Re: Airbus Looking for Potential Delivery Spots for United

What objective indications of damage to the MAX brand are available today?...do we know for example of the volume of pax opting out of MAX flights for other aircraft models in US legacy carriers?...I believe that AS for one is offering such opt-out facilities...


Faro

Re: Boeing 777X Testing/Production - 2023

I feel like that was the case but airlines are now extending leases on 77Ws that they otherwise wouldn't of had to. QR and LH are operating fleets that they weren't necessarily planning to use had they received 779s by now. Preserving cash/minimizing costs due to weak international yields. No time ...

Re: Volcanic activity near Keflavik airport - possible effect on Iceland's air traffic

If the eruption is not underwater that means business as usual and no affects on air traffic. The risk as mentioned earlier is if the eruption occurs in the ocean south of Grindavík and turns explosive, while it should hopefully not lead to any aircraft damage it would definitely close down the air...

Re: Aircraft Leasing Industry Questions

Thank you TS811...much appreciated...


Faro

Aircraft Leasing Industry Questions

After 16 years on A.net as an enthusiastic, wild-eyed A.nutter, this is the first time I am posting as the staid and serious professional. For purposes of an offer of services in the aircraft leasing industry I have some questions re generally accepted industry practices that I thought experts on A....

Re: A350-1000 take-off weight hiked to 322t

How much more range will it do with max payload?...


Faro

Re: SWISS cabin crew in trouble for taking selfies on a 777 wing

FlyingElvii wrote:

30 day suspension for the FA’s, and move on.

It sends enough of a message to the rest of the staff.

Re: El Al talking to Airbus and Boeing about new single-aisle planes

There is the precedent of JL with the A359...the XLR certainly has major range attractions...and never is a very long time...


Faro

Re: New mexican military managed airline called Mexicana de Aviación announces its first destinations..

The name doesn't make sense when translated to English. the literal is Mexican of Aviation, even shortened. its too broad a term. Mexican Aviation The full name in Spanish is "Compañia Mexicana de Aviación SA de CV" and it has been around since Mexicana began flying, back in the 1920s. It...

Re: Air France-KLM News and Discussion - 2023

A couple of weeks ago this article was mentioned in the Lufthansa thread: https://thebrief.com.na/index.php/companies/item/3209-zambia-airways-edelweiss-klm-plan-windhoek-flights It mentions KLM as one of the airlines planning to start WDH within the next 12 months, according to Namibia Airports Co...

Re: New PW GTF Problem?

This is baffling…I just don’t understand how PW can continue to accumulate so many problems with the GTF…such a string of technical issues is not an easy thing to do…


Faro

Re: Why are today's flight times longer than 25 years ago?

A question that was already posted in a neighboring thread: Are airlines flying at slightly lower cruise speeds due to static air temperatures at cruise altitudes having increased significantly over the last, say, 30 years due to climate change? This would account for slightly longer flight times in...

Re: The MCAS solution viewed now

There seem to be many misconceptions here. 1) Both Lion and Ethiopian were experienced 737 operators at the time of the MCAS crashes. Ethiopian, in fact, has operated every generation of 737 ever made. 2) Unlike with Lion, there has never really been a doubt about the quality of pilot training and ...

Re: Knobs Falling Off Cockpit Panels

Max Q wrote:

Not common at all but also not something we would fix, that job is for maintenance

Knobs Falling Off Cockpit Panels

Towards the end of this very short video clip, as the landing gear makes contact with the runway, a knob on the overhead instrument panel is seen to fall off. https://youtube.com/shorts/De8CFDfEGcU?feature=share I wonder is this a common occurrence? A remedy would seem very simple, but I'm intereste...

Re: Flight turbulence increasing as planet warms up

On a related note, have static air temperatures at representative cruise flight levels increased significantly over the last, say, 30 years due to climate change?...that would contribute to higher fuel burn...


Faro

Re: Icelandair confirms 13 A321XLR plus 4 additional on lease

Hoping that Iceland won't one day start imposing AMS-style flight volume restrictions due to overtourism...that is getting to be a very real prospect...I wonder whether FI have taken this into account with their big fleet expansion...


Faro

Re: UA's Scott Kirby Rides Private Jet Rather Than UA

I think private jets' main advantage for busy executives isn't the comfort and luxury...it's the time saved avoiding check-in, queues, etc...makes sense to me...


Faro

Re: Why did DL retire the A310?

If I recall, the A310-200 aircraft from PanAm had JT-9 engines... That's reason enough to dump them. the JT9-D was a good engine Delta didn't have a lot of trouble with them and I have a nephew who works on them and I worked on them as well even the 7R4D and the 7R4G were good and reliable engines....

