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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Civil Aviation Related Discussion Thread

Now, this will put some areas like Egypt/Turkey into quite some trouble cause they are depending on tourism from Russia, so I see them trying to somehow get those tourists there. But - even Russians will have issues going in mass to holidays abroad. Their credit cards will not work, they will have ...

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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Civil Aviation Related Discussion Thread

There are severe implications currently for any airline which operates into Russia. First of all - insurance. I have seen that insurers will have issues with you flying into Russian territory and might revoke your insurance to fly in there. Secondly - lessors. After having so many planes literally s...

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Re: New Sukhoi Superjet

Will only be successful in Russia. So far any attempts of Russian airplanes to be sold abroad failed on the absolutely horrible support, availability of spare parts and difficult maintenance. Add a sub par product when it comes to interior, training etc and no sane airline will go for it. Even Russi...

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Re: Spirit Airlines Discussion Thread - 2021

Today Spirit so far cancelled 51% of their planned flights with another 11% being delayed. These guys are so lucky this did not happen to them in the EU as they would get bankrupt paying out compensations to the passengers.

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Re: Spirit Airlines Discussion Thread - 2021

Overly aggressive schedule with not enough infrastructure in place for it to work unless things worked out perfectly. WN did the same thing in, what was it, June? Dunno, but this is about 40% of their flights which got cancelled today. This is a bit more than overly aggressive schedule. This is lik...

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Re: Spirit Airlines Discussion Thread - 2021

Can you be more specific of how you end up in such an ops meltdown? This affects by far too much of the network and flights. People saying their staff at MCO walked out and there is very little info from the airline itself. This kind of ops meltdown seems much more like someone did not pay the bills...

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Re: 747 Supertanker ceasing operations

Yeah, got that bird on final in San Antonio. So glad I could snap a picture of her, thought this will be another rare bird I will never be able to catch.

https://texasaviation.net/gallery/civil-aircraft/global-supertanker-services-boeing-747-400-n744st-356

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Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion Thread

flyoregon wrote:
BA744PHX wrote:
What airlines currently use Radixx for reservations?

About 20, the most prominent would be airTransat, flyDubai (which self hosts), Peach and Zipair in Japan, Vietravel Airlines, Air Belgium, Eastern airways, Avelo, FlySafair and Fastjet in Africa.

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Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion Thread

maps4ltd wrote:
It's now been down for 4 days.

This is becoming a huge disaster for all parties involved. They are bringing customers online one by one, but it seems to be a very slow process. I guess they will give priority to carriers which have live ops. Avelo might be one of the last in line

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Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion Thread

Agreed, however you can't blame Avelo, other airlines have been down due to Radixx as well. Eastern Airlines, ZIPAIR, Air Belgium, I wonder how much compensation Radixx will offer their clients due to this. Very little. In general, the agreements of all providers are setting a cap of compensation t...

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Re: Lufthansa Group: 10B EUR bailout - Update

Unlikely, the asset worth is still higher. Swiss, LH Technik and so on. He would probably regain quite a big part of his investment. Don´t think so. If the LH government bailout fails, also the OS government bailout is void. This means Austrian would bite the dust. They would send Brussels airlines...

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Re: Lufthansa Group: 10B EUR bailout - Update

If you listen carefully what LH Management has said these days, they know the deal with Germany will not happen, because Mr. Thiele will block it. All their internal communication is to get their employees ready for the unthinkable. And do not talk about the unions. They are just as ignorant and ar...

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Re: How to start an airline?

I've run into a problem then as the aircraft I was looking for was in the 10-50 seat count range. 70 seats I believe would be too much but as you say the airfare would be too high then making the route unprofitable. How come do you see it as an unrealistic model though may I ask? There are airlines...

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Re: How to start an airline?

Ok, I will try to give you some serious insight. First of all, you need to look at viability of your airline. So start working on a business plan, see what are all the costs you will have, not only direct operating but all the others. Its far more than airplane, fuel, pilots and some charges at the ...

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Re: Person killed by plane on runway at Austin

I'm pretty confident that dedicated police unit spends the vast majority of its time and resources in the small enclosed areas where people are, vs the outlying large outdoor spaces where the flight ops actually take place. The ABIA airport security is patrolling the perimeter of the airport perime...

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Re: DY about to go bust?

SoEWR wrote:
With the recent news in the US, this might be the actual end for Norwegian

I think the next 24 hours will tell.

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Re: DY about to go bust?

