Re: Australian Aviation Thread - March 2020

Has QF made an official announcement around the 744’s? On that note, I’m guessing 787 to JNB once things normalise again?

Re: LAS airport closed

I’m confused, if a controller tested positive, why were they not self isolating while they waited for the results?

Seems selfish to still go to work while you may have a virus that is currently affecting most of the world.

AA 57 Squawking 7700

Noticed this on Flight Radar just nite. Currently at 32,000 feet and seems to be in a holding pattern near Exeter. Can’t link as I’m on mobile at the moment.

Re: St Helena (HLE) "The World's Most Useful Airport" - Wendover Productions

I think as much as they push for tourism, one of the big things the airport does, as the video mentions, is connect to diaspora of Saints. Most of them are in Cape Town and as such flights to South Africa make the most sense. On top of that, SA is the closest for full and advanced medical aid in the...

Re: No ID check on (German) domestic flights

I travel around Australia all the time without having an ID check done. I hate to be that guy, but if someone really wanted to get on the flight, they could get on the flight. I’ve never had concerns about the ID check, because it’s the security screening that should weed out any dangerous individua...

Re: Qantas plans 3 Project Sunrise research flights in Q4 2019 using 787-9's, final decision on PS by end of 2019

It seems that Qantas really made a huge deal about next generation aircraft plying the PS routes, so I highly doubt they’d do an about face and get a last gen aircraft as a stop gap. The media here likes to make a big deal out of anything Qantas does or has happen so it could be a lot of bad PR for ...

Re: AC to improve inclusivity and stop using "Ladies and Gentlemen"

I like this, good on AC for being more inclusive.

I also think “hello everybody” sounds much more casual and friendly anyway.

Even “Hello ACxxx!” Works fine for me.

Now to wait for everyone saying the world is “too PC”

Re: Virgin Atlantic flying lady

Was anything suggesting it was an April Fool’s joke?

I like it, and think it looks good!

Re: Powerbank causes fire on China Eastern A320neo MU2809 NKG-XMN

My concern isn’t so much them being in the cabin, that’s manageable.

My concern is how many people put these in their checked luggage. Or other bigger batteries like those that are being built into suit cases.

Re: Southern African & Indian Ocean Aviation Thread - 2019

Air Mauritius have received their first refurbished A340 with some photos posted onto their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AirMauritius/posts/10157288351953820 It looks nice enough, although I’ll miss the green seats with the thick padding. The IFE, not so much. [Speaks loudly hoping SAA w...

Re: Air New Zealand drops tattoo ban.

Tattoos are just gross. Can't fathom why someone deface their bodies like that. Ugh. I certainly don't want anyone with tattoos serving me. Honestly the grossest thing here is the responses on this thread. Hopefully you never go out to a bar, restaurant, gym, hospital, airport... actually, just sta...

Re: BA reveals new Club World Suite, first Airbus A350 routes

Wow, proper storage in business class. Groundbreaking.

For real though, I think this looks pretty phenomenal. This might be the beginning of the end for F at BA?

Re: Should airline regulators consider grounding B737 MAX series

Comair has chosen to voluntarily suspend operations of the 737 MAX. MN released a statement on it via FaceBook. https://www.facebook.com/145976583494/posts/10156460476918495?sfns=mo . They say that they remain confident in the aircrafts safety but will liaise with “Boeing, other operators, and techn...

Re: SQ's IFE Has a Camera Possibly Watching in Every Seat

I'll seriously carry stickers in the future to block any cam and I wonder about microphones and personal web traffic monitoring as well. As all this is possible and done on the ground airlines might be tempted to do the same inflight? For what reason? Why would an airline record you? What would the...

Re: Will EK Add Showers & Bars To The 777?

I always saw EK J as their way for justifying the jump up to First class. They’re in two very different leagues. Unless they go the route of QR and introduce a F killer similar to the Q Suite. I can see EK keeping the bar for the 777’s, but showers are kind of unnecessary on most of their flights an...

New BA ad - BA 100

Hi all, BA just posted a new ad to their YouTube channel, celebrating 100 years of service. https://youtu.be/KJ3gBiFg5r4 I’d image they went looking at BOAC and others that merged with it before BA existed? I know KLM and Qantas have some of the longest unbroken service records, but I’m not sure whe...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - December 2018

https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/5801619/new-qantas-service-to-fly-from-bendigo-to-sydney-six-days-a-week/?cs=80 Just announced, QantasLink was I’ll be flying to Bendigo six days a week from Sydney, starting in March. This is a nice little surprise. As someone from Bendigo I honestly didn’...

