Got in contact with flight school for their rules for a class 1 (as some do have other rules) and said me to contact an eye doctor too and that it was perfectly possible to get my medical class 1, even >3D of astigmatism is possible in a lot of cases. as long as some further tests are done (same go...
Jump to postAccording to aero.de, those early 787-9 (entry to service winter 2021/22) will get an upgraded business class. It will NOT be the announces new business class that was supposed to be introduced with the 777X. The upgraded business class on the Dreamliner will be similar to the current one, but ever...
Jump to postAccording to aero.de, those early 787-9 (entry to service winter 2021/22) will get an upgraded business class. It will NOT be the announces new business class that was supposed to be introduced with the 777X. The upgraded business class on the Dreamliner will be similar to the current one, but ever...
Jump to postSometimes one has to wonder if there isn't more job security and career progression driving trains of building organs than there is being a pilot. There is. For the past decade in Europe, the pay is better also. I know many pilots have transitioned to trains in Denmark. The national rail operator e...
Jump to postBecause EASA sets higher standards than many other countries, and is unable to verify that 3rd part countries live up to the same standards. It's not like it's a one-way street. Try converting to an Australian, US or South African license from EASA... There is also an oversupply of pilots in Europe,...
Jump to postI am quite curious which target market is Super Air jet targeting? Those well-informed millennials who are tech savvy would most probably know Lion Air is dodgy and would avoid it like a plague. Indonesia aviation market is very saturated with many airlines. Even GA deployed widebody on many trunk ...
Jump to postJannEejit wrote:Are the NTU Norwegian 787's in full Norwegian livery or literally 'white tails' as suggested ? I know the 787-9 delivered straight to storage at Prestwick was fully painted.
There are 5 A340-300 in the fleet of LX. Why not replace them? The Lufthansa A340 fleet is a couple of years older than the Swiss A340 fleet. Lufthansa's are from between 1996 and 2001. Swiss' were delivered between 2003 and 2004. Further, Swiss just refurbished its A340s with the new interior on t...
Jump to postI find it ironic that those who 6 months ago were talking about herd immunity now won't get the vaccine, keeping society from getting immunity. Aren't they generally also the same people who used to ridicule "millennials" for having psychological issues, yet now insist that quarantine and...
Jump to postA good moment to order for sure with some airlines having to delay or cancel their existing orders. Who's prebuilt 787-9 are these? From a quick glance, I can see 4 Norwegians and 3 Vistaras that are NTU. The latter are former Hainan NTUs that Vistara ended up not taking as well. There is actually ...
Jump to postInteresting development....... I have been following the said new airline for some time and saw the A320 delivery via KLIA on IG few weeks ago. While details were sketchy at first, however there was a rumour going around few months back that Rusdi is seeking to dis-associate himself with Lion Air G...
Jump to post4-5 hours is not an insignificant distance. But how many sales does that translate to, and how many production slots that Boeing wasn't able to fill anyway? IMO, next to nothing. Once this crisis is over, Boeing will have no problems selling all the 787s they can build, even without new variants. I...
Jump to posthttps://www.myairtrade.com/available/A330 This link is a good reference for available A330 in the market, although some recent ones (Air Namibia for example) have not been listed yet, some may have been scrapped or in process of doing so. The youngest A333ceo conversion so far was MSN1124 ex-Hong K...
Jump to postWe actually agree mostly. The 787 is a very good aircraft and if the 777x indeed succeeds, the 787 is perfectly placed to grow more capable with future efficiency improvements with the current wing/MLG and MTOW. However, if the 777x does struggle to gain market traction (not extremely likely, but n...
Jump to posthttps://www.myairtrade.com/available/A330 This link is a good reference for available A330 in the market, although some recent ones (Air Namibia for example) have not been listed yet, some may have been scrapped or in process of doing so. The youngest A333ceo conversion so far was MSN1124 ex-Hong K...
Jump to posthttps://youtu.be/LxS2RR-Vx_s Access to the A350's forward hold via the E&E compartment at 1:22 Compared to the A330, the A350 hatch is nicely off to the side and a bit out of the way. The wide cockpit can accommodate that position. On the A330 it is right in front of the cockpit door, which you...
