Good to have you back Steve. The forum is seemingly under control once again.

… After he had told his employees, “Southwest is out to kill us, out to get your jobs,” or something of that nature. Southwest is already starting to advertise their upcoming LAX-PHL nonstop service on commercials here in the L.A. area. $99US each way is a pretty good fare for that type of route. I actually flew USAirways last week on 2 segments. Pretty decent service, actually. Their club in CLT was especially nice.

I thought SAS retired their DC-9’s a while ago?

In the U.S., I’d say Pan Am and to a slightly lesser extent, TWA 707’s and 747’s. Pan Am launched 747 service from JFK to LHR and they also launched 707 service from JFK to CDG.

Originally posted by Tim Green
The old Ansett code-share has long been rumored to have been taken up by Virgin Blue.

Yeah, so I heard about 2 years ago. United even lists them as a code-share partner in their in-flight magazine, ‘Hemispheres.’ If you try to make an online booking on UAL.com, however, no flight of VirginBlue ever comes up as an option. Furthermore, I flew VirginBlue a few years back and asked one of the employees about the code-share, and they knew nothing.

Originally posted by Tim Green
The MEL shuttle must be a real loss maker for them particularly since they stopped operating MEL AKL LAX.

Yeah, in fact I flew to MEL on that routing as well, and there seemed to be more people on the AKL-MEL leg. Do you know if they had International rights to carry pax originating in AKL to MEL for that flight? In theory, they would be competing with NZ, but they used to overlap on the LAX-AKL and LAX-SYD runs, as well. Once UA cancelled the LAX-MEL flight, they had no choice but to move the MEL continuation from MEL to SYD. Theoretically, they should just funnel all pax going to MEL on NZ via AKL.

Originally posted by Tim Green
(A sad part of this deal is the the Australian based UAL employees have been banned from using their buddy-passes between SYD & MEL unless part of an International leg as QANTAS complained that it was ‘stealing’ potential revenue from them! How petty is that? It does seem typical of QANTAS’ attitude from what I can see.)

That’s vintage QF/Oneworld type tactics. Is that NZ-QF deal ever going to happen? I hope not.

Fantastic photos MEA! I look forward to Beirut re-gaining their “Las Vegas of the Middle East” moniker that they held in the 1960’s.

My hometown airport, ONT, handles about 7 million pax annually. Southwest is the major player there. Take them away, and they handle about 1 million, probably. 😉

Re: Any info would be great!

Originally posted by bkonner
Thanks for your response. Living in Boston, there is not much to know about Logan Airport!

Welcome Bkonner. I live in the L.A. area, and you’re correct about spotting/commerical aviation not being a big hobby in the U.S. I have a single solitary cousin that I talk commercial aviation with, and that’s it. Mind you, I have a decent sized family. Every time I go up to Imperial Hill near LAX, everybody up there seemingly is British, either living in the U.S. or visiting. It’s too bad, but what can you do? I flew into/out of Logan once a few years back. I don’t remember too much of it. I do know that one of my favorite pics on A.net is of a BA 777 in the Landor livery taken at BOS. The backdrop of these old-school houses with snow on the rooftops is amazing.