Re: VS 789 clips BA A350 at LHR

BA: “Incredibly poor… incredibly poor…”

Re: Fokker Next Gen Update

Ah, it's that time of the year again! Another New Fokker or Rekkof announcement. Only for the project to go quiet and disappear again. But rest assured, they'll be back in a few years with another New Fokker design that will never fly. They didn't even really even make an announcement. They just co...

Re: 747-8i Combi orders

Altimeter2992 wrote:

Noshow wrote:

I fear you are wrong. The line is gone and its supply chain as well.

But it’s only been less than a year!!???

Re: Is the 787-10 failure or underestimated

Is there any chance we could see AA replace their 772 fleet with 787-10? Its nearly 50 airplanes, very similar in size, and AA for the most part doesn't need the 772's range (S America and Europe) When it was still the 7E7-Stretch twenty years ago, some wise A.net members observed: “you could stret...

Re: Boeing has withdrawn its request for an exemption on the 737-7

My guess is the timeline means Boeing redesigns the cowl with a material that doesn't show degradation after only 5 minutes under those conditions. Fix the source of the problem (potential structural failure) and not use the band aids to work around the issue. Adding a temp sensor to the cowl, with...

Re: Strange Routes And Their Reasons

EWR-CAE comes to mind.

Re: Pan Am Final International Flying - Fall 1991

It’s crazy how at that point, PAA had ZERO Transatlantic flights, and that their only long-range routes were to South America. It’s also interesting how much of their operation had become B722’s, with the A300’s and B747’s almost totally gone. I think it’s funny that PanAm featured prominently in t...

Re: Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW/DAL) Aviation - 2023

What needs to be fixed is the parking situation at the terminals being full. Guess Ride and Light Rail did not take as many cars off the road as expected. Light rail and heavy rail both serve the airport and would never be a significant solution to DFW parking issues. No one in their right mind wil...

Re: Another 767 buckled fuselage hard landing

Have 767s always been prone to this type of damage, or is it symptomatic of an aging airframe? Plain and simple metal fatigue perhaps? No - high-cycle metal fatigue will manifest itself as cracking. This is clearly yielding (i.e. bending), which is a consequence of overload beyond the elastic limit.

Re: Leeham News: Nasa stops Electric Aviation/ TTBW will be 737 replacement

What are y’all figuring for the weight of an electric motor versus a gas turbine? Quick check of a Siemens motor catalog shows a 2,000 kW 2-pole AC induction motor weighing in at 4,800 kg and that doesn’t include any power electronics. That’s about 10x the weight of a PW127 core engine. In round num...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

As a long time observer of the American airline industry, I felt compelled to express my observations and concerns regarding recent developments within the company. The retirement of the Boeing 737-700s and the introduction of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, as well as the potential future addition of the Bo...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

As a long time observer of the American airline industry, I felt compelled to express my observations and concerns regarding recent developments within the company. The retirement of the Boeing 737-700s and the introduction of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, as well as the potential future addition of the Bo...

Re: FLL Closed 4/12 due to flooding

This one is wild https://twitter.com/LiveStormChaser/status/1646346502334300162 Wow! Those engines are awfully close to that water. Tugg Good thing it was an A320! A 737's engines would have been submerged. Hell, a 737 may have become a boat. We all know that aircraft engines are designed to take i...

Re: First Boeing 747-8 getting dismantled.

That would not make much sense as the active fleet needs the parts. This is why parting out had more value than keeping it airworthy. To reassemble "hangar queens" is a pain by itself and very costly. Well, you have seen instances of "Leviathan, rise!" during the cargo crunch in...

Re: New Kansas City Airport Terminal

As someone who got trapped in a men’s room stall at MCI a few weeks ago, the new terminal cannot open soon enough.

Re: Houston Aviation - 2023

Here are my predictions for Houston Aviation in 2023. #5 HOU-SEA gets serviced by WN. 5) Don’t see it. WN doesn’t like long distance domestic flights in competitive markets. Fares on HOU-SEA were sky-high last year. Some of the most expensive fares I’ve ever seen on domestic flights within the lowe...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

Read on Yahoo moments ago that there are Shareholders of Southwest who are filing class a class action lawsuit due to Gary Kelly when he was CEO not disclosing the technology problems and other issues as well that has devalued the stock price significantly. There is entire cadre of law firms who do...

