wingman wrote:This is why I never check bags.
Norwegian newspaper VG claims it was a medical emergency and they were too heavy for landing at OSL, so they circled for a while to burn fuel before eventually deciding to divert to CPH instead...:
https://direkte.vg.no/studio/nyhetsdoeg ... 8062a3e60b
I just realized the same thing. It's been 9 months. It may not be a 5 minute job to implement HTTPS on a large site, but 9 months is a bit too much isn't it? I agree with the first poster, there is ZERO excuse. "Our sites are safe" is not enough, if I am logging in via HTTP my credentials ...
Jump to post4) Australia is already ready for ultra-range flights, a Tel Aviv - Sydney flight is a little shorter than Perth - London Heathrow, an easy route to fulfill for the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner with the greatest effeciency, and highlighting that the Jewish population in Australia is one of the largest i...
Jump to postSource? If this is true the real breaking news here is an airline being allowed to fly over an Arab country on the way to/from Israel.
Jump to postJust popped up in my Google Feed: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/ ... photo/amp/
Amazing picture. Looks quite dangerous though.
From looking at the FR image above, it appears the Virgin was "over-taking" the Egypt Air on to the runway - why would that happen? Unless the 330 was going backwards, it isn't possible for the winglet of the A330 to connect with the *leading* edge of the 777. It would appear as if the 77...
Jump to postOccasionally KL switched the 772 for a 747 to DXB, not sure if they still do that
Jump to postIf only I had money enough to fly F or J. This economy class "upgrade" is a nightmare;
Installed "ergonomically" thin seats
Removed Power outlet
No more separate cupholder...
Is it just me or are all the thrust reversers still deployed in all these pictures?
Jump to postToo short to fly also depends on whether you're connecting or not. Take HAJ-AMS, a 40 min flight, vs a 3.5 hour drive. I'd rather drive if I had to be in Amsterdam, but if flying onward from Amsterdam then I would rather fly, there's probably a truckload of other examples where flying makes sense if...
Jump to postFlown a dozen times on the A380 myself, and can't recall any particularly hard landing. I also believe it has a lot to do with where in the aircraft you are sitting. Was reminded about this video. I've noticed this before on the A380, to me it seems the struts only start to absorb energy after the e...
Jump to postI am missing the roo on the engine, a simple addition that made the livery look less bland.
Jump to postCoast Guard from Curacao has landed at SXM.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2191915-eerste-v ... arten.html
ATC is not operational
Dutch Navy is reporting the runway at SXM will already open sometime today: https://nos.nl/artikel/2191832-luchthav ... -hulp.html
Jump to postAre there any US carriers with routes over Iran that are affected?
Jump to postAlready discussed: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1372381
Jump to postNZ got a new one in July, which begs the question, what does a delivery flight TLS-NZ look like for an ATR, ought to be making a lot of stops.
Jump to postSAS has made many network cuts over the years. It had to cut SEA back in 2009, and BKK in 2013 because it ''wasn't profitable'' despite the fact that it had high load factors. There is no way SAS would fly to AKL. SAS will never return to SEA (most likely because of too much European and Icelandair...
Jump to postAccording to FR24 a 39 year old 742 EP-SHB has been flying on both 18 and 19 july. Anyone known where she has been, or is this just a glitch of FR24? Seems rather unlikely, the aircraft is apparently stored, and last time it was seen flying was in 2000. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ep...
Jump to postI've noticed that many EK flights from southern Europe to DXB have a bit weird routing. They don't do it always but is seems to be "preferred" by EK when looking at some flight history. It seems as if they want to be in Saudi airspace for as short as possible. EK192 LIS-DXB for example fli...
Jump to postKarelXWB wrote:The cabin equipped A350-1000 (MSN 65) is on its way to Al Ain (hot whether testing?):
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... xv#df542c4
I work at international concourse in Atlanta, and I see Qatar come in, and the plane is almost empty every day
Suffice to say that folks aren't too tempted these days to fly EK, fearing that their laptops and iPads will be rattling about in the hold. Flew EK201 (DXB-JFK) recently, my laptop was packed very well, only concern I had was when they were handing devices back out it was absolute chaos. But all we...
Jump to postIf AMS continues like this they will soon overtake CDG and take second place in Europe (by passenger numbers) after LHR.
Jump to postHas Bahrain opened another routing for QR planes? QR93(DOH-ZRH) just flew past Bahrain towards Kuwait. Perhaps ICAO has intervened and has knocked some sense into the parties. It does appear that quite a few QR flights are going further west in the Bahrain FIR. I suspect that they are in internatio...
