Re: Trump's Parked 757 N757AF

The operating costs before running for President had been paid for by NBC. During the campaign and Presidency the RNC paid for it for his kids as the usss did not allow him to fly on it as potus. Today rumors of legal trouble and reports of lost net worth I doubt it flys again unless sold to anothe...

Re: Trump's Parked 757 N757AF

The operating costs before running for President had been paid for by NBC. During the campaign and Presidency the RNC paid for it for his kids as the usss did not allow him to fly on it as potus. Today rumors of legal trouble and reports of lost net worth I doubt it flys again unless sold to another...

Re: Pope Francis visit to Iraq

IMG_6766.png His plane did something strange. I passed Baghdad's airport and continued to head east and crossed over into Iran, before suddenly dropping off the radar. Any idea why? Look at the tag you had an estimated track because it lost tracking from ground stations and kept flying until being ...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - March 2021

Is VH-VOZ going for cargo conversion in Singapore?

Re: Mesa Air Group to help form European CRJ900 operator

The story is up for a day and not a single post about this venture bringing lower standards, regulation, and pilot pay? This forum is bleeding pilots and attracting future management.

Re: Viability (& Legality) of Combi Aircraft Moving Forward

This is a purely hypothetical question, but I always wondered if there are any routes in the world where a 744 Combi could hit a capacity sweet spot by completely filling the main deck with cargo, and only carrying passengers on the upper deck..say 60-70 economy seats installed? I've often wondered...

Re: Viability (& Legality) of Combi Aircraft Moving Forward

The regulations on cargo carriage keep getting stricter, which is making it more difficult to certify and operate combos. Ever since the National Air 747 crash in Afghanistan concerns about cargo shifting and rigid cargo barriers have increased. There have also been inflight fires that have brought...

Re: First TLV - UAE flight

Bad financial decision to chase non existent demand by LY at a time of their economic troubles. Not necessarily. About two months ago when Serbia was placed on Israel's green list, thousands of tourists flocked to Belgrade. Arkia, EL AL and Israir had in total up to 10 daily flights between BEG and...

Re: SpiceJet Applies For U.S. Flights - DEL-JFK With 737s

Very interesting news. I’d imagine it would stop three on both sections. Wouldn’t won’t to be a passenger on these. I’m gonna take a guess at the routing. DEL-SAW-SNN-KEF-JFK Could make it empty SNN-JFK JFK-KEF-LHR-SAW-DEL Again could make it empty from JFK to LHR Fly east to avoid strong headwinds...

Re: SpiceJet Applies For U.S. Flights - DEL-JFK With 737s

I say DEL-NRT-ANC-JFK Can those 738F make each sector of DEL-NRT-ANC-JFK. All four of them seem too long for the 738F range (remember those are the 738F which have the range of just 3690km, significantly shorter than the pax 738) https://i.imgur.com/38MwCfd.png http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=del-nrt-...

Re: First TLV - UAE flight

Bad financial decision to chase non existent demand by LY at a time of their economic troubles.

Re: SpiceJet Applies For U.S. Flights - DEL-JFK With 737s

Very interesting news. I’d imagine it would stop three on both sections. Wouldn’t won’t to be a passenger on these. I’m gonna take a guess at the routing. DEL-SAW-SNN-KEF-JFK Could make it empty SNN-JFK JFK-KEF-LHR-SAW-DEL Again could make it empty from JFK to LHR Fly east to avoid strong headwinds...

Re: Normalisation of relations between Israel and UAE air links

This actually opens up possibilities beyond UAE. As UAE is a major Gulf country, I would have to believe that UAE was not doing this in complete secrecy. Other Gulf countries (except Qatar) would have been briefed before the public announcement. At least they would have agreed to not condemn this m...

Re: Normalisation of relations between Israel and UAE air links

Perhaps Qatar will be next to acknowledge Israel and sign a peace pack. Qatar needs all the friends it can get in the Middle East right now. Qatar's best friend Iran won't let that happen and QR definitely needs the Iranian air space as long as the other Gulf countries cut them off. Tehran is alrea...

Re: Southwest removes autistic child due to mask issue

Really? There are US laws demanding 3 year old children - with autism or not - to wear a mask? Nice... There is no being nice with this virus, I really don't understand why people can't understand this, it doesn't care if you are naughty or nice, if it can find a way to kill you it will, so why not...

Re: Qatar at DXB pre conflict

Any available airplane all their fleet through a day!

Re: Pilot / ATC Repartee

SRQfoxtrot wrote:

In the phonetic alphabet, “Whiskey” is not used in some Islamic areas where its connotations to alcohol is offensive. .

Re: Air India Express IX1344 landing accident at Kozhikode

Not to be rude, but please check the correct information before making such posts. The captain of the aircraft was a decorated ex-IAF officer with 40+ years of flying experience. All of these 737NG incidents (such as this year's Pegasus Airlines crash in Istanbul and 2019's SpiceJet overshoot in Mu...

Re: Atlas B744, PVG, Aug-5-2020: triple engine pod strike

Okie wrote:

Considering that there was nothing remarkable about the Wx, the PF was going to have to be way behind the aircraft.

Re: How come even after all the 777Fs coming off the line, MD-11Fs are still going strong?

