I am always a fan of conspiracies but gees, FFS... Fake CVR that was planted? I suppose you never went diving? Or stood on the beach with your feet in the sand and saw how currents kept pushing more sand on top of your feet? We are not talking about super deep water here. This was near the shore and...
Jump to postTSA is useless. It was implemented as a result of 9/11. And since 9/11 has happened there's never going to be another one because passengers will no longer just sit around be compliant and just let it happen, much like those that fought back on Flight 93. The bigger threat today is probably from so...
Jump to postSomeone did exactly what you described at Haneda back in 2017 and was arrested the next day. I found that story. She threw ammunition into a trash bin in the departure area in plain sight. I didn't say to do that. The cleaning people saw the ammo and they went to vid footage to identify her. Mistak...
Jump to postLol, surprised but not really.
On 2 or 3 occasions I found my 5" knife in my Tumi bag upon getting to the hotel.
YET.... TSA in Newark gave me the riot act for having a few safety razor blades for my safety razor in my carryon. lol.
Why couldn't the plane from Buffalo go straight to LAX? What a sht-show. I am sure Spirit could of handle it better. lol. Can't tell me AS had no slack in the system to get a plane to Buffalo and fly the folks to their destination.
Jump to post... and there starts the chain of events.
If not for that unfortunate screwup... the world at large and pilots would not know that a single faulty AoA sensor can plunge an aircraft.
Safe to assume that if this happened on an NG... pilots would figure out the issue and plane would land safely?
All you have to do is look at the financial statements to see the dire situation.
The truth is generally there in small print. What management says is all marketing BS and wishful thinking.
Did Boeing fall for one of those "Nigerian Prince" letters? They will buy 1,000 airplanes... but first, Boeing must pay for some lawyers and transaction fees before they can send the gold bards to pay for those planes. =)
Jump to postThe fact that the mcas got Data from only one AoA sensor and had no redundancy IS an issue.
Jump to postBack to the numbers... some will argue this is all part of their plan, taking on losses until they fully mature and start to generate an annual profit. The question is, do they have the capital to survive the slow TATL months, which make up a better part of the year. You can talk like that about a ...
Jump to postMy employer flies private to allow private conversation and meetings. Anyone willing to pay $8k will consider $16k. Once it is a negotiation team, why give up hours of strategy time? Private jets cap F prices low. For while a private jet is outrageous in price to one F ticket, it isn't so bad for t...
Jump to postIt's not the crime, but the cover up.
Here it is... GREED. Downplaying changes so that you can sell the new model as the old. If they have evidence that Boeing purposefully tried to downplay the differences in order to minimize sim time... they need to be burned at the stake.
Luke1994 wrote:Good to hear they survived.
Assuming they were above 500’ AGL, I’m surprised they didn’t pull CAPS.
Doesn't Airbus have planes just sitting around? lol, could simply fly her... but I guess it is nearly morning in Europe now anyway so 9AM is not that much... but figured other planes would be available for situations like this. And since she is flying commercial, doesn't the security hvae a crap ton...
Jump to postSaw this on RT. Weird... don’t they have a spare plane to send? Instead of flying commercial? Or fly with another leader on the way there.
Commercial would be stupid hard to secure and will inconvenience a lot more people. Or charter a plane.
From the finance side, it all comes down to multiples. They can "unlock more value" by spinning off the other businesses which IMHO will carry a higher multiple than the riskier aerospace side.
Jump to postTLV runs pretty much 24/7 save Yom Kippur. Banks of flights to the US and far east leave as late as 0130. There are arrivals from late evening flights from Europe between 0200 and 0500. The first Bank of Europe flights starts as early as 0430 and those folks need to clear security starting at 0130....
Jump to postI honestly don't think the airports "shut down", they may not have flights, but not like doors close and you can't get in like in many small places... As others mentioned, Vegas would probably be the closest? There are departures as late is 1:45 AM or so (or as early as if you want to get...
Jump to postDepending on where you are coming from, ie. NJ vs NYC, you are more likely to spend more time commuting to the airport, going through checkin, security, and waiting for take off... then just driving down to DC. From NJ 2.5 to 3 hours, no need to pay for parking, etc. Furthermore, the train runs very...
Jump to postSo interesting... just looking at JFK departures for later tonight, you have flights even around 4AM.
https://flightaware.com/live/airport/KJ ... e;sort=ASC
I honestly don't think the airports "shut down", they may not have flights, but not like doors close and you can't get in like in many small places... As others mentioned, Vegas would probably be the closest? There are departures as late is 1:45 AM or so (or as early as if you want to get ...
Jump to postObese passengers are discriminated against if you force them to buy two seats?!?!?! I understand if someone has a genetic disposition to it, but for the majority, it is lifestyle... just like smoking cigarettes... are there any discrimination lawsuits that smokers are not allowed to smoke on airplan...
Jump to posthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_City%2C_New_Jersey With a population of under 40,000 is there enough of a market for flights. Others have already said that the visitors are not high rollers. Um.... ACY is NOT in Atlantic City. =) So the population is a bit bigger if you include the broader a...
Jump to postJax-FFL should be a no brainer for Spirit... they can really cut costs and quite honestly, for such a short flight, who cares about comfort.
Jump to postI find it rather disturbing that technology to prevent an accident, hinders a crew ability to save a plane when that technology fails. Can you imagine what those pilots faced in the final moments? At such a low altitude, troubleshooting is not much of an option, especially when they couldn't mainta...
