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Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion - 2024

https://twitter.com/lufthansa/status/17 ... 4587121003

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Re: OJ Simpson has passed away

Thanks to him, the world was cursed with Kardashians

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Re: Qantas Group Fleet - 2024

At what point does it become wise to store some 717s in ASP, rather than ferrying them to the US for scrapping?

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Re: Iranian Airlines Fleet Question

The Iranian people are very resourceful and knowledgeable. Probably more willing to maintain Trent 500s than anyone else is. And plenty of spare parts since there's now very few A340-5/600 operators.

Either way it's fantastic to see these beautiful quadjets finding a loving home.

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Re: Air Asia Group News and Discussion - 2024

Does anyone know which aircraft are going to the Cambodia Operation?

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Re: Austrian A320neo hits jetbridge

I would bet on a runaway, either missing chokes or towbar problem with nobody in the cockpit. Maintenance was mentioned elsewhere, accident happened pretty far from the arrival gate of last flight. I would second this. Many people would be surprised at how quickly an unchocked/breaked aircraft can ...

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Re: HU potentially ordering up to 20 339s

Isn't Avolon owned by HNA?

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Re: Are we finally approaching the time for an 787F?

What about the whole "composite planes aren't as easy to incorporate cargo doors into, vs. metal ones"? I tend to remember that was one of the factors, back in the day, when 787 was being born, that lead analysts to say that "market now decouples -- 787 will be flying pax, and 767 wi...

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Re: Brazilian government looking into 3 way Azul/Gol/LATAM merger

What a ridiculous proposal. I don't even see why Azul and GOL should combine - very bad for consumers.

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Re: Airbus Looking for Potential Delivery Spots for United

Given that UA among other airlines managed to force a leadership change at Boeing, I would like to think that there is a gentleman's agreement that there won't be a substantial Airbus order as part of the "deal" to change the leadership. "I would like to think" seems to be doing...

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Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a collision

https://maritime-executive.com/article/ ... the-bottom

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Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a collision

Not the least bit abnormal for the tugs to not be alongside out to open water. They help around the berth, but not so much beyond that. These vessels can't stop or turn on a dime, but they aren't helpless; they can maneuver in channels. :checkmark: Especially for situations like Chesapeake Bay, it'...

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Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a collision

Say it with me lads; General Average! Some cargo owners might be in for a nasty surprise.

D L X wrote:
GalaxyFlyer wrote:
Most is self-insurance.

That’s shocking.

Thankfully it's not true. P&I clubs exist for a reason.

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Re: Boeing announces Board and Management Changes

Jon Ostrower at The Air Current reporting that it was the CEOs of UA/AA/WN/AS who organized and essentially forced the move to remove Calhoun and others. https://theaircurrent.com/industry-strategy/boeing-csuite-changes-calhoun-deal-kellner-pope/ Good on them for being proactive about instigating c...

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Re: Boeing announces Board and Management Changes

I never understand why some people feel the need to defend the status quo of Boeing management at every step of the way. To be clear, this is not an attack on anyone here, but I just don't see how anyone can see the head of the metaphoric fish as anything other than completely rotten. I would die la...

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Re: Boeing announces Board and Management Changes

A clear choice was made when Mulally was passed over for CEO. The choice was made to make Boeing a company focused on shareholder value instead of being a great engineering company. Indeed. My worry though is that the wall street types who inevitably pick the board of directors still want it to be ...

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Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed

In the video, the lights go out a bit before the impact, which would suggest a power failure.

The best protection for pylons is having shallow water around them, so that any vessel of course grounds well before hitting them. Not always possible to do this though, obviously.

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Re: Ryanair's MoL - warming to Airbus ?

Ryanair buys mainstream products as reselling them young earning good income is a part of their business model. Correct, but for the Lauda Air subsidiary it's the opposite; their fleet consists of midlife planes bought cheaply. As I said: he’s now having to lay in the bed he made :checkmark: and it...

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Re: 2024 F1 Season News and Discussion Thread

What a race. Amazing performance from Carlos - proving yet again that it was a bad decision to let him go. Especially so soon after appendix surgery. Disgusting driving by Alonso once again. Brake checked Russell so hard that he had to accelerate again to make the corner. I'm glad he's finally facin...

