Re: JAL A350 new cabins

Wow, that F seats looks huge! I was wondering though, can a couple book just 1 seat for both of them? Because from what I understand, there are 2 separate seats in a suite so maybe both features its own pair of seat belts? Space wise, there's definitely room for 2 there!

Re: Air Algérie to order 8 MAX9, 5 A339, 2 A35K

Pretty sure Air Algierie wants to add New York flights and I think they were also wanting to add Sao Paulo at some point a while back. Maybe both those happen now. Please excuse my ignorance, but what's the rationale of flying to GRU? What's the targeted market for this route? I guess it will rely ...

Re: The LITTLE KNOWN FACT thread

Some fun facts about Garuda that I know of: - GA started their operation as Indonesian Airways and initially, they flew in Myanmar for several years as Indonesia was still under the blockade of the Dutch. - They were the first airline to flew the "forward facing" aka 2 crewed A300 and in f...

Re: AA Passenger Unable to Stow Bag in Overhead Bin - Gets Offloaded

It's weird that a lot of people kept mentioning the union contract as if it was mandatory for everyone to read. As a non American, I didn't know the rule existed in the first place and I'm sure most of the American public didn't know that as well. As English is not my first language, I decided to lo...

Re: AA Passenger Unable to Stow Bag in Overhead Bin - Gets Offloaded

I know that this site is tend to be American centric, but try to see the case from the Asian point of view in general (by giving the benefit of the doubt that the passenger was not being a Karen at the time). Most of us here in Asia (still) strongly believes that the US is "the greatest country...

Re: Air Niugini to replace 767s, 737s and Fokker fleet

Why don't they just replace the older 767 with newer used 767? I think that even a 332 will be too much for them to fill. As for the US, I don't think that's ever gonna happen. If countries with bigger economy/diaspora like ID, MY, and TH can't even sustain a service to the US, there's a very slim c...

Re: Two injured after the tail cone of a MD-83 fell on ground

Just curious, aerodynamic drag aside, are MD-80s allowed to fly without tailcone? Because as mentioned above, the pressurized bulkhead is way in front of the emergency walkway.

Re: Turkish Airlines to rebrand into “Türkiye Havayolları”

I've put the new name into Google translate to listen how it pronounced and I can see how it might be a bit problematic. I can hear the "Turkiye Hava" part completely fine, but the "rı" in "Yolları" is a bit hard to understand. Maybe if it can be pronounced as "yo-...

Re: End of SAS? Swedish government says no more help packages

Swedish government just held a press conference, announcing no more emissions would be granted for SAS and that they are looking into drastically downsizing ownership in the flagship carrier. Link only in Swedish https://www.aftonbladet.se/minekonomi/a/9Ka1E5/regeringen-sager-nej-till-nytt-klapital...

Re: Ryanair forcing South Africans to do Afrikaans tests to prove passports are real

I honestly thought this was some sort of April 1st joke when I read it the first time. Then realised we are in June and had to do a double take at the absolute stupidity of this. Afrikaans is only spoken by about 13% of the population in South Africa as their main language. As context Spanish is sp...

Re: airlines with bidet lavatories?

What's so special about this toilet? You don't have to wipe your butt with toilet paper ... which is very important in certain Asia and Middle East cultures. Also, very important in certain western households that have caught on, like mine. I had to make an improvised bidet in my bathroom when I li...

Re: Airlines You've Flown Exactly Once

Technically, both on SAS! SAS: UME-ARN SAS Ireland: LHR-ARN There's also Merpati/MZ, BDO-HLP, around 15 minutes gate to gate. It's not my only time flying with them, but it was my first time where I can remember it. My parents told me that the last time I flew with them, I was just several months ol...

Re: Favorite Eurowhite liveries?

Garuda Indonesia: The bird logo is really nice, and I like the titles over the wing instead of ahead of it, very original. The current livery is nice, but too abstract IMO. 1324383 ] Fun fact about GA's title: The placement actually depends on the aircraft's door configuration. They want the title ...

Re: Names Airlines have given to their business class

GA: Executive
JT for a very short time: Lion King (yes, for real...)

Re: AA inflight meal economy service

Only US airlines would operate 6 hour flights without meals. Most other countries would consider this torture. Agree. Even the semi-LCCs here in my country will serve some sort of pastries for short flights and meals for any flights above 2.5 hours. Not AA, but I remember reading here that UA didn'...

Re: Airports You've Transited Through In Cities You've Never Visited

DXB, DOH, HKG and UPG for me. Some rather weird one: - CPH: I've been to the city, I've had had stop overs at the airport, but never entered the airport. How? 2 words: Øresund bridge :D - SUB: I've landed at the airport like a million time since I was a baby, but never went to the city because we al...

Re: Curious: BA Takeoff Procedures - Gear Retraction

zeke wrote:

On the A330 I can have the brakes at 400 deg C 40 minutes before push and it will be okay for a 20 minute taxi, they will drop around 5 degC per minute.