Jump to postSo what are the options Boeing has if the 777x fails to gain sufficient market traction? AFAIK, 777x is all systems go and Boeing is adjusting timing to allow it to optimise delivery timeline and maximise performance. What do you know that I don't? Fails to gain market traction isn't the same as th...
Jump to postIf this was the case, why has the A330-200F sold so poorly compared with the 1986-tech 767F? Easy, because of acquisition cost and availability. A new build A330-200F had a list price of around 250 mio. USD. Second hand 767s went for between 7 and 30 mio. USD. The A330P2F didn't really become a wid...
Jump to postInteresting that they have chosen the A320 for the new airline, not the 737NG of which Lion Air have far more. Does it denote the beginnings of a seismic shift? That happened a while ago. Lion Air flies the 737NG and A330-300 and -900. Thai Lion has the 737NG. Wings Air is all ATR. Malindo is ATR a...
Jump to postGive it some time, it'll over run some runway in Indonesia. Believe it or not, the A320 series has been almost completely free from runway excursions in Lion Group. It's the 737s that run off the runways. But is the the Lion Air Group that is starting a new airline, or just the same guys behind it?...
Jump to postFocus on improving the already existing 787 variants. Shave some weight, aerodynamic enhancements and fine tuning, incremental engine improvements, enhancements to the interior. The 787 is a very good aircraft, no need to reinvent the wheel. As for MTOM improments, no I don't agree. The 787 is alrea...
Jump to postIn Hong Kong we can choose between the China made Sinovac and the German made Biontech. I prefer the German made Biontech. Shall I go for it? In general I am healthy though I drink from time to time. Just worried that I have some hidden health issues. LOL The Pfizer-Biontech is probably the best Co...
Jump to postWhat do you mean? It is the middle of the night in the US right now, but if I set it to show yesterday afternoon I can find at least four Delta 717s around Atlanta and at least four Hawaiian 717s in Hawaii.
Jump to postIf this was the case, why has the A330-200F sold so poorly compared with the 1986-tech 767F? Easy, because of acquisition cost and availability. A new build A330-200F had a list price of around 250 mio. USD. Second hand 767s went for between 7 and 30 mio. USD. The A330P2F didn't really become a wid...
Jump to postThe US just banned people from India as well. Back to the OP: any country that takes such action against flight crews does so at their own peril. At my airline we have told countries we’ll simply stop flying there and reallocate that capacity elsewhere when they have proposed certain things like th...
Jump to postThe point was that when the terminal at those 2 airports were designed and built by different companies, you would expect different architectural styles since commonality of design doesn't give much of a construction cost saving as if a single company had designed/built both airports. Luton and Sta...
Jump to postAnother couple of customers: MasAir in Mexico is getting 2x A330-200P2F. They currently fly the 767. https://www.aircargonews.net/airlines/masair-to-lease-two-airbus-a330-200p2fs-from-altavair/ MNG in Turkey is getting 2x A330-300P2F. https://www.aircargonews.net/freight-forwarder/mng-airlines-order...
Jump to postBirgenair 301, a 757, suspected that wasps had built a nest in one of the pitot tubes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgenair_Flight_301
Pitot tubes get really hot when heating is on. I've seen them glowing red-hot. If you left the cover on, it would probably melt/burn off.
Locked article, but the headline says Great Dane is ending in mid-June:
https://check-in.dk/nordjysk-vietnam-ev ... -til-juni/
But weirdly on Facebook they are looking for pilots with immediate start for a 6-month contract in Vietnam. Another extension coming up?
Its going to be brutal for these large high-cost legacy airlines that relied on longhaul and business traffic as a significantificant portion of their revenue base. It doesn't help that Lufthansa has done its level best to alienate its most loyal customers. BoB service, 3rd party lounges cut, no co...
Jump to postWhen ordinary citizens start investing, it is time to sell. The crypto hype reminds me of something that happened 92 years ago. For the German speakers: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienstm%C3%A4dchenhausse Haha, I was actually looking for that famous quote from an economist who sold all his stock...
Jump to postI'm in the seatback IFE camp. Although I do appreciate streaming IFE if offered, used it a lot when I flew aboard SilkAir's A320s which only had overhead drop-downs. However, I don't like streaming IFE since some airlines require me to download an app just to play videos (which is a hassle IMO). Th...
