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Re: South Vietnam AF aircraft in HCMC in 2004(!?)

There are photos on Flikr showing the C-130s (and a CH-47 and a C-119 and an AC-47) present there in 2013. On other sources there's reports of some of the C-130s still being there in 2017 although at some point after that most were broken up. One of these though has been moved to the Cu Chi tunnel e...

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Re: 737Max used market transactions and availability

flyaa757 wrote:
I'd wager we are down to zero by summer.

Doesn't that depend on the fate of the Chinese aircraft still in storage. Just Shenzhen Airlines alone has 13 in storage at BFI and MWH, all built more than 18 months ago. It has, I think, 8 active in service so why aren't the remainder being delivered?

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Re: Asiana fleet singletons

Do they fly these on a single route? Or are they spread across the network? I wonder if the meter has blocked fleet sales for them somehow? HL7772, the lone A320, seems to fly: GMP-GJU-GMP-CJU-KWJ-CJU-GMP most days HL7428, the lone B744, seems to fly: ICN-CTS-ICN most days HL7528, the lone B763, se...

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Re: Condor News and Discussion - 2024

Rumours about a DE-X3 merger are resurfacing. X3 is sub-scale with just 23 aircraft, and flying short haul only where they face significant LCC competition. . Aren't the TUI Germany fleet just one part of the larger co-ordinated TUI European airline fleet - with roughly 130 aircraft in total? How m...

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Re: What type of aircraft it is?

VH-NEP Lockheed P-2H Neptune (ex-US Navy) bought as a fire bomber 20+ years ago.

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Re: European Domestic Flying - Are Runway Lengths an Issue?

BENAir01 wrote:
This was an issue with Cardiff getting long haul service iirc

CWL has a 7,700 ft runway. I'm sure someone knows more details than I do.
I believe TUI has operated/will operate CWL-BGI on 787s. For a short period pre-Covid, QR operated 787s CWL-DOH.

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Re: European Domestic Flying - Are Runway Lengths an Issue?

In the UK, neither BRS (6,600ft) or LTN (7,100ft) have particularly long runways but both have had or do have Transatlantic and "longish leisure" (such as the Canary Islands at 4hr+) flights operating from them. Of course, in the UK, airports are at low altitudes and temps are rarely high,...

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Re: UK airport slots reforms

Why do so many European airports need slots? Outside of the mega major airports slots should be done way with. The ones that are restrictive are the Level 3 airports - Level 1 and 2 might have a slot coordinator but it doesn't majorly affect anyone wanting to fly there. e.g. ACL describes Level 2 a...

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Re: Effect of bullet trains on China domestic flights

I travel regularly in China on business and, much as I like to spend time at airports , I almost inevitably opt for the train if it's going to be 4 hours or less (Chinese trains are a lot more punctual than Chinese planes).

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Re: British Airways News and Discussion - 2023

Magnum9 wrote:
Is BA/Comair gone for good? If SAA was able to be resuscitated by focusing on only domestic routes, why can’t BA/Comair? What happened to their 737-8MAX’s?

Going a bit off topic -- they had one MAX (ZS-ZCA) and it is now with Cabo Verde Airlines as D4-CCJ

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Re: Rumour - Jet2 to take over BA's LGW ops ?

davidjohnson6 wrote:
IAG to buy Jet2 ?

Philip Meeson is 75 now and owns 18% of Jet2 plc with his stake having a value of £500M.
Looking for an exit?

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Re: 2 LH 320's stored at BER.

I visited the new BER airport recently and noticed 2 LH A320's, looked like NEO's, stored at the far western end of the airport near the Bombardier hanger. One looked like it was missing a winglet. ID's please ? Also 3 small bizjets, an Austrian Lear, Belarusian Premier and a T7 Hawker, are by the ...

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Re: Monarch Airlines possible making a comeback

My first ever flight was on Monarch (1979 Boeing 720B LTN-Athens (the old Athens)) but, despite a little emotional connection to the brand, I don't see the fascination in ressurecting old brands and certainly don't see what gap in the market this new Monarch would fill.

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Re: Beechcraft Model 390 crash in Kuala Lumpur.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a2cc7e
It looks like the Premier was lined up with the runway at Subang and then took a sharp right turn on final approach to line up with a road.

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Re: Moratorium expiring on FAA regulation of human spaceflight

The House Science Committee recently held hearings to get industry feedback on the new legislation. The industry is unanimous in wanting to extend the moratorium , but the committee has not yet produced or commented on new legislation. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/a-nearly-20-year-ban-on-h...

