Re: Alitalia bankruptcy and selling process discussion thread

According to the news, the strike on Tuesday is confirmed and Alitalia cancelled already 350 flights!

Re: WSJ: Airbus in Advanced Talks to Acquire Bombardier Stake in A220 Program

NK must be finding some value in aircraft commonality. It works for Southwest, Ryanair and EasyJet, too. Aircraft commonality is really underrated. I have some insight into airline fleet management and it makes a huge difference, managing multiple aircrews with different type ratings or a homogenou...

Re: WSJ: Airbus in Advanced Talks to Acquire Bombardier Stake in A220 Program

I can see the A319NEO program beeing skipped for efficiency reasons. A319 customers being offered A320s/A223s and ACJ319 customers moved to ACJ320s. I think this is very unlikely in the foreseeable, because: -The A319NEO can be build on the same final assembly lines as the A320NEO/A321NEO - maybe f...

Re: WSJ: Airbus in Advanced Talks to Acquire Bombardier Stake in A220 Program

What would Boeing have done with the same opportunity? ( did B have a comparable $1 offer? ) My expectation would have been to crash the programm fully. Keep away competition to the 737. C-Series was a danger to Airbus only anyway. The chances, that Boeing would have had crashed the program would h...

Re: WSJ: Airbus in Advanced Talks to Acquire Bombardier Stake in A220 Program

From what I figured: Dumping charges in Europe are meant to protect the consumer. A dominant company mustn't bankrupt the competition to later enjoy even stronger pricing power. It is not about a company being foreign or domestic. Dumping charges in the US are about protecting domestic manufacturer...

Re: Storm Ciara over Europe - Impact on Aviation

After 2h waiting - some of that time in the aircraft - my flight VY1818 from Barcelona to MUC was canceled. Is the storm really that bad in MUC (STR seems fine) or is MUC just overwhelmed and disorganized ? Bavaria was hit hard with wind speeds of more than 150 kph (83kt) in some villages (combined...

Re: Storm Clara over Europe - Impact on Aviation

The RTV Noord-Holland is back with a livestream from 18R at AMS. Presently not all too exciting, with winds from 200 degrees with gusts up to 42 knots. https://www.nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/261652/live-vliegtuigen-bij-schiphol-trotseren-rukwinden-van-megastorm-ciara Later this afternoon/evening gusts up t...

Re: UK storm today

Please find attached (unfortunately the image-links do not work) the current situation (weather station measurements in kph) and the outlook for 12z and the high-resolution forecast for LHR. In the night it will get better, but then continental Europe will be hit hard (France, Benelux, Germany and N...

Re: WSJ: Airbus in Advanced Talks to Acquire Bombardier Stake in A220 Program

In Europe we have a lot of foreign companies (even outside the EU) selling products and services to very low prices, or trying to get marked share by selling below costs. It's a pure business decision and financial risk of the respective corporation. It's called competition and free marked. . Dumpi...

Re: WSJ: Airbus in Advanced Talks to Acquire Bombardier Stake in A220 Program

Dumping is only an international trade scenario. Your attempt to extrapolate that to a domestic purchase (that was also widely viewed as not below cost) isn't valid and is grasping at straws to justify a unethical practice by Bombardier. This is what puzzles me ... why should it be unethical? And w...

Re: WSJ: Airbus in Advanced Talks to Acquire Bombardier Stake in A220 Program

Two things airbus has the right to buy the program at fair market value in 2025 so they could absolutely squeeze bombardier for a few more years, and every new program makes a loss on the first units especially one that launches without an incredibly strong backlog you have to take the pain to buil...

Re: WSJ: Airbus in Advanced Talks to Acquire Bombardier Stake in A220 Program

Does this mean, Airbus sees a bright future in the A220 program? The only sign here is that Bombardier wasn't joking when it said it wanted to offload its stake. Airbus doesn't have much choice here. Bombardier wasn't going to be able to pay for the future losses. If they're not going to pay the fu...

Re: WSJ: Airbus in Advanced Talks to Acquire Bombardier Stake in A220 Program

It was Boeings stupidity. Boeings attempt to block the USA market by lobbying for a huge tarriff on an aircraft market it had no presence in must be one of the worst moves ever in the aviation world. Boeing did not and does not make a small passenger aircraft to compete. Its actions though crippled...

Re: WSJ: Airbus in Advanced Talks to Acquire Bombardier Stake in A220 Program

Quebec won't sell. Just as I predicted..... They would for the right price. But IQ is not a distressed seller like Bombardier. What a gift for Airbus. I know Bombardier is not in the best financial shape ... do you think, that Bombardier pushed for Airbus to buy their stakes? This would be not the ...

