Re: Wizz Air News & Expansion

Do you know when each phase is suppose to open? Will this terminal be used by LH and its partners or by foreign carriers? AFAIK LH and friends will use T1 and T2 with some refurbishments, LCC pier G, other airlines the other piers The Z gates belong to T2, right? T3 looks pretty big, I guess there ...

Re: Wizz Air News & Expansion

FRA realised a few years ago that with static pax numbers while the likes of CGN were growing that they could not ignore LCCs forever. Ryanair's operation at FRA is very much on the cheap - eg aircraft park a long long way from the terminal - it's a considerably different experience compared to (fo...

Re: Korean start up Air Premia selects 787-9

Good luck to them. Korea has already 2 major intercontinental airlines, that's already much for an country with a population of 51 million. But if you want to start an airline with new airplanes, going with the 787 is safe bet. Also for the lessors of the plane. Well, Malaysia has been a huge shock...

Re: Dornier 728 became A220?

As the others mentioned there are no similarities.
A discussion would make more sense if it was about the 728 and the Superjet. I would dare to call the SSJ inspired by Dornier

Re: AF signs MOU for 60 A220 plus 30 options and 30 purchase rights, A380's to be retired by 2022

Air France orders a lot of A220. Is that a sign Airbus will announce some A220 cancellations? I have been waiting for some confirmation for these orders since long time. ⋅ 10 A220-100 Braathens ⋅ 10 A220-100 Gulf Air ⋅ 14 A220-300 Ilyushin Finance ⋅ 5 A220-30...

Re: United expansion in FRA

I would rather bet on an additional service to MUC rather than FRA. LH is shifting capacity to MUC as it is cheaper to operate. There is some bad blood between FRA and LH

Re: Switching engine provider

LH went IAE on the 321 due to a thrust bump. JJ also has CFM and IAE 320s, as LH(EW) and many others. Reasons may be a better deal from another manufacturer (probably LA), engine performance (RR is more economical than PW on the 330 for many missions, with GE second and PW worst), specific engine st...

Re: AA 767 Replacement: MIA - Latin America Market

I would expect LIM to get the 787 due to cargo and LA feed. GYE could get the 787 for the same reason, but I'm not convinced. IMHO MVD and CNF will get the 321neo once they arrive in numbers

Re: Airbus Lineup Circa 2025 - Where do they go next

What about an A330-1000 for regional routes and a package freighter version of it for the likes of FX, DHL or Amazon?

Re: Air France will place an order at Le Bourget - Anne Rigail, CEO

The A220-100 could be for HOP! and current A318 mainline routes. (what’s the seat limit under HOP!?). The A220-300 could be for A319 routes plus the Caribbean island hopper fleet (bringing those A320s back to France with 3 A220-300s at PTP). No such thing as a seat limit for hop. There are no rules...

Re: Embraer E2 Flight Testing And Production Thread - 2018

Farnborough will have good surprises for Embraer this year ... Good news, most probably. Good surprises "from" Embraer is what you meant, I guess. Source: http://atwonline.com/atw-location/embraer-hopeful-strong-e2-sales-farnborough "Embraer hopeful for strong E2 sales at Farnborough...

Re: LH Group Introduces New Intra-Europe Seats

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DafuORzX4AAZD75.jpg:large Nice to see the LH Group getting new seats for Intra-Europe flights! They certainly look more comfortable than the current ones.... InnsbruckFlyer The dark [lack of] colour of the Lufthansa seat is so saddening... it's funereal... Goes hand in h...

Re: Serbia to limit airport growth outside Belgrade

That would be roughly double the size BEG has at the moment. Quite restrictive.
With a continuous growth of 8% they will reach it in 11 years.
Is BEG a viable option for people living 200km from it? How is the road/train situation?

Re: (Theoretical) re-engine of An-225

A GENx-2B would be the closest thing among the newer engines IMHO.
One could dream about gearing up a LEAP (different companies, I know) to get the thrust and spectacular TSFC...
Thirdly the russian military could decide to order some new, updated 225s with 6 upsized PD-14 engines.

Re: LATAM Brazil to fly 5th freedom between Argentina and Peru

MalevTU134 wrote:

Dominion301 wrote:

I wonder why there’s a 4 hour stopover in COR on LA8117?

