Re: Thai Airways News and Discussion - 2024

Would be cool but I would think the cost and logistical issues in moving the A380 parts to an off-airport site would be considerable. Really sad to see the lack of care TG have given their stored A380's, hardly an advert for the flying public in how they maintain their fleet. They should have flown...

Re: Manchester (UK) Aviation - 2024

The previous SQ route IIRC was via MUC but whilst MUC is now served direct MAN still needs to be tied to another city. Whilst there is clearly demand to SIN it may be the proliferation of Middle Eastern carriers and the cheap fares they bring are restricting seat sales on the Far Eastern carriers, ...

Re: AA Aircraft Order Coming - Return of the A350?

Guessing and opining on the future plans of airlines is a main draw of this website. Silence is not. But the point that this entire discussion is based on a enthusiast blog, that was reporting on what was posted in a rumor blog, is not lost! And it's devolved into a 787 vs 359 thread...which these ...

Re: Manchester (UK) Aviation - 2024

https://i.ibb.co/JQvrfFp/Screenshot-1956.png So numbers for domestic passengers have dropped, whereas International and charters passenger numbers have increased.... could that be down to fewer business travellers flying domestic or fewer Northerners wanting to fly international via London???

Re: Will you limit travel in the future to help make the world more sustainable?

My wife is from another country on the other side of the planet so we have no choice but to fly when we go to visit family, but in order to reduce my carbon footprint I've made changes in other areas... Since I retired I've basically stopped using my car, preferring to walk everywhere locally and t...

Re: Will you limit travel in the future to help make the world more sustainable?

My wife is from another country on the other side of the planet so we have no choice but to fly when we go to visit family, but in order to reduce my carbon footprint I've made changes in other areas... Since I retired I've basically stopped using my car, preferring to walk everywhere locally and th...

Re: Manchester (UK) Aviation - 2024

What's with all these MENA airlines suddenly expanding MAN? Gulf Air in Northern summer 2024 season plans to expand Bahrain – Manchester service, with the addition of 5th weekly flight. Operating on Fridays, the new flight will commence on 05JUL24, with Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. Turkish Airlines dur...

Re: Manchester (UK) Aviation - 2024

Tend to fly out of MAN for holidays much more than business and did so about 3/4 weeks ago. T2 was looking ok and seems to be working well but the food options weren’t great. My biggest gripe with MAN is the huge amount of time it takes to get checked luggage to the belt, an hour seems standard. As...

Re: Thai Airways News and Discussion - 2024

A340 HS-TNC preserved at Sattahip, Chonburi https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0qiETMHBv1UMNRAT6Wi1p6bmFWXJZnafPRJ4kxXkHMn8f9s6mMmj358wxECsgs4yyl&id=100063769362275 747 HS-TGO preserved at Kanchanaburi https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid035TMcyL6kkJPbWPCFH3LGG7q7u6rbE736...

Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

Michael Crichton called it when he wrote "Airframe" about an aircraft maker under siege from the media after one of their planes had an upset in flight caused on by the captain allowing his flight engineer son to fly the plane. He had one character who was the old school type journalist f...

Re: DOH/Hamad Airport 45.9m PAX in 2023, 31% growth over 2022

I connected through DOH 6 times in 2023.

Re: Qatar Airways News and Discussion - 2024

Thank you for your regular updates Qarara340. Was " enfant terribli " A7-ALL fixed and repainted by Airbus at TLS in the end or flown unpainted to DOH for QR to do ? Looking at FR24 A7-ALL since it has returned to service it has only been doing relatively short flights..... the longest be...

Re: Your 2023 Booked/Flown Flights

Flown:- 21/04/2023 MAN-DOH QR22 789 A7-BHA 21/04/2023 DOH-BKK QR830 A380 A7-APJ 22/04/2023 BKK-THS PG213 ATR72 HS-PZF 07/05/2023 THS-BKK PG214 ATR72 HS-PZE 08/05/2023 BKK-DOH QR837 77W A7-BOE 08/05/2023 DOH-MAN QR27 77W A7-BOE 16/09/2023 MAN-MUC LH2503 A320 D-AIUE 16/09/2023 MUC-BKK LH772 A359 D-AIX...