Jump to postCrypto is the new MLM scheme trend. If it could stand on it's own two feet then I wouldn't constantly be getting messages from anonymous facebook/twitter/whatsapp/reddit accounts telling me to invest and that I should be worried about missing out... I only invest in what I understand and I have no ...
Jump to postWhen ordinary citizens start investing, it is time to sell.
The crypto hype reminds me of something that happened 92 years ago.
The guarantee got put up 3 years ago because of the banks here getting stuck with pilots not being able to pay their loans back, so they started refusing any loan. Maybe it is a good idea to listen to the banks in this case. The banks and you do have a mutual interest here. Also, do you think if th...
Jump to postThere were probably hundreds of Fokker 27s that ended their careers in Africa. Got any details?
Jump to postHere are some pictures of the interior, the plane was presented to the media today. Later on in the day it will operate the first scheduled flight to JFK. https://www.exyuaviation.com/2021/04/air-serbia-unveils-new-long-haul-product.html The economy seats are the old-style Aeroflot seats with new u...
Jump to postI think I'd agree with Starlionblue. Never got to your FAA guy asking about a problem first. Once you've told your FAA guy about a problem he has no choice but to pursue it. I was lucky for a few years to have a PCP who was also my FAA doctor. He made a point of saying "if you come to me, PCP,...
Jump to postDeliveries are all that matters. Boeing had a 49% split in 2018. :thumbsdown: That is the mentality that got Boeing mired in the 787 mess. An excellent world beating aircraft, sold so cheaply that they still haven't made money on it. Market share is not everything, they have to focus on profit as w...
Jump to postI believe Air France also have a high-density layout on part of their B777-300ER fleet, with 400+ seats aswell. That's right, a 468 and a 472 seat layout. The AF 77W have only 24 j seats so they would naturally have more economy seats. These planes are used to the French Caribbean and Indian Ocean ...
Jump to postThe A330F is nowhere here nor there. Insufficient payload range to compete effectively all year round both directions on TATL routes with the 777F or even the 747F, yet too big for the tightly spaced stands at the mega hubs of FedEx and UPS, where the 767s fit nicely into (note that most stands in ...
Jump to postThe A330F is nowhere here nor there. Insufficient payload range to compete effectively all year round both directions on TATL routes with the 777F or even the 747F, yet too big for the tightly spaced stands at the mega hubs of FedEx and UPS, where the 767s fit nicely into (note that most stands in ...
Jump to postIf so, I guess I will get some limitation on my medical like OML (what even is the point of OML, aren't almost all commercial jets like b737 or airbus a320 Multi-crew?) or something worse? And would (major) airlines have big problems with those limitations? A problem I see is that you will have tro...
Jump to postSomeone83 wrote:Has the Superjet even the range for these routes?
IMO, business travel will return, faster than leisure will. Several of the reasons are listed up above. Another point is that there are simply not a lot of flights available, forcing travellers to take alternative methods in use (driving, trains, coaches and even business jets). Some will stay, but ...
Jump to postAir Canada has what has to be the world densest 77W with 450 seats and only 6 bathrooms in economy. Close. Azur Air seats up to 531, Nordwind has 486 seats, Rossiya 457 and Royal Flight 492. Saudia is close with some aircraft in a 443 seat configuration. I believe Air France also have a high-densit...
Jump to postjfk777 wrote:Air Canada has what has to be the world densest 77W with 450 seats and only 6 bathrooms in economy.
I wish him good luck. It's gonna be a challenge, but Italy (and Europe) need some alternatives to the current incumbents. And in any case, it is going to result in money being invested in the economy. He has an interesting point on aircraft size actually. When competing against the LCC's, smaller ai...
Jump to postANA sold/stored the 737-700ERs ~5 years ago. Not just sold/stored, but scrapped. They only lasted 9 years. When you had no belly space (all filled with fuel tanks) and had some special locked cabinet inside the cabin for checked luggage, and even with that an enroute fuel stop is scheduled over the...
Jump to postPolot wrote:LAXintl wrote:Besides is traditional domestic use, ANA had some creative roles for 737-700 with its business class "ANA Business Jet" used on longer-haul routes to places like India.
ANA sold/stored the 737-700ERs ~5 years ago.