Re: Boeing 737 MAX Production Thread - Part 1

Being on this forum for a little over 3 years i was never accused of posting misleading information . I stated that Air Canada first Max is in the area of LN 6630 - LN 6635 . I also stated that FAL entry is around LN 6580-6585 and if you add 50 to that number equals to the number posted above . I d...

Re: Boeing 737 MAX Production Thread - Part 1

boefan wrote:

chrisa330 wrote:

Any idea when Air Canada's first MAX8 will being final assembly?

FAL is now at LN6580-LN6585 and Air Canada is 50 aircraft later on

Re: Official 747-8 Flight Tracking/Production Part 18

Look at it this way - if UPS has a media event planned, would they want to blow it by saying so so some fellow on the Internet asking via Twitter? Also, it's possible the person answering had no clue as it might not have been disseminated to all staff internally at the time. Well Chris it's 5pm. Pl...

Re: Official 747-8 Flight Tracking/Production Part 18

Ask UPS or Boeing.

Re: Official 747-8 Flight Tracking/Production Part 18

Chris Edwards has posted it's confirmed for UPS and there will be a media event later this week : https://twitter.com/AeroimagesChris/status/884985695533707264 I find it odd that there has not been any mention of this on UPS's media twitter feed which historically they have never been shy of using ...

Re: GLO Ceases Ops on 15JUL

And I opened the thread thinking it was about GLO the airport (Gloucester, United Kingdom). Thing is that most acronyms or short codes are reused in different contexts within aviation. Thread starters really ought to make it quite explicit what the context is. "Virtual Airline GLO ceases ops o...

Re: Official 747-8 Flight Tracking/Production Part 18

Chris Edwards has posted it's confirmed for UPS and there will be a media event later this week : https://twitter.com/AeroimagesChris/status/884985695533707264 I find it odd that there has not been any mention of this on UPS's media twitter feed which historically they have never been shy of using f...

Re: El Al modified livery

No lettering yet might mean new letter types coming as well? The tail is painted first on the 787s for weight and balance and then if it's going off site to have the fuselage done they just give it a quick once over in white, which is what you're seeing here. It might be waiting for a paint shop sl...

Re: GLO Ceases Ops on 15JUL

I thought it was about Brazil operator GOL. Their ICAO operator code is GLO. I have no idea who this other "GLO" is ?

Re: Official 747-8 Flight Tracking/Production Part 18

It looks far too thick to be paper. To my eyes it looks more like large pieces of blanket. I doubt that Boeing would risk the very unpredictable Seattle weather by wrapping it in brown paper, even if they only planned to have it outside for a short while. One random rain shower rolling in would've w...

Re: Boeing 737 MAX Production Thread - Part 1

So does this mean AA's first MAX8 will arrive on property before the end of '17? Unless AA delay it, definitely. I would say a couple of months or so, but they're hard to predict as the Max schedule is still really lagging behind as they're playing catch-up getting new engines for all the existing ...

Re: Indigo set an altitude limit of 30,000 ft for the A320NEO fleet

anshabhi wrote:

I am SHOCKED

VT-ITF,G,H,J,K,M,N,O are parked.

Re: Is Lion Air taking on Batik livery?

much like how it was delivered to Malindo Air with the Batik livery with a Malindo sticker! No, Malindo first Max was delivered in full Batik Malaysia livery https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/malindo-operates-worlds-first-737-max-flight-437454/ He's not talking about the 1st one. He's talk...

Re: 787 Production/Delivery Thread - Part 43

Ln 11 is believed to be being fitted out at Grant County for Korean Govt to replace B744 10001. Ln 19 status unclear. Thought to owned by Crystal now and awaiting a buyer for it. Ferry out of PAE under BOE number believed to be because Crystal don't have their own crews for the type. Internal data f...

Re: Who has bought one of the Transaero 748i

Does every thread about a 747 really have to turn into the same old arguments about AF1 replacement? Seriously guys, take it a separate thread please and you can hack out the same old tired done-to-death arguments there.

Re: Official threads getting merged into longwinded older threads

Another great example of selective moderation that goes on here : http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1367203 Posted as a done deal. No mention of RUMOR anywhere in the thread title, yet the thread has been allowed to stay as a factual account that UA and B6 have merged according ...

Re: Who has bought one of the Transaero 748i

leleko747 wrote:

Too bad Rossiya didn't pick up the 747-8 order from Transaero.
They brought back a bunch of ex Transaero Jumbos... adding some new 747-8s would be wonderful.

Re: Historic photo - last PAX Boeing 747

Wiki shows 5 pax B748 are yet to be delivered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747-8#Orders_and_deliveries Of those 5 : 1 is the Korean Air pictured above. 3 are the Transaero order from Dec 27, 2013. 2 are already built and stored. The 3rd won't be built. 1 is a BBJ order placed on Mar 2 this ...

Re: Official threads getting merged into longwinded older threads

how*

Re: Airliners.net should recruit more moderators

I don't need to back it up with evidence here. VerticalScopeJeff already has the email proof on file.

Re: Official threads getting merged into longwinded older threads

Couldn't the thread title be modified to add at note like CONFIRMED or VERIFIED once new information surfaces? That in my opinion would be a simple solution for the issue at hand. Also, by having the new news on the old, speculative thread it provides more background information & helps readers...

