Summer 2019 Schedule and Equipment Changes
Mar 11, 2019, 12:25 pm
#31
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There have now been two 100% fatal hull losses of the MAX with only ~350 delivered to date. That’s a terrible safety record in modern aviation. In comparison, there have been zero equivalent accidents since 2017 (the MAX entry date) among the 6,000+ 737NGs or 8,000 A320neo/ceos in service. Yes, that difference is statistically significant.
Mar 18, 2019, 2:48 pm
#32
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It looks like SAN-STL switches from a Horizon operated E175 to a mainline 737-900 August 27th - November 4th before going back to Horizon. I believe this is the first time a 737 has been on that route since its inception. The same appears true for SAN-MCI (Skywest). It seems a little late in the summer if it is to account for increased summer vacation travel and neither STL or MCO ever had VX service to SAN so it's not making up for that...
Anyway, it provides a small flicker of hope for the relaunch of the PDX-STL service.
Anyway, it provides a small flicker of hope for the relaunch of the PDX-STL service.
Mar 21, 2019, 8:06 am
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Barring the discovery of a true "smoking gun", don't expect any real, from the investigation information for at lease 6-9 months. I'm not convinced these two accidents were caused by a single point of failure, but that's an OMNI discussion. The final report probably won't come out for at least one year. If that's what you want, your timeline to decide won't align with their schedule. Anybody booking these flights should decide to do so based on their confidence Boeing and the FAA will produce a near-term response that gives you satisfaction.
May 13, 2019, 2:40 pm
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Looks like there were more schedule changes for the Summer. A few of my flights in Aug/Sep have schedule changes that showed today. They are about 15-20 mins from the original, flight number stayed the same in my case. AS sent me emails about the changes, and in each case I had to confirm them when reviewing the flights on the AS website.
May 13, 2019, 11:08 pm
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Not saying you're wrong but I was not aware that SAN-STL was ever on a -900. It's been on an E175 for as long as I could remember. I knew they upgraded SAN-MSP/AUS/SMF/SJC to mainline, but I never heard that SAN-STL had been upgraded from a regional jet.
May 13, 2019, 11:27 pm
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May 14, 2019, 4:42 pm
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You are correct, it has never been operated by a -900. I was excited when I saw that earlier this year when I made the reservation. Alas, it was too good to be true - the aircraft and fare class both changed. The price has also come down though, so I was happy I could cancel and re-book.
May 14, 2019, 4:54 pm
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I think the Max issue could be a possibility, as I would image this would be one of the harder routes to fill a -900 and would be quickly scrapped to move that plane elsewhere. Another interesting note is that the seat map only showed three rows, so something was going to change at some point.
May 14, 2019, 11:37 pm
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I think the Max issue could be a possibility, as I would image this would be one of the harder routes to fill a -900 and would be quickly scrapped to move that plane elsewhere. Another interesting note is that the seat map only showed three rows, so something was going to change at some point.
Just took advantage of these changes- applied some GGUC's for ANC-PDX-SEA-MSY and return. Unfortunately there was no flight around 2:30 PM so I had to burn two GGUC's on MSY-SEA-PDX-ANC flights
May 15, 2019, 9:49 am
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Got hit with a handful of these, mostly minor. I did have an OAK-HNL go from afternoon to morning. Normally that would be a good thing, but it didn't work for us this time. I had them rebook us on SFO-HNL to retain a similar timing to the original booking.
Jul 7, 2019, 9:08 pm
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Just a heads up, it looks like QX has been doing some tweaking to their schedules this weekend. I received 4 mid-August changes going through SEA, resulting in mainline changes to maintain MCT.
Jul 8, 2019, 9:53 am
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It looks like PDX-EWR has switched to a 738 with a loss of four F seats from the previous 739.
If you book tickets only ~2 weeks out, good luck finding an F seat on the route. Especially on a Monday.
If you book tickets only ~2 weeks out, good luck finding an F seat on the route. Especially on a Monday.