RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 38

Apparently Australian <acronym title="Tropic Air (Belize)">PM</acronym> announcing they have found some debris possibly related to MH370. "Aus. <acronym title="Tropic Air (Belize)">PM</acronym>: Satellite has detected objects 'possibly related' to #MH370 search in Indian Ocean, RAAF Orion on way to ...

RE: Do You Prefer Asiana Or Korean Air?

Surely this belongs in Polls and Prefs.... but overall, Asiana wins for me.

RE: WN And Low Fares

So from the info above you have Southwest as the joint cheapest non-stop flights at $299 with the free baggage allowance?? <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/DTWLAX" class="quote"...

RE: Any Experience With Merpati Air?

Considering the alternatives are Trigana air (flew them too, seemed fine although no safety briefing in any language and no lifejackets for an overwater crossing...) or taking the car/pax ferry which takes hours; or taking a relatively expensive and unsafe speedboat - I think the plane is the way to...

RE: Any Experience With Merpati Air?

Hi - yes I've done the short hop from <acronym title="Denpasar / Bali - Ngurah Rai International (DPS / WADD), Indonesia">DPS</acronym> to AMI a couple of times, once on Merpati air. Think it was an ATR-42 if I remember correctly. You should have no issues, however, Merpati in common with many other...

RE: Indonesian Domestic Flights-How To Do It?

As others mentioned, I'd recommend Air Asia if you want to buy tickets in advance. Lion Air should also allow this, but I've had trouble with their website in the past. For more unusual routes the easiest way is to just pop into any local travel agent when you're there and they will book it for you ...

RE: How Can STN Attract Long-haul Carriers?

Problem with lowering charges is essentially Stansted would be taking business from <acronym title="London - Gatwick (LGW / EGKK), United Kingdom">LGW</acronym> and <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym>; and as they're all owned by BAA I doubt this would be we...

RE: How Can STN Attract Long-haul Carriers?

Hopefully AirAsiaX will be there from late this year with cheap flights to KUL.

Why Would Ryanair Change Its Old 738s With New?

Simple one this - they are actually getting a better price on the second-hand market from CIT than they originally bought the aircraft from Boeing! Buy low, sell high...

RE: Kid's Cell Phones Worry Airlines

The average 747 flight has 6 mobile phones left on whilst on-board. The one thing you will notice if you left your phone on would be the very low battery levels, since it would constantly be acquiring, dropping, and re-acquiring different cell towers. The main reason for not being allowed cell phone...

RE: Ryanair Website Down?

Hi - checked on a variety of machines from various ISPs. Seems to be an intermittent problem with their connection to one of the major backbones. I'd expect it to be fixed ASAP. Losses would run into the $10k's per hour if the site looses connectivity I would guess.

RE: What Happened To The 717

Isn't the 717 short field equipped? I know airlines like Bangkok Air use it to some smaller destinations in Asia such as on the <acronym title="Bangkok - Suvarnabhumi International (BKK / VTBS), Thailand">BKK</acronym>-<acronym title="Surat Thani - Samui (USM / VTSM), Thailand">USM</acronym> leg. No...

RE: Request Advice For Trip With Firefly (Malaysia)

As they are a very new carrier I doubt anyone will have first hand experiences. I would recommend calling the call-center (24hr). I guess if they are run by <acronym title="Malaysia Airlines">MH</acronym> the call center will be very helpful and efficient. I may well be flying them from <acronym tit...

Missing Links - UK Domestic Routes Required?

Hi, I was just wondering which UK domestic air routes (either ones never operating or operated in the past) people think would have potential for a daily (or better) service, possibly with a plane like the Q400. <acronym title="Durham - Tees Valley (Teesside / Middleton St. George) (MME / EGNV), Uni...

RE: Egypt-UK One-way With UK Charter Airline?

Pearson, Sure is I did it just a couple of weeks ago (had to turn a 7 night hol into 5 unfortunately. Go to redseaflights.com and search for one way. I flew Sharm--><acronym title="London - Gatwick (LGW / EGKK), United Kingdom">LGW</acronym> for £99 all in. The carrier is Astraeus : <a href="http://...

New Ryanair Base At Nema

It seems hot on the heels of yesterdays announcement of a new base at Cork, Ryanair has launched its new base at Nottingham East Midlands Airport. New routes are: DAILY BERLIN 7th MARCH DAILY DERRY 7th MARCH 3 WEEKLY NIMES 7th MARCH 3 WEEKLY CARCASSONNE 8th MARCH 4 WEEKLY NANTES 8th MARCH 3 WEEKLY D...

RE: Will The A318 Be Certified For London City Airport

Pawsleykat! I can't believe you crashed into my office!

RE: UK Regional Start-ups

Found some more 'info' on alphaone at this link: <a href="http://www.myadbase.com/marketplace/marketplace_media.pl?media_id_form=1000878" target=_blank>http://www.myadbase.com/marketplace/...ace_media.pl?media_id_form=1000878</a> "regional airline between the isle of wight and london, bristol and bi...

