What is the ILS procedure to the west of the airport? that area is shared with 3 other airports MFM, SZX and Zhuhai...
Jump to postThe ordering entities in this case is CAAC, and as CAAC controls nearly all of China's commercial airlines, the order is just part of a scheme to balance the trade deficit that EU is having against China, and a political gesture as well as commercial. Once President XI resumes international trip, wa...
Jump to postThere are a few factors to consider on temporary versus permanent. These slots belonged to SU and other Russian airlines. Whilst usage of the slots are being reallocated to the airlines noted upthread, usage of slots and the 'grandfathering rights' of slots are seperate issues and without seeing the...
Jump to postBefore the 90s, flight route crossing Russia and China were very restrictive which means HKG as a stopover for Kangaroo route would have been economically expensive. Most flights from Europe to HKG involved routing as Europe-India-Bangladesh-Thailand-HKG. Once you get to Thailand, any further East y...
Jump to postIt is fairly obvious from the first post that this is about the availability on offer by airlines on nonstop/direct flights into an airport by frequency or by seat count or by destination count, and compare to their land catchment size (for example its GNP, NMA). ATL and CLT are obvious standout as ...
Jump to postI know you are not just looking at LH and not just specifically BKK, JNB and HND - but just an FYI these three are in fact already listed in wikipedia -> they dated to 1961-1962. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa
Jump to postAF447 had dozens of pages of threads because it was two years worth of speculation by many folks generating tens of thousands of replies. Same for MH370. I remember one of these flights had reached ultimately about 90 something thread numberings, and with 250 replies per thread, it means around 25,0...
Jump to postYou are absolutely correct. We just discussed this exact topic in July actually, though must say similar topic seems to come around more often recently due to COVID-19 perhaps:
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HND was probably the busiest 747 airport in the world for a while as JL was the largest operator of 747 for many years in the 70-80s, and NH was also a major operator. They operated a lot of domestic shuttles across various airports in Japan on 747. ITM , FUK and CTS were one of the busiest for this...
Jump to postThis problem is not unique to KE and is the same that all major airlines in the world is facing now. The problem that KE faces today is the same across all airlines globally, the only difference being that APAC region carriers (Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, South East Asia) see the fall off since Feb...
Jump to postThanks for posting this report. Lots of great photos. Its a unique report as there aren't many MI reports here, and probably one of the first for the new SQ regional J class. Both trips looked good.
Jump to postI have doubt A321XLR can fly ANC to Europe without severe payload penalty due to the lack of ETOPS diversion airports on the most direct routings. Going West, Japan is probably ok but I would exclude Korea and beyond. So this leave US-ANC-Japan which I suppose can be tried.
Jump to postNot a single Emirates flight is passing thru the Iranian airspace. Exactly. It’s all about managing risk. As that risk changes, and it does by the minute, then so does the game plan. Now that the 737 shot down on departure from Tehran has been admitted as a “mistake” then the risk changes dramatica...
Jump to postProbably a route ex LON or NYC. How about LON-STL?
Some data inside this thread when we discussed BA PDX-LHR a few weeks ago: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1437021
Julian thanks for the TR (and well written in the extended version too on the weblink).
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Here are some threads on the same topic last year
A few possible reasons that come to mind: -Majority of onward connections ex-Europe are short hops, so there is less need to arrive in Europe early. Contrast this with say QF/NZ TPAC flights, with majority of their arrivals landing into LAX/SFO in the early morning from down under. Historically this...
Jump to postActually when was the last time a new runway opened in any airports in London?
Jump to post5.5 hours is not enough to travel IAH-Houston-IAH because it will only leave you with 1-2 hours downtown. Like you I booked to travel via Houston on UA but I did have 7 hours. I spent about 1.5 hours from stepping off the plane to hitting downtown and I traveled in the late morning when traffic was ...
Jump to postThere is an existing thread already just last week on the Airbus side:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1429207
And for Boeing, there is a year long thread on the MAX...
why open a new thread?
I am sorry if this has been asked / discussed before, but as part of this project has QF ever considered running East Coast-LHR westbound with a technical fuel stop whilst doing non-stop eastbound? I am thinking if will be economically viable as regular scheduled services and make it less onerous fo...
Jump to postIf this is your impression about Chinese state media, then please go ahead and continue with that view. I do not intend to change anyone's view. I will encourage you to read more of how the Chinese media system works but if you don't want to I won't force you. Again, their media I do consider as ext...
Jump to postTo the second poster and not OP, we can discuss all the points you raised above til the end of time and no I won't individually reply to the points you raised because obviously even you know you have presented some of them partially. Speaking of the protesters and their supporters in general, I thin...
Jump to postIt is good to see CX still committed to 777X and A321neo when CX/KA/UO are going through its macro economic related difficulties. I would have thought they will at least consider deferrals to reduce capex and possibility switching some orders from 77X to the 787. When the 77X was ordered CX 77W was ...
Jump to postIt is unfortunate that T2 is closing so soon. With its closure HKG has temporarily lost its 'quasi' low cost terminal, it's only observation deck and the only cinema for the district HKG is located in, though for the last two they arguably were lost in August when HKG was closed to the general publi...
Jump to postIn China, if you make enough posts in your wechat or weibo account (social media accounts) criticising or encourage others to criticise the local or national level government bodies, this is enough to get yourself into trouble. In China, all internet activities (wireless or wired) are surveyed by th...
