In Europe, I only know about AMS which is downtown.

In Asia, we are doing long/short layovers on the 757. Long are downtown, but yes short (under 16:15) are by the airport. Both (NGO & KIX) are very nice.

 

NWA is 1 to 3+45 (1:3.75). 1 hour for every 3 hours and 45 minutes

 

Thanks. Did you fly the F-4? Always wished I had gotten the chance.

 

In general, airport hotels at NWA destinations cost MORE than a non-airport hotel plus transportation. At KIX (Osaka) we have a 55 minute bus ride to Kobe for the layover, However this may be construed as an airport hotel since its about a 10 minute ride from the Kobe Airport.

At NRT its a company "owned" hotel that is about a 25-30 minute bus ride, almost a sure bet that DL crews will move to the NWA layover hotel in NRT. Not sure if that will be an upgrade or not since its further from downtown. If you haven't seen the NW operation at NRT before you will be amazed. The only carrier at NRT with more "slots" than NWA is JAL...

HKG, MNL, SIN, BKK, PEK, NGO are all non-airport hotels and long layovers.

ICN is always a short layover so its at an airport hotel, but its a very nice Hyatt.

FRA, CDG, AMS, LHR, BOM are all non-airport hotels.

Your friend must be doing shorter layovers on the 757.

P.S. During times of political unrest/terrorism threats, NW will sometimes put as at "more secure" hotel locations than the normal layover hotels.

 

How does the DAL international reserve work, especially what you guys know as "short call"?

 

24 hrs on short call.
No duty requirement for international so what they do is one day short call one day long call and so on.
First 12 hrs you can fly a domestic paring that is in the ER trip parings, after that it has to be an international parring due to rest requirements domestically.

Really kind of sucks.

 

wonder how they will work the -400 with no domestic flying on it's pairings.....

 

Not yet anyways..... just wait til the Delta scheduling folks get their hands in the mix.

 

Yep, you'll be flying the -400 from ATL to MCO. Plenty of short legs.

 

Not with Glen at the helm you won't. If the range of a -400 is 6500 miles than that's what you'll be flying. I think I've only flown a 767 to MCO about three times this year. The rest of it has been a 757.