LAS to open 10 gates in D

[lowecur]

Would you people please stop egging this fu.king moron on. This is ridiculous.

DougEDoug....cool your jets. It's really OK to educate a non pilot, analcyst, insurance agent. Now go kick your dog.

 

[lowecur]

There are no good alternates real close to LAS, so plan on lots of extra fuel during Thunderstorm season.

What about area 51?

 

[rightrudder]

Mr. Monkey dude, I'm counting the gates listed on the web site for C and it shows 19. Now maybe they made a mistake. Terminal D has 25 gates presently, and is adding 10 more. My thought was that SWA could take the current 25 gates, and let the rest take the 10 new gates and all of C. If the web site is all wet, then so is my arguement.

I'm sure that UAL, AA, NWA, Delta, Airtran, Frontier and USAir and the others using the D gates would not be real happy to up and move over to the C gates. The C terminal is older and in much worse shape than the D terminal. It would cost the airport a lot of money to move all those carriers and their offices from D to C. Southwest seems to do just fine with their ops in the C gates, if they wanted more, I'd be the Clark County Airport Authority would be more than happy to add on to C.

 

[lowecur]

There are no good alternates real close to LAS, so plan on lots of extra fuel during Thunderstorm season.

Looking at a map, Cedar City, Utah or Durango, CO would be perfect alternates if you needed fuel. I certainly would think you would know over SW Colorado if you weren't going to make it.

 

[737tanker]

lowecur
You just can't plan to land in CO or UT for gas. The FAA requires that when you takeoff you have enough fuel to get to your destination, got to your alternate, and have 45 minutes more of fuel. If due to thunderstorms forecasts at LAS you would need to carry fuel to get you to your alternate, which could be PHX, SLC, LAX, or wherever the weather is forecasted to be good. As for Area 51 it is in the middle of a restricted area & therefore off limits to all civilian aircraft.

 

[CatfishVT9]

"AirTran on the other hand doesn't have the range with the 717".....

He doesn't even know what type airplanes we fly into LAS (direct from ATL). Time to schedule a wakeup call at the Holiday Inn Express.......

Catfish

 

[lowecur]

"AirTran on the other hand doesn't have the range with the 717".....

He doesn't even know what type airplanes we fly into LAS (direct from ATL). Time to schedule a wakeup call at the Holiday Inn Express.......

Catfish

Yo, Catfish. I'm talking about from your "new" hub in DFW. I see Boeing is discontinuing production of the 717 next year. That's unfortunate, as it is a great little a/c.

 

[TWA Dude]

That's unfortunate, as it is a great little a/c.

There are no little aircraft, only little pilots.

 

[lowecur]

lowecur
You just can't plan to land in CO or UT for gas. The FAA requires that when you takeoff yoy have enough fuel to get to your destination, got to your alternate, and have 45 minutes more of fuel. If due to thunderstorms forcastes al LAS you would need to carry fuel to get you to your alternate, which could be PHX, SLC, or LAX. Wherever the weather is forcasted to be good. As for Area 51 it is in the middle of a restricted area & therefore off limits to all civilian aircraft.

Thanks, 737.

Well I guess headwind being subtracted from your air or ground speed would make it very difficult to reach LAS. Oh well, I hear EMB is working on a longer range version of the 190/195. I would like to see them use the RR BR715 if the engineering will allow it. It's a great engine.

 

[lowecur]

There are no little aircraft, only little pilots.

Pay no attention to what your wife says.

 

[freightdogfred]

Thanks, 737.

Well I guess headwind being subtracted from your air or ground speed would make it very difficult to reach LAS. Oh well, I hear EMB is working on a longer range version of the 190/195. I would like to see them use the RR BR715 if the engineering will allow it. It's a great engine.

Attaboy...stop talking about range calculations and MET conditions (of which you know very little) and start talking about engines (which you obviously know so much more.)

You should talk less and lurk more, and perhaps learn a little, before inserting foot-in-mouth. A little friendly advice, from one pilot to another.