AirplaneWizard wrote:Starship is coming in 2030s.
Not a problem. It’s been higher, in real terms. The end of oil has been predicted for the past 50 years I’ve been flying. https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart So its an infinite resource? Newsflash its not. And it's becoming more and more expensive to extract and refine. F...
Jump to postChemical bateries will probably not be a thing in aviation industry soon, but.... Hidrogen bateries on the other end those offer potential for electrical powered plains. To the Ney sayers, have you checked the price of crude oil? We will have to go electric not becouse it's green, but because it wil...
Jump to post"Please, AF/KL, don't drag TAP down with you... " The concept of TAP being dragged by some one else down is... "interesting" given that in all his existence only in 2 years was it marginally profitable. Portugal contrary to what some would like you to believe is not particularly...
Jump to postSCQ still at it??? For an airport that was just a "Buble" in this tragic year it's the airport fr the European top 100 in the peninsula that faired better with a drop of 66% Vs the average of 75% drop in passager traffic in peninsular airports...
Anything to say?
Even if it would go back to 5 milion pax, for sure it would have more passengers than LCG, VGO and SCQ all together... Even if there are not that many cancellations in some airports, the number of passengers by flight is less.... This is what it is... Cannot make numbers work on the opposite direct...
Jump to postWell yes in 94 it was injected with money to solve it's chronical issues.. hopefully so that the state would be able to sell it... After the fact it continued to lose money every year since then except marginally 1 year. Only afloat not top of state backed loans. The money it's getting now it's not ...
Jump to postI don't understand why you are talking here about SCQ.. SCQ as in your name, only now I realize that is a reference to Santiago, thought it was pretty obvious I was referencing you, I'm pretty sure Santiago airport would not go in silly tangents about airports being bubbles. The only metric that ma...
Jump to postTalking about bursting bubbles, I'm sad to report to SCQ that Portuguese mainland airport that has faird better in terms of travel % recovery post travel ban as been OPO.. Now what makes you have such a care for OPO I can only imagine... The concept of an airport Beeing a bubble is silly its not a s...
Jump to postYes in 1994 cost the tax payers around 1.1 billion euros at today's value...And It clear the accounts, ever since then it accumulated more and more debt in fact in the last 40 years only in 2 occasions was it profitable... The only reason it's afloat is becouse the state was colateral for the multip...
Jump to postNo limit TAP goes private and the market decides simple as that... let it work and stop distorting it. Let me repeat its not a A VS B problem, its a fundamental one. With private money they can do what they please. with the peoples money they have to do what the people wants... the one paying gets t...
Jump to postAnd that makes sense because? Its wrong in one case and the other... and Alitalia was private at the time, now that its public other problems will come up, namely those. Public companies have to serve the Public either by providing them with a service or profits... AKA in a free aviation market publ...
Jump to postSCQ83, right but the tax payer from the entire country wont have finance it, not in opo not in lisbon not on any airport. reminding you that the opo direct non LIS feeder operation is less than 2% of the companies overall operation, its minuscule. And still the company losses money big time, that th...
Jump to postSo let me get this straight TAP as a very small footprint in OPO, TAP loses money practically every year in the last 40... but its the minuscule operation in OPO that causes those losses?? Or maybe just maybe, the TAP business model is inadequate, in OPO, LIS. etc etc... This compounds with the prob...
Jump to postLoans are not the same as money injection... Not in a 1.2 billion years... False equivalents... TAP was already drowning in debt, there was a little bit of hope that Covid and the date injection would be able to get rid of some of that debt... This is all but wishful thinking now... Even this suppos...
Jump to postIs the band still playing? Some of the comments here are absolutely surreal. This company loses money on any good year and they expect to grow? Ok well if the state would for ever pump cash into it maybe. But it can't... So after the 1.2 billion is gone and at the current burn rate it will be soon. ...
Jump to postThis has to stop, these predictions and guessing games need to stop. I hate this guessing game by people here on a.net of which airlines might go under or the predictions from these “experts” such as the Boeing CEO. As an employee of one of the major US airlines, I would hate to see any of these ai...
Jump to postThe notion that the Portuguese economy would tank if TAP woul disappear is nonsense. Being the biggest exporter, (mostly only a statistical reality) is kinda irrelevant wen it's also one of the biggest importers. It's does not bring revenue to the state just losses, and from a tourist POV I'm sure t...
Jump to postWhy on Earth would anybody voluntarily enter into a "partnership" with the Portuguese government? Do LH and UA really have that big of a desire to set a pile of money on fire? The current situation is "interesting" the Portuguese state controls most of the capital, but the reven...
Jump to postDo you think this might make jetBlue joining Star Alliance more likely? They connect quite a lot of passengers with TAP in Boston and JFK and especially now against the backdrop of Alaska joining oneworld this could make sense Suspect the opposite is more probable. United + Luftansa, implies the sp...
Jump to postAccording to this article (Portuguese)... https://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/empresas/transportes/aviacao/detalhe/lufthansa-negoceia-compra-da-tap-com-neeleman Luftansa is supposedly trying to reach an agreement with David Neeleman to buy its position in TAP, via Atlantic Gateway in partnership with Un...
Jump to postBad pilots (which is not the case) dont crash planes. Poor maintenance (which is not the case, not ideal as most) doesnt crash planes. Flawed designs do crash planes. And it is indeed unacceptable. Wait, what? ALL 3 of those things can, and have absolutely crashed planes in the past, unless I am to...
Jump to postGiven Boeing's recent difficulties I think it's more likely they do NSA/NMA as a combined program using a lot of commonality with the same cross section. But they will still do NMA first to figure out Production at lower volumes and wait for NSA sized engines to come along to not cannibalize 737 sa...
