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StTim

Re: Rumour : a350 ahead in IndiGo widebody race

I’ve flown Indigo. A good flight and comparable to European low cost carriers.

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Re: Harwich factory to make jet fuel out of faeces in world first

readytotaxi wrote:
So in 2028 the shit hits the fanjet.

Thank you

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Re: Boeing’s Troubles

Striking certainly doesn’t help build trust or reduce antagonism. Labor negotiations are a two way street and we shouldn’t pretend the full onus is on a CEO. Labor needs to show up and be willing to partner, which has never been the case at Boeing. But for a labor/management relationship to work th...

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Re: A220 in Europe’s Airlines strategy

Everyone thinks of WN with its one type fleet, but they’re unique. Not really. Ryanair is all 737 - it has no crossover from Lauda. Lufthansa has no crossover from Swiss (with its 220s) nor Brussels, nor Asutrian. It's the U.S. carriers that put up with the training events over A220/737/A320/757s a...

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Re: United Overstaffed due to Boeing Delays; To Offer Voluntary Program

exFWAOONW wrote:
A show of hands of those that think they will be short when the planes actually get delivered.

Short sighted in my view

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Re: Airbus CFO: We're not happy with the issues at Boeing

Also, the basic design of the MAX isn't wrong. What's wrong is Boeing promising Southwest that it will fly similarly to the 737NG, and them having a failure of imagination when implementing said feature. The reports came out sooo long ago and people still think the MAX design was wrong instead of r...

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Re: Boeing announces Board and Management Changes

The simple explanation is that reducing deferred production cost to zero does not actually require any physical cash. It is accounting entry only where in early years reported earnings are higher than actual and later years lower if things go normally. They would have $100 Billion in cash as they n...

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Re: Boeing announces Board and Management Changes

Put it this way - if they hadn't bought back any stock in those years - they would have had close to $100B in cash on the balance sheet. Would that have been a good idea? It could have come in handy with what subsequently happened - but they had no real need to keep it and didn't indebt the company...

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Re: Boeing announces Board and Management Changes

In 2018 Boeing had $12,6B FCF. They spend $9,0B on stock buybacks and $3,9B on dividend. So, they were spending more on shareholders value then they had cash in flow… But no! SXF-guy and morry told us they, are a good business or something... Bullshit there was a disgusting amount of compensation p...

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Re: Ryanair's MoL - warming to Airbus ?

kalvado wrote:
Airbus: here is our list price. Any fries on the side?

Nowadays they don't publish a list price.

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Re: United, FAA steps up oversight.

Yup United better get their perception under control, facts don’t matter here. What facts don’t matter? Here are few that we know are verified. 5 air interrupts- diversions or turn backs between March 4th and 11th including a Triple that had tire depart on take off. A 800 that departed the taxi way...

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Re: Korean may order around 20 a350s

Where has the 777-9 come from? B777-9 is a projection. A blue chip airline like KE will definitely buy B77X family some time down the line. Agree with you, no sure which A350 they are going for (therefore I did not include in the list), hopefully the A35K A side note, through KE's mother company Ha...

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Re: UA 737-800 Loses Body Fairing In Flight

Left side lower WTB (wing to body) fairing. This is behind the wheel well opening as you can see the #4 flap transmission in full view. The panel is held in place with #10 screws. As a side note, the most common part to leave the 737 is the lavatory service door at the rear of the aircraft. This is...

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Re: UA 737-800 Loses Body Fairing In Flight

Could someone please point out, with a diagram or a picture, what panel was lost in the 737-800? I'm not sure where exactly that panel goes by the picture shown on the news. Left side lower WTB (wing to body) fairing. This is behind the wheel well opening as you can see the #4 flap transmission in ...

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Re: Boeing’s Troubles

Reinforcing the culture of do something wrong we fire you? This leads to cover ups and fear. What needs to be in place is a culture where you can report that the instructions are vague, all the tools/materials are not available, that the process is prone to creating errors/defects. This exactly. He...

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Re: Boeing’s Troubles

No, Boeing says the information the NTSB wants does not exist. Boeing has no information on who has worked on which part?? Or they do have information and have already sacked them... Fred Reinforcing the culture of do something wrong we fire you? This leads to cover ups and fear. What needs to be i...

