Re: Interjet Discussion and News thread

Interjet to add up to 17 A320CEO starting this month until december : https://a21.com.mx/aerolineas/2020/10/01/promete-interjet-17-a320-y-cero-despidos Partial translation: At a meeting he held yesterday with a group of pilots, the entrepreneur newly arrived at the once German-owned airline , he de...

Re: Airbus unveiling three hydrogen concept plane today at 2pm CET

To build a windmill, put it in a sea, connect it & make sure we have power when there is no wind, remove it after 20-25 years, clean up, costs about the same amount of energy it takes to create / operate. I don't understand what you mean. Can you expand? Your graph suggests that nuclear has no ...

Re: Emirates axes MEX

... There's $143m in annual trade between Bangladesh and Mexico according to gob.mx, not sure how much travel that would stimulate but there would still be a non zero amount of PDEW That´s mostly clothes for brands such as Zara and H&M, and the only flights involved in that are Qatar cargo flig...

Re: Is DL taking delivery of A350’s from NRT to avoid tariffs?

The *not flying domestic for 6 months* loophole sounds like BS.

Is not like Delta ever intended to fly A350 in domestic routes anyway.

Re: Tax man comes after Interjet; SSJ fleet put up for sale

Money from heaven Interjet (Mexico) received an investment of more than US$150 million that will serve to boost its capitalization, as well as to reinforce its internal structure and plan of operations during its restructuring. The investors are led by businessmen Carlos Cabal Peniche and Alejandro...

Re: Updated: Aeroméxico files for Chapter 11

According to airfleets.net AM currently operates the following aircraft: 737: 49 (of which 6 are MAX-8) 787: 19 E-jets: 56 (5D, their regional affiliate) They also have 54 737-MAX on order. In the current environment their 787s are being used mostly for cargo as their usual transoceanic routes have ...

Re: New post Covid-19 airplane seat design

This design would still require modifying the air distribution system of an airplane to assure that you are not breathing air exhaled by somebody else (for example by blasting large quantities of air to exhaust grates on the floor). The air and droplets exhaled by the middle seat passenger may not d...

Re: Which aircraft types have best advantage for social distancing?

As no aircraft that I know of has an air distribution system that guarantees that passengers are not breathing air exhaled by other passengers, what is needed until a vaccine is widely available is making N95 respirators mandatory [and hopefully complementary as they are hard to find in stores]. Air...

Re: Updated: Edited EWR Photo On Google Earth Shows Just 2 Planes At The Gates

Please don't use google maps to try to link satellite pictures to current events. Google maps never shows when the pictures were taken and the most recent pictures in the Google Earth computer application were taken on MAY-2018. According to SentinelHub this is how Newark look like on April 2, 2020:...

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

Now let’s look at the positive and meaningful impact of Coronavirus; not one person has mentioned the environmental benefits of having fewer scheduled aircraft, for example. This is actually a very interesting point, I am having my eye on it. Air travel being significantly cut down globally, and al...

Re: AeroMexico 787 in HNL

AM generally uses their 787-8 rather than their -9 in Asian routes as the -9 are better suited to European routes with more passengers. Another factor is that despite of the fact that taking off at sea level the -9 has a longer range than the -8 due to its higher MTOW, in MEX (elevation of 7300 feet...

Re: Boeing CEO: NMA will "start with a clean sheet of paper again"

If by Chinese competition they mean the A320-sized C919 and the 787-sized CR929 I don't think the definition of Middle Of the Market changes at all.

Re: MEX keeps growing against all odds: Breaks 50M mark

For the site where the new airport was being constructed, what's happening to it currently? Can it be feasibly restarted whenever a new administration is in power? One hopes such a scenario doesn't emerge given the problems in Mexico after having had essentially the same administration for its enti...

Re: MEX keeps growing against all odds: Breaks 50M mark

The president won by promising canceling the new MEX. Then they did a referendum asking if construction should be continued, the result was negative. So this is what the Mexican populace voted for, unfortunately for them (majority of which haven't flown on an airplane), the rest will pay the conseq...

Re: Updated: Mexico city's new airport to be improved Santa Lucía Airport

Seems like there was quite a bit of investment already at the Laguna d Texcoco site: ... That picture is from Aug 2017. When construction was halted in Texcoco the terminal was already well underway. https://i.imgur.com/f5GxYwi.jpg $5B USD is a estimate of how much was spent on Texcoco, just so tha...

Re: Mexico city's new airport to be canceled

Reading a news article, the President of Mexico says it will be ready in 2021. It’s hard to believe that! Even in Poland the new CPK airport that may actually be built now (same party won re-election) it is being delayed to 2029. https://m.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/aeropuerto-en-santa-lucia-estara-...

Re: Confirmed: EK launching MEX via BCN

"Aeromexico is leaning on its government to reverse a decision that grants Dubai-based Emirates fifth-freedom rights between Mexico City and Barcelona" Well that's unlikely to happen as AM is on the Mexican government's sh*t list for not supporting the airport designed by the President's c...

Re: Interjet put up for sale

.... While the Mexican government recently granted the company a credit guarantee of $150 million dollars for 5-years, higher oil prices, airport charges and cost related to 17 grounded Sukhoi SSJ-100, has made the viability of the company questionable. ... That credit guarantee comes from an expor...

Re: Rumor: Interjet to sell its SSJ100 to focus on its A320 fleet.

Time to delete rumor from the thread title as Interjet just confirmed that they are indeed selling 20 SSJ. I imagine that those are all their SSJ still capable of flying as Airfleets.net says they have 20 active and 2 stored aircraft: XA-PBA damaged in 2015 in a collision with a jetbridge (cue to th...

Re: Ghost inside Aeromexico plane

Don't know if I should fly Aeromexico. For the sake of argument, lets admit for a second the whole thing is real. Since the plane was parked and all dark, how do you know the ghost was before the incident, and still is after, in that airplane? Has AM been marred by ghost sightings in its aircraft d...

Re: Unconfirmed: DFW to build terminal F which’ll most likely be international

Considering that Mexico city is dead as a Latin America <-> East Asia hub (due to the cancellation of its new airport) I think that DFW is well positioned to capture an important part of that market despite the usual visa requirements for most passengers in those routes.

Re: Why didn't Airbus face too big engine issue with A320Neo?

The CFM56-5A used in the original A320 has a fan diameter of 68 inches while the LEAP-1A of the A320NEO has a diameter of 78 inches (an increase of 114%). The JT8D-7A of the 737-Jurassic has a fan diameter of 42.5 inches while the LEAP-1B of the 737-MAX has a fan diameter of 69.4 inches (an increase...

Re: Possible Name of "new entrant" LCC in Houston?

Yeehaw Airlines

Re: Interjet on brink of collapse?

According to flightaware, Interjet cancelled 7% (21) of their flights today, with 17 flight out of MEX and 4 into MEX cancelled.

Re: Interjet on brink of collapse?