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sierrakilo44

Re: Impact of a major Israel-Iran escalation on Middle Eastern aviation

Not even several hours after the strikes and looking at FR24 you would not know there had been a major drone and missile attack in the region last night. Basically every previously empty piece of airspace now contains flights, QR flying up through Iraq, TLV somewhat busy, AMM resuming ops. Some carr...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Impact of a major Israel-Iran escalation on Middle Eastern aviation

Some early signs things are improving. An A321 landed in TLV approaching from the south over the Dead Sea, and some departures showing on FR24.
Maybe they’re satisfied that there’ll be no more attacks from Iran in the short term.

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sierrakilo44

Re: Impact of a major Israel-Iran escalation on Middle Eastern aviation

There's other ways of navigating. It can affect some aircraft systems. An aircraft isn't going to immediately crash. Pretty sure flight crew are trained about GPS failures/unreliabilities. I'd rather a type-rated captain or FO pipe in and give us the run down... Aircraft’s onboard IRS systems and V...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Impact of a major Israel-Iran escalation on Middle Eastern aviation

So everyone on here is saying the only impacted flights are the ME3- LAX/SFO/SEA right now? Is that actually true? I feel like I'm missing something. There’s just been a flock of EK and QR USA West Coast departures. It seems the EK flight are going to fly the polar route over Russia, down through e...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Impact of a major Israel-Iran escalation on Middle Eastern aviation

Iranian airspace is effectively closed for many operators, even before this escalation. A big reason for that was economic sanctions and the inability to pay airspace overflight fees, plus diplomatic issues if an aircraft had to make an emergency landing in Tehran, not necessarily safety reasons.

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sierrakilo44

Re: Impact of a major Israel-Iran escalation on Middle Eastern aviation

acavpics wrote:
Why is only the Sinai area of Egypt open? Can't they traverse pretty much the rest of Egypt?

Maybe just the areas of the Sinai close to Israel?

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sierrakilo44

Re: Impact of a major Israel-Iran escalation on Middle Eastern aviation

I'm going to keep this as civil aviation related. This is bad. The following airspaces are now effectively in a war zone: Iran Israel Syria Lebanon Jordan Yemen Iraq Well not entirely. Iran is still open east of Tehran to Bandar Abbas and there’s a lot of traffic on that route to DXB (including the...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Impact of a major Israel-Iran escalation on Middle Eastern aviation

jacobchoi wrote:
I do wonder whats going to happen to the TG and TK flights that are heading towards Europe and about to pass through Iranian airspace

Plenty of traffic over or heading towards Iranian airspace. As long as they stay away from Iraq border areas they should be fine.

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sierrakilo44

Re: Impact of a major Israel-Iran escalation on Middle Eastern aviation

Only till midnight...after that no way to get into DXB except coming from East (Asia) or South (Africa or Indian Ocean) Egypt to close soon as well... https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1779255937380872278 There’s hundreds of aircraft either in or approaching Egyptian airspace, and appears a lo...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Impact of a major Israel-Iran escalation on Middle Eastern aviation

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - April 2024

Would a 380 have more range/scope to do PER-LHR with airspace diversions, than a 789? If so, wonder if QF may consider using a 380 down the line? The 380 is used on similarly-distanced routes, like AKL-DXB on EK. The QF 789s has weight saving initiatives, and their high premium config limits pax lo...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - April 2024

Of the 3 aircraft from SIN that are approaching LHR right now, QF209 took the most circuitous route, with a very zig zagy flight path over Central Asia that seems to be avoiding Pakistan and Afghanistan. The BA flight went straight through the middle of Afghanistan but otherwise generally is taking...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - April 2024

Will this also affect CDG and FCO if alternative routes are still necessary when they start up? FCO is much shorter, and being further south they can fly over Saudi, south of the Sinai and over the Med. CDG isn’t too dissimilar in distance and routing to LHR so may present more of a challenge. Howe...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Impact of a major Israel-Iran escalation on Middle Eastern aviation

Reuters informs its employees in Basra, Iraq, that Iranian missiles will pass through the city's airspace and asks them to prepare That hasn’t stopped quite a few airlines from flying the route through Iraq from the Turkish border down past Baghdad to Kuwait, which is right alongside the Iranian bo...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Qantas Group Fleet - 2024

737 VH-VXD currently operating CNS-SYD as QF6034 after being in HKG for maintenance the past month. This bird been given the split-scimitar wings also I wonder? I strongly doubt it. Being the 4th oldest in the fleet at 22 years old it's going to be one of the first frames retired later next year. V...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Impact of a major Israel-Iran escalation on Middle Eastern aviation

According to a news report in Axios Iran has signalled any response to the Damascus bombing would be limited, almost certainly the use of proxies in Lebanon and Syria. The have been occasional airstrikes in those areas over last few years and especially the last 6 months. The aviation context of thi...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - April 2024