Re: Electric airliners coming soon...

Several of you are 100% correct. The technology and ability is nowhere near being ready, and we will have ICE for many years in both cars and airliners. I realistically think electric airliners will never be a good idea other than for very short trips. Electric airliners are 100+ years away. You wi...

Re: 777-200ERs Keep Soldiering On

Not at all surprised. Didn't the 77W "overperform" after EIS? From what I recall the unexpectedly good performance of the 77W is what led to the slowdown in 77E orders. But the 77E is still a very capable plane. Once the 77W and 77L were in production Boeing effectively discontinued the 7...

Re: Connect Airlines Firms Hydrogen Conversion Of 75 ATR 72s

[...]How are they going to use intense amounts of the green electricity to produce hydrogen and have it end up cheaper than oil?[...] By electrolysing the water only at times when there is plenty of free green electricity. Especially under windy conditions prices at the European electricity exchang...

Re: Man sues AA for wrongful arrest

If his attorney recommends he go after the airline rather than various levels of government , then I don't think he can say he has adequate representation yet. Something is missing from the public part of this story. They are largely immunized from wrongdoing by U.S. judicial doctrine. There's noth...

Re: Man sues AA for wrongful arrest

Good luck with that one. In my aviation career I have yet to be granted the right to arrest people. AA provided info, from that point on it was up to the police to make their determination. AA didn’t take 17 days to compare 2 photos. Also interesting that anyone from AA even released the info. Ever...

Re: El Al to Implement Set Times for In-flight Communal Prayer

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32andBelow wrote:

AirKevin wrote:

LAXintl wrote:

Saudi has a prayer area with a display indicating directions to Mecca.

So what happens if the plane changes direction mid-flight.

The on one el al is an arrow that turns as you go.

Re: Post-2024 plans for WN in the Dallas/Fort Worth market

I had also asked how WN can be more competitive in the DFW/DAL market, especially with DAL no longer having nonstop service to some of the top destinations traveled to from the DFW/DAL market. What sort of answer are you looking for 'to be more competitive?' If WN thought they would earn more on in...

Re: Why was there no A300Neo/A310Neo?

SEU wrote:

The 737 is not something that should be branded as a good example of updating older tech

Re: GE to break into 3 - Aviation to be led by current CEO Culp

So, one business fad (diversification) is leading into another (spin offs). Meanwhile we have examples such as Raytheon where they are still in conglomeration mode, albeit with less diversity than GE during the JW days There are several decades of empirical evidence that conglomerates lag the marke...

Re: GE to break into 3 - Aviation to be led by current CEO Culp

TObound wrote:

This is in no small part, because of terrible bets that GE Power made.

Re: GE to break into 3 - Aviation to be led by current CEO Culp

So, one business fad (diversification) is leading into another (spin offs). Meanwhile we have examples such as Raytheon where they are still in conglomeration mode, albeit with less diversity than GE during the JW days There are several decades of empirical evidence that conglomerates lag the marke...

Re: Analyzing The Airbus A380’s Premature End

I always find these executive comments to be interesting. The execs at the time were able to get the A330neo to become the a350 because they didn’t like it’s competitiveness, but they were powerless to stop the a380s from launching with deficiencies? It always feels like blame shifting rather than ...

Re: Houston (IAH/HOU) Aviation Thread - 2021

Anyone know why AA 1013 (DFW-GUA) diverted to IAH today?

Re: Pratt & Whitney GTF Engines Now Power More Than 1,000 Aircraft

Nean1 wrote:

How much would you pay extra to cross the Pacific with a four-engine aircraft?

Re: Little aircraft Boeing?

Upgrading the 717 in ways that McD could only have dreamed of having the finances to accomplish would have kept Boeing in that smallish jet market. Or, a new clean sheet jet in that class could have replaced the old Mad Dog iron completely. But, there were so many things going in, Boeing doesn't ha...

Re: Unusual places your food comes from

About one-third of global agricultural yield is attributable to nitrogen fertilizers, which are all but exclusively produced by reforming natural gas into ammonia. So you can add your friendly neighborhood oil & gas industry to your list of unusual places putting food on the table.

Re: Worst civilian procurement

Didn’t AF buy the 777F only to realize it didn’t fit the cargo containers they wanted to use?

Re: Do Repulicans have the votes to confirm SCOTUS Justice in 2020?

