Re: ITA/Alitalia fleet repainting process

Would ENAC expect long term leased aircraft operating for an Italian airline eventually to go onto the Italian register, and thus fall more strongly under ENAC's authority ? No, I don't think so. Look how many ships are registered in "foreign" Countries but operated by EU / US Companies.....

Re: Airbus A350 Production/Delivery Thread - 2022

EI-IFF is departing TLS to FCO. Those ITA A350s are lovely.

Re: ITA/Alitalia fleet repainting process

Is there any intent for these Irish registered aircraft to end up (eventually) on the Italy register ? Aren't they leased? why would they end up on the Italy register? Taxation in Ireland is lower than in Italy. Funny enough, ITA is Government owned, and it is evading its own taxes. But hey, it's I...

Re: Italian Aviation Thread - 2022

SkyAlps / Luxwing cancel Bolzano - London Gatwick before the first flight takes place Booking numbers must have been really bad I was born and raised in BZO and the whole BZO airport thing was just a big money pit. They spent a ton of (public) money to build the passenger terminal, Tyrolean first, ...

Re: Montreal (CYUL) Ground Stop

raylee67 wrote:

I suddenly realize there is a solution to all the ongoing check-in luggage saga at so many airports: the IL-86

All Air Canada and KLM need is the Ilyushin IL-86

Re: Updated ITA/Alitalia News and Discussion Thread

The Italian government confirms it received two updated bids. https://www.corriere.it/economia/aziende/22_luglio_05/ita-airways-arriva-l-offerta-msc-lufthansa-l-80percento-compagnia-b086c956-fc90-11ec-aaff-f5c76ebeca8a.shtml Details still not known, but MSC / LH offer is rumored to be around € 800 ...

Re: Airbus A330 and A340 Movements / Write-Off / Retirements / Scrapping Thread - 2022

Ronaldo747 wrote:

FatCat wrote:

In the meanwhile, D-AIHW is in MNL since June 10th, after a having been flown TEV-FRA on May 13th, anyone knows why? Cabin retrofitting, or else?

Usually MNL is the place for heavy maintenance of the LH A330/A340 fleet.

Re: Star Alliance to become Inter-modal Alliance

ReverseFlow wrote:

I do remember years ago that the DB had LH flight numbers for some trains between Cologne and Frankfurt.

Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Like all Miles & More members, I received this e-mail today. Two tough years of perceived and actual grounding lie behind us in aviation. All our Lufthansa Group employees have been wishing for nothing more throughout than to finally be able to welcome you back aboard our more than 750 aircraft....

Re: Irish 6/22: Brought to you by the letter "Q"

EI432, A320-214 EI-EDP DUB-LIN is squawking 7700 right now, steep descent from FL35, now cruising FL12 over Lyon, I bet pressurization issues.

Re: Dutch government to permanently further reduce AMS movement cap

HST can replace planes easily in connections between cities in EU Nations. It works well here in Italy, works well in France and in Germany too. It is absurd letting a plane connect, let's say, FRA and STR.

Re: Pilots' open letters to the public & picketing at airports

What specifically do pilot's want their airline to do? Give them a pay raise of course. Oh poor airlines, how can they sustain a pay raise for their staff, better let them work too much, then crash planes with hundreds of people aboard, and blame the pilots... Or hire new, incompetent, undertrained...

Re: Tim Clark: A350-1000 too small to be largest Airbus offering

Is there still a route that can pack up an A388?
I mean - on a daily base. How many people do travel between, let's say, LHR and DXB? Enough to have 8 Emirates A388 and 2 British B777W flights per day? Or are those planes flying half empty?

Re: Airbus A330 and A340 Movements / Write-Off / Retirements / Scrapping Thread - 2022

LH D-AIHP is due to fly TEV-MLA today at 12:00 CET. Nice to see another A346 coming back to service.
In the meanwhile, D-AIHW is in MNL since June 10th, after a having been flown TEV-FRA on May 13th, anyone knows why? Cabin retrofitting, or else?

Re: O'Hare Air France A320 and Heathrow Air Canada 737-8 MAX.

A handful of AF A319s have passed through DTW on their way to storage over the past few weeks, though none appear to have passed through ORD... CDG-ORD is ca. 3600 nm long, maximum range of an A319 is 3900 nm, I'm not saying it's not possible, but you'll land with less than 200 nm of range in the t...

Re: Boeing manning up to Launch new aircraft? Leeham thinks so.

A me too Boeing A321, in a saturated market seems an up-hill, risky approach, probably surrendering the middle of the market. This is exactly what I think too, this is why I think Boeing should build a 757-300 and 767-300 sized aircraft. This is where the actual gap is right now and midterm. Boeing...

