Re: How comes EasyJet uses jet bridges at Gatwick and some other airports?

And it also might depend on what is available at that time. Are there any open gates with jet bridges? If not, then remote stand. Airlines don't have the final say in stand allocation - that is the prerogative of apron control. You go where they send you (with a bit of room for negotiation). Yes an...

Re: KLM A330 Minneapolis 1 May 2017

bennett123 wrote:

Many thanks for your help.

That was quick.

Unfortunately, I only got a rear 3/4 shot and they had the disabled lift up.

Re: KLM A330 Minneapolis 1 May 2017

PH-AOD operated KL655 AMS-MSP on the 1st of May 2017

Re: Air France-KLM News and Discussion - 2023

Its doable, but not profitable. There is a lot of bulk cargo along these routes. An A321 doesnt have the same cargospace below wing as an A330 There definitely is cargo, however the question is if contributes significantly. East Africa/Middle East/USA to Europe isn't the highest yielding traffic ou...

Re: Air France-KLM News and Discussion - 2023

Its doable, but not profitable. There is a lot of bulk cargo along these routes. An A321 doesnt have the same cargospace below wing as an A330 There definitely is cargo, however the question is if contributes significantly. East Africa/Middle East/USA to Europe isn't the highest yielding traffic ou...

Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2023

I have a question. On this website we frequently see people saying that some flights make money off of cargo and passengers are just gravy. Exactly what routes would these be, and how expensive are those cargo rates? I’ve worked in the industry for over 30 years and I’ve never heard of a route like...

Re: Delta A330 Lands 6 Feet Short Of The Runway At Amsterdam

Look at SJC's airport. There is an access road at the end of the runway and the runway does not start until several hundred feet down. It is all connected with concrete. Which is because that part can be used by aircraft taking off. As AMS 04/22 is not used for takeoff by such large aircraft, it's ...

Re: Differences in US vs. European Airline Operating Practices

Two things come to mind: -Scheduling by minute which seems to be done in the US only, where a departure time of 13:29 can be perfectly normal. In Europe I've never seen this, timings are always rounded to 5 minute increments. In my slot management history I haven't come across anything why 1 minute ...

Re: Alliance (Australia) retires the F50

Just quick enough so birds wouldn't hit you from the back. I remember the following joke on the F50. "Why does the Fokker 50 have de-icing boots on the rear of the wing?" "For when it get's overtaken by a stationary cold front" I wonder what the routes will be. Long way to go to...

Re: Air Cargo (non Amazon/DHL) Thread - 2022

Looks like he thought better of it and deleted the Tweet. Steve's the one that sometimes seems a little loose-cannon-ish. Or maybe that was TDS, but I think it was pretty clear from some earlier twitter posts that you couldn't say the T-word around him. Maybe that doesn't bleed over into everything...

Re: Air France-KLM signs for up to 160 A320neos and eight A350 freighters

The one thing that this helps of course is the reduction of narrow body cockpits to 3. There will only be E-Jets, A220 and A320 cockpits in the whole group left in about 10 years. The consequences of this for Boeing is really bad because all three Jets will be around until 2050. The only way this c...

Re: Air Cargo (non-Amazon/DHL) Thread - 2021

Geodis enters dedicated air cargo market https://www.scramble.nl/civil-news/geodis-enters-dedicated-air-cargo-market?fbclid=IwAR32bQpAB4DEkjlm52Npf2_jtARNgd7uRtX6FjxJXsAdOBd5xuJoAu_o8Jo Freight forwarding specialist Geodis is entering the dedicated air cargo market by adding an A330-300P2F. The air...

Re: Air Cargo (non-Amazon/DHL) Thread - 2021

First A330 for Titan Airways. https://www.skyliner-aviation.de/viewphoto.main?LC=nav2&picid=10832 What's the A340 behind it? Did anyone hear anything about the plans Geodis has with this bird? Google doesn't turn up anything. Interesting to see the forwarders (after Panalpina and CMA CMG) getti...

Re: City Pairs with “Endless Demand”

LAX772LR wrote:

As per the doc that was leaked a while back regarding BA's N.Am services, both JFK and LAX were two of BA's weaker yielding destinations (for the traffic that originates and terminates).

