Re: Rumour : a350 ahead in 6E widebody race

This IndiGo WB order has been rumoured for years, hope they know what they are doing if it actually comes to fruition.

There's a reason long-haul LCC has never worked across the globe - from Norwegian to Air Asia X and everybody in between.

Re: India Aviation - 2024

Would Bangladeshi citizens need a transit visa? They certainly need a visa to visit India. No, if they stay in the International secure holding area for a International-International transfer. I don't know if CCU has the facility to do this, but BOM and DEL definitely do. CCU O&D is insufficien...

Re: Air Transat A330 replacement

It's pretty impressive for Boeing that the 787 is the frontrunner here. One would think the A330NEO is made for an operator like this, but the 787 sales have been a shining light for Boeing in recent years amidst the other turmoil, comfortably defeating the A330NEO in key contests.

Re: Oman Air to retire A330's, cut destinations in downsizing

Looks like Salam Air has eaten their lunch on Bangladesh/Pakistan flights.

Re: New quality glitch to delay some Boeing 737 MAX deliveries

At this point, Boeing should bring back the 737-800 and offer that to all MAX customers with adequate compensation.

Then again, who's to say they can properly roll those out defect free either?

Re: Air India News and Discussion 2024

Meanwhile, cello-tape has made its grand entry on the first of the leased 777s on VT-AEM! Daaaym! I thought we had atleast 6 good months before the Kalina gang got their hands on these birds! Guess not! Now let me guess what the next ANET response on this is going to be as photos inevitably hit the...

Re: Boeing has withdrawn its request for an exemption on the 737-7

Does this mean the -7 will take longer to get the green light?

Re: Airbus Looking for Potential Delivery Spots for United

This is what happens when you promise something to be available in 2020, and then in 2024 you still have no idea when you can build the first example.

Re: UA possibly cancelling 73M10 order?

UA should cancel the 737-10 and order the A321NEO. Even if it takes longer to arrive, at least it will arrive more or less when it says so on the tin rather than rely on one of the many paper planes Boeing is now (in)famous for.

Re: Air India News and Discussion 2024

DaBluBoi wrote:

Are they using all of their available Dreamliners now?

Re: Airbus A350 Production / Deliveries - 2024

Anybody know when AI are going to get their first "new" A350, ie: not an Aeroflot NTU?

And will that be a -900 or -1000?

Re: Air India News and Discussion 2024

There is a huge difference between their International Widebody ops and A32S fleet. Their domestic network around the A32S fleet are fine, infact great. Definitely a step above Indigo and the others. The planes are relatively clean and in reasonable condition for the most part. Most importantly the...

Re: Reuters: DL to order A350-1000

Not very loyal with those 100 MAX they ordered recently. Their nearly 1000 plane fleet is nearly perfectly balanced A vs B, and their order book is balanced with a new 100 unit MAX order. Airlines of that size do not have the option to only be a stan for one manufacturer. They buy from both because...

Re: Akasa Air nears order for 150 Boeing 737 MAX

Going forward, Akasa will be an odd one out in the AI-6E duopoly.

I wonder if they are still small enough that they can change lanes to the A320NEO if they wanted to.

Re: Reuters: DL to order A350-1000

DL have been an Airbus loyalist for some time. The 35K would have been a part of their fleet sooner or later.

Re: When will Boeing finally consider ending the 737 family

The 737NG once was supposed to have the cockpit section of the 757 including the cockpit of course. This would have changed a lot, but customers, especially Southwest obviously, were not happy with this idea. They even wanted the NG to be more "basic" than it is now. Listening to the like...

Re: If Pan Am Returned…

PanAm was basically Juan Trippe Airlines. Unless you resurrected Juan Trippe as well, this idea is a non-starter.

Re: Josh Cahill banned from QR after posting negative review

If I ran an airline I would ban Josh Cahill even before he heard of my operation.

Such prima donnas aren't worth it.

Re: 737s at Heathrow

1. Heathrow's slots command a premium. So airlines will fly larger birds into the field whenever possible - including A321s if they have them. 2. The largest 737 operator in Europe doesn't fly to LHR. I am of course talking about RyanAir. 3. Heathrow's home airline British Airways has retired its 73...

Re: Air India - News and Discussion 2023

abcx wrote:

Still no news on the pending EY and SQ birds?

Re: Air India intercontinental expansion?

airlinermiami wrote:

I hope Air India resumes service to Madrid. The Delhi-Madrid flight was stopped during the pandemic and it is pending to resume. Actually, AI resumed service to all their pre-pandemic European destinations except for MAD.

Re: Air India - News and Discussion 2023

Why does Air India Express still run with two codes: IX and I5? Any timeline on when I5 will be phased out?

Re: Did lufthansa trash Swiss?

If Swiss crew don't speak English, German or French - what do they speak at all?

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

There is no spare capacity on either of those routes to make any incremental traffic from Dhaka workable. These planes (especially Chennai) are going full anyway, and would be subbed for a 787-8 already if spare capacity existed. ET wants more capacity to India, not sharing that capacity with Bangl...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

Ethiopian once did ADD-DEL-PEK but that was because they didn't have aircraft that could do ADD-PEK nonstop at the time. The 77L came in and sorted that. I don't think India would have a problem granting ET 5th freedom access between India and Bangladesh. After all, Maldivian is an airline that flie...

Re: New Royal Jordanian Livery

davidjohnson6 wrote:

Meh... just a touch-up, seems to have barely changed

Re: Air India - News and Discussion 2023

Actually, we predicted this move at the time the order was placed. A 20-20 split between the -900 and -1000 makes perfect sense if you think about the -900s being the replacement for the 787-8s - they were too small for AI at the time when they were ordered. 1. Can you point to a post where this pr...

