Re: East Africa Aviation - 2024

Kenya Airways CEO wants to simplify its fleet to 2 aircraft types: https://centreforaviation.com/members/direct-news/tackling-operational-cost-in-africa-680340 The airline is growing, and we are predicting that will continue. That means we need to increase our fleet by about 30% over the next five ...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

As you note, they are being deployed domestically but there is only a handful of destinations that can take a 737. Off the top of my head its Dire Dawa, Jimma, Mekele, Awasa and Gondar only. They have begun to deploy this overnight on the Middle East bank though and I've been told it will deploy on...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

However, returning to aviation, the A220 makes more sense indeed, but due to range capabilities rather than finances alone. If ET wants to create long and thin routes, A220-100 is the way to go. If it wants capacity (which would be odd, given the need for smaller planes), A220-300 or more MAX 8 mak...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Ethiopian surprises us and orders 777-9s today: 8 ordered with 12 options.

Re: Ethiopian orders 8 777-9, options for 12 more

While awesome all I can think of is “not another type!”

Re: East Africa Aviation - 2024

The point-to-point demand is far too low with 10,790 pax who traveled between Kigali and Mumbai between Sept22 and Aug23. Mumbai is not known for being a high yield destination. So if the closure of the route is permanent, so no surprise. Mumbai would therefore join Tel Aviv, Dakar, Abidjan, Juba, ...

Re: Porter Airlines Fleet and Network - 2024

With Lynx out and Flair on the brink, Porter, show some love to Alberta. I mean, Calgary.

Re: YYC Runway Rehabilitation Project

YYC can function with a single runway if Gatwick can do the same at much higher volume. Given how airlines already pad their schedules, I am sure they will pursue that approach to make things work.

Re: Lynx Fleet and Network - 2024

WestJet thinking that this is what it banked on when it didn’t match Lynx or Flair prices.

Re: East Africa Aviation - 2024

KQ will add 2 weekly additional flights to JFK (total 9x weekly) starting June 2024 during the summer peak season. Official announcement expected in the next few days. In the podcast, he says it will be a morning flight (arriving at night right) ? KQ 4 NBO 0845 - 1645 JFK KQ 5 JFK 2000 - 1645+1 NBO...

Re: Air Canada To Launch Motorcoach Service to YKF and YHM

Maybe the coach service should be to the centre of town rather than the airports?

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Ethiopian took over a repossessed ex Flair Airlines 737-8 and is running it on domestic routes. Flair operates single class economy 737s out of Canada.

Re: West and Central Africa Aviation - 2024

Paris, London, New York. Air Côte d'Ivoire is taking over the world! :lol: You may be laughing now, but they may well end up being the best connection to Washington, NYC from Douala & Yaounde, Monrovia, Cotonou while providing a cheap alternative on Johannesburg to Europe/North America routes. ...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

[So between returning to ADD but missing connections, or staying on the ground in VIE and paying parking fees while waiting to return to catch the wave, operating a tag flight makes more sense. ET does not operate ANY international flights that are not in one of their 3 flight banks in Addis. There...

Re: WestJet News and Discussion - 2024

I do worry about a 20:45 arrival in ICN severely hampering onward connection opportunities with KE. There is SIN and... nothing else. It doesn't offer much in terms of connections at its "global hub" that is YYC. I recall a similar scenario when NRT was initially announced, where schedule...

Re: Ethiopian Dash 8 incident

ET has been on my no fly list since they got caught shipping military weapons, in violation of international aviation laws - which prohibits commercial carriers from transporting “munitions of war or implements of war.” Lying about it and firing/threatening ramp employees who spoke up, despite wayb...

Re: Ethiopian Dash 8 incident

eastafspot wrote:

Qatara340 wrote:

Seems it’s a write-off, pretty substantial damage

Glad no one onboard got hurt.

If ET buy more Dash, maybe Canada will amend agreements and give them more frequencies!

American Airlines bringing back same day standby!

American sent an email to AAdvantage members including the following excerpt: Exclusive AAdvantage® member benefits Soon you’ll have more flexibility when buying a Basic Economy ticket as an AAdvantage® member. Starting later this month, you’ll be able to cancel non-refundable Basic Economy tickets ...