UPDATED: Bombardier Sells Remaining Stake in A220 Program

As many of my fellow Anetters thought, Airbus is interested in getting all the shares of the CS/A220 program. According to The Wall Street Journal article, they are in final negotiations for the 34% share of Bombardier. Quebec is trying to hold their 16% share. This move came maybe earlier as though...

Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

….. If reports of a backroom deal where Iran gave advance warning to the US about striking bases is true, allowing evacuation of troops resulting in zero US or Iraqi casualties, there may have been some tacit acknowledgement that the US would not retaliate resulting in Iran not being on as heighten...

Re: Boeing CEO resigns, David Calhoun named President and CEO

___ In my opinion, Muilenberg didn't have another choice in acting, as he had had in the MAX crisis! I work a lot with large corporations and nowadays, especially in the US, the CEO's do not have much power in steering their companies anymore. I am sure, Muilenberg was advised / forced by Boeing's l...

Re: VIE Bloodbath: Austrian taking over Eurowings Europe

Airlines within airlines have proven themselves, time and again, to not work. This comes as no surprise. Except sometimes they do (for example, AC Rouge, Jetstar, Scoot, etc.). It isn’t eurowings in and of itself that failed, but it’s ragtag execution. Agreed. In the above cases, there was a clear ...

Re: VIE Bloodbath: Austrian taking over Eurowings Europe

So what will happen to their base in PMI and their local crew based there??? I think they have just a base in VIE, Lauda has a base in Vienna and Palma (and offering now Adria Airways pilots to join them at one of their bases). Eurowings has a base in PMI too, which has spanish cabin crew, among ot...

Re: VIE Bloodbath: Austrian taking over Eurowings Europe

Embajador3 wrote:

So what will happen to their base in PMI and their local crew based there???

Re: VIE Bloodbath: Austrian taking over Eurowings Europe

Lufthansa has taken a full cost centre away - Eurowings Austria doesn’t exist anymore. There must be millions of savings just there alone. It does point to strategic drift with Eurowings though - its shrinking into a German carrier. Unlike EasyJet, Eurowings has no soul. The service is lacklustre a...

Re: VIE Bloodbath: Austrian taking over Eurowings Europe

Maybe LH feels OS brand is stronger and more recognizable overall so it might be easier to position itself when fighting off competition. Then again, neither OS nor EW can match FR or W6 in terms of costs so they might as well adapt by introducing a new strategy. Will be interesting to see what hap...

VIE Bloodbath: Austrian taking over Eurowings Europe

Since the demise of Air Berlin, Vienna (VIE) is now one of the main battle fields for low cost carriers, increasing the passenger volume by more than 20% this year (compared to last year). The local legacy carrier Austrian Airlines (Lufthansa Group) is bleeding due to the fall of ticket prices and h...

Re: Updated: SAS presenting new livery

This new livery is soooo classy and premium .... and very Scandinavian, indeed! You really feel how much effort they put into all the details (especially compared to Lufthansa). The flags are looking good as well ... like a tribute to the service ribbons (ribbon bars) in the air forces. Looks more c...

Re: Updated: Aeroflot 1492 SSJ100 fire at Moscow (SVO) - 40+ confirmed dead

In the 80's and 90's, ARFF rules in Europe mandated a 90 second response time (alarm to foam spraying on the fuselage) if (!) the aircraft was within the runway area. At least Arlanda and some larger Swedish airports had fast response vehicles with limited water and foam supplies, but they could in...

Re: Regional Props VS Regional Jets

Today is an eye opener for me (or perhaps I just fail to see these threads). People flying around on DC3s and DC6s ..amazing! Sometimes the job you are in brings fun stuff like this :-) Maybe we should really consider long haul props? I would be definitely in favour! [...] The only thing which migh...

Re: Regional Props VS Regional Jets

Maybe we should really consider long haul props? I would be definitely in favour! Last year I flew again on a DC6 with long haul interior and I can say the noise and vibration is not significant during the flight. In fact all my rides were very smooth. The only thing which might cause problems is th...

Re: Should airline regulators consider grounding B737 MAX series

I just got the message that EASA issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive, grounding The Boeing Company, Commercial Airplanes Group Models 737-8 and 737-9 aeroplanes, all serial numbers: Prompted by a fatal accident with a Boeing 737-8 ‘MAX’ aeroplane, the exact causes of which are still being in...

