I guess playing time will be over soon. Qatar wants the best aircraft around, A350s & A321NEO's, Airbus wants to sell aircraft. Fire all lawyers, fix the aircraft at Airbus costs & move on. If only it were that simple. But I suspect that's how Airbus handled other airlines that reported min...
Jump to postOnce Japan properly re-opens for general tourism, demand will soar. We've seen it in other countries. The Japanese have been denied travel for far too long.
Now that Thai aren't using the 380 to NRT, maybe BKK is one destination that ANA could also use the 380 on to fill the void in capacity.
Must have been an awkward moment explaining to the passengers why the turnaround was needed.
Jump to postTo my thinking,the shuttle term orginally referred to a busy high-frequency important short-haul route that was a turn-up-and-go service with back-up aircraft ready at peak travel times.
Jump to postLatest A350 G-VLIB arrived at LHR today on delivery from TLS.
Jump to postGood news - at least the airport infrastructure will be ready when HK opens up again.
The airport authorities will hopefully have the manpower back to handle what will probably be a rapid recovery in traffic then.
EasyJet are using leased-in Smartlynx A320's at LGW for the same reason.
Jump to postWell, OZ Cargo missed the boat now with the 748F so they could take converted 77WF's or fork out for new 777F's or wait a bit longer for A350F's.
Jump to postOr it could be they had a spat with the airport authorities about things like landing / handling fees. Ryanair has a lot of previous form to go on about this.
Jump to postGlobalAirways wrote:Can anyone confirm if this was fitted out on the inside?
Did Boeing provide the flight crew to enable the flight to happen ?
Jump to postThe Eastern E190 and the 737-300 G-SWRD are regularly used by Premiership teams.
Jump to postHmmm....nothing on their wesbite about them ceasing trading. Of their two passenger 146's used by premiership football teams regularly, G-JOTR doesn't seem to have flown for over a week and G-JOTS went to Cranfield a few days ago. Read into that what you will.
Jump to postLong tern BSL resident 748i N458BJ flew to Marana today.
Jump to postPlease correct me here if I'm wrong, but surely any aircraft loosing altitude that fast and at that near vertical angle would have to be forced down, otherwise from a cruise altitude and speed a 738 would glide for quite a way first if all power was lost ?
Jump to postLatest movement for 12 April
MSN 548 Air France A350-900 F-HTYP delivered TLS - CDG as AF7525
[The distance between LHR and HNL is around 7000-7200 miles(I guess around 14 hours), it's not bad, like the same distance between LHR and Southeast Asia. It's not even considered ultra long haul flights. Maybe the business traffic to HNL is limited, but HNL is a premium leisure market, if HA has SY...
Jump to post[quote="texl1649"]Well, sure, that is true, Polot #50, yet at the same time to do so would be a reversal vs. the past 24 months of 777 production. Perhaps it will happen, and freighter demand is higher than pax, but I still am suspicious the motivation for building the 779’s at the volume ...
Jump to postClearly TG decided to wait for Thailand to open up for visitors again before taking their 3 new 77W's.
Jump to postThose 400 staff should be up & running now not still in training. Glad that Andy Burnham appears to be knocking a few heads together. As you say, his city is being reputationally damaged.
Jump to postBegs the question why that order wasn't approved by the CAAC. Would have thought increased air cargo capacity was desperately needed.
Jump to postHeads have rolled over the chaos at MAN seen in recent days. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-61002096 For goodness sake - this chaos is unacceptable and bad planning in the extreme. Doesn't the airport management talk to their airline partners about passenger predictions ? No meetin...
Jump to postIf they also want to rid themselves of those 4 A318's as well, then an 8 frame additional new order seems about right to me.
Jump to postI'm wondering if this livery will evolve or be modified in future. Maybe start with pinstriping bands after the condor titles, bands increasing in width along the rest of the fuselage until an all solid tail colour with an increased logo size. That way the condor titles and tail logo will be more vi...
Jump to post772 G-VIIT diverted to Lajes en route MBJ-LGW. Reason ?
Jump to postThe SmartLynx A320's are all in an all-white scheme. As for staff shortages, many industries are having the same issue. Like the NHS for one. Covid is still very much out there and many companies have over a 10%+ staff shortfall due to absence sickness.
Jump to postThe Marmite of all airline liveries. Maybe the pink, red and orange versions will come later.
Jump to postMSN 1999 DL A339 N416DX delivered today TLS - NRT as DL9936.
Jump to postBA should have taken the travel downturn during 2020/1 to invest in a new IT system or at least overhauled and upgraded the one they have.
Jump to postYou could always upgrade your ticket to business class and enjoy the wider seat that comes with it.
Jump to postVS have suspended LHR-PVG indefinitely. So where's all the freight going to now those CA flights were bringing in & out ?
Neither BA or MU are due to start LHR-PVG ( passenger ) again until June...presume they'll continue with cargo flights in the meantime though.
910A wrote:This is nearly an 18 hour flight, it must be at the range limit of a 789.
Seems a haphazard route network to me. I feel they should have looked more at serving city pairs not currently flown.
Jump to postThe July delivery schedule would be about right if l/n 1720 is the 1st for the joint SQ/DHL venture.
Jump to postFlight time was 15 hrs 15 mins. One of the longest ever A330 flights ?
Jump to postOn the biz-jet front, Global 6500 LX-FLY is impounded at FAB. I wonder what the future of Global Jet Luxembourg is, I'm sure I read somewhere it's owned by some oligarch.
Jump to postA Russian plane has been impounded by British authorities at Farnborough, unknown as of yet what plane and who the owner is. Source: https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-war-news-putin-zelenskyy-latest-live-updates-12541713?postid=3504989#liveblog-body It's the Global 6500 LX-FLY. https://www....
Jump to postI make it 12 787 BBJ's around in total.
788 : A6-PFC, HZ-MF7 & MF8, N880BJ, P4-BDL, VP-CSC, V8-OAS, 2-DEER.
789 : A6-PFE, PFG & PFH, VP-VDA.
Future BBJ orders aren't generally published due to owners discretion.
If this gets off the ground, it will be a smack in the face for Akbar Al Baker, who failed with his Air Italy venture.
Jump to postN836BA went to FAB and has just departed there heading south.
Jump to postGood initiative by KLM, well done to them, but it got me thinking of the waste that occurs in ferrying empty planes for servicing to far flung places and not being able to sell seats on such flights. An example is BA sending their 380's to MNL & back, they know well in advance they will do this ...
Jump to postSU flights wiped from Galileo GDS as well now. Anyone know of Russian biz-jets stuck ( impounded ? ) at European airports ?
Jump to postblacksoviet wrote:What is the oldest ocean liner still in service?
It looks like JAL & ANA have cancelled all Europe flights today. Just as Japan announced easing of visitor restrictions, now this.
Jump to postPresumably, with Airbus now also saying they are severing commercial ties with Russia, the completed SU 359's will join the QR frames in being undelivered.
Jump to postWhat are the ANA 380's up to these days ? Galileo GDS doesn't have them operating to HNL until July.
Jump to postMAS Air reported on CH-aviation that they will expend from their present 8 strong fleet to 18 in the coming years.
Potential for more new 767F orders ?
https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news ... freighters
Well, it'll have to overfly other EU states as well then. Should have been made to go up the Atlantic past Norway and refuel at MMK.
Jump to postRussia will have lots of winter sun tourists in places like the Dom Rep, Cuba and Cancun. Good luck to them getting home now if all countries ban Russian airlines overflights..
Jump to postOn Sunday, the majority of the BA cancellations were either domestic or to other North European airports due to weather.
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