The only way buses make any sense is if they can be operated sterile and you can clear security at the local airport How so? If a bus has to make a stop somewhere or breaks down, all passengers would have to stay on or be cleared again in the middle of nowhere - doesn't sound practical to me. Also,...
Jump to postThe only way buses make any sense is if they can be operated sterile and you can clear security at the local airport How so? If a bus has to make a stop somewhere or breaks down, all passengers would have to stay on or be cleared again in the middle of nowhere - doesn't sound practical to me. Also,...
Jump to postI can’t believe anybody in the board or in high power thinks this is remotely an “ok” idea.. Apparently not just anybody does, but also the CEO: https://www.aerotelegraph.com/warum-sich-condor-fuer-streifen-entschied Article says Mr Teckentrup admits he "first took a deep breath" when see...
Jump to postI read the news that each subfleet will get it's own color. So that would then be no problem in regards to the nose cones. https://www.aero.de/news-42323/Condor-startet-mit-neuem-Logo-aus-der-Krise.html This article states that the sand/brown colour will be exclusively for the 330neo. All other col...
Jump to postI read the news that each subfleet will get it's own color. So that would then be no problem in regards to the nose cones. https://www.aero.de/news-42323/Condor-startet-mit-neuem-Logo-aus-der-Krise.html This article states that the sand/brown colour will be exclusively for the 330neo. All other col...
Jump to postLots more renderings over here: https://simpleflying.com/condor-colorful-new-livery/ Or, instead of linking to that site to drive traffic, how about just putting the pics in here? Only posting the link is fully ok. Putting the pics up here means traffic for the other page, but they don't have the b...
Jump to postApparently some people grouped up to save the 707: https://www.aero.de/news-38620/Gibt-es-doch-noch-Gnade-fuer-Hamburgs-707.html (German only) Seems they found out that handing the plane over to a museum wasn't really endorsed by Hamburg Airport yet and now want to collect money to save it for now a...
Jump to postNearly all airports will have to deal with that at one point as basically all foam used up until a few years ago contained these fluorosubstances. Frankfurt Airport just had to dispose of 400,000 cubic metres of soil from the Terminal 3 construction site which was so heavily contaminated that it cou...
Jump to postWhat's the procedure for clearing all that corrosive stuff up without causing environmental issues ? Usually airports have a containment system for extinguishing water, similar to large industrial facilities. Either it's pumped off and disposed of directly from there, or led into the regular waste ...
Jump to postRight now, Qatar is on its way back from Shannon on rotation QR8307/8308 with a 77W. Don't assume it is a repatriation, but what could be the purpose there?
Jump to postThere were some flights by UX from BGI to FRA the last weeks, arriving anywhere between 2 and 6 am. Another one I saw noticed quite often: Zimex Aviation shuttling between FRA and BHX with and ATR72F. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/hb-all Does anyone know if this is a regular flight or ...
Jump to postI do struggle to understand the blue line. IMHO, Lebanon is situated at the Mediterranean Sea, maybe they want to express some connection to that with it. On the other hand, the current livery already features a blue line above the red, maybe it's supposed to symbolize the sky. They obviously tried...
Jump to postPhilipZ wrote:Anyone interested in flying this baby in coming summer?
now on ground IR 720 from FRA to IKA equipment 300-600 strange to see they are using the 300-600 again, usually FRA is served by a 330. Could explain why they have to stop for fuel, but then again, what's with the 332s serving mostly Istanbul and Karachi over the last days and having the 300s/310 p...
Jump to postThe paint scheme was taken over from the previous owner, Ukraine Aviation Group, in which Donbassaero, Dniproavia, and Aerosvit carried such a livery in blue/white and yellow/blue instead of green/red. But it seems the recent acquisitions don't get the full colours anymore, but a rather bland Eurowh...
Jump to postA thread more for fun than anything useful. When KLM still had lots of Fokker 70/100 on the ramp, I heard that part of the ramp was called the "Fokker Field". That stuck in my head and got me thinking if maybe somewhere else there might be some "Airbus Acres" or "Airbus Alle...
Jump to postCan't really see from the picture, if it is a A300 or A320. Both don't seem to have the same engine mount on other pictures, and also none of their planes featured white engines recently. Anyone with better eyes than me?
Jump to postbennett123 wrote:But Caspian is all MD80.
If they can get another MD80, make things a lot simpler.
First issue is do they have a crane available to lift it in one piece?. If so, is it repairable. If not, I suspect that the US authorities will be watching the ex AA and DL MD80’s closely. I doubt there's much to watch. The Mad Dogs are on their way out also in Iran. Some years ago quite some were ...
Jump to postspud757 wrote:If you’re feeling especially brave (political tensions) there’s Qeshm Air [QB] out of Tehran.
There may be a misunderstanding due to terms being used differently. From what I witnessed, what US Fire Departments call a ladder truck is the one with a 70 or 100 ft. ladder with nothing mounted at the tip. A tower truck also has a ladder but also features a bucket at the tip. Maybe the naming in ...
Jump to postBut, I have a question for the Europeans: Why do most European airports not display the gate for a departing flight until around 1 - 1.5 hrs prior to departure? I noticed that mostly at UK airports and for flights going to the UK. In Frankfurt, you can see your Lufthansa gate already at check-in, s...
Jump to postThere appears to be a reasonably priced train that runs from the airport to the city taking about 20 minutes. Yes, that's an easy and cheap way to get to the city. At Dongzhimen station you can connect to the blue line circling the inner part of Beijing. I found it not too hard to use and it gets y...
