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RE: Opinion: Boeing Made A Mistake Abandoning The 757

I do agree with the quote as highlighted by KarelXWB that Boeing privately regrets abandoning the 757s. I too know of people within Boeing who echoes the same sentiment.

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RE: MH Re-activating 1 Boeing 747-400 To Operate LHR

If <acronym title="Malaysia Airlines">MH</acronym> is going to spend time and money repainting <acronym title="Mar del Plata - Club Planeadores (MPP), Argentina">MPP</acronym> to retro I doubt it will be sitting around <acronym title="Kuala Lumpur - International (Sepang) (KUL / WMKK), Malaysia">KUL...

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RE: MH17 Impact On Oneworld

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/aaexp" class="quote" target="_blank">aaexp</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Brilliant!!! In that ...

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RE: Best Media Quote Ever! (777 / MH370)

CNN kept bashing Indonesia for not admitting to pilot suicide for SilkAir loss!!!

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 10

Wondering if anyone considered, if logical, of using SOSUS to possibly point the way to the plane's water impact point?

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RE: A380 Or B747-8i? CX Weighs Up Its Options

748i is definitely not out of the question. <acronym title="Cathay Pacific (China-Hong Kong)">CX</acronym> business decision might also hinge on the 748F factor as well. Is the 747 product dead with the 777-9??? Don't think so but maybe for 748i. In due time we will probably see a 747-9i (a likely r...

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RE: Why Does Malaysian Have So Many Liveries?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quote:<br/><i>They're trying to be the Delta of the east.</i></font></td></tr></table> Not just trying they'll beat it! By Feb/Mar 2013 will see 5 livery: 1. Old livery 2...

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RE: Why Does Malaysian Have So Many Liveries?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/9MMAR" class="quote" target="_blank">9MMAR</a> (<a href="#19" class="quote">Reply 19</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> The 'swoosh' livery...

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RE: Stowaway Found Dead On A BA Flight From Cape Town

Reminds me of the incident back in early 90s with an <acronym title="Malaysia Airlines">MH</acronym> 742 from <acronym title="Kuala Lumpur - International (Sepang) (KUL / WMKK), Malaysia">KUL</acronym>-<acronym title="Johannesburg - OR Tambo International (Jan Smuts) (JNB / FAJS), South Africa">JNB<...

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RE: Malaysian To Park 747 Fleet

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quote:<br/><i>Malaysia lost tons of money flying to Buenos Aires, why they ever flew to Argentina all the way from Malaysia is a mystery. <acronym title="Great China Airl...

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RE: Uganda Su-30 Threat Justification

Is Uganda employing them more as bomb trucks? If you talk about cost and sophistication then Su-30MKM or MKI will fit the bill.

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RE: FI - MAS Ponders Longer-range A330

It is really not practical for <acronym title="Malaysia Airlines">MH</acronym> to go for any long-range A330 development. This will leave <acronym title="Malaysia Airlines">MH</acronym> with capacity gap between A330 and A380. If <acronym title="Malaysia Airlines">MH</acronym> want something fast an...

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RE: SIN To Tear Down And Rebuild Budget Terminal

Truth be told, <acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore">SIN</acronym> is probably under competitive pressure to upgrade the Budget Terminal considering <acronym title="Kuala Lumpur - International (Sepang) (KUL / WMKK), Malaysia">KUL</acronym> is building a big and rather posh LCC...

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RE: Iran Air B747SP Transatlantic DAM-CCS [+pics/vids]

Excellent report! This <acronym title="Transbrasil SA Linhas Aereas">TR</acronym> flooded me with fond memories of my one and only flight on the <acronym title="SATA Air Azores (Portugal)">SP</acronym>. I was on a China Airlines Flight 006, flying from <acronym title="Taoyuan (Taipei) - Taiwan Inter...

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Triple Seven

A380 China Southern Airlines Testflight (Video)

Like the PLA general seen in the clip. Probably wondering how many para-troops he could stuff into one of them or how many tanks a F version would hold.

LOL

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RE: 747-8 And 747-600

The 747-600X was to measure 85m in length and feature new wing based on the 777. <acronym title="Malaysia Airlines">MH</acronym> signed an order for 10 -600X and 5 -500X in 1996 but Boeing preferred a blue chip carrier (no one showed interest) and thus does not constitute a launch order. Main featur...

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RE: Who Will Take RG's Planes?

MH is not going down anytime soon and it will not happen

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RE: Could 747F Be A Possible C-5 Replacement?

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RE: Could 747F Be A Possible C-5 Replacement?

