Not sure how the highly relevant question posed by the OP devolved into yet another circular discussion about political posts. This is totally beside the point. The site is suffering from forum software which is at least 15 years out of date and generations behind contemporary competitors (e.g., Red...
Jump to postSorry, atcsundevil, with all due respect this decision is clearly wrong. Thread is clearly aviation related. You may find an over-excited hobbyist posting about a likely non-event annoying, but moving a thread about a civilian aircraft's flight path to non-av is simply inappropriate. You could at le...
Jump to postThis used to be offered by LH, but has now been suspended (COVID-related?). What are the chances of the nonstop flight being offered again in the near or far future?
Jump to postCan I just ask why the new (well not so new now) site owners isn't considering the introduction of an automated moderation system which makes life easier for moderators? What do they really intend to do with this website on that front? A firm idea on what they're going to do would undoubtedly help ...
Jump to postThe recently revealed role of private COVID discussions in the cockpit in the case of the bizarre PIA crash came as no big surprise to me. Overall, a worrying combination of factors endangering flight safety results from the Corona pandemic: - pilots getting a lot less flying practice than usual - p...
Jump to postHello Everybody! I am currently holding LH tickets worth approx $4,000 for Europe-Latin America flights in early June (premium economy, non-refundable fares). For obvious reasons we have decided to postpone the trip by about a year. As far as I understand the various e-mails and their website, I ess...
Jump to postWell, Condor is apparently officially under administration now, see: https://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/dienstleister/thomas-cook-pleite-condor-macht-gewinn-bekommt-kredit-und-meldet-doch-insolvenz-an/25052112.html This "form of bankruptcy" despite the loan they have received is meant to faci...
Jump to postCondor still selling.. so that's a good sign, or they haven't received word yet. 27SEP FRI FRA/Z‡2 PUJ/AST-6 1DE 2228 C4 D4 I2*FRAPUJ 1230P 440P 76W 0 F DCA /E Y9 O9 A9 B9 M9 H9 V7 K5 E3 T0 U0 25SEP WED YVR/PDT FRA/‡9 1DE 2455 C0 D0 I0 Y0*YVRFRA 530P 1245P‡1 76W 0 XMTF DCA /E O0 A0 B9 M9 H9 V9 K9 E...
Jump to postHi everybody! What's the prognosis for Condor? I have booked tickets (throught the airline itself) in November/December for a family vacation and already paid a large deposit for a holiday villa at the destination. What are the odds of the Condor flights not taking place? Is there anything I can do ...
Jump to postIs "Why do women who work for British Airways make less than men?" a reasonable question to ask? Can we have *that* discussion? They don't "make less" by any commonsense use of the term, which you have conceded yourself. No, I didn't. Not once. Actually, what I wrote is "Br...
Jump to postWe agree. Now why are women the caregivers and men the bread earners? Who made that rule (and enforces it in 2019)? See, that is a discussion we can have. It is a reasonable question to ask, without having to resort to a misleading artificial "wage gap" figure, which is being hyped up to ...
Jump to postWe agree. Now why are women the caregivers and men the bread earners? Who made that rule (and enforces it in 2019)? See, that is a discussion we can have. It is a reasonable question to ask, without having to resort to a misleading artificial "wage gap" figure, which is being hyped up to ...
Jump to postThis study has a chart entitled "Women's earning drop significantly after having a child. Men's don't." Makes you wonder why. And I don't think the whole answer can be parental leave, which is often taken by both genders. Also, the effects are *much* more than would be suggested by missin...
Jump to postFirst, that's not the standard definition of "wage gap". The "standard definition" of the wage gap is dishonest and stupid and only used by ideologues or weak people muzzled into obedience by them. American Airlines writes "The gender pay gap is the difference between the a...
Jump to postI'm going to guess you like Fox News. "In the U.S., the pay gap between men and women is 21.4 percent, meaning that women earn, on average, about $0.79 for every $1 a man earns. " https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/the-gender-pay-gap-still-exists-but-its-shrinking-according-to-a-new-stud...
Jump to postI don't think that statistic was specifically for flight attendants but a comparison of wages between men and women across all professional fields. Well even then he'd be wrong. Anyone who seriously believes there is a wage gap in the double digits has lost their marbles. I'm going to guess you lik...
Jump to postRe evacuation / hand luggage: How about 1) Mandating that a disposable Essentials Bag (essentially a marked mid-sized zip loc bag) be provided in each seat back pocket. 2) As part of the safety briefing, stating "We recommend you place essential items such as your passport, wallet and phone in ...
Jump to postTerrible news, and a terrible year for aviation so far. Let's hope no fatalities...
Jump to postNo - no one will know anything unless the FDR traces are released. You can't treat the Ethiopian report as Gospel. The preliminary offical investigation report is far and away the best source we have at the moment. All you have OTOH is wishful thinking. You should really stop trying to impose arbit...
Jump to postMy take on reading the accident report is that the flight was saveable until they turned the Electric Trim back on which reactivated MCAS which due to the high speed they were travelling at they were not able to recover from as the airspeed was excessive. On Page 33 of the Accident report the Boein...
Jump to postAnd again they are saying they followed all procedures but the ABC report is saying otherwise. Two anonymous sources are claiming that. The same sources that claim the AOA sensor was damaged by FOD. "We did not find any information regarding the FOD (foreign object damage) on the aircraft,&quo...
Jump to post[Hence, why it's so important to have "Good" Pilots who are well trained and experienced enough to figure out that if you have what appears to be a runaway stabilizer, that maybe you should give the cut-out switches a try. Seriously, this again? Problem is, it wasn't a "runaway stabi...