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Re: Boeing’s Troubles

sxf24 wrote:
JonesNL wrote:
sxf24 wrote:

No, Boeing says the information the NTSB wants does not exist.

Boeing has no information on who has worked on which part??

Seems pretty clear at this point there are no records related to the door plug opening.

Which in itself is a major red flag.

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Re: Boeing 737 MAX Fails Dozens of Tests in FAA Audit

someone needs to put this in perspective. There are several hundred thousand parts in any air craft, there are about 5000 process specifications, material specifications, policies and procedures that cover from engineering design, through manufacturing, assembly testing and data verification (QA) t...

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Re: IAG in talks to replace BA 777s

I can't see BA getting the 777X in 2026 but they might be available to them in 2027. The more they move to the right the worse the business case becomes,

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Re: Boeing and Airbus in discussions with Spirit Aerosystems About Buying Spirit or Parts of it

What percentage of frames are hit and what is the average number of holes?

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Re: Report: Boeing in discussions with Spirit Aerosystems About Buying Spirit

About damn time! Would be a little difficult splitting current operations between Airbus and Boeing and may even be a little pricey but this move is long overdue. Dare I say it, but if this goes ahead Boeing is back? Boeing isn't back until the bean counters that run the company whose sole focus is...

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Re: Will it be possible for Boeing and/or Airbus to ever come up with the Ultimate ULR plane?

Ah that Kool-Aid concept.

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Re: Boeing 777X Testing / Production - 2024

I fail to understand how a third-generation variant that is close to 500 orders already and might rack up as much as 600-750 orders over its lifetime can be considered a loss-making program or even a cash write-off. Not even the 747 boasted such luck. Third? The 777X is the second generation of the...

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Re: Boeing’s Troubles

Have we got to the search for the guilty or the punishment of the innocent stage of the Max Project??

Six Stages of a Project!

1. Enthusiasm

2. Disillusionment

3. Panic

4. Search for the Guilty

5. Punishment of the Innocent

6. Praise and Honors for the Non-Participants

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Re: Boeing’s Troubles

Not wanting to turn this into a flame war but at the Airbus annual results press conference the CEO was asked if Airbus were experiencing similar issues to Boeing. He was very clever at not wanting to get into bashing Boeing - but the comments he made about quality and safety were quite telling abou...

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Re: Airbus enhances A330-900 climb performance with extra flap settings and faster gear retraction

I wonder if this will be retrofitable?

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FAA issues AD for missing 737 MAX rudder bolt

https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExterna ... pened=true

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

EASA is the lead authority on this. It may delay confirmation of the USA certification though. Well, if the FAA doesn't certify the A321XLR, this is almost as serious as the EASA not certifying it. The US market is of big importance to the A321XLR. A388 I thought it's just a rubber stamp? Or did th...

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Re: Can the A320’s engine type be swapped?

There can be a lot of other ancilliary items to replace as well. I remember the BA 777 which crashed short of 27L at LHR. Issue traced (high probability) to the RR design of heat exchanger. Obviosly these are housed inside the wing.

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Re: Man flew LHR-JFK without any documents

The U.K. doesn't do exit passport control anymore right, aligning with U.S. policy? You don’t have immigration checks to leave the UK, but (and it’s a huge one), for an international flight you have to show your passport and boarding card at the gate. The last time I flew from T5 there were gates w...

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Re: Man flew LHR-JFK without any documents

I will admit that I once travelled from LHR to Paris on my wifes passport. She has the same surname but looks far better than I do. I obviously did have a boarding card. As I was boarding the plane the gate agent checked the boarding card against the passport and obviously just checked the surname -...

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Re: Man flew LHR-JFK without any documents

Having flown on BA out of LHR many times I am astounded that he could do this. So many check points to get airside and then onto the plane.

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Re: Boeing’s Troubles

The best mission statements are short, pithy and sum up the company values. OK there then may be explanatory texts behind to explain in more detail but they are not the mission statement. Done well each person can almost recite the statment and provide adequate - if not complete explanations. As abo...

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Re: Boeing’s Troubles

If he is a current Boeing employee why didn.t he intervene or let the alarmbells go off.? Easy to stay on the sideline and do nothing and know step forward after this incident happened. Yeah he is a real hero now... Perhaps another four lettered acronym applied at Boeing engineering 'STFU' ? Speaki...