Re: Lion Air 737MAX8 Crashed Jakarta to Pangal Pinang

Oh no.

Looks like it’s mostly an overwater flight.

Thunderstorms around Jakarta as well.

Hopefully everyone gets out okay. Hopefully.

Re: Interior pics of Delta's first A220-100

The IFE here is GoGo vision touch - exactly what you described. It's basically a wireless system consisting of tablets, with a USB and headphone jack located immediately underneath. Here's a video of the product during testing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUc74EX84LA This is what I imagined IFE...

Re: Western Sydney Airport - Construction started, what's the plan?

Good lord no, a train connection? Trains are evil, better build more road tunnels. Why are trains evil? Trains are efficient and incredibly good at moving a lot of people quickly. Almost every major city in the world has train service to its airports, be it in progress of being built or already bui...

Re: Why don't Japanese airlines fly to Africa?

With a murder rate of over 60 per 100,000 inhabitants per year (and increasing), Cape Town is one of the most dangerous cities in the world. For comparison, in 2014 Tokyo prefecture recorded 0.9 murders and attempted murders per 100,000 inhabitants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_m...

Re: New Rule for AA FA's deemed "cruel" and "disastrous"

That's not the common meaning in the US. Bereavement leave is usually separate from personal days. My company defines them as: a paid day of leave from work for reasons other than illness, vacation or bereavement, taken at the employee's discretion. We are allocated 2 per year. I'm guessing AA does...

Re: New Rule for AA FA's deemed "cruel" and "disastrous"

As far as my work experience goes, I’ve heard of personal days interchange with bereavement leave. If this is the case at AA, then I’m disgusted. As for the “Not calling in sick during critical periods” rule, I don’t think this would fly in any other developed country. You can’t legitimately expect ...

Re: Mauritius Aviation

Air Mauritius quit flying to Melbourne and Sydney more than six years ago. Only Perth remains. What is "a lot"? I would say some, but not it's not a significant number simply because the current schedule only allows connection one day per week (DUR-MRU-PER) and none on the return without ...

Re: Mauritius Aviation

Is Mauritius even big in name anywhere other than in Europe? Perhaps the Middle East and now Asia? I was surprised to see that Saudia flies to MRU, but beyond that, the country and its brand is not big enough to make a name for itself in far flung places like the USA. Well, Mauritius is massive for...

Re: Where does DL fly their 777s?

You won't find any more info than routes for the last few weeks by tail number, as provided by FlightAware or FlightRadar24. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n860da or https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N860DA Some long-time participants show really poor command of research skills relev...

Re: Where does DL fly their 777s?

andymartin wrote:

Why not search fr24 for your answer?

Re: Complants of bedbugs on AI EWR-India flights

jerseyewr777 wrote:

Did these bed bugs deplane in Mumbai? This flight continues to Delhi as AI144.

Re: Helvetic Airways signes MOU for 12 Embraer E190-E2

That first render really makes the E2 look like a 787 and the red tail makes it look like QF :O Congrats TO Embraer though, this is a decent order indeed! It’s nice to see another Swiss airline growing. Does anyone know if the E2 series fixes the annoying window spacing? EMB were a bit too smart spa...

Re: A220 (née CSeries) achieves ETOPS 180 certification

Flight time would be somewhere around four hours, so ETOPS 180 not even needed. Now, Airlink being profitable is another thing. Maybe SA Express's elongated suspension will help them. But I’d imagine the increased range could mean direct from JNB or CPT instead of flying via WDH? I thought Airlink ...

Re: A220 (née CSeries) achieves ETOPS 180 certification

MrBretz wrote:

Now I will consider the 737-900ER to Hawaii spacious?

Re: First Westjet 737MAX8 in new livery

Wow, Qantas North looks phenomenal on the 737 MAX! This is literally not even remotely close to QF but whatever. Haters gotta hate I guess. Honestly it's a lovely transition. Well done Westjet! Sorry, didn’t realise jokes weren’t allowed on this forum. :roll: As Bricktop said, it was a play on the ...

Re: First Westjet 737MAX8 in new livery

Wow, Qantas North looks phenomenal on the 737 MAX!

Re: Major Airline New Livery Photo posted on A350? Possibly United. Airline tbc Monday. Any ideas?

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DexSwart wrote:

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I’d say maybe US.

would you now

Re: Major Airline New Livery Photo posted on A350? Possibly United. Airline tbc Monday. Any ideas?

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Waterbomber wrote:

Im going to venture a crazy guess and say it's SAA announcing an A350 MOU.

