Re: Porter Airlines Fleet and Network - 2024

Are Porter selling all 132 seats on Toronto - San Francisco or do they have to weight restrict somewhat? The flight is 5hrs20mins, quite impressive.

Re: Rumour : a350 ahead in 6E widebody race

Cebu is putting 459 seats in a 339 so clearly the A350 has more potential in cabin area, both the -900 and -1000 Meanwhile the 787-8/9 is not really being certified up to it's exit limit of 440 (381/420 respectively) so there weren't an option for super high density seating Certified max pax number...

Re: A220 in Europe’s Airlines strategy

The A220 is a very capable mainline short-to-medium-haul aircraft and I am sure we will se more airlines use it for what it is worth. Bombardier designed the cabin to have aisle and window seats with 18 inch width and the middle seat has 19 inch width, which makes it bearable to have slimline seats ...

Re: Ryanair's MoL - warming to Airbus ?

I don't understand why Ryanair didn't take the MAX 9 - Lion Air flies them with 221 seats since they joined Thai Lion Air in 2018. 221 seats is 24 seats more than their 197-seat MAX 8200 and only 7 seats less than the delayed MAX 10, so they offer quite a capacity increase. What didn't they like abo...

Re: Northern Europe not interested in the Caribbean?

Charter airline Sterling Airways flew their factory-new 213-seat B757-200s from CPH via Bangor to Caribbean destinations in the late 1980s/early 1990s for tour operators Star Tour and Tjæreborg. TUI Nordic has also had charter flights to the Caribbean on and off the past 20 years, IIRC. There is a m...

Re: What aircraft have you flown transpacific?

1997: QF B747-400, SYD-LAX. Heavy turbulence halfway, gave me quite a fright for a while. Remember thinking "if we fall down now, no-one will ever find us in the middle of the Pacific ocean".

2000: ANA B747-400, NRT-JFK.

Re: Emirates A350 9 or 10 abreast in economy?

EK can do both - they can have a 10-abreast Y section behind premium economy in the middle section of the A359 (ahead of doors 3L/3R and 9-abreast in the aft section where galleys and lavs are better aligned with 9-abreast and tapering of aft fuselage.

Re: Rumour: Delta to cut London-Los Angeles

If VS goes three daily LHR-LAX with A35K there should be plenty of capacity - their A35K has 335 seats with a decent onboard product, so I hear.

Re: Korean Air mulls removing A220 fleet

The A223 can have 150 seats at 30 inch pitch and 160 seats at 28 inch pitch according to Bombardier's own seat maps from when the aircraft was called the CS300. So 140 seats is quite nice for pax but not for the accountants unless there are premium seats to sell as well. I can certainly understand K...

Re: Korean Air mulls removing A220 fleet

KE's A223s fly 40-minute flights all day but have a cabin equipped for 5-hour flights with huge galleys, doesn't make sense to me.

Re: Airbus ramps up work on clean sheet A320 successor

Airbus should look at the beautiful Douglas DC-8-63 and use that as an inspiration for the "new" A321 update.

Re: Egyptair dumps A220 fleet

EgyptAir's A223 were configured with 137 C/Y seats and a huge aft galley but flew most short domestic hops and regional Middle East flights. Sounds like the aircraft was used on the "wrong" routes cabin config-wise. 148 Y and a small aft galley might have been better...?

Re: Switzerland Aviation - 2024

PhilInBRN wrote:

Then, big news dropped by Helvetic today. The airline will add four E195 aircraft for the Summer 2024 season. Aircraft will be configured with 122 seats.

Re: JAL A350 Regional Question

The B788 and B789 are also long-haul aircraft but nobody seems to mind that ANA have them in domestic configs and fly them on short flights. ANA's domestic B788 have 335 seats and the B789 have 395 seats. JAL also have 291-seat domestic B788. The B787-10 has been around for some time now and ANA alr...

Re: Embraer E2 Production / Deliveries - 2024

I'm still surprised that low-fare carriers are not ordering the 146-seat E195-E2... the B737-300 was quite popular with 148 seats at 29 inch pitch and similar range. Slimline seats 18 inches wide in 2-2 config is definetly bearable even with 28 inch pitch. Perhaps Embraer should let easyJet loan an ...

Re: Delta A330-900 MTOW Question...

For comparison, Cebu Pacific Airlines fly their 459-seat A339 daily Manilla-Dubai, which is about 4,000nm and nearly 10 hours westbound and Lion Air fly their 440-seat A339 daily Indonesia - Saudi Arabia with distance 5,000nm and up to 12 hours westbound. I think both airlines have the 251T MTOW ver...

