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

The livery appears to have been designed by a drill sergeant in the Mexican army. This airline does little that’s new apart from creating a hub that overlaps with the MEX hub of several other carriers. I’ll give this project 5 years maximum if it ever gets off the ground. It is certain it was put t...

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

They’re resurrecting this airline only to take it thru the a new calvary. It’s only going to disrupt negatively the markets and witlessly drain tax money from true social programs. By the way the livery is hideous, a clown has has much color and not for that is a beautiful thing. This livery is brut...

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 Many things make better sense untranslated. Compañía MEXICANA de Aviación. Mexicana is agender defined word referring to the word compañía meaning compa...

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

https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/mexicana-de-aviacion-arrancara-con-20-rutas-a-precios-accesibles-sedena/ Lopez Obrador administration has been a nightmare for mexican civil aviation. Indeed. And a disaster in many other ways also. I fear we’ll eventually see Mexicana default again. The more a...

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

Why is AMLO doing this? Throwing good money after bad. And risking more tensions with the US. I am afraid MEX is not coming out of Cat 2 anytime soon... He’s doing this as a public service to the people of Mexico. He’ll be employing military personnel for all operations effectively making it anothe...

Re: Airbus A220 Sales Campaign - 2023

It doesn't say it IS called an A221, it infers that because they don't know what it will look like it shouldn't be referred to as a -500 but something else Interesting choice for a name. Maybe they should have done that a long time ago when they first took up the CSeries program and we’d have the A...

Re: Obese fliers: Discriminatory to pay twice for same experience

A person of size, who can pay for the extra food they consume, should be able to pay for the extra cost of taking their extra size to any destination. A person of size who requires larger amounts of food to feel satisfied should of course require extra space but not a the expense of others. Discrimi...

Re: Boom Supersonic new configuration.

With the orders by major airlines, this impasse is more doom than boom. No engine no achievable timeline commitments, eventually airline interest will be lost and not plane will be built. What other engine options are there for Boom to work with? What new redesigns and timeline will look like. Disap...

Re: Turkish Airlines to rebrand into “Türkiye Havayolları”

Türkiye Havayolları <> Turkish Airlines Türkiye Havayolları = Turkey Airlines Turkish Airlines <> Türkiye Havayolları Turkish Airlines = Turkish Airlines. They should probably do what Aeroflot does. One side keep Turkish Airlines, this is the anglicized name for Türk Havayolları. The other side shou...

Re: Turkish Airlines to rebrand into “Türkiye Havayolları”

IMO Havayolları is unnecessarily long and complicated. According to Google Translate, "Hava" is Air in Turkish. If "Türkiye Hava" makes gramatical sense, I think it would be better for an international market. Perhaps you need more Turkish than Google can provide. No it doesn’t ...

Re: Updated: Mexico city's new airport to be improved Santa Lucía Airport

Architecture firm that designed Santa Lucía airport disowns the project: “The airport that the army engineers built is not what I designed” says Francisco Gonzalez, the architect behind other modern world airports. https://www.forbes.com.mx/el-aifa-que-construyo-el-ejercito-no-es-lo-que-yo-disene-ar...

Re: Irkut MC-21 Development / Testing / Production Thread - 2022

Apologies to the mods if this strays into politics, but how long can these sanctions realistically last ? Let's say that Russia soon withdraws but keeps large chunks of Ukrainian territory, then what ? Do things go back to business as usual ? I wouldn’t count on it going back to business as usual. ...

Re: Russian Airbus and Boeing aircraft and sanctions

Unless Aeroflot has a direct flight from Tolouse to Moscow, it seems that a new A350 is being delivered to Aeroflot right now. The aircraft is about to enter Belarus airspace with the flight number AFL7699. Maybe Airbus didn't get the memo I thought that delivery flights are piloted by the airline’...

