I think society is changing. I suppose it goes hand in hand with concepts like Kylie Jenner is a self-made billionaire at the age of 21. You think why on Earth would anyone use a tiny airport in the center of London that can't handle a plane bigger than 125 seats for leisure travel. We sort of unde...
Jump to postPickle fork fix at Victorville. EI-DCL should be heading the same way today too - ironic that the ‘Dreamliner’ livery aircraft is involved.
Jump to postA couple of years ago I was shown round the Pilatus factory in Stans by one of the senior execs of the firm. He made a notable comment that "when we launched the PC-12 almost 30 years ago analysts expected us to sell around 200 over 20 years." It is testament to Pilatus hitting a sweet spo...
Jump to postTC957 wrote:terefere wrote:albertocsc wrote:LOT and Enter Air have some of them at WAW.
LOT moved its Maxes to LUB.
LUB is Lumidpau in Guyana - are you sure ??
A number of airlines have had the practice for many years of assigning east travelling flights to even numbers and west travelling flights to odd numbers; similar for northbound (even) and southbound (odd). I note that in recent years many have departed from this convention yet it remains predomina...
Jump to postYes, my bad forgetting A340-300/200. Still, amazing the commercial production run is coming to an end. Due to the huge quantity of in service engines, parts shouldn't be an issue. Lightsaber Production of the -7B will continue for military markets (deliveries of P-8A for Norway, UK, USA, South Kore...
Jump to postAlnessW wrote:Come to think of it - was the 9-abreast 3-3-3 or 2-5-2 for domestic/international?
More details at:
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-as ... al-airport
https://www.mmtimes.com/news/biman-plan ... rport.html
Looks like S2-AGQ will not be flying again. Aircraft reportedly came off the runway and the rear fuselage is split in two.
What would be the UK equivalent applicable to the inevitable hold-outs between Bath Road and the M4 should LHR expansion be fully finalized and green lit? The development concept order and final planning permission will provide powers for compulsory purchase orders to be applied for houses and othe...
Jump to postSeems like the two crew did well to put DC-3 C-GJKM down in a remote area after an engine failure meant they could not get back to Hay River following a departure to Yellowknife. Reports suggest only two crew on board so maybe a cargo flight. http://avherald.com/h?article=4c77bb59&opt=0 https://...
Jump to postJet Airways permanent Heathrow slot pair swap with Delta Air Lines, 31MAR2019 to 26OCT2019 Jet previously held 14:10 arrival and 16:05 departure for BOM (9W115/116, 77W, T4). Delta now holds 14:10 arrival and 16:05 departure for DTW (DH4, T2 - possible slot sitter for DL/VS/BE) 9W115/116 BOM-LHR-BOM...
Jump to postLooks like this 737 will be operated by West Atlantic. https://cargofacts.com/west-atlantic-secures-a-customer-for-its-four-forthcoming-737-800bcfs/ West Atlantic already have all four 737-800BCFs mentioned in that article, and they are flying for FedEx. So unless West Atlantic have contracted for ...
Jump to postWith Virgin codes going on some AF / KL services from the UK regions to AMS and CDG, it doesn't look so good for some of the Flybe services that have been in competition. I can't see the VS / KL / AF partnership having a VS code on KL / AF services and operating its own services too. Consolidation o...
Jump to postA good recovery for Boeing following the reduction in commitments for the 777X from Etihad. I don't see it as reflecting badly on Airbus other than that Airbus doesn't already have a direct competitor to the 777X. As far as BA is concerned the 777-9 was a logical conclusion: New A380s dead in the wa...
Jump to postLose enough money in Sands’ casinos on a regular basis and you might get invited to ride in one. The firm has properties in Macau and Singapore as well as the USA and customers from all over the globe.
Jump to postLooks like the HiFly A380 is going to be busy this summer:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/martinrive ... eefs-a380/
My immediate reaction was... "too much red" (on the tail) And then I realised there was "too much blue" (on the lower fuselage) as well! Plus the tacky "7 5 7" on the rear upper fuselage. (Especially when there is already a nice subtle gold "Boeing 757" under...
Jump to postOperates twice weekly: full routing is Abu Dhabi - Colombo - Milan Malpensa - Columbus Rickenbacker - East Midlands - Frankfurt Hahn / Belgrade - Abu Dhabi.
Jump to postWhich competition remedy ruling do you think the slots have been allocated under and taken from BA? The IAG / bmi ruling says: "Where a New Air Services Provider has operated Competitive Air Service on two or more Identified City Pairs using Slots in accordance with these Commitments for at le...
Jump to postAll people are saying is that perhaps getting on a proving flight (if indeed AS IT SEEMS that was one - and never mind if the aircraft had a licence: it had been sitting idle for maintenance for some time, and that was the FIRST flight post-maintenance) on a 65 yo Convair and stuffing it with enthu...
Jump to postPrecisely Jupiter2. And my understanding is that the aircraft had not been 'restored' as it didn't need to be restored - it was just repainted and prepared for a long ferry flight after having flown only occasionally over the last few years (but that doesn't in itself require an air test). If the ma...
Jump to postAnd what is a "proving flight"? The aircraft had a certificate of airworthiness that was valid until mid-August. Although it hadn't flown much recently, as long as all the hour and calendar-based maintenance had been completed, ADs applied and pre return to service actions had been complet...
