Re: Age in Airliners.net time?

It's pretty much exactly 18 years. I lurked less than a week before joining. Deciding to pay for the slightly higher option that gave lifetime membership. And I still think the "pay to join" times were way better. The quality of the conversation and posters was higher, and the whole "...

Re: Age in Airliners.net time?

I've been here for more than 20 years and I hate when a valuable contributor stops posting. We're left to wonder what happened to him. Agreed - a "where are they now?" thread would be interesting. I know a couple former members and why they don't post anymore and I am sure there are other...

Re: Age in Airliners.net time?

I joined in 2005 but was lurking maybe two years prior to that.

Re: Camera Gear for Alaskan cruise?

On the two Alaska cruises I took, just used my 28-70mm and 100-300mm. Unless you are hoping to catch wildlife onshore or whales at sea, you shouldn't need anything with a longer focal length than 300mm

Re: Harwich factory to make jet fuel out of faeces in world first

readytotaxi wrote:

So in 2028 the shit hits the fanjet.

Re: Word Game - 2024

acquisition

Re: BA Livery. Time for a change?

Bring back the previous livery. That one was phenomenal - timeless with more class than the current I have a 1/200 scale model of a BA 747-200 and after reading your post I glanced at it, and yeah, it's really classy. The current one is fine and I know they won't bring back Landor (no one ever goes...

Re: Word Game - 2024

Clover

Re: BA Livery. Time for a change?

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Current livery is just fine IMHO

Re: Word Game - 2024

River

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Accent

Re: Washington State Aviation - 2024

Seems LH has taken the hatchet. - FRA reduces from daily to 6x weekly - MUC reduces from daily to 3x weekly Amazing to think that DE is going to offer more capacity on SEA-FRA this summer! That's amazing, indeed. At the same time, as most of you know SEA is an absolutely gorgeous (and therefore ver...

Re: Word Game - 2024

Irritating

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed

Lots of updates on CNN: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/baltimore-bridge-collapse-03-26-24-intl-hnk/index.html Ship lost propulsion, issued a mayday call and officials actually began the process of closing the bridge ahead of the collision which probably saved some lives. The ship did drop anchor b...

Re: Boeing announces Board and Management Changes

How about they are waiting to take over Spirit and then install Pat Shanahan as boss? And about getting bosses from other aerospace companies - I would have thought that they would have non-compete clauses in contracts? I've seen it in other industries where people would have to wait a year or two ...

Re: Boeing announces Board and Management Changes

They had to offer up some sacrificial lambs to placate the media, shareholders and customers. As others have stated, they really need to bring in execs from outside the company (but within the industry) to truly change the culture.

Re: Your best redeye flight

Late 1980's, UA 747 HNL/ORD in First Class. Had a couple rum and cokes with dinner, reclined the seat and next thing I knew the smell of coffee brewing woke me up about an hour prior to arrival in ORD.

Re: Washington State Aviation - 2024

I was able to find the January 2024 LF statistics on the Port of Seattle's website, so here's how some of the international carriers did out of SEA then. My other sources (AviationDB and the BTS website) update rather slowly and seem to be somewhat inaccurate, so we'll see if this goes better. Note...

Re: Updated: Korean Air orders 6 x A350-900 and 27 x A350-1000

Congrats to KE and Airbus - nice day at the office for the A350 sales team!

Re: Japan Airlines is nearing an order for wide-body jets

wedgetail737 wrote:

No 777-9's or 777-8's?

Re: Word Game - 2024

Axe

Re: Boeing 787 Production / Deliveries - 2024

787-10, All Nippon Airways, JA981A, LN1177 Delivered as ANA9399 (CHS-LAX) https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/ANA9399/history/20240318/1930Z/KCHS/KLAX Why to LAX? It is indeed ANAs first 787 with GE Engines but do they have an ANA maintenance facility at LAX? After a 30 hour layover in LA they ...

Re: Word Game - 2024

Bride

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Catholic

Re: Washington State Aviation - 2024

OK, so it sounds as if Starlux is coming, and CI is still a ''maybe." Aside from that, what is the thought of anyone on this board as to the next most likely newcomer to SEA -- if not starting service in '24, then at least officially announcing in '24 and starting in '25? I think the next carr...

Re: WM Phoenix open craziness.

They definitely need to put a daily cap on ticket sales - Saturdays (and to some extent Fridays) get so crowded it's hard to move around in some areas of the course. I'm surprised no one's ever been trampled there. I remember one time it took me almost an hour to get from the 17th tee to the exit - ...