Jump to postEven if this guy would be right he'd still be a moron imo. Really good to see the other passengers intervened.
Jump to postDoha airport according to Google
Will be interesting to see what happens with QR400 DOH-AMM later today. Looking at a map the only way in for QR is through Iraq. Or can they fly over the Red Sea even though it is in Egypt/KSA FIR?
Jump to postLike I said on another thread. The UAE airlines flying to Qatar which are EY, EK and flydubai are also losing revenue here. Qatar is only one airline while three are losing out in the UAE. QR alone has more flights to the UAE then EY/EK/FZ have combined to Qatar. In addition the UAE is a major mark...
Jump to postlightsaber wrote:I need popcorn!
Pellegrine wrote:Also, Somali airspace is verboten as well as it's considered moderate risk/no fly.
as they have sort of fixed the biliteral problem between Russia and Norway. Don't want to go off topic here, but I missed this. What has changed? Sure enough I checked and DY7201 is now flying over Russian airspace (https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/dy7201#d7edf05) Still a bit weird turn s...
Jump to postA friend of mine flies CMB-SIN-MEL quite frequently, pretty sure he will be happy Congrats to UL and MEL
Jump to postNot that I see any airline putting HDMI/DisplayPort/WiDi capability to their IFE anytime soon. Not 100% sure but IFE systems in J and F have HDMI input or stream your own content feature. There are compute sticks by Intel, Asus and others ranging between $150 to $400. ME3 can give out those to J/F ...
Jump to postAnd delivered: Airbus A330 -343 1789 RP-C3348 Cebu Pacific Air delivery 19-20may17 TLS-DWC-MNL ex F-WWCD Any idea why there's a stopover in Dubai? Especially on a delivery flight it should make TLS-MNL nonstop easy? Edit: Just a wild guess but maybe it's a leased aircraft and the leasing company is...
Jump to postPhones that can be used as laptops and easily connect to universal external screens and keyboards are going to become a thing. The problem I see is that modern interfaces like WiDi or DisplayPort are not just display connections, they're also data connections, so users with sensitive data might not...
Jump to postCompared to some other monarchs, at least he's doing something semi-productive instead of just polishing his jewels in various castles. He's actually quite "productive" otherwise as well. If I'm not mistaken he does quite a lot of trade missions to promote the Netherlands as a trade partn...
Jump to postApparently he made his last F70 flight yesterday, he's been flying for KLM CityHopper twice a month for the past 21 years, that adds up to a decent amount of flying. According to cabin crew and captains that have flown with him, he wants to be called by his first name and not "your highness&quo...
Jump to postThe ME3 have decided they get free advertising for their airline if they every month start announcing things or make statements to the press. No need for big marketing campaigns if your name is in the papers daily about routes you pretend you are going to start, or airplanes you are going to receiv...
Jump to postI've noticed ET's 787 parked at Oslo, and when I checked the schedule, I saw the plane is sitting in OSL for basically the whole day before returning OSL-ARN-ADD. If they do that in more places then Oslo, I think I know a way to cut cost. Surely it costs a lot of money to have a 787 sitting idle all...
Jump to postMaybe I missed it but I followed the three test A350-1000's for a while on a FR24, and so far I've not seen a single flight go higher then FL410, where the 359's routinely go to FL430. Just a coincidence or is the heavier 1000 less effective at higher altitude than the 900?
Jump to postZeeZoo wrote:Can I ask, to which country is EK's most revenue generating? And which country is EK's most profit generating?
Cheers!
In a new announcement, (not to be confused with the previous cuts) EK has announced it is cutting one JFK-DXB nonstop frequency, reducing the overall count from 3X to 2X daily for the month of June as it decides how to proceed in the future. The Milan flight is unaffected; the cut flight is EK207/2...
Jump to postIf only someone had a can of Pepsi...
Jump to postIsn't that the longest range for any commercial aircraft? Quite incredible. I see a SYD-LHR nonstop flight become viable (as in flying it with a full load and still being economical) within the foreseeable future.
Jump to postdcajet wrote:According to El Pais of Madrid, Norwegian announced today that it has requested authority to fly between Buenos Aires and London, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Barcelona.
Bad news for us who were waiting for this. EK seems to be crawling back on their "rollout in the next 18 months" statement. http://www.arabnews.com/node/1065696/business-economy I thought Al Baker/QR had a monopoly on making U-turns like this? :) A decision on whether to introduce a premiu...
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