BOG is significantly higher than JNB - all those European carriers make a technical stop outbound from BOG for a reason, and DXB is even longer. Michael Are all those European carriers in the room with us right now? Not only, but even flying the so-called most advanced generation jets (yep I look a...
Jump to postWould Thai ever consider putting PE class on their new fleet? Or does that product not really work for them? I'm curious if the leased 350s will leave the fleet when these new 787s come in considering those 350s are in the original airlines cabin configuration Many of which (leased A350s) are havin...
Jump to postDXB-BOG non stop is similar in length to ATL-JNB. If they weren't short on 77Ls I would have thought they could make it non stop. Seems like it is a fifth freedom flight between MIA-BOG, so they must see some lucrative moeny there. Wonder how AA will sit with that. Going off this - BOG and JNB are ...
Jump to postfactsonly wrote:Brussels Airlines is sending an A320 to St. Athan in Wales.
- 22 Jan. 2024 BRU 10.09 - DGX 10.31 SN9901 A320 OO-SND (Del. Apr. 2012)
The B788 and B789 are also long-haul aircraft but nobody seems to mind that ANA have them in domestic configs and fly them on short flights. ANA's domestic B788 have 335 seats and the B789 have 395 seats. JAL also have 291-seat domestic B788. The B787-10 has been around for some time now and ANA al...
Jump to postkaitak wrote:Eirules wrote:Seems similar to the US air one at LAX
My thoughts too. I wonder what kind of aircraft the coast guard aircraft was. I believe they operate Dash 8s, among other types.
Some passengers are still trapped on the plane at this moment, their current condition is unknown. The fire fighters are having difficulties fighting the fire because it's inside the plane. That's not a good sign for those still inside. Fire / smoke inside the cabin will cause unconsciousness and d...
Jump to postCA174 SYD-PEK B-7973 has executed an air turn back tonight. The aircraft only got as far as Brewarrina when it decided to turn back. (Has landed in Sydney) Flight CA174 from Sydney to Beijing https://fr24.com/CCA174/336e4f01 Single engine ops, left hand engine failed roughly around 21:40 prompted t...
Jump to postCA174 SYD-PEK B-7973 has executed an air turn back tonight. The aircraft only got as far as Brewarrina when it decided to turn back. (Has landed in Sydney) Flight CA174 from Sydney to Beijing https://fr24.com/CCA174/336e4f01 Single engine ops, left hand engine failed roughly around 21:40 prompted t...
Jump to postI was thinking BKK would be a good stopover. Especially from SYD. Agree capacity is down, and not a huge raft of carriers! What’s the transit experience like in CGK? MEL-SIN feels saturated. But I suppose less competitive than SYD-SIN. Mostly indifferent from other secondary transit points, however...
Jump to postThey don’t have the spare A380s available, I believe. Can't they take the 388 off of another port that isn't so slot controlled and replace say 1x daily 388 there with 10x weekly 77Ws/359s? To a degree, they've kind of already done that. MEL used to operate as a seasonal A380 pre Covid (possibly wi...
Jump to postInterestingly comes with two options for 5th freedom, so might end up being SIN + somewhere else BKK perhaps. TK fly IST-BKK already. Fares are generally lower on the second daily, indicating perhaps that it is not filling. Seats BKK-SYD are well down on pre-pandemic, with TG's fleet much reduced. ...
Jump to postI base in Hong Kong and frequently travelled around in China. Except meeting the meal time criteria, your flight have to be longer than certain amount of time ( which is not the case for many domestic flights). And having the meal inflight don’t automatically mean you get a main course (what I defi...
Jump to postLater next year the 787 gets moved to SYD-HNL and HND becomes 2x daily A330 only service. I'm still surprised HNL warrants a 787 service... the 787 frames could definitely be used elsewhere (i.e. increasing more popular services that only the 787 have the range capabilities for such as FCO or MEL-D...
Jump to postThe QF Tokyo schedule changes commence tomorrow with SYD-HND going to double daily and MEL-NRT and BNE-NRT both daily. ZND is operating QF25 tonight In other related 787 news ZNA will turnaround in PER to go back out to LHR after it departed LHR 11 hours late yesterday. Today's QF10 PER-MEL was can...
Jump to postDon't forget you get a proper meal on domestic flights in China. Usually no meals are provided on trains unless you pay or ride in business class. No prpoer meal on domestic flights in PRC nowaday excep some “key routes” You obviously haven't flown domestic PRC flights for ages. Or flew the wrong a...
