A good test for the Emirates AOC. My guess as an outsider is that they will under deliver/ under perform, due to commercial elements having too much authority within the airline.
Jump to postI think they could finance it. The question is whether or not it would make sense to do so, whethere there would be any economic return. They have to start spending billions up front before ever getting any revenue, time value of money eats into profitability. Imho, China and India will eventually g...
Jump to postStarting with the CS500 would have put Bombardier dead in A/B’s gunsights. The point of the 100/300 was to offer a plane that wouldn’t go head-on against the duopoly. It was designed to be a regional plane with great field performance to serve small to mid-sized cities. It wasn’t designed for long,...
Jump to postAnd what is amazing to me is that, apparently, Boeing wanted to cease the project in spite of that massive outlay of cash. The B-29 had massive problems, not the least of which was the aerodynamic effects on the wing caused by the cowl flaps if they were opened beyond 10-20%. That one issue alone le...
Jump to postAs most threads on this website seem to evolve, the discussion has morphed into maximum range capabilities, which isn’t appropriate to this discussion. Imo range isn't a problem in Europe. WRT Europe, distances are generally very short, my guess is that more than 50% of flights inside Europe are les...
Jump to postA jet engine is a reaction engine. The amount of force (thrust) that it develops is directly proportional to the amount (mass) of air that it expels rearward or the acceleration it imparts upon that air, or both the mass and the acceleration. F=MA. It turns out that it is much more efficient to mov...
Jump to postThere are specs for cowling latches. My guess is that a lot of inspections are in store for the SWA fleet. Probably a training event for all the mechs also.
Jump to postA jet engine is a reaction engine. The amount of force (thrust) that it develops is directly proportional to the amount (mass) of air that it expels rearward or the acceleration it imparts upon that air, or both the mass and the acceleration. F=MA. It turns out that it is much more efficient to move...
Jump to postAnybody remember “Neutron Jack” when Welch was selling any business that wasn’t or couldn’t be number 1 or 2 in their market? It was the acolytes that messed up GE. But they were #1 in many markets they competed in from TV ratings to locomotives. This GE revisionist history is funny. It was the per...
Jump to postIs it even possible to type rate pilots for both? In a word: no. I was designed and initially built by Bombardier, the systems are very different. I believe that the two of you are talking across purposes here. If he is asking if there could be a common type rating for the 220 and 320, you are corr...
Jump to postCorporate splits are so hot right now Can’t wait for mergers to be big again in 30 years. ATT is nodding its head at that comment and laughing.............(to the bank) The elite make money coming and going, while the jobs go to third world countries. In the airline segment, it's been interesting t...
Jump to postIt does seem ironic that so many on this board criticize Boeing for prioritizing finance over technical performance, when to me, GE and Jack Welch were/are the poster children for that behavior. That the appliance operation in KY that was state of the art in the 50s and 60s now belongs to the Chines...
Jump to postAnyone got some numbers that may give some idea on just how ahead the 223 is in terms of lower operating costs vs 31N or 7M7? Must be some pretty good numbers that despite the lower range and being a completely new fleet, it's the best seller in its category. This link has some data for Delta, it a...
Jump to postThe 220 is not a short range airplane, not a DC9 replacement. Yet, I don't see any version of 220 routinely flying a route in revenue service that is longer than 6 hours. It may have a one off here or there, but the RIX-AUH that airBaltic flew for awhile was the longest I have seen. Per GCMAP that i...
Jump to postAs the presence of A220 is growing across the main airliners in Europe, it seems interesting to explore how Air France, Swiss and ITA, for instance, find it reasonable and profitable to have a great number of A220 aircrafts, but also include a large number of the A320 (neo) aircrafts. Knowing that ...
Jump to postA pilot shortage has been predicted endlessly for the last 15-20 years, and all the big carrier pilots just got huge raises.
This action seems at variance with the narrative.
As the presence of A220 is growing across the main airliners in Europe, it seems interesting to explore how Air France, Swiss and ITA, for instance, find it reasonable and profitable to have a great number of A220 aircrafts, but also include a large number of the A320 (neo) aircrafts. Knowing that ...