Re: DHC launches a new DHC-6 Twin Otter version, the 300G classic

Highly unexpected...the DHC-6 still seems some life left in it...

Wiki says they have sold 985 frames...so perhaps another 100-200 sales to expect with the 300G?...


Faro

Re: Why do 737 NG airframes only have 2 A/P engage CMDs in the MCP while the 747 has 3?

The 747/757/767 can also autoland with one engine inoperative while the 737 cannot. I'm very curious as to what airlines' SOP say on this. You have an engine failure on approach/final approach, do you systematically take over manually from the autopilot? What's the risk of not doing so? Wouldn't yo...

Climate Change: Evidence of Higher SAT at Cruise Altitude?

Regardless of whether it is man-made or purely natural, what has been the impact of climate change on Static Air Temperatures SAT at typical cruise altitudes of, say, between 30,000 to 40,000 feet over the last 30 or 40 (or even 50) years. Has there been a significant increase in SAT and has this in...

Asymmetry of Air Route Payloads - Cargo and Pax

For a given city pair, it is sometimes the case that air cargo volume will be greater in one direction than another. Is this asymmetric traffic profile also true of passenger loads on certain routes? Which ones typically, and for what reasons? Are some of these routes asymmetric on a seasonal basis,...

Re: Weight and balance problems

Well there was a real issue so that's not really surprising. If he had acted the same but there was in fact no issue (let's say 2 pilot errors in a row) then it's when it would be interesting to see the reactions. :checkmark: :checkmark: Two tail strikes within 5 minutes with the same airline, you ...

Re: YYZ Exceptions to Dual Parallel Runway Use

Noise abatement is a big factor on YYZ runway use. Their website actually has some excellent graphics and explanations. 5/23 frequently works in mixed mode for operational throughput and noise reasons, while 6R/24L and 6L/24R are too close for simultaneous parallel instrument approaches (they'd nee...

TK17 Peculiar Non-Great Circle Routing

Flight TK17 from IST to YYZ on January 29, 2023 took a very peculiar route, well south of a great circle routing and remaining substantially within the latitude bands encompassing both Istanbul and Toronto. What gives? Were more northerly routings experiencing unusually strong headwinds that day? ht...

YYZ Exceptions to Dual Parallel Runway Use

I noticed at YYZ that sometimes take-offs and landings use the same runway and not separate parallel runways. For example, sometimes both take-offs and landings use runway 23, and not both 23 and 24R/24L to separate the traffic flows.

Why is this?


Faro

Re: Airbus A321XLR Development / Testing / Production Thread - 2022

How much of an OEW penalty would the fire-penetration reinforcement of the fuselage center tank area mandated by the FAA conceivably incur?...


Faro

Re: Nothing new from Boeing and Airbus in the next years?

No totally new narrowbody airframes until new engine technology warrants it...and if CFM's RISE technology demonstrator is targeting a mid-2030's service engine, that means the same for the airframe side of the equation (what timeline is the UltraFan contemplating?)... Nothing apart from incremental...

Re: Time to talk about.....old airlines!

I travelled on United Arab Airlines Comets between Cairo and Mogadishu in the 1960s as a young child...sadly, both countries were in better shape than they are today...


Faro

Re: Boeing determined to build up Asia-Pacific narrowbody share

It's all about the pricing, the discounting...sometimes firms buy market share to maintain or expand their market presence...but does B have the surplus cash to finance the shortfall?...


Faro

Re: What are WN's Top 20 cities by daily departures

Surprised that MCO is down at No 10...and that major airports like ATL and LAX are so far down too...


Faro

Re: Delta Flight Smoke in Cabin

Smoke in the cabin is worse than losing an engine...it's the worse kind of unknown because if isn't benign, the seconds are ticking down to a very ugly situation...

Get on the ground...and fast...


Faro

Re: Jets gain weight? Really?

What about oxidation? Are there certain metallic and/or non-metallic surfaces that are prone to long-term oxidation over the +20 year life of an airliner? Oxidation adds weight...


Faro

Re: Barrel or frame & panel construction?

Where are you getting your figures from? For all companies that sort of information is highly confidential. I know it is commonly discussed here but I have seen no real proof- just A-Net lore. I'm referring to the publicly known prices, not the actual deals between Airbus or Boeing and the airlines...

