I was ticketed to fly out of BER in November 2012, in the middle of that year the flight was changed back to depart from <acronym title="Berlin - Tegel (TXL / EDDT), Germany">TXL</acronym>. I had an interesting chat with the two elderly ladies who were in charge of the <acronym title="British Airway...
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/TruemanQLD" class="quote" target="_blank">TruemanQLD</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i> QF8 has barely left the US and has ...
Jump to postIn the last thread QF2220 asked a question about his aircrafts track on landing at Sydney. A few others chipped in with helpful suggestions. On thing to consider is what if the time that his aircraft landed was the earliest possible time (due to other traffic and his slot time). Any track shortening...
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Jump to postThey often do a bit at a time with a displaced threshold and move along. A lot of work is done a night and disruption is kept to a minimum as the airport derives its income from its customers. Closure is a last resort.
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Jump to postSelecting the site of a new tower is a very complicated business. It is usually required when a new facility or runway is commissioned. There are requirements that controllers be able to see the aircraft they are controlling also there are angle requirements so that the controller can observe that a...
Jump to postI assume that in the cases above that boarding passes are not checked at the aircraft door. In my experience ( limited to <acronym title="Qantas (Australia)">QF</acronym> and <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym>) boarding passes are checked at both the head of the aerobridge...
Jump to postNZ is toxic amongst the road warriors, ( the ones who lost their Golden Wing points)
The general public and infrequent flyers don't have a problem with NZ, but unfortunately for the airline, those people are not the big spenders that all airlines crave.
It happens twice every day. Both QF1 and QF9 are scheduled for flights longer than 24 hrs. So both days flights are airborne at the same time, no problem for ATC as they are on different sides of the world, but FR24 sometimes gets tangled up.
Jump to postQF are always going to have a problem if an aircraft goes tech in London, regardless of the aircraft type, as its 24 hrs away from its base. Usually the other daily flight is transposed and one flight cancelled. But there are plenty of <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym> A3...
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/TN486" class="quote" target="_blank">TN486</a> (<a href="#25" class="quote">Reply 25</a>):<br/><i> Quoting VapourTrails (Reply 9): ANSETT also h...
Jump to postIf I didn't know how to spell a Norwegian word I would look it up before making a fool of myself.
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/aryonoco" class="quote" target="_blank">aryonoco</a> (<a href="#91" class="quote">Reply 91</a>):<br/><i> In which case, since BER is such a valu...
Jump to postAll this talk about <acronym title="Perth (PER / YPPH), Australia - Western Australia">PER</acronym> or <acronym title="Darwin - International (DRW / YPDN), Australia - Northern Territory">DRW</acronym> or even <acronym title="Broome (BME / YBRM), Australia - Western Australia">BME</acronym> is igno...
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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/airbazar" class="quote" target="_blank">airbazar</a> (<a href="#35" class="quote">Reply 35</a>):<br/><i>I think my point is valid despite it not...
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Jump to postWhen I saw the title of this thread I thought it was a new route for <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym> <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0"/> to cater for the Ozzie surfer trade. I half ...
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/debonair" class="quote" target="_blank">debonair</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table><table bo...
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Jump to postNot a problem. On all airlines that I have been on the cabin crew insure that the higher class pax exit before others,
Jump to postI think it has already been discussed on here. For memory the first class section becomes economy and economy also takes over the front of J . The strange thing is that the seat numbering for that section of Y has higher numbers than the J section behind. The J bar stays the same.
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/thunderboltdrgn" class="quote" target="_blank">thunderboltdrgn</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i> FR24 only have natural dela...
Jump to post^^^ most likely maintainence, VHOGE came back from maintainence as QF 6009 yesterday.They usually have one A380 in Manila undergoing maintainence.
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/continental004" class="quote" target="_blank">continental004</a> (<a href="#13" class="quote">Reply 13</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Q...
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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/Qf2220" class="quote" target="_blank">Qf2220</a> (<a href="#117" class="quote">Reply 117</a>):<br/><i> Quoting EK413 (Reply 113): Are any of the...
Jump to postThis site is useful for tracking <acronym title="Qantas (Australia)">QF</acronym> aircraft. <a href="http://www.theqantassource.com/routetracker.html" target="_blank">http://www.theqantassource.com/routetracker.html</a> A quick look at <acronym title="Adelaide - International (ADL / YPAD), Australia...
Jump to postI am old enough to remember elevator ( lift ) " drivers" and I regularly travel on trains with no drivers.
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/RyanairGuru" class="quote" target="_blank">RyanairGuru</a> (<a href="#187" class="quote">Reply 187</a>):<br/><i> WestConnex won't be that releva...
Jump to postThe <acronym title="Bucharest - Henri Coanda (Otopeni) (OTP / LROP), Romania">OTP</acronym> for departures is totally meaningless. The only figure that matters is the arrival <acronym title="Bucharest - Henri Coanda (Otopeni) (OTP / LROP), Romania">OTP</acronym>. On transpacific flights qantas regul...
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Jump to postAccording to the thread about the retirement of the QF 767, they don't go to the US any more for storage. They are now in ASP.
Jump to post^^ <acronym title="Aeropostal (Venezuela)">VH</acronym>-EBV was the first with the new product and flew <acronym title="Sydney - Kingsford Smith International (Mascot) (SYD / YSSY), Australia - New South Wales">SYD</acronym> -<acronym title="Perth (PER / YPPH), Australia - Western Australia">PER</ac...
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Jump to postIt doesn't matter how many thousands of examples people come up with of bigger aircraft using 16L/34R., the fact remains as quoted by Skyhawkmathew above, ( currently reply 47) it is restricted to A300/B767 and below. So every time it is not used in accordance with the rules someone has to explain. ...
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Jump to post^^ I can only surmise that it's something to do with the cleared path in case of a go around. Maybe the city buildings are a problem.
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/TruemanQLD%2Creply%3D45%0D%0A" class="quote" target="_blank">TruemanQLD,reply=45 Not really, 16L/34R at SYD is 2,438m 09/27 at MEL is 2,286m - o...
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