Jump to postI travel regularly in China on business and, much as I like to spend time at airports ;) , I almost inevitably opt for the train if it's going to be 4 hours or less (Chinese trains are a lot more punctual than Chinese planes). And more comfortable too, I recently flew on a China Eastern A321 and th...
Jump to postOn a lot of routes where HSR takes less than 4 hours flights have mostly been eliminated. PEK-NKG, SHA-TNA, SHA-KNH, just to throw some examples. Those which survived mostly have a large enough demand to sustain both rail and air. PEK-SHA being the most prime example. And remember majority of those ...
Jump to postA Juneyao tail just went to PDX for paint...let's see what it comes back with! If Juneyao is indeed having no orders and are not taking these frames, I suspect this might be painted with Riyadh Air's second livery considering it is a flight to PDX. Usually, flights to PDX are carried out for aircra...
Jump to postHave encountered it a handful of airports around the globe that I've avoided ever since - but Melbourne ! Arriving today on China Airlines in a nice A350 service from Taiwan - and welcomed with a parking spot out near Terminal 4 and the joys of a long wait for buses over to the International termin...
Jump to post1. URC is the closest major airport in China to these countries, and CZ happens to have a hub there (inherited from China Xinjiang Airlines). 2. Most of these flights can be done by 737s - close enough. Majority of them can also be done round-trip by one set of crew. 3. URC also provides a good tran...
Jump to postExcluded frames: LN688 CA NTU LN988 UX LN990 MU LN1009 HO LN1015 TR LN1049 UK Been seeing more activity with Juneyao 1009 B-20EQ out on the flightline. Keeping an eye out for that one, will be interesting to see if it finally ends up getting delivered as it’s been up in Everett for quite some time ...
Jump to postThe bigger question is why MU is planning to fly its own metal to SA? Can't they just codeshare with UX? Also - PVG-LAX-EZE is shorter than PVG-MAD-EZE and surprisingly there is no nonstop flight on LAX-EZE. Wouldn't it make sense to just do this instead? Transit visa requirement for any flights go...
Jump to postQantas' bad week continues. The ACCC has just released a draft determination to deny the extension of the partnership between QF and MU (China Eastern) on competition grounds. I suppose the re-authorisation just came at the wrong time. If it weren't for the public pressure lately, this could have b...
Jump to postUAEflyer wrote:FJL767400 wrote:Air China B-2445 returns to service after two years of storage. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/b-2445#
Was this a VIP configuration before ?
https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/07/31/qantas-record-profits-customers-unhappy-planes-delayed/ Interesting article.... Claims QF will order 12 A350s and 12 B787s to replace A330s at the full year results in a few weeks time. 24 new aircraft leaves the fleet a few short compared with existing 26 A330 ...
Jump to postEdit disregard. Seems to be bookable on their website. I’d imagine a lot of extra capacity still to come due to the restrictions still heavily in place between US & China. CZ for several years put the A380 on the CAN/SYD route over summer, without the A380, they are just getting extra capacity ...
Jump to postWith the freight market softening - I wonder if someone at QF got a bit too excited by the cargo yields 22/23? Wonder if they would have better off staying in pax config and wetleasing some widebody freight capacity? When does the next 321P2F arrive they are at six now? Wonder how long the 767 will...
Jump to postVelocity7 wrote:log0008 wrote:What are they protecting, a pathetic domestic airline which hasn't bothered to order a single widebody aircraft in a decade?
Sorry, I've missed something here. What airline are we referring to here that hasn't ordered a single widebody in a decade?
Maybe we'll see 777F in KZ livery? Some time ago a pilot told me that Japan may have pilot shortage, so may have the possibility to ANA use part of Nippon Cargo's pilots. I wonder if JAL would return the pure freighters again. I think it will be the other way around (747Fs in ANA livery) and JAL ha...
Jump to postThere used to be a website listing historical regos for departure/arrivals at SYD only. It lists flights from as early as 2006 (as that was the flight I was looking for). Unfortunately can't seen to find it right now.
If I can discover that will let you guys know
Michael
Anyone have further details concerning the A339’s with mechanical issues? Apparently it’s impacted SB entire International network. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk F-ONET is showing enroute BOD-SIN, no other flights in the last 7 days so it’s been there a while, some sort of defect that Airbus h...
Jump to postWell if ek stuck to 2007 a350 order they wud have big fleet today. Sir Time goed all in for 380 and now it's old / irrelevant. All histry now I guess. Flying A380 does not make you irrelevant. Or you can tell this to SQ/EY/BA/LH/QF etc. Does A380 make all these airlines irrelevant? Flying A350 or 7...