Re: Irkut MC-21 Development / Testing / Production Thread - 2022

Market outlook is great, considering they only seem interested to kick out Boeing and Airbus from Russia. That would be a vane position and a shortsighted outlook for their aviation future. Where they should be reaching for the stars, or at least other markets to take their prideful aviation histor...

Re: Icelandair B753 - end of service?

Will Icelandair transition 757-200 and -300s to the new livery?

Re: Irkut MC-21 Development / Testing / Production Thread - 2022

What’s the market outlook for this plane if Russia decides they’re going to stir up peace in Europe tomorrow? Is it the same? What do sanctions mean for current and post market scenario? what are the consequences of focus on regional conflicts over technological and market advancement?

Re: Updated: Mexico city's new airport to be improved Santa Lucía Airport

Trip wrote:

In typical daytime traffic, how long is it likely to take to get to the new airport from CDMX Centro?

Re: Icelandair new livery

It’s like with many other liveries released. We can’t be happy with changes. But most times nobody can present an alternative that doesn’t slip into impractical and childish ideas for an aircraft’s uniform. Brand livery should remain clean and simple and this works. I’m glad Icelandair had the liver...

Re: Icelandair new livery

Without a doubt this is set to become a world iconic livery. Bravo Icelandair!!

Re: Airbus A350XWB ongoing evolutionary enhancements, EIS 2025-2030.

If I understand the article correctly, the freighter is based on the 1000, minus 5 frames ahead of the wing. So is this an A350-1000F or is it an A350-950F? Cheers. I’m surprised that they would remove frames from in front of the wing. Wouldn’t that put it at risk for tail tipping? https://theloads...

Re: United Fleet, Network, and Discussion Thread - Q4 2021

Cmac787 wrote:

Mx Update
N66051 767-400 is expected to exit HKG MX F2688/02 Dec and ferry to GUM.
12 of 16 767-400’s now in service

Re: Exterior design Airbus NEO vs Classic?

The A330-8/-9 has a modified fairing on the upper side, you could say more sculpted and larger, to control the air flow over the wing

Re: 737 with new wing, landing gear potential

What the 737 really needs is longer legs. This would require major changes to the wing structure, and would best be accomplished by a completely new wing. While this is a huge change, Boeing is doing it on the 777... Good idea. However that is no longer a 737 if only in name. That sounds closer to ...

Re: Alitalia News and Discussion Thread

Alitalia, playing soon at Teatro alla Scala di Milano

Re: Alitalia News and Discussion Thread

The things with this is, every time this cycles back up to privatization it will likely result in corrupt mismanagement that uses the company to drain it of its value till its time for the government and the people of that country to write the check and save it. It’s happened before. Not only there ...

Re: Aeroflot New Livery?

It’s the renaissance of the Deltaflot livery

Re: Akbar AlBaker accuses Singapore being a ‘copy cat’

The kettle calling the pot black

They appear to be stealing the basic roof design for the expansion from Mexico City’s now cancelled airport

Re: Interjet CFO “technically bankrupt” at risk of collapse

I haven’t flown on Interjet, but as a carrier that devoured some of the market that Mexicana left behind after their collapse, it’s sad to see this other airline in such a predicament.

Re: United Airlines "Evolution" to Globe Livery released

They would have been better off giving the gradient to the Globe and leaving the tip dark blue. Gradient from the white line to light blue and a slightly darker blue closer to the front end of the tail.

Re: United Airlines "Evolution" to Globe Livery coming in April

CDGIAD wrote:

lostsound wrote:

Just preparing y'all for the inevitable:

Move the title a bit forward and put blue on the engines and it wouldn't be bad at all !

Re: Most Attractive Commercial Airline Livery

Current: BA, Aeroflot, SIA (legacy carriers) Current: Virgin Atlantic, Etihad, Air Tahiti Nui (Boutique/Leisure) LCCs/Small: Cyprus Airways, Azul, air Malta Honorable Mentions: ANA, Asiana, Qatar, Air Greenland, American, Alitalia, Fiji Airways, KLM Missed liveries: United (blue tulip), BA (Landor),...

