Re: Comlux 787 Direct from ICN to EZE today

The pax may stay in these destinations for a month—third or fourth home. I know bizjets that sit for months at an airport, crew goes home. The Nice ramp is booked all summer with planes that rarely move. Look at the time spent at Male and Gan last month. Interesting. Thanks. I’m curious to know mor...

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Re: Comlux 787 Direct from ICN to EZE today

GalaxyFlyer wrote:

Private charters, that is what Comlux does. Passenger moves or deadheads.

Makes sense, but look at the flights it’s done during the past two weeks. The plane doesn’t return to most of the destinations it visited like you would expect if it was going to pick up the passengers for the return flight.

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Comlux 787 Direct from ICN to EZE today

Is this the longest 787 flight ever? Must be close anyway. It’s almost on the exact opposite sides of the planet. Last week the same aircraft did PPT-CPH nonstop too. It’s still airborne after close to 20 hours in the air at the time of posting this. The reg is P4-787 for anyone using FR24. What’s t...

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Re: Honolulu woman sentenced after intentionally severing FAA communication lines

ushermittwoch wrote:

Can't read it, being located in Europe. But the author should know that the plural of aircraft is aircraft.

I just changed my VPN location to the US and it worked

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Re: Norwegian Ends Plans to Fly Longhaul

Sad to see that we still have the odd dinosaur gleefully trolling the demise of a competitor. Perhaps it comforts some to know that several thousand people have no jobs to return to. The reality is that Norwegian had just about pulled everything together and were looking at a strong and likely prof...

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Re: Norwegian Ends Plans to Fly Longhaul

As a now former DY 787 pilot, I’m saddened by this news although it wasn’t surprising. It was the best flying job I’ve had so far during my career. Great atmosphere in the company, nice colleagues, and every time we landed somewhere, it was like a small vacation for 2-3 days. Truly my dream job. Ho...

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Re: Norwegian Ends Plans to Fly Longhaul

Even though they didn't make it to MSP with scheduled flights (though at one point in better times there was talk of them coming here) at least they diverted here once. Haha there was so much crap floating around internally and obviously externally as well. There was a rumor of direct flights from ...

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Re: Norwegian Ends Plans to Fly Longhaul

As a now former DY 787 pilot, I’m saddened by this news although it wasn’t surprising. It was the best flying job I’ve had so far during my career.

Great atmosphere in the company, nice colleagues, and every time we landed somewhere, it was like a small vacation for 2-3 days. Truly my dream job.

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Re: Is Deplatforming Conservatives Strenthening Them?

He should have been blocked from social media before he took office even. He broke the Twitter guidelines almost on a daily basis and even the laws as well by spreading hate and threatening with violence such as nuclear war (during his presidency). I don’t know what took them so long but this isn’t ...

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Re: Norwegian News and Discussion - 2020

Really makes you think where they would be today if they just limited their long-haul flying to Oslo. In stead they entered highly competitive markets while bringing nothing new in terms of product and service. They did bring something new. It was an excellent value for money, especially the premiu...

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Re: Norwegian News and Discussion - 2020

Really makes you think where they would be today if they just limited their long-haul flying to Oslo. In stead they entered highly competitive markets while bringing nothing new in terms of product and service. They did bring something new. It was an excellent value for money, especially the premiu...

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Re: Married Delta Pilots Fly Together, Retire Together?

We had a married couple that flew together most of the time on the MD80 at Continental She was the Captain and he was the FO, they were able to bid to fly together most of the time The question is why would you do that?? :lol: I have to admit that I often enjoyed my one week trips with double layov...

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Re: Cruise Ship / Ocean Liner Thread - 2020

Repo in case they could have started European cruises? Probably lower costs to be moored in Europe than in the US? Bliss is strange given that Bliss is usually assigned to do Alaska out of Seattle. Encore was gonna have a summer Caribbean season IIRC...she's slated to come out to the Pacific for Al...

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Re: Cruise Ship / Ocean Liner Thread - 2020

Does anyone know what Norwegian Bliss and Norwegian Encore are doing in Copenhagen? Looks like they arrived after leaving the US in the beginning of august, and it looks like they are scheduled to do cruises out of new york and los angeles by late october.. so why send them all the way across the po...

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Re: Wizz Air Abu Dhabi announces first destinations from AUH base

I’m surprised that the UAE authorities have allowed a foreign airline to set up a base in AUH

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Re: Qatari 747-8i BBJ flying mansion hits the market

johns624 wrote:

It must have lost its new plane smell so they didn't want it anymore.

Or maybe the Qataris are in deep sh*t because of the current situation

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Re: PIA A320 (flight PK8303) crashes in Karachi

Maybe someone with actual experience in a 320 can comment, but in the instances I’ve seen where we have mis-managed energy in a descent, throwing the gear *early* is an easy, effective way to increase drag, slow down, and get down. Gear speed in my airplane is a full 50 knots faster than flap speed...

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Re: DY Financial Discussion - 2020

Looks like the Chinese are really profiting from this virus. They now picked up 1/8 of the shares in the company for a relatively low amount because of this outbreak.

But hopefully this means Siberian overflight permits

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Re: 3 Wizzair (W6) en route to TSE

I’m more surprised about the two LOT 787s also inbound TSE. Should be able to reach China nonstop

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Re: DY Financial Discussion - 2020

What are you talking about? At one point DY was bigger than SAS in CPH. What are you talking about? Norwegian has never been bigger that SAS at CPH. Not even close. Same with ARN. However they are/was the largest carrier at OSL But that said, Norwegian has a Swedish AOC, and is actually in the proc...

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Re: DY Financial Discussion - 2020

Norwegian offered largest share of airline state guarantee package Norway’s government is providing a conditional state loan guarantee for its aviation industry amounting to NKr6 billion ($533 million), and is securing a minimum level of flight operations in the country. Half of the funding, NKr3 b...

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Re: DY Financial Discussion - 2020

People didn't believe me when I said that the Norwegian government was behind the continued equity infusions at DY (through small funds). If Norway are giving DY this kind of rescue package without much of a collateral or strings attached, it's clear now that DY is indirectly subsidised by the Norw...

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Re: DY Financial Discussion - 2020

People didn't believe me when I said that the Norwegian government was behind the continued equity infusions at DY (through small funds). If Norway are giving DY this kind of rescue package without much of a collateral or strings attached, it's clear now that DY is indirectly subsidised by the Norw...

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Re: DY Financial Discussion - 2020

http://www.norwegiancargo.com been discussed here already? It looks like they will try to use the 787s as freighters at least during the corona crisis.