RE: UK Regional Start-ups

On CAX, wasn't there some proposals or chance of investment coming in a few months back. I guess this amounted to not much? Although <acronym title="Newcastle - Woolsington (NCL / EGNT), United Kingdom">NCL</acronym> is close by I think CAX could work as a leisure/business route from gatwick if the ...

UK Regional Start-ups

It seems that the proposed UK regional startup AlphaOne hasn't launched its flights as promised at the start of September. So I was wondering, what you guys think the potential is for the following regional UK routes which aren't yet served: <acronym title="London - City (LCY / EGLC), United Kingdom...

RE: Ryanair Axes Flights To Newquay Cornwall

Why should the council run the airport? Couldn't they sell it off? Everyone wins.

RE: What If...WN's Fuel Vendors Go Chapter 11/7?

Its likely they are hedged not just against their suppliers; but rather using swaps, forwards, and options to hedge out some of the fuel price volatility. Thus even if Southwest is paying below the current spot market price for jet fuel (taking into acount the hedging strategy); this doesn't mean th...

RE: NO EU Compensation For BA PAX

Yeah if industrial action was covered by any EU policy the compensation costs would kill any airline! The EU is not known for a tough stance against organised labour, to say the least.

RE: Did Flybe Look At The ATR42/72-500?

I doubt it; because it basically sits in the same segment as the Q400 but any benefit there might be (technically or financially) would probably be offset by the higher costs from lack of fleet commonality.

My 2 cents!

Acmi Lease AOC Requirements

If a start up airline wished to 'outsource' its flying to another operator, for example Flightline Ltd. in the UK would it require its own <acronym title="Altenburg - Nobitz (AOC / EDAC), Germany">AOC</acronym>? Or would the flightline <acronym title="Altenburg - Nobitz (AOC / EDAC), Germany">AOC</a...

RE: Do They Estimate Your Weight On Check-in

On the Air Arann flights from Connemara to Aran Islands on BN Islander they weight each pax before boarding and then distribute loads appropriately. Thankfully they don't shout out your weight when you stand on the scales!

RE: New Regional UK Airline

The other thing is a few of their routes now compete with FlyBe routes or increased services by other operators. e.g. <acronym title="Liverpool - John Lennon (Speke) (LPL / EGGP), United Kingdom">LPL</acronym>-<acronym title="Southampton - Eastleigh (SOU / EGHI), United Kingdom">SOU</acronym> on Fly...

RE: New Regional UK Airline

The prospectus is very interesting; they've come up with many of the routes that I think would also work well. What I don't understand on the other hand is why fly with such a small aircraft. Why not an ATR or a DH8 instead of the J31? Don't see how average costs are going to be very low with just 1...

RE: New Regional UK Airline

Hmm, sounds suspiciously like the old business plan for Hop Airways. Or possibly something to do with the continuing non-event that is Alpha1?

RE: New UK Airline?

The best way to prove everyone wrong is to start selling tickets and generating some cash flow, not issuing court papers. I think this business really could work; but its important to get momentum behind it. Any idea which the start up routes or aircraft are GARPD? Or when ticket sales start; I'd re...

RE: Inter City Airlines

More info:
http://www.aerotransport.org/php/go....?query=operator&luck=1&where=28052

Also this airline was founded in 1972 as "Alidair"

RE: Inter City Airlines

New one on me; but they had ops at:

Aberdeen
Brussels
East Midlands
Edinburgh
Guernsey

Timetable from 1982 at http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/qt.htm

Are they perhaps an ancestor of Eastern?

RE: New UK Airline?

Hi, Plans have changed somewhat. A lively discussion over at pprune has more info: <a href="http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=82fef1b70767b4b6a6855ed825c406de&threadid=184480&perpage=15&highlight=alphaone&pagenumber=1" target=_blank>http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...15&highlight=alp...

RE: Ever Flown On The SH6 Or BNT?

Haven't flown on a Trislander, but flown on a <acronym title="Britannia Germany">BN</acronym> Islander (smaller version, without the 3rd engine) from Connemara to the Aran Islands (Inis Mor); a brilliant experience especially as I was up front on the way back! BTW: does anyone know what the requirem...

Alpha1 Update

Hello, For anyone following the fate of Alpha1 (remember them?) who's plan was to start scheduled service between Oxford and Cambridge in southern England (roughly 65 miles); their website has been recently updated. Source: <a href="http://www.flyalpha1.com/" target=_blank>http://www.flyalpha1.com/<...

RE: Hotel Recommendations For SIN Please!

<a href="http://www.asiarooms.com" target=_blank>http://www.asiarooms.com</a> I always use this site when visiting <acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore">SIN</acronym>/<acronym title="Kuala Lumpur - International (Sepang) (KUL / WMKK), Malaysia">KUL</acronym>/<acronym title="Ban...

RE: 5 Engine 747!

That is the method for shuttling extra (spare) engines for planes which need a replacement for maintenance reasons in a location without spares on site, as far as I know.

RE: AF & GA, CDG To CGK : Can U Through Check?

One hour in Singapore is fine for connecting luggage through; and also claiming your boarding passes from the transfer desk (don't go through immigration) will take a matter of minutes. Enjoy your trip; I'll be in <acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore">SIN</acronym>/<acronym tit...

RE: UK To Oz - Suggestions?