Jump to postSo much for "point to point" flying when seemingly more and more transatlantic is happening with a stop at a Euro hub. I really enjoyed flying Delta JFK - SVO, even as an ethnic Russian, preferred that flight over Aeroflot or Trans Aero non stops or the numerous Euro one stops. Flying in t...
Jump to postPeople laughing about China are quite narrow-minded. Look at the environmental sector for example, China is already a leader there. Underestimating China is a mistake...a bigly one. Spot on... the majority of the people in the West (Europe and North America) are completely ignorant of a simple issu...
Jump to postSVO - was seasonal, then permanent, then back to seasonal, and now fully cut IIRC.
Jump to postSeems like Boeing acknowledging the issue...
https://www.rt.com/news/443311-boeing-7 ... h-warning/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... 7-max-jets
I managed to get bits of the previous post flight maintenance reports from various sources. It looks like the unreliable airspeed indications from the last 4 flights may not have been caused by a single generated warning/fault on the sensor detection (ie: not purely a pitot issue).Am now getting in...
Jump to postThe article lost me when it complained about the Trent 1000 engines while simultaneously warning that "They (the planes) also tend to be older, meaning faults and delays might be more likely." You really can't complain about an old 787. On the other hand, if I were Lufthansa I would displ...
Jump to postAll around a "Crappy" situation. lol. I am a delta medallion and am generally happy, but in this case, it really does seem to be the case of... "last flight, let's get it out and make it someone elses problem." Everyone just wanted to get home, including the FAs and there was no ...
Jump to postNon event! This is Amazon we are talking about... the employees will be using rocket ships to get between HQ1 and HQ2! That is until teleportation is perfected and Alexa transports you.....
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Actually that doesn't sound too bad... I was told when I was young that hell was being fried for all eternity, but it turns out that it's actually just a couple of days at a hotel in Orlando and then a flight on BA with a stopover in New York. LOL.... I think this would be fine 20 years ago when ai...
Jump to postI was thinking more along the lines of financial agreements and contracts, i.e. Delta ordered a CS100 from Bombardier... and has to be delivered that, rather than an "Airbus A220" from Airbus.
For whatever reasons, Delta decided that keeping it as CS100 was best for them.
Apparently the flight recorders were found and retrieved. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjmzqiisbLeAhVCb1AKHZe3B3EQqUMwAHoECAAQBQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.channelnewsasia.com%2Fnews%2Fasia%2Flion-air-flight-j...
Jump to postGood to see another 2-3 seating option added for Delta. This is part of the reason I enjoyed flying on the Delta Mad Dogs.
Jump to postUsually I agree when posters say pilots shouldn’t be fired for small mistakes - but if you don’t fire pilots for this what do you fire them for? Can’t think of many jobs where you almost kill hundreds and keep your job...: or did they get fired? Spot on! On one hand pilots get fired for having a dr...
Jump to postyou're making it sound like the passengers are becoming greedy. They're not. All we want is to stop decreasing the pitch and the seat widths. we're not asking for wider seats or more legroom. just leave what has worked for decades the hell alone. I work for myself and try to fly first class wheneve...
Jump to postPublic transportation at LAS is pathetic. I'm from the northeast where every major city has extensive public transportation. At LAS I had to wait for a bus for 45 minutes. Then I had to switch busses to get to the strip. For an airport so close to the strip, that was absolutely pathetic. An airport...
Jump to postPublic transportation at LAS is pathetic. I'm from the northeast where every major city has extensive public transportation. At LAS I had to wait for a bus for 45 minutes. Then I had to switch busses to get to the strip. For an airport so close to the strip, that was absolutely pathetic. An airport...
Jump to postAirports far from the city centre with ample room to grow are the future. Yes. But unless there is cheap and fast rail to the strip, this will die. They also must close the current LAS or this is Mini Mirabel. Say a 90mph to 120mph train to cut the journey to 15 to 20 minutes with 3 to 5 more stops...
Jump to postAs a pilot, I never understood intersection takeoffs. An old adage in aviation says the three most useless things in aviation are runway behind you, altitude above you, and fuel in the fuel truck. My old Beech C23 which I sold last year had a takeoff requirement at MGTOW of something like 1600 ft i...
Jump to postInterjet confirmed that they are going to return all but 7 of their 22 SSJ100 Translation from the embedded PDF: ... We also inform that the negotiations with the SuperJet company (SCAC) achieved better than expected terms, nevertheless, we will have to operate only 7 superjets while we wait for ne...
Jump to postWhy fix what is not broken? LAS airport is one of the few where I have actually not gotten delays coming into or out of flying in multiple times per year over the past 8 to 10 years. Someone earlier mentioned price... here is the kicker, LAS to most anywhere on the strip is about a $10 UBER ride or ...
Jump to postCompletely agree with DTW. My favorite airport to connect through. Everything is easy and the Sky Club is quite nice.
Jump to postChange fees should only be limited to the fare difference if any. I don't see any justification for tacking on the change fees since making the change isn't exactly hard to do. Simple, if you do not want change fees, do not buy non-refundable tickets. Not a viable solution. The airlines themselves ...
Jump to postAt this point airlines have demonstrated that they like fees and are turning more and more to them for revenue and profit. And they use change fees as both a revenue source and as others have stated, a tool to impact customer behavior, not to cover costs. By not changing, and with the majority of t...
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