No more flight caps at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport

In 2004, due to pressure from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) airlines at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, nation’s second busiest airport, had to limit the number of landings from 100 to 88 per hour. FAA on Monday June 16th 2008 announced that it s going to remove the cap saying that “new runways will reduce congestion at [...]

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Pay to Check Bags: American Airlines, US Airways and Not United Airlines

Couple of weeks back American Airlines announced that it will start charging $15 for first check bag. In the last couple of two weeks, two other airlines – US Airways and United Airlines have announced their adoption of the checked bags.
So, now the policy stands like this -

1 Bag – $15 each way
2 Bags – [...]

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American Airlines: Preparing for the gas price hikes!!!

American Airlines, the world’s largest airline has announced measures to offset the gas hikes -

Slash Us capacity as much as 12% and retire 85 planes: This means, you will have lesser flights from one city to another and since there are lesser number of seats, the air fare would be much higher.
Cut jobs: This is [...]

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American Airlines Flys to Paris without a Panel

On April 20th 2008, an American Airline’s airplane (Boeing 767) took off from Dallas Fort Worth Airport for Paris. While climbing up to the cruising altitude a 3-foot by 6-foot panel made of composite material feel of the plane’s belly. Though it wasn’t till the plane reached Paris that the loss was identified.
From here
“[It] sounded [...]

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American Airlines: The On-Time Machine

For March 2008, American Airlines finished last among 19 US Carriers in on-time arrivals. Though a lot can be attributed to the ripple effects of MD80 cancellations.
This American Airlines commercial above is from 1988. The punch line was “American Airlines, The On-Time Machine“, funny how it has changed. Maybe [...]

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AA stops flying to Oakland

American Airlines announced that in the next 4 months it will stop its service to Oakland Airport, California. American had been flying out of Oakland since 1947 and had three flights a day.
Though if you want to fly on American Airlines from/to the Bay Area – there are 6 flights out of San Francisco [...]

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American Airlines MD80 Cancellation: What happened?

As pointed earlier FAA could have let the Airlines perform the MD80 wiring inspections without grounding any planes. But seems there was a discord between FAA’s regional and Washington DC office, where the former would have allowed AA to fly the schedule, while the DC office said “No”. So, let me understand this, there was [...]

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Dream Merger: American Airlines and British Airways

When KLM-Air France can merge, then why not American Airlines and British Airways? They already have a great alliance and together can make the biggest airline in world in every respect. Though I think it is nothing more than wishful thinking, since neither a foreign carrier can have 20% or more stake in a US [...]

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Partnership: American Airlines, British Airways and Continental Airlines

There are talks between American Airlines, British Airways and Continental Airlines for a partnership (not to be confused with a merger). If the partnership talks go through, they will all retain their names, headquarters, etc. but will end up with possible ties on – frequent flier program and code sharing. American Airlines and British Airways [...]

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Funny Video: 405 the Movie

Movie description – “The story of the wrong guy – in the wrong place – at the wrong time.” More – An American Airlines’ DC10 is shown to land on highway 405 with a lonely Jeep SUV.By – Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt From the website – “Computer generated 3 minute film [...]

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