Jump to postCheaper how? it has to be built and paid.. and last time I checked airlines operating airports do a good chunk of that... Plus it's not like it's a secret that TAP was not really interested in moving operations. It has publicly said so, it lacks the funds to promote such a change, and has enough pro...
Jump to postSo solution for TAP is a cheep modern new hub that is 50 km from the city...?? News flash a new hub will have to be paid by the company's that operate it. It won't be cheep. (They never are). The extra capability will open TAP to even more price pressure on the European front from LCC. Tap is extrem...
Jump to postScience and professional principals, should take in to account, statistics, and statistically we have a problem here.
Jump to posthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_2Uqke5nf4
video of the press conference
It’s going to be embarrassing for the whole world when the accident cause is unrelated.
I don't see many people putting any blame on Boeing, just better be safe than sorry.
Jump to postImagine that tomorrow we have an incident with an B737 Max how will the FAA be able to respond to that?. After a de facto worldwide grounding of the aircraft.
Jump to postZakelwe the plain seams to have issues and we don't know exactly what, its Boeing joob to find and solve those so that we all can use the plain without safety doubts. Maybe Boeing has zero flout and its just a very unlikely coincidence, still safety first right? Ignorance about a problem does not me...
Jump to post".0008% of getting in an accident on a MAX flight" is a huge risk, i would certainly would not bet my life on that risk for comparison sake the higest risk of dying in a car crash: 1/4,433 is in Montana over en entire year in a single day that must be dvided by 365 days we have a risk of 0...
Jump to postAnd talk about liability. IF there was another crash it would look really bad on all involved - the regulators, the airline, boeing. This +1000, the fleet should be grounded, if not for anything else for this issue. As its is now a good part of the fleet is already grounded, so better ground the re...
Jump to postWe don't know exactly what is going on. If in a couple of weeks yet another similar incident ocours, then the people will rightfully ask how come the aircraft was not grounded till the reason for this problem is fully understood. Not knowing is not a reason to stay still, quite the contrary. I would...
Jump to postI am extremely curious as to where our over enthusiastic and prolific Portuguese poster called PEPPERS is in this discussion regarding Ethiopian announcing Lisbon as he must surely welcome this news but I guess it wasn't concerning his beloved home airport of OPO so showing no interest (sarcasm ove...
Jump to postAny one with a background in design knows yellow is a complicated colour brand wise, its normally associated with fun and casual dough also with sickness, blue is the colour equivalent to grey, but also the most universal loved colour, dark blues are normally associated with stable and reliable, ans...
Jump to postRevelation, risk has a cost, any component as in its cost a risk factor, that then is taken in to consideration by the bean counters. There was an obvious inflation in the price risk segment for any USA manufactured component. will that be enough to change the manufacturers? Duno will depend on the ...
Jump to postSo Iran is horrible and when it comes to a negotiation table it needs to be awarded like this...?
Saudi Arabia, ? ? ? Nothing to see here move along... Someone mentioned double standard?
O well I give up all is great the USA are doing great, economy is booming, industry is Amazing the best, trust me, the best, and its making the best deals. To bad the numbers would say other wise, but numbers are overrated. And you forgot to mention that the US is 700 trillion in debt, which seems ...
Jump to postAnd what the rest of the planet wants or decides is meaningless becouse... Internal politics of the USA are more relevant than the rest of the planet.
Jump to postThe USA reality, the world leaders reach a global agreement with a country, but it's worthless because a single country decided to pull out of it. And worse if the remaining bits of the planet decide do continue to respect the said agreement you have to deal with economic sanctions from the USA. Bec...
Jump to postO well I give up all is great the USA are doing great, economy is booming, industry is Amazing the best, trust me, the best, and its making the best deals.
To bad the numbers would say other wise, but numbers are overrated.
And now we know that all banks are from the US. Heck if China wanted it could just its vast dollar reserves and create a bank juts to do this in dollars. The USA world position is not what it used to be and this sort of unilateral behaviour will just alienate it more. An economy deeply indebt with a...
Jump to postBtw news report that the environmental studie was positive and the Montijo solution will move forward.
Jump to postIt is quite simple for Airbus. Is the Iran Air order more valuable than the orders of DL, UA, and so? Probably not, but its also clear that USA components exposure is a liability and so it should be reduced to a point it longer constitutes a significant problem, trust is one of the most valuable as...
Jump to postThere is another angle to this, the US aeronautic industry as been compromised by Trump, its now clear for anyone in the industry that incorporation of MADE in the U.S.A. is a business liability, and that should prompt this companies to reduce their dependency on USA based components. The same is va...
Jump to post2) Alcochete already has all the studies done, Nope what it had was preliminary studies, that in no way bypass the need to do proper ones ;), and in any case those would have been void by now. ;) 3)To move the military+shooting range will equal 750M Euros at least provide link for that, not "h...
Jump to postLx just do some mejures it is completely possible to extend in the south direction no problem what so ever, it's a tide flood zone, I highlighted that on the drawing above... I include some mejures there for reference. Now about not building in the ZPE not being possible... (Again not that it's need...
Jump to postYour clarification states a lot of opinion as fact... Example it's completely possible to expand Montijo without touching the ZPE, the south side is not inside it. It is possible to build in the ZPE as a massive bridge above it proves, not that Montijo development needs it. Your math about moving th...
Jump to postAnd I seriously advise you to then look at a map were that natural reserve is located, and it is at a significant distance to the Montijo site around 5 km north. Immediately north to Montijo air field there is a special protection zone (ZPE), that is not natural reserve and were it is possible to bu...
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