Re: Air Canada downsizes 737 MAX 9 order book

Air Canada converted a large chunk of its 737 MAX 9 order to the smaller MAX 8 variant: The carrier has firm orders for sixty-one B737 MAX aircraft which had consisted of thirty-three B737 MAX 8s and twenty-eight B737 MAX 9s. The order included substitution rights between them as well as for the B7...

Re: Airliners.net should recruit more moderators

No additional mods are needed. The problem is that the 2 most prolific mods think they are on some sort of power trip and can't go more than 2 minutes without locking or deleting threads and making threats to members by email.

Re: 737-9 : Dead duck

^ no, those 10 were normal -700s.

Re: Bahrain, Egypt and KSA closed their airspace for Qatar

Iran to not allow airplanes operated by Saudi Arabia to cross into their airspace. - RT Arabic I can imagine Saudi Arabia are having a good chuckle over that one. They don't have any flights that would naturally go over Iran's airspace anyway that I can see from a glance of the JED flight boards. A...

Re: 2017 Paris Air Show - Boeing News and Orders

Seriously guys. ENOUGH with the arguments over LOIs, MOUs, IOUs. ENOUGH! Take your arguments to another thread if you must continue this pathetic war on proving your manliness on what the absolute definitions are of stuff that 99.9999999% of the world does not give a flying F about. Mods : the show ...

Re: 737-9 : Dead duck

AeroTyke wrote:

LAX772LR wrote:

VetteDude wrote:

the 7M9

Is that the official/ICAO designation?
Makes sense if so, but just wondering.

Re: 737-9 : Dead duck

I can see the -9 having a very short production run. Given that Boeing launched the 900ER in July 2005 and the first one was delivered to Lion Air just 16 months later in May 2007 could we see the -10 ready for service by April/May 2019 ? The 737-900ER was an update of the preexisting 737-900, henc...

737-9 : Dead duck

From the orders thread : I think virtually all the MAX 9 orders are 'at risk' of being converted. It's an interesting comment. We've seen a huge number of conversions to the 10 model this week and given the small differences between the 8, 9 and 10 model is there any need for the 9 anymore? My quest...

Re: Think the new China Eastern livery is bad? It gets even worse.

Check out Ruili's new livery. You'd think you can't get worse than China Eastern's but they win the 'most white, least amount of color' award now. They've completely done away with the fuselage colors from their previous red and pink. I don't think anyone does airline liveries better than the Russia...

Re: Delta Aircraft Refurbishment - 2017

Do any of you DL folks know when B739 N878DN entered service after delivery BFI-ATL on May 18 please? Unfortunately it is blocked on all trackers as the reg was previously used by a Galaxy bizzer and is still on the FAA BARR list. Flt # and route appreciated. Thanks :). I believe it was ATL-AUS on ...

Re: Delta Aircraft Refurbishment - 2017

Do any of you DL folks know when B739 N878DN entered service after delivery BFI-ATL on May 18 please? Unfortunately it is blocked on all trackers as the reg was previously used by a Galaxy bizzer and is still on the FAA BARR list. Flt # and route appreciated. Thanks :). Interesting that FlightAware...

Re: Delta Aircraft Refurbishment - 2017

Do any of you DL folks know when B739 N878DN entered service after delivery BFI-ATL on May 18 please? Unfortunately it is blocked on all trackers as the reg was previously used by a Galaxy bizzer and is still on the FAA BARR list. Flt # and route appreciated. Thanks .

Re: Explanation behind abandoned DO-328 in New Jersey?

Last flight for Cirrus Jan 19, 2012 as RUS27J into Saarbrucken. Stayed there until April 11, 2012 when it ferried Saarbrucken to Wick to Reyjavik with reg as callsign. Picked up on mode-s over Prince Edward Island, Canada next day April 12 at 1pm local time cruising at FL280 and then not noted again...

Re: KC-46 Production, Testing And Delivery

The tankers seem to be suffering from fuel temperature issues. I monitor the ground comms at BFI and tanker #1 has had issues for the past 3 days having to hold on the ramp and taxiways for up to 30 mins sometimes for the temp to drop to allow a take off. Today it escalated to the point where Fire R...

Re: Boeing halts 737 MAX flights, LPT Cracking

ODwyerPW wrote:

It's under a dozen engines that have flown, correct?

Re: Iqaluit the new Keflavik??

Not sure where the idea stems from that YFB could be the new KEF. ? YFBs geographical location is useless for everything except Europe-West Coast airliner diversions once in a blue moon. Tin and props ferrying across the pond will continue to use YYR because it's the shortest hop to/from Greenland/I...

Re: 13 hours on a G650

Walking into PBI today I noticed N777ZH a Gulfstream 650 depart. Not completely unusual here at PBI - as it is home to many of the wealthiest aircraft operators around. Then I pulled it up on flightaware.com and noticed it was flying non-stop to Almaty, Kazakhstan, with a flight time of almost 13 h...

Re: SAS considering A321LR or 737MAX for US-Europe

. As said they are operating CPH-BOS already. SK927 & SK928. 3200NM, apparently that works well. http://www.privatair.com/sites/default/files/content_files/images/Content_SAS_737-20C%2B60Y.jpg It's worth noting that aircraft in question is not a 737-700, it's a BBJ and has the belly tank mod.

Re: Boeing 737 MAX 9 first flight

Expect it to fly as BOE901.

Re: Syrian Air to acquire A340-300