Doesn’t look like it’s “winds” after all… QF9 cancelled again today and replaced with QF209 - operating a MEL-PER-SIN-LHR routing. I would assume QF is being extra cautious, and for good reason. This won’t be sustainable in the long term though - a suspension of the nonstop will be imminent if the ...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - April 2024

QF9 10/4 taking a very long route to avoid middle eastern airspace. QF2/10 seem to be routing normally eastbound however, might just be due to winds Eastbound Flights tracking over Egypt, Saudi and UAE instead of down the Iran-Iraq border. Westbound flights having to go up over the sub continent, t...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - April 2024

AirbusA322 wrote:
Why doesn’t QF just start a ADL-SIN service? I know the hard product vs the competition is an embarrassment but even still, they have the QFF to lure people.

Mooted once enough A321XLRs arrive, but it’ll be a few years after the first is introduced to the fleet

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sierrakilo44

Re: WN3695 hit object departing DEN, causing engine damage

Standby for the media cowling for a grounding of the 737 fleet. Not a call for grounding, but the headline at The Liberty Daily screams loudly about it being a Boening with 'parts falling off'. Their headlines tend to run to News of the hr World panic mode about many things. The media are like shar...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a collision

Watched President Biden's briefing. Glad to see that help is coming from the Federal government but did he mention anything about the responsible party paying for the damages? The dust has barely settled and no accident investigation has been conducted so it’s far too early to determine ‘responsibl...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1772515766929097088

Looks like the container ship drove right into the Support column. The area very well lit, how could they have hit it?

sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2024

Isn't the issue that the temporary (and quite ordinary) T4 international setup at PER pretty much maxed out? Unless QF were prepared to move part of its operations back to T1, where it no longer even has a lounge, the growth potential of PER is limited until it gets a new terminal over in the main ...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2024

Do they have more long haul plans with those extra 787? Many current 787 destinations aren't even daily. Santiago, San Francisco, Vancouver plus the European destinations of Paris and Rome. Those extra planes might mean those cities are just get to daily QF have always been a bit more about extra d...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2024

Do you think with the additional 787s coming in we could see FCO and/or CDG become daily? I know they're mainly intended to be replacements for the A330 fleet. I would say FCO/CDG will remain at 3 per week (although FCO may be extended to all year). The fact they ordered 4x 789s over just 781s show...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2024

Today marks 6 years since the first PER-LHR flight took off PER-LHR leaves every day with barely a free seat. There were a lot of detractors before the launch (both here and other places) who thought the service would be a failure, it was impossible to fly a 789 that far with a profitable load or t...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2024

I probably agree an AKL-PER service would be timed for O&D with maybe some JQ domestic connections in AKL meaning probably a midday departure ex AKL getting to PER around 1500, the return leaving PER at 1900 for an 0600 arrival into AKL, that aircraft can rotate onto an East coast flight ex AKL...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2024

Will be very interesting to see if they do a schedule catering primarily to O&D, or if they’ll go for connections to LHR/CDG/FCO (which will require some nifty planning, most likely swapping the aircraft in AKL from an east coast arrival) The schedule will primarily be dictated by aircraft avai...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2024

planemanofnz wrote:
AKL-PER-AKL to connect to PER-LHR and AKL-JFK - needs to be more than daily to connect both ways

PER-AKL is definitely on the cards for the XLR.

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2024

Seeing videos of ITA’s new 321LR configuration makes me think of the possibilities of QF went down the path of a subfleet with something similar. SYD: KUL, TPE, SGN, frequency increases to BKK/MNL, third daily SIN (redeye west with a morning departure ex SIN) MEL: BKK, MNL, daily CGK BNE: HKG, seco...

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sierrakilo44

Re: LA800 flight SYD-AKL in flight uncontrolled descent

It’s designed so the pilots can move the seat to the full forward position, and therefore out of the way during a crew change, and all the way back, so they can get into the seat when they arrive on the flight deck. It’s a convenience button, that isn’t used during flight. It’s still only supposed ...

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sierrakilo44

Re: LA800 flight SYD-AKL in flight uncontrolled descent

I know not related to the incident but not a good look for the airline as apparently the same aircraft and the media will be all over it - see the picture halfway through the story. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/latam-horror-plunge-new-photos-show-heavily-taped-wing-fresh-theory-emerges-about...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2024

Do we know that PER-LHR will be a ULR route? Could it be a bog standard A350-1000 one? From 2 years ago so I assume this is part of the 12x A351ULR Sunrise aircraft plan, not the 12x A351 standard versions that were ordered last year. https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/qantas-perth-london-proj...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Delta Airbus A350 encounters flight control issue while landing in Los Angeles

It's clear the media are in one of their "describe every air return and maintenance problem as a near catastrophe" reporting cycles at the moment.

