Simlple Flying article on EK going 3xA380 daily to SYD from November. But also adds that EK will look to resume ADL as one of their first A350 routes next year. Any other known A350 routes announced? Actually what the article says is that the A350 will free up planes to add ADL, I think the first b...
Jump to postOfficial sponsor of the FA Cup is EK. Their agreement is thru 2024. I cannot find any "airline" partner per se of the English Womans Team. FIFA lists Qatar as a sponsor on its official site but don't know if that means they fly the various teams around ? BA are certainly normally quite vi...
Jump to postFlightrader24 has IB2813 in the skies about to cross into the NT, took off from SYD at 7.28am local today Looking at the route it does not seem to go to Doha. If you compare it to QR53G today, that one follows a far more western route. Same for the EK SYD-DXB flights. Those all go over Port Hedland...
Jump to posta while ago I saw also Air Belgium operating to Dubai on behalf of BA, I think it was an A340 that time, I am surprised BA gives this kind of routes to a wet leased airline, I though they are high yield routes, Why not to send A339 to holiday destinations?
Jump to postIB2812 flight will bring back to Madrid via Doha the FIFA woman world cup winners, SPAIN!!!!!!! A exotic visitor to SYD, I am not sure if IB has ever been to Sydney BEFORE but for the spotters this will be a good opportunity to catch a new livery over there. Not sure yet what's the departure time, b...
Jump to postthe problem I always see with the ATR in North America is the distances and sped, the ATR is a perfect and very economically viable in less than 400NM trips, and it will make a lot of sense out of some hubs, however I don't see it replacing the 50 seaters anytime because of the speed. The Dash 8 has...
Jump to postGlad no one was seriously hurt and I don’t think a full evacuation was necessary, probably a miscommunication but we’ll see until the full report comes out. One observation that I noticed, very weird, plane just had RTO, taxi to the gate but I don’t see any emergency vehicles or fire truck in sight...
Jump to postIt is quite normal to have deflated tires after a rejected take off at high weights and high speeds, airplane tires are design to do it, so they avoid a tire explosion when they have high temperatures, it's called fuse plugs, they just melt at certain temperature and deflate in a control manner. No...
Jump to postIndeed a very strange situation, an evacuation is a last resource, even the SQ B777 with fire on the wing did not evacuate the plane, and that one was really scary for everyone, it's not something you want to do unless is completely necessary. An evacuation is a very serious action and it could caus...
Jump to postI presume the whole region of Addis is on a high elevation. In which case the proposal for a new airport at ADD at a lower plane is impossible. The current plan is to build a mega airport some 40 miles south of Addis, similar to the positioning of KUL and NRT (both of which are roughly 40 miles out...
Jump to postAddis and ET really new a new airort in a lower elevation if possible, the curren ADD airport in not in a very nice place, 7700 feet elevation and difficult terrain around, specially west and north, with 2 runways, but it's really 1 runway and a back up runway, like LGW. I know it's been in the plan...
Jump to postWhen Tulum airport is open we will see some shift and hopefully a little bit of room to breathe in CUN, I think it's long overdue and it will be a great addition for Quintana Roo and Mexico. All the access roads to CUN are really small and I don't know why for the last few years they kept expanding ...
Jump to postMakes perfect sense. AY needs to find a new use for their metal and QF doesn't have enough capacity right now. I don't think the problem with overflights over Russia will be solved for the next 2 and a half years. So the length of the contract is justified. Well it's actually four and a half years ...
Jump to post2 and a half years contract, It's not a short term lease of couple of months until we fix our own problems... interesting, how can you explain your shareholders such a unusual and long event? a big lack of forward planning, I am quite surprise with Singapore-Sydney, a route that should be a good per...
Jump to postDAC is having a big expansion well underway and also all the area around the airport with new highways, and railway lines, so pretty sure Biman could get new planes soon an start some new routes, it could be a political order, when state airlines order planes are usually part of a bigger deal, somet...
Jump to postEasy. Because they're broke. In order to even lease an aircraft, you need money. And guarantee the leasing company that the aircraft will operate in accordance with international law. Cubana can do neither of that. It's really like if no bank trusts you with a credit card and you're broke. You can'...
Jump to postI don’t understand why they can’t pick up an A340 of something like that dirt cheap. Surely the amount of downtime on those Russian aircraft costs them more in the long run. acmi is not cheap either. Easy. Because they're broke. In order to even lease an aircraft, you need money. And guarantee the ...
