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Re: 15 years ago European legacies were struggling. What happened?

[...]how they just couldn't compete against Ryanair[...] Do not pay too much attention on isolated anecdotal snapshots. Otherwise you should bear in mind that Ryanair promised to drive Lufthansa into bankruptcy and liquidation twenty years ago. They even had a special livery saying "Good-bye L...

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Re: Can Cargo airlines fly above FL410?

[...]You can also manually engage automatic emergency descent. There's a guarded pushbutton next to the speed brake lever. Press that to arm emergency descent, then pull the speed brake lever fully back to activate. Or you can just do it old school on the autopilot control panel. ;) Which would mea...

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Re: Are there limits placed on codesharing? If so, how?

I looked at the DOT list of codeshares (thank you MIflyer12 for sharing). Does anyone know if there is a similar document for interline agreements? No, because in principle all IATA airlines still interline with each other by default and collect the respective fares via the Clearing House. However,...

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Re: Korean may order around 20 a350s

[...]On the other hand, I would like to see a Korean Air that shows the diversity of the fleet and conveys the strength and discipline of Korea.[...] They did an excellent job by performing a complete 180° u-turn. Back in history Korean Air had the infamous reputation of being one of the world's mo...

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Re: Why do US airlines call domestic Business Class ‘First Class’?

[...]2) NOWHERE, and I mean NOWHERE else in the world calls it ‘Domestic First Class’. For instance, BA’s domestic business is ‘ClubEurope Business’, AC’s ‘North American Business Class’, etc.[...] Dear young friend, I have to contradict you respectfully. When the Y/T classes had been introduced in...

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Re: BA's most profitable First Class route?

First Class operations can not generate big profits because they are extremely expensive to operate and the margin is pretty small. The most profitable pasengers are the walk-up economy ones who pay the unrestricted Y fare and get seated in the back of the plane. Those very rare folks would pay arou...

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Re: The hydrogen A380 concept discussion

How about using a very strong microwave beam or laser beam from the ground to energize an aircraft for takeoff and steep climb[...] Nope. None of those beams can contribute anything to a propulsion. However, your idea of deploying an external launching aid has been a proven practice for decades. Ju...

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Re: What GDS did European airlines use before the lunch of Galileo/Amadeus in 1987?

[...]Wonder what AF and KL were using back in the day before the arrival of SABRE, AMADEUS, GALILEO and the like. There had not been anything like a real-time GDS. Any particular passenger list had been maintained at one paricular place. Technically they could have been chalk on blackboards, ink on...

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Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

Airbus is about to replace the dormant Antonovs with Belugas. The FAA has given green light for those operations. Airbus is launching its own cargo airline operation to capitalize on rising air freight demand and the ability of its Beluga transporters to carry super-sized loads, the manufacturer sai...

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Re: New quality glitch to delay some Boeing 737 MAX deliveries

[...] Airbus seem to have mastered robotics on the A320 lines. Boeing tried it on the 777 line but never got it to work. At the beginning, the transition to a CAD-CAM production is complicated, expensive and risky. Many here should remember the troubles Airbus had with the Dassault CATIA software. ...

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Re: Why is Ryanair able to post record profits, but US ULCCs struggle?

One must bear in mind the insane energy taxation in Europe. cars, busses, railways, ferries etc. have to pay at least three times more than the market price for their propulsion. Ten bucks a gallon or more than one buck a kWh are typical prices. At the other side, jet fuel has to be tax-free accordi...

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Re: What happened to flight engineers when 2 man cockpits were introduced?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircrew

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Re: Strange AF Flight CXCL ORD-CDG 1/15/24

[...]Why would AF CXCL the original flight and reissue it as a new flight number? Why not just delay it? This way they might try to bend the law in a so-to-say "grey" manner. If they have a lot of connecting passengers who would arrive at their final destination with a delay of more than ...

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Re: Jet age airline with most varied/ interesting fleet at one time

United ..late 80s must have had quite a range of varied equipment following the collection of the old Pan Am Pacific routes with Tristars and SPs joining themir fleet[...] I remember their London Heathrow based 727's had been surprisingly immaculate - just as if they were factory-new. And as far as...

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Re: Singapore Airlines launch London Gatwick

https://worldwide.easyjet.com/

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Kilopond

Re: Defunct Carriers you have flown

Not mentioned yet in this long thread: Delta Air (IATA code DI, not to be confused with Delta Air Lines DL) This regional carrier had been purchased by British Airways in order to transform it into Deutsche BA. This ever loss making company had been sold to a private entrepreneur (Hans Rudolf Wöhrl)...

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Re: CZ launching Luxembourg passenger flights

What is the logic of this route?[...] There is no business reason operating this route. [...] They could easilly fill those flights by selling package tours to communist pilgrims. Here is the explanation: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44009621 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-chin...

