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Re: Turkish Airlines to rebrand into “Türkiye Havayolları”

Politicians taking business decisions rarely ends well.

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Re: Avolon CEO says Boeing has "lost its way"

If Boeing can come back from the horrible downturn in the early 70s, it can turn this around, too. But they had stalwarts like Malcom Stamper to turn the thing around. The last decent executive that Boeing had was Alan Mulally. McNerney was brought in to fix Stonecipher’s mess but while he righted ...

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Re: Avolon CEO says Boeing has "lost its way"

If Boeing can come back from the horrible downturn in the early 70s, it can turn this around, too. But they had stalwarts like Malcom Stamper to turn the thing around. The last decent executive that Boeing had was Alan Mulally. McNerney was brought in to fix Stonecipher’s mess but while he righted ...

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Re: Avolon CEO says Boeing has "lost its way"

The aircraft industry needs an Elon Musk to upend it just like he did to the space industry with SpaceX. Remember a famous launch company CEO stating that a booster has to refly at least 10 times to make re-use profitable. Even that statement has been blown out of the water. There seems to be a beli...

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Re: Delta in talks to purchase 100 737MAX-10's

I just hope this is really true. This would be a sweet victory and a miracle for Boeing. It would break the Airbus walled garden that Delta has had for the past 10 years. I remember there was a lot of bad blood between the two companies that led to the Airbus bias at Delta. Looks like they're on th...

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Re: 757 pilots having fun

Brings back memories of the rocket like 757 takeoffs when I used to fly out of SFO in the 1990’s. Sadly I now live in a part of the world where the bird is all but extinct.

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Re: John Leahy blames the engines for the A380 failure-in service in 10 years? 2nd life after 2024?

I can reflect on this issue a little bit because I used to fly frequently between India (specifically Bangalore) and the U.S. from the early 1980's to about 2010 and saw the changes to international travel through experience (the tinny sounds of the DC-10 engines from that era still reverberate thro...

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Re: PIA A320 (flight PK8303) crashes in Karachi

I think this is new: "Pakistani aviation authority says PIA pilot ignored air traffic control Pakistani aviation authorities have told Pakistan International Airlines that the pilot of a passenger plane that crashed into a residential district of Karachi last month had ignored air traffic cont...

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Re: Sheikh Ahmed: Emirates still denied access to 'many cities'

Every country has one or more airlines, only Emirates Airlines has a country. That's the crux of the problem.

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Re: BA using remote gates

Flew to BLR last Sunday and we were bused from gate A10 up the stairs into the aircraft. Flight was at 14:15 hours.

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Re: Boeing 777X Testing Thread - 2019

suspect that it is currently seen as too big for the market. This is what really did for the A380 and the 747-8 Or those two aircrafts suffer from having 4 engines. Many here propose that if the A380 can operate with 2 engines, it would not have died. A successful 777X program would reinforce that ...

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Re: Boeing 777X Testing Thread - 2019

Great video of wingtips unfolding on the move:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cImfFHPQT7s

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Re: Boeing 777X Testing Thread - 2019

Revelation wrote:

Boeing 777-9 N779XW by royalscottking, on Flickr

Beautiful!

So, how many minivans can fit into a 777-9X?

Forget that. The real question is how many of that minivan will fit in it's engine pod!

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Re: B737MAX Grounded Worldwide

I hope that however the fix is done, that the testing will be very through, even if delays the return to service of the 737MAX series planes for more months including into the Fall. Also, there is the need to make sure any fix is not going to create other issues. I am concerned that the FAA will be...

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Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

How many examples in commercial aviation exist where the plane has a control system to correct an inherently unstable aerodynamic situation (by design) ? Don’t know about commercial but I think a lot of fighter aircraft are like that e.g. Eurofighter Typhoon. But they are all FBW. The problem with ...

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Re: American A321NEO Cabin Shots

Hey guys, I was looking through instagram and I found this shot which shows American's newest family member in the "Party" mode. Does anyone else out there have more images of the cabin. I've already seen the images taken during delivery maintenance. Also, thoughts? Personally, I love the...