Now down to 12.77, the quoted February figures were down around 20% on most factors, and we need to bear in mind that Norwegian primarily works in Europe and North America, coronavirus only really became a major issue in these markets towards the end of the month. Any airline that was in the red la...

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Re: State run airline's loss versus its positive impact on local economy

In general, the consensus is, that in developed countries the state owned airlines are obsolete and represent a too high burden on the tax payer. As always, there are good and bad examples. Someone mentioned Ethiopian as a good example. There are multiple bad examples. E.g. Austrian was making losse...

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Re: Avatar Airlines (formerly Family Airlines) start up tries again..

Looks like a pretty good parody, but I liked Skyhigh Airlines better. Speaking of them, anyone got a copy of their Neccesities inflight sales catalogue? I really would like to relive the laugh

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Re: PC2193 runway overrun at Instanbul (SAW)

I would not be surprised if they forgot to arm the spoilers ....

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Re: AUS Airport Big Announcement 10/24 10:00 A.M.

This is becoming interesting. Now with KL coming from AMS and Norwegian flying both LGW and CDG I wonder if we will soon see moves from DL as SkyTeam member and also JetBlue which is now partnering with Norwegian.

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Re: 737MAX Storage, Where are they?

https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/a ... 064734.php

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Re: AUS eyes nonstop flights to 7 interc’l destinations: AMS, BJS, DUB, CDG, ICN, PVG, TYO

marosbts wrote:
Otherwise I see KLM as the next candidate to send an A330 over here.

LOL. this came confirmed so much faster than I thought

And great to have more options travelling back to Europe in 2020

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Re: AUS eyes nonstop flights to 7 interc’l destinations: AMS, BJS, DUB, CDG, ICN, PVG, TYO

Honestly, AUS is ready for more international routes, but .... I relocated here recently and I can tell you that getting here from Europe is not a great experience currently. Your sole 2 options are virtually LH and BA. Both options have their quirks and are priced way above flying into DWF or IAH. ...

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Austrian Airlines new retrojet A320

https://slovakaviation.sk/photos/civil- ... e-lbo-5099

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Re: How to grow a small international airport in Central Europe?

You do realize tho that Bratislava county is the 6th richest region in terms of GDP per capita in the EU, even surpassing Vienna? Yes. And at the same I realize that part of that is unrealistically high cost of living in Bratislava. How about trying to compare per capita disposable income to other ...

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Re: How to grow a small international airport in Central Europe?

I think that this is not true. BTS with nearly 2 million pax is an alternative in 2 ways. On one side the ultra low cost carriers like FR and W6 but also is a viable option in cases where carriers can not enter VIE due to bilateral agreements which are often single designation. Your argument would ...

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Re: How to grow a small international airport in Central Europe?

IMHO, it's a question of time Star Alliance TK would fly to BTS most likely from its IST hub or even SAW hub.. TK is no LH group and does fly to airports very close to each other in several markets. A dedicated rail service between BTS and Vienna would do wonders for BTS but one wonders what kind o...

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Re: How to grow a small international airport in Central Europe?

Well, you are in general in a similar situation how many secondary airports all across Europe. To make matters worse, you have 2 more odds to fight against: 1. lack of interest of home based carrier (ČSA) to undergo the risk and invest money into creating direct flights from regional airports 2. Loc...

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Tway air modified livery

This ex XL Airways B737 departed today Bratislava with a Tway Air livery. Is this going to be the new livery for Tway? Small refresh but think its better than the old one

http://slovakaviation.sk/photos/civil-aircraft/civilne-lietadla/t-way-airlines-boeing-737-800-f-hjul-4158

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RE: Surprise! No BER In 2017?

German media just tweeted - Chuck Norris named new BER CEO. The airport is opening tommorow morning 6AM!!

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Ryanair To Expand At Niš,new Route To Bratislava

Ryanair is upping the game and is expanding at Niš, announcing a new route to Bratislava. Interestingly, this route might have been inspired by the success of Wizzair with the route from Skopje to Bratislava, which in same way is aiming at the Macedonian diaspora in Vienna. Ryanair is trying to do n...

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RE: Ryanair Competing With 240-Seat WizzAir A321 NEOs?

Does it really matter? Ryanair has the deeper pockets and can actually afford to battle Wizzair for long periods and still remain profitable, as it would compete only on a very small portion of its network. Wizzair on the other hand has been for some time (after the folding of SkyEurope) enjoying a ...

