Shit that happens with Airlines, thread
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Sounds like he is a just a comedian and not actually a flight attendant. Oh well.
...and chips
yeah. he's all over the place. bummer.
fake news
USC football team plane at Pullman Wa Today. Half the team was still on board when this happened. Unbalanced Cargo load?
They also have tail stands they put in now. They weren’t doing it a few years ago, but now most passenger 737s are.
Pullman... my home for a few years. They rebuilt the airport after I left. Had to do a ton of earth moving so they could make the runway larger. Cause flying into Spokane and driving an hour is too much...
Yep, tail stand
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United 737 Sidelined After Football Charter
Russ Niles
September 19, 2021
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A United Airlines Boeing 737-900 apparently had to be taken out of service after a strange ramp accident at Lewiston-Nez Perce Airport in Idaho on Friday. The airport doesn’t normally see full-sized airliners and there is speculation that might have something to do with it ending up on its tail with half a college football team still onboard on Friday evening. The 737 took the USC team from Los Angeles to Lewiston for a matchup scheduled with the Washington State Cougars in nearby Pullman, Washington, the following day. As the baggage was unloaded from the front compartment and the team and staff left by the front door, the plane settled back on its tail with the nosewheel about 15 feet above the ramp. Those airplanes need a tail support during offloading to prevent them from tipping backward but the ramp crews at Lewiston normally service smaller regional jets and turboprops and omitted that step.
United 737 Sidelined After Football Charter
A United Airlines Boeing 737-900 apparently had to be taken out of service after a strange ramp accident at Lewiston-Nez Perce Airport in Idaho on Friday. The airport doesn’t normally...
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Southwest Airlines cancels 1,800 flights, blaming weather and staffing
Southwest Airlines blamed the disruptions on air traffic control and bad weather.
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Bad weather my ass.
1,800 flights... score one for the environment.Southwest Airlines cancels 1,800 flights, blaming weather and staffing
Southwest Airlines blamed the disruptions on air traffic control and bad weather.
Bad weather my ass.
I love this "worker shortage"
It's an exploitation standoff. All the unemployment insurance/payouts are done. How we're not simply roaring back into whatever people call having a barista kiss their ass for $3 is beyond me.
It's an exploitation standoff. All the unemployment insurance/payouts are done. How we're not simply roaring back into whatever people call having a barista kiss their ass for $3 is beyond me.
Former Boeing 737 MAX Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud
A federal grand jury in the Northern District of Texas returned an indictment today charging a former Chief Technical Pilot for The Boeing Company (Boeing) with deceiving the Federal Aviation Administration’s Aircraft Evaluation Group (FAA AEG) in connection with the FAA AEG’s evaluation of...
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More than 2,000 flights canceled on Christmas Eve
On Thursday, United Airlines said it had to "cancel some flights" because of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
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More than 2,000 flights canceled on Christmas Eve
On Thursday, United Airlines said it had to "cancel some flights" because of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
A better virus would have evolved to not infect flight crews
What they mean is "regional airline that has United on the side of the plane, but pays pilots far less to fly these whiz-bang gadgets". Working for a regional airline has always been a tough gig to fill, no one wants to stay there because the quality of life sucks comparatively. Airline management on the other hand wants to contract out as much flying as possible to the regional airlines, because it's cheaper. This is called "scope" and every time contracts/union comes up, the company wants to put scope on the table. The pilots of the mainline carrier try to limit it in their contract by limiting the number of seats in the planes used by the regional carriers, like max of 70, whatever, but this is the game that's always played and when it comes to the regional airline, the mainline carrier pits all of them against each-other, finding the one that will undercut the rest and fly the route for the cheapest.
They also don't have to include various on time statistics with their shitty regional contractors. When I lived in the Charlottesville the morning US Air flights were on time 30% of the time with an average delay of about 3 hours. In other words that unless you were lucky, for most locations on the East Coast is was faster to drive.