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2024

Just been watching a recent upload by the MacMaster on YouTube about his recent QF9 experience from PER-LHR: https://youtu.be/igEVY3IreX0?si=t_gYjE4cj1VjiK1Q Make of it what you will, but his comments about the flight being weight restricted and having to operate with empty seats was interesting, I...

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sierrakilo44

Re: LA800 flight SYD-AKL in flight uncontrolled descent

An article out in Australian newspapers saying that it is believed the incident could have had a human cause. Basically the pilot’s seat was somehow moved forward, resulting in an inadvertent forward pressure on the control column causing an autopilot disconnect and a sudden pitch down. Similar to t...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Boeing 737 MAX Fails Dozens of Tests in FAA Audit

After viewing this I don't feel safe to fly on any plane. https://twitter.com/realCarola2Hope/status/1767387230547669199 This is hyperbolic. The 787 has been in commercial service for 13 years. Over 1,100 built and more than 50 million cumulative flight hours - if there was a design defect on the 7...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Boeing 737 MAX Fails Dozens of Tests in FAA Audit

Just for some perspective:

2023 had as much global aviation activity as 2015.

There were zero fatal jet airliner crashes.

There hasn’t been a single design related fatal crash since the MAX.

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2024

Not sure about a merger but I think there was talk of QF taking an equity stake in MH at some point. Given the value would've been wiped out by the pandemic, it was probably lucky for QF that this never went anywhere. In about 2012 QF was negotiating with MH to start an Asian based “premium” carrie...

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sierrakilo44

Re: LA800 flight SYD-AKL in flight uncontrolled descent

The New York Times article [paywall] references a gap in FlightAware data: The plane made a “violent drop” for just a second or two, said Brian Jokat, who was on board Latam Airlines Flight 800. Aircraft tracking information from Flight Aware showed a gap of roughly an hour for which no data was av...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2024

A long time lurker on this thread, I have a question. The Malaysia Airport Berhad, the main operator of KLIA, is reporting they are courting Qantas in resuming SYD-KUL with rumoured 4x weekly flight in 2025. Anyone have heard anything about this? Qantas suspended its flights to Kuala Lumpur in 1999...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2024

The Perth-India market registered around 147,000 two-way passengers in 2019. https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/airports-networks/perth-targets-china-india-traffic-following-record-year Interesting comments from VH in front of a Senate Committee last year. Unfortunately you have to wade through...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2024

From the last thread re Rex’s HY results REX announced its results to the ASX for the December half-year today and they were not great. Passenger revenue has only increased by 6% YoY which is surprising given their larger jet fleet. Whilst they reported a reduced loss of $3.2M, this was after a non-...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - February 2024

I think future orders for more 78Js will depend a lot on what QF's actual strategy is for replacing the A330s vs the generic statements they have made. Do the A35Ks replace 789s on long haul to allow those 789s to come back to regional flying in a denser configuration? Do the A35Ks do the regional ...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - February 2024

JQ unveils new uniforms to celebrate its 20 years in operation! https://newsroom.jetstar.com/jetstar-unveils-its-new-uniform/ Much nice than the current uniform. Looks practical and comfy for staff working in warmer climates too. Great to see they've maintained the Flight Attendant wing badge in th...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - February 2024

What would that mean for Lord Howe Island? LDH is a government subsidised route. It only has a population of 380 so it’s not a profitable flight if it was operating on its own terms. There was some talk of extending the runway but as a satellite map will show there isn’t much extra land at all. My ...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - February 2024

- A321XLR is hands down best narrowbody on the market and was a no brainer when it was launched, hence the eight additional confirmed when they were available. I wouldn’t be surprised if the bulk of the 134 Winton narrowbody replacement order was A321XLR, potentially 90+ airframes. It could replace...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - February 2024

The Australian (paywall) is reporting that QF has accelerated its planned introduction of more Alliance E190s with another 4 planned to be introduced by June. A further 4 options from the existing agreement remain to be exercised. Are you able to post the text of the article? Refuse to pay a cent t...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - February 2024

I still believe that QF will use the A321XLR on medium-thin International routes at some point. The obvious ones to me are DRW-SIN, CBR-AKL, CBR-WLG, along with various destinations within the South Pacific such as Fii, New Caledonia. It's possible they could have changed focus for other reasons. T...

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sierrakilo44

Re: Australian Aviation - February 2024

One benefit of ordering so many A321XLRs would be red-eyeing them to Asia instead of parking planes overnight. But that wouldn't work in SYD, having to taxi planes from T3 to T1. Will that mega QF terminal with combined domestic/international operations ever be a thing? It's been talked about for y...

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