Originally Posted by ninerdriver

10/10 for originality.

Now you're taking that fully loaded CRJ-200 out of a 5600 foot runway. It's 95 degrees out. You're full thrust, standing, and bleeds closed on takeoff. You hit V1 a little less than halfway down the runway. Your wheels leave the pavement about 500 feet from the departure end. You feel like you're flying the vodka burner in that YouTube video.

Good luck with that Breeze interview, kid.

Originally Posted by JayRalstonSmith

Again, you’re presupposing that today’s rates are the new normal. Look at the “nearly a century” of flying and tell me how much predictability there is in it. There isn’t. It’s cyclical. Hub and spoke may be here to stay at the legacies but guess what, it’s only since the mid 80s that we’ve really seen fortress hubs. Look at the number of carriers that have disappeared, bankrupted, been merged or acquired. Careers in this industry are hardly “predictable.”

So yeah go ahead and sh#t on Avelo (I’m at a competitor by the way) and the ULCC P2P model, but at least recognize what you’re saying.

Originally Posted by chrisreedrules

Comparing today’s airline industry post-consolidation to that of pre-consolidation/pre-deregulation is like comparing a coconut and a banana. Tell yourself whatever you want, but the legacies aren’t going anywhere and their core business model isn’t changing. I’d argue consolidation is still yet to touch most of the ULCC market.

Originally Posted by AllYourBaseAreB

That marine fog south of the field is a pain and landing south usually impossible with mediocre weather

Originally Posted by ChopperHopper

In plain english…
This is an FAA Part 121 Carrier, same privileges as American, United or Delta. Unfortunately, HVN does not have the airport setup for lower than standard visibility approaches that airports such as JFK does. In turn, Avelo does not train procedures such as Autoland and little to no visibility landings. This limits the operation in and out of HVN, reason for the diversions. It boils down to, at certain minimum altitude you should see or not the runway. Full Stop. Weather changes constantly, and fog banks may move on and off the approach end of the runway, reason for that single aircraft being able to see the runway and safely land it. We have all the required training, months and months of continuous training and that continues throughout every pilots career. HVN and is perfectly safe. All Avelo pilots are very well trained. Avelo aircraft are well maintained. We certainly have our major differences as pilots with Management, but from a completely different perspective. Pay, work rules and such are our talking/negotiation points.

Originally Posted by Riverside

Do that all the time on the 74 out of HKG. Always fun rotating within the last 3k feet of runway.

Originally Posted by dera

What on earth are "lower than standard visibility approaches"?