SFOThinker wrote:FRA layout is more complex and can be confusing. IST is more straightforward, but the walks can be very long.
Officially 17 years but I'm reading a.net since 2000. I've been here for more than 20 years and I hate when a valuable contributor stops posting. We're left to wonder what happened to him. Agreed - a "where are they now?" thread would be interesting. I know a couple former members and why ...
Jump to postI know that filming isn't allowed in China, ... At least in Beijing there is kind of a park in the final approach zone close to Terminal 3. You can find a lot of videos taken from that place on YouTube. Of course, you won’t find such videos from provincial airports in China. Most provincial airport...
Jump to postSGN won't go anywhere. And yes, the new airport will mainly handle international ops. Antares! I was actually hoping that you would join the discussion. Do you have an idea where the C-119 comes from? Since there is no C-119 in any museum in VN I assume this aircraft has been stored in an hangar or...
Jump to postA brand new A320neo (OE-LZQ) from Austrian collided with a jetbridge at VIE... the right elevator broke off, and the right sharklet doesn't look particularly good either... https://x.com/aviationbrk/status/1776948441744068665 ?!?! Can you imagine the force necessary to break off an elevator? Or has...
Jump to postA brand new A320neo (OE-LZQ) from Austrian collided with a jetbridge at VIE... the right elevator broke off, and the right sharklet doesn't look particularly good either... https://x.com/aviationbrk/status/1776948441744068665 ?!?! Can you imagine the force necessary to break off an elevator? Or has...
Jump to postFYI, Vietnam is trying to build a new airport outside of Saigon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Thanh_International_Airport Not sure if they will keep this airport for domestic uses. Property price being what it is, most likely this airport will be gone in a decade. bt SGN won't go anywhere. ...
Jump to postThank you for your replies! I don’t know, but in 2011-ish, the revetments were still there at Tan San Nhut Yes, the revetments are still there. But now there are only Antonovs left. There are photos on Flikr showing the C-130s (and a CH-47 and a C-119 and an AC-47) present there in 2013. On other so...
Jump to postMitsubishi didn't learn their lesson? Anyway, good luck, it's their money to loose Yeah. Sure. https://www.aeroflap.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Spacejet-M90-scrapperd-Wade-Sackett-1024x683.jpg Source: https://www.aeroflap.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Spacejet-M90-scrapperd-Wade-Sackett-1...
Jump to postWhen taxiing to the runway at about 10pm I saw an LH 747 with a lot of emergency vehicles around it.
Jump to postHow comes that no one posts pictures of the individual airframes as for example in the A32X- or the 737-production threads?
Jump to postI stumbled across this picture which shows a variety of South Vietnam AF aircraft in the background: 0514792 This picture has been taken in 2004, so almost thirty years after the collapse of South Vietnam (!). What happened to all of these C-130s? You can find captured aircraft in almost every provi...
Jump to postAntaras wrote:With Điện Biên (DIN) was just upgraded into a bigger airport and now able to handle A321 ops
The CAAC pointed out that the case is "very complicated and rare..." Wonder what that could mean... Considering they ruled out many factors such as weather, technical malfunction, maintenance error, and pilot error. The “very complicated” part is how do the powers that be spin this, as ap...
Jump to postIf one of the pilot committed suicide, the investigation needs to find out why he decided to kill himself. Depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, etc. And the problem is that if there are no traces, notes, witness reports, medical exams or any event that could lead someone to depress...
Jump to postThe CAAC pointed out that the case is "very complicated and rare..." Wonder what that could mean... Considering they ruled out many factors such as weather, technical malfunction, maintenance error, and pilot error. The “very complicated” part is how do the powers that be spin this, as ap...
Jump to postThe fascination with carry-on is fascinating, I’m going on the 2-day trip to CLT next month, checking my bag. It’s far enough enough to drag it from the cab to the counter. Not sure why you would call it a fascination! It’s more like a time-saver. I’d rather have 45 minutes to do other things than ...
Jump to postWas it an acoustic guitar? Then you could have even used the space of the acoustic body. You were told that you needed to bring your guitar after you passed security?. New FAA directive: at least three passengers on every Boeing 737 MAX must carry with them a musical instrument. In the likely event ...
Jump to postWill fly LH on Friday. My daily review of the various strikes tells me that I will be lucky but can anyone please confirm? :-/ Thursday is the last day of strikes. So you should be okay. Thanks for your feedback. But I‘m not okay because: At HAJ, DTM, NRN, DRS, LEJ there will be a strike of the sec...
Jump to postWill fly LH on Friday. My daily review of the various strikes tells me that I will be lucky but can anyone please confirm? :-/
Jump to postThe press for Boeing has been bad enough lately but this information appeared on CNN's website under the headline "Boeing Is In Big Trouble". According to this passenger, the pilot told him that the "gauges kind of went blank on him." LATAM is describing it as a "technical ...
Jump to postairlinepeanuts wrote:Can someone explain to us non-Germans the significance of “Air Flo”?
