They filed for FL240, but went as high as FL380 and seemed to hunt around for a better ride. Gained some speed up high too. Your flight had a much higher ground speed than the Frontier behind you.
Jump to postDeveloping further infrastructure to support the tourist industry would help. I'm not saying to cut huge swaths with superhighways, but improving the rail and road links between Colombo and major tourist centers would help. Obviously, the security issues after the Colombo bombings are also a concer...
Jump to postHonestly, you may well be better off using an OTA for BA than directly purchasing - for the same reason you want to ticket directly with one of the US airlines over using an OTA. Just much more seamless to deal with.
Jump to postLong haul business to EuroBiz is always jarring, as is switching to a CR2. Flew into London from Singapore in Business Class, then took a National Express coach the five hours back home. That sucked. Well how uncomfortable are these National Express coaches? :boggled: I've been on Greyhound buses an...
Jump to postPeople who complain about the CRJ200 seem to forget about the EMB120 that they replaced. I’ll always remember watching the ice build up on the engine air intake and the sound of the ice chunks flying off the props hitting the fuselage. I loved the Brasilia. Big windows, huge legroom in Row 9. Much ...
Jump to postThis is a tough one. I believe it is as follows: Viva Aerobus - PVR-TIJ Volotea - JTR-BOD (and never again after a massive delay and 2 years to get 261) Juneyao Airlines - SYX-PVG Hainan - SHA-PEK Air China - PEK-PVG Bangkok Airlines - USM-BKK niki - VIE-JTR Royal Air Maroc - MAD-CMN Jetstar Pacific...
Jump to postDL has often cited cargo as a huge driver for the route. Also, don't discount their desire to carry their O&D and connecting passengers. Unlike the other alliances, ST doesn't have another US gateway.
Jump to postA TACAN is not a "missed approach ground device." It is a navigational aid. As Woodreau said, they operate in the UHF band and are slightly more accurate and significantly more mobile than VOR/DME systems. Some have a VHF DME signal to provide DME to civil aircraft, but that usually is in ...
Jump to postKeeping an airplane clean does provide material aerodynamic benefits, but the question is whether those benefits save enough to cover the cost.
Jump to postQuick story about my experience with British Airways Customer Service: Purchased LAX-LHR / LHR-SAN round-trip tickets. BA canceled the A380 service (reason for LAX instead of SAN). I called British Airways and IMMEDIATELY spoke with a customer service agent who, without any issues whatsoever, chang...
Jump to postthis is neo-liberalism/capitalism at its finest: consolidate, consolidate, consolidate, grow, grow, grow, shareholder returns, shareholder returns, shareholder returns, bottom line, bottom line, bottom line. As a shareholder, I can't say the returns have been particularly good lately. They have had...
Jump to postVery well done. This reminds me of the guy with just a VFR ASEL in the King Air who had his pilot have a massive heart attack on climb and ended up landing the airplane at RSW and noting he had a landing "softer than a baby's be-hind" if I remember correctly. The passenger wasn't a pilot, ...
Jump to post3. In the event of delay/cancellation and pax going to small claims for Reg 261 compensation, U2 can show they took reasonable steps and makes any defence on exceptional circumstance grounds more robust. Failing to pay people enough to staff airplanes is not an exceptional circumstance. Others are ...
Jump to postThis measure is desperation It should have been sold better to the media who are reporting 6 seats removed due to staff shortages. . 3. In the event of delay/cancellation and pax going to small claims for Reg 261 compensation, U2 can show they took reasonable steps and makes any defence on exceptio...
Jump to postIn Soviet Russia - Putin Think of You (points if you're old enough to get that) Putin has brainwashed many in the older generations with the same fake news that has poisoned the minds of many older Americans. Just watching their media is absolutely shocking - the "best" of it is as bad as ...
Jump to postThe only real difficulty is the refusal to follow the will of the electorate and just push through and get it done. Corporate interests are being put over the will of the people, despite having a theoretically friendly legislature. CAHSR would be a massive boon to the state.
Jump to postLegroom is irrelevant. Given that airlines charge based on load, the premium they get for selling those last 6 seats likely easily pays for when they fly empty. This is particularly true of a carrier like EasyJet that is relying on high load factors and ancillary sales. I disagree, legroom is very ...
Jump to postTo be fair, military pilots already get an exception to have 750 hours. No reason 141 intensive training can't get similar. There are also 1250 and 1000 hour exemptions.
Jump to postIt wouldn't shock me at all to see regionals paying contract break fees. Even the ULCC types might do that soon.
Jump to postI'm surprised no one has harped on BRN's rather short runway impacting potential service. If anything, you'd see it as one of these alternative service airports for LCCs, given the proximity to Zurich and Basel. In the end, it's a rather small place that mostly functions as an administrative hub for...
Jump to postEven airliners can only depart with a pretty minimal amount of contamination - which is why they are often deiced very close to the runway and/or why they have to taxi in a relatively short time and take on a fairly significant amount of anti ice prior to taxi if done at the gate or close to the ter...
Jump to postThe thing about Groupon is that they take such a big commission that a lot of the local types, as opposed to corporate, who use it basically use it as advertising and try to convert customers for similar rates to pay directly. I think people are realizing that they can offer deals for much less via ...
Jump to postInteresting. It certainly fills a gap between the Caravans and SkyCouriers and the 737 sized freighters. Whatever happened to the CR2 conversion program? Didn't Air Wisconsin do a cargo aircraft?
Jump to postExtremely high barriers to entry does not mean that they will bounce back, especially when there is still such a possibility of a monopoly after all. A duopoly that more resembles a monopoly with almost monopoly pricing on one side, and little to negative margins could also be the future only be ke...