Re: A330 at hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand

FlyingHonu001 wrote:

Thailand is now bumping up on my AV geek bucketlist

Re: A330 at hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand

I've drove past a coffee place down in Chonburi called Coffee War 331 that has a A330, 747, L1011 and a 737... The 747 being the latest addition.

Re: Thai Airways Explores Major Aircraft Order, Focusing on Boeing 787 Widebodies

I miss the TG wide-bodies on the domestic sectors (I think there is a 1 x daily TG 777-200ER doing BKK-HKT at the moment until April 2024ish). In the past I've flown on the following wide-bodies on TG domestic sectors; A300, A330-300, A350-900, 747-400, 777-200, 777-200ER, 777-300 & 777-300ER. ...

Re: Dubai Air Show 2023 - Airbus Orders and General Discussion Thread

Am I alone in being a bit deflated at the end of the show? :frown: Lets say that the DAS is verry focused on the middle east and mostly EK does the show with very large orders that feel a little virtual. The 777X was ordered 10 years ago now at 150 units. At that time, Emirates converted 70 A350 to...

Re: EVA Air plans to order A350-1000 and A321neo

I dont see any Taiwan carrier needing a 779, not with Starlux in the picture. Pre covid, BR had far more RPKs than CI running those 77Ws across pacific etc to more destinations and more frequencies, yet their revenue from pax was not proportionately that much greater and with CIs huge cargo revenue...

Re: EVA Air order A350-100 and A321neo

13 of Eva Air B777-300s are between 13.6 to 17.4 years old, the remaining 21 are between 6.1 to 9.6 years old. 18 A350Ks seem to be replacing the older batch plus accounting for growth. If they perform well for EVA, in about 5 years we might see a follow-up order for the rest of B777-300 fleet. Exa...

Re: A350-1000 take-off weight hiked to 322t

Airlines can also reduce seat pitch from 31-32 inches to 30 with the latest slimline seats - then you can keep 9-abreast but still add one row for each cabin section, giving 9/18/27 extra Y seats. Also, if the airlines doesn't need First class and/or 45-50 business class suites you can pack a lot o...

Re: What kind of vehicle do you drive?

2009 Volvo C30 R-Design S..... 15 years old in January 2024. Volvo body, Mazda engine, Ford gearbox and suspension. Fires up on first turn of the key every time and great fun to drive.....

Re: Lufthansa "City Airlines"

To be fair, KLM is an exception these days across the European legacy airlines. I know. I just happen to live in the Netherlands. On SAS you (used to, not sure in recent times after bankrupcy) get coffee/tea/water, on Finair you get blueberry juice/water (...) I recently used both airlines. I got w...

Re: Defunct Carriers you have flown

Not many for me...

Air 2000/First Choice Airways
Monarch

Re: Your 2023 Booked/Flown Flights

Flown:- 21/04/2023 MAN-DOH QR22 789 A7-BHA 21/04/2023 DOH-BKK QR830 A380 A7-APJ 22/04/2023 BKK-THS PG213 ATR72 HS-PZF 07/05/2023 THS-BKK PG214 ATR72 HS-PZE 08/05/2023 BKK-DOH QR837 77W A7-BOE 08/05/2023 DOH-MAN QR27 77W A7-BOE 16/09/2023 MAN-MUC LH2503 A320 D-AIUE 16/09/2023 MUC-BKK LH772 A359 D-AIX...

Re: Luton airport closed due car park fire

I don’t understand how a modern car park can burn so fiercely and quickly. I understand vehicles are highly flammable but a fire started in one vehicle shouldn’t spread so quickly. A car park is made of steel and concrete. What material is there to burn to spread the fire? Is it the decorative exte...

Re: Your 2023 Booked/Flown Flights

Flown:- 21/04/2023 MAN-DOH QR22 789 A7-BHA 21/04/2023 DOH-BKK QR830 A380 A7-APJ 22/04/2023 BKK-THS PG213 ATR72 HS-PZF 07/05/2023 THS-BKK PG214 ATR72 HS-PZE 08/05/2023 BKK-DOH QR837 77W A7-BOE 08/05/2023 DOH-MAN QR27 77W A7-BOE This is what was planned 16/09/2023 MAN-DOH QR22 789 16/09/2023 DOH-BKK Q...

