I'm not sure why you got down voted, but you're spot on. Southwest flies all 737's and it is a lot easier to maintain than having three or four different types of aircraft. While I still flew we had EMB145'S and J41's and two. ATR's left. By the time I resigned we only flew EMB145'S. MX guys were happy because there was just one type they had to work on. I do have to say after we got rid of the turboprops they were replaced by semi new jets. The workload didn't go down but at least everyone was on the same sheet of music in a type rated way.

(Written on 05/07/2020)(Permalink)

That's a heck of an idea. It would be awesome if they showed the movie Airplane!.

(Written on 05/05/2020)(Permalink)

That's when I was at Mildenhall. I volunteered to go down range, but our 5th Mobile Aerial Port got it and we already had enough out of my squadron, 313th Aerial Port. I did deploy to RAF Brize-Norton to airlift RAF troops and equipment using a few of our C5's for their version of Desert Shield.

(Written on 04/26/2020)(Permalink)

Northwest as a military charter, that's back in the day. While I was stationed at RAF Mildenhall our Freedom Bird was a Northwest 747-200 from Frankfurt on Saturdays and then continue on to Philadelphia.

(Written on 04/24/2020)(Permalink)

I agree with you. I didn't vote for Trump, but at least as an American citizen I did vote. The media does stretch things a bit. I'll fly on a MAX. I don't care if it's got wings and it gets me there. I'm cool. As a flight attendant I didn't care what I had a pairing on. I'm type rated, it all pays the same to me.

(Written on 04/18/2020)(Permalink)

Call it the Corona MAX 19. Perhaps adding 6 foot seat pitch would be proper.

(Written on 04/18/2020)(Permalink)

Absolutely agree with you. I see the the analogy between MAX and this. Our president is a corporate thug and he got others' vote. To keep on track with Boeing and the MAX, Boeing is not the only one's to blame. Part of the blame goes to some of these corporate big dog number crunchers who work for airlines whose safety is out the window, but numbers are more important.

(Written on 04/18/2020)(Permalink)

As a former flight attendant, I still remember in my drills in training BRACE BRACE BRACE BEND OVER STAY DOWN OVER STAY DOWN! That was about as fun going through MOPP levels during NBC training while in the USAF.

(Written on 04/17/2020)(Permalink)

Delta parked quite a few in Birmingham, AL.

(Written on 03/29/2020)(Permalink)

Actually I think it was 200 total DL aircraft grpunded, not 200 at KBHM. That would be a bit much.

(Written on 03/19/2020)(Permalink)