I have looked all over the internet and can't find when the 1st non stop commercial trans atlantic flight began. I can find the 1st commercial transatlantic flight, 24 June 1939 with PanAm on a Boeing B-314, the first land plane flight 23 October 1945 wth AA's predecessor on a DC-4, and the 1st Jet...
Jump to postIf you're posting this to show that EVs don't work in the cold, surely you would be able to find myriad articles saying the exact same thing, every winter, everywhere that it gets cold. But as you might imagine, this has not been my experience, three years into EV ownership. An acquaintance of mine...
Jump to postPhilipBass wrote:you misunderstood my point. The toll is expensive. I wasn't talking about the construction cost.
This thread is about Denmark. Our fastest trains have a top speed of 160 km/h. But since the track infrastructure was designed 150 to 175 years ago, when trains zig-zag'ed in and out of every small village, then effective average long range speed is little more than half of that. Actually the top s...
Jump to postIs the LPI-AMS route essential to Saab ? Would passengers still pay ? Could the LPI-AMS route survive if the tax were imposed ? If KLM were to cut Linkoping from their network... can Linkoping continue to have an airport, or is it financially just too difficult ? Would it survive instead as a solel...
Jump to postdavidjohnson6 wrote:I'm looking at Linköping airport in central Sweden... and wondering what its future will be if this transfer tax at AMS happens
2. Why wasn't Boeing more aggressive in selling them -600? IIRC, CO and WN were very interested at the time as both had large 735 fleets that needed replacing even though both of those fleets lasted a few more years, large 600 fleets could've provided even more fleet hegemony. Were AA and AS also i...
Jump to postLondon / Amsterdam is 4 hours by train city center to city center. So O&D traffic could and should take the train. But both Amsterdam and London being internationnal hubs, a large proportion of those 40+ daily flight are transiting pax from or to a long range flight. And there is no credible al...
Jump to postBut it is undeniable that some of the ultra short flights could be trimmed. There are 40+ daily flights to London from Amsterdam by 6 operators… How do you propose all those people get between the cities if they don't fly? I doubt there's even a realistic option for many of them. They could take th...
Jump to postMillwallSean wrote:davidjohnson6 wrote:Finnair to fly daily between Stockholm Arlanda and Bergen non-stop (not via Finland) from 31 March 2024
https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/230703-ayns24arnbgo
Isn't that a return?
I seem to recall they flew this route for many years?
PlymSpotter wrote:I find it really surprising that the death rate from traffic accidents is so high in America - 12.9 per 100,000 people compared with 2.9 in the UK (apparently)
1) don’t they know more or less where the original wreck is that they were trying to sink to? Yes, the location of the Titanic is known. But, the ocean is vast. Even if we knew their destination, the wreck is almost 4 km below the surface and we don't know what happened and when. It's close to thre...
Jump to postA Delta 767 heading to New York had to return to ARN today after a bird strike.
Jump to postI have to admit that I'm not very familiar with ETCS but based on what little I do know it seems to be similar to PTC. niagara484 From what I understand, ETCS has similar functionality to PTC. The main advantages of ETCS is that it is a digital standard that multiple vendors can plug their solution...
Jump to postYes, Kristianstad's Stockholm route is being cancelled while Trollhattan's route to Stockholm is continuing, despite Kristianstad seeing more domestic pax than Trollhattan. Both Kristianstad and Trollhattan are relatively near major airports (Copenhagen / Malmo or Gothenburg) so it's difficult to m...
Jump to postlesfalls wrote:Either GOT or BGO. Otherwise what other secondary airport could be considered?
Alternatively, they can do a tech stop at DEL for their other Asian flights. How long will it take to fly from HEL to Asia via DEL, and will they be able to compete with the ME3 that offer one stop options from most major European cities. Have you tried gcmap.com ? Maybe use way-points of airports ...
Jump to postsabby wrote:Alternatively, they can do a tech stop at DEL for their other Asian flights.
Blerg wrote:They might be covered in terms of flying there from CPH but at what frequency? How often did they fly to each long-haul destination in 2019 before covid?
Not as long as the US doesn't allow international airside transfers.
Wikivoyage even has an article on avoiding the US. https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Avoiding ... ted_States
A friend of mine got me into a Swedish band called Kent. While they have an English version of a song called 747, the Swedish version is downright even more amazing. They are amazing. When they announced the end of the band a few years ago by uploading video to Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watc...
Jump to postThere are now 4 threads about 5 different mass shootings on the first page in this forum. All in the same country. And quite frankly if you start counting the random street craziness in basically any big cities in USA you'll have a LOT more thread. But of course nobody gives a f**k about those gang...
Jump to postThere are now 4 threads about 5 different mass shootings on the first page in this forum. All in the same country.
Jump to postTerminal 4 at ARN will reopen on June 15th, and with it an airside corridor to Terminal 5 allowing easier transfers between international and domestic flights.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/uppsa ... d-terminal (In Swedish)
Discussed here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1473009
Jump to postHere is the real link: https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/3103 ... generation
Jump to postSweden needs more time as public opinion towards membership hasn't swung as massively as in Finland (yet), although there's now a popular majority for NATO membership in both countries, so the decision in Stockholm needs to be a bit more underpinned in oder to cover politicians U-turn who've long b...
