Re: EK Chairman: Emirates to place 787 or A350 order by end of the year

Plot twist of the century they order A330neo Double plot twist - EK abandons both A&B and orders a fleet of Il-96. Can't you just visualize this in EK livery? ;) https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/fe/60/c9/fe60c966ff623ecab94adc9c7c4507d1--vintage-airplanes-photo-search.jpg Not gonna lie...

Re: N7874 drawing the shape of a 787 in the sky

Better hope THAT 787 doesn't crash Lmao

Re: 2 Fatalities on a Beach Due to Emergency Landing

Beach=safer than water.

Re: EK Chairman: Emirates to place 787 or A350 order by end of the year

Plot twist of the century they order A330neo Isn't this order for planes that aren't supposed to leave Europe/Africa/continental Asia? Those look like good A300Neo missions. I was joking. And you're talking logically about an airline with 3 daily A380's into Manchester and 2-3 daily flights to Birm...

Re: Silver Airways replaces CEO, places order for 20 ATR42s

NOT THE SAABS!!!!!

Re: Thompson Aero reveals new narrowbody lie flat Business Class

https://media3.ausbt.com.au/1500,1500-597f09bf9edc414d97de310cdd799463-thompson-vantage-solo-1500c.jpg https://media3.ausbt.com.au/1500,1500-597f09e1c5044434b64a3105dd799463-thompson-vantage-solo-layout-lopa.jpg https://media3.ausbt.com.au/1500,1500-597f09acdab0442091f73107dd799463-thompson-vantage...

Re: EK Chairman: Emirates to place 787 or A350 order by end of the year

Plot twist of the century they order A330neo

Re: Thompson Aero reveals new narrowbody lie flat Business Class

Didn't AA already have this similar product with herringbone seat arrangement on their transcon A321? Although AA calls it First Class for the domestic flight, they are the same seats as International business class. Actually it is First Class. In the A321T (Transcon configuration) They have 10 Fir...

Re: AA outlines A350 delivery schedule

At least they're not delaying them further...

Re: Thompson Aero reveals new narrowbody lie flat Business Class

hOMSaR wrote:

Is there a link to the article, or perhaps actual images? I can't see images in the original post, but just a bunch of text that says "Image" on it.

Thompson Aero reveals new narrowbody lie flat Business Class

Thompson Aero has taken its Vantage family one step further, by introducing a new Business Class for the A320/A320neo and 737/737 MAX families, with herringbone seats featuring direct aisle access. Thompson's Vantage Solo is breaking cover as several airlines begin to plan ahead for a game-changing ...

Re: How will Boeing name its future aircraft?

Maybe 2707?

Re: Attention LHR spotters

How many A330's do they have?

Re: What *should* Airbus have invested in (year 2000)

The 19-seater A311, with a 20,000km range

Re: French airport worker punches British EasyJet passenger in the face

Yes, an amazing but true fact that can be attributed to most countries with hundreds of miles of coastal regions within it's land mass ! :lol: To be clear I was joking, but still, France isn't the go-to country for a coastal vacation when compared to Greece, Spain, or even Italy. Yes, it has been f...

Re: Malaysia Airlines plans lie flat direct aisle access Business class for 737MAX10

Virgin Australia is already planning that. It seems as if other airlines could follow suit soon.

Re: VLAs for Short Haul?

Emirates already has several A380's for short routes.

Re: SQ to refurbish cabins of 14 A380s

The suites will be like Etihad's First Apartments and on the upper deck, and I think the new J is slightly smaller than the previous one.

Re: Is 747 dying?

It's been dying for a while now, just because everyone is just now noticing it's on life support doesn't mean it hasn't been for years.

Re: French airport worker punches British EasyJet passenger in the face

I don't understand why some people take beach holidays in France when they can go to Portugal, Spain, Italy, Croatia or Greece. Wait, people go to France for the beaches? FRANCE HAS BEACHES?! Yes, an amazing but true fact that can be attributed to most countries with hundreds of miles of coastal re...

Re: French airport worker punches British EasyJet passenger in the face

SCQ83 wrote:

steveinbc wrote:

Seems par for the course for French hospitality.

I don't understand why some people take beach holidays in France when they can go to Portugal, Spain, Italy, Croatia or Greece.

