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On An Airplane Next To A Fat Guy

https://www.thestreet.com/story/128...ors-psa-the-model-for-southwest-airlines.html
https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-a319-1275.htm

I mean it obviously isn't a plane that they just haven't bothered painting since 1987. Looks like it was delivered in 2000 and repainted in the PSA livery in 2015. That does make an older plane, but not outrageously so. In general, though, the AA Airbus fleet is pretty awful - the legacy AA ones are crammed to the rafters and the legacy US Airways ones are beat to hell / offer no lower back support. I will take a MD88 any day, as long as I'm not in one of the last ten rows anyhow. Not many of those left though, sadly.

The American fleet is quite a bit younger than those of both Delta and United.
https://www.airfleets.net/ageflotte/American Airlines.htm
https://www.airfleets.net/ageflotte/Delta Air Lines.htm
https://www.airfleets.net/ageflotte/United Airlines.htm

And, really it doesn't matter. I don't think anyone who's very knowledgeable about it, would contest the notion that Delta is the most operationally strong of the bunch yet have the oldest fleet of the lot and aren't really looking to change that (they buy a lot of old planes, including MD90s and 717s that haven't been in production for 15+ years).
 
If anyone has access to the Centurion clubs, I highly recommend them - great food, good setup. The only issue so far is that all the ones I have been in are outside security, but its well worth it. If you travel a lot the Amex Platinum gets free access to Priority Pass too, which gets you and a guest into clubs at most every decent sized airport - its not bad, I'm not sure I would pay $400 per year or whatever for it, but its a nice to have if you fly a lot and don't always use the same airline.
 
Delta flight to SLC literally went from 31,000 miles to 38,000 miles to book in ~12 hours overnight. That sucks. Once they go up, I assume they never really come back down in terms of required mileage to book?
 
tigerswood said:
Delta flight to SLC literally went from 31,000 miles to 38,000 miles to book in ~12 hours overnight. That sucks. Once they go up, I assume they never really come back down in terms of required mileage to book?
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Not necessarily. It depends on how far out the flight is. They fluctuate for months before the flight but get progressively more expensive once you get about a month from the flight. In my experience anyway.
 
GSOWakeFan said:
Not necessarily. It depends on how far out the flight is. They fluctuate for months before the flight but get progressively more expensive once you get about a month from the flight. In my experience anyway.
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It's MLK weekend, so I'm probably just going to bite the bullet and buy now. I know the prices will likely fluctuate, but I don't know how that applies to award travel. Seems less likely to come back down.
 
tigerswood said:
It's MLK weekend, so I'm probably just going to bite the bullet and buy now. I know the prices will likely fluctuate, but I don't know how that applies to award travel. Seems less likely to come back down.
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Could use better word choice there.
 
tigerswood said:
Delta flight to SLC literally went from 31,000 miles to 38,000 miles to book in ~12 hours overnight. That sucks. Once they go up, I assume they never really come back down in terms of required mileage to book?
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well, speaking of Delta in terms of cost in dollars, I booked a flight to Europe for my wife last night that was around $700 after having been about $1400 for a few days. She's coming along on a work trip with me in January, and the tickets were around $750 last week when we looked but once my trip was confirmed with work they had gone up. Same thing happened last year tickets had been like $1400 but one day they were magically like $450 then went right back up so we pounced on the good airfare.

So what I'm saying is they fluctuate heavily.
 
Yeah, it seems obvious that my flight went up due to friends booking the same flight yesterday evening before me. Perhaps I should wait a couple days - there are still 45+ open seats.
 
tigerswood said:
Yeah, it seems obvious that my flight went up due to friends booking the same flight yesterday evening before me. Perhaps I should wait a couple days - there are still 45+ open seats.
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and that's why you should never have friends
 
The Orlando airport is easily the worst designed airport I've ever been to. Not sure there is a close second.
 
DaDeacs said:
The Orlando airport is easily the worst designed airport I've ever been to. Not sure there is a close second.
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No worse place to fly out of on a Sunday after the cruise ships dump their passengers and parents are herding kids through security.
 
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