I hope to hell if Eastern is reborn, they are are more inbued with integity than the old Eastern. I dealt with Eastern four times in the 60's and got screwed and lied to all four times. The only other airline I have found which is as screwy and untruthful is Egypt Air.
Jump to postI have flown on a QF 757 from SYD to Cairns twice.
Jump to postQatar all Airbus? I've seen a DC10 in Qatar livery lots of times.
Jump to postWhy would anyone be interested in driving 2 hrs to <acronym title="Phoenix - Sky Harbor International (PHX / KPHX), USA - Arizona">PHX</acronym> from <acronym title="Tucson - International (TUS / KTUS), USA - Arizona">TUS</acronym> when there are several other <acronym title="Tucson - International ...
Jump to postI know the FARS preclude pilots who have personaliy disorders and other psychiatric conditions. I do know that pilots who really have bi-polar disorder are getting AME's to give diangnosis of Dysthymic disorder instead. I Know there are at least three America West pilots with such a disorder. Anothe...
Jump to postLCY can't handle anything larger than a BAE 146. Hardly a bet for Intl service base. Now Luton...
Jump to postThis is the hardest kind of news to report. It involves the violent deaths of colleagues and friends who work with you. It is akin to morbidly becoming the news instead of reporting it. I pray for the four men and their families.
Jump to postReminds me of the old Windecker plastic airplane experiment in Midland, Texas in the late 60's. I knew all those guys who worked on that project. The technology they came up with was amazing. Even more amazing was that there was only one aeronautical engineer and the rest of the engineers were millw...
Jump to postQuote from earlier: "Recently, there was the case of a British Airways 747 that lost an engine at take-off from <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> and flew to <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym> with onl...
Jump to postQuote from earlier here: "<acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> obviously thinks this will increase revenue and profit, thus giving them the cash to pay the pilots and airline workers. 30 mil would not go very far in payroll." Wrong! That cash wil go into bonuses for <acronym title="...
Jump to postTry lodging a Sandhill Crane in between the strut and wing on an Aeronca 7AC. Could only fly in circles to the right. Managed to set down in a wide pasture. Groundlooped anyway. Damage to the right eileron and the leading edge. Messy trying to dislodge the bloody thing. Lots of cleanup required when...
Jump to postI saw the Ernest Angley CI 74SP in early May while turning onto final into TUS. I marveled at how quiet it seems to be, but then too, it was gliding for a landing.
Jump to postI was in Heathrow T-3 last week. I see why it is passenger unfriendly. Most of the moving walkways were out of order. There is a long distance between where one has to disembark to customs then to ground transport. This entails walking for what seems to be miles. I will say that ground transport wit...
Jump to postSouthwest once let the Texas Tech basketball team pre-board at Lubbock. All of those guys were allowed on first so they could go around and snatch up all of the areas with facing seats so they could occupy two seats each and stretch their legs and be comfy. I raised hell at the Southwest stews about...
Jump to postNow this is a heck of change from the last time I tried to use Egyptair. Now so long ago, they were a horribly squirrilly proposition to deal with. I speak from specific experience, not generalities.
Jump to postSo that explains the sudden appearance of the red NWA tails at Marana Pinal Airpark (KMJZ). Noticed that this morning.
Jump to postI sat in my office today doing a rare Saturday's bit of work (thanks to a glitchy company mainframe which failed me mightily yesterday). I had a good view out my window of the whole airshow at KDMA. Very distracting...but lovely and exciting.
Jump to postI see the Orbis International L-1011 parked at <acronym title="Tucson - International (TUS / KTUS), USA - Arizona">TUS</acronym> over on the west ramps. I wonder is this flying hospital still operable and is it just there in between jaunts to third world countries to save vision for mankind? Or...is...
Jump to postThe job of a passenger is to sit and enjoy the ride and eat the free peanuts. When a group of people gets up and starts an organized ritual in-flight, not only is it an annoyance to all others on board, but it is downright scary to those not familair with the culture from which the best known terror...
Jump to postI understand that Ryan Air is attempting to buy out Aer Lingus. If that happens, then Ryan will have US/Euro routes for the first time. My question is, will quality fall down if that happens? I have flown Aer Lingus many times and it is definitely not a cattle car airline like Ryan Air.
Jump to postI love it. It is really innovative and eye pleasing, and, yeah, a bit Aeroflotesque. The old widget design was a carryover from the days when Delta was just a cropdusting co in Mississippi
Jump to postMake sure you have some Euros on you and take the RER and change at Chatellet des Halles to Orly. It is quicker than the Airport shuttle.
Jump to postI have flown Ryan Air maybe ten times and I never had a problem with them. I never saw anyone else have a problem either. The only thing I ever saw I didn't like was the tatty, dirty, and worn interior upholstery. Now, Easy Jet has given me grief every time of the eight I have dealt with them. I hav...
Jump to postSabena had both 737 and BAE 146.