Re: United's old DC-8 fleet questions

Bit of trivia for you on UA's DC-8's. When UA acquired the LHR routes, which at the time were on the wishlist of every airline, the the issue became what equipment to fly ORD-LHR. The airline was really stretched thin at the time with no spares available, and if I recall correctly Pan Am aircraft w...

Re: Crew allows child to control aircraft inflight

Because last time that went great!

Re: Supposed UA pax films bags being thrown from the belly of a UA flight

That is a gif...

Re: Help with aircraft abbreviations

hOMSaR wrote:

OA940 wrote:

35J/35K, 78J/78K = A350-1000/787-10

There is no 78K, its designation is 78X.

Re: Are you choosing not to travel to the USA?

Tbh Europe is much better in the summer than the US for millions of people, so that might be a factor. Why do you think ATH gets several flights a day in the summer to the US, Canada and Asia and at any other time it gets nothing? So many places in Europe have several summer flights a day. Personall...

Re: Closest Flying Aircraft To You At This Moment: Flightradar24

Sun Express 5517 GDN-AYT

Re: Airlines in need of a livery update?

Sas doesn't Imo.

Re: 17 years to the day of AF 4590

RIP to the victims of that tragedy. One cannot help but wonder if the SST would have had a fighting chance even amidst unprofitability had this crash not occurred. Doubtful, it would have suffered the same fate without the crash Yes very sad indeed, sadly to this day there's still doubt about what ...

Re: Help with aircraft abbreviations

772=777-200 77E=777-200ER 77L=777-200LR 773=777-300 77W=777-300ER ceo=current engine option 35J/35K, 78J/78K = A350-1000/787-10 359=A350-900 Idk about the MAX and NEO planes, but I know that IATA codes need to be 3-letter, hence the letters. And the -1000 aircraft can't be for example 351, because t...

Re: Spirit and United? Rumor has it.

Memes aren't usually this long, but I like your innovation.

Re: First El Al 787 painted

Why is LY forced to Boeing only? Also took 'em long enough...

Re: aviation-design.net

Several years back, when I first started looking into fictional liveries, that was the go-to place. Then, IIRC, there was a problem (either with the site or the individual pics) and then nobody used it again.

Re: Older aircraft routes

For some context, I remembered once when my dad was talking to me about his trip to Las Vegas on OA (ah, the good ol' days), but I couldn't find anything about OA in LAS, and I remembered a certain forum post here from several years ago (I think around the AA/TW meger) that had some pretty interesti...

Re: Older aircraft routes

Sorry if I didn't make myself clear; I'm not looking for EVERYTHING, just something that anyone might know about older planes from back when they used to fly, as we have many members here who were lucky enough to fly on these, and I can't find much on that.

Older aircraft routes

I have searched quite a bit, but I can't seem to find too much on this, so I wanted to know if you know any routes older aircraft used to fly (aka DC-8's, 747-100/-200/-300, DC-10, L-1011, 737-100/-200, 727, 767-200) or older routes with other aircraft. Or if there are any websites that have this so...

Re: Sunday Times British Airways

Here we go again... Another airline complaining about the competition.

Re: Where do you see commercial aviation in 50 yrs?

Standing seats will be the new trend and you'll have to pay via credit card for seatbelts, masks and oxygen.

Re: Operational Weak Spots of the Airbus A321NEO/LR.

I mean yes, I want the MoM as well, but many of these problems exist on the 757 as well.

Re: VN and IR in the U.S.

About IR, wait until 2020 and then we can speak again...

Re: Should Finnair order smaller wide-body jets?

This is so right.

Re: AA aircraft on fire @ORD

Tbh it is a really bad oversight of training. That difference could be life or death. Copa used to train pilots on the 732 with a different gyro switch from the one on some planes, and then when an ADI failed the pilots switched it to the faulty one instead of the other, functioning one. And then Co...

Re: EasyJet bumps unaccompanied minor

Jesus Christ, who bumps an unaccompanied minor? I flew as one when I was a child with A3 and it was lovely. Just like a normal flight except that there was a foreign lady to keep an eye on me. And we sat just behind Business Class, so we had a bit more legroom. But no airline should do something to ...