Jump to postOne thing I really like about British humour is when respectable looking people do and say really silly things. John Cleese is a master: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCLp7zodUiI And Blackadder is full of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rblfKREj50o A more modern example is Jonathan Pie: https:...
Jump to postWe need to get Russian pipeline natural gas offline ASAP. Qatar is booked. US is ramping up. We need to allow Iran to ramp up with gasification trains and LNG export terminals. Europe needs to ramp up with import terminals. LNG VLCCs need to be built. All of these things have a 2+ year time frame. ...
Jump to postTUGMASTER wrote:LON-AMS…
Are they Mad…?
I did a random one way flight search for May 27th.
Between 0600-2100, EasyJet , KLM , BA , BACF have 47 departures from STN/LTN/LGW/LCY/LHR.
ilari wrote:2. Ryanair should always remind their customers of this.
I ask myself, how AY is doing any money on these routes, with this very, very low loadfactor. Any idea why AY is sticking to the ARN operations? Wouldn't it make more sense, in a financial point of view, to cancel the flights and re-route the passengers via the HEL hub? Or will AY stay only "t...
Jump to postNow, let's hope Sweden and Finland (and maybe also Ireland and Malta) decide to join NATO too, so that the military security architecture of Europe becomes clean simple an clear: a bipilar set up with EU and NATO, with all EU memberstates also in NATO (to the exception of Cyprus then, because of th...
Jump to postNow, let's hope Sweden and Finland (and maybe also Ireland and Malta) decide to join NATO too, so that the military security architecture of Europe becomes clean simple an clear: a bipilar set up with EU and NATO, with all EU memberstates also in NATO (to the exception of Cyprus then, because of th...
Jump to postSEEWD wrote:Any speculation of SAS starting any new regular route from Gothenburg not flown before, now they have suitable A320’s?
2021 passenger numbers: OSL: 9,4 mill CPH: 9,2 mill ARN: 7,5 mill HEL: 4,3 mill KEF: 2,2 mill For comparison the number of passengers in 2019. CPH: 30,2 million OSL: 28,6 million ARN: 25,6 million HEL: 21,9 million KEF: 7,2 million As a percentage: OSL: 33% KEF: 31% CPH: 30% ARN: 29% HEL: 20% It se...
Jump to postI'm no chemist, but doesn't burning frying or or bacon grease in a jet engine create carbon dioxide.? No, frying oil produces fries. So only one step away from jets making potatoes! Kidding aside, I also don't get this. It only cuts out the extraction and production emissions. In itself a good caus...
Jump to postThe 2021 numbers are out:
ARN: 7,494,765, +15%
BMA: 566,698, +18%
I have not looked at the detailed statistics yet, just saw a press release.
Kikko19 wrote:I am also surprised that SK didn't buy more to serve non cargo heavy destinations in North America. Maybe they can go for the XLR? Have they any order standing for the family?
As for GOT-EWR, the issue may be gate space on the EWR end, although there may be a narrow-body gate available during the peak. That could be summer-seasonal. Ever since SAS announced the A321LR order local politicians on the Swedish west coast has dreamed about a direct service between GOT and EWR...
Jump to postSAS have done a great job with this aircraft. I´m not a fan of NB on long-haul routes but W and C class here actually looks really nice. Maybe GOT eventually will get a direct connection to EWR as well with A321LR. ARN to EWR is already a thing. However, what I could see down the line if SK expands...
Jump to postOK, fine, that's true is you have an odd number of rows. An even number of rows gives exactly the same seat number. Yes, and since SAS has 7 rows of business, they probably prefer this layout. OK, clear, makes sense, 1 extra business seat can mean a difference. But if an airline would want to do 2-...
Jump to post330lover wrote:OK, fine, that's true is you have an odd number of rows.
An even number of rows gives exactly the same seat number.
Could be, but it could also be some kind of demonstration/formation flight, it's not like that hasn't happened in western European countries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMj3hxavlME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI4jWYZLeHQ Also remember that a long lens can give the impression of objects bein...
Jump to postgatibosgru wrote:A220s and the NEOs will look great in KLM livery!
BangersAndMash wrote:flyguy1 wrote:
I wouldn't call it a wasteland, KLM flies to most major cities in Scandinavia.
Sure, but so do every other major European airline.
After a bit of political turbulence in Sweden the Greens have left the government and that might have an impact on the future of BMA. The Moderate party (conservative/EPP) have proposed a deal to the Social democrats (S&D) about the future of the airport. So far, nothing official has been said a...
Jump to postWhy no secondary cities in Sweden can sustain regular vacation routes to places like Spain or Greece like SVG, BGO, TRD, AAL, BLL or AAR does? I am thinking of places like Malmo, Umea or Lulea. Sweden is all manly about ARN and GOT. In short: Much better rail network in Sweden compared to Norway an...
Jump to postFirst Past the Post electoral system, for once. It allows a minority to wield too much power and leave many people without a voice, even thought they can vote. Britain may just not meet the Copenhagen democracy criteria. I think the House of Lords is a bigger threat to the Copenhagen criteria, havi...
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