Their A330’s have proved disapointing on the domestic schedules, so they’re switching them to the international schedule.

I’m just curious as to which categorie they have been disappointing?

Codeshares aren’t always at the same prices. The carrier that operates the flight, is usually the cheapest.

Not necessarily. Just today I booked my flight for Vegas later on in May. I had been checking for months on both Orbitz and UAL.com. My flights have USAirways flight numbers, operated by United, booked on UAL.com. The same exact itinerary, booked as regular United flights (not the US codeshare) also on UAL.com, was double the price. I paid $177US.

you call EasyJet and Southwest viabrent???

Easyjet, no. Old brown Southwest, no. New blue Southwest, YES.

“This is a routine air sovereignty operation,” said Capt. Dave Muralt of Norad.

Oh yeah. If I was on this flight and I looked outside the window and saw an F-18, this exact quote would have come to my mind! 😮

No doubt, photo of the month! Very close formation for those big boys. I wonder at what altitude they’re at?

BigRedMD-11 makes mention of the mechanics at LAX always complaining about the “Scare-busses.” I’ll get him in here to make comment on it as I don’t want to give any false details.

Southwests’ Canyon Blue livery is very vibrant. Their brown one was attrocious. Jetblue also has very above-average tail designs that I would classify as vibrant, to go along with their royal-blue bellies and cowlings.

I couldn’t tell you, to be honest. Even from a diplomatic standpoint, it’s a pretty good idea I suppose. If the load-factors turn out to be bad, then maybe your question will have been answered. If they have had sufficient pax connecting in NRT or HKG onto other airlines into Vietnam, then perhaps they thought it was time to do service of their own.

By the way, where do you get the wavy flag avatars?