Re: Condor launch new livery

The Condor aircraft will be wearing stripes in five colours in the future. According to the airline, the colours and design are "Inspired by parasols, bath towels and beach loungers" I didn't see that "questionable dark stain that you pretend you didn't see" in the livery, so I ...

Re: Condor launch new livery

Sooo, is it white with green stripes or green with white stripes?

Re: Garuda Plans Major Restructuring That May Halve Its Fleet

What they need to do is to order A321LR/XLR and use it to replace all their widebody operations. And start doing partnership with Emirates for their European network and shelved the Amsterdam route. Good idea. GA needs to look for additional airline partner and now Etihad is also nearing bankrupt t...

Re: Korean Air looks to rebrand

If they actually went through with the plan, their social media accounts' reply section would be a delight to watch. Korean netizens are rather famous for harsh comments towards something that they don't like and I suspect many Koreans will not be happy with the change.

Re: Embarrassing Aviation Misconceptions You've Had

Oh, I had a lot of them when I was a kid! 1. Every airline was named after a country. So PanAm was Panamanian and Cathay was, well, belong to the super real country named Cathay in the Pacific! 2. When a plane rotates, it's because there's a set of wheel on a lever that pops up from the belly. The i...

Re: The destination you have flown to from the most airports

Hometown aside (CGK and HLP):
ARN: LGW, UME, HEL, DOH
UPG: MDC, DJJ, TIM, GTO
HEL: TXL, HKG, ARN

Re: Paris Airport System before CDG?

I seem to remember that TWA fought with everything that had to remain at Orly as well. There were some international flights, I believe, that were allowed to remain with Air France at Orly, but no one else could remain there. TWA thought this was extremely unfair, but in the end was "forced&qu...

Re: Qatar Airways back under the spotlight-This time Doctored hours and Fatigued crew

Don't they get most their crew from poorer countries desperate for work? These people are not going to speak up, its up to countries with actual standards to ban them from their airspace until they allow international inspectors to oversee crew safety. I've only had 6 flights with QR/EK and IIRC, 3...

Re: Miami Airport brawl last night

Hmmm ,what would happen to the individual if this happened in Singapore? Istanbul? Dubai? Beijing? Hong Kong? There was a Brit with an expired visa who slapped an immigration officer in the face in DPS and everything was caught on tape. The officer was calm because he knows well that everything was...

Re: Updated: Garuda forced into Court debt restructuring process

Reported GA will only maintain service to 5 international markets in 2022 as it will "shrink to survive" Sydney, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul and one yet-to-be-determined city in China have made the cut along with Jeddah once pilgrimage services are allowed again. Previous ‘flagship’ destinati...

Re: Updated: Garuda forced into Court debt restructuring process

^ I think they would just pump more money into the airlines. They probably put pressure on the creditors so they could minimize the damages. There goes my tax money again... They really need to crackdown the union if they wanted to survive. For some context, there's been a suspicion that the union ...

Re: 20 years without Trans World Airlines

Did TW still operates the Tristars from LAX/JFK/DFW around 95/96?? My dad had a summer course in Dallas and traveled to NY/LA on AA after the program. He told 5 y.o. me once he got home that AA had this cool plane called the Super 80 that could reverse with its own power (I later found out that it w...

Re: AA1182 arrives at MIA from GUA with stowaway

Purely speaking from a security/safety perspective, I think this should help: 1. A mandatory aircraft's orifices walk-around check by the pilots right before push back. 2. Only sending aircraft equipped with wheel well cover and seal the cover with some sort of tamper-free tape carried onboard. Not ...

Re: Concorde droop nose design question

The right-hand picture (1994) shows Position 3, ... The left-hand picture (2002) shows Position 1, ... Detailed info and drawings can be found on the excellent Concorde SST site: https://www.concordesst.com/nose.html Ah. What an amazing technical design. I was not expecting an articulated visor con...

Re: 777X – VLA of the Future or another “White Elephant” A380

To me, the problem with the 380 wasn't that the market went away it's that it consolidated into one (1) carrier (Emirates). The expected plan was for BA, LH, AF, KL to order for conx over their hubs to the middle east & India. It was also expecting to se Qantas and Asian carriers to order more ...

Re: Scheduled airline service to strictly military use bases

In Indonesia, I believe MLG/Malang fits the description. It was located in Abdulrachman Saleh AFB, home of the IAF Hercules and Super Tucano. Up until a few years ago, passenger must go through military checkpoint before entering the terminal. When I say terminal, it was a small building owned by th...

Re: Brussels Airlines “New Chapter”

Boavida wrote:

The new logo:



Source: Aviation24.be

Full presentation of the new brand identity and livery on November 18.

