Thought this would be an appropriate time to offer this up as a topic to discuss. If I were a betting man, Congressional hearings are going to be held after this week's meltdowns. We can all agree that America's airlines have never suffered through a more disruptive last couple of days. And not jus...
Jump to postI don’t get it. I’ve flown Alaska my entire life and they never had in seat entertainment. Ever. But for the better part of a decade now Alaska has streamed movies directly to my phone or iPad for free. Why would any airline not go the wireless route combined with power at every seat is beyond me. ...
Jump to postI'm slightly confused. Who owns Condor now? I know the LOT takeover failed, and that Attestor Capital bought 51% in May, but who owns the rest? The German state?
Jump to postIt seems alliances are no longer as big a deal. The trend seems to be JV's which makes sense to me if the capital exists. I think the DL KE JV is a case in point. I could be wrong, but the talk of alliance benefits seems to be waning. For airlines, as a business, yes. JVs are the way to go. For pas...
Jump to postI always took it as possibly a British thing or a UK CAA regulation? VS for the longest time also had life vests with ties, in addition to CX as well. Squeezyjet (U2) have clips on their life vests, so cannot be a UK CAA regulation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ABDoh3jrTU The mystery deepens!
Jump to postBA's A320 CEOs have a tie life jacket, and the NEOs have a clip life jacket..... BA - FINALLY - have clip life jackets? OMG did hell freeze or something? I always wondered why BA persisted tie life jackets - I assumed cost. In an emergency I can see this being a huge mess, with people not being abl...
Jump to postAustralia has halved the cap on arrivals. 6,000 to 3,000 per week. Interesting they’re shooting for zero Covid. Wonder if it’s worth the effort. Covid will be with us forever after all. Will they keep the borders closed forever? Australia would be better off pulling their finger out and getting vac...
Jump to postThe timing of this tender is horrendous. If they were quicker out of the blocks, say maybe 2 years ago-when they then didn't need them, I could see BA/IAG making a low ball bid that could well have made sense for all parties. Six frames would have been ideal for BA expansion at the time, RR engines...
Jump to postReminds me of my childhood, living on a hill. Our home was uphill from the local doctor — a Radiologist. When he was coming home, and was at the top of the hill, he’d turn off the engine and coast down the street. In summertime when we played outside on the street, he ran silent and frequently honk...
Jump to postI always thought KLM would benefit a great deal from having containerized A320's, for the hub operation at AMS. So much more efficient bag loading! However for obvious reasons I think it will be a MAX order.. Now this is interesting. In the AA 737 at CLT thread, I asked how AA coped with cross flee...
Jump to postAre AA’s (specifically, LUS’) A320 family aircraft containerised? If so, does that pose difficulties for AA with fleet swapping? And how does AA manage this? No US carrier loads their A320 with containers, it’s all bulk loaded as containers would slow the bag sorting down with the mass amount of do...
Jump to postAre AA’s (specifically, LUS’) A320 family aircraft containerised? If so, does that pose difficulties for AA with fleet swapping? And how does AA manage this?
Jump to postI was dragged for saying this previously but I'll say it again. ULCC's attract a class of traveler that really should not be travelling. If there is any sort of hiccup or unexpected expense, they do not have the financial resources to handle it and they often lash out violently. Airports with a hea...
Jump to postIt would so interesting if someone would be able to talk to her to find out the "why" behind her actions. Spoiler alert................it's because of mental illness. Someone who doesn't understand other people's culture can be absolutely wrong here at all! If this woman is really (?) a L...
Jump to postAre lounges, assigned seats and premium class seats really that necessary for attracting corporate accounts ? For most corporations, on a flight under about 5 hours, the important things are cost, reliability and suitable flight times. If a company set a travel policy as an experiment over a limite...
Jump to postThe problem at the moment is, we have no Idea what the LGW operation for BA will look like in the future. We might even see a full retreat of the short haul offer. Maybe with all economy 737-8200s BA could compete but do they really want to tarnish their own brand with LGW operations. It would be m...