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RE: Twin Aisle Airbus A320

Philb, You are absolutely right, Airbus has always marketed the A320 as single aisle aircraft, and it is a single aisle aircraft. My source came from an old book called Modern Airliners (If I remember)published back in 1982 or 1983. The A320 then was still a paper plane but the concept and definitio...

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RE: Twin Aisle Airbus A320

I earlier commented that it was an A320. I stand corrected. Is is in-fact a 767. However, Airbus did in-fact include a possible twin aisle option for the A320 at the very beginning. No one ever took that option but when I saw that photo I thought someone actually did, finally! regards, Triple Seven

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Triple Seven

RE: Twin Aisle Airbus A320

It's an A320.

This is the optional layout that Airbus was selling even before the A320s first flight. Airbus used its wider cabin design as one of the selling points over the 737s, permitting customer the flexibility to opt for 3-3 or 2-2-2 layout.

-Triple Seven

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RE: Are Iberia's 747-200's Retired Yet?

LVZXV, The JT9D-7AO is one of the latter variant of the JT9Ds. Appearing a little before the -7Q. Both however are rated 53,000lbs. -7AO features long chord cowling, much similar to those fitted on the DC-10-40 and A300B4-120/220 variants. There are few operators of -7AO; <acronym title="Aerolineas ...

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RE: Are Iberia's 747-200's Retired Yet?

LV-MLO was <b>not</b> delivered with <acronym title="Trans Asia Airways (Taiwan)">GE</acronym>. The engine is actuallly the rare JT9D-7AO. Later it was re-engined to the JT9D-7Q. The JT9D-7AO shares identical cowling as the <acronym title="Trans Asia Airways (Taiwan)">GE</acronym>...thus providing c...

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Triple Seven

RE: 2nd Antonov An-225 Being Build. For Who?

IIRC the second Antonov was left partially built for many years until recently.
Remembered reading somewhere that the second Mriya would be finally completed and put into service due to increase demand for outsize cargo aircraft.

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Triple Seven

RE: Poland Goes For 48 F-16's

The last US built -18C/D was delivered to Canada in 1998.

I didn't know that Canada operates the C/D at all. I was under the impression that RCAF operates exclusively the A/Bs.

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Triple Seven

RE: Rumsfeld Takes "doomsday Plane" Again 21 Hour N/s

Out of curiosity:

What is the total time and cycle on the 4 E-4Bs?

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RE: Air Asia Eyes MH Domestic Flights

I don't think MAS will cede its entire operations to <acronym title="Air Asia (Malaysia)">AK</acronym>. Key major cities will continue to be flown by MAS. <acronym title="Air Asia (Malaysia)">AK</acronym> taking over the domestic operations will hurt MAS connectivity within Malaysia. If partial take...

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Triple Seven

RE: MAS May Replace Fokkers Ahead Of 737s

MAS has hinted in the recent past that they were interested in replacing the the F50s with ERJ-145 Amazons. As for the 737s there will probably be a one-for-one replacement. MAS has named 738/739 and A320/321 as candidates. I'm betting on 738/739...and perhaps 739X too. <img src="/discussions/...

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Triple Seven

RE: AirAsia's Funny 'attack' Ad

LOL

definitely the best ad out by AK.

they are very creative

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RE: Air Asia Continues To Spread Its Wings

AK is flying into exciting and yet dangerous times. By year end there will be two or three more LCC in the region. As a fan of <acronym title="Air Asia (Malaysia)">AK</acronym> I'll be watching with nervous anticipation when Tiger Airways and the new Qantas/Temasek owned LCC takes flight. Watch out ...

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RE: Problems With MD-11 Performance

The poor performance of the <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-11 could be attributed to the wholesale adaptation of the DC-10. IIRC McDD rushed to developed the <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-11 fast - and that was the problem. Back in the mid 80s McDD saw three choices for ...

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RE: Problems With MD-11 Performance

Problems with the <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-11s were almost, if not fully corrected by mid 90s. The corrected version was introduced as the <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-11ER (retrofit package available to earlier models too). Performance of the <acronym title="Air ...

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MAS: Option Open For Regional LCC

MAS says that the influx of LCC in <acronym title="DAS Air Limited (Kenya)">SE</acronym> Asia might threaten its survivability. Therefore the option is open for MAS to join the soon to be crowded sky. Here's the news from TheStar Business: ____________________________________________________________...

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RE: Malaysian 9M-MPF

The odd paint work on the nose seems to fall right at the Section 41 production joint. It looks like 9M-MPF could have received incorrect paint during some sort of Section 41 modification or even during D-check. Just a guess.

