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There isn’t a ramp tower there either is there? I did a couple trips in and out a couple months ago but I think we were timed for slow times of day.
I wish that was true.
The current Frontier first started flying with the very limited space left at Denver Stapleton flying all around Montana with 737s for a few months. Once DIA opened and Continental's hub closed overnight leaving Concourse A (planned as the CO terminal) empty, Frontier dropped almost every original route and started MDW/PHX/LAX/SFO ect. Montana was simply a way to keep the planes and employees going.Austin is lacking a lot of gate space, hopefully the new terminal will resolve that issue when it's completed.
In my opinion (I am not qualified at all) DL is launching this and a few other flights out of Austin to retain gate space and keep some compition from encroaching on the gates they currently posses. If it all goes to plan for Delta, the point to point within Texas flights will probably stop and be replaced with other routes. AUS-ICN
Lol flashbacks to having to call SFO Airport Ops trucks out because A380s were fairly often scared to pass 747s and 777-300ERs. It's funny how the math can be there but from the cockpit it looks terrifying.
It sure does. I used to be one of the people doing those analyses for the manufacturer and I still can't get over it. It doesn't help that I got to see how many airports in the US operate with waivers to go below minimum separations. Having done the safety studies to request those waivers, I understand the margins are still good, but it doesn't make it any less nerve wracking. Especially in the 757 where we often park with the other narrowbodies but are restricted to just some of the gates or taxilanes since most narrowbody only areas are designed with a max wingspan of 118' and we're 135'. In those cases I just need to talk to myself "ok, everything is behind their respective limit lines, there's no wingspan restrictions on the taxi chart or by NOTAM, just take it slow and keep the centerline nailed". It's also the first aircraft I've taxied where you can't see the wingtips from the cockpit, and having to use vanishing points on the windows to gauge clearance instead of just turning around and looking out takes a lot of trust.
I dunno if they’re still doing the whole thing where late at night approach works approach, tower, and ground, but my thought even a few years ago was “this place is way too busy for that”
Interesting that the Virgin is using its registration number, and not a flight number?
I didn't listen to it. But are you sure it's a registration and not a flight number?
Virgin 232G
That's their flight number. Most other countries have no numbers in their registration. They add numbers in their flight numbers when they have two flights with the same number airborne at the same time.
That wouldn't be a UK registration as they are all letters starting with G-, they just do goofy things with their flight numbers.
