Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

Bloomberg is reporting that Iran says that they accidentally shot down the jet due to a human error https://twitter.com/business/status/1215842352885043200?s=21 Shocked the admission came so fast. Prayers for the families, friends, and colleagues of those who perished. Well- it’s kind of hard when ...

Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

Then why Iran never used this argument for the downing of IR655. According to them it was a criminal act by the US, right when tensions in the gulf were high as well. Lets use the Iranian standard they set with IR655 on this crash as-well please. I agree. Iran is to blame here and they'll ultimatel...

Re: Hong Kong airport disruptions due protest

So they hold a sign that says “Hong Kong is no longer safe”, but don’t let people leave the city they claim is unsafe? You seem to operate on the misunderstanding, the world revolves around you. It doesn't, and there are far bigger and more important things at play than you having your travel plans...

Re: Hong Kong airport disruptions due protest

From following the #antielab on Twitter, it appears the Airport is shut again. The protesters are violating the human rights of those who wish to travel. Preventing me from exiting the country is a violation of my human rights. The protesters are protesting at the airport peacefully to raise awaren...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

Singapore has now banned all 737max from coming and taking off.

Re: US-Japan agree on additional Haneda slots; DOT to allocate

727200 wrote:

So because AA and DL are unable to compete with UA due to their own arrogance and incompetence, they want the government intervention to 'help' them?

Re: Corporate traffic sneak peek: SFO-PVG tops list of UA’s most lucrative Apple routes

I can tell you majority of fruit employee doesn’t like UA. Every chance when travel policy is not enforced people find way to get on SQ to HKG for example. . How old is your information (or is the employee option based on the old 774?) Since the 77w was put on sfo-hkg, there really isn’t as large a...

Re: Corporate traffic sneak peek: SFO-PVG tops list of UA’s most lucrative Apple routes

Ziyulu wrote:

MU usually has better business class fares from SFO to PVG. Wait until Apple starts contracting with MU to fly its employees.

Re: Corporate traffic sneak peek: SFO-PVG tops list of UA’s most lucrative Apple routes

I get the sense that someone at United will be fired and immediately rehired, just so they can fire them again. Knowing how closely Apple guards it's privacy, I suspect the potential impact of this on United's revenues could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars range. How the hell is this some...

Re: Typhoon Jebi hits Japan, KIX currently closed and underwater

China airlines, Eva Airways, and Tiger Air Taiwan has all cancelled KIX flights thru 9/11.

Re: China Threatens U.S. Airlines Over Taiwan References

South China Sea is an inner marine body of China since it was found five millennia ago. This is indisputable. An "inner" marine sea bordered by Vietnam to the west, the Philippines to the east and Malaysia/Brunei to the south. By that definition the Gulf of Mexico belongs to the US and th...

Re: Updated: US airlines cave In to Chinese demands about Taiwan

One last thing-

There are more Chinese carriers operating way more flights and destination to US then number of flight US carriers operates into China.

Chinese airlines has way more capacity so CAAC won't do anything just scream on press. Because chinese can't win this war nor on trade war either.

Re: Updated: US airlines cave In to Chinese demands about Taiwan

I feel like UA would change it if it really came down to it, as they have 9 scheduled flights to PEK today, not including the other 6 flights scheduled to CTU and PVG today. I can't imagine they'd risk today's 15 scheduled flights to keep the 4 scheduled flights (for today, at least) to HKG and TPE...

Re: Updated: US airlines cave In to Chinese demands about Taiwan

My understanding on Taiwan is that Taiwan had legitimate sovereignty over all of what is now PRC until World War 2 - but were ousted by communist rebellions led by Mao. The current regime of PRC never had sovereignty over Taiwan island. Hence, I must say that Nanjing/Nanking part of Japan carries m...

Re: First A340-600 In Revised Lufthansa Livery

One ugly livery on one ugly plane.

Just terrible.

Re: British Airways LHR-SJC cancelled flights !

While I am not doubting that BA's SJC loads aren't great (although I would imagine J did well from SJC but maybe not see below), I would think they stopped SJC during their 787 issues because pax could get rerouted to SFO. While a pain for some, I would imagine many won't complain and those that re...

Re: Tim Clark: A380's advantages over twinjets still 'enormous'

Only experienced one A380 Y Class trip on BA LHR-YVR in 2016. It was like floating on a cloud, almost no engine noise, no turbulence little awareness of the climb and descent. No other plane even comes close to the Y experience in an A380. Just because a flight is smooth- doesn't meant the airplane...

Re: Tim Clark: A380's advantages over twinjets still 'enormous'

I don't care what anyone says. The A380 is the best plane I've flown on, space, smooth and comfortable, I'm talking about economy... where it matters and where most of us fly. I agree, as a passenger the A380 is so much nicer to fly in compared to other aircraft.... Yeah right- you still get the sa...