So that the crew can try the alfajores...

Re: Hawaiian: E195-E2 a viable 717 replacement?

trex8 wrote:

What makes the BR engines on the 717 so much better for these short hops than a CFM ( or IAE) on a 737 or A320 etc

Re: Embraer E2 Flight Testing And Production Thread - 2018

a) Operating costs: "... Comparing the E2 family with the CS100, the E190-E2 is 1% less efficient in terms of cash per seat and 7% cheaper per trip. The E195-E2 shows an increase of 2% per trip and a saving of 10% per seat. When placed against the CS300, the E195-E2 saves 10% per trip and 3% p...

Re: Germany Considers Tornado Replacement

I have seen some "stealthing" concepts of the F18. Would that be feasible for the Eurofighter?

BTW, does the EF or the F35 have the better payload/range?

Re: Tez Jet Avro RJ85 suffers uncontained engine failure

Less than 400 BAE146/ARJ were built. Of those many have been scrapped or are engineless. This could be tricky. Why did not sell better? It was the only RJ at the time it was introduced. Off the top of the head: low range, bad economics at 5 abreast, bad pax reviews at 6 abreast, 4 engines, repeated...

Re: Boeing 777 Production/Delivery Thread 2018

JamesAlice wrote:

Somebody may be able to answer this for me - Why is it that the Freighter only comes in the 200ER/LR Fuselage length, and not the same length as the 77W? Was it just the requirement of the market or a technical issue?

Re: Bloomberg Boeing Article

So they are doing almost the same thing that made them nose-dive on the 787 again?
Somewhere between funny and sad...

Re: Boeing 737MAX Production/Delivery Thread 2018

A white tail 737 MAX has rolled out in Renton, which was designated for the now defunct Monarch Airlines. How difficult is it likely to be to sell it on to another carrier? Depends on the specs Monarch ordered, if they are common or not, seats, etc. It will definitely be sold as the MAX8 is a popul...

Re: Airbus might push A320 family production rate to 70 aircraft per month

So, why are people still talking about order bubbles? Some of us remember 2003 and/or 2009. Many in the industry were laid off due to cycles and remember them. Going down in rate and the consequences of it can be very painful. I am not saying 70 per month is sustainable, and I agree bubble may be t...

Re: Airbus might push A320 family production rate to 70 aircraft per month

Given the backlog and order rate, I’d say 70/month is a necessity. ... I don’t see “order inflation”. If you put any store by both OEMs market forecasts, then order rate is pretty close (if anything slightly low). Deliveries need to catch up. Hmmm, So Airbus A320 goes to 70 a month, Boeing 737 is a...

Re: Does an A380 works better than a 77W in hot and high conditions?

I would say that the A380 should have the advantage. The A380 and the 777-300ER have about the same length take off run at MTOW. The A380 has the lower landing and take off speeds and does not run into the problems with wheel rotation speeds. The A380 has the longer range so it would not to be as n...

Re: The undisclosed european CSeries customer

Did we mention the unlikely but possible SAS, Finnair and Aegean yet?

Re: A321Neo flying KEF- LAX

PatrickZ80 wrote:

Just for comparison, here's pictures of the interior of the A321 and the A330. Which one would you prefer?

A321:


A330:

Re: Embraer re-entering the Turboprop market?

Yes the E2 is "too much aircraft" compared to the ATR, but the GTF powered RJ's (even more so the MRJ) will dramatically reduce the fuel efficiency gap versus the ATR. The difference will still be huge. Taking Fuel consumption table as reference, we get the following figures: Embraer E-17...

Re: HNA considers selling Hong Kong Airlines

Sell it to CX, join OW =)

Re: Hong Kong Express banned from adding new aircraft

The other airline likely affected by this is Norwegian, as they are leasing 12 A320neos to Hong Kong Express; 4 have been delivered off of the Norwegian (Arctic Aviation) order book. B-LCP is thus sitting grounded, unable to fly; unclear is if HK Express has to pay lease payments to Norwegian while...

