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RE: Just Got Post Of German Army - Military Service

Basically, Zivi abroad is about impossible, because both, social service and military service shall serve OUR country, not others. This is not bad per se, just a fact. The reality of military service is to get a boring job at a boring location. By law no erson in mandatory military service can be se...

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RE: Noobie Cigar Question

First of all, if you are a noobie, skip the Habanos for the time being. It can spol the whole pleasure if you start with the heavy stuff... I would recommend Nicaragua (for example a mild Cumpay which I used to smoke as a beginning cigar of long smoky nights... sometimes even during the day) or Braz...

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RE: Innovations In Economy Class Seating

More Room Throughout Coach

AA added 3" of pitch in coach but they started to change back around 2 years or so back...

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RE: Innovations In Economy Class Seating

The most useful innovation, imho, was MRTC. Unfortunately that's history now...

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RE: Green Light For FRA Expansion...

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RE: Green Light For FRA Expansion...

That's great news. Daytime capacity will increase around 50%. Great setup for the future. The biggest reason for canning the night restrictions is the tricky legal situation as <acronym title="Leipzig / Halle (- Schkeuditz) (LEJ / EDDP), Germany">LEJ</acronym> just got big time cargo business and <a...

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RE: Ryanair Sues EU Comission Over MUC

He would probably not turn down an offer of building a terminal for his ego in <acronym title="Frankfurt - Hahn (HHN / EDFH), Germany">HHN</acronym>... If he would play with the big guys in the big airports, he would be able to enjoy the big perks too. But probably he just wants the publicity. I jus...

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RE: Why The Jump In Confidence In Airbus A350?

With every new model out there you run the risk of encountering production delays. Not to start A vs. B here now, but it happened to B lately as well, which sure does not prove that B's people can't do their job, rather that the design and production ramp up for something as complex as an aircraft c...

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Strategy Thread

Let's discuss how the most leading manufacturers, Boeing and Airbus, should run strategy now. My 002$: Boeing: quiet down, keep things low, do not play in a "mine is bigger than yours" orders game with Airbus, keep your things straight and make sure that 787 and 747-8 roll out as timely as possible....

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RE: JetBlue CFO Resigns - What Does This Mean?

Suddenchanges indicate that the exec either got a better job somewhere else or got sacked...

If his name doesn't pop up somewhere the next 3 days, it's the latter.

BTW, isn't Merrill Lynch casting new CEOs? Lol...

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RE: Boeing And Underperforming 787 Suppliers

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RE: UA Exec-Oil Price Rise Could Cause Grounded Planes

The bubble will only not collapse because the USD is weak compared to other currencies. It's a shame actually. But the import power of other countries, or regions like Europe, is quite high... Thing is, 777, your model is not basically wrong, it's just not very accurate. Because Europe is a strong p...

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RE: UA Exec-Oil Price Rise Could Cause Grounded Planes

Anyways, it's a nice way to cover a profit warning without doing so. Stock price will not drop but you warned all of the world of profits to drop deeeeeeeeeep. Are there some poor numbers <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> is going to present? Looks like it. Early finding of a scapg...

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RE: Delta Still Weighing Buying Another Carrier

Nobody would dominate a market after a merger.

If we agree that there are too many airlines serving a market, what would a merger help? It would increase one airline's capacity, and probably increase their losses too as the loads would only drop.

Does not make sense at all.

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RE: Delta Still Weighing Buying Another Carrier

Network growth is a wrong approach. Why should two carriers with mediocre loads merge? To combine their mediocrity? It would be an overstocking of planes and crew... Terrible business decision. The only way a merger makes sense is if a carrier can stabilize and enforce existing routes, for example b...

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RE: Article: NW Merger Prospects

How could that help? Similar airlines running similar fleets in similar markets... Actually despite the DC9 <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> has a fairly modern fleet with a lot of 330s and so running out there... From today's point of view a merger between two legacy's would j...

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RE: Delta Still Weighing Buying Another Carrier

The 787 will not help <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> at all. It's a management problem that routes do not bring profit. Pricing too low, expenses too high, poor marketing, whatever... If <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> can run a 747 or a 777 profitably to ...

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RE: Delta Still Weighing Buying Another Carrier

Fleet commonality is overrated because in most cases each carrier has a large enough fleet with all the support existing. The first round of downsizing and saving will happen in CSR and gate presence. Also the purchasing power and commonality in procurement (catering, services...) will have an effec...

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RE: Obama's Plane Landed At Wrong Airport

Maybe the pilots are on Hillary's payroll...

Just kidding...

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RE: Boeing And Underperforming 787 Suppliers

The big chalenge lies in the de-centralized assembly, not in the procurement itself. If you operate one plant where stuff is assembled, only minor pre-assembled components drop in there, then you have one big supply chain to manage, but it''s only one. Having something as complex as a modern airplan...

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RE: Airbag Theft, Is It Common?

Happened to us before, on a Volkswagen... They used some sort of "general" key from <acronym title="Aeromar (Mexico)">VW</acronym> which would unlock every car but leave the locks destroyed. They use that in case the original keys get lost... Police told us that the folks were breking in roughly 50 ...

