Re: Sri Lanka Government to privatise the airline.

Prior to the current economic disaster - was UL and its former management structure the only example of the ME3 successfully running another carrier? I confess not very clear on the histories or details of the EK/UL partnership. I believe UL was consistently profitable while it was under EK's wing ...

Re: US Airlines lobby to restrict competitors access to Russian airspace

The US constantly makes it difficult for themselves - either by shooting themselves in the head (directly), or in the foot (indirectly). If an Air India plane diverts to Russia with US citizens onboard it could cause some issues. They are free to mandate American passengers not being allowed to book...

Re: Emirates unveils first new livery in 24 years

I don't like the flutter on the tail. It makes it look like the rudder is misplaced from another aircraft.

Re: India Aviation - 2023

India-Russia have agreed "in principle" to expand their air service agreement. Under new terms, weekly flights between the nations may rise to 64, with each side allowed to serve 6 destinations each with Russian side having picked Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Goa, Amritsar, and Ahmedabad for t...

Re: Saudi Arabia presents Riyadh Air

20 years late to the Middle East super connector party - let's see what happens.

Re: JetBlue Launches New York-Paris Nonstop Service

I'm sorry I'm mean no disrespect but the fact that someone thinks JetBlue arrival on this route will put La Compagnie out of business is absolutely laughable. La Compagnie has held their own against AF, DL, AA, UA and other carriers on the JFK-Paris route, they have survived the pandemic which shut...

Re: Emirates News and Discussion - 2023

Hi, does anyone know why some EK A380 aircraft (A6-EER and A6-EDQ for example) are mainly shuttling back and forth between Dubai and Moscow? Is it something to do with the Ukraine situation? As most other EK aircraft visit a variety of destinations. Could be something to do with insurance clearance...

Re: Update: AI makes commitments for 275 Airbus and 220 Boeing aircraft

AI will soon be in a place where they will have a myriad of cabin products on their WB fleet:

Their own 777/787 product
Ex-DL 77Ls
Ex-SU 359s
Ex-UK 789s

And after that - their own 3510s/789s/77Xs - hope there is a plan to harmonize stuff wherever possible.

Re: Oman airspace opened to all civilian carriers

Are El Al flights using Saudi airpsace as of now? I recall a flight to BOM as of Dec '22 was still flying over the Red Sea after using only a sliver of KSA airspace. What's with that?

Speaking of which - what has become of the BOM flight? Can't see it available for booking anymore.

Re: Update: AI makes commitments for 275 Airbus and 220 Boeing aircraft

Air India is poised to be the only major international indian carrier especially in the long haul segment as i don't see much of a revived jet airways in the future while in the domestic sector they should be the second largest after Indigo as i expect a follow on order from Indigo in the future. A...

Re: Update: AI makes commitments for 275 Airbus and 220 Boeing aircraft

JerseyFlyer wrote:

No large freighters yet

Re: Update: AI makes commitments for 250 Airbus and 220 Boeing aircraft

Boeing757100 wrote:

Will the widebody fleet count also take into account the Vistara 789s that they'll get post merger? (Afaik it's 7 frames)

Re: Report: AI to order 435 single aisle and 70 widebody aircraft

Still no word of the split: -900 vs -1000 for the A350s and 320/321 for the A320s. According to the following the breakup for the A320neo family is 140 A320neo 70 A321neo https://twitter.com/rschuur_aero/status/1625470884151496704?s=46&t=lKL40gqaC7Ew6AdJBaWW4Q More A320 than A321 is quite unusu...

Re: Report: AI to order 435 single aisle and 70 widebody aircraft

Still no word of the split: -900 vs -1000 for the A350s and 320/321 for the A320s.

Re: AA Passenger Unable to Stow Bag in Overhead Bin - Gets Offloaded

And then they will cry about ceding market share to the ME3 (and others).

Re: India Aviation - 2023

With the recent removal of all flight limitations between India and Canada, I'm hoping for HYD-YYZ by AI as there's a significant diaspora in the Greater Toronto Area probably on par with Chicago. In addition many Indian companies (TCS, iGate, Virtusa etc.) having large working relationships with t...

Re: Report: AI to order 435 single aisle and 70 widebody aircraft

With every new article, the order split varies but gets a little more concrete, so one can only hope.