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Re: 4 Sikhs allegedly deboarded cause a lady felt threatened from them

Generally, airlines will not release full information about passengers being de-boarded due to the legal/bad publicity implications, so anyone who gets kicked off a plane can make up a story about the reason. Most of these cases just die down after a while without any charges being filed. I really w...

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Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

https://twitter.com/Engineer19952/statu ... 5916211206

Check it out and make of it what you will.

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Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

From the Ethiopian Airlines CEO through Richard Quest (their travel reporter), CNN is reporting that the airplane had flight control issues: https://twitter.com/CNNnewsroom/status/1105483072902815744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1105483072902815744&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fw...

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Re: British Airways commits to ordering 18 777-9 plus an additional 24 options

With EY wanting to cancel their order of 777X's, Boeing must have done the rounds offering a "bargain" deal to IAG/BA and other airline groups for the planes. I'm pretty sure Willie Walsh got a good deal from Boeing and that Boeing ended up with an overall net order of -1 from the total 7...

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Re: a MTOW increase on 787-10 to compete with A359?

Maybe the DOW difference is not due to the cabin config. It’s simply that 78J has a much ligher airframe because of it uses more advanced materials? The XWB has a half generation more modern engines than the 787. It also has more CFRP content in it's fuselage than the 787. It is newer design -> bet...

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Re: United B78X IAD-PEK

Looking at the maps for the two round trips, it looks like UA has used different routes. For example, on the 15 Feb PEK-IAD return run, it was a more traditional one looping over the pacific seaboard and over Alaska/Canada whereas on the 17th Feb run it was a polar route exiting out of Siberia (?) a...

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Re: QF officially cancels final 8 A380s.

Barring the " 'tis only a flesh-wound" defense of the mortally wounded A380 program in the following John Leahy interview, did the engine makers deliberately keep next-gen tech from Airbus when the A380 was on the drawing board as he claims? Did they have some kind of NDA with Boeing which...

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Re: Third C919 Took Sky

I would argue that the success of a commercial airliner depends on it's worldwide support and there's no point in talking about the Chinese and Russian offerings as little more than one-offs until their manufacturers can prove that they are capable of establishing it at the same levels of the Airbus...

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Re: Boeing 777X Production Thread 2018

GE has begun second round of testing for GE9X engines, expected to finish sometime in the first quarter of 2019 https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/ge-begins-second-round-of-ge9x-flight-testing-454327/?cmpid=SOC|Twitter|Flightglobal|sf204122096|sf204122096&sfid=701w0000000uP3H#sf20412209...

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Re: Air France will half it's A380 fleet

Keep in mind when A380 was launched in 2000 the economics of 77W was not known. If they had been, I imagine it would not have been launched. The market was already trending towards twin heavies when the A380 was launched. I personally remember a number of 747 routes that I used to fly in the 1990's...

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Re: Boeing 777X Production Thread 2018

Here's an article with a picture of the folding wing-tip that will actually fly. Lots more pictures in the article itself. Cool. https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2018/10/03/boeing-777x-jet-folding-wingtips-everett.html?ana=yahoo&yptr=yahoo https://media.bizj.us/view/img/11070825/777x-fol...

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Re: Gulf Air to receive four 787s with crew rest areas for flights to New York and Washington D.C

Gulf Air is wise to play it safe with a 787-9, the world doesn't need another Gulf airline with 50 77W and a dozen A380's. One could realistically argue that the world does't need two out of the three that it already has. :razz: It's an ego thing between these oil-doms. Throw the business case out ...

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Re: UA 777-200 seat maps now 3x4x3

I really don't see what all the fuss is about on qatar I didn't mind 3-4-3 at all and didn't notice much difference over 3-3-3 other than slimmer arm rests and being a little more careful in the isle with my suitcase. I'm not a small guy either 185 wear 36 waist Maybe it's because they seem to have...

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Re: Airbus is considering A350-1000ULR

Considering that the A330-NEO is not panning out as the 789 killer Airbus hoped it would be and with the possibility of the 787-10 eating into a significant chunk of future sales of the A359, shouldn't AIrbus be concentrating more on shoring up it's bread-and-butter wide-body offerings than embark o...

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Re: FAA Gives Final Approval to 777X Folding Wings

What a means is the sudden change of the wing position in-flight will not crash the plane. But it should be a safety measure to land ASAP once such malfunction happens. The failure mode should be the wingtip just sheers off. Current airframes with wingtip devices that lose them continue on with the...