Jump to postMy guess is that a lot of people posting on this thread have no idea how common some of these issues are. For an airline with 1,000 airplanes to have 20-25 in flight shutdowns in a year would not be alarming. This number would still be far below what was experienced in the past, airplanes and all th...
Jump to postWhen the C-130J was assigned to the ARFes weather wing at Keesler, the navigators were being RIF’d, the position was not there in the new plane. The navs, being civil service technicians, wrote to their congressional delegation. A guy named Trent Lott (R-MS) sent a letter to the USAF CoS telling hi...
Jump to postThe problem with saying a 20% fuel burn improvement saves 20% of the fuel cost is that someone will just fill up the airplane with more stuff. If that 20%= 40,000 lbs of fuel, and you were at MTOW previously and now have a 40,000 lb margin, some genius will just put 40,000 lbs more payload on, push...
Jump to postThe problem with saying a 20% fuel burn improvement saves 20% of the fuel cost is that someone will just fill up the airplane with more stuff. If that 20%= 40,000 lbs of fuel, and you were at MTOW previously and now have a 40,000 lb margin, some genius will just put 40,000 lbs more payload on, pushi...
Jump to postRichard Anderson of delta seems to not have a job as of now I have watched him closely for about 15 years. He is perhaps the most shrewd businessmen I have ever seen. He has zero manufacturing experience but I have no doubt he could do the job very well. I don't think that the Boeing BOD would acce...
Jump to postWindRunner specs are listed here: https://radia.com/windrunner Thanks for the link. I haven't seen reported what engines they will use, but the link lists a very slow M0.6 cruise speed, which I found interesting. The wing seems very small in the drawings, amd the large downward winglet is kind of s...
Jump to postThat must have been a very intersting meeting. A situation like in a Hollywood Mafia blockbuster: The airline bosses sitting on a table with the Boeing Board, discussing the fate of a person, they no longer trust and who was not invited. You realize that the envisioned come to "J" meeting...
Jump to postRandom thoughts from the posts above. The PW engines have 81 inch fans, there is also a CFM engine with a 78 inch fan. They both have reliability issues compared to the CFM56, but the PW engines have much worse durability/reliability than the LEAP if commercially available reports are correct. Then...
Jump to postRemember 30 years ago, the Airbus 320 autoland failure? Customers avoided Airbus to focus on Boeing. Later, after a few years, they began buying both Airbus and Boeing head to head. It seems that Boeing will solve the problem soon; I just heard that the Boeing CEO and management stepped down recent...
Jump to postThe customer doesn't know what they don't know, the regulator doesn't know what they don't know, and the supply chain doesn't know what it doesn't know. ...and it is mostly the intangibles that they don't know. The essentials of collaborative working, the memories not accessible in corporate record...
Jump to postThey got the 787 battery wrong ( https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/12/ntsb-blames-bad-battery-design-and-bad-management-in-boeing-787-fires/ ). The got the basic design of the MAX wrong (engine forward and center of gravity) + MCAS ...basically a rushed design and the whole proces...
Jump to postAt least the Japanese are consistent. I believe that Toyota is going all in on hydrogen
Jump to postRandom thoughts from the posts above. The PW engines have 81 inch fans, there is also a CFM engine with a 78 inch fan. They both have reliability issues compared to the CFM56, but the PW engines have much worse durability/reliability than the LEAP if commercially available reports are correct. Then...
Jump to postOne does not need to have experience running a billion dollar corporation to provide an opinion. If it were so, there would be very few commenters, including those who post the comment. This is a variation of the theme that one must be a pilot in order to comment upon flight operations, or a veteran...
Jump to postRandom thoughts from the posts above. The PW engines have 81 inch fans, there is also a CFM engine with a 78 inch fan. They both have reliability issues compared to the CFM56, but the PW engines have much worse durability/reliability than the LEAP if commercially available reports are correct. Then ...
Jump to postIt is a combination of things in my experience. 1/ lots of staff retired in all sectors during Covid who’d results in loading tons of experience 2/ very rapid growth in aircraft sector but not keeping up in the support side. My guess sloppiness and missing things during the onboarding and promotion...