About Jan 27 in particular - will believe it when the order happens on that date of course. Too many dates like that have come and gone.

Re: India Aviation - 2023

Vistara 789 As per this article , the 3 789 that had been lived to Vistara order have now been all delivered to Lufthansa . Wonder what has happened here ? Could have always come to Ai … https://simpleflying.com/threes-a-crowd-lufthansa-takes-delivery-of-another-boeing-787/ You are mixing apples an...

Re: LGW - Air India launches 12 new weekly flights

smi0006 wrote:

Where are the aircraft coming from?

Re: Ethiopian adds Atlanta (ATL)

Why does ET use DUB as a tech stop? Do their aircraft not have the range to fly non-stop to the US?

Re: Why Was I Re-Booked? (Hawaiian Airlines)

Checked those flight numbers on FR24 - a 23-minute inter island flight? The views must've been good!

Re: Bypassing sanctions, Iran received 4 A340-300 over the Xmas weekend

Iran has had sanctions on it for over 40 years now. Pretty sure they know how to bypass them as and when necessary.

As another poster said, nobody outside the US and one or two other countries even bat an eyelid.

Re: Korean Air A330 engine shut down descending towards ICN

Isn't this the same carrier which partially grounded its A330 fleet a few short weeks ago after a crash landing?

MX issues or bad luck these?

Re: Updated: Air India nears historic order for up to 500 jets

Any word on AI getting something smaller than an A320 - an ATR/Q400 type aircraft?

Now that Alliance Air is a separate entity, surely AI would want to fly to smaller airports and not leave them entirely to SG/6E/9I?

Re: Updated: Air India nears historic order for up to 500 jets

777X seems weird considering that both 787 and A350 orders would have covered every LH mission profile they expect to fly in the future. Hope they're not biting more than they can chew. Maybe the 779 can replicate the role the 747 had in their fleet before (with a slightly lower capacity) All the 7...

Re: Updated: Air India nears historic order for up to 500 jets

Amazing - exciting times for AI, by unshackling them from the GOV this will hopefully see them rise to their full potential! How many 788 and 789 do they currently have? I assume they will plan to be kept? Will all the max go to Air India express? AI have 27 x 787-8s. Vistara have 3 x 787-9s with a...

Re: Etihad Airways News and Discussion Thread - 2022

EY restarts CCU on an A320.

VietJet sold tickets on a route to BLR that never existed

Remember the too-good-to-be-true advertisements where Vietnamese low-cost carrier VietJet Air was offering flights from Bengaluru to Hanoi in Vietnam for Rs 9? Turns out it is too good to be true. However, several passengers who booked their VietJet Air flights via popular travel booking platforms ...

Re: Which airlines/routes operate from Gatwick because they can't get slots at Heathrow?

From India, Vistara was about to open flights to LGW for this reason. But post-pandemic LHR slots became available and they operate there now without considering LGW.

Re: Updated: Air India nears historic order for up to 500 jets

Does India not impose strict seat number allocations on Emirates which is the airline most likely to operate the A380 to/from India? India gets the same number of seats to a Gulf country/city as it gives to one of their carriers. And from what I know, Indian carriers keep hitting their ceiling, lea...

Re: Updated: Air India nears historic order for up to 500 jets

Is AI/Tata interested in getting into the freighter game? Interesting question. I would think long-term certainly, but well over doubling the fleets of two airlines (Air India and Air India Express), along with the merging of four airlines into two, and just the general overall work for Air India n...

Re: Updated: Air India to lease in 42 aircraft (320/321/777LR/W)

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/air-india-close-signing-deal-150-boeing-737-max-jets-economic-times-2022-12-09/ Reuters is also reporting a Max deal is close. I'm guessing they are going dual NB fleet like the US3.. Would take forever to get 300+ NEOs Bit of a comeback into the I...

Re: Updated: Air India to lease in 42 aircraft (320/321/777LR/W)

Leeham is reporting 50-100 A350s before year end, plus 100 MAXes (40 of which are Chinese planes, but not delivered). https://leehamnews.com/2022/12/08/hotr-big-airplane-orders-race-toward-year-end/ If this is true, bit of a coup for both Airbus and Boeing to sway AI away from widebody Boeings and ...