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

In the US, since 1962-ish, all flight engineers were hired as pilots and merely bid into the right seat as opening occurred. However, there were furloughs and stagnations in hiring as the result of the sudden withdrawal of the 727 fleet, which was the largest category at many US carriers. Can you s...

Re: East Africa Aviation - 2024

In a diplomatic tit-for-tat, Tanzania has suspended permission for KQ to operate flights between Nairobi and Dar-Es-Salaam. Source: https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/tanzania-suspends-kenya-airways-passenger-flights-dar-es-salaam-4492646 This source, plus a picture of the letter circula...

Re: Air Canada News and Discussion - 2024

What happened to AC159 on Thursday night from YYZ TO YYC? It diverted to YYZ. status shows aircraft forced to return. No detail including weather.

Re: Flair Airlines Fleet and Network - 2024

Flair Airlines Achieves Top Ranking, Saves Canadians $415M in 2023 Source: Flair Airlines • Flair was the #1 airline in Canada for completion factor in 2023 with a 98.2% completion rate • Flair was the second most on time airline in Canada in 2023, with an average OTP rate of 68.8% • Flair flew mor...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Why didn’t Ethiopian opt for mood lighting in the A350s?

Re: Porter Airlines Fleet and Network - 2024

Finally rode Porter's E2s to visit family for Christmas. . . I was really hoping to be impressed but don't have a ton of good things to say. ⋅ Flight was over 1hr late each time - the return flight was delayed because the potable water port was frozen in -6 degree weather. . . not really ...

Re: Porter Airlines Fleet and Network - 2024

Agreed. YYC is a definite struggle for Porter with service only to YYZ at the moment. YEG loads were doing substantially better (albiet with a bit less competition). This could be part of immense competition alongside WS loyalty (it amazes me how people can be loyal to an airline with an abysmal lo...

Re: WestJet News and Discussion - 2024

Recap of 2023 for WS: -First ever Transpacific flight / service to Asia -Made YYC its sole 787 intercontinental hub -Added NRT, IAD, MSP, DTW, BON to its route map -Completed its purchase of Sunwing -Closed down Swoop / re-integrated it within mainline ops. Coming in 2024: -Integration of Sunwing A...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Thanks, berari for this insight. I will be honest, as a proud Ethiopian, with heritage tied to the airline, I was a little saddened to see ET used as a bargaining chip. As you have stated, Ethiopia's quest for the00000 sea is not a want anymore. It is a need threatening the stability of the country...

Re: Porter Airlines Fleet and Network - 2024

Does Porter stand a chance in establishing a base in YYC and providing better than ULCC service to places like California, BC, AZ, NV? Or is that a pipe dream? I do not believe that would be a good idea. Much better to entrench themselves further in the markets where they are strong than to kick-of...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

First day of 2024 and reports claim Somaliland will receive a share in Ethiopian Airlines as part of the port lease agreement between the governing nations. Hard to make this non-political, but throughout the tumultuous recent history of Ethiopia, no government of the country has interfered in the ...

Re: Porter Airlines Fleet and Network - 2024

Does Porter stand a chance in establishing a base in YYC and providing better than ULCC service to places like California, BC, AZ, NV? Or is that a pipe dream?

Re: Flair Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

We should call them FL8 from now on.

Re: Flair Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

A social media campaign to have customer seek refunds per passenger rights rules will wipe them out. And I feel like it’s imminent.

Re: Flair Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

The adventure described above was on C-FFLC, one of two remaining 737-800's. It is a case study of why it's dangerous to entrust your "dream holiday season" vacation to an airline that literally, flies without a net. My flexibility and last minute change in plans this week is what had me ...

Re: Flair Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

Flair is fun! So departure time amended to 1715. It’s 1740 now. We boarded to unenthused staff and flight attendants. The FA told us to blame phoenix for the delay of the flight for that’s where the inbound aircraft came from. In reality PHX had a 0600 departure while we had an 1100. This aircraft w...