Re: A (titanic) moral dilemma re: pennies

I save all my change in jars but regularly bag the coins up and deposit them into my savings account....... easy way of saving and I've probably saved £1000 over the last 12 months..... Good way of saving for flights!!! Well yeah, you guys have a genuinely circulating £1 (as well as a £2?) coin; y'...

Re: SQ sued over "slobbering, farting" dog

The article says the dog was too large for it's owners seat space and was encroaching into the couples legroom.... that was unfair on the couple who paid premium economy.....

Re: A (titanic) moral dilemma re: pennies

I save all my change in jars but regularly bag the coins up and deposit them into my savings account....... easy way of saving and I've probably saved £1000 over the last 12 months..... Good way of saving for flights!!!

Re: Airport Parking Scams: Are they common?

Airport parking scams have been going on for a while in the UK. Personally I always use Jetparks at MAN because you get to keep your keys and I know my car is safe whilst I'm away.

Re: Monarch Airlines possible making a comeback

I flew with Monarch on one trip, wasn't impressed. The A300 we were supposed to fly on went tech whilst sitting on the gate at MAN and was substituted by L1011 TF-ABE. Boarding was chaos!!! Luckily we got the A300 on the return flight. Since then I stopped booking package holidays, preferring to bo...

Re: Monarch Airlines possible making a comeback

I flew with Monarch on one trip, wasn't impressed. The A300 we were supposed to fly on went tech whilst sitting on the gate at MAN and was substituted by L1011 TF-ABE. Boarding was chaos!!! Luckily we got the A300 on the return flight. Since then I stopped booking package holidays, preferring to boo...

Re: BOAC B744 to be scrapped

The problem with "preservation" of something that was once really common, is there's never really a good time to do it. Theres still a few 747s flying, Theyre still a recent memory for most, so as a visitor attraction, they're an expensive (and in the case of a 747) large exhibit which wi...

Re: Your 2023 Booked/Flown Flights

Flown:- 21/04/2023 MAN-DOH QR22 789 A7-BHA 21/04/2023 DOH-BKK QR830 A380 A7-APJ 22/04/2023 BKK-THS PG213 ATR72 HS-PZF 07/05/2023 THS-BKK PG214 ATR72 HS-PZE 08/05/2023 BKK-DOH QR837 77W A7-BOE 08/05/2023 DOH-MAN QR27 77W A7-BOE Booked:- 16/09/2023 MAN-DOH QR22 789 16/09/2023 DOH-BKK QR838 788 17/09/2...

Re: Thai Airways News and Discussion - 2023

https://www.flickr.com/photos/frankiezahra/53114048228/ A guy who seems like to works in malta airport stated that the A350 OE-IPX which was previously reported to be the future LH aircraft, will be going to TG instead. This is MSN 245 with C30Y309 seating (which was unlike any other of TG's A350),...

Re: Your 2023 Booked/Flown Flights

Flown:- 21/04/2023 MAN-DOH QR22 789 A7-BHA 21/04/2023 DOH-BKK QR830 A380 A7-APJ 22/04/2023 BKK-THS PG213 ATR72 HS-PZF 07/05/2023 THS-BKK PG214 ATR72 HS-PZE 08/05/2023 BKK-DOH QR837 77W A7-BOE 08/05/2023 DOH-MAN QR27 77W A7-BOE Booked:- 16/09/2023 MAN-DOH QR22 789 16/09/2023 DOH-BKK QR838 788 17/09/2...

Re: Rumor: Air China plane damaged due weather

alex0easy wrote:

For those who are interested.

Re: Your 2023 Booked/Flown Flights

Flown:- 21/04/2023 MAN-DOH QR22 789 A7-BHA 21/04/2022 DOH-BKK QR830 A380 A7-APJ 22/04/2022 BKK-THS PG213 ATR72 HS-PZF 07/05/2022 THS-BKK PG214 ATR72 HS-PZE 04/07/2022 BKK-DOH QR837 77W A7-BOE 07/05/2022 DOH-MAN QR27 77W A7-BOE Booked:- 16/09/2022 MAN-DOH QR22 789 16/09/2022 DOH-BKK QR838 788 17/09/2...