Re: OS retro livery?

debonair wrote:

The best ever Austrian A320 livery of all times, for sure this one

Re: OS retro livery?

I agree as well, that this was one of the classiest & most iconic liveries of Austrian. If you could pick one, which would be your favourite? I am curious of the results! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________...

Re: Manchester (UK) Thread - 2019

Maybe an aviation professional could confirm what the Tempo notes in the large emboldened snow notes mean as to my untrained eye, what occurred was much more severe than what was forecast/expected? TEMPO means, temporary. Examples: -SN (light snow); temporary SHRASN (moderate shower of snow and rai...

Re: Lufthansa CEO Spohr changes his stance on Berlin, wants TXL to be kept open...

It's not their terminal. They don't own it. Germany also doesn't know the concept of long time terminal leases. Either an airline owns it, or it belongs to the airport company, which has to maintain it. Thanks CARST for your always very good and informative posts! Just for the records, there is one...

Re: Brussels Airlines A330 Suffers Dual Engine Failure

Actually this is a night flight so they wouldn't have seen much through their windows. Also, I doubt that they were carrying any VFR charts so all they could do is follow the MSA's. They were lucky that both engines didn't fail simultaneously above the Alps, that's a nasty place to be in. Turin is ...

Re: Merkel's A343 diverts to CGN

I wonder whether IBERIA could fulfil the high security requirements so fast....did they reject the whole first and Business class passenger in favor for Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Scholz, the finance Minister and their staff, or are they both sitting in the middle of all other "normal" passenger...

The end of the poor BA catering? Do&Co won ten year tender!

That's a big surprise for me - the Austrian caterer Do&Co (Qatar Airways, Austrian Airlines, ...) won a Britisch Airways, Iberia and Iberia Express ten year tender for all flights out of LHR and MAD, starting spring 2020! Do&Co is generally known for good quality airline food, but quiet high...

Re: LH CEO Makes a Bold Claim but is it Actually True?

I will never understand, how Lufthansa of all airlines thought that that design was ok ! If they wanted 2-2-2, they could have had straight TAM/TK/EK like seats or B/E minipods for higher density. What I heard: A) LH wanted to have (or test) a product, where all J seats are the same (so now "t...

Re: Where does flightradar24 get planned aircraft data from?

It's possible too that the aircraft-planned details are not drawn from a specific database but rather are inferred from previous patterns - so if, for example, the aircraft operating flight XY123 has then consistently gone on to operate flight XY456, it's a reasonable assumption that you can extend...

Re: Syrian Arab Airlines To Order Irkut MC-21

1. Everyone thinks, that in a country in war, everything is destroyed. Even in a war country, most of the area is not affected and life is going on (quiet) as usual with cinemas working, shops open,etc. If a critical infrastructure is destroyed, usually it is rebuild quiet fast, if it's not within a...

Re: LH mid-haul narrowbody business class

So wouldn´t it make sense to install some real mid-haul C seats on a subfleet of A32x to become more attractive to business Flyer and become a "5-star" airline in those markets? Exactly a decade ago OS (Austrian Airlines) did refurbish four A320 with US style first class seats for their f...

Re: Austrian´s old longhaul fleet

The outgoing CEO Kai Kratky (he has just a week left until retirement) said some days ago in an interesting interview for an Austrian aviation online-magazine, that OS was indeed looking the last years for a replacement of their long-haul fleet. After having all numbers on the table, they decided no...

Re: Economy of Scales not applying to airports?

I think you overlook something :-) In most parts of the world, airports get the majority of revenue not by landing fees, but by retail - and (in Europe) by parking fees. So, the more passengers you funnel through your airport, the higher your retail revenue. So it is in fact kind of economy of scale...

Re: Wizz Air Massive Vienna Expansation (5 aircraft, 27 routes)

By the way, does anyone know how many daily flights AB operated into VIE before going belly up? AB had about 3,5 Mio. PAX p.a. at VIE, which was about 15% of the overall PAX volume. I didn't find figures about the AB movements, but overall VIE has about 225.000 movements, so if roughly less than 10...

Re: Wizz Air Massive Vienna Expansation (5 aircraft, 27 routes)

What are the constraints to Wizz at Vienna? How is gate availability? VIE has at the moment no gate constrains. They are trying to fill their old terminal, since it was used mostly by Air Berlin. Last year the convinced LH to move the EW flights to the old terminal complex, as this would have had r...

Re: Last moments of a crosswind landing