Any idea which European destinations will see OS 787 ? Here are some routes I can think of: IB MAD-LHR 350 UX MAD-AMS/ORY 787 SK ARN-CPH 350 AY HEL-LHR/AMS 350 LX ZRH-ATH 77W in April and May Can MAD-LHR still be considered intra-Europe? it's as much intra-Europe as HEL-LHR is... And yes, of course...
Jump to postThis is going to hit BA hard. Not as bad as the other 2 max crashes but a bit less similar. They only positives is no one died and it was on a Friday evening after markets are closed for a weekend. BA don't operate MAX's, indeed they haven't operated any 737s since the old London Gatwick ones went ...
Jump to postFirst video if seen from the right side of the plane https://twitter.com/JacdecNew/status/1742134356305395734?t=X4vadOX1c5cAbYlcKC0m-Q&s=19 So far I've seen evacuation from front left and front right doors, and reluctant evacuation from aft left (high up in he air, slide at a steep angle due to...
Jump to postJet2 isn't a real low-cost player IAG can place everywhere either. Keep in mind Jet2 is exclusively British, it's virtually unknown outside the UK. It has no market recognition whatsoever in mainland Europe. On top of that, Jet2 isn't a real low-cost airline. Rather they're the in-house airline of ...
Jump to postI mostly fly 'low cost' carriers, but as I don't live at a hub, I class them as 'direct' airlines, if you want priority seating, more luggage or a meal you pay extra. Although I've never taken an internal flight in the USA, British friends who have generally describe the experience as pretty awful. ...
Jump to postNot worse, but comparable with DL and UA at 30" pitch as well. They both do have 3 rows in F and I believe DL has installed new larger bins on the 319 and 320 fleets. I wish AA would expand F to 3 rows as well, but they don't want to give up a couple rows in back which make more $$$. If they'r...
Jump to postNickel and diming at its finest - its one thing on extra low fares but on business class fares, ridiculous. Just as bad as shelling out $3K for a new MacBook and they still charge you 25 cents for a paper bag. But it saves the desirable seats for either those on expensive flexible tickets, or frequ...
Jump to postWell, as soon as it was published, my topic was automatically moved by the moderators from the "Civil Aviation" forum (=Facts-based), which I had chosen, to the "Travel, Polls & Preferences" Forum (=Opinion-based). So be it, but the result is that I got mostly opinions in re...
Jump to postI know the normal flightpath can be over central London, but in an ideal world, if the wind is from the east departures can turn North or South shortly after takeoff. If the wind is from the west then I'd expect arrivals on 27L, come in from the south over Wimbledon, then line up at Richmond which i...
Jump to post. Just because someone isn't on a plane at a defined mealtime, they may have been working or travelling to the airport at the mealtime and need more than a snack. Though I've experienced this on UK rail companies as well, so it's not just BA. . Are you seriously saying that BA, or any other form of...
Jump to postI've not flown BA since the pandemic, but before it they did have a habit or running long haul very tight on catering and drinks. It was more the rule than the exception that they would run out of most things on a flight, when I complained they gave me a chunk of avios, but it's in the context of th...
Jump to postIncreasing the supply of A320Neo reduces the value of less desirable aircraft. Lessors who offer A320Neo will be able to charge premium rates, however the rates for their 737Max, A320CEO and 737NG will be severely constrained. If your business owns a lot of 737NG and A320CEO, then the last thing you...
Jump to postIf Australia and New Zealand are put on the UK 'green list' (no restrictions) on the 17th of May, will QF reinstate PER-LHR, there would still be a quarantine requirement eastbound, but there might be demand for at least a couple of flights per week. Otherwise only Israel and maybe Malta look likel...
Jump to postIf Australia and New Zealand are put on the UK 'green list' (no restrictions) on the 17th of May, will QF reinstate PER-LHR, there would still be a quarantine requirement eastbound, but there might be demand for at least a couple of flights per week. Otherwise only Israel and maybe Malta look likely...
Jump to postI always assumed the noticeable take-off push in the 757 was as it had a good power to weight ratio, but was probably old enough not to have an electronic launch control which reduced thrust unless at MTOW. A newer plane might have a similar or even higher power to weight ratio, but would never use ...
Jump to postIt finished in late 2008, October if I remember correctly. I assume there must have been some cost issue with operating a 767 which couldn't easily be swapped through Heathrow, as tickets were at least as expensive as LHR and it was well loaded in my experience.