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Re: Airbus ramps up work on clean sheet A320 successor

Given how long updates to existing frames are taking (MAX 10 and A321 XLR) I would be interested to hear what the much more informed people out there think isa reasonable development timeframe for a brand new (traditional) and perhaps a brand new (innovative al la TTBW) frame? To me it feels like 10...

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Re: Boeing’s Troubles

People here seems to casually use the term engineer here but as we all know there are many sorts of engineer - many involved in aircraft production, many not. Are we considering all equal? (For info I have a BSc in Mechanical Engineering) Aeronautical Engineers? Stress Engineers? Civil Engineers? (...

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Re: Boeing’s Troubles

People here seems to casually use the term engineer here but as we all know there are many sorts of engineer - many involved in aircraft production, many not. Are we considering all equal? (For info I have a BSc in Mechanical Engineering) Aeronautical Engineers? Stress Engineers? Civil Engineers? (p...

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Re: Boeing’s Troubles

Eventually Southwest and Ryanair will need to bite the bullet. The 737 must surely be in its final iteration.

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Re: Boeing 737MAX Production / Deliveries - 2024

Thanks - I like this summary.

It looks like 6 of these deliveries were from inventory so continued progress on that.

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Re: Clark: Emirates will inspect 777 production

My first job after graduating in Mechanical Engineering was working for a consultancy that provided third party QC and Inspection for clients at factories where parts were being manufactured. Often it would be mob handed as there would also be an engineer from the prime contractor. Interesting job -...

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Re: Boeing narrows losses but holds off on 2024 guidance as 737 Max 9 crisis looms

So far, market responded favorably - as of now up 6% on the day. Stock performance since beginning of 2018 is not good and so far there doesn't appear to be a trendline to recover to peak - stock would need more than double to get back to peak. I suspect a lot of people here believe that high was s...

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Re: Boeing’s Troubles

I still contend that as originally designed MCAS was fit for purpose. However during testing it was found that its use needed to be expanded. The design change control around this expansion of MCAS operation was extremely poor and that is being generous. This expansion was rushed. Removing the seco...

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Re: Boeing’s Troubles

I still contend that as originally designed MCAS was fit for purpose. However during testing it was found that its use needed to be expanded. The design change control around this expansion of MCAS operation was extremely poor and that is being generous. This expansion was rushed. Removing the secon...

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

Why didn't they just use the same anti ice system from the 8/9 on the 7 and 10? They have done. This issue is on the 8 and 9. Pilots (according to one video I saw) have reminder post it notes on the yoke and timers to check. I seem to recall a 737 did have a nacelle issue and I wonder if this is ho...

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

fcogafa wrote:
With the FAA being tied up with Boeing stuff, will that delay XLR certification further?

EASA is the lead authority on this. It may delay confirmation of the USA certification though.

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

According to Steven Udvar-Hazy, The XLR would be 16-18 months late. It is 16-18 months late. Deliveries was supposed to start in the beginning of 2023, and now they are estimating towards the Summer of 2024 If they can deliver only 18 months late it will still be the closest to any development prog...

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Re: Boeing’s Troubles

Boeing's partnership for profit programme could be more accurately described as we partner with you to relieve you of profits you may have made in the past. This went further when they also took most (if not all) the margin on spare parts. Not surprisingly this was short termism at its worst. As sho...

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Re: Why is Ryanair able to post record profits, but US ULCCs struggle?

Annecdotally Ryanairs fares are much less than those of the ULCC in the US. I hate Ryanair by the way - they get away with some really dodgy practices but if councils/regions etc are willing to subsidize them to bring people to their area so be it. I choose not to fly them unless there is no other ...

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Re: EASA Extends A320ceo Wing Fatigue Cracking Inspections To All A320neo Models

Jeez - these sorts of AD's are out there on all aircraft. This is (to use the american vernacular) a nothing burger.

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Re: Why is Ryanair able to post record profits, but US ULCCs struggle?

Annecdotally Ryanairs fares are much less than those of the ULCC in the US. I hate Ryanair by the way - they get away with some really dodgy practices but if councils/regions etc are willing to subsidize them to bring people to their area so be it. I choose not to fly them unless there is no other c...

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