Re: Airports in chaos in Europe

Right now we are standing in the security queue at VCE. It stretches all the through the terminal and half way back. It moves rather fast, but it will still take us 1/2 hour through the terminal to the point where the queue normally ends. I've been in this airport at least 30 times during the last ...

Re: Airports in chaos in Europe

I lost two planes at AMS in two separate occasions last week. Next time I'll take a Lufthansa connection from another airport in Germany - trying to avoid DUS as situation is getting pretty bad already. Maybe HAJ-MUC or BRE-MUC. Anyone knows how's the situation in EIN?

Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Maybe they need a Company that invoices services / lease / salaries to the main one. Or they have some kind of Gov't ease from taxes for the first years.

Re: Future of the Typhoon vs Rafale

The F-35, as the F-104 in the 60s, is heavily "lobbied" by the US. It's history how Lockeed bribed EU Governments to sell the F-104s, very short lived in the US Air Force. We in Italy saw Obama and Trump coming to close F-35 deals. I read an article on a now-defunct newspaper on how the IT...

Re: KL 744 Phase out News and Discussion Thread

I think those two 777F will not stay on the used plane market for long...

Re: Airbus A350 Production/Delivery Thread - 2022

It is D-AIVA. There are photos on JetPhotos on it. Why its flying on flight tracker in EI- reg nobody knows. maybe they forgot to change the box or maybe that hex belongs to D-AIVA. Today's flight from MUC>YVR was flown as EI-GWZ, but the return is showing flying as D-AIVA! https://www.flightradar2...

Re: Updated ITA/Alitalia News and Discussion Thread

Two bidders: Lufthansa/MSC and AF-KLM/DL/Centarus https://www.aviationpros.com/airlines/news/21268792/reports-just-two-bids-in-for-alitalia-successor https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/lufthansa-bids-20-stake-ita-airways-source-2022-05-24/ Correct. Neither of those will buy 100% of the Company a...

Re: Looks like BA67 had a problem after takeoff.

safe on TARMAC.
27R landing. EK29 is landing right now on 27L.
Quite a number of planes were on holding patterns not only S of LHR.

Re: Looks like BA67 had a problem after takeoff.

various planes are on holding patterns S of LHR, IMHO waiting for BA67 to land

Re: Looks like BA67 had a problem after takeoff.

IB3176 also circling
and BA485

Re: Italian 737 start-up AeroItalia

miegapele wrote:

Country of 60 million should be able to have two airlines

Re: Airbus A350 Production/Delivery Thread - 2022

Just noted on FR24, A359 EI-GWZ, flying LH495 YYZ-MUC, no photo on FR24/Jetphotos, no photo on A.net, no result within A.net forum, no result on airfleets... First flight recorded on FR24 Apr. 21st FRA-FRA, 3h, as FDZ007. Any more news on this plane? EDIT: it has to be D-AIVA - LN 228 - former Phili...

Re: New US Startup, Air Bahn

Bahn is a German derivation meaning 'Train', not natural for English speakers to pronounce No, "Bahn", short form of "Eisenbahn" is in German language the word for railway. Train = Zug. So "AirBahn" means "Air railway" to a German. Now we have the Airbus and ...

Re: 777-300ERSF Freighter News and Discussion Thread

DL757NYC wrote:

I remember when I posted that Fed Ex bought a 777LR from DL for cargo. I was laughed at and told it was for parts.

Re: Is Groupon dying?

Never used a Groupon deal. Not because I'm snob or else, but here it's a bit different than in the US. And I love my routine, so I prefer to go where I know how I am eating. Also, most of the restaurants here are family owned, not part of big groups or chains and you can close a deal (= receive a di...

Re: Updated ITA/Alitalia News and Discussion Thread

777 wrote:

The first A350 (EI-IFA) just landed in FCO flying as AZ8020.

Re: Lufthansa Group Fleet Thread - 2022

the more flights you have between cities and your hubs the more passengers you'll have on long range flights... and not only on LH's own, but also on star alliance flights. for me, i.e., is way more easy to catch a gas guzzler CRJ from BLQ or an E175 from FLR to FRA or MUC and from there to the worl...

Re: Lufthansa Group Fleet Thread - 2022

A346 D-AIHI right now over Sicily en-route MLA-MUC.

Re: United Airlines Fleet Thread - 2022

N78013 flying UA47 FRA-IAH is squawking 7700 and turning back to mainland EU right now.

Re: China Eastern 737-800 crashes in Guangxi, southern China

Looking at the altitude data, at 062043Z was 29000 ft and stable, then at 062059Z 27025 ft with a -21696 ft/min vspeed.
at 062155Z the vspeed becomes positive, definively a recovery attempt

Re: China Eastern 737-800 crashes in Guangxi, southern China