It's a little known that that, despite the terrible ground transportation options, MUC is actually quite a bit bigger in O&D traffic than FRA.
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<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/lightsaber" class="quote" target="_blank">lightsaber</a> (<a href="#72" class="quote">Reply 72</a>):<br/><i>Educate me on the mayor's impact on ...
Jump to postI do not have a personal problem with Berlin, just that the South of Germany has to finance an airport project which almost HALVES existing airport capacity in Berlin is insane.
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<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Unflug" class="quote" target="_blank">Unflug</a> (<a href="#58" class="quote">Reply 58</a>):<br/><i>Any specific reason? Or is this personal dis...
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Jump to postAccording to the AP, the opening date of the "new" Berlin airport will slip by several weeks, apparently due to problems with the fire protection equipment. How embarrassing ...
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Hey peops, (long time no see) my <acronym title="Gulf Air (Bahrain/UAE/Oman/Qatar)">GF</acronym> is flying to <acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym> tomorrow on LH458. Could anyone tell me how the load factors are looking for that flight and what ...
Jump to postIf we closely look at all the evidence we have, one needs to come to the conclusion that we have no idea what causes global warming, we know that it has happened, especially in the 1990s. Temperature has varied greatly throughout the younger history of Earth (not on geologic timescale where the tota...
Jump to postTypical EU bureaucrat bullcrap. Let's assume for the time being that we have a problem with excessive CO2 emissions on this planet (Which is likely, but far from proven). Instead of working the problem, i.e. identify the biggest contributors first and using CO2-neutral technology (biomass to liquid,...
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Jump to postConsidering that you should avoid (as mentioned above) <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym> and <acronym title="Paris - Charles de Gaulle (Roissy) (CDG / LFPG), France">CDG</acronym> as transfer points, and assuming that you don't want excessive travel time, ...
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Jump to postWe have to look at two points here, none of which have to do with incompetent crews (be it in the flight deck or the tower): 1) As others have mentioned it before, <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym> (along with <acronym title="Philadelphia - In...
Jump to postA German aviation forum. I've not been able to verify this information yet.
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Apparently those are D-AIKA, <acronym title="Kendell Airlines (Australia)">KD</acronym>, <acronym title="Korean Air">KE</acronym>, <acronym title="Air Botnia (Finland)">KF</acronym>, KH, <acronym title="Linea Aerea IAACA-LAI (Venezuela)">KG</acronym>, <acronym title="LGW-Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter...
Jump to postThe 8 banks are indeed 0700, 0900, 1100, 1300, 1500, 1700, 1900 and 2100. The first and last wave are smaller, the 1300 and 1700 really small <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/smile.gif" alt="Smile"> However, my assumption was incorrect. Currently the times are apparently as such: <acron...
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Jump to postMUC provides the most extensive European Star-feeder network that you can find. This is why <acronym title="CURRENT: Munich (- Franz Josef Strauss) (MUC / EDDM), Germany AND OLD: Munich - Riem (MUC / EDDM) (closed), Germany">MUC</acronym> appears to be a logical solution. Not only do you get world-c...
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Jump to postor SXF if THF remains open
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Jump to postThere's another thing to consider: <acronym title="Bhubaneswar (BBI / VEBS), India">BBI</acronym> isn't really about adding capacity. <acronym title="Bhubaneswar (BBI / VEBS), India">BBI</acronym> isn't even a new airport. Currently <acronym title="Berlin - Schonefeld (SXF / EDDB), Germany">SXF</acr...
Jump to postLH has stated that they will start a limited number of intercontinental flights from <acronym title="Bhubaneswar (BBI / VEBS), India">BBI</acronym> once it opens (sorry I don't find the source right now), however this has little to do with a hub. A hub is something that literally costs billions, may...
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Jump to postOne should not forget that <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym> currently has the right conduct as many flights as they wish into Germany plus they have 5th freedom rights. The only restriction they face is that they are (currently) limited to four airports to fly to. Sailor...
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Jump to postHi, one year to go and <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym> will commission its new north runway 09L/27R. I've been wondering how operations could look like with this runway active. In West flow, arrivals could use the 27s and the 28, while depar...
Jump to postPeople have predicted the end of travel for centuries. The Telegraph was supposed to render traveling obsolete, then the telephone, the radio, the <acronym title="Virgin Express (Belgium)">TV</acronym>, videoconferencing (which is around for ages), e-mail, www .... Somehow people appear to travel mo...
Jump to postAI has apparently considered <acronym title="Vienna - Schwechat (VIE / LOWW), Austria">VIE</acronym> for a long time, but <acronym title="Austrian Airlines">OS</acronym> didn't like the idea at all. We should not confuse a typical 5th-freedom-flight (like <acronym title="Singapore Airlines">SQ</acro...
Jump to postDon't forget that AI is about to join star pretty soon and as such AI would have a mighty star hub (300+ departures per day) to feed their flights in both directions.
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It's interesting to see that the Formula 1 has vastly improved safety with the introduction of CFRP and yet people assume that a CFRP airliner is "not as safe".
Btw: Epoxy resigns are by far not the only option for a matrix material.
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How about this:
747-400: QC2 upon landing
A380-800: QC0.5 upon landing.
Not really 1/4 of the noise, but 1/4 of the QC.
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Jump to postConsidering an AVOD system basically is already a PC (many of them running linux), the changes required are only minimal.
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FRA did repave one of their runways (their primary runway 07L/25R) in overnight operations. The runway closed at 2200 and reopened at 0600 each morning. Why is that not an option in <acronym title="Minneapolis / St. Paul - International / Wold Chamberlain Field (MSP / KMSP), USA - Minnesota">MSP</ac...
Jump to postHi, I've been looking at the extension plans of <acronym title="Berlin - Schonefeld (SXF / EDDB), Germany">SXF</acronym> and I've been wondering about this: Why the hell do they plan to close the current northern runway when building the new southern one? I mean the airport will not only handle comm...
Jump to postA short update about <acronym title="CURRENT: Munich (- Franz Josef Strauss) (MUC / EDDM), Germany AND OLD: Munich - Riem (MUC / EDDM) (closed), Germany">MUC</acronym>: German Chancellor Merkel and Bavaria's Prime Minister Stoiber basically agreed that the federal government will pay 50% of the esti...
Jump to postPlease consider that a "hot" day per these charts is merely 27.25°, not all that much. Also, other aircraft need more runway length than the 747.
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747s out of MEX are all very well below their MTOW (talking about 50 tons or more)
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Jump to postBrazil should build the Maglev from <acronym title="Royal Jordanian">RJ</acronym> to <acronym title="SATA Air Azores (Portugal)">SP</acronym>. Thus, the city centres could be connected within less than 50 minutes. Such a system could also go every 10 minutes without a maximum of safety, comfort and ...
Jump to postI think <acronym title="Air Berlin (Germany)">AB</acronym> would do well to join Oneworld, because it's a win-win situation. <acronym title="Air Berlin (Germany)">AB</acronym> gets much-needed feed and connections to a proper worldwide network and Oneworld gets a carrier in Central Europe, something...
Jump to posthow are they going to land there when the 27s are operational? What about bad weather and operations on the 9s? It'll be another "one cloud = two planes, two clouds = one plane" airport, just like <acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym> .... Build ...
Jump to postWhy the HELL is that thing not parallel to the existing runways (as by the picture above)? That makes no sense whatsoever unless GRU has like less than 5-8 IFR days per year.
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