Speaking of duopoly, I think most here forget that Airbus only took over the Cseries-program from Bombardier. The regionaljet-program is still alive and i'm pretty sure sooner or later Bombardier will announce a new generation of the CRJ in the 80-100 seater category. Just to have Boeing complain a...
Jump to postBesides everything already mentioned, why would Porto need an alternative airport? There's pretty decent road links from Porto to all of Portugal's central area plus train connections to some major cities in that region. If needed, invest more in OPO. Mainland Portugal doesn't need more than the cur...
Jump to postI would go further and ban from flying any passenger that even tries to put a pitfall in the cabin. Lack of common sense could come with issues. Going even further, I would not allow to fly to any passenger that needs an animal to emotionally support him sitting aside, to behave like a person. (bli...
Jump to postSupposing someone is allergic to dog hair and has Cynophobia (phobia to dogs).
Will this person have the right to board a plane with no dogs on board?
Shouldn't 'emotional support' go both ways?
$100,000 is nothing specially in the US where I can sue a hotel for a million dollars if I brake my nail in a non-user-friendly clothes hanger...
Jump to postMaybe a dumb question, but, anybody knows if these wingtips fold upwards or downwards? Downwards should be possible if the span of the folding portion is not that big. On a side note, I believe this may start a future development in wingtips. Looking at birds wingtips it's clear they change angles a...
Jump to postFor? Iran today announced continuing their pursuit of ballistic missles. You think they stopped development of platforms to carry a nuclear weapon without also continuing enrichment for said nuclear weapon? Come on, they basically got to cherry pick where and which facilities inspectors were allowe...
Jump to postTime for Russian air carriers to order 150 brand new planes from A and B and sell another 150 of their current fleets to Iran. This kind of action only puts Iran closer to Russia and gives them extra motivation to continue developing their nuclear program sooner or later. Of course, Iran can always ...
Jump to postNo worries, they'll 'revise' it again 40 years from now.
Jump to postDoes this mean Bhutan is increasing their yearly tourist numbers limit?
I believe a few years ago one had to go to a waiting list to visit the country since there's a limited amount of foreigners allowed in each year.
Kathmandu doesn’t have an ILS because the 3 degree glide slope would go through a mountain. Fairly fundamental reason why they don’t have one. The VOR 02 approach starts at 5.3 degrees, and only transitions to 3 degrees for the final segment. There is also an RNP approach for 02. The approach is in...
Jump to postILS system at KTM is long overdue. This would have probably been avoided.
Jump to postWhy do we still have so many people in science and universities who believe in God?
Jump to postNot really a moral or political move here. These companies are simply feeling the pulse of current public opinion and taking the opportunity for some free publicity.
Jump to postIf I'm not mistaken, the 747-400D (domestic) was tailored for JAL and ANA domestic market in Japan. I don't remember any other carrier flying this particular -D version.
Jump to postNot surprising news... I guess Boeing had no alternative after their terrible handling of the supposed BBD threat. If this goes ahead, 2 things will probably happen: 1 - Mitsubishi RJ program gets it's final burial seal 2 - A mega joint venture between Russian and Chinese manufacturers gets much clo...
Jump to postNow... would this work: Considering the Japanese ancestry population of southern Brazil is close to one million individuals, and considering that a GRU-Tokyo flight would always have to have a stop somewhere, what would be the chances of LATAM using LAS as a stopover to Tokyo? Would this be feasible...
Jump to postThis is actually not a surprise to me. Last time I checked there are about 200,000-250,000 Brazilian tourists to Vegas each year. More than enough to have a direct flight. Most of this traffic is now arriving through ORL, NY, LAX and IAH connections. This is a solid move by LATAM that apparently bea...
Jump to postCongratulations for Senegal. Nice to see new projects like this in Africa.
Not wanting to go too much off topic... does anyone have pics or news about the future new Luanda airport?
From an environmental standpoint, a solution like Haneda's newest runway would minimize impact IMO.
Yellow area would be landfill, red area over pillars.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1f01RnrLBEJWusyA1yaDSxOupE59TIIdK
FoxtrotSierra wrote:VirginFlyer wrote:I seem to recall later on the programme there was a proposal for a "Bistar" but it didn't leave the drawing board.
Well, Bistar doesn't sound as cool as Tristar, now does it?
I flew Southwest last week, BNA-BWI. Flight was on a 737-700 with 143 seats. There were 37 passengers onboard, same is saying about 27% load. About 5 years ago, on a United SFO-ANC, 757-200, we were a maximum of 30 pax on the plane. I'm curious to know how often do major carriers do flights with thi...
Jump to postACCS300 wrote:Has any airline ever had a fleet of 100+ widebodies of the same model? Did Pan Am ever exceed 100 747's?..wiki shows about 65 total.
Internal market in India has also increased a lot in recent years and unfortunately Indian carriers don't have as much financial power as their Chinese counterparts for a quick expansion both internally and outside. Focus is right now on new domestic connections and pressuring the government to buil...
Jump to postI tried BA, AA and Virgin and I must say Virgin was the best on-board service wise. AA was a very poor experience...
Jump to postAny chance of having internationals from LAS? I'm sure MEX and Los Cabos or CUN would work pretty good here.
Jump to postThat's it, we had DeerJet in China now we have DeerProp in Canada...
Jump to postAs usual, the 'small players' will end up losing. When dust settles it's Bombardier who will suffer having it's biggest order cancelled and the whole C-Series project left on the fence, IMO. Delta will do just fine with another airplane and nobody will really care about Boeing. Another proof that th...
Jump to postI'm surprised about EWR-OPO. Is the market really big enough for both the likes of UA and TP? Is a big market.....OPO is the economic capital of Portugal and a big part of Spain take the flights there ( Vigo-La Coruna-Santiago,etc.,....).....(3-4 million of people in this economic area) And New Jer...
Jump to postLAS should be a safe bet. It didn't work out well before with their A340s but with the right adjustments in carrier image and flight schedule it should work perfectly. The huge Filipino population here would surely prefer a direct flight over the ICN, PEK stopover. Also a great addition to LAS who n...
Jump to postThere's a lot of options for Loyalty/Miles credit cards for US carriers. Delta with American Express United with Chase Southwest with Chase American with Citi Bank Then, each one of those has different categories of cards, like platinum, gold, extra, extra plus super hiper, etc I understand dependin...
Jump to postWell, as a foreigner living in the US, here's a list of places in the US hard to pronounce for me (and probably to a lot of other foreigners living here): Louisville - why Loo-ee-ville and not Lewis-ville? Chattanooga - plain hard to pronounce Tennessee - not hard to pronounce, but all the double le...
Jump to postBeijing Capital Airlines has just announced a new 3x week flight to Lisbon from Hangzhou with stopover in Beijing. Flights will start July 26, 2017, on Wed, Fri and Sun using a 332 News link (in Portuguese): http://24.sapo.pt/atualidade/artigos/voo-direto-entre-china-e-portugal-arranca-em-julho A re...
Jump to postI've always wondered why this particular 767 version didn't sell more than the 40/50 units produced. Being a stretch of a very successful model (a la 321) I would expect more sales, specially in markets where seat numbers is the key like internal flights in Japan, among others. Apparently it's provi...
Jump to postDefinitely all the 'hashtag this' 'hashtag that'.
Man I hate it!
Example:
"I really like this new #thesolution because the other day #whenyouparty I drank too much and #whathappenedlastnight. So this morning #mynewjob I felt like nothing happened!"
Man I really hate it!
TP does:
LIS-LAD
LIS-GRU
LIS-GIG
LIS-REC
LIS-EWR (not sure if this one is still operated by 343)