burnsie28 wrote:How much of that operating profit for 2023 was made outside of the short-haul Europe? Just because they made a profit doesn't mean intra-Europe is doing great, need to see what those numbers are by region to gain a full understanding.
CDG is the worst airport in the planet. (Yes yes I know what you’re going to say, Manchester; but MAN is a spoke, not a hub.) Nothing makes sense at CDG. Connections and bags go there to die. Sounds like you got off lightly
Jump to postIt looks like Addis Ababa, Kuala Lumpur and Johannesburg are scrapped altogether. A lot of increases have also been cancelled. I guess AH realised it had an ambitious and unrealistic expansion plan. https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240328-ahns24intl Wonder what the motive for Johannesburg was. Algeri...
Jump to postToronto was served by Star Alliance partner Air Canada with a daily CPH YYZ 767-300ER, presumably now a 787. That will be less desirable for SK frequent fliers as they can’t earn points, so I wonder what will happen there. SK starts A321neo service or let it go?
Jump to postI think there’s every chance of it happening, for connections to Australia to the SE and to South America to the SW. And it’s true that Changi is a oneworld hub, Cathay even do SIN BKK!
Jump to postQantas 747-200B, 26 February 1984, SYD SIN BAH LHR. Also my first international trip, moving to England
Jump to postThe Club Europe seat comfort and seat pitch are significantly below the US mainline carriers and Air Canada. It’s a disgrace to be paying much more to sit in Club Europe and have the same seat pitch and width as in economy. North American flights can be six hours, whereas in Europe they’re 1-2 hour...
Jump to postBuilding jet airliners is hard. Still blows my mind that the Japanese have abandoned the Mitsubishi Space Jet.
Jump to postUnited wasn’t short of short haul types in the early 1960s — as well as the aforementioned Caravelles, it had a fleet of 720s which in 1964 would have been less than four years old, was the launch customer for the 727, and still had a bunch of Viscounts
Jump to postI was a big fan of USAir, always the underdog and nine lives. I think what’s interesting is that they had a period with the 767-200s to Gatwick that their product was above average, but seemed to go downhill over the years so when it came to the merger, they actually were probably the more distresse...
Jump to postphatfarmlines wrote:The U.K. doesn't do exit passport control anymore right, aligning with U.S. policy?
Much as I dislike and avoid the 787, this makes sense for Thai, I bet they got a bargain too.
Jump to postThe name and incredibly crap logo are that of a fake airline in a Netflix show that isn’t about planes
Jump to postI live in England and it’s an open air drunk tank. I don’t drink alcohol for one reason, the English make it look so bad. They’re not doing it for fun, they want to get oblivionated. Might be to do with losing the empire. There’s a gap that seemingly can never be filled, although god knows they try ...
Jump to postKoreanair have posted an announcement on their Instagram feed so they obviously think it’s serious enough to acknowledge
Jump to postMiami to Nassau, Miami to Orlando, New York to Philadelphia… some short hops for a widebody in there!
Jump to postThey’ve flown to LAX before, I remember 747-400s via either FRA or CDG, pretty sure CDG
Jump to postBangladesh is becoming a low cost manufacturing powerhouse, so factory owners and managers and customers would generate a reasonable amount of traffic from Japan, which has a lot of design but little manufacturing
Jump to postEnforcing this without assigned seating will be hard. How is it different to putting your hoodie on the seat in the hope that no one sits there?
Jump to postAssuming there was nothing mechanically wrong with the second plane except a timed out crew, why use an A330 to fly a third crew in when you could send them in a 737-700 or even a Citation? Also, people are getting weird about who’s going to pay for a spa resort with 24 hour room service? Preppers a...
Jump to postJust a side note for us aviation fans. There is no such thing as a 707-100 or -300. Boeing designated the 707 series as -X20. With “B” designating turbofans as you note. 707s were -120s, -220s, -320s, -420s. -220s and -420s never had the B designations. Well - The type certificates say: 707-100 Lon...
Jump to postIt’s competitive with the 777-200ER. Yes it has four engines but they’re only little, the CFM56, exactly the same engine on the 737, with parts and spare engines in every airfield on this earth.
Jump to postMan the 777 MLG are strong. Not to be too mischievous, but if that were an MD-11, we might be looking at another failed gear truck on a touchdown like that. :duck: MD-11 gear never failed, the gear sticking up out of the wreckage is a signature of their landing crashes. Arguably, collapsing gear mi...
Jump to postNo one’s choosing the indirect flight over a nonstop. You’ll have to point to an international route operated by any US carrier that stops anywhere before heading back. I don’t think there’s one. Also, you need both the Atlantic and Pacific covered. Just the Atlantic doesn’t cut it. That gap is why ...
Jump to postSFO = mickey mouse operations. This is the perfect example. Desperate for visuals so they can keep the AAR high, and not put in GDPs. Can you please define the acronyms. Not all of us Mickey mouse folks know what AAR and GDP mean. I’m an instructor pilot and I have no idea what those acronyms mean
Jump to postjfk777 wrote:What makes Russia so unique they have the "right" to screw all the world's traffic between Europe and Asia from overflying their country ?
Saw an article from Sky news were a spotter claimed it looked like a "hard landing" https://news.sky.com/story/plane-skids-off-runway-while-landing-at-leeds-bradford-airport-12988439 Unless I'm wrong, I don't recall of many over runs in UK airports? Contrary to the stereotype of endless r...
