True, Runway 1 is better for departures but the arrivals like those that kaplan dig took are more rare to see because of the distance. 🙂
Now I see it. I was trying to place an arrival that had the bridge in the distance as seen in your pictures. It’s rare that I see pictures taken with arrivals on Runway 1 as most folks wait for Runway 19 arrivals since they are more spectacular. Great pictures none the less. 🙂
I’m having trouble placing those last ones. Perhaps PHL?
No, it’s RDU, I thought the last ones would have been easy?
That was going to be my next guess. 🙂
Nice to see a picture of one of our planes on the forums. 😀
I’m pretty sure those first 6 are from Charlotte, NC but I dont know about the last 3 runway pictures.
CLT
I like it. 😀 Imagine the terror caused by the huge C172 or God Forbid the C182.
Wow, that’s an awesome collection classic airliners flying around. Great pictures!
Why would they do that?
Great pictures. Anything from inside the factory?
I have a question. Who would go in the logbook as Pilot in Command for the landing?
I would guess the pilot below. 🙂 Now would he log that as multi-engine time? 😀
I’m guessing this was filmed in Marina, California from the notes listed below the video.
Well, they are from the South.
Great picture.
What is/was their financial position, and their perceived position generally in the USA before the merger and post 9/11 ?
They were really struggling even before 9/11 and ended up shutting down one of their hubs. I don’t think they ever got their head back above water but post-9/11 has created an environment where they look good compared to the average airline. They are hurting but not as bad as US or UA.
After they shut down their CMH hub their exposure East of the Mississippi River just about vanished. Given the percentage of the US population that lives East of the Mighty Miss. that really hurts their image. They’ve made back some ground post-9/11 by moving towards being a LCC (but who hasn’t?).
I personally don’t see AWA gaining anything from merging with US other than a stronger brand name. US is desperate to find a liferaft that they’ll grab onto anything that floats by and that happened to be AWA. What success AWA has had by reinventing themselves as a LCC won’t transfer into the US system especially with Southwest already gunning for them on the East Coast.
It’ll be interesting to see what will remaining from the the AWA and US route structures when the dust settles from the merger. I have this feeling that it’ll be only a small portion of the originals but that’s my guess.