Plane involved was JA13XJ. I think it’s a write off I would imagine ;) Glad everyone on the JAL flight was safe, how scary that what seemed to be a normal landing would end up like this. I wonder how the confusion/mistake happened. As bad as it was already, and it was bad, it looks like it could ha...
Jump to postFirst my condolences to all of the families/friends of the crew and passengers on that flight...I can not even begin to imagine how difficult of a time this is for all of them. To everyone calling for the MAX to be grounded perhaps we should just take a step back and see what the investigation from...
Jump to postUAL has had its share of PR problems lately. Maybe its time for a re-branding. E.g. BRING BACK THE TULIP!
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Might be off topic, but anyone have a good resource to keep track of SXM recovery? It has always been on my bucket list and after hurricane I really want to go sooner the better to help the local economy even is just in a small way. I was supposed to go on a trip to SXM for my birthday in early Oct...
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/SKAirbus" class="quote" target="_blank">SKAirbus</a> (<a href="#120" class="quote">Reply 120</a>):<br/><i>Some more interesting facts. When comp...
Jump to postThe way things look, Boeing has put most of their stock in large twins e.g. 777X to replace the 747. I imagine we'll see retirement of the 748i 20-30 years, but who knows. With such small fleet sizes, and with more efficient twins being increasingly able to do what a 747 can do... I also wonder if i...
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Jump to postThe center fuel tank theory is the biggest load of hooey I've ever heard. I was 12 when it happened and I knew it wasn't just some explosion.... not with all the eyewitness accounts, and just thinking about it in the years that followed. <acronym title="Anderson - Regional (County) (AND / KAND), USA...
Jump to postSuicidality is a tricky thing. I'm a psychologist and I'm trained to assess for these things. There are ways to test for things that would lead to increased risk for suicidal behavior, but nothing is 100% fool proof. There are people who will not appear suicidal on tests, there are people who will l...
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/bleudefrance" class="quote" target="_blank">bleudefrance</a> (<a href="#140" class="quote">Reply 140</a>):<br/><i>Should be impossible in a comm...
Jump to postThe whole situation is awful. Perhaps the US should think a bit more critically about what happens when you try to topple governments... you create a vacuum in power, you create sectarianism, and you create extremism out of that. Now this is what the world is dealing with. A bunch of extremists misu...
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/Aaron747" class="quote" target="_blank">Aaron747</a> (<a href="#65" class="quote">Reply 65</a>):<br/><i>As his supervisor, I ought to be concern...
Jump to postThere are plenty of people who don't believe the official story. That doesnt warrant a psychiatric evaluation. There are many reasons not to believe the official story - but that's not helping your situation. I myself have my doubts that we know the whole truth. But anyway - People's minds are alrea...
Jump to postIAD. United seems unsure what to do there... which is deeply affecting its overall function and performance. <acronym title="Washington - Ronald Reagan National (DCA / KDCA), USA - Virginia">DCA</acronym> is ironically the little engine that could... everyone loves the convenience of it. Internation...
Jump to postIve flown the route in the spring, summer and fall. It's always been under 6 hours (usually something like 5 <acronym title="Hahn Air Lines (Germany)">HR</acronym> 30 MIN) to <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym> from <acronym title="Beirut - Rafic Hariri Inte...
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/durangomac" class="quote" target="_blank">durangomac</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>The system isn't sending data 100% of ...
Jump to postI Miss the days when you could fly on a 777 or 763 to <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym> from <acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (IAD / KIAD), USA - Virginia">IAD</acronym>. I did it a few times... was always really fun to hop on...
Jump to postI've flown <acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (IAD / KIAD), USA - Virginia">IAD</acronym>-<acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym> in just over 6 hours. Normally 6 <acronym title="Hahn Air Lines (Germany)">HR</acronym> 30 MIN. I remember being stun...
Jump to postI think the <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> livery looks fantastic on the 788. With its clean lettering and font, and nice silvery color, plus interesting tail design... it all works perfectly with the super modern and clean lines of the 788. Congrats to <acronym title="America...
Jump to postNot sure why after MH370, there seemed to be no more discussion about real time tracking of each airline's planes. It seems technically feasible. For safety and for accidents, why aren't we keeping much closer track of where planes are? We dont need to rely solely on radar anymore, as it might not p...
Jump to postThe E Gates are an embarrassment to <acronym title="Miami - International (Wilcox Field / 36th Street / Pan American Field) (MIA / KMIA), USA - Florida">MIA</acronym> at this point. I flew out of the E terminal on <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> last summer and it was wretched. Especia...
Jump to postOk, so this whole Freud calling homosexuality a perversion is actually not true. FYI I'm a (gay) psychologist who has actually studied Freud. What Freud DID say was that homosexuals follow a different developmental line - but he did not really pathologize homosexuality, while some of his contemporar...