Re: Air Cargo (non-Amazon/DHL) Thread - 2021

CX747 wrote:

I personally vote to base it in Zurich, heck of an airport and well, the beauty of Switzerland.

Re: Future Martinair

ATC-NL will initially deploy 2 747-400Fs for freight liner services to Hong Kong, US and China. About the same lines that Martinair Cargo also flies on. Not quite... Martinair operates their freighters on 4 lanes: JNB, VCP, BOG (via MIA) and once weekly ORD. That's very little overlap with the US p...

Re: SLM new 777 and ETOPS

zkojq wrote:

Without them KLM would have a monopoly on Europe to PBM....and would nodoubt charge monopoly prices.

Re: Amazon Fleet Discussion - 2020

There are some ramp facilities where they have built-in bridges that connect from sort building directly to the plane so no dolly OR loader is needed. For instance look at the Google Earth or maps satellite view at the FedEx EWR hub building on the left (main deck) side of the gates. It's not commo...

Re: Amazon Fleet Discussion - 2020

Ok, in what scenario are dollies not needed anymore? You have to have dolly strings to move the containers from sort to aircraft, unless you have a nose dock but those are few and far between. The only alternative is to have trucks back directly up to the loader, but that's a very inefficient way t...

Re: Amazon Fleet Discussion - 2020

Boof02671 wrote:

Just a realist and your conveyor belt won’t hold a ULD

JRadier wrote:

Extendable roller beds already exist, although they need some serious beefing up fo handle ULD's.

Re: Amazon Fleet Discussion - 2020

Your not even taking weather into account , a hydrant is not automated and many airports already use that. How is a K loader going to drive to the main cabin cargo door? How is the dollies going to precisely line up with the K loader? You are not taking into effect the complexities of a ramp operat...

Re: Amazon Fleet Discussion - 2020

And your missing how the ramp and an airport works. An airport won’t spend the money to disrupt the whole airport for several flights a day. The airport is a complex and dangerous place. There are way too many variables for such a feat to be accomplished. You have no idea what an airport and airpla...

Re: Amazon Fleet Discussion - 2020

Let's remember, an air delivery is in some sense a failure to place inventory optimally. It's nothing that Amazon wants to do, it's something that Amazon has to do. If there's a cheaper alternative (like delivering by truck from a local FC) Amazon will seek that first. Thanks for your excellent pos...

Re: Air France KLM - Master Thread

-CUR/BON are focussing primarily on NL traffic, due to historic ties Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten are countries within the Kingdom of The Netherlands so not only historic ties but also current ties :) In that light, BON also has current ties as it is a municipality in the country of the Netherla...

Re: Air France KLM - Master Thread

Forgive my going slightly OT but aside from AF/KLM how come we never saw any 767,787s from UK,German, Italian leisure carriers or even A332/3s? (TUI,MT,DE,Blu Panorama.Neos etc)? TUI NL operated a 788 via CUR on the way back, and a few French carriers operated regular flights. There are some one-of...

Re: Scheduled long distance routes with small aircraft (incl stopovers)?

A few interesting ones operated by OR (TUI Airlines Netherlands) on 737-800 in the past: AMS-SID-FOR-NAT-SID-AMS (Brazil) AMS-HRG-MBA-ZNZ-HRG-AMS (Kenya/Tanzania) AMS-DXB-KTM-DXB-AMS (Nepal) Travel Service also used to operate 737's (in various routings) from PRG to CUN, amongst others PRG-PDL-BDA-C...

Re: COVID-19 Cargo Discussion Thread (Cargo Operators and Passenger Airlines Operating Cargo Only Flights)

And? They're getting the freight in and securing it HOW? there are no tiedowns to secure the pallet positions and the bulkheads in the Pax compartment are not structural. Hell! the carpet isn't even removed. This could be a picture of an airplane at the beginning of an overhaul or at the end of an ...

Re: KLM to retire A330's by 2025, to become all Boeing airline

Polot wrote:

What are the 77E routes?

Re: Mallorca aircraft collide in mid-air, killing at least seven.