Re: Word Game - 2024

Wedding

Re: Washington State Aviation - 2024

BR is planning on increasing SEA-TPE to 10 weekly over the summer now. Strikes me as part strong Asian demand, and part retaliation against DL and possibly JX/CI if one/both of them confirm plans to start SEA. https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240306-brns24sea I'm not surprised at all- BR's load facto...

Re: John Oliver's Take on Boeing

It was a hit piece, no doubt, but the guy and his staff do their research. Most of what was talked about was pretty much factual and Boeing did bring a lot of this on themselves. I thought the most damning part was when they kept referring to stock info and maximizing profits while cutting costs.

Re: AA Orders 260 Narrowbody Aircraft

So you don't have to open the link if you don't want to: "American orders 85 Airbus A321neo, 85 Boeing 737 MAX 10 and 90 Embraer E175 aircraft." https://news.aa.com/news/news-details/2024/American-Airlines-places-orders-for-Airbus-Boeing-and-Embraer-aircraft-FLT-03/default.aspx#gallery1-2...

Re: Word Game - 2024

Reality

Re: Wendy’s announces Uber-like surge pricing on menu

It appears this reporting isn't true. https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/wendys-prices-denial/2024/02/28/id/1155274/ Yahoo also running a clarification story: https://www.yahoo.com/news/wendys-start-testing-uber-style-094524758.html CEO indicates that they aren't raising prices but will ins...

Re: Word Game - 2024

Scolded

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punished

Re: Boeing’s Troubles

I have to wonder how much it would have cost Boeing to design a clean sheet 6-abreast narrow-body that could adequately compete with the A320neo family (since the A320 was introduced, the only clean-sheet narrow-bodies have been by Embraer with the E-Jet and the C-Series, now the A220). I have ofte...

Re: Word Game - 2024

Pop

Re: Clark: Emirates will inspect 777 production

In the article, he said "Will Boeing restore itself to its former glory? Of course it will." I really doubt Boeing will or can revert back to pre Boeing-McD days. Those days are absolutely gone. A company that is run on primarily satisifying the shareholder value will never be that compan...

Re: A Saturday Night chuckle

scbriml wrote:

VolvoBus wrote:

' Jesus Saves '
He couldn't on my salary.

In God we trust - all others have to pay.

Famous football banner from Liverpool in the late ‘70s early ‘80s - “Jesus saves, but Dalgleish nets the rebound”

Re: NFL team head coaches fired/leaving 2024-including Belicheck

QF7 wrote:

Back on topic of this thread it’s being reported that the Commanders are hiring Dan Quinn.

Re: Tallest Building in the United States Planned for Oklahoma City

Putting my cynic hat on, I suspect this is a ploy to draw attention to the development and developers. Unless there is a huge shortage of commercial office space in OKC I'm not aware of, I don't see how any bank or financing consortium would even touch this project. Even if there is a need for comm...

Re: Tallest Building in the United States Planned for Oklahoma City

It’s gonna make trailer parks very jealous, worlds tallest magnet for tornado’s ….. Ha, that's funny and was actually my first thought. Of course I am sure it will be built to withstand an EF5. Wouldn't want to be on the upper floors when one hits regardless. As for the observation deck, what would...

Re: Washington State Aviation - 2024

There has been talk like CI returning to SEA despite the DL announcement. But that's just it...talk. Same with the possible FJ service. I agree that SEA will kind of remain static...but AS or DL could surprise us. Taiwanese news outlet has reported that China Airlines will return to Seattle on a 5 ...

Re: A Saturday Night chuckle

Sign in men's room at a restaurant:
We aim to please - you aim too, please

Re: NFL team head coaches fired/leaving 2024-including Belicheck

The Possible Matchups at the SB NFL Memes https://x.com/NFL_Memes/status/1750606489205494219 There's also the possibility (I'd say probability) of 49'ers/Chiefs. I personally do hope for the top one though. I just really, REALLY don't want to see KC in the Super Bowl again. Can you imagine how many...

Re: Word Game - 2024

Fried

Re: Washington State Aviation - 2024

Political attitudes in Snohomish County are powerful enough to block Paine being as big as it needs to be. The armed forces, it is almost a given, will veto anything at McCord - and pro-defense politician (there ain't any other kind in Washington) will support* the military. * we squabble with the ...

Re: AS MAX9 Returning to service Friday

I think this warrants a separate thread. Finally good(great) news despite the speculation and doom and gloom in the technical discussion. First MAX9 resumes flying Friday. https://news.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/operations/as-1282/ And this is good news for passengers how exactly? A lot less can...

Re: NFL team head coaches fired/leaving 2024-including Belicheck