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Austrian To Drop Tokyo

Austrian Airlines confirmed the writings on the wall - Tokyo has to go... <a href="http://slovakaviation.sk/en/news/572-austrian-to-drop-tokio-flights" target="_blank">http://slovakaviation.sk/en/news/572-austrian-to-drop-tokio-flights</a> Lets hope that they will be able to make some money in Shang...

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RE: Transaero 747 In Dublin For Paint

Its out already

http://airlinersgallery.smugmug.com/...ssiya-Russian-Airlines/i-MPhjnWm/A

[Edited 2016-03-30 04:06:38]

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RE: FR Converts Only B737-700 To Corporate Jet

If I would be rich and famous, I am sure I would totally brag about it on some coctail party that I flew in with Ryanair.

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RE: Central European Airport? Ideas!

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/eielef" class="quote" target="_blank">eielef</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i> Well, you have a good example with the Euroai...

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RE: Central European Airport? Ideas!

This will not work out. While the EU as such may look like a uniform country, in reality it is split into the individual countries which mind their own business and as such also primarily take care of their own often nationalistic interests. Steman already pinpointed some of the reasons why this wou...

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RE: Rossiya New Livery?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/seahawk" class="quote" target="_blank">seahawk</a> (<a href="#15" class="quote">Reply 15</a>):<br/><i>Maybe this is it: <a href="http://www.jetp...

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RE: Daallo Airlines A321 Lands With Hole In Fuselage

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/SyeaphanR" class="quote" target="_blank">SyeaphanR</a> (<a href="#42" class="quote">Reply 42</a>):<br/><i>BBC link; <a href="http://www.bbc.co.u...

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RE: Daallo Airlines A321 Lands With Hole In Fuselage

Damn, this definetly does not bode well for the safety of flying. And it pretty much could be very simmilar to what happened to Metrojet, although here it seems it could have happened at a much lower height, so not triggering an explosive decompression. The scary thing is, that if they now managed t...

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RE: Rossiya New Livery?

Its quite simple:

Aeroflot : Premium carrier - top of the segment with higher quality service, higher fares
Rossiya: Middle of the market - reasonable prices and quality. Scheduled service but also large charter service
Pobeda: Low cost carrier - lowest fares on the market

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Rossiya New Livery?

Rossiya is apparently short of releasing a new livery, which will be used post merger with Orenair and Donavia. And just about on time, as the current one would look awfull on the ex-Transaero 747s. Most likely this is not it, just one of the concepts, but what do you think? Pretty good looking IMHO...

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RE: Eastern Europe Aviation Thread N1.

Pobeda continues its expansion on international routes, now requesting approval for Moscow - Carlsbad route

http://slovakaviation.sk/en/news/539...-considering-moscow-carlsbad-route

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RE: New AB (AirBerlin) Super-cheap Euro-White Livery?

Negative - that aircraft just did not make it into the paintshop yet. This will be done once some heavy maintenance will be scheduled and then afterwards it will get into the full livery

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RE: MyAustrian To Become Austrian Again

The Servus was originally written in white on red background on the belly. But on recent planes it is just reg font on the white belly. Not sure which I liked more, but it seems that the livery is work in progress. Perhaps they straighten the red-white-red on the tail and we will finally have a nice...

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RE: MyAustrian To Become Austrian Again

Finally, the pictures are in. OE-<acronym title="Leshukonskoye (LDG / ULAL), Russia">LDG</acronym> left Bratislava yesterday and the "my" has been missing on it. Looks much better. Images OE-<acronym title="Leshukonskoye (LDG / ULAL), Russia">LDG</acronym> - without my <a href="http://slovakaviation...

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RE: Orenair To Cease Ops, Loose AOC By June 1st

Correct, however no exact dates were set and it was assumed that it will be a seamless integration, while now it seems a coulple thousand Orenair employees will be left out in the dark.

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Orenair To Cease Ops, Loose AOC By June 1st

Orenair is soon to stop operations and <acronym title="Altenburg - Nobitz (AOC / EDAC), Germany">AOC</acronym> will be gone by june 1st. Merger with Rossiya imminent, but apparently the Orenair employees will loose their jobs as Rossiya is hiring ex Transaero staff <a href="http://slovakaviation.sk/...

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RE: Turkish Aviation January 2016

Hi folks, just seen the director of Bratislava airport to announce on national <acronym title="Virgin Express (Belgium)">TV</acronym> that this year Bratislava will get a scheduled flight to Istanbul, he did not disclose the airline though. Anyone got an idea which carrier could that be? I keep hear...

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