"He has the means and is CEO, do what you want." If human beings honestly accepted the horrors that climate change is almost certain to visit on the biosphere of our planet, all of us would stop using polluting means of transport. That is obviously not happening. The difference between a p...
Jump to postDo mainland Chinese carriers have these same restrictions on their cargo flights? AFAIK, the rules are the same for any carrier. However, Mainland carrier crew are not based in HK, and most likely all they do are turns. They never enter HK. So are you saying that the restrictions on airlines are th...
Jump to postZero COVID cannot go on forever if a country aims to be part of the world, but Oz and NZ seemed to keep that goal until recently with the Omicron upsurge. That's not true. NZ and Oz maintained a zero-covid stance for a long time, but when it became evident that endemicity was the future, they event...
Jump to postIf so, then perhaps it is about COVID control. I just read that China has put tariffs on importing coffee, alcohol, honey, olive oil, chocolate under the guise it is covid related. That is to get around the WTO rules on unfair tariffs as they are claiming a health exemption. https://www.scmp.com/ec...
Jump to postIf that 'solution' is complete and durable isolation from the rest of the World with zero strategy for ever reopening, harsh restrictive measures on citizens, destruction of local businesses, annihilation of HK's status as an international business and finance hub (its very raison-d'etre), then I s...
Jump to postThis is very clearly not about COVID control. How so? You may be right, but I wonder if the same regulations apply to China Eastern in Shanghai, China Southern in Guangzhou, and Chinese airlines in Beijing? If so, then perhaps it is about COVID control. But if Hong Kong and CX are being singled out...
Jump to postIf I understand the plane's routing, it was to have landed in Seoul before continuing to Shanghai. Why did it not at least make this first stop? Are all passengers destined to Shanghai, with Seoul being only a technical stop to change pilots, refuel, etc.?
Jump to postPolot wrote:Still hate the blue, know that most people here will love it just because of the blue.
\ No need to insult, really Manners and arrogance are beyond some people 100% wrong. The title of this thread is inaccurate on every level. BA have not in any way threatened to leave LHR, the worst they will do is refocus some connections within IAG elsewhere. So to even say "BA are mulling to...
Jump to postLet them go and build a mega terminal at Gatwick and move everything there.... with their 1 runway. Flights will be delayed for 3 days before they'd get a slot to take off. Very sound business sense.. leaving Heathrow. Isn't a second runway planned for Gatwick? Will it arrive before the third runwa...
Jump to postI heard they're working on a 6 runway airport in Exter... Exter? A'Net joke, a while back someone came up with the idea of closing LHR and replacing it with a new airport at Exeter..... You can guess the response to that idea. As it is, when flying from the US west coast to anywhere other than LHR ...
Jump to postAs per link below, British Airways is mulling (threatening?) to leave LHR as result of the expensive fees for airlines. https://airwaysmag.com/airports/ba-consider-heathrow-flights/?fbclid=IwAR0jBFc3U20cCrA5-za9kFIB3EIIUHQwt5_Tipwe2XBUKOJCRqAkkdIrBpQ I heard they're working on a 6 runway airport in...
Jump to postflymco753 wrote:DTW-FCO is a small market, might as well just have some random airline fly 2x weekly to Tirana instead.
I was thinking more of Bozo the Clown. Seriously, they needed to play "Thunder and Blazes" when they rolled this thing out of the hanger. https://youtu.be/vg-Rl--re9s The new livery is not that different from what it replaced. I don't see the "point" of the new arrangement of th...
Jump to postThis livery reminded my Dr. Seuss' Put Me In The Zoo. https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fprodimage.images-bn.com%2Fpimages%2F9780394800172_p0_v3_s550x406.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.barnesandnoble.com%2Fw%2Fput-me-in-the-zoo-robert-lopshire%2F1100291346&tbnid=0xrycoeUIC2...
Jump to postSeems China does not like folks picking up those pesky ADS-B signals being used to show us where planes are. Banned the site and confiscated equipment from at least one person. Wouldn't anything they really want to hide not be sending ADS-B signals anyway? https://theprint.in/opinion/chinascope/chi...