You can say a lot about the MD-11 (And trust me I can add plenty from a planning side) but it does a heck of a job in the cargo world. Capacity is massive and the wingspan keeps it in gateways that might lose a parking spot should you put a 747-8 or 777 in there. This is a biggie that people forget...

Re: AN-225 lower 48 visit 31JUL2020

crownvic wrote:

b747400erf.......Im not sure where you are getting your information from, but all along this was a flight from Bangor Maine to Tel Aviv with 2 scheduled tech stops.

If I had to guess, Prestwick was for fuel and Chateroux was a crew change...

Re: AN-225 lower 48 visit 31JUL2020

I totally agree with you..I always stated that it was just a tech stop for fuel. My comment was in dispute of what was claimed in post #22 above by another a.netter. The flight to Chateroux is not a tech stop I thought that was the question. The flight to PIK is to refuel because of military contra...

Re: Why was the 747-500 cancelled?

That makes zero sense. The person you replied to talked about the regular cruise speed of modern turbofan engines and the 747 regularly flys at the same speed. The fastest I have seen in normal operations is .86 You don't see 747s flying faster, because that means they have to burn more fuel than w...

Re: How come even after all the 777Fs coming off the line, MD-11Fs are still going strong?

Paid off and low cycles
High up front costs of new airframes
ups is still buying factory built 763s and 747-8s to retire their older fleet
Fedex used 757s some factory built 767s and 777s
Cargo airlines are the last to retire older planes

Re: Atlas (GTI) Callsign "Qantas" (QFA)

Kent350787 wrote:

Also, I think you'll find that, although it's a QF flight number, it's an Atlas callsign.

Re: Is there a Business Case for a 787-9 regional

European airlines fly the 787 in Europe and Asian airlines in Asia many on domestic routes

The American 787 airlines operating the 787 fly on some domestic hops but a regional is limited in seat numbers by a scope clause

Re: AN-225 lower 48 visit 31JUL2020

Well I am watching it live, its been on the ground for an hour and only fuel trucks present and nose still down. Scheduled out in one hour... I don't think they were ever going to open the nose up ? It was a fast turnaround ! Great crowd along at PIK today, road traffic was crazy, and I got there t...

Re: Updated: BA fleet parking, will retire 747 fleet

British Airways scrapping its all-business class flight between LCY and JFK and retire the A318 https://www.flightglobal.com/airlines/ba-axes-a318-premium-service-that-took-over-concorde-flight-number/139579.article https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/british-airways-scraps-all-business-class-l...

Re: Atlas (GTI) Callsign "Qantas" (QFA)

Just noticed this flight on FlightAware: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/QFA7554 Why is N856GT, an Atlas 747-8F, making a flight under the Qantas call sign? Obviously Qantas has contracted Atlas to fly freight from ORD to HNL but why do they use the QFA call sign? This info is freely available ...

Re: Aeroflot not taking two new 77W

Given the Political issues between the USA and Russia I am surprised Aeroflot is allowed to order Boeing Aircraft at all. Banning Boeing orders would seem to be an obvious way to retaliate against US Sanctions. Perhaps this is what is happening but in a more subtle way? Having suggested that I will...

Re: AN-225 lower 48 visit 31JUL2020

Just departing to PIK as I write, due 1509L, I'll be heading along later for pictures. BigJetTV is doing a live broadcast of that tech stop...I wonder if anyone will be on hand for the second tech stop a short hop to CHATEAUROUX...curious as to why its stopping there on its way to Tel Aviv its fina...

Re: Future of AirAsia in "Significant Doubt" - auditor Ernst & Young

MIflyer12 wrote:

Do auditors' 'going concern' letters mean more in Malaysia than they do in the U.S.?

Re: Updated: BA fleet parking, will retire 747 fleet

The death of "Speedbird 1/2" again ... I see G-EUNA meeting the scrapper, with the engines being saved. The BCS1/3 has basically killed any demand for the A318, and the BCS1 is already certified into LCY, with LX using the BCS1 on ZRH-LCY. It also bears worth noting that the BCS1 has more...

Re: How’s UA’s GUM operation at the moment?

At the moment, quite busy, with the addition of special charter flights and other sorties. Still a pretty active operation as UA is a vital inter-island link. Are you looking at another airport? Most routes are cancelled and at most half a dozen United flights a day. It certainly looks like flights...

Re: Why was the 747-500 cancelled?

That makes no sense, the 787 and A350 both cruise around .85, basically the same as the 747 using the most modern turbofans available and of course so does the 747-8 The 747 is a lot faster than mach .85. It will easily cruise at up to mach .92. That most 747s cruise at the same speed as a 787 is b...

Re: Qatari 747-8i BBJ flying mansion hits the market

The G650 and other bizjets of its size have impressive performance but they’re still pretty small inside, especially on a 15+ hour flight If money was no object I’d have a 787-8, great range, high cruise speed, loads of space and not so big that operation is limited to large- ish airports Plus you ...

Re: How’s UA’s GUM operation at the moment?

CALAV8R wrote:

At the moment, quite busy, with the addition of special charter flights and other sorties. Still a pretty active operation as UA is a vital inter-island link.

Re: Mystery 747SP flying PUB-GTF July 14, 2020????