The terminal that BA departs from in JFK (T6 I believe) is actually pretty nice. You didn’t get to see it, I would assume, as you only arrived there and had to go through customs and then go on to AA’s terminal.

thats good… they had to do this to reach there targets. But the black just looks wrong though.

The black looks outstanding! It’s not like the whole fleet is painted in it. Only then, would I worry.

I noticed on the initial designs and models, they had 4 doors on the upper deck, and now they only have 3.

There was some talk of using them on a Toronto or Vancouver-Sydney non-stop, but i don’t think it’s come to fruition as yet

Surely a YVR-SYD non-stop flight would simply augment their 2 existing YVR-HNL-SYD flights, which should be money makers for them. I flew this segment back in December, and they picked up a number of UA pax (not to mention their own originating in YVR) from both LAX (the wife and I being 2 of them) and SFO in HNL and continued on to SYD. I don’t see them canceling these either way. Weren’t they supposed to begin non-stop YYZ-HKG service with the A345?

That LH A300 looks very cool!

I concur. I love the LH A300’s!

Most Indians i know heading towards US use LH or BA. Maybe its the other way around from US.

That’s fair enough. Can’t blame the ones out here that fly SQ, granted at the time they had to stop twice, whereas now with the LAX-SIN non-stop, they only have to stop once. Plus, Air India flies to LAX via FRA now.

and yes AC operates a direct service to Delhi using A343…. a 14 hr flight.

What does AC use their A345’s for? Do they even take full advantage of its range?

Why would AI want to go direct when they currently have an almost unique (apart from Cathay and Kuwait) position in that they have 5th freedom rights to pick and carry passengers on the worlds number one route, and to carry transatlantic passengers from LHR full stop.

Indeed. They get to fly between JFK and Heathrow and sell seats just for that segment, where only 4 other airlines are allowed to do so. They would be foolish to not operate this route. Adding a non-stop to augment the one-stop wouldn’t be a bad idea, in my opinion. Also, what 5th freedom rights do Cathay and Kuwait have similar to this?

You know what? Even if I still prefer UA’s old livery , I kinda like the new one better and better.

Cheers for that Sandy.

The new one is beautiful, and I was a big fan of the old one.

That’s stunning Sandy!

The -SPs fuselage is about 45 feet shorter than the -100 but the tail is actually slightly taller (I think) too assist with fuel efficiency and extra range(hence Special Performance), so it appears to look even strager.

The tail is taller, the reason being to assist in stability given the shorter fuselage, and not necessarily to assist in fuel efficiency/range.