Jump to postFor the passengers + carry on, there is probably a way that each person and whatever they are carrying can be measured as they enter the jet bridge. You wouldn't need to have each passenger's weight displayed anywhere. The system can just keep a running total, or running total by zone of the aircra...
Jump to postGermania, the German airline with a fleet of 34 planes, is bankrupt and has ceased operations effective immediately: https://app.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/handel-dienstleister/airline-germania-beantragt-insolvenz-und-stellt-flugbetrieb-sofort-ein/23948686.html It seems the sky over Germany keeps ...
Jump to postMLA-YYZ is about 800mi longer than the notorious EWR-TXL. So unless they plan on tanking these birds to the brim, then blocking a good 3-4rows of seats; I'm not sure how they plan to make that work with an A321LR, much less turn a profit. To be fair, this is a bit of a made-up discussion. Nowhere d...
Jump to postIndonesian investigators have declared that the plane was not airworthy at take-off: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/28/lion-air-jet-was-not-airworthy-on-flight-before-crash-indonesia-investigators-say Evidently the crew was fighting a crash practically the entire duration of the flight ...
Jump to postIndonesian investigators have declared that the plane was not airworthy at take-off:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... gators-say
Evidently the crew was fighting a crash practically the entire duration of the flight
The key quote "There are perhaps too many airlines in Europe today relative to the size of the market, with too many struggling to keep market share. In the United States, five major airlines provide some 80 per cent plus of scheduled capacity and that may be where the European market will hea...
Jump to postThe key quote "There are perhaps too many airlines in Europe today relative to the size of the market, with too many struggling to keep market share. In the United States, five major airlines provide some 80 per cent plus of scheduled capacity and that may be where the European market will hea...
Jump to postNeedless to say, the third runway at MUC will then not even be talked about for at least the next four years. And lets not even think about what results an election might bring in four years' time, at which point Mutti's continuing stubbornness may well have eradicated moderate politics altogether....
Jump to postWhat is the status of the third runway at MUC? State legislature elections will take place in Bavaria on October 14th. Largely thanks to Angela Merkel, the ruling "conservative" CSU, which supports the third runway, is expected to lose its absolute majority. Many political observers think...
Jump to postToday (Sep 24) marks the day major works start for Western Sydney Airport (see https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/09/24/05/57/badgerys-creek-second-airport-western-sydney-underway) It is expected to open in 2026 with one runway and capacity for 10 million pax annually. It's 50+km away from the ...
Jump to postPlease don't let this be true. This is virtually an exact copy of the Airbus house livery. Beyond bizarre to see a 748i in these colors.
Jump to postWhile not necessarily an airline museum per se, the visitor park at MUC is quite LH-centric, with a DC-3, Ju-52 and a Super Constellation in LH / LX colors. https://www.munich-airport.com/visitors-park-262040 It is also well worth a visit IMHO. Only one train stop from the terminal, and there is als...
Jump to postArticle also states (some?) domestic AB routes will be taken over by Eurowings.
Jump to postFurther details added: LH to invest 1.5 billion euros, may keep up to 80% of AB's 8000 staff. Sale to be notarized today (oct 12th) at noon. LH to offer "fairly priced" replacement tickets for AB passengers stranded abroad.
Jump to postIt's breaking news right now. Maybe use Google Translate or deepl.com?
Jump to postIt seems the saga is ending. LH will today buy the majority of AB assets, including 81 planes, and plans to hire 3000 staff:
https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article1 ... erlin.html
According to welt.de, LH is "overrun with bookings" for domestic flights and cannot meet demand with narrowbodies:
https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article1 ... t-ein.html
They have retired 7, with reports of 6 more scheduled to retired within 12 months. That is more than a few single frames, that is over half their fleet. No A346 has been retired as in "they will never fly again". They are parked. And LH plans to fly the type into the mid 2020s. LH has a p...
Jump to postWow, that is a shame. I have flown LH's A346s out of MUC a number of times in recent years, and have found them to be excellent options from a passenger perspective - quiet and comfortable. The planes also all still look fairly new. I could never have imagined that they would be retired so soon. So ...
Jump to postLet´s be honest here, the main focus of the new owners is to get ad revenue out of this site. On the one hand they are VERY slow to address the various bugs and lacking functionalities of the new site, but on the other hand they are also reluctant to protect users from scam and/or broken ads that ma...
Jump to postYes, I had set the time format correctly, and I just double checked again. Problem persists.
Jump to postWell, my time zone is set correctly, and I am getting this:
Finally, one cannot help but remark the irony in that the far superior user experience of the old forum was scrapped due to an allegedly "unmaintainable" underlying forum software, and now we are starting to blame the new forum software phbb for the new faults that have appeared. Kind of m...
Jump to postPlaneInsomniac, what about the time format? And I am not denying anything, or blaming users. I wrote that IMO the forum software should fetch the format data, didn't I? This is not Anet core functionality, it's phpbb and we are looking into it. Just not high priority since there is a workaround tha...
Jump to postTo illustrate my point: being logged in with correct time zone, my own first post in this thread is shown right now - incorrectly - as "yesterday 11:56 pm". Your reply to that post is shown as "23 hours ago". It is now 09:30 am local time here. One is truly turning into a time tr...
Jump to postSorry John, but no. Time stamps on the new a.net are broken beyond repair, even when logged in with correct time zone. Right now I was looking at a post I made two days ago, for which the forum says it is from yesterday night. This cannot possibly be explained by any "incorrect" time zone ...
Jump to postTime stamps on the new a.net are usually unreliable, even when logged in with correct time zone. Problem has persisted for more than a year and will likely never be fixed.
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