The shutdown is temporary and since she's a FA on a company mandated layover, she should still be on per diem and will be recalled at the appropriate time. Unless she has to return home for personal reasons, then it makes sense that she would have to incur the personal expense. Having a job that takes you away from home comes with the caveat that there are situations that sometimes arise that would require an unplanned layover that differs from what is scheduled.

(Written on 2021年01月29日)(Permalink)

Assets make money when they are in use, not when sitting idle. For the 200 pax version to be feasible, it would need to be able to make 2 r/t daily between New York and London, being in the air for about 18 hours in a 24 hour cycle. Something like this: Depart NYC for London at 0300 GMT (2200 local time), arrive London at 0730 GMT Return from London to NYC at 0900 GMT arriving NYC at 1330 GMT (0830 local time) Depart NYC again at 1500 GMT (1000 local time), arrive London at 1930 GMT Return flight from London to NYC at 2100 GMT, arriving in NYC at 0130 +1 GMT (2030 local time) Yes, at only 1.5 hours turn-around time, that is an agressive schedule, but that would allow for maximum efficiency, have reasonable departure / arrival times locally. and likely make for more reasonable fares making for higher demand and more of these a/c in service to cover for "expected" unscheduled problems. As I understood the Concorde, there was only 1 r/t daily each between NY/London and NY/P

(Written on 2021年01月29日)(Permalink)

At one time, SWA did not expressly exclude Hidden City bookings from its COC, I'm not sure if they do now or not. Perhaps it's because their fare structure / route system does not include as many lower tier cities. The fact that airlines willfully oversell seats is reason enough to not want to return the practice to the airlines by booking hidden cities. This is an interesting read of many of the practices that most airlines abhor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_booking_ploys

(Written on 2021年01月29日)(Permalink)

This should ensure that there will be 747's flying until I leave this earth as a breathing member of society. With delivery set for 2022 and at least a 40 year useful life, that will be until 2062 when I'll be 98 - even if I'm still breathing, I'm sure my last remaining memory of aircraft will be of the 747. Who knows, maybe my family can arrange one last flight aboard the Queen to my final resting spot!

(Written on 2021年01月17日)(Permalink)

My 747 flight history - One Transatlantic flight on BA from ORD to LHR in 2004, the return was on a 767. Our other TA crossing was on BA in 2018 on the 787-800 between BNA and LHR. The cool part of the return trip in 2018 was our a/c was parked on the tarmac and we had to walk out to it, and we passed about 3 747's on the walk to our a/c. Some great photos of those birds who now rest in storage.

(Written on 2020年10月16日)(Permalink)

Probably hit the gooses left wing!

(Written on 2020年09月25日)(Permalink)

Sweet baby Jesus

(Written on 2020年09月25日)(Permalink)

Flying out of Heathrow two years ago, we boarded the Dreamliner via portable steps as the plane did not have a "gate assignment". Such a neat experience. I can still remember seeing my brother off when his Naval leave (mid-70's) was over flying out of EVV and walking out of the terminal with him and the family to see him board. If I remember, the aircraft had "steps" that came out from the fuselage. Not sure what the a/c model was, but I believe it was either Allegheny or Ozark Airlines.

(Written on 2020年09月25日)(Permalink)

Interesting flight plan for N146FE, Memphis (MEM) to Boston (BOS), then to Newark (EWR) before going on to Los Angeles (LAX) in a little over 12 hours. Not sure what that 4:01 to 4:48 "First seen near Santa Monica" before landing at LAX again. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N146FE/history/20200819/0531Z/KEWR/KLAX

(Written on 2020年08月21日)(Permalink)

Looking at the available videos, based on the smoothness of the landing, I'm guessing any Pax there would have been wouldn't have been jostled much, if at all. The noise of the cowl scrapping and a slight listing would have been the only difference from a regular landing.

(Written on 2020年08月21日)(Permalink)