Re: Plane damaged by weather

Cause by weather. https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20200827-0 I believe Las Vegas Sands' L-1011 N388LS was also damaged in flooding at DMK in 2011. Despite being a gambling company, they do not have good luck when it comes to weather damage on their aircraft. 2018529 Preserved at ...

Re: Long delays in getting new and renewals of Passports

Here in Malaysia you can choose between online renewal or face to face processing. For face to face, it will take at most 2 hours to get your passport, but you’ll need to come as early as 6 am to get a spot. Online, it will take you 3 working days before you can collect it. My Thai wife who resides...

Re: South Korea to curb flight attendants radiation exposure

Didn't see this posted. https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2023/06/281_352687.html https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20230610001600325 So apparantly a law has been revised in South Korea to limit the number of flight attendants on international flights to minimize their exposure to cosmic radiation...

Re: BOAC B744 to be scrapped

the economics of preserving "significant" examples of either planes or paint schemes is poor. not everyone shares the same criteria and only 50% actually visit enshrined commercial planes (the 50% is my generous guess from watching the crowds at Seattle's Museum of Flight). yes there are ...

Re: BOAC B744 to be scrapped

JackPott wrote:

G-BYGC is being parted out at St Athan. Such a shame!

Re: Jet2 to open LPL base

MAN has been such a disaster since COVID that it makes no sense at all to choose it as a departure point when reasonable alternatives exist. I hope they have solved the security queues before summer proper but I don't have a lot of faith that they have. On my last trip outbound from MAN off peak to...

Re: Your 2023 Booked/Flown Flights

First trip to Thailand this year was as follows:- 21/04/2023 MAN-DOH QR22 789 A7-BHA 21/04/2022 DOH-BKK QR830 A380 A7-APJ 22/04/2022 BKK-THS PG213 ATR72 HS-PZF 07/05/2022 THS-BKK PG214 ATR72 HS-PZE 04/07/2022 BKK-DOH QR837 77W A7-BOE 07/05/2022 DOH-MAN QR27 77W A7-BOE QR830 should have been 77W but ...

Re: Thai Airways News and Discussion - 2023

A question not exclusively about TG, but anyone here knows if midfield satellite terminal in BKK is in full use now? And is TG using the satellite terminal at all? Scheduled to be open in late 2023 according to last year's news Not sure If TG unused aircraft have to be cleared before opening or not...

Re: Thai Airways News and Discussion - 2023

Just seeing all the expansion into BKK by other carriers, it's too bad TG can't easily expand capacity quickly right now. Lufthansa upgauging MUC-BKK to A380 (a route TG used to operate 744s to but is now just a daily 77W), Norse announcing OSL-BKK (a route TG served daily but hasn't brought back y...

Re: Qatar Airways News and Discussion - 2023

Update on Qatar A350 return to service: A350-1000 (Qsuite) Returned to service (6): A7-AND,E,H,F,G,C Yet to return (1): A7-ANB A350-900 (Qsuite) Returned to service (3): A7-ALZ, A7-AMI, A7-AMH Yet to return (3): A7-AME,F,G A350-900 (reverse herringbone) Returned to service (1): A7-ALP Yet to return...

Re: Azur Air 767 rejected take-off at Phuket, engine catches fire and tires explode

The fact is that Turkey is profiting from the war in Ukraine in many ways. There are so many flights from Russia to Istanbul, Antalya, Izmir etc. according to Flightaware that I'm blown away. It appears that the entire Russian tourism trade has re-positioned to Turkey primarily and Egypt/Thailand t...

Re: Upgrading from a Canon 20D…..

If you're happy taking photos with what you have then just keep on using it.... My main camera is a Nikon D800 but also love shooting with my D200 and D700.... I also recently acquired a very low shutter count D70.... Mirrorless? Even though I could easily afford to switch I'm more than happy with w...