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 ...