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Re: JetBlue Wants KLM Out of JFK Over Slot Dispute

It is very hard to say so, but JetBlue is delibaretely playing dumb and therewith spreading blatant lies. Under IATA rules which are appled in Europe, no government has any say on the slot distribution. This is done by public committees in which all the airlines involved do have a voting right. [......

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Re: Have American Airlines announced where they'll fly their A321XLR's?

If I was American Airlines I would not start up with risky UK flights at the beginning. Just because that entity is separated by customs and logistics thresholds and it could be somewhat difficult to get wearout or spare parts in short time.

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Kilopond

Re: Should some energy drinks or 'shots' be banned ?

For me personally, the real problem consists of the fact that the vast majority of people is just too LAZY to use their brains. Sapere aude!

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Kilopond

Re: UK. NATS increase charges, airlines furious.

The article is FAKE NEWS insofar that there is no such thing as a "per flight ATC fee". The en-route charges are rather calculated in relation to the MTOW and the distance flown. The UK is still one of the 41 Eurocontrol member states. https://www.eurocontrol.int/publication/customer-guide...

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Re: Horizon E175 diverts after ‘Authorized’ Person in Cockpit Tries to Shut Down Engines

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/worl ... icide.html

Kilopond

Re: Airbus renews its transatlantic fleet with lower-emission ships

Where do these ships dock in Mobile and how are the subassemblies transported from the port to the factory? I'd never thought of this before. Airbus unloads from the ships at a nearby dock, North West of the airport (30.6477926, -88.0548972) Or in other words: the piers of the port of Mobile and th...

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Re: Your Emptiest Transatlantic Flight?

Mine was a BA IAD-LHR flight back in 2008 [...] Everyone had a block of 3 seats to themselves, making for a very relaxed trip across the pond. Haha, I got even better variants of that scenario during the last days of SABENA(✝) because their loads had been much lighter and the Airbusses had a middle...

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Re: AF/KLM to buy a stake in SAS - leave Star and join Skyteam

For decades SAS has been one of the sick men or a Schroedinger's cat of the aviation industry. Maybe still alive, maybe already dead, maybe somethin in-between or everythin at the same time. In the short run, it is good for them to get some last minute life support now.

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Re: AF/KL Shopping for 50+ Widebodies

reidar76 wrote:
[...]Additionally, AMS is significantly slot constrained. CDG is not.[...]

This is only partially true. You might quite easilly get some undesirable mid-day slots. But during the rush hours ALL medium-sized or larger airports in Europe (of course including Paris Roissy CDG) are absolutely clogged.

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Re: UA871 returned to SFO due to Economy pax refusing to leave Business Class cabin

bhill wrote:
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If I was the purser, the flight would have evolved with one passenger in restraints for 10 hours with bread and water if they did not behave.[...][/quote]

I'm sure you would agree to replace the bread with some disgusting cookies with an eternal shelf life.

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Re: What steps can we take to soak up the CO2 in the atmosphere?

[...]we need the most CO2 reductions within the next 10 years. A tree will take up the most CO2 when it is 70 to 100 years old.[...] Who of the nay-sayers has told you this? If you consult any trustworthy encyclopedia you can learn that carbon dioxide gets washed out of the athmosphere because it i...

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Re: Will there ever be a "Star Alliance Cargo" or an "Oneworld Cargo"?

jeffrey0032j wrote:
There was WOW Cargo alliance [...]

The "World of Wonders" (WOW) alliance had been dissolved long ago when Lufthansa accused Singapore Airlines of stealing exclusive customer contracts. As of today, Lufthansa and Cathay Pacific are close partners. Not to mention the symbiosis with DHL.

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Kilopond

Re: North Atlantic Current to Possibly Collapse This Century

This article is a perfect example of how mainstream media are spreading blatant lies. As a matter of fact, it has been known for decades that the anomaly Gulf Stream will not be stable forever.

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Re: Lufthansa winglet on Wizz Air A321

[...]What has possibly happened here?[...] Lufthansa Technik is one of the major MRO companies servicing all those airlines that have outsourced their technical stuff. https://www.lufthansa-technik.com/en/wizz-air-frontier-and-volaris-sign-major-components-contracts-c6c23ebe05be9943 And most probab...

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Re: Ice Cores Reveal Greenland Was Ice Free 416,000 Years Ago

At some time in the future Mother Earth is once again going to loose her magnetosphre and than rebuild it with an opposite polarisation. No athmospheric trace gases have any influence on this process which will be catastrophic.

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Re: Allegiant TCAS RA July 23 — injures flight attendant

TCAS is a lifesaver.[...] No, it isn`t. Maybe it once was to a certain extent. But it is inferior and it also killed people like in the Swisscontrol incident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_collision And with today`s ADS-B systems, yesteryear`s dangerous TCAS has become ...

