Northwest Airlines Announces New Nonstop Service between Seattle and Beijing
May 9, 2008, 12:15 am
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Absolutely not. its not gonna happens from AS. They are not able buyout from AS. Because AS will should to kept it the name for a long time. I don't think will not able change it for a long time. I don't see any more sound the logical choice from AS.
May 9, 2008, 2:25 am
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I would think that, as long as AS continues to play nice with everybody, that there is a good chance they can remain independent. They don't bring any long-haul capacity, which is what I see these mergers being about. I mean, why buy the cow (AS), when you can get the milk (feed for international flights) for 'free'?
May 9, 2008, 4:55 am
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I would think that, as long as AS continues to play nice with everybody, that there is a good chance they can remain independent. They don't bring any long-haul capacity, which is what I see these mergers being about. I mean, why buy the cow (AS), when you can get the milk (feed for international flights) for 'free'?
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May 9, 2008, 5:36 am
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A friend of mine got to check out one of HU's new planes last week and said that the business class was lie flat and the coach pitch was generous; also AVOD throughout (just like NW, though maybe with inferior content).
May 9, 2008, 5:47 am
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There is obviously an error on the PEK-SEA schedule. Assuming PEK-SEA is blocked for 11 hours, a 5p departure would arrive at 1p during the summer or noon during the winter.
May 9, 2008, 6:47 am
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May 9, 2008, 7:09 am
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Chinese flag carriers are supposed to get their IFE content approved by the Ministry of Culture (which only approves ~20 foreign films per year).
May 9, 2008, 8:14 am
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In general, NW has one of the best English language IFE offerings across the Pacific.
May 9, 2008, 9:40 am
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AA has stated that they dont plan on letting the whole industry consolidate while sitting idlely by. A combined NW/DL is certainly going to be a force to be reckoned with. Maybe the milk is free right now, but its free for NW too. Im sure AA would like to own the cow and totally squeeze all NWs feeder routes on the west coast. You might even see a mini hub for AA in seattle.
May 9, 2008, 9:42 am
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May 9, 2008, 10:04 am
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A sweet deal from Port Seattle
Please see - http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/busine...57_port09.html
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Didn't PDX offer something similar to entice NW to start PDX-NRT?
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With the unanimous approval of its five-member board of elected overseers, the port in February of last year steepened the discount it began offering in December 2005. Under the program to attract new direct European and Asian flights, carriers pay 25 percent of the new service's annual fee for use of the international arrival facilities for the first two years. Airport spokesman Perry Cooper said Northwest's international arrival facility fees would total $323,000 per year, meaning that for the first two years it will pay $80,750.
The landing fees, which Cooper said for Northwest's new flights would add up to $394,000 per year, are waived entirely during the first year and then cut by 75 percent the second year. The port also spends $455,000 to market a new flight during its first three years to "help it get a foothold in this market," Cooper said.
The landing fees, which Cooper said for Northwest's new flights would add up to $394,000 per year, are waived entirely during the first year and then cut by 75 percent the second year. The port also spends $455,000 to market a new flight during its first three years to "help it get a foothold in this market," Cooper said.
May 15, 2008, 9:35 am
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I would guess that the schedule is set up as such partly for aircraft utilization/rotation purposes. The SEA-PEK flight will utilize the A332 coming in from AMS (arrives SEA around 2:30pm). The PEK-SEA A332 could be used for SEA-LHR that night (leaves at around 10:30pm). This east-west utilization of aircraft is far more efficient than having the plane sit overnight for the traditional daytime departure across the Pacific, for example.
This makes sense. The flight times aren't ideal but landing at PEK at 6pm isn't the end of the world, there's 50 flights a day to SHA/PVG and they run as late as 9pm.
Interesting timing but I guess CAN isn't cutting it. I haven't been to the new CAN airport but connections out of HKG aren't the end of the world, either.
May 15, 2008, 12:08 pm
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I just hope we still get frequent 332 subs on the SEA-MSP-SEA route as these birds are rotated around. I love it when that happens. Last summer was pretty fantastic when they were on the schedule for a whole month and half. But when the A330 shows up randomly on the SEA-MSP flights it makes so many who are used to the 752/753 so happy.