Jump to postTechnically it was, removed “by illegal means” from the facility. I'd love to see the face of the owner of the shipment when he got the information, he must have though it was a prank. It was taken from the holding facility, not easy to access that place and not easy to get the intel about the shipm...
Jump to postEmirates 21 from DXB diverting also to BHX, TOM139 from MBJ diverting to the south, maybe London.
And 2 Virgin planes holding for a while now, VS76 (MCO) and VS78 (BGI).
Lot of vehicles in the north runway, I guess they are working hard to open ASAP
very sad to see. I can't see the position of the flaps, but it's strange if they are not at least in 15 degrees, the procedure on the ATR is Gear Down and Flap 15 always, they go together always. It looks like a stall, but even the engine sound, it sounds like flight idle power. It will be miracle i...
Jump to postre warehouses, now Amazon is starting a new 4 Million SF warehouse adjacent to Chino (CA) airport, which will be on 93 acres. Largest Amazon warehouse in the world. Unknown if it will use that airport (7,000' runway) or truck stuff up to ONT. (7 miles away) Currently Chino has 3 major problems, the...
Jump to postwhat are performance implications depart DEN on any of EK's fleet? A380 & 77L should be fine. Not sure about the A380, but the B77L won't do it without a big weight penalty out of DEN if temperatures are not really low, DEN is 5400 feet ASL, and that's quite a lot when you need to carry a lot o...
Jump to postI don't know if it's official or this web just got the info wrong but United is re starting DXB. B772ER will be the machine for now, 50/24/46/156 configuration. https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/United_Airlines/United_Airlines_Boeing_777-200_V6.php UA164 Newark to Dubai departing 10:15PM arriving 7:...
Jump to postI love Thai - but fleet wise they are a hot mess. The 340s were a disaster, as their stagnation for 13yrs, and now their sale seems the only positive. Cherdphan said THAI has a plan to sell 14 more planes — six Boeing 777-300 planes, six Boeing 777-200 planes and two Airbus A380 planes. I hold hope...
Jump to postI saw it when I landed, it was just happened, around 4pm Chicago time, almost 90 mins later it was still there with many more emergency vehicles around.
Jump to postMaybe QR or EY planes, they could do the training and maintenance if needed. They are rebuilding the little industry they have in Afganishtan. They are also working with UAE to handle the managing of the airports in the country, so maybe it's part of the deal. https://www.reuters.com/world/exclusive...
Jump to postI wonder if the airports in India could expand as much as AI is looking to expand. I know Chennai(my home airport in India) is very much constrained at the moment and I wonder if AI could expand further at the airport. Chennai, Trivandrum, Kochin, Bombay, Kolkatta and many more are years behind the...
Jump to postHi there, I live in Burlington Iowa, We had Essential air Service here with Air choice one. As of February 1 they lost the bid against Cape air, at one time had so now cape air is Fliying tecnam 2012 travellers into BRL. anyone know much about that airline? ACO at one time served 11 cities, now the...
Jump to postWhat's the current fleet of Amazon/prime air and the companies operating them, it's not easy to find reliable information about it, it seems to be unreliable, like wikipedia post previously mentioned.
Jump to postInteresting choice for the airport, usually this kind of services are in airports relatively quiet and with space to expand like Victorville, Teruel... no in major international gateways. that will make their reverse engineering and ip stealing efforts much easier... That was done years ago, now is ...
Jump to postIt is a non sense policy but they are what they are, they just want to control people against their own will and show that they can do it, HK was too free and independent and now it has to come in the loop, not only CX will suffer but many other HK independent business. Luckily there are plenty of o...
Jump to postI think HiFly miss an opportunity to add some stickers in the plane to make a very good free advertising, some nicely placed vinyls could have make a lot of good with all the media attention and they cost very little. Awesome to fly there, I would love to do it, Anyone have the ops specs of the runw...
Jump to postThe A321XLR could be a perfect addition for many secondary cities in Europe, and even some south east Asia, for the rest of the network any plane is ok, B737MAX or the A220.
Jump to postWith air crews and controllers taking great pains to avoid wake turbulence from heavies, how is this a help for the following plane? 2.5% savings on fuel between them, and 250 passengers per pair vowing never to fly that airline again after experiencing an ocean crossing consisting of eight hours o...
