Re: Japan Airlines A350 collides with aircraft at HND

At least from what I have read in the last 19 pages, the 2 reforms that I am seeing are: 1. Advancements in approach runway lighting based on surface radar to indicate unauthorized runway intrusions. 2. Infared display on the HUD similar to fleetwide Fedex EFVS implementation. Its ATC's job to main...

Re: Japan Airlines A350 collides with aircraft at HND

I'm reading a lot about how all the people at the airport were heroes... but 5 people still died and almost 400 people nearly died. It's fashionable to call people heroes... but still something went badly badly wrong. If everyone was a hero... then five families would not now be mourning lost ones ...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - December 2023

Looking at random date in 2024 OOL-AKL NZ is listing the taxes and fees as: AU Passenger Movement Charge $60.00 F1 International Border Clearance Levy $36.00 KK Passenger Service Charge $22.80 WG Safety and Security Charge $9.86 WY Passenger Service Charge International $19.39 Total $148.05AUD Clos...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - September 2023

Qantas is hugely profitable thanks to his cutthroat business tactics but if you make an enemy out of everyone then you can’t be surprised when they turn their backs on you when you need all the public support you can get. QF has been going from PR nightmare to PR nightmare and year after year the r...

Re: CX Working With Airbus on Single-Pilot System for A350 With 2025 EIS

skipness1E wrote:

As Jon Stewart said this week, science is very clever but just because science can do something doesn't mean it should.

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - June 2020

Financially Tourism generates a lot, but this pales into insignificance compared to the cost that Coronavirus has had to Australia Overseas students, whilst on the face of things may seem to be good for the economy, in effect is just a cash drain from our country as most students that come here enr...

Updated: Mitsubishi sets June 1st date for acquisition of CRJ program

https://www.fliegerfaust.com/amp/bombardier-2645923174?utm_campaign=RebelMouse&share_id=5520969&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=FliegerFaust&__twitter_impression=true If true, it makes sense given the current state of the industry, further delays in the mrj progr...

Re: Boeing an d Mitsubishi possible Partners??

Remember 100% ownership > majority control > JV > minority shareholding > operational partnerships. I cant see how the mitsubishi / japanese govt giving up control for the MRJ program let along a takeover by Boeing.

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - April 2020

Why didn't PER pull this stunt prior to the Covid-19 crisis? Pure grandstanding on their part. Some airport authorities need a good pick up the backside. Perth airport is 100% owned by Australia Development Group which is in turn owned by Heathrow Airport and a public fund and a private fund. Qanta...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - April 2020

It seems everyone is so pessimistic. A new company could still emerge from administration, right? It's obvious VA does not lack interested parties. What the voluntary administration does is to wipe out debt and existing shareholders. So this is not Ansett and all is not lost. The debt holders will ...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - April 2020

Agreed - I do wonder what would happen if Qantas tried to follow suit with maybe just an daily MEL-SYD-BNE run now that VA is barely operating. Passengers could be staying away from flying with Virgin because of the rumors about them closing down. So maybe they are experiencing a double whammy! Qan...

Re: Australian Government Does Not Plan to Bailout Virgin Australia - Could Create New Airline

Exactly, even QF’s survival is not guaranteed.

Re: New Zealand Aviation Thread - March 2020

Since J* has never made money in NZ, I wonder if this is an opportunity for QF to shut it down for good and bring the a/c back to AU.

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - March 2020

Morrison just announced NZ type isolation for international arrivals. Silver lining: more domestic tourism, possibly where needed in the bushfire-hit regions Highly doubtful. Unless you believe there is currently a lot of domestic tourism being done in places like Italy or China...etc. Even sources...

Re: Coronavirus Aviation Related News & Discussion Thread - March 2020

If this goes on for a few more months which looks like it will then half the airlines in the world are going to shutdown.

Re: Corona Virus outbreak - Aviation related News and Discussion Thread

UpNAWAy wrote:

This is the best airline stock buying opportunity since 9/11, without near the risk of BK as at that time......Buy. Buy, Buy!!!

Re: Qantas new Centenary Safety Video

I wish they’d taxi and show the safety video at the same time instead of sitting at the gates for xxx minutes

Re: Corona Virus outbreak - Aviation related News and Discussion Thread

The hysteria surrounding this outbreak will slow down aircraft deliveries significantly in the second half of this year. Perhaps the effect will go well into 2021. With record high delivery rate for all aircraft excepted the 737 MAX, one must accept the fact the whole thing could look like a train ...

Re: Icelandair reiterates interest in potential Airbus order

Make sense to acquire LR/XLRs to complement Max fleet like quite a few other airlines

Re: Undisclosed customer orders 40 A330 NEO aircraft

I'm going to guess United, for two reasons. First they're already on the board there for the A321XLR order, this could be an disclosed part of that order, and second they have 38 763s which while being recently nicely updated are getting old. They're 763 fleet ranges from 1991 to the three former H...

Re: What Would You Do? Flight Over Iranian Airspace Tomorrow

Where are you flying from? Can you arrange an alternate flight to SAW that avoids the conflict zone?

Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

Why would anyone shoot down a civilian aircraft 5 minutes after its taken off from an international airport?

Re: Unexplained night sighting

Aliens .

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - December 2019

Didn’t ZNJ had a pump issue as well on the first revenue flight?

Re: Sources: United ordering 50 A321 XLR

Possible conversion of the A359 was mentioned on leeham, which is probably what got UA over the line. In anycase, a win for A as this opens the door for followup orders of the neo.

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - November 2019

Okay, last year I flew BNE-AKL-IAH and I had to have my passport checked and electronically tagged making the connection. If that's not clearing customs, then :confused: You may have had the airline check your passport to make sure you were entitled to enter the USA but that’s absolutely nothing to...

Re: Why JAL has fewer international destinations than ANA?

OW is the smallest of the three alliances - doesnt hold a candle to *A

Re: Pictures surfacing of 777X Sept Test Failure - they are Bad

So there was a failure 3x at what is ever expected in the most extreme real life situation ever. Why is this stuff news? Thats not really true. Severe turbulence experienced by airliners are between 2 - 2.5G according to Boeing (Such as one 2.5G turbulence encountered by TWA374). It is still well b...

Re: JAL increases stake in Jetstar Japan

Which is strange that they also launched Zip air at the same time. Or maybe its just having eggs in different baskets.

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - November 2019

Qantas drops Beijing / PEK from March. Makes sense given their low yield / LF in premium cabins. Also, the other OW airlines ate moving to PKX.

Re: What is Air Japan?

konkret wrote:

What benefits does Air Japan offer ANA to justify extra cost for separate AOC, corporate affairs etc.?

Re: 50 Boeing 737NG grounded

Eh we already have a thread started 3 weeks ago

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - November 2019