Jump to postOne reason why this route has been 'losing money for years' but still stick around could be departure time ex-HKG for JFK, which I think few has mentioned so far. It enables a red-eye departure at the midnight bank ex-HKG. To replace this 1 stop flight will mean departing HKG at around 4am. I am not...
Jump to postYou will find many topics (including some started by yourself ) relating to 9/11 by doing a google search on "airliners.net xyz", where xyz is the topic of interest. Example: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1407673 https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&a...
Jump to posthttps://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1392805&start=50 https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1428209 Let's refresh our memories from the above two events in recent months relating to the Chinese aviation authority (CAAC) and the Chinese communist party (Chinese government is ...
Jump to postThese are useful discussions. Hope they answer your question. https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1337249 https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=146131 https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1343865 https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1360619 https://www.air...
Jump to post$5,881 is most certainly down to some form of inventory management issues. Try again in a few weeks time. If there is an abnormal genuine surge in demand so many months out as illustrated by this price increase, you can be sure that DL or AF will upgauge the aircraft on whatever leg that is already ...
Jump to postTremendous kudos to CZ for making the immeasurably judicious, cool-headed strategic decision :bigthumbsup: which I deeply believe and have no doubt in the slightest would benefit the carrier enormously and beautifully in the long-term :D Thanks for the post, but why all the superlatives? Excessive ...
Jump to postNot sure why this thread has drifted towards discussion involving Astana, Baku, Dammam etc. The oil industry around CHS is not BA's main target because it is a seasonal 2 weekly service. They are targeting holiday makers and tourists with this schedule. In any case, the likes of LH, TK, ME3 etc are ...
Jump to postthere is an active discussion in this thread which had dozens of informed posts and replies up until last week:
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PEK had plenty of weather diversion local time 17/05 evening and many domestic flights were on hold at destination or cancelled...
Jump to postIt is not a concern visiting a communist country as a general tourist. It obviously will feel quite different living in one. The dominance of propaganda news and digital spying will make you feel like living in the novel 1984, with no way of getting out.
Jump to postAccording to the circular MU is the big winner with 14 new LON frequencies split equally between PVG and KMG and CA 4 new frequencies from PVG. MU will need all the transfer passengers around Southern China and even South East Asia to make KMG works as a daily flight. Meanwhile CA will struggle with...
Jump to postIn the 2016 chart towards the bottom of the thread below, you will see what was a list of candidate cities in Europe. IMO GVA, BHX and BER makes most sense considering potential business and leisure demand, and competition from other airlines. https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1409193 ...
Jump to postLAX to secondary Chinese cities may not be massively loss making for these carriers because LAX is LAX. Every Chinese carrier wants to fly to LAX (and YVR and Moscow) before considering other locations in the world for long haul. However, having said that profit making is not the primary objective f...
Jump to postChina central, provincial and local governments are strongly committed financially to support airlines in the form of direct and indirect subsidies. This is at the expense of ballooning government debt which will go bust (spectacularly IMO) at some point but not yet. Once the latter happens you will...
Jump to postBA itself has no spare slots. Some would propose that a few short haul routes are run with too much frequencies but fact is they are delivering good profit and even more frequencies are required. A couple of sun routes seem redundant at first sight but most of them are run only on weekends and are n...
Jump to postThe phenomenon posted at the starting thread is nothing out of the extraordinary. In fact fares like those you posted above are everyday fares in part of the summer season too. Mind you airlines do not make money during this period in first and business class due to the drop off in business travel, ...
Jump to postTo reply to a few posts above regarding NRT, the current curfew kicks in at 11pm which will soon be extended to 12:30am by 1.5 hours. However, the curfew is a hard curfew which means the last regular scheduled departure time is currently 10pm or so, to be extended soon to around 11:30pm. KIX is a 24...
Jump to postCX is not going to go against TK and SU on their home turf. TK and SU most likely have lower cost base. The market and yield is just not there anymore, and these cities also happen to have ample competitions from Asia airlines too. If you look at the chart in the bottom of the thread below, you will...
Jump to postYou should lodge a written complaint to Jetstar about your experience. The passenger in 12D should not be allowed to be seated there with the armrest raised and 'flow' into 12E. I thought this is common sense. I am surprised the pax was even allowed to board with 1 seat booked. If someone needed 2 s...
Jump to postI don't see the point in entering into LGW from BOS and NYC unless you are B6. VS does not have a short haul feeder network there and VS/DL are on O&D at LGW just like everyone else. LGW long haul market is heavy towards the leisure end for all major long haul markets, and they are better off fi...
Jump to postDXB, CAN, IST, BKK, CGK, MNL, KUL, SZX, SVO are examples of the largest major airports. The common factors are probably distance and lack of volume and yield for US pax carriers.
Jump to postFor an alternate rundown of other examples similar to this, take a look at this thread from January this year:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1411783
Don't get carried away with the A versus B chattering. If it is really a replacement for jets in the 100 seats range, there is no need to discuss A320NEO or 737MAX. These jets are hugely oversized and overweight for what LH is looking at. Please start a separate thread on A320NEO versus 737MAX.
Jump to postI would call this order disappointing. Sure more A320, but Airbus sells more than they can make - but very few widebodies and no A330s. Not what Airbus needs. An order for 300 aircraft is “disappointing”? Wow! That depends on your perspective. Nobody will dispute that the A320NEO is a winner, but I...
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