This closer scrutiny of KLM history is a little short on details, let me present some facts. Yes, KLM flight operations in the Netherlands were shut down due to the Nazi occupation, but on closer scrutiny: 1. KLM flight operations continued uninterrupted in the Netherlands West Indies during 1940-1...
Jump to postThere are no plans to connect B and C at LGA…to do so would require another huge load of construction over a very busy section of roadways… I have only used LGA for O&D. There are cheaper airports that are better for connections. Without connecting flights, there's no reason to need to switch t...
Jump to postThe difficulty of connecting airside between terminals at JFK is a big reason why AA prefers to use PHL as its east coast connecting hub to connect domestic flights international flights. Most international flying at JFK is O&D. I personally would only consider flying internationally from JFK if...
Jump to postApparently the entire Condor fleet of 11 757-300's has been bought by a leasing company. I wouldn't be surprised to see some or all of them flying for United. United already has a substantial fleet of 757-300's. Considering they will be converting 737-10 slots to 737-9, UA could make up capacity wit...
Jump to postBoeing made a deal with Ryan Air for them to buy any 737-10's that might be cancelled. https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/rryanair-boeing-737-max-10-dropped-orders I saw a TV news article where Boeing people were talking about flight planning. They seemed to be trying to figure out alternatives like...
Jump to postWell BA was planning on keeping its best 747-400 aircraft til 2024 I think. As they came up for heavy checks the J seats from retiring 747's were salvaged and refurbished to go into the High J configuration of 747-400's they were keeping. This way they would be available for once per day routes with...
Jump to postIt's got to be expensive to fly a 727 now. It has 3 engines and 3 cockpit crew. The maintenance is probably getting more expensive. Why would anyone want to fly a 727 50 years after the line closed. There will be thousands of 737NG available for missions requiring low cost of ownership. Well certai...
Jump to postSorry to go slightly off topic, but I note that it's 40 years since the 727 went out of production. It's testament to the build quality and maintenance that the remaining 727s are still flying in the skies. I guess many of the remaining ones will retire by the end of this decade and perhaps even fl...
Jump to postDoing the Max rather than a clean sheet allowed Boeing to kick the NSA can further down the road. There now probably won't be a clean sheet Boeing narrow body til the 2040's. I wonder if it will be the same dilemma at that point though? Will the accountants ever allow a clean sheet if the 737 is ju...
Jump to postDoes Spirit manufacture the frame to the airline specification? Or do they bulk manufacture the frame and the layout is added after? All 737MAX fuselage structures are identical by model, regardless of airline customer. In the case of the MAX7, MAX8, MAX200 and MAX10, there is only one fuselage con...
Jump to postThey didn't go ahead with a new clean sheet narrow body, because Airbus had already announced the A320 NEO series. Boeing didn't have the time go get a competitive clean sheet product out the door in time to compete against it. AA had already committed to buying the A321 NEO. Boeing was able to get...
Jump to postWhat i still don.t understand is why Boeing didn.t went ahead with NSA back in 2014..The NG sold well at that time so plenty of time to go for a brandnew design.. Sure Airbus re engined the A320 but i guess the NSA would outsell it after a while.. There were a lot of customers wanting it back then....
Jump to post737’s flew for decades before the rudder defect was known, the 777 for a over a decade before the RR ice accident, the 767/757 for a decade before the thrust reverser defect. Lack of a prior accident doesn’t mean there’s nothing wrong, if they’re finding loose bolts in the in service fleet between ...
Jump to postWild guess: The door plug seems to be safe on the 900ER: ~380 planes for more than a decade. But if 900ERs have been flying for more than a decade with loose bolts, why haven't those doors fallen off? It could be just random chance. That seems unlikely. 737’s flew for decades before the rudder defe...
Jump to postIt is now in the public domain that Max aircraft both on the assembly line in Renton and in service have bolt/fastener issues that absolutely should not exist under any understanding of the certification... The correct statement is: "That it is now known that some bolting issues have been disc...
