PepeTheFrog wrote:British fighter jets airborne to intercept drones:
https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/ ... 0371601460
Quite a few Doha bound flights U turning over Europe.
Jump to postVirgin Atlantic has released its summary financial results and annual report for 2023 with an overall loss before tax and exceptional items of £139 million. https://corporate.virginatlantic.com/gb/en/media/press-releases/virgin-atlantic-2023-financial-results.html https://corporate.virginatlantic.c...
Jump to postNo. The goal should be to make air travel for sustainable rather than stopping air travel itself.
Jump to postI would have thought MAN - MIA is worth a shot especially in winter for cruise ship business . What with AUS going and TLV suspended for the rest of the winter if not beyond, VS should have a spare frame of two. MAN-MIA has been tried twice within the last 20 years by AA and Thomas Cook, both didn’...
Jump to postInteresting to see what 787 replacement turns out to be.
Nothing that can’t be covered by a A350/A330 combination as well as the benefits of eliminating a fleet type.
But, perhaps cheaper to extend existing leases I imagine.
I’m mostly offended by alleged firing of the crew. Fixed that for you. Ofc I feel for the crew affected by this.. If they were fired, maybe they shouldn’t have criticised their employer in public knowing full well the most likely consequences? Sets a dangerous and worrying precedent. Will they be b...
Jump to postSets a dangerous and worrying precedent. Will they be banning people from harrods next when someone writes a bad review of the restaurant!?
Jump to postHaving looked at Euroflyer a while back as a direct entry captain with significant experience, I’m not surprised they are short of crews as the package was not competitive at all. I’m aware of several colleagues who came to the same opinion and passed for better options. As a pilot workforce we all...
Jump to postComing 2025 - and probably april/may 2025 as well at the earliest!
Jump to postskipness1E wrote:If G-VIIV/W/Y are getting Club Suites they'll be staying at LHR surely?
Is this a joke? Did you read the presentation slides? Just read them. Sorry, I initially thought you were talking about Level potentially flying to Australia/New Zealand (!). I just can't see IAG flying to New Zealand ... don't know why they put it next to a 'Potential Future Profit Pool' and 'Sele...
Jump to postplanemanofnz wrote:Arion640 wrote:Whats more interesting to me is that they are looking at selectively growing Australia/NZ.
Is this a joke?
Always been of the opinion governments shouldn’t own airlines.
Jump to postWhats more interesting to me is that they are looking at selectively growing Australia/NZ.
Jump to postDon’t worry about it. The US tipping culture is crazy.
Jump to postClearly BA feel Tampa is better done from Gatwick, than from Heathrow.
Jump to postBA777FO wrote:IAG has reported a record Q3 profit of €1.745bn versus €1.216bn in the same quarter in 2022 with an operating margin of 20.2%.
Quite a solid result.
EIDWDUB wrote:Arion640 wrote:I don’t think British Airways/IAG tend to order at airshows, let alone the dubai one. Especially with the Qatari’s being their largest shareholder!
They did order the XLR for EI and IB as well as the Maxs at Paris 19.
I don’t think British Airways/IAG tend to order at airshows, let alone the dubai one. Especially with the Qatari’s being their largest shareholder!
Jump to postfcogafa wrote:There must be a reason airlines that have A359s such as SIA are also using the B78X, if the stats were that close on medium range performance there would be no point having both.
A 787-10 on LHR-EWR will burn about 20% less fuel than a 777-200 for the same payload. For a similar payload on a 10 hour sector the A350-1000 burns around 10% less than a 777-200. Obviously the A350-1000 does have a bit more capacity. The A350-1000 burns about 10-15% less than the 77W for similar ...
Jump to postRudenko wrote:Quite a few Concorde FEs returned as cabin crew on their previous salaries.