Jump to postI presume the whole region of Addis is on a high elevation. In which case the proposal for a new airport at ADD at a lower plane is impossible. The current plan is to build a mega airport some 40 miles south of Addis, similar to the positioning of KUL and NRT (both of which are roughly 40 miles out...
Jump to post... with the exception of LHR all of MH’s destinations are reachable with the A339 so the 350s might be being looked at for long haul European expansion. What about a return to North America down the line? As bad as setting a fire under a pile of cash. Unless they throw profitability out of the win...
Jump to postSpeaking of the A330 having several MTOWs, and the A350 is also starting to take on this trait, is there a reliable source of information for that? Obviously estimations can be made based on production date. No 242T birds before 2015 for example. rzjets is where I go for most of my frame specific i...
Jump to postAnswer is quite simple but nuanced. The LH group has 3 different weight variants of the A330, LH,SN and LX all have relatively low MTOW variants that aren’t designed for any routes beyond 9hrs. EDW had 2 high mtow A330s that where the only auch variants within the LH group, at the same time as EDW ...
Jump to postQantas and Jetstar will begin flying from WSI when it opens in late 2026 and will operate up to 15 aircraft in the first year , 5 from Qantas and 10 from Jetstar operating to MEL, BNE and OOL for example Discussions are continuing regarding international and freight services https://www.qantasnewsr...
Jump to post[photoid][/photoid] Any rumblings of new airplanes for Air Do? Wonder if they might order787's to replace 767'S? Most likely another run of hand downs from ANA - I seriously doubt they'll get any 787s within the next 10 years. Especially when 787's capability is not needed when flying Japan domestic...
Jump to postANA's early 787-8 used regionally and domestically have to be high cycle airplanes. They still use 777-200 Pratt & Whitney airplanes on their domestic operation at Haneda airport. ANA also has a big enough fleet of 767-300ER planes flying around. ANA has three different sub-fleet needing replac...
Jump to postThat’s the current number of seats in SQ’s A380s. So if actually acquiring ex-SQ planes either same layout or something got miscommunicated. The original SQ A380s also had 471 seats. Different configuration to the current ones. The original configuration of the SQ A380s had 441 seats - 12F 60J 36Y+...
Jump to postThis is not going to work commercially. How is Nepal Airlines going to compete with a 2/weekly service? Simple: They are government-owned and do not need to be profitable to survive. Until the government runs out of money or get tired and cannot/will not support it any more, like Alitalia, Olympic,...
Jump to postWith QR ending their daily 77W ADL-AKL service in August leaving just 3 services per week with Air NZ 320s. Qantas might consider starting ADL- AKL using the 190s which would replace some of the lost seats. Plus this could feed their AKL- JFK as well as the AA AKL- JFK service. I highly doubt E90 h...
Jump to postAre there many A330's available to acquire on the market if QF wanted to grow further? e.g. have the ex-AA/US Airways A330's been scrapped/given a new life yet? Or could they be repainted into QF colours? Qantas quite evidently doesn't want to complicate maintenance further - at least AY birds are ...
Jump to postIm wondering though where AY will be pulling A330 flying from to serve these routes. Think the 333s mostly did the New York and ME/Asian/Indian routes. Having to avoid Ukraine and Russia hurts them. AY's 333 flew to a whole bunch of East Asian destinations - PEK, XIY, KIX, NGO & FUK comes up to...
Jump to postFinnair has 2 versions of the A333, 32 business 40 economy comfort and 217 economy, similar to the Qantas A333 with 28 business and 269 economy 45 business 40 economy comfort and 178 economy. AY- https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Finnair/information.php QF-https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Qantas_A...
Jump to postDue to the current restriction in seats it's also significantly driving connections over ICN and TPE to China. It was a big driver in UA going to 2x on SFO-ICN. SFO-TPE on UA is currently a 777-300ER now when pre-pandemic it was often a 787-8. I wonder if we will see China Eastern and Hainan Airlin...
Jump to postOutstaying Question Awaiting a Response: If an airline wants to place a new order (not NTUs), how long will it take to get delivery of a brand new A330? (Meaning, obviously there would have to be a production slot for it). 6 months, 1 year, 2 years? You asked the same question on the B787 Productio...
Jump to postI know the Anna.aero article is probably out of date/context now with Covid-19 having occurred amongst other things.. but Perth also features in the top10 underserved cities for Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo. If only Qantas could consider Perth as an International airport (with a capital ‘I’) apart from...
Jump to postI know the Anna.aero article is probably out of date/context now with Covid-19 having occurred amongst other things.. but Perth also features in the top10 underserved cities for Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo. If only Qantas could consider Perth as an International airport (with a capital ‘I’) apart from...
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