Jump to postAt some point the "Use it or loose it" slot requirements will come back in to force. Agreed, but there is no evidence the regulator/slot controller would be unreasonable about it. Why wouldn’t the current slot waiver be extended further? it is currently due for review at the end of summer...
Jump to postAt some point the "Use it or loose it" slot requirements will come back in to force. Agreed, but there is no evidence the regulator/slot controller would be unreasonable about it. Why wouldn’t the current slot waiver be extended further? it is currently due for review at the end of summer...
Jump to postchonetsao wrote:Does B788 need a landing gear downlock pin? Could this (or rather lack of the pins) is the reason for the collapse?
but I expect to see Sean Doyle take BA in a very different direction. Great, he can start by not charging pax who just put down $7K+ on paid biz, for seat selection... ...because that's the most nickel-&-dimed feeling I've ever experienced in all of aviation, and leaves a really cheap and disgu...
Jump to postJust found this… I know it’s a couple of days old, but looks like they’ve been stripped of the all slots they had. Source : https://airwaysmag.com/airlines/the-uk-revokes-flybe-operating-license/?amp Good spot. The CMG proposed that Flybe’s Operator's Licence be revoked because it considered that t...
Jump to postSource: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-9682247/Willie-Walsh-Covid-prompt-British-Airways-sell-off.html The Torygraph has also picked up this story, but it is behind a paywall. Just to be clear he is not advocating it. I don't think that will happen, but it could I think it was p...
Jump to postAny chance that Aer Lingus will find a replacement operator in the next few days? There must be plenty choice on the EU wet lease market right now. Is there any evidence that the market needs that level of urgency to setup replacement services? One wonders if the loads on the Stobart Air operation ...
Jump to postDoesn't even matter, even B777-300ER became a bit too uneconomical these days. B747-8 is out of the question. Care to elaborate on that statement? The 77W was the most fuel efficient wide body about two decades ago, but that is way in the past with 787s and A350 flying in large numbers. And with th...
Jump to postQF 747-238B (SYD > CHC; we boarded by stairs in SYD on a boiling summer's day), 747-338 (SYD to SIN, upstairs in Y. There were only 6 of us; the crew turned the trolley into a self-service bar!), 747-438 and 747-438ER BA 747-436 (by a large margin, my most frequent - and, to date, my last 747 flight...
Jump to postWould passengers really choose to fly on say an A350 instead of an A380 solely out of concern about the environment? I don't think so! I agree: no. Most passengers have no idea of the aircraft type they are on, or at least no idea until they get to the airport and board the aircraft, then are told ...
Jump to postThe real question is does any of this even matter now? US- South America traffic is still down what, 90 percent at least? Given the global pace of vaccinations, one has to think it will take most of South America at least a year to get even partial coverage, and what, 2 years more after that for tr...
Jump to postAre the comments in this thread about cost structure of operating the 717 US-centric? QF (Operated by National Jet) seem happy with their 20 aircraft. Is QF the exception?
Jump to postIf BA does have a Cairo base I can’t see it surviving long. I think most of BA’s foreign bases have gone now. From speaking to the CAI-based crew on previous flights, the Egyptian crew do CAI > LHR > [somewhere else Arabic-speaking in BA’s network] > LHR > CAI They gat paid Egyptian wages, not Brit...
Jump to postAccording to the BA Source, the ex-BMI aircraft are all in storage.
Jump to postHello from Cairo. I flew BA400 yesterday. When I booked it, it was showing as a A321NEO. No, it wasn’t (and hasn’t been) the ex-BMI birds. However, about a week ago, as travel restrictions on British travellers eased slightly, my seat changed when BA swapped equipment, and my flight yesterday was on...
Jump to postYour question makes it sound like they invested in the upgrades ten minutes ago. The A380 entered service in October 2007, so has been in service for nearly 14 years. With the last built airframe only just recently had its maiden flight, the A380 will continue to utilise airports around the world fo...
Jump to postUm... surely Government policy has something to do with this? Even in the US, airports are not entirely free-market driven, after all, despite what some posters on airliners.net would have you believe. Which government policies exactly? How the hell should I know? I am not American, nor do I live t...