Jump to postAny euro-business seat. I think it's hard to say that one seat is worse than the other. It really depends how it is used. Those big recliner style seats often found on narrowbodies are fine if you don't use it for longer than a few hours. Angle-flats are fine for daylight flights where you don't re...
Jump to postI think the problem was they’d just nearly finished refitting the vast majority of the 747’s. And they don't see the demand coming back quick enough to keep the aging 744s around. @Arion640 Why would BA have the "will" to keep planes around they can't fill either upfront or down the back?...
Jump to postDo the EY A350s have seats and galleys installed, presumably easier to move on if they are clean shells?
Jump to postU.S./Canadian carriers, Western European carriers, will do inverse seniority layoffs - the least senior get bumped first. This will be seniority within craft -- pilots, mechanics, FAs... for every craft that is unionized, or prospectively unionized (like Delta). It has nothing to do with fairness -...
Jump to postU.S./Canadian carriers, Western European carriers, will do inverse seniority layoffs - the least senior get bumped first. This will be seniority within craft -- pilots, mechanics, FAs... for every craft that is unionized, or prospectively unionized (like Delta). It has nothing to do with fairness -...
Jump to postI've seen an alleged proposal of salaries (it's doing the rounds on social media) Supervisor salary £21500 Maincrew £13500 - no bonus - and did not mention ehr. Various shortening of some trips and removal of almost all European nightstops (much like Aer Lingus) I am wondering what kind of working ...
Jump to postSpeak to your Union Rep for full advice, but. My understanding of UK redundancy law (my company did some on a smaller scale last year) is that other than for those with <2 years service, things like last in, first out or targeting those at the top of the payscale are illegal. They will need to split...
Jump to postIn Western Europe, there is a preference for above corridors at LHR, CDG, AMS, FRA. AMS does not have arrival corridors. You leave the plane and enter directly into the terminal and mix with departing passengers. They do actually. If you arrive from a non-security sterile airport, they lead you ups...
Jump to post$25Bn at base + 4.25% (or more) is over a Billion Dollars per year in interest, let alone repayments. Though probably better than the other options.
Jump to postMatt still favored the 10+8 cross section that Airbus chose. I still feel a more appropriate cross section would be 8+6. It would get rid of the 2nd aisle upstairs so lots of weight and the longer thinner airplane would have more space for bags/cargo per pax and would be lighter overall with a pret...
Jump to postIgnoring COVID-19 (as difficult as that is), what will Aer Lingus look like going forward? My understanding was that the combination of BREXIT and slot restrictions makes LHR a less attractive connecting hub, and once DUB has the infrastructure in place Aer Lingus would grow and take over a lot of ...
Jump to postIf the government does lend to Virgin, or indeed any other business, it should be secured by either. 1: Collateral, which for an airline would likely be owned planes with a reasonable market value. So A350, 787, A320NEO and less than 10 year old A330, A320, 777, 737NG. 2: Where the above isn't possi...
Jump to postWould it be possible to put the company into Administration and for SRB and/or Delta to pick up the assets they want to restart the airline in a new shell company? I would imagine that screw their existing staff/pensions and creditors. So perhaps morally maybe not the best thing to do. But then, I ...
Jump to postShai Weiss has taken a 20% pay cut until the year end and the rest of the senior leadership team have taken a 15% cut for the same period. Hardly that generous when they will be on significant salaries, furloughed cabin crew and ground staff are getting 80%, i.e. a 20% cut on much lower salaries. I...
Jump to postGalwayman wrote:FR keep staff on at 50% for the next two months . Probably the worlds greatest airline
UK Govt advising against all non essential travel abroad for next 30 days. This will void any travel insurance bought by UK residents. Guess it's only a matter of time until scheduled flights in UK (almost) stop It's actually helpful as it means insurance now covers not flying. Until that announcem...
Jump to postOn TATL a 777 or A330 with limited passengers (essentially those flying home) so few bags, but the rest of the hold crammed with freight would seem reasonable, and a way for BA/AA to keep LHR to JFK and maybe a few other routes open when the ban kicks in.
Jump to postNot easy, but £7.5Bn is a fair whack, ground all the planes if they have to, government support for the staff if they are laid off, (along with tourism, restaurant etc staff who are also going to be hit) but business is business. There's a limit to what the government can and should do. Sorry to be ...
