Totally agree with lostsound. Please please anything but those horid B737's, just a horrible plane to travel on. I much prefer the A32x and the Embraer's are just a beaut to fly on. Lovely customer experience.
Jump to postWell those explanations seem reasonable. Now have a go at why us, in Canada, have weird names like YYZ for Toronto etc.
Jump to postI recently did <acronym title="Sydney - Kingsford Smith International (Mascot) (SYD / YSSY), Australia - New South Wales">SYD</acronym>-<acronym title="Bangkok - Suvarnabhumi International (BKK / VTBS), Thailand">BKK</acronym>-<acronym title="Sydney - Kingsford Smith International (Mascot) (SYD / YS...
Jump to postNo chance of a future job then for most NRL'ers
Jump to postI am not sure on <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym>'s future plans for mpore 77L's. I have flown <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym> from <acronym title="Vancouver - International (YVR / CYVR), Canada - British Columbia">YVR</acronym> to <acronym title="Sydney - Kingsford Smith Internatio...
Jump to postLet's credit management with at least some knowledge of the business it is operating within, rather than us all play Monday morning quarterbacks. Remember, I did say only 'some'.
Jump to postThe Japan-US relationship is special and for the past 60+ years this has been a more important factor that price competitiveness. That being said, it is certainly against Procurement 101 as someone mentioned above. The future looks interesting for Japan Aviation but don't expect too much too soon. J...
Jump to postBetter developa good strategy for re-using older planes. Seems it would take far too long to wait for new ones, and with an airline that large then segmentation is critical. There is certainly a segment of that that could well operate with older planes
Jump to postLH ran their 747's up to 120,000 hours. Just shows what you can do with good maintenance. I wonder what the target is with 767's, I know they are an AC workhorse and again hope they have many more years in them.
Jump to postSo you believe everything a CEO tells you huh? Add on to that, a Chinese CEO and well, I don't believe a word
Jump to postOf course I adored the L1011 flying it on AC many times.
Do we ever think that 3 engine large planes will make a comeback?
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/skopsko" class="quote" target="_blank">skopsko</a> (<a href="#12" class="quote">Reply 12</a>):<br/><i>The 767 has one thing that it excels at, 2...
Jump to postGood news to hear the <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym> 77L's will stay 3-3-3, I travel the <acronym title="Toronto - Lester B. Pearson International (Malton) (YYZ / CYYZ), Canada - Ontario">YYZ</acronym>-<acronym title="Sydney - Kingsford Smith International (Mascot) (SYD / YSSY), Australia ...
Jump to postStick them all in the back row next to the toilets, the kids that is
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/TWA772LR" class="quote" target="_blank">TWA772LR</a> (<a href="#28" class="quote">Reply 28</a>):<br/><i>Congratulations to <acronym title="Houst...
Jump to postA good move. I hate to see the US-based Airlines flying intra-Asia just because of world events 60+ years ago. I am sure they are just doing it from a profitability perspective but let's leave those routes to the Japanese and Korean airlines
Jump to postI would imagine some of the BA and Qantas 747's would be logging hours such as above. They would be flying to the extremeties of the earth, in some ways I would imagine them flying more than the LH ones.
Jump to postIt still amazes me that so many airlines want to fly to Houston. Houston! Did I miss something and suddenly Houston turned into a world class city?
Jump to postI agree by throwing the book at him. I have zero time for drunks period, and for somethnig like this, let him sit somewhere for a year or so and contemplate his actions, with his cell mate named Bubba.
Jump to postAnd the Sydney Morning Herald's input too
http://www.smh.com.au/business/qanta...twork-overhaul-20130204-2dtku.html
It's deal time. For anything there are always interested buyers on used equipment at a great price (regardless what it is). If the 340's are going for a sale price I have to believe someone will have the business smarts to pick them up and operate part of their business with these most superb of pla...
Jump to post3,557 ft sure isn't compare to say Denver or some of those Andean airports. Almost sea level!
Jump to postAC operates a significant number of 763's to Europe (from <acronym title="Toronto - Lester B. Pearson International (Malton) (YYZ / CYYZ), Canada - Ontario">YYZ</acronym>/<acronym title="Montreal - Pierre Elliott Trudeau International (Dorval) (YUL / CYUL), Canada - Quebec">YUL</acronym>) and to Asi...
Jump to postApparently the biggest growth into Sydney for 2012 was from Singapore and Malaysia
Jump to postI would love to think of <acronym title="Vancouver - International (YVR / CYVR), Canada - British Columbia">YVR</acronym> as a gateway to N.America for airlines such as <acronym title="Singapore Airlines">SQ</acronym> and <acronym title="Thai International (Thailand)">TG</acronym>. However it seems ...
