Auchmithie wrote:TC957 wrote:FR24 showing that 380 VH-OQJ is coming into LGW tomorrow morning as QF331 from SIN.
Reason ?
Religious Group Charter? There is usually one of these every year.
FR24 showing that 380 VH-OQJ is coming into LGW tomorrow morning as QF331 from SIN.
Reason ?
Why does Indigo bother with 77W leases for their DEL / BOM - IST flights ? It's easily doable with their own A321Neo's which they could then offer several flights spread out across the day on.
Jump to postWho knows. I'd imagine Boeing has pretty watertight contracts with operators of their products stating no sales or parts can be sold or resold onwards to Iran. Hence no 757's / 767's there as GPerm above pointed out. Otherwise we could have seen the likes of EK or EY sell withdrawn 777's to them. Bu...
Jump to postOnly a matter of time before the ex-TG A346's that flew to China recently find their way into Iran once enough fat brown envelopes have been handed over. Iran could also look to Azerbaijan and their two ( stored WFU ? ) A345's.
Jump to postI hope DL know that TransPennine have a woeful record of service cancellations and delays, not to mention strikes by drivers. Why does VS not have a similar air-to-rail tie-up with Virgin trains ?
Jump to postCan we please all forget about VS forming a hub&spoke operation at MAN ? For one thing, they have no intention of going narrow-bodied A321XLR on TATL routes. MAN will in future still get some VS love, like seasonal routes, once more A339's come in. Personally, I think a summer LAX and winter JNB...
Jump to postI presume you mean 05 April not 05 March....
Jump to postStill sitting engineless at VCV as N5511Y by all accounts. However, CZ have just announced 14 new international routes being introduced this year so there's hope for this last 77W still .
Jump to postSo aside from the first prototype built, any others seen the axeman so far ?
Jump to postAir Peace operated it's first LOS - LGW flight with their own B772.....Norse contract cancelled ?
Jump to postIf EDM is insured by companies based in countries where sactions are, that in itself would present issues as I suspect the insurers wont be able to send anyone to DME for evaluating the 380.
Jump to postEDM seems to operate almost entirely to DME.
Jump to post9L departures were only in exceptional circumstances for many years, as part of the Cranford village agreement. The government dropped the agreement around 2010, but then the local council blocked planning permission for new taxiways, so they still can't really use it.[/quote] I doubt theres any spa...
Jump to postAnother main issue with 09L departure is that there is little space for holding aircraft in line waiting their take-off turn.
Jump to postBaltimore bridge crash - an opportunity for air cargo companies ? Lots of supply chain disruption according to news on the accident.
Jump to postI see Manchester has appeared again on that route map, as it's done before, yet still no commitment to launching services.
Jump to postMoL is saying crew retraining costs is the biggest factor in Lauda Air sticking with A320's and not changing to any kind of 737's. On that basis, I sumhow don't see FR ever going en masse to any Airbus varients unless part of any deal is that Airbus pay for the crew conversion.
Jump to postInteresting piece from Simple Flying on how MoL wants to expand the Lauda Air subsidery to 50 A320's and not replace them with 737's. He's clearly happy with their performance and hints at a future order. That would be another massive blow to Boeing and the MAX. But he knows he wouldn't get any new ...
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Hired as Paint Centre Quality Inspector in Toulouse[/quote]
Ha ha ! Good one ! He's " retired " from his role as chairman of Qatar's tourism authority too.
What fun we could have if he becomes an a-netter....
32Bit wrote:RobbiDee wrote:787-10, All Nippon Airways, JA981A, LN1177 Delivered as ANA9399 (CHS-LAX)
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight ... /KCHS/KLAX
Why the planned tech stop at LGW on QR's SFO - DOH flight today, and also again a couple of weeks ago ?
Jump to postMSN647 Virgin Atlantic A35K G-VNVR delivered TLS - LHR as VIR647P today.
Jump to postThey certainly got their monies worth out of those 767's ! Most of them must have quite a lot of hours on them. Are they going for freight conversion ?
Jump to postWhy could the flight not park remote at MCO and pax bussed in ?
Jump to postIs it actually SE-ROY that will be the A320Neo converted to this future role ?