Jump to postHere is some excellent info on BKK airport.
http://www.bangkokbob.net/suvarnabhumi_airport_bangkok.htm
I have seen a Belfast parked at <acronym title="Phoenix - Sky Harbor International (PHX / KPHX), USA - Arizona">PHX</acronym> about ten years ago. I have no idea what its purpose was. I just noticed it while on the way to catch a flight. At first I thought it could have been a big Antonov turboprop....
Jump to postActually, the story is from a friend of mine, Ghassan Khalil, who was an <acronym title="Macae (MEA / SBME), Brazil">MEA</acronym> pilot at the time. He was on this flight as a pilot/evaluator. I have no reason to doubt Ghassan. He was always a pretty straight shooter. By the way, Ghassan is no long...
Jump to postI wonder how much under the table cash Sen.'s Cornyn and Hutchinson raked in over this deal. I am willing to bet it's mucho more moolah than that corrupt old grinning reprobate Jim Wright ever dreamed of taking in at the beginning.
Jump to postI have checked my contacts at FAA and <acronym title="Taipei - Sung Shan (TSA / RCSS), Taiwan">TSA</acronym> and they are mum. It helps to eat lunch where they all congregate. The only thing I can find out is that there was a Turkish owned Russian made private aircraft in at Raytheon for some avioni...
Jump to postI remember some years back when <acronym title="Tunisair (Tunisia)">TU</acronym> was courting <acronym title="Macae (MEA / SBME), Brazil">MEA</acronym> for planes. They provided one of the new <acronym title="Tunisair (Tunisia)">TU</acronym> 204's and took a contingent of <acronym title="Macae (MEA ...
Jump to postWhat first got my attention was the noise it made. Non Turbofan engines, US or Russian, are loud loud loud. I speculate it is privately owned and may have been in <acronym title="Tucson - International (TUS / KTUS), USA - Arizona">TUS</acronym> for maintenance or repair. I wish I could have seen the...
Jump to postIt was a TU 134, not a BAC 1-11. BAC 1-11's dont have a glass nose and negative dihedral. TU's are also slimmer in the fuslage.
Seen BAC's a hundred times when Braniff used to be in operation.
I just found out from a pretty reliable source ( a reporter) that AN 124's are regular visitors at Davis Monthan. Carrying away engines for C5-A's and C-17's and bringing in other storage bound aircraft they can fit in the hold.
Jump to postI have also seen a TU 134 doing touch and go's at TUS 2 weeks ago.
Jump to postI saw an AN 124 going into Davis Monthan last Thursday afternoon. Is this a regular thing or freight hauls?
Jump to postWhile under bankruptcy protection, one <acronym title="CURRENT: Guangzhou - Baiyun (CAN / ZGGG), China AND OLD: Guangzhou - Baiyun (CAN / ZGGG) (closed), China">CAN</acronym> prevent the repo man from taking assets until the court allows it to happen. Under any bankruptcy, only the court can allow t...
Jump to postTypical for any charter group. Much like Champion which does the same kind of stuff. It will be pretty relaxed and informal.
Just don't be surprised to see your captain and first officer go trotting down the aisle wearing a tank top, shorts and flip flops.
Ten minutes to 20 minutes is good unless you get behind some fool who tells the officer he is there to work and has no work permit for the UK.
Jump to postIt's not only <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym>'s 777's which have engine fire issues, <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym>'s 777's have had plenty too. Rare to hear about an DC 10 or <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym> <acronym title="Business Air (United Kingdom...
Jump to postWhich airline? And, how in heck could that happen? Makes it scary enough to have to go there without that kind of stuff going on. Maybe the airport security contractor is one of those which used to operate in the states pre <acronym title="Taipei - Sung Shan (TSA / RCSS), Taiwan">TSA</acronym>, usin...
Jump to postWatch Airbus come in with a ridiculously low bid (subsidized of course) and blow Boeing way out of the water. Then watch all the senate fireworks when the "good ole' boys" go to fighting each other over the Airbus coup.
Jump to postHooray! does this mean that NBC will start a trend in getting rid of all those horrendously brainless show plots like <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> so common to network <acronym title="Virgin Express (Belgium)">TV</acronym> since its incept...
Jump to postThe CRJ 200, in its short life, is fast on its way to becoming a high statistic aircraft.
Jump to postI have seen two real scary separate incidents with two pilots who work for a western based airline. In looking at one incident which occurred at the airport, I found from family members and witnesses, whom I interviewed, that the pilot (in his pre airline days) had suffered a diagnosed condition of ...
Jump to postOH HELLO!! One can contract HIV virus from saliva, especially if the person has bleeding in the mouth, whether from trauma or if existing sores or the gums are bleeding. Many persons in advanced stages of AIDS have bleeding gums. This is a myth propagated by those who tout prositution and say HIV ca...
Jump to postLove Field has a great dependency on Southwest to continue operations there. Should they leave, Love will quickly go down hill. Think of all those jobs and business which will disappear.
Jump to postAs much as many airlines like to have employees who like to have fun with the passengers, I feel the pilot was valid in making his comments. Only the severely anal-retentive with no sense of humor and no life would have taken serious offence at that joke. Humor often lands most of us in hot water wi...
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