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RE: Malaysia Air To Launch Flights To Siem Reap

<i>Triple Seven, how are the relations between Thailand and Cambodia now? I think there is still a strong economical link, isn't it?</i> Swissgabe, Honestly I don't know much. There are sporadic tension between the Thai govt and that of Hun Sen regime. The latest, IIRC involves the Angkor Watt. Some...

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RE: Malaysia Air To Launch Flights To Siem Reap

<i>The <acronym title="Royal Brunei Airlines">BI</acronym> A340 mentioned is <acronym title="ATRAN Aviatrans Cargo Airlines (Russian Federation)">V8</acronym>-BKH, A340-200 ( I think the only A342 with the high MTOW version ).</i> Isn't <acronym title="ATRAN Aviatrans Cargo Airlines (Russian Federat...

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RE: MAS Increases HKG Presence

9M-MKS was formerly 9M-MKY back in 1996. Welcome home ln143....you are finally back after 6 years!

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MAS May Be 7E7 Launch Customer

From www.thestar.com.my _________________________________________________________________ MALAYSIA Airlines (MAS) and its parent, Penerbangan Malaysia Bhd (PMB), have shown keen interest to add Boeing’s latest Dreamliner 7E7 to the national carrier's fleet, The Boeing Co senior sales director (inter...

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RE: One Of SriLankan's 332 AOG - MH774 Iso!

<i>Actually 9M-MPO was delivered to MH in december 2001. Its the newest 744 in their fleet.</i> Actually 9M-MPQ is the latest in the fleet. I guess UL is wet-leasing the 744 rather than dry leasing. Complete with pilots and crew. Off topic: Looks like MAS is finally giving their earlier batch of 744...

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RE: MH Dropping LAX, Keeping 3 Flts To EWR?

I've flown MHs LAX flight several times. It is always jammed pack. Hard to see the reason for MAS dropping it.

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RE: MAS To Replace 35 B 737 Classics

Rumours flew around in the past. At one time MAS was considering ERJ-145 Amazons as Fokker 50 replacements. Later on MAS played around the idea of replacing both the F50s and 737s with a common aircraft. The Bombardier Dash 8-400 was considered! In the late 90s up to 63 737NG/A32X were considered. A...

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RE: MAS Looks At Ultra Long-haul Service

<b>Also, there was a huge rumour about <acronym title="Malaysia Airlines">MH</acronym> buying 16 A340-500/-600s and 45 A320s during the Asian Aerospace in 2000 but that died down as quickly as it appeared.</b> Actually they were going Airbus at one time. The competition was for 15 ultra long haul ai...

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RE: MAS Looks At Ultra Long-haul Service

ConcordeBoy,

Actually an A340 holds the round the world speed record east-bound while
the MAS Super Ranger holds the west-bound record.

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RE: MAS Looks At Ultra Long-haul Service

This is not the first time MAS looked into ultra long haul aircraft. Back before the financial crisis of 1997 MAS was the main principal behind the push for Boeing to commit to the 777-200X (now -200LR). An agreement was signed between MAS and Boeing (1996) that MAS was to be the launch customer and...

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RE: New Name For Singapore's 380

Since the A340-500 is called LeaderShip

They ought to call the A380 FlagShip

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RE: The Fate Of AirAsia's 9M-AAB

AK apparently have a mix bag of EFIS and non-EFIS equiped 733s. If I recall US Airways 737-301s are the first -300 built (1984) hence they have the old 'conventional' flight deck. Odie - You ought to write a trip report on <acronym title="Air Asia (Malaysia)">AK</acronym>. Not often will one find an...

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RE: How Is Malaysia Airlines Like?

Fly <b><acronym title="Malaysia Airlines">MH</acronym></b>. Their service, food, comfort etc. will make your trip really enjoyable. All my experiance with them were great. Makes you wanna make them your exclusive airline to travel in future. <acronym title="Malaysia Airlines">MH</acronym> certainly ...

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RE: The Fate Of AirAsia's 9M-AAB

Udo - Thank you very much for the information. I think 9M-AAB was the only brand new 737 in <acronym title="Air Asia (Malaysia)">AK</acronym>. Delivered directly from Boeing to <acronym title="Air Asia (Malaysia)">AK</acronym> (leased from GECAS). It is interesting that <acronym title="Air Asia (Mal...

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E-3 Sentry In Mobile, AL

I was driving by University Blvd S. yesterday (01/29/04) when I heard something I hadn't heard in a while. It was the sound of an old turbofan aircraft. I looked up and I saw this beautiful and graceful E-3 Sentry on final approach for Brookley Fields. Everything was hanging. Flaps. Landing gears. T...

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