Re: British Airways News and Discussion - 2023

I remember not that long ago, BA forbid staff traveller taking the business/first class amenity bags home if they travelled on non-rev. This has been a policy for a very long time. I used to fly on staff travel in about 2011 and this was the case then. I see nothing wrong with it. to enforce the co...

Re: Pratt & Whitney GTF engine issues; many aircraft grounded

Remember that the lifecycle for these products is 30-40 years (or more). The P&W GTF has certainly had more than its fair share of issues in the years following EIS, which have been compounded by shortages of spare engines and spare parts. In the long term, these issues will be resolved, and I ...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - April 2023

Does anyone remember, or did anyone actually fly on the Qantas Boeing 767-338ER when it had the split business class and first class cabin in Zone A? https://travelupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Qantas-QF-767-338ER-Seating-Plan-Split-Cabin-First-Class-Business-Class.jpg I couldn't find any ar...

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

On pricing, €34.99 seems pretty standard for Emerald's Ireland to UK flights. I don't see them asking for more on DUB-KIR. If anything, maybe a bit less. I don't feel that's unreasonable. And it seems the local folks agree. There is a push for PSO to come back. https://www.radiokerry.ie/news/kerry-...

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

dstc47 wrote:

KIR - DUB

This route has operated commercially by FR since 28 July 2021 with no PSO.

Re: American Airlines considering flying to SIN

Always amazed me that AA and DL have struggled with this but UA & SQ can have the market share they have. Has American even tried a route like this before? United has been flying the Pacific since they got the Pan Am Pacific division which was prior to the Star Alliance. at that time American w...

Re: BA A380’s and 3rd LHR runway.

BealineV953 wrote:

So, rather than being cheaper to keep them than break the lease, it was cheaper to keep them than to write them off.

Re: Security guards at LHR T5 are to strike for 10 days from 31 March over pay.

If I am using United (T2) I assume it will not be affected? UA has a travel waiver out for travel from 3/31-4/2. Unsure why for a shorter period. I believe the T5 staff will go on strike and some will be moved from the other terminals to allow flights in T5 to proceed. Therefore everyone will be im...

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

I notice the posts about NOC-LHR have a lot of comments complaining about the loss of the Gatwick service, I hope EI have their homework done on this one. What do you mean? Posts where? London Heathrow is going to be a far better option than Gatwick for the onward connections. LHR is also just as w...

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

Meanwhile, anyone looking for deals... Aer Lingus Rome to New York is pricing up at around €1,250 return in business class. Paris to New York is a about €1,375 or thereabouts. To be fair, the Dublin to New York flights can be snagged for about €1,750 return in business. You could probably get to Rom...

Re: Status of London Heathrow's 3rd Runway

Do others make an effort to avoid LHR if not the start/terminus of their trip? I fly TATL maybe 2-3 times a year and do make an effort to avoid LHR. No, I'm a British Airways frequent flyer based outside the UK. That means I fly via London all the time as I have no choice if I wish to maintain my s...

Re: Inflight turbulence leaves 1 dead NTSB to investigate

GalaxyFlyer wrote:

The plane is plenty strong, but it might not fly again.

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

What do the Cork and Shannon references in the Ryanair article mean? It suggests that they are no longer served by the airline. Saying that Berlin SXF has been dropped in favour of Berlin BER shows some lack of understanding - BER is a new terminal complex but the same runways are used as when it w...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - March 2023

qf789 wrote:

Yesterday also marked 5 years sinch the launch of PER-LHR flights

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

Nice big article in Air Service One today about Ryanair's Dublin capacity and routes - https://airserviceone.com/ryanair-has-130-dublin-routes-in-s23-and-only-43-have-competition-almost-50-airports-no-longer-served/ Interesting to see how many routes have no competition at all. Lots of new routes an...

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

Just saw on another forum that -

"...last week EI amended the MCT for flights to/from EI services at LHR from 1hr 30m to 1hr 45m. We are working through some issues relating to that..."