Re: Flair Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

Currently living an ever extending delay out of YYC which appears to be a result of an aircraft that didn’t arrive the night before. Messaging read “We are sorry to inform you that your flight has been delayed due to change of the flight plan. We are working hard to get you on your way soon.” Not my...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

Can't the cut a couple of WBs on African routes and increase frequencies, if the opening comes? Flew through Addis back and forth ABV for the first time and the transfer was fair enough to me and the timing also worked well... Why cut a couple of wide bodies serving their bread and butter (Africa) ...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

I think Ethiopian Airlines Group has contributed to Canada’s economy more than Canada has to Ethiopia in the last decade. Interesting! How ? Since I'm not very familiar with neither Ethiopia or Canada international relationships Q400s! I could be challenged with the numbers. But I will still point ...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

Take this with a block of salt, here’s news out of Ethiopia. Of particular interest are those to Nigeria, Ghana, Canada. Ethiopia Enters Air Transport Agreements with 17 Countries The deal, signed at the annual air transport service negotiation conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, encompasses variou...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

My 2 cents is that ET will launch DAC using the 7M8 that sits in BLR and MAA for over 18 hours. The same theory applies for KHI. On the published schedule for KHI there is no spare aircraft on the ground, only 50 minutes ground time: ET 694 ADD 21:45 KHI 05:05 7M8 ET 695 KHI 05:55 ADD 08:55 7M8 Tha...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

Take this with a block of salt, here’s news out of Ethiopia. Of particular interest are those to Nigeria, Ghana, Canada. Ethiopia Enters Air Transport Agreements with 17 Countries The deal, signed at the annual air transport service negotiation conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, encompasses various...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

Warsaw confirmed for 2024!! From Polish aviation site regarding WAW slots for NS 24: "We informed some time ago about Ethiopian Airlines' interest in launching a connection with Warsaw. These plans were confirmed in the report, the Ethiopian carrier received 135 slots for flights to Addis Abab...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

My 2 cents is that ET will launch DAC using the 7M8 that sits in BLR and MAA for over 18 hours. The same theory applies for KHI. In fact it would shave off a couple hundred miles from the options you presented. With all three possibilities, we could see a wide body on the one stop service to DAC. S...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

Part of me also thinks a tag on t existing service but I can’t think of any candidates. Behramjee has been advocating KHI-DAC tag for a while, but I don't see that working. Why wouldn’t that work? They’d both be developing routes, typical of Ethiopian’s launch to new destinations in far east where ...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

I'm not sure where the airframes are coming from, but 5X weekly service is the officially announced schedule as of now. As you said, I wouldn't be surprised to see the 737MAX utilized for these. https://businesspostbd.com/economy/aviation/ethiopian-airlines-dhaka-addis-ababa-flight-from-mar-8 GSAs ...

Re: WestJet News and Discussion - 2023

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bert-neut-76240343_westjet-is-wachten-zat-en-kiest-voor-parijs-activity-7138490437157224448-KVaj/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios WS appears to no longer be interested in AMS slots, and says they opted to focus on CDG instead. Not that they have aircraft to...

Re: East Africa Aviation - 2023

Can’t wait to listen. It’s like “our stories” at this point. Like a soap opera episode. Behramjee making a cameo.

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

MoU for 8 IL96-300 coming. They plan to expand into Central Asia. You heard it here first. ;) We believe everything you say. In the old days of Anet, I'd have been banned for a year for posting that. Shows how much enlightenment has descended upon the forums (relatively). LOL. I’m just waiting for ...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

B747-437B wrote:

dkny wrote:

Does it say which aircraft, it's a paid article so couldn't read it

MoU for 8 IL96-300 coming. They plan to expand into Central Asia. You heard it here first.

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

Karachi on the other hand, hasn't been that great for ET, as the SLF has consistently stayed around the low 60s (correct me if I'm wrong), and advance sales have tended to be quite underwhelming. My best guess is that ET will keep the current 4X weekly service until summer at best, at which point t...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

0100 ADD LLW 0400 0600 LLW LFW 1000 1245 LFW EWR 1915 2115 EWR LFW 1200 +1 1400+1 LFW LLW 2200+1 2330+1 LLW ADD 0430+2 No passengers would actually need to fly ADD-LLW-LFW - anybody who wanted to fly ADD-EWR could fly ADD-LFW (on the flight that continues to IAD), and then transfer to the EWR fligh...