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Re: United, FAA steps up oversight.

The minimal amount of responses from a.net members is concerning. It was indeed concerning to see how many people seemed to think that a wheel coming off a 777 is no big deal. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boeing-passenger-jet-nose-wheel-fell-off-takeoff-rcna135410 No one seemed to care when...

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Re: United, FAA steps up oversight.

The minimal amount of responses from a.net members is concerning. It was indeed concerning to see how many people seemed to think that a wheel coming off a 777 is no big deal. Planes break all the time, but such situations are neither routine nor acceptable. I also find the notion that the media sh...

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Re: Boeing’s Troubles

And exactly that's how you ruin a company. If a worker thinks he can make himself more worth by knowing more than others instead of sharing this knowledge in the fear of being let go, both the individual and the company have issues that need to be solved, because in the long run both of them will a...

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Re: Updated: JAL orders 21 x A350 and 10 x 787

Fantastic order - it makes perfect sense. Congratulations to JAL, Airbus and Boeing. It will be fantastic to see them operate international A359s. I highly doubt they will operate a fleet of only 11 Airbus A321neos. Currently they have a fleet of ~ 40 737-800s (not including the 14 JTA ones, though ...

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Re: Airbus A220 Ramp Up Strained As Workers Now Prepare To Strike

Wow. I know that a lot of people here don't want the CSeries/A220 to succeed, but even with that in mind the hyperbole in this thread is highly amusing. The fact is that, like it or not, Airbus has always had relatively good relationships with employee labour groups. I'm thus intrigued about people ...

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Re: Airbus A320neo Production / Deliveries - 2024

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/b-005d#

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Re: LA800 flight SYD-AKL in flight uncontrolled descent

They're saying the flight will continue tomorrow evening AKL-SCL ... but I would have thought, in the circumstances, the a/c might be grounded for a while pending investigation, before they allow a plane load of passengers on board. Do we know that it's the accident aircraft that's meant to continu...

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Re: LA800 flight SYD-AKL in flight uncontrolled descent

My first thought was Clear Air Turbulence, but this RNZ snippet suggests otherwise: Afterwards, a few doctors on board "patched up" the injured, with the assistance of the flight crew. There were "some seriously injured people", he said - some had broken bones, while others had n...

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Re: Ethiopian orders 8 777-9, options for 12 more

Presumably the 777-9X's enormous wing and excellent hot&high performance qualities will allow ET to fly nonstop to NA from ADD?

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Re: John Oliver's Take on Boeing

I for one was not aware of that detail about Phil Condit's personal life.

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Re: Boeing 787 Movements / Write-Off / Retirements / Scrapping - 2024

LN851 (ex N797AV of Avianca) appears to be going to Air Europa as EC-OGY. Nearly five years old but has yet to fly a single passenger.

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Re: Rumour: Delta to cut London-Los Angeles

Maybe Virgin will be operating an extra LAX service to replace DL?

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Dassault Completes First Falcon 6X Delivery To Customer

A few days ago Dassault delivered the first Falcon 6X. Dassault Aviation has completed the first customer delivery of a Falcon 6X large, long-range business jet to Take Off Aviation AG, based in Switzerland https://aviationweek.com/business-aviation/aircraft-propulsion/dassault-completes-first-falco...

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Re: Russia further delays EIS of the MC-21 for another 2 years

While your point about the production rates of the 737/A320 is hard to disagree with... it's not worth much in the context of Russia. With potential sanctions for even the C919, there is no competition for the MC-21, the only question is can it be delivered at a rate that could vaguely replace exis...

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Re: Russia further delays EIS of the MC-21 for another 2 years

Building jet airliners is hard. Still blows my mind that the Japanese have abandoned the Mitsubishi Space Jet. The Space Jet fiasco showed us that building a jet airliner is not the hardest part, certifying it is harder! And what we know from the CSeries..... situation is what's even harder is rais...

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Re: AA Aircraft Order Coming - Return of the A350?

Size mostly. The 737-7 is larger than the A319 and the Max 8 is larger than the A320 (22 more seats in AA’s current layout, although I would expect any new A320neo to be slightly denser than current A320ceos). And the A320neo is larger than the 737-7 and can bring more incriminatal revenue to the t...