Jump to postLAX twice-daily seems to be the only route KE is flying their 380's on currently. Hence no more than 5 frames needed.
Jump to postWould be cool but I would think the cost and logistical issues in moving the A380 parts to an off-airport site would be considerable. Really sad to see the lack of care TG have given their stored A380's, hardly an advert for the flying public in how they maintain their fleet. They should have flown ...
Jump to postAirlinerdude wrote:Emirates now has 100 A380s in service. A6-EDK, a fourteen-year-old A380 was returned to service today operating EK15 to LGW. Another 16 A380s have yet to be returned to service since the onset of Covid.
Got to hand it to the Iranians, they are resourceful when it comes to obtaining more A340's. Just hand over large brown envelopes for those aircraft parked in remote places that are owned by dodgy finance institutions in 3rd world countries,file a false flight plan and they get round sanctions.
Jump to postLGW - BKK & LHR - KUL on Galileo GDS bookable now for sales.
Jump to postHopefully the much anticipated A350 or B787 - or both - order is still being negotaited. Interesting to see if Airbus delivers the 321's before Boeing the Max-10's.
Jump to posttrauha wrote:Now flying the King of Norway to Oslo from Malaysia where he was taken ill, to Oslo as SK7186.
https://simpleflying.com/sas-final-boeing-737-medevac/
787-10HGW replaces the 777-236IGW while the A359 replaces the extant 777-236ER fleet. The 777-336ER and 777-36NER will be replaced by a combination of A35K and 779 orders. I highly doubt replacing the 77W fleet will be in BA's mind until well into the next decade.BA will most likely continue with t...
Jump to postNorse flying for two months for a dodgy airline based in a corrupt country ? What can possiby go wrong ?
Jump to postDXB - MCT is only 230 miles....hardly the best use for an A333.
Jump to postI actually think BA should try a 777 on a seasonal peak travel time basis. Plenty of time to rotate one of the frames for a TFS trip from an early morning Caribbean arrival to it's late evening MRU or CPT runs. But this thread is about VS, not BA.
Jump to postNever miss an opportunity to kick a man when he's down, eh MoL ?
Jump to postWith CX soon back to its pre-Covid capacity on LHR-HKG, could we see VS return to the route too, in line with traffic recovery? Won't happen anytime " soon " - maybe in many years time perhaps. VS hasn't just suspended HKG, they completely shut it down. Meaning to restart, office space, s...
Jump to postI recall JL had a 77W on domestics when I was there last in November. With the A351's now on JFK, that should free up another frame or two to help out on domestics for the time being. Or these 77W's could also take over international 789 routes and then bring them over to the domestic duties.
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It is a question of time that Air India launches DEL-LGW and BOM-LGW if they want to grow in the India-London market.[/quote]
AI DEL - LGW strongly tipped to be announced next - watch this space.
[quote="32Bit"]All Nippon Airways 787-10 JA983A MSN66997 LN1176 made a flight (B1) (CHS - CHS) with callsign BOE301
JA983A or JA903A ??
Why is today's BA238 delayed at BOS from 7.30 this morning to an estimated 9pm tonight ?
Jump to postI reckon that those two ex-TG A346's now in China will get chopped and parts shipped off to Iran to help keep the fleet there in service. No doubt the respective governments have done some shady dodgy deal over this.
Jump to postThis is a surprising move. You can bet TUI will be making their money on the accommodation so won't lose out. Plus, FR are learning they shouldn't bite the hand that feeds them. Anyway, so what if travel agents sell Ryaniar flights at a premium, that's their business not Ryaniar's. Helps to pay for ...
Jump to postI guess slots are a major barrier to LGW having more domestic services. NCL, MAN, LBA and LPL are all anything up to 4 hrs by rail / road from south of London or the SE, that is when the rail companies are not on strike or rail engineering or major road works disrupt the journey. Which is often.
Jump to postTUGMASTER wrote:How many did AZ have in the end..? 40-50 max..?
What’s their London Future, just LCY.?
Surprised they didn't lease it out to a fellow Skyteam member rather than to a competitor. This and AZ leaving LHR for good means there's a few extra slots
up for grabs now at LHR.