Re: Why is Virgin Atlantic operating both the 789 and the A339?

VS had B744s back then, so pilots could transition to the B789 when the B744 were retired without too much trouble, I s'pose.

The B789s are leased, IIRC, so they will leave the fleet within a few years.

Re: Drunk and Asleep on the Job: Air Traffic Controllers Pushed to the Brink

A lot of controllers are choosing to leave after less than 15 years of employment due to the stressful working conditions and burnout. And this is how modern society wants it to be, according to those who control the money. Hire only young people and burn them out within a few years (and shame them...

Re: Emirates Tim Clark proposed to Airbus an A380 replacement

I thought the A380-900 would be super-efficient one - wasn't Airbus ready to start building it if only EK said "okay, we'll buy 100+"?

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

The A35K is already certified for 480 pax with Type A+ doors - French Bee fly this config now.

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

Airlines can also reduce seat pitch from 31-32 inches to 30 with the latest slimline seats - then you can keep 9-abreast but still add one row for each cabin section, giving 9/18/27 extra Y seats. Also, if the airlines doesn't need First class and/or 45-50 business class suites you can pack a lot of...

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

Air Caraïbes and French Blue are flying 3-4-3 Y cabins in their A359/A35K for 6 years already with the original cabin width and the longest flight (Paris-Reunion) is 11+ hours and flights are still going out packed every day, so 10-abreast appears to be acceptable to many people. AVOD PTV and 31-32 ...

Re: AA Flight attendants barricade galley in flight

Time to bring back the classic galley curtains on US flights too, by the sounds of this... I was a FA and Senior FA with a large European airline for almost a decade and we used curtains actively to keep the galley as "our space" - the airline still does this as does most airlines in Europ...

Re: Icelandair announces Pittsburgh and return to Halifax

Halifax is a nice city, would love to visit it again. Good on Icelandair

Re: Embraer E2 Production, Deliveries and News - 2023

I find it interesting that no low-cost carrier has ordered the E195-E2 with 144-146 slimline seats at 28 inch pitch, seeing as carriers like Wizz and easyJet use such configs with success. With 2-2 seating having 18 inch wide seats comfort should be okay even at tight pitches.

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

EY fly their "standard" A35K with two-class 371 seats to Chicago, 14 hours non-stop - so the A35K is no slouch to begin with.

Re: Air France will stop flying out of Paris-Orly by 2026.

Why is it so important to keep Corsica flights at Orly?

Re: IAG in talks to replace BA 777s

BA recently ordered six B787-10 - will they be delivered with crew bunks? If so, that might give an indication on BA's plans for the future regarding the B787-10. IIRC, the first seven B787-10 don't have crew bunks but they do fly LHR-SEA with is 9+ hours. I would have thought that such long flights...

Re: Defunct Carriers you have flown

Sterling Airways (original), Sterling Airlines (restarted, taken over by Norwegian).
Braathens SAFE (rebranded to Braathens and taken over by SAS).
Scanair (rebranded to MyTravel Airways and then Thomas Cook Scandinavia).
Cimber Air.
Lauda.
Austrian Arrows

Re: Updated: United orders 50 additional B787 and 60 A321s

With all three versions of the B787 in large numbers they can have multiple configs too on all three - high-premium cabin capacity, medium-premium cabin capacity and low-premium cabin capacity/high-density Y. They'll enjoy amazing flexibility.

Re: Your favourite turboprop aircraft?

I have flown the Dash Twin Otter, Dash-7, Dash-8-100, ATR-42, ATR-72. The Twin Otter was really fun (Widerøe) being so small, the Dash-7 felt a bit "regal" with its four engines, the Dash-8-100 efficient and the ATRs are comfortable with their 18-inch wide seats. A pity I haven't tried the...

Re: Emirates non-stop to JFK 2004.

Did EK use the A340-500 on NYC? DXB-JFK is almost as long as SYD-DXB which started with the A340-500 IIRC.

Re: Air Canada orders 787-10s

Heavierthanair wrote:

CRJ900 wrote:

Will AC take the new higher-weight version of the -10? Crew rest most likely?

What higher weight version? For what I know no such thing has been announced by Boeing yet

Re: Air Canada orders 787-10s

Will AC take the new higher-weight version of the -10? Crew rest most likely?

