.html

The A350 is getting its head handed to it by the 787. See: http://enplaned.blogspot.com/2005/11/a340-...in-trouble.html