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Re: Royal Air Force C130s

The ex-RAF ZH885 has gone to the USMC as 170000 to be the Blue Angels support C-130J The ex-RAF ZH880 has gone to the Bahrain Defence Force (as 701), and ZH886 also to the BDF (702) The ex-RAF C-130Js ZH881, ZH882, ZH883, ZH884 and ZH887 have all gone to the Bangladesh AF I believe all the ex-RAF C-...

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Re: Catalina Production to be re-started?

The primary reason to restart Catalina production is for firefighting. They may well be the most important fixed wing aircraft in the firefighting fleet. Canadair would like a word. How many active Catalina’s are currently involved in firefighting in the World? About 150 CL-215s and CL-415s current...

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Re: Why can TK traverse EU airspace from Russian airports?

The Chinese airlines are also using Russian airspace between Europe and China, this is giving them a substantial time and cost advantage over European airlines on the same routes e.g. MU LHR-PVG is taking about 1 hour less than VS LHR-PVG.

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Re: Boston Aviation - 2023

Those aren't loads. They are O&D. The 74 PDEW is BOS-FRA O&D only. The rest of the plane is filled with connections almost all of which would be on the FRA end. It does show that BOS-LHR absolutely dominates the TATL O&D traffic from Boston - that doesn't surprise me but it is a long wa...

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Re: "Gina" is back for the 100 year anniversary of the ItAF

That video was 3 weeks ago and in 4 weeks time it will be flying displays at a public airshow? They're going to be busy as they've got a lot of work still to do.

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Re: German airspace closure - June 2023

There are maps of the exercise areas in the last 3 slides of this deck: https://www.hlb-info.de/sites/default/files/AD23-DAEC.pdf As you might expect, it's not "the whole of German airspace" and the exercise hours are limited, so Exercise Airspace East is used for 3 hours / day. I can't fi...

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Re: UK Border Force to strike at airports.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65329441

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Re: AMS to introduce a night curfew and ban private jets

Good news about private jets. Killing the planet so the 0.01% don’t have to go through security or pay a change fee on their ticket if they want to leave an hour later. Although I wonder if environmental concerns are behind this or just wanting to free up slots for more airliners. Wouldn’t have tho...

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Re: AMS to introduce a night curfew and ban private jets

Looks like there's about 2,000 General Aviation movements a month on average at AMS but I suspect that includes governmental/military flights (unlikely to be banned) and Coast Guard flights etc. So, at a guess, about 20 or so GA planes per day to move to Rotterdam and Lelystad? A good chunk of thes...

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Re: AMS to introduce a night curfew and ban private jets

Looks like there's about 2,000 General Aviation movements a month on average at AMS but I suspect that includes governmental/military flights (unlikely to be banned) and Coast Guard flights etc. So, at a guess, about 20 or so GA planes per day to move to Rotterdam and Lelystad? A good chunk of these...

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Re: Looks like Trump's 757 is back in service

(1523 Eastern) Just turned onto final approach at LGA inbound from PBI.

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Re: AGS Masters Week

https://www.airnav.com/airport/KHQU

Thomson-McDuffie County Airport
Thomson, Georgia, USA

https://www.spirit-aviation.com/

"Runway to Fairway in 35 minutes"

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Re: SoCal Boneyard Storage and Activity - 2023

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/boe384

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Re: North American UFO airspace closure Thread

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf A small, globe-trotting balloon declared “missing in action” by an Illinois-based hobbyist club on Feb. 15 has emerged as a candidate to explain one of the three mystery objects shot down by ...

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Re: 40 years ago today since first BA 757 entered service.

66 flights on 757s (so far), 29 of those were on BA (or Caledonian). The first BA 757 flight for me was in 1989, the last in 2009.

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Re: Low Level Flight SNN to CAI

VP-CEM is an ex-Virgin Australia 777 (was VH-VPE). It flew VCV-BGR-SNN and is now heading SE from SNN (to, I'm guessing, TLV?). All flights have been relatively low (VCV-BGR was 23,000 and below) suggesting the RVSM explanation is correct.

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Re: Ryanair future fleet

I think it's pretty clear that for the next few years, the process will be replacing 738s with 737MAX-8-200s, that activity should take them through to 2030 at least

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Re: Egyptair charters to Fiji

Fiji has quite a lot of troops deployed on UN peacekeeping tasks on Egypt/Israel and Israel/Syrian borders. Could be a troop rotation charter.

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Re: Samsung Flight Department

And a very smart looking corporate 787 it is:

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Re: MH set to return A380's to Airbus

I think leisure travel is heading for a nose dive in the UK, 2023 going to be horrible year for joe public money wise. BA could even be parking some A380's again. Conversely the US public are quickly realising that this is the best time ever to visit the UK. BA just need to change their point of sa...

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Re: What decides whether a Ryanair base is Irish, Maltese or Polish?