Re: SilkAir becomes 'Singapore Airlines'

Just wishful thinking but does this mean we’re gonna see PTV’s in the MAXs?

I can’t wait to see Singapore Airlines in Darwin and Cairns!

Re: British Airways announces 3 weekly LHR-DUR

Finally! Great to see proper BA service back in my home town.

I’m surprised at the LHR aspect of the flight though.

Durban’s economy, though weakened is still doing better than most of S.A. which might help these flights, though, no doubt they’re gonna be successful.

Maybe PER is next?

Re: KLM to introduce JAMCO Business Class Seats on the Boeing 787-10

@DexSwart: where did you see reverse herringbone? I can not seem to find it... Looking at the photo in the link above, they certainly seem angled. From that angle I’d say herringbone. Happy to be corrected on this one! :) Only 1 787-9 left to be delivered, this August. Oh wow, I couldn’t sworn it w...

Re: KLM to introduce JAMCO Business Class Seats on the Boeing 787-10

Another new feature is the “Do not disturb” button on the armrest, which passengers can turn on and off at will. What I'd love to turn on and off at will onboard the 787 is the stupid window e-tint, marveling at the beauty of planet Earth is my #1 IFE and the 787's window dimmers allow the crew to ...

Re: Qantas to start PER-JNB from 7 December 2018

Finally! This would be a wonderful addition to the QF network. I would seriously consider this from MEL that he backtrack to SYD, if QF didn’t fly the 747 between SYD-JNB. ;) SA is quickly losing favour with expats here since there is a lot of talk about unreliability, whether this is baseless is mo...

Re: Boeing formally delivers the first 787-10 to Singapore Airlines

I am looking forward to see the new regional business class but there is no pictures of the cabin yet ..... anyone ? https://www.ausbt.com.au/here-is-singapore-airlines-new-2018-regional-business-class-seat Sandyb123 Awesome. I love seats with privacy partitions that extend over windows for no reas...

Re: Pax and Pilots hate AA B737-Max

Aren’t 737 cockpits the same size? Max or NG? Is there such a big difference in configuration?

Passenger wise I can understand, I wouldn’t want to be on one of those 73M’sfor more than maybe an hour max.

Re: Norwegian planning Buenos Aires to Asia flights via Perth

Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, even Maputo or Nairobi would make more sense honestly.

At least that would be doable on current aircraft.

EDIT, Looking at GC Map. NBO would be almost perfect as a stop over position.

Re: QantasLink to receive 2 A320s

Would these A320’s have the same interior as the updated 717’s? Having just come off of one, I’d say it’s easily one of my favourite Australian domestic cabins.

Re: It’s official! Meridiana rebranded as Air Italy

First glimpse of the new livery: https://imagr.eu/up/KmYR5_DWZLk3pX4AADtVB.jpg https://twitter.com/MaxK_J/status/965542333201747968 Ah yes... blue and... burgundy? Two colours that don’t particularly jump to mind ah well I think of Italy IMHO. :shock: Looks like a Eurowings subsidiary to me.

Re: Qantas Fleet Thread 2018

It seems 2007 and Silveroo liveried 737’s are also getting wifi. Even BSI interiors with seatback IFE. How long does it normally take to install the ViaSat system QF are using? I can’t figure out a pattern or discernible reason to the fittings.

Re: Air Seychelles to axe flights to Paris, announces business transformation plan

What's the point? JNB, MRU, BOM, and AUH are all that's left. Just shut it down and put it out of it's misery. This is just prolonging the inevitable. Death by a thousand cuts, I believe DUR is also left. The Seychelles could make a great connection point between Africa and Asia. Maybe they should ...

Re: Airnorth cancels flights due to a pilot shortage

$27k is extremely low, and that sounds very dodgy considering the Fair Work Comission states that minimum wage currently is $694.90. Which works out to just over $36k a year. I’ve never heard of wages being that low before in Australia, especially for a highly skilled job. Without boasting, I’m doin...

Re: Qantas Indigenous Art - hints new aircraft

Just saw the Insta story.

All I’m hoping for is more colour than Mendoowoorrji has!

It’s an amazing program so hopefully we’ll see a few more in future, although Qantas is very selective and deliberate with any special schemes or liveries.

Re: Neos Unveils 789 - Spirit of Italy

That Premium cabin is UGLY. Although to be fair it’s just the seat. Backs and headrests that I dislike so much.

Their economy cabin looks much nicer and more interesting as well.

Either way. Congratulations to Neos!