Jump to postManufacturer recommendation is to "avoid icing conditions for the remainder of the flight." QRH procedures (designed for dealing with equipment that becomes inoperative during flight) are completely different from MEL/CDL procedures (which deal with equipment that is discovered to be inop...
Jump to postThe PW2037 was never the most reliable engine in it's class, and that's putting it mildly. Operating that engine in austere environments (dust/dirt), and using it to back up via the thrust reversers was always going to pose a problem. Perhaps RR could come up with a PIP'd version of the RB211-535 to...
Jump to postA very professional response from Airbus Airbus CFO: We're not happy with the issues at Boeing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ueJkZ8OcLo Of course it should be their response. Boeing's problem is also a problem for Airbus. Absolutely, he knows that Airbus is in for higher scrutiny in the very nea...
Jump to postIMO it's beyond the pale that UA management hired a CNN journalist as VP of safety, that should be enough to p**s off any reasonable POI. I think you are forgetting the 10+ years she spent at the FAA, after CNN and before UA. I am not sure I understand the basis of the criticism. What was her role ...
Jump to postThe OEMs, behind closed doors, were concerned 15 years ago about the generational change that was coming—fewer pilot and technician starts, complacency, and the economics of designing and certifying new planes becoming increasingly difficult. The ladder got pulled up so hard it's exceedingly challe...
Jump to postThe IND base was sold of to AAR at the time of the UA bankruptcy. United currently seems to do heavy maintenance primarily at contracted locations Lake City, FL, Orlando (MCO), Miami, and Cleveland (I believe?) as well as internationally in Singapore and Hong Kong. Greensboro might still see some U...
Jump to postThere are customers, and then there are customers. It appears to me that some customers have too much influence, and others have too little. Mho. It's a matter of judgement.
Jump to postIt's not just the APD's that FAA can't take over for. Its all across the airline, and at every other airline. I doubt if FAA has any where near enough people to exercise the enhanced oversight mentioned up thread. And even if they did have the people, they don't have the expertise/knowledge/experien...
Jump to postIf this happens it would be another large long time 777-300ER fleet operator replacing their fleet with A350's. EVA was the first and won't the last. If this doesn't set off alarm bells in Seattle and Washington DC then we should just surrender our aerospace industry. The fact is that Boeing doesn'...
Jump to postAre you really expecting Boeing to “win” every order? Because of the long standing and strong implication of Japan in the Boeing supply chain, Japan used to be Boeing's bride. It seems that economic matters do not have the same weight anymore amongst the high sphere orderers. Divorce is in the air....
Jump to postYes, the MD-80 series had dial a flap, I believe that MD-11 also had dial a flap. Not sure about how well it optimized.
Good news for the A339. Somehow, they gotta get more orders to keep the line moving.
Assuming that you haven't confused SLC, Utah and SCL, Chile: the answer should be minimal. At 5131nm, SLC-ICN is close to 2500nm shorter than the longest regular A359 flight, which is LAX-SIN (i.e. excluding A359ULR). Even with the worst of headwinds, SLC-ICN would be a bread and butter route for a...
Jump to postSLCaviation wrote:I know Im going to get bashed for this, but could this allow for ICN-SLC? The 359 has the range for the route.
WindRunner specs are listed here: https://radia.com/windrunner Thanks for the link. I haven't seen reported what engines they will use, but the link lists a very slow M0.6 cruise speed, which I found interesting. The wing seems very small in the drawings, amd the large downward winglet is kind of s...
Jump to postSince you’re tossing around “fair price” What exact Canadian dollar/US Dollar/Euro amount is the threshold for “fair price”. This is like the timeless tradition of “rabble rabble the rich need to pay their fair share of taxes” What is the exact dollar to the cent, that is “fair”? That will be deter...
Jump to postJust spinning it at a slightly different angle. If we are talking about $10k annually per each of 1200 workers, that is extra $1.7M per each of 70 delivered plane. With current losses of $4M per plane. Paying your worker the fair price is also a good solution to retain and attract talents and secur...
Jump to postLabor costs are only a portion of total costs. Pay is only a portion of labor costs. The difference between 10 and 15% pay (total speculation on what they would accept) for 1,300 employee's out of +125,000 employees is a rounding error compared to total revenue. It is true that Montreal is not in a ...
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