It is too close to an election so no. By Republicans own admission, they can not be allowed this seat. Unless that only applies to Obama...... And according to Democrats, the sitting President must nominate a replacement and the Senate must act. Or does that only apply to Obama, too? :scratchchin: ...

Re: Peak oil 2019-2020

What's the efficiency of countries ravaged by fires, tornadoes, cyclones, on a more steady and regular basis ? Bigger ones ? What's the efficiency of countries experiencing year after year of droughts ? Is having to built thousands of kilometers of dikes efficient ? There are studies about this. Ta...

Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg passes away at 87

There simply isn't time for anyone to be nominated until next year. It's a long process just to find someone. It is a formality. They already have a list and the Republicans control the senate. They will appoint someone before inauguration day. That’s all well and good but: “The American people sho...

Re: Supreme court: Workers can't be fired for being gay or transgender

Imagine the decision going the other way though. The uproar and damage done to the Court would be massive. Hardly. Title VII is a statutory law that Congress has drafted bills to amend several times. If the Court had arrived at a different decision, it would be no different than the status quo when...

Re: FT: Investors bet AA will file for BK

I was looking over the 8-k AA just filed with the SEC https://americanairlines.gcs-web.com/node/38321/html and had a question. If anyone recommends a good place to read up on this and get smart I would appreciate it. The $2.1B in planes and parts they can claim as assets and the $1B in property mak...

Re: Airbus wants governments to finance a scrappage scheme

If governments really want to greenify the planet they should let the economy fall... or invest in better technologies: The cost per year in the world of air pollution on our societies is estimated around 4.5 trillions USD. If true, and If through incentives in the transport industry you can reduce...

Re: The most distant/inconvenient airports to their city

In Asia, most airports located far from their respective cities are connected to their CBD by rail. But in North America, we build many airports very far from the CBD, with no rapid transit options. Think LAX, IAD, MCI, etc. Why oh why do we do this? What are the worst(or best) examples? Asked and ...

Re: 44% of Republicans believe in Bill Gates microchip vaccine conspiracy.

There is an unfortunate and frighting rise in anti-vaccine nonsense. But you can throw out this survey right way from this note here: The Yahoo News survey was conducted by YouGov using a nationally representative sample of 1,640 U.S. adult residents interviewed online between May 20 and 21, 2020. I...

Re: Southwest Airlines planning on squeezing competitors in weaker positions

And why wouldn't they? The same capitalism and competition that affords us cheap fares and great frequencies affords the ability for the well-positioned to crush weaker counterparts. It also keeps these competitors sharp and responsive to the flying public to avoid extinction. These executives run ...

Re: Flight Global: Mitsubishi to halve SpaceJet budget, review M100 development

I half wonder if the SpaceJet is just a cover for a black program and they have no intention of ever finishing this jet.

Re: WTI Oil price goes negative

All this “expires tomorrow” stuff blah blah. How exactly can today’s stockpiled oil be consumed, In order to take future delivery Of more oil In May or June? Hmm? It Still comes in faster than it can be consumed. Until that changes- genuine crude oil price is, or must soon be, indeed negative. It’s...

Re: WTI Oil price goes negative

Keep in mind the negative WTI prices are for contracts that expire tomorrow. For contracts of any longer duration, prices are in the more normal - albeit still low -$20 range. The only people who would hold a futures contract that expires tomorrow are the people who physically want the oil. And pric...

Re: Oil price crash

The US/Trump complaining when they're responsible for this is quite funny. "Responsible"? Ummm... fracking is likely a prime motivator but "the cause" is Saudi Arabia seeking a new balance and Russia getting into it with them. Tugg The US could have done things to reduce the spe...

Re: Spirit Attempts to Block Being Acquired (?)

This looks pretty boilerplate to me. I’m not sure I would read much further into it.

Re: Senator Dumped Up to $1.6 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness

It is objectively corruption that elected officials can trade securities using non-public information.

Oh, and obligatory reminder that Martha Stewart did not go to prison for her ImClone stock trade. The trade was legal. She went to prison because she lied to federal investigators about her trade.

Re: Speculation: American Airlines might file bankruptcy again

There must be a reason that buy backs were the method of cash distribution rather than dividends? Is it because the means of the deciders compensation was benefited by one over the other? Stock buybacks give management more flexibility on when to distribute cash versus a dividend which must be dist...