Jump to postWhats with DFW lately? First iberia, now finnair with A350s to helsinki https://company.finnair.com/en/media/all-releases/news?id=4110605 And Busan and tokyo Haneda Makes sense for Iberia at AA's DFW hub getting connections to tons of smaller Latin America locations and the south. DFW is too far we...
Jump to postIt's as simple as there are no northbound aiways in the area. That area is Manila FIR by the way.
-N892 is southbound, so the only option is L625 via Manila FIR or going via Mainland China and add many miles to the route.
you can check here,
https://skyvector.com/
Maybe the FL280 is because the North Atlantic RVSM airspace, some communication issue, altimeter issues or Datalink not working so it was not allow to go above FL and be in the RVSM. I am not sure if the route they are following is not an ETOPS one, I am not srure if you can be within 420nm of an ai...
Jump to postSold for only 9 million USD.
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/business/j ... cy-process
Maybe we can see it going to Israel or Abu Dhabi for Freighter conversion.
Anyone know how the passengers on this one eventually made it to DFW? Rebooked onto AA flights to DFW or final destination out of MEM? The plane flew next day from MEM to DFW, so I guess most pax did on that same plane. I’m surprised they didn’t head to ATL, but maybe there were other factors. I do...
Jump to postSpain Air Force sent an A400M, maybe even a second one will join, around 40 people on board, I guess Air Force crew and some military personal to help and protect, Flew from ZAZ to Minhad AF in Dubai, and I think tomorrow it will fly to KBL to help evacuating around 400 people, we will see how that ...
Jump to postI am stunned that all these USAF assets are trackable. Why would we do that? They are only they want to be, they also need to be controlled and they need to be aware of other traffics, but if they want they are invisible to secondary radar or ADS. Oh ok. I assume them saying the airport is closed j...
Jump to postContractor? Edit. Some research says it’s a new caravan still registered to textron getting delivered to Pakistan army Yeah just found the same. Weird it was headed to the Afghan border then disappears from FR24. Adsb coverage isn’t universal especially at low altitude Any plane can be hidden from ...
Jump to postWhat's up with TK707? Why has it been holding for so long? Seeing the videos of KBL airport I am surprised that they can even have the runway open, so many people around the tarmac trying to get in planes is not safe, they can just walk in the runway and blocked, I don't really think anyone can con...
Jump to postThere's no NOTAM or release yet. Also a US State Dept Dash 8-300 just took off and turned north. TK707 (77W) is taxiing to runway 29 right now. I mean they could authorize people to enter and exit. I’m just surprise AI turned so Late. They clearly weren’t intending too. True true. AI126 (77W ORD-DE...
Jump to postLooks like TK getting ready to bug out back to IST https://www.flightradar24.com/THY6DT/28cce171 Interesting, if the tracker is correct, TK parked in the north apron, that's the military side of the airport, the pax terminal is on the south side. And now TVR750 is also turning right back around aft...
Jump to postAir India 126, ORD-DEL just make a 180 degree turn before entering Afghan airspace, seems to be going around it via Iran, maybe they will have to land somewhere before reaching Delhi. I read that TK sent today a B77W (THY97E). it is the first international flight to land in a while, must be on groun...
Jump to postAn aircraft with Transponder Code FOLAD43 took off from Kabul and flew directly north into Tajikistan. Simultaneously, BBC news is reporting that the President Ashraf Ghani has fled the country to Tajikistan. I think that's probably his ride. FOLAD was often the Afghan Airforce Cessna 208s. The dat...
Jump to postInteresting to see an SQ A350 from JFK about to overfly Kabul. I would have thought for sure they would avoid Afghan airspace. Actually is just the first of many, some are just miles behind, SQ323, SQ327, SQ345, SQ25, SQ335, CI62, CI74, LX176, AI162, VN505, and some more behind. Let's see what UA80...
Jump to postAs of right now, Flight radar 24 is showing several aircraft on the ground in Kabul. Air India 244 has just departed Kabul for Delhi. KAM Air only seems to be operating outbound. Some of them looks like helicopters or drones, they have some weird flight paths over the city at low altitude. Some fli...
Jump to postI never heard about this plane before, but usually DHL will requite more volume than weight for a normal mission, most probably if they are limited is by that, specially in short hops. The range of the plane is quite short, but I guess is mainly design to very short flights. MTOW MAX PAYLOAD RANGE S...
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