Re: Dua Lipa Criticizes United Flight Attendant on Twitter Over Response to Sister's Nut Allergy

TheFlyingDisk wrote:

For those who doesn't know who Dua Lipa is - well this is her:



Honestly I don't see the problem with the flight attendant's response, but then again I was not there.

Re: How many A330NEO will DL convert to A359

Where will the A350s be based for those flights to the Asian cities. Will the flights be from LAX-Asia or other cities in the United States as well (e.g. Atlanta)

Re: Will Trump bring in the B747-8 Air Force 1

I believe the preparation of the aircraft is going to take too long for a four year term but maybe if he's reelected. Then, we might just see the first 748 amblazoned with gold and Trump titles.

RE: MAS To Keep Name; But New Brand Starting December

They will rebrand with the same name. What Muller means is that because it is too expensive to change liveries and other things overnigh, they will still be flying the old-brand-planes. Eventually they would all cease to exist I believe.

RE: LAN And TAM Unify

Running over nationalisms, the new brand expands the scope of the airline and its role as a torch bearer for latinamerica to the world. The colors, though similar to many other airlines (inevitably) are unique, specially the use of the coral and secondary palette. The logo is clever and it, very obv...

RE: New A350-1100 Details

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/IslandRob" class="quote" target="_blank">IslandRob</a> (<a href="#15" class="quote">Reply 15</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Maybe with ...

RE: Airlines Using A State In Their Name

In a world of airline consolidation Alaska Air is one of the last US state named airlines to survive. Nowadays the state name on their corporate does not represent their market reach and destinations so I see this airline's branding disappearing in the not so distant future. This will be due to cons...

RE: The A380NEO Thread Part 2

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/A342" class="quote" target="_blank">A342</a> (<a href="#213" class="quote">Reply 213</a>):<br/><i>Well, in that first post, who is "we"? Me thin...

RE: Latam Rebrand Update?

I don't think you'll see a rebrand in time for the 787-9. I believe to have seen a pic of the airplane already in LAN colors. As far as an announcement goes, from that thread I remember reading that was going to be announced some time early in the year. I would sit, relax and wait for it as we'll ha...

RE: Etihad A380 Daylight Pics

I remember reading something official saying that the fleet would be re-branded on par with the maintenance schedule. Can anyone confirm if the A340's will also be repainted?

RE: LAN/TAM To Re-Brand With Completely New Name

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/DocLightning" class="quote" target="_blank">DocLightning</a> (<a href="#36" class="quote">Reply 36</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> LATAM...

RE: LAN/TAM To Re-Brand With Completely New Name

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/airbazar" class="quote" target="_blank">airbazar</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Not quite. A na...

RE: Al-Naser Airlines Gets 4 X A340-600

It is ultimately the responsibility of the Iranian state to provide for the safety of their aviation industry.

RE: Etihad Airways New Livery Unveiled

Everyone is entitled to their twisted notion of how the world should be, no matter how awkward and out of place and time it is.

RE: Construction Of New US$10B MEX

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/travelin+man" class="quote" target="_blank">travelin man</a> (<a href="#27" class="quote">Reply 27</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Yes. ...

RE: Construction Of New US$10B MEX

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Marcus" class="quote" target="_blank">Marcus</a> (<a href="#17" class="quote">Reply 17</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> This map is actua...

RE: Construction Of New US$10B MEX

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/LatinPlane" class="quote" target="_blank">LatinPlane</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Bravo! Ju...

RE: Construction Of New US$10B MEX

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/LatinPlane" class="quote" target="_blank">LatinPlane</a> (<a href="#12" class="quote">Reply 12</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> I've been...

RE: Airbus A320 Neo Production Thread Part 3

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/CXfirst" class="quote" target="_blank">CXfirst</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> True, I can see...