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RE: A-380 Visit To DFW Is Cancelled

BA seems likely due to the <acronym title="Executive Airlines (USA)">OW</acronym> partnership and the strong <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> hub down there. Other than that, rather <acronym title="Qantas (Australia)">QF</acronym> than <acronym title="Lufthansa (Germany)">LH</ac...

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RE: Coping With A Brain Tumour.

Sorry to hear that! This is really terrible news. But even after that biopsy it's not time to give up yet! A friend of mine had a brain tumor removed by surgery about 2 years ago. He is 26 or so now... He went to a clinic in Hannover, Germany, I think the name was INA or similar. It's a pretty well-...

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RE: Boeing CEO Blames Industry For 787 Bolt Shortage

Whoever screwed up, be it Alcoa, be it Boeing, when all is said and done, the fault still lies with Boeing's Supply Chain Management. I have worked long enough in the field of SCM to know that a) suppliers can have shortage and delay all the time b) nobody cares about that... What ever happened here...

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RE: Anyone Play A Musical Instrument On This Site?

Well...

https://www.airliners.net/uf/view.fil...2448&filename=1188418987Y8H0tz.jpg

[Edited 2007-08-29 22:29:09]

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RE: ITunes Questions (paging Klaus... :)

I have a huge collection of music, and I know it's terribly annoying, but I transferred from <acronym title="Air Fiji and Continental Airways (Russian Federation)">PC</acronym> to Mac as well, I imported all the songs, erased duplicates, cleaned this and that... It's a good occasion to clean up... O...

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RE: Oprah Charters 4 "jumbo Jets" From AA?!?

She probably chartered four C17 from USAF to bring along her ego... She would not want to miss that on Hawaii...

And probably another C17 carrying her make-up...

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RE: Question About The Runway System At FRA

1. I think it is to reroute noise and potential danger away from the city, but also it seemed like the wind rarely closing 18 down... 2. No, too narrow, they need spacing. Same goes for the 26s... <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/wink.gif" alt="Wink"> 3. The airport operator, Fraport, h...

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RE: Boeing 747 LCF Successfully Test Swing Tail

The forklift could be programmed with the procedure. Put them into place properly, doublecheck, and then push a button and it drives the ideal curve...

That should not double the price of the 87. A human error on the LCF would though...

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RE: Break-even Outlook For A380 Now At 420 Aircraft

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RE: Break-even Outlook For A380 Now At 420 Aircraft

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RE: Short Connection In ORD

Inbound you are, sorry to say that, quite screwed. You must be really lucky if that short time works with immigration, terminal change and also customs...

Outbound, that looks like a long enough period. No luggage rechecking, no terminal change, and quite obviously no immigration...

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RE: Break-even Outlook For A380 Now At 420 Aircraft

Yet we lack the comparison from across the pond, and as stated excessively, that does not do much, as we are talking different classes and missions here...

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RE: Break-even Outlook For A380 Now At 420 Aircraft

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RE: Break-even Outlook For A380 Now At 420 Aircraft

[quote=TeamAmerica,reply=187]You are thinking too narrowly. Airlines care about revenue rather than the size of the aircraft. If multiple smaller aircraft can generate comparable revenue to one of the larger, then the flexibility of having the smaller o Look at slot control like <acronym title="Fran...

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RE: Break-even Outlook For A380 Now At 420 Aircraft

The 748i is far from being a bad idea. Still while all people here are hating the fact that there is a gap below the 380, that gap works fine for many highly profitable airlines. <acronym title="Lufthansa (Germany)">LH</acronym>, despite people anticipated them as a pretty certain buyer of the 748, ...

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RE: Break-even Outlook For A380 Now At 420 Aircraft

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RE: Break-even Outlook For A380 Now At 420 Aircraft

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RE: Boeing Aims To Keep Airbus @ Bay No 787 Delays!

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RE: Break-even Outlook For A380 Now At 420 Aircraft

Why compare A380 CASM to 787's? Different missions, different purposes, different kind of animal.

Apart from that, the CASM of the 787 is not out there yet. Only their projections and calculations. They better be as good as they think they will be...

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RE: Whale Of A Arff Problem?

ATL is the hub in the south of America. USA, I mean here... <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/wink.gif" alt="Wink"> A bunch of airlines have ordered the 380, also <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acron...

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RE: 767 @ Mdw

Might be a bizjet, are there that many out there? Google has one of them, any others?

If a 67 is used as a bizjet, most runways should be long enough...

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RE: Whale Of A Arff Problem?

The innovation here is the A380. It's new, as a product, and also new to the industry. If <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym> wants to get contracts with the big players, here the ones who bought the 380, th...

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RE: Whale Of A Arff Problem?

There is no industry where companies can afford to refuse to keep up with innovation. Not either airports. Nobody is blaming Boeing for selling the 747 while many airports cannot handle that. Yet Airbus is being bashed for the 380. Atlanta should keep up to date if they want ongoing major business.

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RE: Break-even Outlook For A380 Now At 420 Aircraft

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RE: Break-even Outlook For A380 Now At 420 Aircraft

420 is far less than the projected demand. This is indeed good stuff.

But our friend Leelaw thinks differently...

It is great news because it finally gives the ambitious a new shape.

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