Re: Cdg europes busiest airport

Not going to talk about how different governments have acted to save the airline and travel industry, only going to talk about my own observations. When we were at CDG in August, the airport was reasonably busy and the Air France flights were all of healthy loads.

Rapid Covid19 testing available at Heathrow!

Morning Folks Some good news for Heathrow passengers on the horizon, please see this: https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-rapid-one-hour-tests-now-available-for-italy-and-hong-kong-passengers-at-heathrow-12108853 I am travelling to Hong Kong myself in a months time (from Manchester) and is strugg...

Re: Alex Cruz Steop down

The problem is the British flying public in general don't care. They want cheap flights and are now used to paying for food and drinks on shorthaul flights. BA's competitors on intra-Europe shorthaul are not AF/KLM/LH but Easyjet and Ryanair.. .. Nothing to do with the British public....it applies ...

Re: Alex Cruz Steop down

Looks like he quit Don't think he stepped down. Looks like he was pushed out. Do either of you have any evidence for which it is? The truth is: we do not yet know. The suddenness of it might suggest he was pushed, but then, equally, perhaps there has been a personal/family crisis causing him to res...

Re: Alex Cruz Steop down

If Lufthansa, Air France, KLM.. can all offer a decent onboard product on intra-European flights then I see no reason why BA can't as well. Hopefully they drop BoB and replace it at least with free drinks. Agreed completely - the whole BoB thing is a shameful concept, for a 'premium' flag carrier. ...

Re: Alex Cruz Steop down

Blerg wrote:

If Lufthansa, Air France, KLM.. can all offer a decent onboard product on intra-European flights then I see no reason why BA can't as well. Hopefully they drop BoB and replace it at least with free drinks.

Re: What is happening to Lufthansa?

I am not qualified to say whether LH is in any way deeper trouble than others - however, they are a much more diverse business and have quite a few dedicated freighters, which for the moment is bringing in the revenue. And the less requirement for them to fly passenger planes for cargo only flights....

Re: What is happening to Lufthansa?

And a final factor is that many of the airliners still flying at the other airlines have been stripped of their seats and converted to improvised cargo aircraft. Lufthansa already has a large fleet of 15 dedicated cargo MD-11s and 777Fs. AF-KLM has a combined total of 6 dedicated cargo aircraft, IA...

Re: Lufthansa Group Fleet Thread - 2020

Our booked flights to HKG from FRA in November have been changed from a 747-8 to 340-300. Not that I am complaining but this suggests that the 340-300 will be here until at least the end of this year. Understandably, the 747-8 is a much bigger aircraft and the 340-300 is not a bad plane for all the ...

Re: European Air Traffic - August 2020

Surprised by by the difference between LH and AFKL. Didn't have enough time to go through the report in detail, but I would have imagined that (including LH Cargo) the difference would be much closer. But I am guessing LH is taking a more conservative approach or the German quarantine requirement i...

Re: British Airways emergency landing

It is not the first time a BA flight needed to turn round on the first revenue service after finishing its heavy maintenance at Cardiff... I

Re: Best. Flight. Ever! Business class on a Swiss Airbus A220 (my first time) from Zurich to Dublin

Great report! I have been on LX's A220 a few times and I agree that the silver trim around the seats look nice! The windows are big too. I have not been on their business class but I did enjoy the few occasions in economy. Their crew are usually nice and when I flew with BA just when they started to...

Re: Fuel Burn A220

On this topic, I am interested whether a fix is available yet, so that these planes (at least those with the higher engine thrust) are no longer going to be limited at FL280.

Sorry to be hijacking your thread

Re: FedEx plane makes emergency landing at LAX

Well done to the pilots. But the news reporting is low standard - engine hitting the PAVEMENT. But then perhaps we cannot expect these reporters to know the piece of land for the plane to land is called the 'runway'. Most people know, may be not the reporter.

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion thread

CX surely has the most complicated situation to resolve on top of covid, and most of them could be related to elements involving politics and how the economy is going to survive with the backdrop of China vs USA and the sanctions going forward.

Re: REGIONAL WIDEBODY: Manila to Singapore on Singapore Airlines

Very nice report, thanks for sharing!
One thing you could do next time for the boarding passes, is to either get one downloaded onto the phone (and keep the paper copy) or visit a check in kiosk and get another one printed. This way, you will have an unteared boarding pass to keep.

Re: Why are Air Canada’s A220S flying below 30,000 ft?

My last trip on one of the LX's A220 was in September 2019, and the altitude restrictions were in place already. Clearly, flying it especially when the loads are pretty light at low altitude is not ideal from a fuel efficiency point of view, but I do not have any data to back it up. They usually fly...

Re: Lufthansa: 10B EUR bailout - Update