Can vouch
from back in the days when I thought going back to the southeast was somehow a thing to do
I've spent some long, unplanned times in airports but nothing like charlottesville
Bounce around all over the east coast for a day and you are pretty much going to encounter a thunderstorm or other shit weather. Schedule an airplane on a nail biting tight schedule all day and expect it to end up where you want is pretty much a fools errand.
And now Delta's canceled 90 flights tomorrow.
Maybe my flight to Tucson will get canceled!
Staying classy...
A group of Quebec influencers and reality show stars could be facing thousands of dollars in fines, after videos surfaced showing them partying without masks on board a Sunwing flight from Montreal to Cancun
Does fedex deliver to Ukraine?
Hey @Pesqueeb wtf is all this about?
EXCLUSIVE Major U.S. airline CEOs warn 5G could ground some planes, wreak havoc
https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-major-us-airline-ceos-urge-action-avoid-catastrophic-5g-flight-2022-01-17/
I don’t know what this c-band stuff is, but we’ve had 5G for ages here and there are no issues at airports, in fact they were some of the first places to get it.
Is the C-band the millimetre wave stuff?
Edit: No it’s not, this is about 3-4Ghz, (s-band) whereas millimetre is 27Ghz and above. So what gives?
EXCLUSIVE Major U.S. airline CEOs warn 5G could ground some planes, wreak havoc
https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-major-us-airline-ceos-urge-action-avoid-catastrophic-5g-flight-2022-01-17/
I don’t know what this c-band stuff is, but we’ve had 5G for ages here and there are no issues at airports, in fact they were some of the first places to get it.
Is the C-band the millimetre wave stuff?
Edit: No it’s not, this is about 3-4Ghz, (s-band) whereas millimetre is 27Ghz and above. So what gives?
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Literally the first I've heard of it.
Some caveats:
1:. That article is extremely unclear as to what the actual issue is
2:. It focuses on both "Boeing" and "wide body" aircraft, both of which are outside my realm of "expertise", if we're being generous.
3:. It implies or otherwise heavily emphasis "low visibility approaches"
That said, I'm assuming that the issue at hand is CAT III approaches/landings. That is, very low or literally no visibility situations. This is the realm of large, long haul aircraft and large airports. Think 777 into Heathrow, A380 into Hartsfield etc., under super bad conditions. It requires, the aircraft, the airfield and the people operating and maintaining the equipment have some pretty finely tuned and super expensive equipment and training to pull off safely. Lots of Radio and Radar involved with very little room for error, or in this case, interference.
Assuming all the above is accurate and true, I've been in this business long enough to remember when the simple act of even carrying a cell phone was viewed with great suspicion by a more than small number of members of the regulatory community, and it's my suspicion that this will turn out to be more Much Ado About Nothing. These systems have proven to be much more robust than they've been given credit for in the past and I'd bet this will hold true in the future. Aviation has a firm foundation in paranoia for the obvious reasons, and it's further obvious that accidents are bad for business, especially if the ultimate cause of an accident is something super preventable. Like some ramper for a completely different airline watching pornhub on his phone on the opposite side of the airfield.
Ounce of prevention, and all that.
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Yes indeed! Hence the Q. I also came away with the impression it seemed like hyper cautious over-reaction.
Hey! That's one of my airplanes!
Coincidentally, happened to be driving past my local airport with daughter in tow the other day and watched a 175 of ours on low approach pull up it's gear and go around on a perfectly clear day. I now have to wonder if the same happened to it.
So it would seem I was at least half correct. My employer issued internal documentation today talking about this issue, and it seems, at least for now, to be even worse than I first speculated. The issue is interference with radio altimeters, and this effects pretty much every commercial aircraft, everywhere. Not just CAT III, fancy pants big boy stuff. Company internal notice included this statement by the RAA.
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Lots of reasons that happens...like the last airplane on the runway just didn't get off it fast enough.
Inquiring minds?
Is that like the "alternative facts" version of bloody minded?