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The most premium falling debris! Had it struck someone, they'd have had the most premium funeral. Buried in a retired Delta One pod, maybe?
Luckiest Diamond Medallion member ever!!!! Usually only Delta 360 members get aircraft parts as requal gifts!!! PREMIUM™
I know this is not a Boeing issue (hopefully), and rather a maintenance issue, but I find it interesting that it seems Boeing jets suffer from maintenance problems more often than airbus
Now, United had a wheel falling off, Alaska had its door blowing out, Delta had its flaps. How about AA? Does AA want to participate this?
Now that lucky home owner can say he has the most PREMIUM driveway in the neighbourhood after being 'touched' by the most premium-est airline ever. And if he personally removes it, he will in turn become premium himself.
you clearly have not seen the latest data from the Port Authority of NY NJ.
For May, EWR traffic was down 20% on a year over year basis and DL had a 25.9% share of passengers at the 3 NYC airports while UA was only at 21.1% Delta boarded a half million more passengers than United.
and this isn't just a one time fluke.
On a YTD basis and for the past 12 months, DL was the largest airline at NYC.
no. UA is not #1 in NYC and UA's position in NYC is shrinking by the month.
Why is Delta using old Lion Air planes??? I'd this common?. If so Im getting worried...
Without having looked at any statistics, if you're in the US this could be a matter of self selection. I believe there are a lot more Boeings flying around North America than Airbuses, so if they have the same accident rate you'll hear about a lot more Boeings. Additionally, and again if you're in the US, I'm not sure how much we might hear on the news here about minor incidents that occur elsewhere in the world.
I find it interesting the part wasn't noticed as missing until it was reported and FAA figured out what it was - rather than by walk-around inspection of the aircraft and the folks who see that airframe every day being like "weird, why isn't this side symmetrical today?"
The most important contribution you have made to this aviation blog for ages bro, congratulations.
Who would have thunked it, that name Boeing and those numbers 737 …. again!
I’ll take the opposite viewpoint on Boeing from everyone else: the 737-900 is such a strong and well made aircraft that it can lose a part of the wing and land safely without even the pilots noticing 🙂
first, this article had nothing about NYC but you had to throw in a dig.
and it backfired spectacularly.
PANYNJ data shows that DL has a 5 percentage share advantage over UA - the biggest POSITIVE GAP that DL has ever had relative to UA or CO.
It is only in your fantasies that you can come to any conclusion other than that UA is getting its backside handed to it as a result of its poorly managed and even worse executed routine runway closure and rebuilding that is leading to less capacity at EWR for the long term.
When a carrier falls out of first place as badly as UA has at NYC, it is big news.
no. you stuck your neck out and got it chopped off.
You foolishly posted about UA in NYC on the day that the Port Authority noted that UA's traffic at EWR dropped by more than 20%, DL operated 50% more flights than UA In May and DL's share grew more than 5% better than UA's.
Nobody took any bait except you thinking you were going to get smart and instead got slapped up the side of the head.
UA is quite a bit smaller than DL in NYC now.
No. The driveway stays premium. Everything Delta touches remains premium forever and ever. This is fact. Because TD says so.
Perhaps it is about reporting. Perhaps Airbus and other aircraft manufacturers are less reported.