live and let's fly
Poor Ohio and Kentucky. The hits keep on coming.
Delta Air Lines is expected to move more aircraft to the Pacific Northwest to handle service to Asia as it continues to shuffle the departure points for its international flying to adjust its network to demand.
The world's biggest airline told pilots last week that its Boeing 767ER crew base at the Cincinnati airport will likely close sometime in 2010, barring a change in network strategy.
A company memo and a memo ...
From the Wall Street Journal:
Your airline seat may not have much padding, but the airline's schedule sure does.
Delta Air Lines Flight 715 from New York to Los Angeles now takes more than seven hours to fly across the country, according to the airline's March schedule. That's an hour longer than the same flight in the same type of aircraft took in 1996. A Phoenix-Las Vegas flight at Southwest Airlines that used to be scheduled at 60 minutes now gets 80 minutes. What ...
Check out this thread on FT, and book fast if you are interested.
TACA earns 100% RDMs on UA and they offering roundtrip fares for as low as $134 r/t (including taxes) from New York, Washington, and Chicago. This is likely a "sale" fare.
If you are creative in your routing, you can visit Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Panama in the same trip.
This fare will likely be dead in a couple hours. Book now (I used Orbitz) and ask questions later--you will have 24 hours to cancel.
I had the chance to join Lucky for some mileage running over the weekend and was able to snag a great fare to Seattle. The only catch: I had to get up to Newark or LaGuardia to start the run. I chose Newark because it was easier to get to from Philadelphia's 30th Street Train Station.
Saturday morning I hopped on a SEPTA regional train to Trenton with a connection on NJTransit directly to EWR. The whole journey took about two hours and I was able to get some work done onboard, despite ...
-Philadelphia to Moscow Domodedovo in United Business
-Transit at DME + Austrian Airlines Lounge
-Moscow to Dulles on United + A Bump on United Express
Part III
There was an additional security check at the United gate: another bag search and pat-down. The Russian man doing the check was very apologetic, thanking each passenger profusely for complying and apologizing for the delay.
The purser, who turned out to be a gem, greeted me as I boarded and ...
-Philadelphia to Moscow Domodedovo in United Business
-Transit at DME + Austrian Airlines Lounge
-Moscow to Dulles on United + A Bump on United Express
Part II
The runway was littered with Russian aircraft--Tupolevs and Ilyushins as far as the eye could see. I thought that TU-134s were being phased out, but there were quite a few of them on the ground that seemed to be in active service. DME is a hub for an airline I had never heard of, S7, but it seems that ...