Jump to postUm... surely Government policy has something to do with this? Even in the US, airports are not entirely free-market driven, after all, despite what some posters on airliners.net would have you believe.
Jump to postOn the flip side a lot of people remember flybe. But are they good memories? I think this says it all and interesting the same kind of pattern on various complaints about the suspect cabin baggage charges. https://ie.trustpilot.com/review/www.flybe.com The problem with Trustpilot (and any other rev...
Jump to postWouldn't a better option be for IAG to create a VY base in Eastern Europe and elevate VY to oneworld associate membership? Remember LEVEL Europe? That failed. But anyway - only 2 of IAG airlines are in a alliance. The remaining ones aren't. No point in VY or even EI in joining OW or any alliance. T...
Jump to postWouldn't a better option be for IAG to create a VY base in Eastern Europe and elevate VY to oneworld associate membership?
Jump to postToday, Minister Hoekstra of Finance has indicated that the Dutch government will no longer invest billions. At the start of the Covid-19, the Dutch government first wanted to ensure that KLM remains viable. And AF needs more financial help than KLM. And if KLM receive financial support from the gov...
Jump to postIs the Dutch government's stance politically viable? I can't imagine the Dutch people would be happy with the French State getting a larger slice of AF/KLM, and therefore much greater influence in how KLM is run. The People Will Be Angry , no? I am confused by the French vs. Dutch conversation vis-...
Jump to postPlease explain the VS hookup got them invaluable slots at LHR The last slot trade between VS and DL was a return of 14 slots in June 2019, which DL had leased to VS in August 2017. Source: https://www.acl-uk.org/completed-slot-trades/?fromAirline=Virgin%20Atlantic The tie up with VS did get DL great...
Jump to postWill be interesting to see what NL will do. Do they want to match the move by the French government in order not to loose influence or will they take a passive approach this time? Today, Minister Hoekstra of Finance has indicated that the Dutch government will no longer invest billions. At the star...
Jump to postBased on Qantas media release in 2019. https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/qantas-group-updates-airbus-order-with-extra-long-range-a321/ What I'm saying is, it seems like A321XLR would fly with the mainline, if that happen A320neo would be a logical choice to replace B737-800. Why woul...
Jump to postAgain, with Western Sydney Airport coming up in a few years, new runway at BNE and so on, the congestion issues at Sydney will be a thing of the past, and so more frequency would be possible, or it would be possible to better match capacity with demand with a smaller aircraft. Could it be a split o...
Jump to postHow do you see the 9th of September & the 11th of September as the same day? My mistake; I was trying not to use American date formatting and in my haste, got confused/careless. For clarity, AN actually collapsed on the morning of 12th September 2001, which was, of course, still the 11th Septem...
Jump to postQF did order 737-838s, but the rushed timing of that had more to do with the collapse of domestic competitor AN (which happened on the 9th September 2001) than the tragic events on the same day in NYC. AN's collapse handed QF nearly 80% of the domestic market, and meant QF needed additional capacit...
Jump to post"QF seem to have a habit of surfing between crises when refreshing their narrow body fleets. IIRC a lot of their current 738s were bought cheaply as cancelled AA frames post-9/11. 'Surfing between crises' is a bit of a stretch, isn't it? In the jet era, QF never had narrow bodies, except for, ...
Jump to postWasn't JQ equipped with A320s so that JQ pilots could be hired under different conditions to the QF 737 pilots?
Has the need to differentiate the two pilot groups been removed, or can they now be separated by other means, thus making the equipment differentiator redundant?
sevenair wrote:vhtje wrote:A320B737NGCapt wrote:Looks good.
Looks absolutely hideous.
There, I fixed that for you.
Yes. God forbid anyone have a different opinion.
A320B737NGCapt wrote:Looks good.
No, the IASC allocates traffic rights. Only the designated slot coordinator for HND can allocate arrival and departure slots for that airport. Traffic rights are useless without the slots, and the slots are useless without the traffic rights. In theory, and in normal circumstances, VA would need to...
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