Re: Breeze Airways applies to FAA to fly A220s from US to Ireland

Air Tanzania operated DAR-BOM on an A220 for a while - not sure if they still do. That's a long flight over the water for a smaller than usual narrowbody, similar to this one by Breeze.

Re: Air India - News and Discussion 2023

subramak1 wrote:

Both these changes make sense. 34 A35Ks were too much. AI needs 789 sized planes, 359 is also a stretch.

Re: Pan Am Final International Flying - Fall 1991

I find it so fascinating how DL struggled with the A310’s range, when Air Transat flew much, much denser A310’s TATL for 20+ years. Perhaps the PA/DL examples had lower MTOW’s? I understand some A310’s were ‘ET’ models - I guess Delta’s weren’t but TS’ were? Beyond 20 years worth of PIPs and MTOW i...

Re: Air India - News and Discussion 2023

It was highlighted in the Airbus and Boeing Orders thread that the latest Airbus spreadsheet update shows that AI have adjusted their orders from the original published mix. From: 140 x A320neo + 70 x A321neo to: 70 x A320neo + 140 x A321neo From: 6 x A350-900 + 34 x A350-1000 to: 20 x A350-900 + 2...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

And about North Africa?! This is a market is still untapped by ET. ALG, CMN and TUN could be served by 7M8 with flights continuing to other secondary European destinations such as LYS, BCN or LIS. If I'm not wrong, North Africa's main markets are across their pond to Europe, as well as to the US/Ca...

Re: Dubai Air Show 2023 - Airbus Orders and General Discussion Thread

The 777X was ordered 10 years ago now at 150 units. At that time, Emirates converted 70 A350 to 40 A380. Then 40 787-10 were ordered. Then 35 777X were converted into 30 787-9 and the 787-10 never confirmed. In the mean time, The A380 were cancelled and replaced by 30 A350 and 40 A330neo. Later, th...

Re: Dubai Air Show 2023 - Boeing Orders and General Discussion Thread

Wow, I was certain EK would order more A350s... The order for the 778 is surprising considering they ordered the same amount 10 years ago and then cancelled them later. The 778 of 10 years ago was a significantly different aircraft of the 778 of today. Emirates cancelled one aircraft type and order...

Re: Thundering over Kazakhstan in a 1969 Antonov An-24: Astana to Almaty via Balkhash with Southern Sky Airlines

Very exotic report - thanks for sharing!

Did you go hungry through the flight?

Re: India Aviation - 2023

Indigo planning to start flights to Medina and Bali by 31 March 2024. https://www.deccanherald.com/business/companies/indigo-to-start-flights-to-bali-medina-this-fiscal-says-ceo-pieter-elbers-2758853 I wonder from where they’ll fly to Bali. CCU-DPS and MAA-DPS are the only options shorter than BOM-...

Re: Air India - News & Discussion 2023

Where would MAD sit? Air India launched DEL-MAD in 2016 but they haven't restarted it yet after COVID. Last 12m DEL-MAD was 44K versus 73K for BCN ! Interesting. Tourism to Barcelona is huge. I have wondered in the past whether Iberia should start delhi-madrid, they could send people on to Barcelon...

Re: Your Emptiest Transatlantic Flight?

jetwet1 wrote:

5 pax on a KU 742 LHR- JFK Dec 1990

Re: Air India Deploys B777 Aircraft For All Its US Destinations

FrenchPotatoEye wrote:

Also, strange ai sold 77L to etihad and now gone the fulls circle to buy used 77L.

Re: Air India - News & Discussion 2023

I think the dark shade/purple hue as you describe it is meant to simulate a shadow.

Re: Air India - News & Discussion 2023

Does anybody know why AI ordered the 777x and which city pairs they plan to use them on? Do they plan to use them on BOM/DEL - JFK/ORD/SFO? I remember reading somewhere that those birds wouldn't have the range to go deep into the US. Happy to be corrected if wrong. Question is the narrow bodies - w...

Re: Malaysia Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

ChrisDassx wrote:

i would've thought they'd start using them for their Indian destinations first ngl.

Re: Air India gets ready to reveal new livery and branding in August

Here it is, in the flesh:

Re: Air India - News & Discussion 2023

Does one need a transit visa for India? Assuming staying airside (so not clearing immigration). Aside from maybe PAK and Afghanistan, I don’t think so. At BOM the INTL-INTL connection security area doesn’t seem to have any immigration check. And yes BOM has a very lightly used NTL-INTL security are...

Re: Air India - News & Discussion 2023

How many people have actually tried intl-to-intl connections at DEL or BOM? I have done that once! BKK to CDG via DEL, transferring further at CDG to YUL. Not an experience to be repeated! And I had an Indian passport at that time! Imagine how it would be for non-Indians. Again - you need to elabor...

Re: Air India - News & Discussion 2023

BawliBooch wrote:

Many of these work culture related issues can be found at Indigo too! A lot of the "profits" being shown are clever accounting tricks with cash being rotated! A single bad cycle can send the airline spiralling!

Re: Transfer passengers to pay 52 EUR at Schiphol Airport

And then they will cry that the ME3 are taking away all the traffic.

Re: UK wide ATC failure

Why is something is always broken on these European airports and airlines?

Re: Air India gets ready to reveal new livery and branding in August

SXDFC wrote:

Two weeks after introducing its new livery and logo, I noticed its social media seems to still use the old logo, even in new posts. Are they waiting for the livery to roll out on an actual aircraft to switch everything over?

Re: MH launches KUL-ATQ

continental004 wrote:

Is this to capture AU/NZ Punjabi diaspora connecting traffic?