Jump to postFlyLeone seem to have postponed plans to start routes from their base in Pescara to both Verona and Lamezia Terme. They are selling tickets on just their Pescara - Trieste - Genoa - Trieste - Pescara W route for now. They fly a single Beechcraft 1900 Pescara to both Verona and Trieste are better su...
Jump to postMy thoughts: 1) DL is putting up a strong fight against AA/B6 by concentrating their TATL network around JFK and BOS. 2) Despite serving a lot of popular seasonal destinations like ATH and LIS, DL is still really going to be leaning in on Air France/KLM to feed pax to places that were once served n...
Jump to postA stretched A359 to A35K length would already be capable of taking 365 pax (35k capacity) ~7000nm. with 143t OWE and using 92t of fuel. MZFW (Assuming the same ~73t of the A35k) would be about (4100nm). Fred I don't have much knowledge of aviation technology, but when you say stretching the A359 to...
Jump to postAs far as the "Rousseau French Issue" goes I know it's hard for non-Quebecers to understand (I struggle with it as well being an Anglophone in Montreal) but Air Canada does dominate the French speaking air transport market in Canada (~20% of total population). He should know better (he sh...
Jump to postA stretched A359 to A35K length would already be capable of taking 365 pax (35k capacity) ~7000nm. with 143t OWE and using 92t of fuel. MZFW (Assuming the same ~73t of the A35k) would be about (4100nm). Fred I don't have much knowledge of aviation technology, but when you say stretching the A359 to...
Jump to postJust anecdotal stuff but I wonder if this resonates with others: I have repeatedly experienced the least pleasant ground staff at LHR and other airports checking me in for BA flights (I sometimes fly with a violin and am used to being harassed about it but no other airline (LH/KLM) has made me feel...
Jump to postThere's no question that Airbus has overtaken Boeing, which once was once far in the lead but faltered for a number of reasons (debated to death in this this forum). So the market responded. Or, as someone once said: Boeing was number one, Airbus was number two. Boeing lost it, turned it it's wings...
Jump to postBoeing needs an Elon Musk or Carlos Ghosn type character to take the helm. A trillionaire frat bro or an internationally wanted fugitive? Yikes... I doubt if Musk would be at all interested in an old school industry like commercial ainline manufacturing, and question whether any company would hire ...
Jump to postThese sorts of meltdowns seem to happen more to AA than the other airlines, but it's not like it's in their control. How is this not in their control? Draft a schedule your people can fly. That's not hard, and most carriers manage to do it month after month after month AA was losing its way before ...
Jump to postairlinenavigato wrote:Budget travellers care less about the travel time to the airport.
'Depressing' is an individual opinion and not a fact.
FCOTSTW wrote:Reverting to the old Sabena brand? That would be nice on the hand (lots of history and heritage) but would also be a drag (it is a company that got liquidated). Just an idea.
The contrast of the underwater blue of most of the livery and the primary colors of the Italian flag at the rear - who could have allowed this to happen? Heheh, this livery is a sign of just how underwater the airline is gonna be! Horrible IMO. Replace the blue with silver, repaint the titles to gr...
Jump to postFrankly, should this policy move forward it really opens a can of worms and can create the balkanization of the global slot process. For years the industry has been trying to achieve a more standardized and predictable system versus every nation following their own random policy. No disrespect to y...
Jump to postIs Mullenberg sleeping well at night nowadays? Based on his record, money enough will allow him to sleep easy for the duration. If Peter DeFazio had his way, that could change https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-lawmaker-blames-boeing-leaders-culture-that-led-crashes-2021-10-15/ I...
Jump to postLDRA wrote:Is Mullenberg sleeping well at night nowadays?
The contrast of the underwater blue of most of the livery and the primary colors of the Italian flag at the rear - who could have allowed this to happen?