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Re: End of an Era: bye bye Camp Nou

Anglo-American? What about Russian money? Middle Eastern? [...]And yes, why no criticism for corrupt Russian or Middle-Eastern money? That, more than anything has influenced the game, direction of teams, etc. Sorry for the clumsy wording. I wanted to say that it fascinates me how some entities can ...

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Re: Why can TK traverse EU airspace from Russian airports?

Lots of cargo trains are still rolling as they used to on the rails of the state company РЖД. Mostly they carry goods between China and Central Asia at the one end ond Europe at the other, transiting Russia. This system contains many flaws.

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Re: End of an Era: bye bye Camp Nou

So what? They are renovating and modernising the old stadium. I could not care less about this. However, I am extremely surprised to learn that FC Barcelona (together with Real Madrid and some others) has not joined the anglo-american turbocapitalist ralley. Instead, FC Barcelona is still an old-fas...

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Re: Combine weight of passengers a tonne more than 30 years ago

Yet airline seats are getting smaller… Seat pitch is getting smaller. Weren't the Lufthansa 737-100s 3x3 seating 55 years ago, same as Ryanair today? No, the original "737 City Jets" had a 3+2 abreast configuration. Just like a row of a Jumbo Jet initially contained 3+4+2 seats. And by th...

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Re: DOT Inspector General: FAA Has no plan to fix ATC shortage

The whole present day ATC system is based on technology that is older than a century.

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Re: Airport Mistakes

Such a long thread and it is still missing the incident of Pan Am at London Northolt

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Re: Effect of Russian mutiny on aviation?

^^ Exactly! I believe no civilian plane had ever been shot down by anyone intentionally. But the list of acidential victims is very long which means: avoid risk areas whenever you can.

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Re: Sea Level Rise on Gulf of Mexico and the US Southeast 3 Times Faster Than Global Average

[...]within 1.5 degrees of Paris[...] This is not a legal unit by EU standards, instead the Kelvin (K) has to be applied. It is simply frightening how the IPCC is conducting a very shoddy and dirty work by using non-SI units all the time with the "pee-pee-ehm" being the most infamous of t...

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Re: Sea Level Rise on Gulf of Mexico and the US Southeast 3 Times Faster Than Global Average

Kiwirob wrote:
[...]Which island nations have or are disappearing?

At least those that are ignoring the natural coastal erosion and fail to introduce any measures against it.

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Re: Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search

If the submarine is much deeper than some ⅓ km or 1,000 ft under the sea surface, there is absolutely no way to communicate with it in any way via electromagnetic waves. Even the longest waves in the ELF spectrum cannot penetrate those masses of salt water.

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Re: Paris Air Show 2023 - Other Manufacturers/Engine Orders and General Discussion Thread

[..]UA and PW have long standing relationship[...] :) That is a heavy understatement, since they had been parts of the same corporation, together with Boeing and some others. However, it looks very strange to me how Pratt can now get away unpunished while not delivering. Air Baltic CEO Martin Gauss...

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Re: Airbus: No A350 Stretch In The Next 3 Years

frigatebird wrote:
[...]RR has paused further development of the Ultrafan for good reason[...l]

Things have changed since 2022 and the work on the Ultrafan is progressing again.

Rolls-Royce tests 'game-changing' greener UltraFan engine technology

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Re: NASA announces Sustainable Flight Demonstrator

this is really cool but where does the fuel go? One of the technical challenges of the design. It needs less fuel overall, but can no longer store it in the wings. If hydrogen will be used as fuel it cannot be stored in the wings anyway. Instead it will be carried in spherical high-pressure contain...

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Re: Air India 777 on an India-SFO non stop made an emergency landing in Magadan, Russia

On a side note: Siberia does not stretch up to the Pacific Ocean so that Magadan belongs to the Russian Far East. Or the "Far Eastern Federal District" according to Wikipedia.

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Re: ANZ to weigh pax before boarding thru 2 July 2023

Weighing all passsengers had been common practice in the very early days of aviation with chronically underpowered piston engine planes. But not doing this again in today`s environment of dirt-cheap ultra-efficient computers is just moronic! Because exact weight and balance calculations would save l...

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Re: Nepal Airlines to launch flights to Sydney via Singapore

When I enter "Nepal 757 goats" into a search engine, I get results like these:

Nepal Airlines Sacrificed a Pair of Goats to Fix Its Broken Jet
Nepal airline sacrifices goats to appease sky god

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Re: Greatest living composer

In my environment Philip Glass is rated very high. Personally, I regard him as just another apparatchik enforcing the neomarxist cultural hegemony.

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