Re: United Polaris Promise Never Matched Reality

DL announced its Business suites in late 2016 to much fanfare, and as of now only the A350s have it. How many other new long-haul aircraft has DL received since then though? That's the issue I see. Continuing to receive new aircraft with old seats means there was very little forward thinking. The b...

Re: Emirates new First class revealed, business and economy class refreshed

Well the first class looks good, so much better than the SQ one. Those economy seats look very thin, I will be travelling on EK next month. I disagree. Personally I like SQ suite far much better. It will allow people to work and go back to sleep or lay down to relax a little without having to wait ...

Re: Official Launch of Singapore Airlines New Products 2017

Business: New business seats look like they have a really weird angle for your legs when in sleeping mode?? The existing seats also have the angle, but because they are like a bench, it is less noticeable. That said, while the existing J seats are great for sleeping, they are actually very poor to ...

Re: UA accelerates 747-400 retirement

FoxtrotSierra wrote:

I got a nice closeup of the 747 operating the final flight at SFO Day yesterday:

Re: China Airlines announces TPE-ONT service

I am very excited for this route for ONT. it does seem a bit odd that an airport gets nonstop service to TPE on a 77W, but has no service to ATL, JFK, HNL, or IAH. Hopefully this will be only the first of more exciting things to come. Good luck to CI, and I hope to be able to see them there in pers...

Re: China Airlines announces TPE-ONT service

Personally, hate to see the yields on this flight. Its one thing to attract ethnic VFR, another to get premium biz corporate traffic. Are they looking for premium biz corporate traffic? I would think that high end traffic would go to LAX, leaving this route to VFR/Leisure, etc. mariner Not necessar...

Re: Boeing targets Bombardier for “price dumping” CSeries

The proof is on you to show Boeing got subsidies from us government. You are the one who is claiming that. Where is your proof? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/15/boeing-state-taxes_n_4281100.html No doubt you will erroneously try to claim that a tax break is not a subsidy when in fact, it am...

Re: Boeing targets Bombardier for “price dumping” CSeries

chrisp390 wrote:

Where are the investigations into COMAC who are getting BILLIONS from the Chinese government to develop a DIRECT competitor to the Boeing 737?

Re: Boeing targets Bombardier for “price dumping” CSeries

Please provide proof that Us government provided Boeing subsidies that is more than net worth of the company. In addition, show me where Boeing gets direct cash infusion from government. Both of your qualifiers are irrelevant to the matter. Subsidies are subsidies no matter how big or what form the...

Re: Boeing targets Bombardier for “price dumping” CSeries

This is going to bite boeing in the @$$ BIG TIME. It's now Canada's turn: here's to the 220% tarriff on all 737s, 777s and 787s bought by WestJet, Air Canada and Air Transat. Bombardier still has the rest of the world. Keep up good job, my fellow Canadians, don't give in to the idiots south of your...

Re: Boeing targets Bombardier for “price dumping” CSeries

Bombardier has over $5 billion in direct handout from Canadian government since 2000 and has paid $0 back. It's actually costing every single Canadian tax payer $500,000. Go google it. This is public information. Stop playing it off like local government is investing in local company. Because this h...

Re: Boeing targets Bombardier for “price dumping” CSeries

Oh, the ignorance of equating local government business incentives with national government-sponsored bailouts and international trade dumping violations. The Quebec government is a local government and invested in companies with local factories in order to help them increase exports from the regio...

Re: Boeing targets Bombardier for “price dumping” CSeries

questioned AC CSeries order, meaning they've largely shunned the hometown team as well. What’s in question there. 45 form orders for the CS300 with 30 options and conversion rights to the CS100. Air Canada hasn’t shunned BBD or the CSeries, in fact they have been more vocal about being excited to t...

Re: Boeing targets Bombardier for “price dumping” CSeries

I feel sorry for Bombardier. Its pretty standard practice for any new manufacturer to offer extreme discounts to break into a new market. Once you build up a customer base and a good reputation then you can increase prices and make a profit. I'm Australian and our government would not do something ...

Re: Boeing targets Bombardier for “price dumping” CSeries

The US government is making the playing field fair in the US market... The move just stops Canada from unfairly entering a competition in the US market. Explain to me how the very scenario you describe here is not government intervention limiting the choice of aircraft in a given market, the very t...

Re: British Airways London to San Jose. How well ?

Maybe it would be more useful to compare these loads to LH, NH and HU. I assume part of the point of these routes is that some folks will pay a premium to avoid the knife fight that is a trip up the 101 and have a better airport experience. If that's the case for all of these carriers (except argua...

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