Jump to postEverything I read about this incident is about the Max 9. The same door can be installed in 737-900-ER. Why aren't they being inspected too? Both United and Alaska fly the 900ER with these plugs installed.
Jump to postIs a 763 capable of flying Denver to Western Europe? Or is that to far beyond her range? I understand how old the 767s are and that they are due for retirement in the coming years, but by reading these posts it seems that UA would have had good use for some more 767s. She is such a perfect size for...
Jump to postIts interesting that southwest seems to see potential in the max 7 where most other airlines don't. What makes their network unique to support this type. Similarity to the existing -700 fleet in terms of capacity probably helps. Another salient factor is the -7's range- being a simple shrink of the...
Jump to postIt still blows my mind that they didn’t put any MAX 9’s or 10’s on this order. Perhaps there’s language in the agreement that allows for possible type conversions. Indeed! With the MAX-10 and the A321NEO seeing a huge bulk of new orders in the US, it seems WN really doesn't see the hype? Historical...
Jump to postAlso, the landing gear wasn't long enough for a 737 longer than the 737-900. The levered landing gear of the 737-10 is what made Boeing's stretch of the 737-9 possible.
Jump to postThe argument wasn't about travel times from the Alamo. It was that AUS is in a geographical position to take traffic from San Antonio's northern suburbs. It is even more clear along the I-35 corridor with the travel time difference being a matter of 10-20 minutes between the two airports. Drawing a...
Jump to posttimedoko wrote:One solution could be for BA to hand over AUS-LHR to American. That'd make sense - the BA Austin flights depart from Terminal 3 anyway
The good people of New Braunfels and Fredericksburg would be tickled if Lufthansa came to town. It's just about 10 miles close to SAT than AUS from Fredericksburg. If I lived in New Braunfels, it's a trip on I-35 to either airport. From San Marcos it's about 10 miles closer to AUS than SAT. Conside...
Jump to postThe good people of New Braunfels and Fredericksburg would be tickled if Lufthansa came to town. It's just about 10 miles close to SAT than AUS from Fredericksburg. If I lived in New Braunfels, it's a trip on I-35 to either airport. From San Marcos it's about 10 miles closer to AUS than SAT. Conside...
Jump to postInteresting this one, it could probably go either way. Given CI seat 40J, 62W, 256Y on the 77W for 358 seats I probably tend to lean towards the A35K being about the same size as the 77W rather than the slightly larger 779 . Do CI and CI cargo have a seperate pilot pool or mixed pax and freight? A3...
Jump to postAA737-823 wrote:Wildcard idea:
They keep the 77W, but convert them to freighters to replace the 74F's.
Then backfill with A35K's.
Yeah? Nah?
WN is a good case where doing the negotiations for a larger plane of 200 pax makes sense. Same size cabin crew as at 175 so not much operational difference. Yes as noted above there are a half dozen cities it doesn't fit, but a lot where a 14% bump in seats would provide some added route flexibilit...
Jump to postTravel review website Live and Let’s Fly reported that business class passengers flying from Newark to Amsterdam had a choice between seared beef short rib, seared lemon grass salmon, or ricotta salata and wild honey manicotti as their main meal. A one-way business class seat on the Houston to Amst...
Jump to postIf his meal choice was really so important to him, he could have gone online a day or two before his flight and selected the meal he wanted.
Jump to postThanks great article- why did they convert the freighter version? Perhaps the extra upper deck passenger capacity was needed on some specialty freight operations like transporting horses. Yes, that's exactly what it was for. The trickiest part was getting horses to climb the stairs. However, you co...
Jump to postI am wondering why other airline ( TWA , Pan Am , Lufthansa , Northwest etc ) who had big 747 fleets never converted them to a -SUD ? More passengers , better aerodynamics and more speed ? What’s the negative aspect of a -SUD ? I think Boeing stopped offering the upgrade. One of the reasons for off...
Jump to postWhen did KLM carry out the SUD conversion on their 747s - was it a Boeing concept- was it offered to any other airline s? Why did KLM opt for it - capacity does not appear an issue at KLM? Google is a great help. This is a great article about it, and this article shows photos of the process carried...