Re: Embraer E2 Flight Testing And Production Thread - 2018

E195E2 Undisclosed 10 I'm very curious who the 10 E195E2's are for My bet is for a European operator who already owns either the E190-E1 or the E195-E1 model in their fleet. My list of possible candidates would be: - Air Dolomiti; - Air Europa Express; - Austrian; - Flybe; - Helvetic; - HOP; - LOT;...

Re: Rumor: LH might introduce a new/revised livery in 2018

767333ER wrote:

Narfish641 wrote:

abrelosojos wrote:

Is there any pictures on this?

Saludos,
Alex

Not quite, gotta wait until Feb 5th to see the new livery reveal.

Well how about that, almost exacly a year after Air Canada released their new livery!

Re: Delta orders 100 P&W powered A321neo aircraft, plus 100 options

Does anyone have the fuel burn for the A321NEO with CFM vs. P&W? Assuming they have a similar brochure fuel burn: No real numbers, but I read the LEAP is worse than promised, because of some valves being open for cooling that should be closed. PW is actually better than promised on fuel burn ri...

Re: Official A330 Production/Flight Testing

MSN 1838, first Lucky Air A330: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4560/37963285295_e86f546ca6_z.jpg F-WWCZ 1st A330 for Lucky Air. S/N 1838. Live spotting from Toulouse by @Eurospot , on Flickr Livery is very similar to BA's. The tail looks exactly like I imagined IB's would look like after the IAG ta...

Survey for Bachelors Thesis

Hi, I'm working on my bachelors thesis about risk culture at airlines. Due to airlines lack of collaboration I'm forced to look for alternatives. The work is based on a survey in german language . The target group is anyone working for any airline . Taking the survey takes about 8 minutes. I guarant...

Re: Tunisair in for A330neo, C-Series

Good for the 330neo.
But 2-3 CSeries? AFAIK they operate 4 A319 and 7 B736... Would expect 10 plus 6 Options or so.

Re: Comac C919 Production And Delivery Thread

C919 jet completes first long-distance flight: The Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd (COMAC) said in a statement the C919 flew for 2 hours and 23 minutes from Shanghai to the central Chinese city of Xi‘an, traveling more than 1,300 km (800 miles) and reaching an altitude of 7,800 meters (25,590...

Re: Ukraine International will introduce B777 in 2018 and expend network

ikolkyo wrote: Interesting, going to be a huge gap between the -900ER and the 77E in their fleet. Yeah, but such an improvement from the 767 - where is the improvement? Improvement in CASM, more capacity, much lower cabin noise, 3-4-3 in a 777 is more comfy than 2-4-2 in a 767, mainetnance cost....

Re: Rumour: LATAM to return to SFO

Doesn't LA cooperate with Alaska? Now with AS/VX feed at SFO things could improve dramatically over the past try.

Re: Austrian Airlines long-haul fleet replacement?

By the end of Q1 2018, OS shall have 12 wide body aircraft in its fleet i.e. 6 B772ERs + 6 B763ERs. Their B777s have 48J + 264Y seating 312 pax in total whilst the B763s have 225 (26J + 199Y). It is too small of a fleet to have 2 different variant types and I agree with anyone who suggests that the...

Re: Tap Portugal eyes potential A340 replacement

KarelXWB wrote:

Clydenairways wrote:

Surely the A330neo is a perfect replacement for the 340's

Except the A330neo doesn't have the legs to replace all A340 routes.

Re: Official A330 Production/Flight Testing

Airbus will build 5 Beluga XL, right?
With all the production increases in mind, how much would it cost them to build a 6th?
I know the XL is quite a bit bigger than the STD, of which they have 5, but still...

Re: A330 NEO Production And Delivery Thread Part 1

Balerit wrote:

Wow, it's going to look like a CEO on steroids

Re: Azul upgauges EZE

Why is Orlando a surprise? Decent demand from BUE to ORL that is somewhat price-sensitive and I imagine CNF is a more convenient connection point than going through customs at MIA. It is not the destination that surprised me, but the airline and the connection point. LATAM dominate the Orlando mark...

Re: NFL's Patriots Buy Two 767s ?!?

This makes me dream about a 787 for the Seahawks...

When will the next team follow the patriot's path? I guess this flexibility is unbeatable and worth millions.

Re: Airbus And Boeing 2017 Orders