Jump to postI am trying to imagine the Management meeting where the 787's were recommended and approved. Did they not know back then that this would not be a good decision for them? I really wonder about the quality of the Management running some of these airlines. Fleet management seems to be a difficult task ...
Jump to postIt sounds like "Take your iPad" on any of those flights mate. This is as good as it gets!
Jump to postOK horrible was a bit of an extreme word. As I said, it was ok nothing special at all. I flew an <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym> Embraer 190 which was extremely comfortable, the 747 is, well, aging (same on the <acronym title="Thai International (Thailand)">TG</acronym> 747 flights I take f...
Jump to postMany other airlines are flying A380's Transpacific. or 77L for <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym>. I find it hard to believe that <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> with their terrible 747 interiors could seriously compete with much higher quality offerings. I flew <acronym ti...
Jump to postExcellent news for Embraer, I flew my first one last year and was very impressed. What a lovely comfortable plane, I am surprised they have had a bad 12 mos with limited orders
Let's hope we see more orders like this for them
This is certainly impacted by bad management decision making, poor route planning and lack of solid Marketing. Someone mentioned this is becoming endemic in the Persian Gulf, which is true. I really wonder whether this huge A380 investment made by <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK<...
Jump to postI am not sure JAL has ever been the smartest airline, but Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Cambodia don't seem to be thos potentially heavy-hitter locations. I may be wrong, probably will be but just doesn't feel like a "Wow, brilliant insight"
Jump to postYes good point, I am a Star Alliance member and always want to fly them. I certainly understand the Y+, thanks.
Jump to postIf you are flying <acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore">SIN</acronym>-<acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym>, why would you not fly Singapore Airlines? <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> and <acronym title="Qantas (Australia)">Q...
Jump to postYes my ex wife will leave Sydney at 7pm and arrive Vancouver same day at like 2pm, a great time actually. Yes only for <acronym title="Vancouver - International (YVR / CYVR), Canada - British Columbia">YVR</acronym> as it is the Ski-jet, not for Toronto folks like me and actually a bit late to chang...
Jump to postGreat, many thanks, very interesting. I am very interested in the final results
Jump to postAirfleets.net seems to suggest all 3 airlines stlil have 762's
Jump to postNick, perhaps it has something to do with the delay. Per my note above, it seems lack of a Pilot delayed AC33 out of Vancouver until 8am the next morning. Some poor schedulers somewhere are working overtime this past weekend
Jump to postYes a great city and so nice to see you are proud. I hope those international aspirations come soon
Jump to postI saw a similar city discussion around Calgary. Denver is very similar, it is simply NOT big enough to warrant a large Asia-<acronym title="OLD: Denver - Stapleton International (DEN / KDEN) (closed), USA - Colorado AND CURRENT: Denver - International (DEN / KDEN), USA - Colorado">DEN</acronym> or E...
Jump to postThey must have taken a 200LR from their YYZ-Asia route and replaced with a 300ER
Jump to postHow is <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym> doing on its <acronym title="Dubai - International (DXB / OMDB), United Arab Emirates">DXB</acronym>-<acronym title="Toronto - Lester B. Pearson International (Malton) (YYZ / CYYZ), Canada - Ontario">YYZ</acronym>-<acronym title="D...
Jump to postAircraft type is important to some people. Living in Australia and flying here, my choice is usually Qantas, Virgin or Jetstar. My #1 choice is always the <acronym title="Qantas (Australia)">QF</acronym> 767 (or A330) no matter how old it is, my last choice is the 737 because I hate them a lot, (and...
Jump to postGood points and makes sense. Whatever plane they use, the thing is usually pretty well full. I don't really mind, either plane is fine by me, just the 747 seats are a bit older. I noticed Thai actually changed the <acronym title="Bangkok - Suvarnabhumi International (BKK / VTBS), Thailand">BKK</acro...
Jump to postI fly from Sydney to Bangkok quite often, Thai has used the lovely A346 exclusively for a number of years. Recently they have change to the 747-400,any ideas why?
Jump to postOK makes sense. AC33 has been delayed to 8am the next day, seems they dont have a pilot. Amazing!
Jump to postMy ex-wife is flying from <acronym title="Vancouver - International (YVR / CYVR), Canada - British Columbia">YVR</acronym> to <acronym title="Sydney - Kingsford Smith International (Mascot) (SYD / YSSY), Australia - New South Wales">SYD</acronym> tonight (Dec 29) but she is on fight AC35 (the usual ...
Jump to postThese guys can do the economics of stay versus purchase, that should not be that dificult even though there are many variables. As someone said, the old 340's are worth as much as an 85 Chevy so keeping them around seems a good idea. Plus they are just great planes to fly in and I will happily fly o...
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