I know its an April Fools Joke, but if Dubai did get the DUB code, what would Dublin use?

A different combination of three letters that isn't already allocated to an airport :rolleyes:

EIDW, just like they do today :)

All airline reservation systems can handle the ICAO codes. Time to discontinue the silly IATA codes and end confusion and baggage misrouting.

Why, I much prefer IATA codes, they front have that silly E on front of them. For anyone that's not a pilot, chances are they are about 20 times more likely to know the IATA code for an airport. I know only EINN and EIDW, after that I haven't a clue about any others.

AA drop 763 plans for JFK, since beginning the route it hasn't performed at all. Guess EI's new morning departure hasn't helped them combined with DL and EI overall product, surprised they get any passengers at all. Bargain basement route of all operations to NY! Still really strange that CLT gets A332 from a 752 a year ago. Many expected it was only in schedules temperately.

If they are not careful UA may cause big damage to their ORD operation...

Then again AA will most likely exit JFK if EI become part of IAG.

AA were flip flopping between between B752 and B763 last week, couldn't figure out why initially. DL were also switching between B763 and B764, any ideas which of those is scheduled for the summer?

The only people who seem to use AA on JFK or ORD are people from the UK using their avios.

DL is 763 for most of the summer as aircraft route ATL-DUB-JFK and JFK-DUB-ATL. 764 scheduled for winter and was to increase capacity to JFK after they decided to close ATL in November/December. If I am correct it was a very short notice decision something about their B744's being withdrawn earlier than planned. 764 currently showing for this coming winter again.

AA 763 was for a brief period during peak season.

Thanks EI. I was suprised to see the AA 763 on JFK last weekend, and the DL 764 did run the same day as ATL once or twice. Obviously just an anomaly

DL used B764 to JFK today as well as the 763 to ATL. Wonder when that'll change.

DXB?


Because?

Had a look and they have scheduled a mix of 752, 763 and 764's over the next while before a 752 for around a week and then 763 again. ATL see's a mix of 763/4's also until late May when both 763 swap duties in DUB for a few months peak summer. DL normally use 752's for April, September and October and 767's at other times. Little odd 752s are required during the summer and not for winter.

Because they will have elsewhere to put the aircraft, they suspended last winter and can just about make 752 work in summer. Starting DUB was somewhere to replace the aircraft from BRU.

I guess the 752 is used in the quieter parts of the summer and larger aircraft in winter when they only have 3 NYC flights a day to compete with as opposed to 6 in the summer, plus larger aircraft on PHL.

The DL B764s are used on LHR etc so I'm guessing their cabins are amongst the nicer ones they have. The 763s they used on ATL in the winter tended to have older cabins, no ptvs etc.

Believe the only difference is capacity.

B764 - 40/206 - 246
B763 - 26/200 - 226 & 36/172 - 208 (Majority have capacity for 208)

Read on another forum that LX operated an A330 into DUB this morning, any ideas as to why? Would've loved to have seen it!

High demand which exceeded A321 which is normally scheduled.

The B763s to LHR are refurbished with lie flat beds the same as the B764s. They have the first three cabin windows blanked.
Easy to learn, that's what google's for, ICAO codes are also descriptive so OMDB is clearly not in the same country as EIDW.

Sort of. If you see enough of them then the pattern becomes self-evident, but I wouldn't say they are descriptive beyond telling you that two different airports are in different, regionally arbitrary jurisdictions. IATA codes are better in some ways but worse in others.

Frankly I think technology will eliminate the need to even have codes printed on bag tags to read before we come up with a way to get people to remember codes properly :}

Both are used for far more important things than baggage

*shrug*

ICAO codes perhaps. IATA codes are pretty much redundant. But this was never on-topic to start with.

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Why are IATA codes "pretty much redundant"? Doesn't appear to have made the news.....