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Re: Airbus to announce decision on selling planes to Iran over the coming days

Amazing the twisted logic that some have tried to bestow on the rest of the world. I find this very simple. Companies can do business with Iran, and be shunned by the economic powerhouse's of the world. Or they can go along with these same counties and continue to sell their products to a larger au...

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Re: American Airlines orders 47 additional 787's (22 788's and 25 789's), cancels A350 order

I am really curious, I would like to compare the savings of simplifying the fleet types versus the paid penalties for canceling the A350 order. Sure, AA would've only gone for this step because they would be gaining financially, but is the difference between the two that much? While it doesn't have...

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Re: Lockheed Martin Awarded New Supersonic Aircraft Project by NASA

Legacy military industrial conglomerates like Lockheed-Martin simply fatten themselves on these contracts with little results to show for the money spent. I wish NASA would invite nuevo-entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to also participate to bring some out of the box thinking, especially ...

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Re: Update: Hawaiian signs 787 LOI

Airline CEO explains why Airbus lost a major order to Boeing ..... "Unfortunately, the A330-800 has not proved to be as popular in the marketplace," Ingram (HA CEO) said. "But for us, it doesn't make sense to remain committed to an airplane that had the risk of not being sufficiently...

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Re: WN removes toddler from MDW-ATL flight

So if this account is accurate---the reason they were kicked off was because the FA had hurt feelings after being spoken to disrespectfully. It wasn't about the toddler at all---the toddler was ultimately cool and restrained. Trying to reason with a toddler isnt' easy--so the father was likely fraz...

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Re: WN removes toddler from MDW-ATL flight

A little more context on the incident from another passenger. I don't think allegedly taking personal abuse from a passenger is one of the requirements for a job as a FA: I was on this flight seated directly in front of the father and child who was removed from the plane. The flight attendant told t...

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Re: Boeing 777X Production Thread 2018

Here's a status update on both the engine and air-frame. Hope the snags aren't serious enough to disrupt the schedule.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/boeing-moves-keep-777x-track-engine-snag-010709163--finance.html

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Re: WN removes toddler from MDW-ATL flight

In the end is it not quicker to insist the man seat the child than turn the aircraft around and go back to the gate? I fully understand all individuals have to be seated for takeoff but it has to be quicker to insist the man seat the child "or else" and let the child cry perhaps than turn...

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Re: Boeing 777X Production Thread 2018

Video of the GE9X test flight has been posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsY5g3iV1rg

Damn, the thing is huge.

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Re: Emirates Flight Attendant Jumps From Aircraft in Apparent Suicide Attempt

No when someone is in so much a bad space as to end their life it is not always selfish. My aunt had really bad cancer and she decided to end her life to reduce not only her pain, but the suffering her family was going though watching her fad away while in excruciating pain. Maybe you thinking she ...

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Re: UPS announces order for 14 747-8F and 4 767F

I hate to "go there" - but am I the only one who thinks that Airbus was kinda hoping an order like this might not take place (ever) for the -8i... forcing Boeing to close production and almost certainly sealing the fate of their only VLA and (kinda) 380 competitor? I'm talking in a few ye...

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Re: Emirates signs a commitment for 36 additional A380's

I think the crutch of the article revolves around the simple commercial realities of the project. For Emirates they need Airbus to keep building the A380 because their business model revolves around it and for Airbus they need Emirates to keep buying the plane because the worlds airlines don't want...

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Re: 777-10 to be Boeing's 747 replacement?

Can a modified 777X provide better value than a brand new VLA cleansheet? Boeing would be better off sticking two engines with 130-140,000 pounds of thrust each underneath a new wing for it's 747-8 platform rather than trying to mod the 777 fuselage if it really feels there is a market for such a p...

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Re: 77X-8/9 compared to 777-300ER & A350-1000 (&787)

I do find it kind of funny that Boeing have tried to claim that the market is moving to a point to point model, which the 787 was designed to capture, yet talks up the 777X. Singapore, Emirates, Qatar, Cathay and Lufthansa still operate on the hub and spoke model very successfully so the 777X is ma...

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