Re: BA and VS A350’s simultaneously depart LHR to celebrate opening of US

Today was about welcoming UK, European, and other foreign travelers from certain countries back to the USA for the first time since the pandemic began. Americans have been able to travel overseas in some cases but it has not been reciprocal--most non-U.S. citizens have not been able to travel here....

Re: BA and VS A350’s simultaneously depart LHR to celebrate opening of US

Pardon my ignorance, but who was traveling on these US-LHR flights prior to today’s reopening? Was it thru passengers connecting to other countries? Today was about welcoming UK, European, and other foreign travelers from certain countries back to the USA for the first time since the pandemic began...

Re: Heathrow: Luggage belt filled with frozen fish crates

I got off a Merpati 737-200 from Darwin to Kupang (Indonesia) many years ago and half of a cow carcass came around on the belt, neatly wrapped in clear plastic. Also, flights from tropical Broome in Western Australia often have boxes of mangoes (as does the post office!) when they are in season, be...

Re: Startup plans to electrify BAe146 plane

Interesting, I have to wonder if it would be possible to run a 146 as a hybrid, 2 jet and 2 electric with the jet engines charging batteries. Yes, I was thinking about this as well. The battery technology on an aircraft is currently on its early stage, I imagine it's similar to how huge a 5MB hard ...

Re: Emirates Network & Fleet Discussion - 2021

x1234 wrote:

The only major city in Western Europe missing EK is HEL. They outsource it to FlyDubai but there is passenger and cargo demand for a 77W.

Re: what airlines did boeing thought would get the 747 8?

Since they forecasted 300 aircraft, I wonder if they thought the airliner who already ordered it would take their option (lufthansa with 20 aircraft in option per example) or if emirates would get some of them since they were interested by it at some point (they got pitch in 2014 for 100 aircraft) ...

Re: Airbus A320 "MaxPax" Cabin (Y188)?

I would hate to be the passengers in that last row, “cocoon partition” or not. Basically in galley with the nearest window two rows ahead of you. As for why the front is 30” as you mention it is due to exit spacing between the front exit and overwings (where seats can’t obstruct doors). If they wen...

Re: SQ (Singapore Airlines) Launching SIN-YVR

SQ will also announce a new route to Europe. Very much the same type of destination as YVR. So it could either be: A. VFR heavy B. Cold and/or gloomy weather Not an expert on A, but for B it might be OSL, GOT, LED, or DUB. OSL is a pretty safe bet. GOT house many Swedish industrial companies HQ, bu...

Re: Brussels Airlines in Stockholm

Bromma is kind of like LCY. Those who use it love it but those who don’t know about it don’t think to use it. It depends where you live in Stockholm. If in Solna, Bromma or even city centre it’s very convenient. It also has a direct tram link now which really helps. The Arlanda express is expensive...

Re: Eurowings with ARN base

How bad is SAS? Just curious. Interesting to see the reactions above In Swedish domestic flight, they're basically a pricier DY with free hot drinks in my opinion. AY short haul is basically the same with SK, but sometime they can be much cheaper if you don't mind the long transfer. But HEL is a ni...

Re: FAA wants to know what actions Airlines are going to do to curb unruly passenger incidents

That sounds super weird. As if the cops asked us "a'ight, what do you guys wants us to do to the robbers? Come on now, don't be shy!". I'm not an American so I don't really know how the system works. But for me it looks like that the government asked the big business to set up rules that w...

Question about cockpit audio warning

I was watching some windshear videos on YouTube and then I started thinking: would additional audio warning be helpful in reducing pilot error or just pilot load in general? Let say that a pilot lower their flaps to 15, then there's a "FLAP DOWN 15" audio warning just to remind the pilot t...

Re: Size of speed brakes[spoilers] on airliners?

On the 777, not only do they all deploy at different times, but there's the one spoiler panel on each wing that deploys at a smaller angle compared to the rest. I wonder how they determine that. I can't tell you what they were thinking... but the spoiler/speedbrake schedule is actually quite wild o...

Re: What Goods are Shipped by Air

I've seen styrofoam boxes with Thai Cargo stickers on almost every Asian store back in Sweden. Probably filled with all kind of spices, leaves, and roots. I've also saw a car being loaded to my AMS bound A380's belly in DXB. IIRC, GA also shipped several McLarens inside their 77W from the UK to thei...

Re: A320 Wingtip strobes

Does an activated strobe lights on the ground is a sign that a plane is cleared for take off? Because I noticed it on 2 occasions: 1. Red-eye CGK-DXB on EK's 77W at 0100. We were the only one taxiing and the pilots turned on the strobe while we were still on the taxiway. Like 80% down the path. We t...

Re: Does the 2nd gen 777 have any exterior lighting differences from 1st gen?

There are exterior LED retrofits available for the 777, unsure if Boeing ever made changes to factory production. The 737 lights were actually upgraded during the NG’s run in 2015. For me, it's the easiest way to found out how new the NG is, by looking at the wing strobe. If it's blink slowly, then...