Jump to postOrban cares about Orban and maintaining power. Unfortunately, too many of the post-Iron Curtain era Hungarians associate Soviet-style "communism" with "left wing" and thus support a psychopath like him - so long as he lets them do some of their more "mainstream" "l...
Jump to postDeveloping further infrastructure to support the tourist industry would help. I'm not saying to cut huge swaths with superhighways, but improving the rail and road links between Colombo and major tourist centers would help. Obviously, the security issues after the Colombo bombings are also a concern...
Jump to postLoad factors still haven't recovered to the point that it makes sense to regularly staff a system based on a 156 seat aircraft. My guess is that they figure their recovery will take long enough that reducing staffing makes sense. Further, to the extent they may be having similar training currency is...
Jump to postIt's a duopoly....and one with extremely high barriers to entry. As such, it's near certain that they'll bounce back, just a matter of when. It could be a very long while based on the current direction of travel.... Extremely high barriers to entry does not mean that they will bounce back, especial...
Jump to postUSAirKid wrote:I wonder why Alaska hasn’t argued that this is a moot issue, since the FAs are now all union represented.
Or is this more about damages pre-merger?
There's a really easy way to solve this. Stop fighting unionization. I still don’t understand how pilots could even comply besides making a 3rd pilot sit in first class and do nothing for most of the flight. And wouldn’t the 3rd pilot have to be a captain to sit in the left seat? They wouldn't have ...
Jump to postI'm pretty sure they used Otis Spunkmeyer cookies I remember seeing a box of the pre-made cookies with the Midwest name on it. They were essentially just warmed in the oven, just like the cookies that some airlines served in international business class. Otis Spunkmeyer cookies pretty much come lik...
Jump to postAll right, stupid question time: why is work performed onboard a flight SFO-OGG "work performed within the State of California?" That seems like an odd definition of "within." SFO-OGG is an easy one. As the flight originated in California, the work took place there and the law a...
Jump to postAll right, stupid question time: why is work performed onboard a flight SFO-OGG "work performed within the State of California?" That seems like an odd definition of "within." SFO-OGG is an easy one. As the flight originated in California, the work took place there and the law a...
Jump to postThe States can make laws that are more restrictive than federal law, but not less so. The minimum wage in California is at least twice, and in some cases 7 times more than federal law. Any work that involves the working in the State of California is subject to the laws of the State of California, u...
Jump to postSimple answer: Eliminate CA crew bases. Airlines can buy hotels in major CA RON airports and just rotate in cabin crews from outside states and overnight them in CA. Give the CA cabin crews the option to transfer to non CA crew bases. That's not how it would work. The Labor Code extends to anyone w...
Jump to postPretty sure I saw TWA 747s at LAX until they retired them.
Jump to postIt also disconnects a bunch of populated communities that are physically close. It doesn't disconnect anything, they were never connected. I don't get the point of spending a billion dollars of US taxpayers money to connect two small towns that have never been connected before while other heavily u...
Jump to postSimple answer: Eliminate CA crew bases. Airlines can buy hotels in major CA RON airports and just rotate in cabin crews from outside states and overnight them in CA. Give the CA cabin crews the option to transfer to non CA crew bases. That's not how it would work. The Labor Code extends to anyone w...
Jump to postKent350787 wrote:Enough to justify the $billion to build a bridge to save 20-30 mins travel? There'd need to be a massive amount of new development to justify the costs of a large span bridge.
Well, FedEx is one of the largest airlines in the world, so at least one of "the larger airlines" have adopted the technology. Anyway, not only the 787 is offered with a HUD. 737NGs and MAXes were/are offered with HUD and most, if not all, of the major US operators have them. United, Delta...
Jump to postThe Embraer pusher turboprop might be the solution, and might also do a lot of alleviate the stigma. The configuration looks different and those kind of optics mean something to non-aviation types. The Avanti is a good indicator of that.
Jump to postYes, it's legal. Like Zeke said above, the airline keeps a record of our flight times. Thats all thats required to prove currency. There are a few who fly recreationally, and they need to keep a log for insurance purposes, currency or if they wish to get another certificate or rating. There are ton...
Jump to postNone of my wide body, long haul friends bother to keep a log book anymore. I haven't kept one for a very long time either, as a narrow body lifer. Why is that. Is that even legal. Yes, it's legal. Like Zeke said above, the airline keeps a record of our flight times. Thats all thats required to prov...
Jump to postVictor Airways are designed to allow for navigation below FL180 and require 2000' clearance in mountainous regions (there's a chart that shows where those are) and 1000' clearance in nonmountinous regions. The Constellation wasn't "more or less" pressurized, it was pressurized and had full...
Jump to postLH doesn't operate any A380s any more, so pretty moot. Also, for some time, those two aircraft were at different bases, though MUC got some A380s for a while before COVID. LH had a plan doing it at MUC, few Crews had the training, then there was Covid and changed everything. So it was the way LH wa...
Jump to postMinimum maneuvering speed is usually 1.43 Vso for the given flap setting. A 10 knot buffer could easily result in a stall in all kinds of situations.
Jump to postLH doesn't operate any A380s any more, so pretty moot. Also, for some time, those two aircraft were at different bases, though MUC got some A380s for a while before COVID.
Jump to postFlap speeds on your average light 4 seater are usually ~50 knots above stall, if not more. A Cessna 414 without VGs has a stall speed 90 knots slower than the initial flap speed. So yeah, it's a much bigger difference.
Maybe take Aaron747's advice?
It is a real pity the PW4098 never worked out, cause that whole 4090 series is the best sounding engine family in turbofans ever. Love riding a United PW 777 and listening to that. Agree totally. The Hoover family of engine - started with the ghostly sounds on the PW4060 and finished with the delig...
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