It is a marketing strategy. "Our competitor have it so we should also have it..." It is sign that UA is not confident 787 and 777x will perform better than A350 family. Also, Pilot pool is limited, some Airbus pilots are best trained to continue fly Airbus (E.g. from A320 to A350), same apply to Boeing planes.

(Written on 2017年09月07日)(Permalink)

It still felt like"hand me down" planes... Just like the Mig-29Ks...

(Written on 2017年08月30日)(Permalink)

But the era is moving on.

(Written on 2017年08月07日)(Permalink)

This got me wonder, how may pilots were still out there without proper burial...

(Written on 2017年07月17日)(Permalink)

Nope, they are trying to save their a** to keep the company afloat.

(Written on 2017年07月06日)(Permalink)

Since when people make such a big fuss about overbooking? The only reasons this got reported was 1. A Legacy airline had been involved. 2. The story involving overbooked passengers. In my mind, Delta as whole did nothing wrong in the incident, although the agent's methods dealing with it is not appropriate. (To be more specific the accusation/ didn't let family to continue the flight when they finally cooperated.) Technically the family disobey the flight crew's instruction, and thus Delta had the right to eject them. And to Delta's defense, their ticket for 18 year old son was a no show, which is why all airlines overbook tickets in the first place.

(Written on 2017年05月05日)(Permalink)

He says, which is an unreliable source. What he should have done is change the name to the 2 year old's.

(Written on 2017年05月05日)(Permalink)

There is no way they can tell it is inflight breakup at all...

(Written on 2017年05月04日)(Permalink)

Wonder why A330neo would still be relevant when A350s are already flying... A330's brother from another mother (Boeing 767) only have freighter and KC-46 version in production...

(Written on 2017年04月28日)(Permalink)

You think Airline won't lost a million return a plane back to gate and de-board everyone to drag a man off? This is more about keeping a rule a rule. Wolves do that too, even when eating, after all they are one of the closet animal have a social structure resemble human's. I will ask the PA for sickness bag and pee in it, yes it will be embarrassing but it is your own fault can't control your bladder. After all those sickness bags were designed to contain ANY liquid. It is not an emergency like an heart attack that you can't control it. Oh Yes I thrown up into a bag in front of a FA in front of her after we landed (I am stuck in between passenger getting ready before we could deplane. She went to nearby Lav and hand me napkins as soon as I started to empty my stomach due to a bad approach).

(Written on 2017年04月27日)(Permalink)