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Re: AA Aircraft Order Coming - Return of the A350?

The “80 or so”, A319s can be replaced by up gauging and B737-Max 8 is the obvious choice, but I doubt AA will be willing to up gauge all 80 (they will probably do about 50). As for the rest of the 50 or so (of which 33 still are 15 years or younger), B737-Max7 would be a better fleet replacement an...

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Re: Qantas Group Fleet - 2024

VH-8NQ and VH-8NR being prepped for delivery: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53542052879_697a443743_k.jpg N505NK VH-8NR, QantasLink, Coolidge 02-04-24 by DUNCAN KIRK , on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53406448708_04ae786e14_b.jpg N504NK (VH-8NQ) A319, QantasLink, Coolidge 12-17-23 ...

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Re: AA Aircraft Order Coming - Return of the A350?

Does AA have the creditworthiness to be able to afford premium priced A350s? Do they need the aircraft's additional capabilities? I'm curious as to why people seem to think A320neos won't play some part in replacing the old A319ceos. An A320neo + 737-8MAX split order seems reasonable. With only 44 u...

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Re: 2024 F1 Season News and Discussion Thread

You can't trust anything Reddit says about Alpine. Or it's drivers, tbh.

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Re: Cardiff Airport - Future

The Airport Bus is ancient and uncomfortable, which doesn't make for a pleasant experience.

I agree with Number6 though on the airport being nice and spacious compared to most others in the UK. I really hate overcrowded terminals.

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Re: Lynx Fleet and Network - 2024

Terrible for Canadian aviation, we need a ULCC to figure it out. But this is understandable. Proof, once again, that it does not work… No it is not proof in any way. This one airline did not work and others may work and many of us hope they make it. SWA worked and no one gave them any hope. I agree...

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Re: AirSerbia E195 hits a pylon during take off from BEG

Taxiing the aircraft to the gate in that state doesn't seem to be great decision making IMO.

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Re: Interference with traffic through the Red Sea

Crew abandon Rubymar cargo ship after Houthi rebel missile attack A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels damaged a Belize-flagged ship travelling through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, forcing the crew to abandon the ship, authorities said Monday. The ship ...

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Re: Airbus A321XLR Development / Testing / Production / Deliveries - 2024

There was a photo from December of the first production aircraft for Aer Lingus in final assembly so I'd say that airframe must be close to completion by now. EI are due to get 2 this year anyway. There she is! http://x.com/Tobias_Gudat/status/1758513399812472905?s=20 Is there a way to distinguish ...

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Re: Is the 787-10 failure or underestimated

I'm not sure how people could see it as a failure. It does what it's supposed to. No it's not as optimised for longer sectors as some of its competitors, but that doesn't always matter and the -10 does well in it's space. IMO it is much better positioned in the market than the 777-9. Think of it lik...

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Re: Thai Airways orders 45(+35 options) 787s

BawliBooch wrote:

However knowing TG, they probably want to keep 5 planes of each type.

That's what I'm disappointed about. Was hoping this order might include half a dozen each of the 777-8 and 777-9. Fleet rationalisation is boring.

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Re: Thai Airways orders 45(+35 options) 787s

Big win for Boeing. Congratulations to both parties.

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Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

Not sure how long this has been the case for, but N668SD - the Sine Draco A321sdf prototype has rolled out of the hangar. https://www.flickr.com/photos/danraistrick/53516117619 It doesn't exactly look as if it's about to begin certification flights.... On the bright side, sister ship OY-SRN has been...

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Re: New quality glitch to delay some Boeing 737 MAX deliveries

BREAKING: Boeing in an internal memo said it has been notified of a new "non-conformance" on two rivets on 50 737 Max fuselages that require inspection and rework. This is not a safety of flight issue, but has to be corrected before delivery, delaying shipment to airlines. 7:49 PM · Feb 4...

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Re: Airbus Looking for Potential Delivery Spots for United

MrHMSH wrote:
Given the reports, we know that Kirby flew to Toulouse, and for him to go to Toulouse himself suggests a real intent to negotiate a deal.

Maybe he was going to Toulouse on a pre-planned holiday!

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