Jump to postI'm sort of surprised that these scimitar winglets were not fitted from the beginning - the <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-11 used to have similar ones, WAY before the 737s were ever fitted with the <acronym title="Lauda Air (Austria)">NG</acronym> style winglets to begin with.... I pr...
Jump to postIs this real!? This must be a 4/1 joke!?
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lol... I love all the critics here. Boo hoo I have to climb over someone 4 times in the course of 10 hours. Meanwhile 70% of the plane is sardined in the back with 31" pitch and a 18" wide seat but no one seems to give a hoot about that. The only issue is access from WINDOW seats.... so the majority...
Jump to postAlmost nobody knows who IAD Washington Dulles International Airport is named after.... it's just one of those things!
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<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Natflyer" class="quote" target="_blank">Natflyer</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>Arriving at <acronym title="Washington - D...
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/jumpjets" class="quote" target="_blank">jumpjets</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>Just like <acronym title="Lufthansa (Germa...
Jump to postI think the only major effect this will have is to take some traffic from people who are connecting to ME and Asia destinations from Miami and divert them to <acronym title="Qatar Airways">QR</acronym>. I wonder if it will last, honestly, but perhaps with the market in Miami really heating up, it wi...
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/zrs70" class="quote" target="_blank">zrs70</a> (<a href="#68" class="quote">Reply 68</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> See previous post.....
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/Dreadnought" class="quote" target="_blank">Dreadnought</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i> If you think that Israel's treatmen...
Jump to postI'm sort of surprised given how much complaining they were doing about the 787 and its problems. But good for them, and good for the 789 program. Also... that paint scheme as got to go. I'm sorry but I agree. It kinda looks like a tampon. There, I said it. #sorryImnotsorry lol
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I think the outrage over the new livery is unwarranted to begin with. Going back to the old <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> livery would be a step backwards. Its a classic - and always will be - but at this point it is dated in terms of its font and the lines and all that. Sad ...
Jump to postI'm all for looking at all contributing factors - but it appears that this was poor training and piloting. It seems unimaginable that someone who flew 747s for 20 years could end up botching a landing so badly like this. What are their sim training requirements? Any real check rides without pax? At ...
Jump to postIAD makes a lot of sense actually. For a long time they've had 3 flights a day. On the lowest end of capacity it's 2x 772 + 1 763. On the higher end, 1x 744 + 2x 772. They may be able to change the timing of the A380 departure and combine two flights and reduce the frequency, but maintain similar ca...
Jump to postI think the thing is... MOST airlines can accomplish the MAJORITY of missions that the 752 does/did, with the A321 or 739ER. Sure, take-off performance is an issue for some hot/high airports, but this is not the majority of cases. A321 NEO and 739ER have essentially the performance needed for what t...
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/abirda" class="quote" target="_blank">abirda</a> (<a href="#21" class="quote">Reply 21</a>):<br/><i>I think you're right. It's DAMN close. But 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/Stitch" class="quote" target="_blank">Stitch</a> (<a href="#60" class="quote">Reply 60</a>):<br/><i><acronym title="Cathay Pacific (China-Hong K...
Jump to postVery unexpected, but does make sense given the purpose of hte 787. I'm sure in future weeks/months/years we'll see the 787 turn into a real workhorse with tons of more 'mainstream' routes.
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JetBlue-Green.
lol... its cute, but weird..... doesn't match any other tails in the fleet with the addition of the green.
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<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/OA260" class="quote" target="_blank">OA260</a> (<a href="#35" class="quote">Reply 35</a>):<br/><i>They were dreadful. </i></font></td></tr></tab...
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/jsnww81" class="quote" target="_blank">jsnww81</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>Washington Dulles - 10</i></font></td></tr><...
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/Mah4546" class="quote" target="_blank">Mah4546</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> That's not exactl...
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/ozark1" class="quote" target="_blank">ozark1</a> (<a href="#29" class="quote">Reply 29</a>):<br/><i> United has the most boring livery going.</i...
Jump to postI didnt even notice at first that they have a ghetto version of the real BA tail... lol... there are no color 'dots' that create a waving flag effect...... #mess
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<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/cjg225" class="quote" target="_blank">cjg225</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> The BBB is a...
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/na" class="quote" target="_blank">na</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>"4 Engines 4 Long Haul", that was a great slogan until...
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Jump to postI see no reason for it, regardless of the convenience of <acronym title="Washington - Ronald Reagan National (DCA / KDCA), USA - Virginia">DCA</acronym>... there have been several kinds of premium service flights to <acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (IAD / KIAD), USA - Virginia">IAD<...
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/Qfflyer" class="quote" target="_blank">Qfflyer</a> (<a href="#53" class="quote">Reply 53</a>):<br/><i>Why is your right to sleep more important ...
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