Jump to postLet's consider a few possibilities in what I hope is a "rational"way: 3. Mechanical Accident? 4. Accidental Shoot-Down Going out on a bit of a stretch, but how about this combination of the two: The departing plane has a mechanical failure leading to an engine fire. The military personnel...
Jump to postLink to the article with the picture in it. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7863359/Ukrainian-passenger-plane-carrying-180-people-crashes-near-Tehran-local-media.html In that link you can see photos of both sides of the vertical stab. Under the “silly stories” photo there is a photo of the...
Jump to postI only find routes where the bus takes at least 2 hours more, comparable times on flixbus are actually the flixtrain.
Jump to postWell, some politicians publicly discuss the elimination of domestic flights in Germany for climate-reasons. I do not think they understand what that would mean/do....? I don’t think you understand what climate change means/does... I think it's pretty clear what climate change does, but the eliminat...
Jump to postThey are needed to issue smoking tickets as they aren't available for print-at-home
reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tR4jBtdROE
Really no idea which forum is the best for this question. Mods, feel free to move if necessary. This picture on the starting page got me wondering: 5796209 Are window panels in high demand as spare parts or is it just coincidence that so many have been cut out on this picture? I have seen that there...
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I'm personally intreged by what is an E295? I know what an E195 is. Oh yeah and what is a BCS3?
just looking at it from above, with no knowledge of the real situation there, maybe put the new terminal where Car Park 3 is now, and move the car park to the field between train tracks and Southend Road. As they are speaking of a multi-storey car park, this could also go south of the VIP terminal, ...
Jump to postThese MD's are pushing 20+ years from when originally made, likely to need heavy mx checks especially for corrosion, are a difficult bird to land, fuel thirsty, and the 3rd engine is difficult to work on. Time to (sadly) move on. Well ;You are right - but FedEx operates a fleet of DC 10:s with an a...
Jump to postI was hoping to catch on on whatever flight from Novosibirsk in February. Would be quite something to miss it just because it's winter time...
Jump to postFR24 doesn't show any flights of RA-85757 for the last seven days. Maintenance or early retirement - or just not recorded on FR24?
Jump to postMaybe they will change their entire identity to the name „Olympic“ I'd doubt that. The tape over the last windows gives away the shape of a writing that I suppose is their web address (aegeanair.com). For Olympic, the lower line tape at the beginning would match, but there is nothing giving away a ...
Jump to postThat's quite something that the agency created if you scroll down to the "Baggage Service" image on the page that VC10er posted. I pretty much doubt we'll ever see an Aegean A380, let alone as a single deck passenger aircraft
Jump to postP.S. I believe there was also an airport closer - Yarmouth, I believe. considering that the report states Halifax was not really reachable as the plane would have been either too high or too fast, and in addition with many critical items not functioning, aiming for an airport with a runway half the...
Jump to postTrying to find some connections here ⋅ GS: Tianjin Airlines - was Grand China Express before, that could explain the G ⋅ HO: Juneyao Airlines - Shanghai Hongqiao is one of their hubs, maybe their intial home? ⋅ HV: Transavia - some combination of Holland (Netherlands) a...
Jump to postDI7017 10:00 - New time 21:40. Not sure if i would call it "lucky". Its better than cancelled! so yeah, i'd consider lucky! The flight is covered by EC 261, so with a delay of that time you are entitled to the full €600 compensation. I could imagine that quite a number of passengers did n...
Jump to postThe problem is, the approach to 14 crosses German airspace (the threshold is less than 10km from the German border), and residents there don't care for the noise, so politicians have agreed to no arrivals from the North until 8am. An investigation some years ago found that the north approach has th...
Jump to postFor the love of God, get off your insane environmental tangent. The world and human race isn't going to cease to exist because we are flying and driving instead of walking. ... Some large cataclysmic event (volcano or asteroid) will take us out before anything humans do. There's just thing about yo...
Jump to postGoing East from London I'm always stuck at the end of Europe. There seems to be no way to get into Russia on a prop plane, not even via Kaliningrad. I went from Helsinki all the way down, but the furthest I managed was Zaporizhiye in Ukraine by Motor Sich, Istanbul on a one-off ATR from Bucharest or...
Jump to postFlights from HEL and RIX to IST, OTP, KBP will cross Belarus which is on Moscow time rather than its neighbors to the North and South which are on Eastern European time
Jump to postBy now, German building code has changed significantly and the people at BER have been playing catch-up for the past years. And every additional delay runs the risk of raising even more issues. For comparison: Safe to say that even the modern airports currently operating in Germany would never meet...
Jump to postThat Tesla burning is a sign of things to come. Should be interesting how FDs handle Lithium Ion batteries. They provide their own oxidizer. As the youtube video noted. They doused it with water but it still burned for 4 hours. Imagine when these EV start burning up at a couple a day in major citie...
Jump to postTalk about curvature of the earth... Not sure what you mean by that. The 3 engine takeoff performance is predicated on the failure of another engine, that is why they would have stopped in HNL as they would have reduced fuel load out of PPT. The A340 can fly on just one engine. I guess mrpippy was ...
Jump to postI'm gonna take away the ''we all sleep with our flight attendants'' bit. Let's hope that other pilot's wife doesn't know he gave that interview He said, “Zaharie’s marriage was bad. In the past he slept with some of the flight attendants. And so what? We all do. You’re flying all over the world wit...
Jump to postGood point about the Russian overfly cost. But they don't need it for India. I think they could add a few more destinations in India and be a gateway to Europe. Using narrow body on both legs would give them cost advantage and therefore better price than others while still making profits. India rou...
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