Jump to postI was just watching 1979 disaster movie Meteor and noticed that Sean Connery's bag has a Columbia Airlines tag, the fictitious airline in Airport 1975. So we definitely live in a simulation
Jump to postWould be curious to know the equipment. When this was a Dash 8 it was possible to cross the Atlantic by prop, with Icelandair from Belfast to Keflavik which I think was a Dash 8, Reykjavik to Greenland on something else (F-50?) then this to Canada. Wish I’d done it!
Jump to postIt's their country and their decision. It's a very wealthy country and the politicians are in tune Dutch priorities. So you don't want to pay the extra tax fine by them. At least their Government can pass legislation - unlike the USA. Agreed. Love the butt hurt tears on here — “I hate to be hated” ...
Jump to postMy buddy who was a 747 FO went on furlough and was able to get hired by Cargolux. He kept his BA seniority number and was recalled last year and typed on the A350. As an aside, they needed A350 pilots so urgently that some (my buddy included) were only trained to be cruise pilots, no takeoff or land...
Jump to postIf they could ever launch a new route without a 767 that would be awesome Come on, it’s the best one. 2-3-2 will never be improved upon as a widebody configuration. I don’t get the economics of hauling around the structural weight of a second aisle just to get one extra seat per row, but as a punte...
Jump to postLamp1009 wrote:All this talk of SAN up-gaging makes me wonder if the market could support hub status for the city, it's already arguably the most under served airport in the US, but admittedly, its location is terrible as a hub.
FI is 2x daily to JFK (FI 613, FI 615) FI is 1x daily to ORD (FI 853) UA’s EWR-KEF only competition was 1x daily FI EWR-KEF just like ORD. Given NYC metro is 2x the size of Chicago’s metro population and much wealthier it doesn’t really support UA’s argument about why they dropped EWR-KEF. There’s ...
Jump to postgeorgiabill wrote:I believe when President Nixon flew IAD to LAX it was on a TWA L-1011. I could be wrong but I seem to remember reading about it in the Boston Globe
Generally a gigantic waste of money to fly private. Hapless PM-for-a-lettuce Liz Truss flew from London to Sydney and back on one of the UK’s ULCC styled A321s when she was a minister, absurd when she could have gone first class on a BA 787 or QF A380 for a tiny fraction of the price. The A321 must ...
Jump to postVery bad flying and very bad excuses being made for it. Wasn’t making excuses, just an observation from the data. And you are far exaggerating the salary of a pilot in Chile I didn’t mean to single you out. It’s like no one on this forum knows anything about aeroplanes. I don’t know how much LAN Ch...
Jump to postVery bad flying and very bad excuses being made for it. “Probably a windshear escape manoeuvre and then pitching up so much the ground was no longer on the PFD, with no way to judge the actual pitch without reading the numbers. Would be very unknown territory for most pilots.” You only pitch to 20° ...
Jump to postBA haven’t flown a 777-200ER to Australia for a decade, since Sydney had two daily flights, a 747 via Singapore and a 772 via Bangkok. That was replaced by a single 777-300ER via Singapore, which is coming back in October (thank god — the 787 in economy is simply too narrow). I think BA leaving Aust...
Jump to postHalfan wrote:Landed at 4:32PM. FR24 already has it loaded it will leave at 6:45PM. Perhaps it was a medical diversion, and the cargo area was the best place to offload the passenger?
Where did SV fly to in Canada, when and with what aircraft type pls? Shukran
Also what feud?
I took a BA 747 from DXB to LHR (on my way home from successfully chasing vintage DC-9s around Somalia!) in summer and it had no APU. I get that old jumbos might be dispatched with items inop but why send that one to Dubai where it’s 50°C outside? Send that one to Seattle or Denver where it’s 23°C! ...
Jump to postIn the 70's and early 80's JU (JAT at the time) used KWI and SIN. In fact I flew several times JFK-SYD routing JFK to BEG and sometimes with stopovers in ZAG or LJU and then my connecting flight being BEG-KWI-SIN-SYD. All on 707's until they got their first new DC-10 which flew the JFK-LJU/BEG sect...
Jump to postTWA772LR wrote:If EK joins an alliance I'm sure they have one to spare for paint.
https://youtu.be/kYyg1CrI8Ng No Bloncolirio or Gryder links without identifying them as such, please. There are those of us who don't want to give either of them a single click. I agree. OK I’ll bite. WHY?? You’ve got to tell us. I’m a flying instructor and these two do great, important, unbiased w...
Jump to posthttps://youtu.be/kYyg1CrI8Ng No Bloncolirio or Gryder links without identifying them as such, please. There are those of us who don't want to give either of them a single click. Oh for god’s sake. You need a trigger warning on videos by GA safety advocates? What have you got against mentoring good ...
Jump to postLuckily it made it. Just two sectors later, the same fin has apparently gone tech resulting in the cancellation of this afternoon’s AC308 between YVR and YUL. This adds to the already horrific OTP at AC this past summer where on an average day 30%+ of flights are cancelled or delayed. Off topic Sam...
Jump to postMetz727 wrote:Does anybody know the reason for AC 2081 from ZRH - YYZ last night? It seemed a one-off flight with late evening departure (and night arrival into YYZ) on a A330-343.