Jump to postSoutheast England desperately needs another runway. If Heathrow is out, here's to hoping Gatwick gets a second runway. But does it? How many destinations are not served from at least one of the London Airports? And how many are served by the largest aircraft available? There is a lot of scope to in...
Jump to postImplementing a requirement to cap aviation emissions at say 2019 levels would be a start on the environmental front, I'm not sure on the precise relative emissions, but would replacing an A319CEO with an A321NEO perhaps be equal in terms of emissions, 1.5-2 A350s per 747 and so on. If the UK could h...
Jump to postIt does, they must both takeoff and land at the same point or the timing is pointless. Removing the takeoff portion saves a huge chunk of time. As well as approach and decell. It most definitely changes "a thing." :roll: The blackbird still holds the fastest crossing, regardless of where ...
Jump to postthe supply chain is already probably overextended as it is, no? This suddenly changed with the production stop of the 737. Suppliers who work for both programs, like the engine supplier CFM, have suddenly a massive overcapacity and it will take propably years until they are fully loaded again. The ...
Jump to postA better solution on APD would be to exempt certain domestic flights were rail is not a suitable alternative. In addition to the current Highlands and Islands exemption. Flights between Northern Ireland and Great Britain Flights between 2 airports where neither is (LCY, LGW, LHR, LTN, STN, SEN) and ...
Jump to postIt makes sense for EK to try to generate demand from locals. The residents of Berlin are relatively poorly served by LH, so EK offering one stop to Asia, Australasia and Africa with likely competitive prices is going to appeal to them. If they then lobby their representatives in the Bundestag (locat...
Jump to postClean sheet? In broad terms, a large international hub northwest of London, somewhere between the M4 and M40 motorways, runways NE/SW due to prevailing winds. Still fairly convenient for London but better placed for people coming to the airport for global flights over land. High speed rail from the...
Jump to postIn this case, "BA" stands for the NYSE symbol for Boeing, not British Airways. Ahhh, that's mildly confusing, though (just googled it) Airbus's equivalent stock market code is "AIR" which could be even more ambiguous. I'd always assumed on here it was 2 letter IATA codes for air...
Jump to posthttps://www.wsj.com/articles/airbus-books-bittersweet-16-billion-deal-with-emirates-11574074430?mod=hp_lista_pos3 Has Etihad cancelled some 20 787? Quote: In a separate blow to the U.S. manufacturer, Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways said earlier Monday that it was planning to take 20 fewer aircraft from ...
Jump to postIt seems that Virgin are operating some Cruise Charters that would otherwise have been operated by Thomas Cook, so it may be that they need additional capacity in the short term.
Jump to postTweet with a Video from ABC News showing the craziness of LA traffic and the madness of adding lanes full of cars. One metro line won't solve it all, but a proper network is needed. Maybe with Uber for the last couple of miles in outlying areas. https://twitter.com/urbanthoughts11/status/11912952051...
Jump to postEnjoy your airports operated for profit in the UK! Keep telling yourselves that for-profit operation of monopoly assets is the way to go. Though Manchester Airport is a really bad one to complain about as it is actually owned by the various councils in the Manchester area. There are however very fe...
Jump to postSounds very odd, I've just had a quick glance at my folder of downloaded boarding passes, over the last decade and on a mix of Legacy and Budget carriers in the EU. They're all in the format "Surname Firstname Mr" or "Mr Firstname Surname" I'm fairly confident if requested I'd pu...
Jump to postI see inconsistencies such as: Keep your boarding pass and passport with you vs putting it in the tray and run thru the scanner. I was at a UK airport. They were shouting at all passengers to put their passports and boarding passes back into their bags. Result was that the queue was held up because...
Jump to postTo the UA A350 naysayers: United have 74 x 772s, most of which are 15-24 years old. If you subtract the 45 x A350s, United have only 22 widebodies on firm order (18 787s + 4 773s), so if UA didn't want the A350s, would they not have already placed another large order for 787/777s?? The 787-9 is sol...
Jump to postPresumably an A350ULR in the SQ J/W configuration could fly JFK-SYD, but it probably couldn't fly SYD-LHR. So yes there is a lot of PR about this, QF are good at this the PER-LHR flight gets a lot more press than DOH-AKL which is marginally longer.
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