Aviation Megathread 10: I'm dumb as shit

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Beef Of Ages: Jan 11, 2003; Your dumb is leaking.

Turdsdown Tom posted:

Not brown. Maybe a new program to weed out Y'all Qaeda looking American types? I'm not from the South so I can't imagine that, either.

Regardless, metal detectors don't scan for brown skin, so that wouldn't be why it beeped once anyway.

That is the indicator for "random" additional screening. I've had it happen to the person in front of me, not me, and then the person after me. Much like airline revenue management, no mere mortal knows these dark arts.

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# ¿ May 7, 2024 13:49

Beef Of Ages: Jan 11, 2003; Your dumb is leaking.

Rekinom posted:

Don't forget that Delta owns stakes in multiple joint ventures that are absolutely losing their rear end right now.

At least they sold their stake in that oil refinery a while back.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 13:49

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The Slaughter posted:

At UA we're parking a crapload of 757s and some 767s but they haven't decided if it's going to be permanent or not yet. They may sit in the desert for a year or two and come back, or they may not.

We're still taking 737 maxes this winter, though.

I had heard it was specifically the 764 fleet as they were getting ready to go for their C/D checks.

# ¿ May 15, 2020 15:25

Beef Of Ages: Jan 11, 2003; Your dumb is leaking.

Also are they going to restore all the points I earned last time they tried this?

# ¿ Apr 30, 2021 01:02

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Arson Daily posted:

Flyer points for a regional?

Last time they did branded ops, they launched a loyalty program to go with it. I think I had 80% of a free flight when they folded.

# ¿ Apr 30, 2021 01:47

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mactheknife posted:

they look great tbh but also very much not places i'd ever feel comfortable at

here's an actual aviation question, sort of - planning a trip overseas and a lot of flights i'm looking at connect in charlotte as it's one of the four airports my local flies to. better/worse than atlanta/dfw/houston?

It depends very much on where you want to go. Come visit us in the Finding Cheap Airfare thread and we'll get all nerdy about this stuff.

CBJSprague24 posted:

Carolina BBQ at CLT is some good eatin'.

It is very much not and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Warbird posted:

Many would argue visiting Charlotte and never leaving the airport is the optimal way to visit the city.

The six years I spent in Charlotte confirm this.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2022 22:01

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Kraftwerk posted:

Our methodologies are probably similar due to Boeing's influence on Bombardier and the Dash 8 in the 1990s. But no, I was in Toronto with Bombardier as opposed to Boeing.

So the CR2 was all your fault, then.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2022 23:38

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CBJSprague24 posted:

Boy, I hope these are just repositioning flights the media are otherwise clueless to the concept of, because yeesh, if not.

Countdown to the announcement of Kardashian investment in some unheard of electric aircraft startup.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2022 16:35

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Two Kings posted:

Atlas Air is getting sold. Is it ever a good thing when a company gets bought by private equity?

It is not.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2022 21:23

Beef Of Ages: Jan 11, 2003; Your dumb is leaking.

It's clearly all about the pilot shortage but I think we can all agree that the CR2 deserves to be immediately remanded to the sixth concentric circle of hell.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2022 23:45

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Arson Daily posted:

Clearly you've never been in the back of an ERJ-145 or the jumpseat thereof. It's so, so much worse. If I wasn't riding for literal free I'd never set foot on one. Worst turbojet powered airplane ever. Seriously

As a passenger with 68 segments on the 145 over the years, I'm going to vehemently disagree with you on the following basis:

The 145 has seats 1A, 3C/D, and the exit row (either row 12 or 18 depending on airline) that all have extra legroom; the CR2 has zero
The 145 has a set of single seats on one side; the CR2 forces you to share with someone no matter what
The 145 has a lav that can fit a large man in gastrointestinal distress that causes him to commit unholy acts; the CR2 has a small hole that requires a vat of Crisco and a shoehorn to get in or out of
The 145 is made in Brazil by nice people; the CRJ-200 is made in Canada by a group of masochists with a fetish for imposing their will on others

Can't speak to the jumpseat but I imagine it's not great as there is not much room on the 145, even though it is many miles ahead of the CR2. Also I'm told the CR2 climbs like dogshit.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2022 20:37

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e.pilot posted:

I�m serious

You're also technically correct (which is the best kind of correct :smugbert:

) but I would submit that it is way, way more esoteric than the common "A330ceo has the angled winglet" approach.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2022 23:06

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Potato Salad posted:

is it most most straightforward to see whether the tail of the fuselage remains flat at top vs angles down?