Ryanair have four airlines flying as "Ryanair" across Europe, I know why Ryanair UK is flying UK to non EU, but what is the logic that says whether a continental base is Ryanair, Ryanair Sun/Buzz or Malta Air? For example, Billund in Denmark has Buzz operated based aircraft. Any rules and...

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Re: Syrian Arab Airlines Tu-154 YK-AIB

There's information elsewhere that YK-AIB was moved to the Samara Aviakor plant in 2005 (presumably after the work being done in the photo referenced above), seen in Samara in 2009 but now believed to have been scrapped.

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Re: Citation Crash - Baltic Sea - No contact for hours

It's surprising that modern planes do not have alertness detection systems (or, for that matter, consciousness detection systems) when even cars have them (e.g., counting eye blinks as a fatigue indicator). I'd say that pilot consciousness should be easily detectable. From then on, a pre programmed...

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Re: DHL Network And Fleet Thread - 2022

filbrkz wrote:
I saw DHK502 CVG-NGO climbing out over my house on the 20th, operating with 777 G-DHLY. Since this is operated by DHL Air UK, is this a Fifth-Freedom flight? Curious how this is allowed.

DHK502 operates: EMA-CVG-NGO-HKG

DHK has other routes that operate: EMA-LEJ-CVG-NGO-HKG

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Re: BBC: Scottish island airports then and now

Very sweet. If anything, seeing how in 1963 the islands were served by the BEA on a four-engined DH Heron, versus today's [old] Twin Otters makes me wonder if the islands were perhaps better served in the past, where profit was not necessarily behind the operation.... G-BVVK is "very old"...

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Re: GlobalX acquiring B717's?

Supposedly DL has 3 out of the 4 717 simulators ever made in their training center, so makes sense for them do to contracted training. They have 2 of 4 from what I have been told. Qantas has 1 and Hawaiian has 1 Is’nt there a 717 sim in Madrid that Volotea used? Not according to the Flight simulato...

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Re: GlobalX acquiring B717's?

Who owns the 4th one? Qantas? Flight's Global simulator census says there are only 3 717 sims (https://www.flightglobal.com/reports/civil-simulator-census-2021/142921.article), located as follows: 2 at DL in ATL 1 at Boeing in Brisbane Per the FAA list published in late 2021 (https://www.faa.gov/ab...

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Re: GlobalX acquiring B717's?

Supposedly DL has 3 out of the 4 717 simulators ever made in their training center, so makes sense for them do to contracted training. Who owns the 4th one? Qantas? Flight's Global simulator census says there are only 3 717 sims (https://www.flightglobal.com/reports/civil-simulator-census-2021/1429...

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Re: GlobalX acquiring B717's?

As far as I can tell, the only 717s available (not in use or scrapped) are:

4 x Volotea still in Europe (stored)
13 (?) x ex-Volotea stored at VCV

(excluding a handful that DL still has in storage)

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Re: Air Cargo (non Amazon/DHL) Thread - 2022

Some good green time on the engines, and low hours (though the heavier used LX birds would have nearly 100,000 on them by that cycle count). Is this the first of WJC's parking 747s prediction? With 787 deliveries set to resume, belly space will be opening up. If I'm right about the specific airfram...

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Re: Air Cargo (non Amazon/DHL) Thread - 2022

To the knowledgeable eagle eyes of the cargo thread does this 744 converted freighter look familiar or is the selling agent photoshopping it as it often does? The reg number shown in ad is wrong. https://www.controller.com/listing/for-sale/215893077/1997-boeing-747-400f-jet-aircraft My guess is: B-...

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Re: Heathrow Airport to limit departing passengers numbers until September 11th.

they really sell this job: https://joinswissport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Airside-Ramp-Services-Agent.pdf Flexible to work on various shifts (days, evening, nights, weekends, and holidays) • Ability to speak and understand the English language • Ability to travel to the airport at times where...

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Re: Odd flights by VQ-BHK

I have been trying to figure this out, but to no avail. Yesterday, I noticed an aircraft identified as VQ-BHK in my ADS-B data. A Bermudan aircraft in Iowa? Turns out, this aircraft used to be with Aeroflot, but is now flying for Smartlynx Malta. I quickly checked and it was actually in Tenerife at...

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Re: Hong Kong Airport to host Mainland China border control

If it is like the high-speed rail in HK then there will be "two borders" in HK (and none in the mainland). Your flight from the Mainland to HKG will be essentially domestic with both outbound and inbound border control being conducted adjacent to each other at HKG. I presume it will also m...

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Re: Comprehensive KidZania aircraft list

SaintBroseph wrote:
Kidzania Singapore had a...Qatar 737NG sticking out of the building...

I think it's more likely to be HS-AAI 737-300 ex-Air Asia (obviously painted in Qatar colours) - but I haven't yet found confirmation of this

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