Re: China Eastern Airlines has placed an order for 100 C919 jets

First flight was on May 5th 2017. Ten built thus far, with just two currently in service with China Eastern. Those two were delivered in December 2022 and July 2023. Data from Wikipedia and PlaneBase. Those two C919 at China Eastern only operate two flights a day, each. Shanghai-Chengdu-Shanghai. A...

Re: Updated: Air France/KLM Group order 50 A350 + 40 options

If AF/KL are planning to have big business class suites and large Premium economy cabins on the A359 total capacity may not be that much larger than on current A332/A333/B789/B772. If the A350s end up flying 14-18-hour flights many pax will pay extra for more space and comfort.

Re: AF/KL Shopping for 50+ Widebodies

In 2020 AF/KL swapped widebody orders so that AF would take only A350 and KL only B787 - which is why AF only have 10 x B789. Does this strategy still apply or has it been abolished for this coming order?

Re: Delta Air Lines to launch New York - Naples, IT in S24

I'm guessing the B763ER is a placeholder aircraft as it is the smallest widebody and if bookings are strong they'll upgrade to A330.

Re: Another MAX build issue…aft pressure bulkhead

Are these issues found on the flat pressure bulkhead or the domed pressure bulkhead?

Re: Current and past 2x4x2 seating on 767’s

Braathens B762 had 2-3-2 seating, 242 seats in total. I was a passenger on them in 1984/85 and I had colleagues who worked on them as FAs - they loved the B762. Great plane, shame it only lasted a couple of years with Braathens...

Re: 737-MAX 9 and 737-MAX 10 Only Order totals

Lots of MAX aircraft fly long sectors, like transcons and Hawaii in North America. Norwegian could sell 189 seats on OSL-DXB and Tromsø - Gran Canaria when the MAX 8 joined the fleet (these are 7+ hour flights) instead of selling only 172 seats to avoid refuel stops. This because the MAX was very ec...

Re: CRJ900LR or CRJ900ER?

If I remember correctly, all CRJ900NextGen were built as -LR structurally but airlines could take aircraft as -ER as they are cheaper to operate as airport charges/overflight fees etc are based on MTOW. I think Estonian Air took this aircraft as an LR originally as they flew long sectors with full c...

Re: 737 v A320 and LLCs

I think the B738 became such a favourite with LCCs because of its 189-seat capacity while still offering seats at 29-30 inch seat pitch, three full-size lavatories and large galley capacity. It is also very economical on everything from short flights to 7+ hour nonstops. I was an FA/Senior FA on the...

Re: DOT New Requirement for Accessible Lavs

The article shows a photo of a DL A220 aft lav which looks quite well adapted for PRM. The SpaceFlex aft galley/2 lavs combo that Breeze, jetBlue and Air Canada has in their A220s are approved as PRM lavs but the article mentions that the SpaceFlex concept now found on many A320 Family aircraft, A22...

Re: A330 to Europe from Asia

SunClass Airways used a leased 373-seat A339 between Thailand and Scandinavia this past winter and will probably use their own A339 this coming winter. I was impressed to see an A339 with 373 pax fly 13+ hours nonstop. A very capable bird.

Re: Boeing 737 MAX 10 Development / Testing / Production - 2023

Type "Boeing ACAP" in your search engine and see Boeing's own seat configs - the MAX 10 are shown in a two-class 204-seat version and a 230-seat all-economy config with seats at 28 inch pitch. The SpaceFlex aft galley/lav setup will be a staple on many MAX aircraft too.

Re: Airbus A220 Sales Campaign - 2023

I find it interesting that much of the advertising regarding the A220 is about its long range capability while most operators in Europe, Africa and Asia are using the A220 on mostly short flights (from 30 minutes long to 2 hours long)... is it due to the engines needing maintenance after only 5,000 ...

Re: Embraer E2 Production, Deliveries and News - 2023

The E195-E2 can have 146 seats at 28 inch pitch, which is pretty good, but no airline has opted for this config yet. I don't think any airline has more than 136 seats at most, which makes for a very comfy pax experience and I assume that airlines are getting good economics with that config or they w...

Re: SAA returns to intercontinental flying with services to GRU from both CPT and JNB

Could A338 and A339 be useful for SAA? A338 for IAD and JFK and A339 for other flights? I'm sure Airbus would love to supply A338/A339 for such long and "famous" flights.

A359s are expensive and in high demand and perhaps too big for many routes now?

Re: What happened with Delta WB topoff order?

I think there was a thread here some months back where it was said that DL is planning on increasing the number of premium seats in their A339 and A359, which will lower the overall seat count. If so, the A339 will be even more relevant as a B767 replacement. As to the A338 - Air Greenland are using...