I don't think the Belugas are used to transport fuselages, just wings. The Belugas transport several sections of A3xx, not just wings, but not complete fuselages. They regularly call to load components at St Nazaire, Madrid and Bremen as well as Broughton (Chester) to transport for final assembly a...
Jump to postI would just like to add that for once, Manchester played a blinder when we returned to T1 on Lufthansa recently on a long journey from Sydney. We arrived at the back of a big crowd at passport control, but seeing that we had mobility issues and were hobbling along, the staff picked us out and sent ...
Jump to postI flew AMS-TXL on Dan-Air in 1982, and I'm pretty sure it was a 1-11, on a twice a day schedule.
At the time, Dan-Air also operated daily services between Berlin and Saarbruecken.
NLDru wrote:Good news for AFKL, now they have to take over TAP, then this aviation group will cover the entire world.
The article doesn't claim it to be the World's Largest anything.
What's the measure, and why is it any different to multiple other airline partnerships?
Well apparently according to Simon Calder continental Europeans cannot be bothered to get passports because they ‘only’ travel within the EU so their I.d cards suffice. Have you ever heard such a ridiculous statement from a supposed travel expert. The ID card only travel issue is true. I recently r...
Jump to postGfgdfgv wrote:Semi relayed question, but didn't easy have a base at Vienna at one point? Was looking at booking MAN-VIE but they have no routes to Vienna at all!
OffTheRails wrote:CometOrbit wrote:EK413 wrote:
I’m guessing LHR’s curfew has something to do with the further delay to the Baku rescue flight.
VH-OQD left SYD about an hour ago heading to Baku on the rescue missing it looks like as per above Correct, -OQD due wheels down 21:35 and off again LHR bound at 22:30. Qantas flight status is showing the rescue flight with a further delay, leaving Baku at 0505 and reaching Heathrow at 0605. There ...
Jump to postIn a related sector, the OneWeb satellite company relied on Russian-controlled Soyuz launches from Baikonur. With the next mission about to be launched, Russia has cancelled it and will not return the satellites, nor the the funds advanced by OneWeb to pay for the launch. With the satellite network ...
Jump to postI heard a refining company is going bankrupt, too ? That will be Essar UK who run Stanlow refinery in Cheshire (used to be a Shell facility).. Reportedly they are having problems paying a large VAT tax bill due to poor trading during the Covid lockdowns. The matter is still under negotiation. Stanl...
Jump to postAlliances seem fairly irrelevant these days, with airlines having to concentrate on the very basics of their operations to survive the pandemic downturn in traffic. In the UK we still have the peculiar situation where Virgin Atlantic is 49% owned by Delta, and is part of its trans-Atlantic JV, but i...
Jump to postLondon. The fastest I get is 2:31 by train. Some of these could probably be brought within 2:30 with schedule optimizations only. Others still run on slow tracks part of the way. In normal (non-Covid) times the regular hourly Eurostar schedule London-Paris is 2h16m (London-Brussels is a bit less). ...
Jump to postIf that’s how cars are made these days, I’d argue that it’s a failure of modern manufacturing and environmentally indefensible. Common sense alone would highlight so many trips backwards and forwards is creating so many potential failures in the process. Maybe it’s time to reassess what makes sense...
Jump to postIt's quite simple.
WizzAir restarted flights on 1 May, easyJet on 15 June and Ryanair on 21 June, all on a slow upward curve.
It's pointless making comparisons until the July figures are in (and better still wait till "normality" returns throughout Europe).
Ilha do Sal (SID) was also a stop on the JNB-JFK SAA service. When I did JNB-SID-LHR in 1982 we were not allowed off the plane during the stop. The same applied at Mauritius on the weekly SYD-PER-MRU-JNB. Two of the most tedious flights of my life. The routeing from JNB ran out to sea just south of ...
Jump to posttvh wrote:how many jobs are there with airbus ?
The BBC is reporting that the Thai government will restructure the airline and it will not go bankrupt. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52718464 Loss-making Thai Airways has been allowed to restructure its debts to keep its planes in the sky. The struggling airline had previously asked for a gov...
Jump to postI believe that the wording of 'all' meant that the complete fleet of 7 will be retired. Not 100% sure though, although many aviation news outlets, posters on this forum, and social media are saying goodbye to the Virgin 747 for good. Wikipedia has already deleted the 747s from their version of the ...
Jump to postSo SAA was heavily subsidized? I must have been expensive to fly around Africa the whole time. Also,did SAA have competition on international flight or were other airlines not allowed to fly into South Africa by the government? As far as I know SAA was the only airline allowed to operate in South A...
Jump to postWhat stake do the respective governments have in these national airlines compared to the British government and BA? According to Wiki, for AF-KLM, the French and Dutch governments both own 14.3%. Delta and China Eastern airlines both own 8.8%. Lufthansa Group is wholly privately owned as far as I c...
Jump to postWill be interesting to see what the unions have to say about this. Sounds like BA may be exploiting the pandemic to weed out higher-cost (maybe older?) workers so they can hire cheap when things pick up again. All because of a slump in travel that may correct itself in a year. BA knows that they ca...
Jump to postEasyJet Europe (EC) is also based in Austria, with (according to Wiki) 140 aircraft based there, and employing all of EasyJet's non-UK staff based across the EU. So you'd expect the airline to have some claim on any aviation support funds offered by the Austrian government. The EU should also be sup...
Jump to postAgain, let Delta and the billionaire save it. Isn't Delta the most profitable airline in the world? Isn't Branson a billionaire? Why are they begging for taxpayer money all of a sudden? Meanwhile Condor, a not dissimilar airline to VS, is likely to get a second loan from the German government to ge...