Re: What current commercial plane would describe as “iconic”?

atcdan wrote:

Boeing 777-300ER

It’s the only plane that makes the floor of my tower heavily vibrate when it departs. Gorgeous wing, gorgeous engines, love the silhouette as she leaps into the sky at sunset.

Re: Updated: Air India to lease in 30 aircraft (320/321/777LR)

It does'nt work that way. The incoming 777's are short term capacity uplift while AIC management make their final decision on which new widebody they will acquire. And as much as some people drool at the sight of Air India ordering a few 777X's, it isn't going to happen. Doesn't seem too short term...

Re: Will United cancel its 350 order?

That's why it is hard to take aircraft orders made 10-12 years in advance too seriously these days.

Re: Updated: Air India to lease in 30 aircraft (320/321/777LR)

A downgrade of the current livery but looks interim. As long as the interiors are fine...

Re: Updated: Air India to lease in 30 aircraft (320/321/777LR)

How many 777LR is India getting? I always thought Qantas should have picked up all of these 777LR and fitted them with low density cabins. They could have been doing half a dozen direct flights to Europe and New York for the last couple years. Then swap the longest routes to the A350-1000ULR as the...

Re: Media reports: Airbus close to Air India deal for A350 aircraft

Lamp1009 wrote:

Will we actually see an order for any widebodies within the next year, or will the re-evaluation of things push potential orders for the forseeable future?

Re: Media reports: Airbus close to Air India deal for A350 aircraft

Tomorrow is JRD's birth Anniversary, great day to announce adeal if they were ready.... There was a Reuters or Bloomberg article that mentioned that AI was waiting for Independence Day to announce. All these dates have come and gone. There was news that both AI and Airbus were at a stalemate - does...

Re: Indian Aviation Thread - 2022

5 times bitten, 20 times shy re: 6E getting widebodies.

Especially something like TK 777s - a pipe dream at best (for TK that is!)

Re: El Al Flight 1862 crash - 25 years ago

I'm sorry, but that's bollocks! The title states that the flight crashed - 25 years ago! Read the first post of the thread and pay very close attention to the date of that post. I trust things will all come together for you. Read the thread title - it's not rocket science to work out that 1992 is n...

Re: Royal Jordanian to order 20 A320NEO, to add more B787s

CarbonFibre wrote:

I think we all know what a new livery would look like!

Re: Royal Jordanian to order 20 A320NEO, to add more B787s

SXDFC wrote:

I hate to ask this, however I wonder if there’s any possibility of a new livery with these new jets? Perhaps a modern twist to what they have now?

Re: Deltas Old A320s

A couple notes - Pilots dislike the older A320s for some surprising reasons. The vent fans in the cockpit are incredibly loud on the earlier aircraft in the family. It's like a wind storm up there (in terms of noise). I'm not sure what Airbus did to solve that on later aircraft, but the difference ...

Re: Air India transfer to Tata complete

Air India outlined its transformation plan. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdHGkDkXEAEcGYd?format=jpg&name=medium https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdHGkDkXEAEcGYd?format=jpg&name=large Link to original PDF https://www.airindia.in/writereaddata/Portal/News/739_1_Press_release-Air_India_unveils_trans...

Re: Indian Aviation Thread - 2022

All, does anyone have any progress at the new airport for Chennai? Last I've heard, they're building it in Parandur and it's gained signifigant opposition from farmers and villagers in Parandur. article from 3 days ago: https://www.dtnext.in/city/2022/09/18/protests-opposing-parandur-airport-contin...

Re: Air India to lease 30 Boeing/Airbus aircraft, expands flights to US

Once bitten, twice shy with these source based stories.

Wait for something official from AI first.

Re: Indian Aviation Thread - 2022

9W had a PNQ-SIN before its demise. AI had PNQ-HYD-SIN more than a decade ago and it allowed domestic pax on PNQ-HYD route. I dont know if AI is still allowed domestic pax on international connector routes. Of course they still are. Such domestic pax are issued boarding cards with a large 'D' on th...

Re: Indian Aviation Thread - 2022

Singapore-India gets a new route ...Sin-PNQ Vistara has applied to start flights on the sector. Smart call this one. PNQ -Sin traffic+PNQ - SE Asia/USA will get on ths one rather than go to mumbai. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/pune-will-soon-get-direct-air-connectivity-with-singapo...