Jump to postC Series 300 prototype C-FFDO has just left the paint shop at East Midlands (EGNX) bound for Tolouse in Airbus house colours - titles are A220 on the tail and A220-300 on the forward fuselage.
Jump to postSecond CS300 prototype C-FFDO (55002) is in the paint shop at East Midlands Airport in the UK, a mere 20-30 minutes flying time from Farnborough. Hmmm
Jump to postAll about Guppies is an excellent resource: http://www.allaboutguppys.com/ Airbus took the first two SGTs that were built in the USA, and UTA industries built the other two in France. SGTs #1, #2 and #3 are preserved (Bruntingthorpe, Toulouse, Hamburg), while NASA acquired SGT #4 to replace its orig...
Jump to postDid they steal the design from Frankfurt Terminal 3
https://www.frankfurt-airport.com/conte ... 0.1280.png
It is really more of a service for the customers. I have connected on easyJet and Norwegian at LGW on two separate tickets but this service has benefits for the passengers. Price-wise it is the same as two separates tickets priced on each airline's site. No... When Gatwick Connects originally launc...
Jump to postAA737-823 wrote:It's really the only one still flying?
STN-EWR, CDG-EWR and BHX-EWR could be a bit of a stretch for a standard A321neo, especially in winter - the carrer's LRs don't get delivered until 2019
Jump to postThe flight didn't go high enough for observations - it needs to be in the 40,000'+ band to get any worthwhile science from the telescope, and the telescope door isn't opened during daylight anyway as the sun can damage the mirror and optics. However, they have just installed a new science instrument...
Jump to postDoha to Cardiff 3,360 miles (around 100 more than Norwegian's Edinburgh-Stewart), 737 Max-8 range quoted as 3,700 in lowish density two-class configuration. First deliveries to Qatar 2018. Hmmm... Wonder if Boeing has a few more miles up its sleeve??? Or maybe A321NEOs that the airline still has on ...
Jump to postSaddest part for all though is that the low cost carriers will now have to pay airports in UK and abroad for the cost of immigration and border controls, thus adding to the price of tickets. Also, this may affect turnaround times, since it takes considerably more time to screen 180 passengers per p...
Jump to postWonder what is going on at RJ...
https://twitter.com/RoyalJordanian/stat ... 25/photo/1
The concept of a flying car must be one of the daftest ever to be proposed... A minor ding in a supermarket car park, or a nudge at the lights, and its going to have to go in for a licensed airframe engineer to check it out to make sure its still airworthy (yes, that's what happens with airplanes wh...
Jump to postNothing really significant to see here - just BA looking to use aircraft that would otherwise sit at LCY Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. As long as the airline can cover the cost of any positioning flights and the DOCs for the routes, its better than having the aircraft at LCY accumulating pa...
Jump to postIts actually an ATR 42-320, ex YV-950C, VT-ADG, HR-AVA, 2-CAPE and now N45838. It was painted at East Midlands in the UK last week and emerged on Sunday. On the nose it says "Operated by Hyannis Air Service, Inc" although it is of course in United Express colours. As such it looks the same...
Jump to postTake a look at: www.conniesurvivors.com - a website maintained by a good friend which provides all the information anyone could need.
Andy
I wouldn't call Opa Locka "filled up" with them - well, not operational ones anyway. There are maybe four or five airworthy Convairs and a couple of DC-3s (no DC-4s or -6s) that regularly run out of OPF into the Bahamas or the Caribbean, but hardly to a predictable schedule. If they go, th...
Jump to postWhat is it with people... you know why Monarch had to deny those rumors? Because people like all of you put them out their! Some aircraft were being coordinated around Europe possibly for a what if situation, something both the CAA and Monarch most likely wanted to keep under the had and quiet in t...
Jump to postWhy not wait until an airline actually fails before getting UA B744s from the US involved? If Monarch were not going under before today, it probably will now. Damned if they do, damned if they don't. Do, and the airline sorts its act out - accused of jumping the gun, triggering a lack of confidence...
Jump to postTo me, its not so much about buy on board as it is about the outrageous prices that are sometimes charged. Take a look at that Aer Lingus menu... £2.00 for a large can of Coke - get real, I can get eight for that price at a supermarket. £4.00 for a cheese sandwich - less that half that price in the ...
Jump to postAccording to the Aviation Week feature, the leasing company bought the aircraft from Sing in a sale and lease back deal for $197m in 2007, and Sing pays $1.71m a month for it. Over the 10 year term that's a total of $205.2m. OK, on the face of it $7.2m is a very low return on investment over the who...
Jump to postPretty certain oly720man has it correct - Vancouver (YVR). Do enough searching on the database and you'll find a few pics with identical-looking mountains in the background...
Jump to postNatflyer wrote:This is not an engine fire as the OP and the twitter kid think. It is a surge (compressor stall). And a CF6 will come out of it damaged.
Just recently it has been fairly regularly doing a DUB-EMA rotation on a Sunday evening or Monday morning, spending most of the week at East Midlands doing crew training, then going back to DUB on a scheduled flight Friday evening or Saturday morning. As has already been said, its back in standard e...
Jump to postI have had no problems with the iPad gate-to-gate on aircraft including UAL 777, DLH CRJ9, EZY A320, LOT 737 - it is easier to get a GPS location on the ground and then keep it active, rather than trying to get it in the air, and it helps to be in a window seat but I have managed continuous receptio...
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