It's like the arrow in Fedex.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2022 01:46

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Rolo posted:

Ok I'm done hating for the day.

Why? There's *gestures around at everything* left to deal with.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2022 18:14

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Arson Daily posted:

Im dumb; also gay

Rolo posted:

Is Turbulence Pelvic Injury too long of a username?

It's definitely the name of a metal band from Toledo.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2022 02:22

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hobbesmaster posted:

I was going to say I�d be more concerned about Chicago having equipment that works in the bitter cold but I see you haven�t gotten the snow yet, so have fun with that. Here on the other side of the front in the twin cities it�s -11 and dropping, the wind will be picking up and the blowing snow is expected to drop visibility to zero.

Yeah, goonspeed to any of you poor bastards that are trying to fly through the Midwest right now. MKE had a handful of cancellations thus far but I expect that to ramp up.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2022 20:33

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Bob A Feet posted:

I picked a great week to be a military reservist, holy poo poo. One of my friends from class said he was rerouted to a flight and when he got to the gate he saw it had pushed back. The ops agent and him called crew scheduling on the phone and said hey, what the gently caress and their response was �we have no idea who is sitting in the right seat of that plane.�

Things are just dandy all over.

https://mobile.twitter.com/xJonNYC/status/1606637219359461378

# ¿ Dec 24, 2022 15:26

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Rolo posted:

Does this call for a fist pump and getting �a little bit jazzed�?

Better than being a little bit Mesa'd.

(I'm deeply sorry and hope you land the gig at AA.)

# ¿ Mar 5, 2023 21:38

Beef Of Ages: Jan 11, 2003; Your dumb is leaking.

The guys at Nomadic Aviation regularly make that point and carry pilot's uniforms with them for ferry jobs because it makes things much, much easier.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2023 02:05

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Rolo posted:

Also got my indoc date: goin to AA 4/19 let�s goooo.

Congrats!

# ¿ Apr 2, 2023 19:35

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Butt Reactor posted:

Hey, at least they renovated terminal B?

e: and C! wow

Most of C, but yeah, it's a world of difference.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2023 06:10

Beef Of Ages: Jan 11, 2003; Your dumb is leaking.

Quick fix is electrical tape, followed by the longer fix of a heat shrink wrap.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2023 16:22

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Rolo posted:

Things I did for the first time today:

Landed an Airbus (321 NEO baybeeeee)
In DCA
On the river visual
Before 100+ people thank me in a ten minute period.

Holy poo poo I can�t wait to see what it feels like when I have my first good landing.

Hell of a first day. :cheers:

# ¿ Jul 21, 2023 04:04

Beef Of Ages: Jan 11, 2003; Your dumb is leaking.

Fire, either inside or outside, the airplane is one of the few things that gives me existential fear about commercial air travel. And that is given my reasonable understanding about how the industry works. Sparks outside are absolute cause for pants-making GBS threads adjacent concern.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2023 19:57

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actionjackson posted:

someone made an interesting point in the flyertalk thread - someone who hits diamond in this new system is going to have to be buying a lot of first and business class tickets, which makes having diamond for upgrade priority moot

This is exactly their strategy: sell the premium seats instead of giving them away as upgrades. That's what Delta wants.

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# ¿ May 7, 2024 13:49

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Sapozhnik posted:

idk what sort of person pays seven grand out of pocket to fly business class on a long haul but it's somebody much richer than me

It's right there in the name.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2023 21:01

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