Jump to postIt was something offered by Boeing. Aside from KLM (10 frames) UTA got it on a pair of 742s and JL on a pair of -100SRs. As to why, that’s easy: provide more passenger capacity. FYI the JL birds were built as such, not sure on the UT ones. Only 2 JL -100SRs were built as SUDs (MSN 23390 & 23637...
Jump to postVicenza wrote:flyingclrs727 wrote:I rather doubt NATO countries will allow war criminal pilots to operate commercial flights over their airspace.
A pilot flying for the Russian airforce would not, by itself, make him a war criminal.
Reintegration? That won't happen til there is a peace treaty with Ukraine making Russia pay huge reparations to rebuild Ukraine. Furthermore where are Russian airlines going to get pilots? Former airforce pilots? How many of them will be considered war criminals? I rather doubt NATO countries will a...
Jump to postI know TK doesn't depend on the Turkish market only or even mainly, but isn't the economic situation in Turkey a bit problematic ? With so many of TK's passengers being foreigners or just connecting through IST, currency devaluations of the Turkish Lira would benefit TK, because most of their reven...
Jump to postWhat about Dulles International and those mobile lounges? I guess I should have researched the reason for them before I criticize, however it seems like a new airport built back in the 1960s with lots of land available to plan, could have been done a lot better. The mobile lounges were intended to ...
Jump to postPerhaps they want to get current data about passenger weights to better estimate the weight of passengers for future flight planning?
Jump to postWow, this has to be causing some scrambling in airline security departments. Not only that, but this gives creeps more reason to attempt it. I wonder what this jerks hopes were? I hope he is going through some hard interrogation right now. I have been under the belief it was impossible to open an e...
Jump to postThat had also been going on for a while before corona time, but Boeing has not yet announced it. I assume that Boeing 737-MAX will no longer be developed due to strict regulations from the FAA. At one point, Boeing did announce that no new aircraft model will be released in the coming years, but fi...
Jump to postWell if a parent is flying with his or her children, it doesn't hurt to carry a letter of consent from the other parent to travel. My wife carried such a letter with her when she traveled with our son to Ukraine in the Fall of 2021. The letter described the nature and dates of the travel and include...
Jump to posthttps://twitter.com/Navegaciones/status/1449836256247128065?s=20 If you click on the Twitter link above, you will see a recent aerial photo of the site of the former Texcoco Airport site that shows the entire terminal foundations and part of one runway and its taxiways are already under water. Natu...
Jump to postSerious question. Back when Hurricane Sandy hit and the power had gone out for an extended period of time (more than a week), with a gas stove, you could at least still light it up and cook something. What are you going to do if the same should happen again and you're running on electric. Same with...
Jump to postBut was the Sears Tower a good idea for Sears? There's hardly anything left of the company. 50 years ago they were huge. The face of retail has of course changed dramatically over the years but at the time it made sense to them. I am sure they could not have foreseen the way things developed in tha...
Jump to postBut was the Sears Tower a good idea for Sears? There's hardly anything left of the company.
Jump to post92 million dollars is a steal. What is insulting is the money lost by selling it. It's quite obvious that Obregon knows very little about why the Mexican government was able to get the plane for the price it paid. It was never going to be part of an airline's fleet. It was an early line number 787-...
Jump to postGenerally speaking, and I know this is hard to generalize cause people live in different places, but what would more people say is the more conveniently located airport, IAH or HOU? Like if the local news did a poll on that, which would win? From the western parts of Houston, it's a tossup. It just...
Jump to postFor some reason only LHR has as many as 2 runways. All the other London airports have just 1 runway. This makes having additional hubs in London problematic. That's another reason why airlines catering to business customers prefer LHR. It also makes flight delays from bad weather a headache. There i...
Jump to postWhilst looking at flight radar it occurred to me that BA’s current HND-LHR service is both trans Pacific and Atlantic with also a few other named ‘seas’ thrown in for good measure.. The Arctic ocean is more than just a sea. Considering European to northern Asian flights are taking the long route to...
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