G-ZBKA Flight Activity History …. this flight returned to HKG 15 September with flap issue….. it still appears AOG. Any updates? Looks like it's due back into Heathrow tomorrow morning. Hearing a rumour that one of the two LHR-DOH routes that QR has asked BA to fly may include a tag on to MEL. I th...
Jump to postBA 2239 was diverted back to LGW this morning. Flight delayed until 8.00pm. Is it a maintenance problem? I recently had a 23hour delay on BA 2239 on July 18th due to a navigation issue. The airline treated all passengers very well. These 777-200s are certainly causing a lot of reliability issues. T...
Jump to postSad day. I was lucky enough to fly on this one not long after it got the BOAC livery.
Jump to postAn excellent day.
I wish our king a long and successful reign.
D7A330 wrote:Scanorama wrote:Arion640 wrote:Anthony Albanese on QF9 I wonder?
He and his entourage will probably fly on one of the RAAF KC-30s, like he did for the Queen's funeral.
KC-30 A39-007 is just airborne DRW-STN as ASY323.
Will the A339’s come from existing lessor orders i wonder.
Jump to postI find it interesting that the richest man and woman in the world got their money from unneeded luxury items. All the left wing politicians, unionists etc. are quite embarrassed about that, on the one hand they want to tax them to death and claim their wealth is scandalous, exploiting the little ma...
Jump to postAllegedly a recent Norse flight to JFK disembarked passengers directly into the domestic area, skipping customs all-together. Anyone else have more information on this? Lot of talk about it on Twitter. Seems to be yesterdays flight from CDG. Pax were allowed to exit via the terminal instead of immi...
Jump to postThe visit was well-received by the german public with hardly any criticism (beyond some on the extreme right and left fringes making a few silly noises which just nobody was really interested in). Tonally the king hit all the right notes both in good humour but also seriously where appropriate and ...
Jump to postI wouldn’t say France is that socialist.
Jump to postseat1a wrote:skipness1E wrote:seat1a wrote:Have they considered LHR-SYD?
They flew it for years via HKG.
Was thinking if they would do it nonstop.
UPlog wrote:Sounds like San Jose California being dropped. Not bookable after October 14.
https://twitter.com/seanm1997/status/16 ... sEh0EAeGGQ
Can you imagine the political clashes of the non av gang lol
Jump to postBA777FO wrote:Ah yes, either way, semantics aside, it was cheaper to keep them than suffer the significant costs of disposal or forfeiture.
Perhaps if they had flown them to Marana or Victorville rather than Kemble and St Athan. That way they would have had the option of bringing them back into service. I like photographing them at Kemble, but would not store aircraft there. The UK climate is far from ideal. Had BA decided to store a n...
Jump to postskipness1E wrote:Arion640 wrote:The opening up of Gatwick's second runway will be welcome though.
That's a rounding error in the grand scheme of London airport capacity!
It just seems London doesn't want any visitors that might inconvenience them. This has gone on for far too long. I'm very happy we finally built a third runway here at SEA. Although I need to do a dive into how much it's sped up arrivals and departures, because the vids I've watched at SEA don't se...
Jump to postThe opening up of Gatwick's second runway will be welcome though.
Jump to postEven more unlikely with the incoming Labour government.
Jump to postThere is now a netflix documentary out about MH370. Some of the stuff in it is just wild. Someone remotely accessed the plane and flew it Kazakhstan as well as US AWAC’s that scrambled the planes communications with the ground. What I do find interesting though and didn’t know before, is MH370 flew ...
Jump to postI once had the choice of an Emirates A380 across the Tasman or an Air New Zealand 767. Kind of wish I’d gone for the 767 instead now.
Jump to postbennett123 wrote:There were enthusiast flights in 2014 with their last DC10. S2-ACR.
Which destinations is left thar they have not resumed? In Southern Africa now only GBE...while having launched a few others in the region that they didn't serve pre-Covid. Thought this time they might finally change DUR to nonstop. Perhaps DOH-DUR-GBE could be an option, instead of routing both via...
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