Re: US$ Quantification of Aerodynamic Deterioration – Airbus Performance Audit Document

The link to the document seek to be unreliable...to access the document, do a Google search with the terms "getting hands-on experience with aerodynamic deterioration"...the document is the pdf at the top of the resulting list of search finds...


Faro

US$ Quantification of Aerodynamic Deterioration – Airbus Performance Audit Document

Although the document dates from 2001, I found this “Airbus Performance Audit View” [sic] nonetheless fascinating: https://www.cockpitseeker.com/wpcontent/uploads/goodies/ac/a320/pdf/data/AerodynamicDeteriorations.pdf Some worthwhile quotes from this Audit View –which I imagine is a recap of Airbus ...

Airliners Not Built to Contractual Specification - NTU

In this neighboring thread: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1476139 there is talk of a 748 which was not built to the contractual specifications which the manufacturer guaranteed and was therefore not taken up NTU. It apparently had weight and balance issues and/or required m...

Re: 777-200ERs Keep Soldiering On

Remember class years are not the measure of aircrafts age it’s cycles/hours. The UA 772 non ER delivered 95/96 have only around 17k/94k cycles/hours. The 777 pax models have an FAA LOV of 60k cycles 160k hours which is astounding. However the aircraft was designed with computers to precision tolera...

Re: 777-200ERs Keep Soldiering On

BA announced a few years ago that they would run their 772s to 30 years. That seemed way ahead at the time, but is only a few years away now for the earlier GE frames. (I know the few non-ERs have gone, 5 operated originally) That is very impressive!...30 years is no joke...a tribute to what a good...

Re: 777-200ERs Keep Soldiering On

Doing a quick look at Wikipedia’s list, not the best I know, I get to around 260-270 active 77E’s. Some I’m not sure about and never heard of but the 400 mentioned by the op certainly seemed optimistic. Like a lot of aircraft the numbers are significantly boosted by a small number of majors that st...

Re: 777-200ERs Keep Soldiering On

I recently flew CAI-CDG-YYZ with AF and was surprised that both legs were on 777-200ERs (the outbound trip had been on an A359 and a 77W). I was also surprised at the state of the aircraft, both seemed in very good upkeep, with one of them, F-GSPM on the YYZ leg, looking like it had a new paint job...

Re: 777-200ERs Keep Soldiering On

Airlines will operate aircraft for as long as they plan on doing so. The 777-200ER isn't going away anytime soon. Yes it may be old, but it's still reliable. In the future of course airlines will phase it out, but there is nothing wrong with it for right now. Nothing suprising. You are absolutely r...

Re: 777-200ERs Keep Soldiering On

I’ve worked on a lot of aircraft over the years, including some on their first stop after delivery, and some on their last stop before the scrapper, and this is exactly true. Over time aircraft become a bit of a ship of Theseus. The frame remains mostly the same, but pretty much everything else is ...

Re: 777-200ERs Keep Soldiering On

Airlines will operate aircraft for as long as they plan on doing so. The 777-200ER isn't going away anytime soon. Yes it may be old, but it's still reliable. In the future of course airlines will phase it out, but there is nothing wrong with it for right now. Nothing suprising. You are absolutely r...

Re: 777-200ERs Keep Soldiering On

But perhaps I should have been more specific with my post: the point I have re AF's afore-mentioned F-GSPM is this. F-GSPM was delivered on 14.11.2000 and has now seen 21.5 years of service. As I mentioned, it seemed to have been painted relatively recently. This means that AF is looking to pursue ...

Re: 777-200ERs Keep Soldiering On

In plane terms, 20 years old isn’t really old at all. Delta and many others have planes that are 25 or 30+ years old. The 777 still has support (i.e. Parts are easy to come by). Really, it will come down to maintenance costs as the years go on. Like a car, if you keep it in good shape, they will la...

Re: 777-200ERs Keep Soldiering On

I recently flew CAI-CDG-YYZ with AF and was surprised that both legs were on 777-200ERs (the outbound trip had been on an A359 and a 77W). I was also surprised at the state of the aircraft, both seemed in very good upkeep, with one of them, F-GSPM on the YYZ leg, looking like it had a new paint job...

Re: 777-200ERs Keep Soldiering On

Like everything, A.net tends to think anything that isn’t 6 months new is old, dilapidated and should be scrapped. There are what, 400 200ERs still flying and not counting A models? Still lots of life in all of them. The newest one hasn’t even hit its 10th birthday I'm not saying that at all...what...

Re: Incredible Wizz Air A321NEO landing at JSI

I think this kind of landing is unfortunately destined to extinction...one day someone will get hurt and the area will become restricted or closed-off to onlookers...


Faro