Guess they didn't learn the first time.. Delta's new KSEA-PAJN run.
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Seggy
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A few things....
A) Hope the Alaska Flying Club sees that airlines based in the other 49 States can fly up there.
B) Alaska Airlines is livid.
C) Are Alaska and Delta still code sharing?
D) I know Delta has grand plans in Seattle, but I was up there last week and noticed that there seems to be no more room to expand the terminals there and the current terminals are already pretty close to capacity. How is Delta addressing this?
A) Hope the Alaska Flying Club sees that airlines based in the other 49 States can fly up there.
B) Alaska Airlines is livid.
C) Are Alaska and Delta still code sharing?
D) I know Delta has grand plans in Seattle, but I was up there last week and noticed that there seems to be no more room to expand the terminals there and the current terminals are already pretty close to capacity. How is Delta addressing this?
ShortField
No one of consequence
Well, in the picture above it looks as if they're going around so obviously they can't do it. I jokes. I have heard however that the only gate they have access to is the "first come, first served" gate, which could pose some issues, and apparently they're looking for contract ground handling from someone other than AS....Not too sure old Aero Services is up to the challenge.
Seggy
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Ha! I am sure they were just making sure the airplane did the same thing on the go around as it did in the sim.
SurferLucas
Southern Gentleman
Word out here is that the gate DL intends to use is "first come/first serve", so I imagine someone at Angle Lake has said "Put a 737 in there ahead of them".
SeaTac news has DL trying to talk the Port into moving UAL to the S-Gates, VX to the Concourse B, USAirways to D with AA, and DL taking over all of Concourse A (14 total gates, including WB gates). The Port is planning on adding FIS services to A, as the S Gates are jammed in the afternoon push and DL overflows into B.
SeaTac news has DL trying to talk the Port into moving UAL to the S-Gates, VX to the Concourse B, USAirways to D with AA, and DL taking over all of Concourse A (14 total gates, including WB gates). The Port is planning on adding FIS services to A, as the S Gates are jammed in the afternoon push and DL overflows into B.
PeanuckleCRJ
Poodle Wrangler
What's that white topped pointy thing in the background? That looks scary and dangerous. I can only assume that those don't exist outside of SE Alaska.
That 757 is obviously going around after seeing that scary thing and returning to ATL.
Your dead to me.
jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
dasleben
That's just, like, your opinion, man
It's okay, I like to point out that I've covered way more territory over Alaska than the JC Alaska Mafia.
z987k
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Anchorage AND Fairbanks?It's okay, I like to point out that I've covered way more territory over Alaska than the JC Alaska Mafia.
Roger Roger
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Word on the street (from the FSDO) is that they will only be doing the special LDA. Which is 600' or so higher mins than the AS RNP. Which is exactly what @Capt. Chaos said at the start of this thread.
ppragman
FLIPY FLAPS!
Could it be? Local knowledge?!
Roger Roger
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Don't worry, I'm sure the holier than thou post about how we are uneducated heathens and flying air taxi here is exactly the same as flying for Colgan will soon be handed down from on high (ie from the cockpit of a 737).
ppragman
FLIPY FLAPS!
Meh, I've come to expect it. It is vastly different, but those who have done it know that. I'm not going to try to argue with a guy about who's the bigger billy badass, having flown over most of the country this is still the hardest flying I've experienced and that's good enough for me.
SpiraMirabilis
Possible Subversive
Alaska also has a much higher rate of pilots per capita than the lower 48. Has anyone done the math to get a per capita accident rate corrected for that type of factor? Or perhaps one per hours flown.
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Capt. Chaos
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Trust the ATIS, the weather at CGL is never different than reported. NEVER.
PeanuckleCRJ
Poodle Wrangler
Like I said, lot's of scary pointy things that don't exist ANYWHERE else in the world.
jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
Like I said, lot's of scary pointy things that don't exist ANYWHERE else in the world.
This leads me to believe that you understand the fundamental tenant that no matter what your background is, you don't have any idea of what you're doing once you reach an airline because jets.
ppragman
FLIPY FLAPS!
Like I said, lot's of scary pointy things that don't exist ANYWHERE else in the world.
There are pointy rocks elsewhere in the world - you're not really exposed to them like you are up north in my experience. Mountain flying is challenging wherever you are - but there's something about flying 206s, Cherokees, and 207s around down low, through the mountains and passes that makes it a bit different from flying down south. OK, so you fly around in Eastern Oregon lets say, you fight with the weather, but the runway you get to is paved, has an FBO, or at least a gas pump, unless it's really far off the beaten path. You don't see scheduled airlines operating into gravel runways really anywhere else in the country. You don't see small aircraft flown on a schedule in MVFR conditions every day elsewhere.
There are challenges elsewhere - some of them are even (EGADS!) more challenging than the stuff we face up here, but in my limited experience, this is the toughest flying in the country that I've done.
But what does that have to do with a 757 flying up there.
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