That was from a BA representative.

Anyone know why?

Re: BA A380’s and 3rd LHR runway.

But does BA make my money by revenue sharing or using its own aircraft?. Doesn't matter, as all USA-originating (and much other N.American-originating) traffic is split with American and Iberia, regardless of whether BA is using its own aircraft or not. And then there's its TPAC j/vs with the likes...

Re: Senate bill reintroduced to raise U.S. pilot retirement age to 67

I assume all those complaining about when the age was raised from 60 to 65 and the stagnation that occurred will be retiring at 60 themselves when they reach that age, to stand by their beliefs.

Re: Qatar Airways News and Discussion - 2023

QR shared some info regarding plans for A380 fleet. 7 will be used in the schedule, with 1 spare. Two remaining frames will be used as parts spare donors. AAB says the fleet will be flown "only as long as absolutely necessary" and hope they will not be required by 2026 once 777X fleet fin...

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

... they will join one world again, possibly as a one world Connect member like Fiji Airways ... It would, of course, be a lot better if they just joined the alliance again though Why would they join as a connect and not a full member? The main reason they left on 1 April 2007 is because they did n...

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

What are EI's US partnerships going to look like in the future? At the moment, there are a mish-mash of deals with AA, AS, B6 and UA in the US. Are they likely to move away from UA and get closer to AA, given the TATL JV, and perhaps even (re)join oneworld again? The transatlantic JV is already wel...

Re: Movies with airlines on them

Weren't Qantas and Ansett in the ABBA movie? Yes, Qantas 747-200B and Ansett Boeing 727s. Also, nobody mentioned the Airport movies... Airport - Northwest 727 in the closing credits, and some others, including that Boeing 707 in "Trans-Global Airlines" colours Airport 1975 - has that Amer...

Re: Aviation video games

Going back to the 8-bit days of the Commodore 64 (which you can still play today using the CCS64 emulator on a Windows PC), the best one was probably A.C.E. A.C.E. stood for Air Combat Emulator and was from Cascade games. A really, really good fighter simulator for the C64. Also worthy of mention wa...

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

Eirules wrote:

I saw them but only bookable through an OTA & still no definitive confirmation you can earn BA TPs so I didn’t pull the trigger

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

Saw today that Aer Lingus are selling MAN to MCO and JFK for £950 return in business class.

Travel is November to February, so if you want a cheap fare across the Atlantic, that's the one to get

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

Flight departed from Gate 210 flight nearly full in Business and 80% down the back which is impressive for early March to Greece. Aegean could have added a few more rotations between April to October but I guess played it safe. Hopefully they will up it for 2024 and the rumoured ORK flight might ac...

Re: Is British Commercial Aviation Prepared?

Hi all, So I'm thinking back to the summer when dozens of airlines in the UK cancelled thousands of flights, in part, due to a lack of staff (baggage handlers, pilots, cabin crew etc.) to man those flights. I'm now wondering if these roles have been filled, as it won't be that long until we all sta...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - March 2023

Has QF ever said anything about Brisbane and any Sunrise potential? QF currently only have access to 4 slot pairs at LHR so pretty unlikely given SYD,MEL, PER and SYD-SIN would use all of these. There's always Gatwick! I am sure they could pick up slots somehow. They have the money... it all depend...

Re: Inflight turbulence leaves 1 dead NTSB to investigate

This is not meant to be sensationalist, but: how can you die from turbulences? Of course, not buckled up, yes. So she/he fell so unfortunate that her/his neck was hurt? Or was it maybe a heart attack triggered by the turbulences. Very easily. If you have your seatbelt unfastened, there are any numb...

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

AmricanShamrok wrote:

That's disappointing and a massive jump from the €19.99 each way fare that it had been charging up to now.

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

I do think there is something going on behind the scenes. The re-alignment of fares from the winter schedule is a hint something is afoot. On the face of it one world connect seems the ideal solution for an airline obsessed with half baked solutions. For sure, as they've been hiring roles with AJB ...