Jump to postBA Airbus A380 flying as BAW57D currently on her way to... storage? She hasn't flown for 5 days. Anyone having an idea where she is going? Spain? https://www.flightradar24.com/BAW57D/24467c78 Maybe a special repatriation flight, (possibly JNB which is normally BA57?). It's being closely followed by...
Jump to postbennett123 wrote:IMO, Brexit is the Elephant in the room here.
Will the UK agree to an EU carrier doing internal flights?.
Gingersnap wrote:PLM8471 from Wuhan just touched down at BZZ this minute.
Thomas Cook's slots at Manchester, Birmingham and Stansted have been sold to Jet2, according to the BBC.
Jump to postFor UK-USA, it can be cheaper to fly from London to the far west (Las Vegas, say, or Salt Lake City), than to the eastern hub (New York, say, or Atlanta) you fly through. But Delta specifically states they will come after you for the full per-leg fare if you do not complete the full flight routeing,...
Jump to postI have to admit a tinge of regret at Adria's demise. They operated my first flight 53 years ago, as Adria Aviopromet, from Manchester to Dubrovnik - AY500. It was a 6-hour flight in a DC 6B, on my honeymoon to Montenegro, booked with Yugotours - a world ago. I can still remember the captain's name o...
Jump to postAt LIS, LCC carriers (eg easyJet) use T2 (no bridges), but arrivals are bussed from the aircraft round the apron to T1 for immigration, joining the very last part of the arrivals queue. At MAN, I have been totally soaked in the 40 metres in the open between gate and aircraft (with the boarding queue...
Jump to postEasyJet will soon not be an EU airline, at least the larger UK-based part of it. Lufthansa would have ownership and control problems in buying a UK airline. Having said that, the UK Department of Transport has issued today an air policy document which indicated it wants to retain the wider EU+UK fra...
Jump to postPrague, Basel, Budapest, Naples, Nice, Venice (bus or boat). Prague, Budapest have planned metro connections, but it's delayed/slowed every year. Prague will also have a heavy rail connection but it isn't planned to be ready before 2023. Nice will have a fast tram connection to the city centre in s...
Jump to postPrague, Basel, Budapest, Naples, Nice, Venice (bus or boat).
Jump to postThe EU has published two "no deal" documents on aviation. The first is a hard-line position on the formal revocation of rights to fly between the UK and EU27 after we leave (if no withdrawal deal). The second is a pragmatic statement that basically allows current rights to continue for ano...
Jump to postSheremetyevo airport is already named indirectly after a famous Russian family - the Sheremetevs. They were sponsors of the arts, particularly theatre and opera, and owned Ostankino Palace just north of Moscow. The village of Sheremetyevskiy, further north, was named after the family, and this is wh...
Jump to postI wouldn't call it "their most important route" but ORY-TLS is AF's busiest route with up to 25 daily frequencies. CDG-GVA is their international route that sees the most frequencies with 9 daily fligths (recently down from 10), CDG-JFK is the transatlantic route they fly the most frequen...
Jump to postI think you have to stop over at an intermediate point for at least 24 hours to avoid UK APD on the whole trip.
Jump to postI have a couple of questions? You state "For a long time", so when was this because I never knew TE/NZ operated a round the world flight, although it make sense. There is nothing in the NZ history on their web site about this service. Was the flight numbers 1/2? The first service to Londo...
Jump to postThis is a seasonal flight. It actually has been performing very well, with load factors of 83% in the second set of 6 months of operation. Would I be surprised if it was discontinued? Yes. I check the fares frequently because I fly to AMS all the time and they seem to be consistently... high. That'...
Jump to postI can add Manila to the list of clapping destinations.
With so many filipinos/filipinas working lengthy spells abroad I guess they are very happy to be back home.
mariner wrote:There is a strong, coherent theme - Australiana.
The UK prime minister wants to hold parliament elections this summer on june 8. This could change the whole BREXIT strategy and decision as people now realize what actual consequences BREXIT will have for them and for their UK jobs and incomes. It's a grim paradox that Wales, and especially North W...
Jump to postNothing about it on their website. Didn't I read a few months ago that they retrenched a large number of IT staff in a cost cutting exercise? Maybe these were the ones who were setting up the contingency plans for major outages - perhaps a false economy? It's on their "More Flight News" l...
Jump to postThe British (Labour) government wanted to cancel the Concorde programme on cost grounds in the 1970s before it went into production, but found it had signed a treaty with the French government not to do so (to prevent the French from cancelling it unilaterally). Talk about shooting yourself in the f...
Jump to postAhh, yes. The one with the lady in the wheelchair on the tail... I think that lady was Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni tribe that nearly drove the Romans from Britain back in 60-61 A.D. And it was probably a chariot of some sort. Some women you just don't piss off, like gang raping her daughters for i...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/AirIndia" class="quote" target="_blank">AirIndia</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i><acronym title="Dubai - International (DXB...
Jump to postThe looming UK referendum on EU membership will put a damper in the way of further mergers/acquisitions involving <acronym title="Niagara Falls - International (IAG / KIAG), USA - New York">IAG</acronym> until it is out of the way. While I'm sure the British aviation industry is strongly pro-EU, who...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/by738" class="quote" target="_blank">by738</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i>The <acronym title="Glasgow - International (Abb...
Jump to postNZ have flown this route before. I flew <acronym title="Auckland - International (AKL / NZAA), New Zealand">AKL</acronym>-<acronym title="Honolulu - International / Pearl Harbor-Hickam JB (Hickam AFB) (HNL / HIK / PHNL / PHIK), USA - Hawaii">HNL</acronym>-<acronym title="Los Angeles - International ...
Jump to post