Jump to postsand26391 wrote:I heard from some crew/agents in DL, saying they will probably hiring hindi crew. Probable launch JFK-BLR/DEL next year (?). Not sure if it's the right thread, but just wanted to share.
I think the biggest problem in the USA is that there are so many wheelchair passengers, which under proper medical treatment wouldn't need one. And I assume they don't get that medical treatment because they can't pay for it or their insurance isn't paying for it. It's the only explanation I can co...
Jump to posti may be dumb, but i dont think this has much to do with Covid mandates. I think it has everything to do with their (pilots) their frustration with WN. Something happened a few weeks ago with hotels, and im sure the MAX had something to do with it. I may be wrong but arent they in contract negotiat...
Jump to postSo did someone tell the politicians to make sure the laws they pass are clear or was it truly political to make the people believe they were doing something? It is beyond ironic that the regulator is dropping a case because the law that the regulator put in place is not clear for the regulator to u...
Jump to postI'd like to see Delta slowly weed out the foreign aircraft in its fleet and replace them with North American equipment. You do know the A320 family uses around 40% content of American made parts? So you also favor AF, LH, and all the other EU airlines weeding out the foreign (i.e. American) aircraf...
Jump to postI believe it was successful due to the leadership brought over from NWA. They were a top notch group that very well could have saved both airlines. Interesting that they kept the Delta name. Yes. Similarly, I've always thought that the "secret sauce" underpinning this merger was the compl...
Jump to postMiss Northwest, but this merger was definitely successful. Amen. Miss those red tails a lot, but the arc of competition in the US called for bigger, and DL/NW seems to have done the best job of merging, in spite of having the least valuable hubs by some measures. Now that the pandemic has shuffled ...
Jump to postFlew the JFK JNB sector non-stop on a SP in my younger years. JNB is at high altitude so it likely impacted the performance in respect to payload, hence the technical stop at SAL. Those were the days, I remember arriving in the middle of the night with armed soldiers on the tarmac at SAL and other ...
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tphuang wrote:Path extension would have been 1000% more useful than this.
GOH? Or do you mean GOT? No I meant Greenland. It is not a big market but that is in large part because of the lack of infrastructure and reasonable flights to the US. When AA starts PHL-Greenland, you will certainly have full rights to brag about being the only person on this forum to predict it.....
Jump to postAny chance Alaska is waiting until the Concourse B expansion to ramp up frequencies? I sure hope AS starts bringing back PDX flights soon. I will no longer connect in SEA, so I find myself increasingly using other airlines. Out of curiosity, why no more connections in SEA? Is the experience there s...
Jump to postThe MAX has been back in service for 6 months. I have not seen anything in the media about Pax refusing to fly on it. It seems as though the 2 previous crashes have been forgotten here in the U.S. Is this because COVID and unruly passengers have become the focus of flying concerns? Does anyone know...
Jump to postThursday morning flight TPA-FLL. The FO I worked with that afternoon said an NK FA refused to wear her mask once on the plane and was removed from the flight before push. The FO was one of the last ones on and witnessed the altercation in the jetway, with the FA getting very combative, complete wit...
Jump to postI blame the media for this. I have never seen an article about pax attempting to open exits (or kick out window as case may be) without an accompanying explanation that doing so is physically/technically impossible. The fact that opening or breaking the airplane window is not possible at cruising a...
Jump to postI think that trying to kick out the window goes way beyond being a brat. Enough with the overdramatized kicking the window out meme. No person of any size, Hulk Hogan and Arnold the Terminator included, is going to kick out a window. No one was in the slightest endangered. Annoyed, yes. He’s a brat...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:If anybody should be banned, not saying banning is appropriate here, it’s the lackadaisical parents who raised the child to be a brat. That’s all assuming there isn’t an underlying medical condition such as autism.
It is possible with the right leadership. Why not give NYC its first direct subway connection to one of its three airports? Or just bring back the Carey Bus, and set it up to interline with the city busses and subway using a Metrocard. But that would cost basically-nothing, when we can instead spen...
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