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

I was going to post this. It should have a health warning for now, for two reasons. 1) The QR 'Basic' Business fare class was showing reduced earning earlier in the week. This was, apparently, an error and has since been fixed. 2) Standalone ORK-ACE, for example wouldn't be part of the AJB, as I un...

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

Hopefully true. While it may not change my transatlantic flying (because I try to avoid EI), earning TPs on European flights would definitely help to retain BA Gold Same here, the European flights will stop me doing so much DUB-LHR-XXX flying. Though it's not like a lot of fare classes are availabl...

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

Interesting news. If you look at the British Airways Airways Avios Calculator - https://www.britishairways.com/travel/flight-calculator/public/en_gb When you put in Aer Lingus and select say DUB-LHR or DUB-JFK or whatever, it shows that you are awarded Avios... and Tier Points! This will be a gamech...

Re: UK. £643m travel vouchers unclaimed.

Not much more the airlines can do about it - if they remind people and they then don't use them, well too bad so sad in my book and the airlines should keep the revenue. Of course there is......they could, and should, then issue the refund to the passenger. That wasn't the agreement at the time tho...

Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/girl-4-asks-to-move-house-due-to-constant-noise-from-dublin-airports-north-runway-42363089.html Emotive piece lacking on detail. I have zero sympathy, I'm afraid. The airport has been there for a long time and the land for the new runway has been there fo...

Re: British Airways News and Discussion - 2023

How is BA differentiating its F product/service from J (beyond the seat)? On the ground? Inflight? F passengers have exclusive use of the Concorde Room in LHR, the new Chelsea lounge in JFK and of course all the other one world alliance F lounges. That would include things like the BA and CX F loun...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - March 2023

Personally, I believe there might be CBR (Intl) services using the A223 as well. For example: CBR-AKL, CBR-WEL. Also, theoretically it could do a CBR-SIN, but would there be demand for that?, I'm sure there would be enough demand to fly an A223 from CBR to SIN. Anyone would prefer to fly from their...

Re: UK. £643m travel vouchers unclaimed.

Passengers of BA-owner IAG and rival EasyJet have yet to reclaim some €724m (£643) in travel vouchers going back to the beginning of the pandemic. Another reason airlines love not giving refunds, because they know not everyone will use their "credits". Not everyone will have the time/fund...

Re: L1011 minutiae - Pneumatics

SteelChair wrote:

If anyone enjoys this type of thing, please let me know. I can post more minutiae. There's interesting stuff all over this airplane. If you like airplanes.

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - February 2023

Utilisation is low due to a lack of tech crew (especially in SYD). All 29 ordered A220s are to be operated by Qantas subsidiary National Jet Systems, assuming they can crew them (NJS tech crew will shortly become the lowest paid jet airline pilots in MEL, SYD and BNE, along with the majority of the...

Re: Big expansion announced by Royal Jordanian

Whatever happened to Royal Jordanians fleet plans? Well the newspaper article linked said they plan to grow from 24 to 40 aircraft over the next three to five years. Interesting that Samer Majali is back, as he was the CEO of RJ when they were profitable and growing about 15 years ago. When he left...

Re: Irish 2/23: Cleared takeoff and rolling ...

Hi guys, Mrs VS is going to be arriving in DUB on AA on 4/1 and is wondering whether she can utilize any of the lounges before heading off to her final destination. She’s not a business customer this would be leisure only. Bonus points if it has showers etc all help appreciated as it’s the first ti...

Re: Irish 2/23: Cleared takeoff and rolling ...

Hi guys, Mrs VS is going to be arriving in DUB on AA on 4/1 and is wondering whether she can utilize any of the lounges before heading off to her final destination. She’s not a business customer this would be leisure only. Bonus points if it has showers etc all help appreciated as it’s the first ti...

Re: Irish 2/23: Cleared takeoff and rolling ...