Air Flo? Let‘s hope they will not fly to Germany or Austria. Would have problems to sit in a seat of an Air Flo aircraft. :-/
Jump to postThe most frustrating of is that even if they find the wreckage, I guess they won’t be able to draw many conclusions from that wreckage.
Jump to postI was not able to read the registration in that video. Surely somebody here knows. And who bought it? They mention it's St. Canice, which was EI-ASO, and it looks like it crashed on 21 March 1989 with Transbrasil as flight 801, registered PT-TCS. It was EI-ASO which was also the 707 in the Airport ...
Jump to postI was not able to read the registration in that video. Surely somebody here knows. And who bought it?
Jump to postSo, when was the first time you flew on an A320? I ask because I first flew on a NW A320 in August 1990 from DCA-MSP. NW had very recently acquired the type and to my knowledge no other US carriers were flying the A320 at the time. Any folks out there on an A320 in that era? Rather late after EIS i...
Jump to postRecently I found this article of an USAF C-130 being towed through the middle of Paris and thought it would be worth sharing: http://www.usaf317thvet.org/towarticle.htm The fuselage was from an aircraft damaged at Evreux and was repaired at Spangdahlem air base by using the remainings of two other C...
Jump to postqf789 wrote:Starlux orders 3 A330neo and 5 A350 freighters
https://x.com/raestimr/status/176020909 ... 4RrNJUmFQA
Hmm, this thread keeps popping up here on the civil aviation forum frequently. So may I ask: how many -10‘s have been sold?
Jump to postGDB wrote:So is Greece still a risk?
LAXintl wrote:Russia overflight.
Badpiggieslover wrote:I know that filming isn't allowed in China, ...
Scotron12 wrote:And another long standing customer lost by RR!
Congrats to Boeing & GE.
Actually my very first flight was on a widebody: THY DC 10 from FRA to IST in 1979.
2AM take off from Beijing, 6:30am landing in Frankfurt, I am actually still suffering even after two weeks from Jetlag/ Really? I love this connection. I try to sleep as soon as possible after take off. Often the FA shakes my arm during final approach because I‘m still sleeping. Usually I have zero...
Jump to postI thought windshear is just an issue during landing.
Jump to post2AM take off from Beijing, 6:30am landing in Frankfurt, I am actually still suffering even after two weeks from Jetlag/ Really? I love this connection. I try to sleep as soon as possible after take off. Often the FA shakes my arm during final approach because I‘m still sleeping. Usually I have zero...
Jump to postJerseyFlyer wrote:Simple Flying understands that the aircraft will keep its China Southern seats but will undergo a complete cabin refurbishment."
https://simpleflying.com/exclusive-glob ... rbus-a380/
B787register wrote:If it is her and her plane I hope they leave it, its technically a grave isnt it?
A record 14.9 million tourists visited Egypt in 2023 and this surpassed the previous record of 14.7 million that was set back in 2010. This was despite the war in the Gaza Strip that began on October 7, which meant there were 600,000 fewer tourists than originally anticipated. Nonetheless, this is ...
Jump to postI,ve posted that a week ago in the German aviatio n thread, so I'll just quote myself: Official statement by Rossello is, […] he sees the brand Sundair well established now. Source (German): https://www.aerotelegraph.com/hebt-bald-wieder-eine-fluggesellschaft-mit-dem-namen-air-berlin-ab Sorry if th...
Jump to postJust a question on Munich while I have this thread open. Where you be the recommend area to stay ? I seen something suggesting to try avoid around the main train station and that's the area I've been looking at due to attractive hotel prices. €200 for 2 nights midweek type of range. Depends on when...
Jump to postI was listening to the ATC conversation between the toronto controllers and AF456 flight crew and was stunned by the fact that the crew never mentioned that they had a tailstrike. At least two times ATC asks them the resons for the go around and they answer that they think they were too long but ne...
Jump to postPHAVR wrote:incl. 65 Ukrainian soldiers that were part of a scheduled prisoner exchange...
At Bucharest Otopeni there used to be two different kind of taxis. One for 1 Lei per kilometer and others for 6 Lei per kilometer. My colleagues had warned me about this fact but one evening I was so tired that I didn’t notice that I had taken a 6 Lei taxi. I was so angry about myself, you know, th...
Jump to postAt Bucharest Otopeni there used to be two different kind of taxis. One for 1 Lei per kilometer and others for 6 Lei per kilometer. My colleagues had warned me about this fact but one evening I was so tired that I didn’t notice that I had taken a 6 Lei taxi. I was so angry about myself, you know, thi...
Jump to postThe aircraft reg/n is/was RA-09011 (Falcon 10 c/n 128), previously known as: CN-TKN, P4-AVN, N228SJ, N175BC, N99BC, N79PB, N79HA, N1871R, N197FJ. Didn‘t find any pictures in a.net‘s database for the RA- and CN-registrations but only pictures of P4-ANV 0465207,0465206 Right now the livery is a littl...
Jump to postHow many minutes is "insanely long"? I don't know what counts as insanely long, but for me at FRA it was around 45 minutes to an hour My last time in Frankfurt it was around 20 minutes, even though we took our sweet time to get from the plane to the baggage reclaim. 20 minutes in Frankfur...
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