Re: Airliner Types Where Old Versions Outlast Newer Ones

747-200 definitely.

The few 727s still in service are not actually the latest versions/variants. Anyone can confirm?.

Regards.

B8887

Re: EK to go double daily from STN

It's really impressive. 11 flights a day, most of them A380s.. Not bad. As for the endless debate about STN being "posh "enough or whatever, I'm sure it attracts its fair share of people from the financial community. Maybe not all of it, of course, but a steady share. Both FR and U2 have a...

Re: United Airlines "Evolution" to Globe Livery coming in April

I did not imply that.. I just said it looks good.. No big deal anyway.

Maybe they are in touch with the same graphic designer/ agency as their Star partners LH..

"Hey, are you dropping the yellow/golden colour too"?

Regards.

B8887

Re: Why do airlines do retro liveries?

Airlines do retro liveries mostly for fun. Just as humankind has always had the reflex to decorate its surroundings (caves, walls, furniture), special markings are almost as old as aviation, just like for cars. Today retro liveries are of course also used to celebrate the company's heritage, and the...

Re: United Airlines "Evolution" to Globe Livery coming in April

I gotta say the current UA livery should be one of the easiest (and long overdue) livery to improve. It's just so awful..

Can't wait until April to see it..

The one posted by InnsbruckFlyer is a major improvement, I must say..

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B8887

Re: What if a domestic flight diverts to a foreign airport?

Is there even a case in which a tech or medical diversion caused a serious diplomatic or security incident?.. I don't think there's even one actually. You'd probably need to go way back in time, but even then I'm not sure it ever happened.. Boredom usually becomes the worst part I think. Regards. B8...

Re: What if a domestic flight diverts to a foreign airport?

It's usually dealt with common sense. No different than the long-haulers which have to divert to a very sparsely populated location in Russia on a regular basis or the well documented cases which had to divert to Iran. Pax are kept on plane/sterile part of terminal/hotel until the replacement/soluti...

Re: Qatar Airways announces 7 new destinations

FNC saw a 747 land as part of the then-new runway certification process.

I do not see QR flying there anytime soon though..

Good additions though. Seven is pretty significant.

Regards.

B8887

Re: Is the 747 completely gone from your home airport?

LUX: 747-8F launch customer.

So they're here to stay basically.

Excellent to compare 747-400F and 8F noise levels, which are pretty large and noticeable.

Pretty busy cargo airport for those who don't know..

Regards.

B8887

Re: Middle Name in flight booking

I also have a long name; first name, plus three middles and the last. Never had any issues with airlines, although I sometimes get a comment from a bored official "pretty long name, huh" or something like that. I've had more confusion over this with telecoms and utilities for example, but ...

Re: 5 Years Later, When Will They Find MH370?

I remember MH 370 very vividly as it was the week I started my new job. Makes for a good reference. I believe it will eventually be found, obviously. Most probably after we are not here, but still possibly before. It's not my favourite subject as I've always hated conspiracy theories, but rogue acti...

Re: Intra Europe 5th freedom & W/B flying?

It's true. The changes of catching a widebody intraeurope are pretty slim. It's always been like that, compared to say, the US or Japan. A different market I suppose, maybe someone can provide a more detailed explanation.. Aside from the routes already mentioned, TK has been flying routinely 330s an...

Re: What's the most overserved aviation market?

Good thread.

i would expect KWI-DXB to be up there...

A gazillion daily frequencies on widebodies.

It's pretty difficult to tell though. Mature markets like Europe and the US might also have some.

Domestic routes with multiple frequencies..

Regards.

B8887

Re: Emirates launching to Porto

Excellent news.

Although not the capital, the Porto region is pretty important economically and demographically, with, indeed, a dense manufacturing and industry network that may play well with the cargo side of things..

Regards.

B8887

Re: Longest domestic flights in the world

LHR-HKG in the not too distant past. Were passengers on this flights treated exactly like they were flying up to EDI or MAN, or were they any extra checks at either end? I never took the AF flights, and although I know it's a fully domestic flight, is there any kind of additional/extra passport chec...

Re: IB to launch flights to Paris-Vatry (XCR)

I've been posting less and less because I don't want to pick arguments, but just to conclude. Sorry about the inconvenience. I just added the populations of the major cities within a 1 1/2 hour drive from XCR. Reims, Troyea, Vitry, St Dizier etc..t's over 500 000 people. Not bad. Maybe 40 or 50 soul...

Re: IB to launch flights to Paris-Vatry (XCR)

.. Interesting. I've always thought that XCR is well located and accessible. I know for a fact many people in the neighboring countries and France itself would use it if interesting. People already drive easily 1 1/2 hour to reach CRL and other LCC airports around. Plus onward connections in MAD.. C...

Re: Emirates (EK) lack of expansion in recent years

No problem SQ317. I've honestly thought about that too (moving all the other carriers to DWC), but didn't want to mention it. You know what I think? That may even not be necessary. But in the event that it would? Would the likes of AF, BA, VS, KE, etc, etc, agree to move there? If I was one of them,...

Re: Emirates (EK) lack of expansion in recent years

@edealinfo. You just took a good option on the four most useless posts of the month. I'll answer,- respectfully -as so well put by you- about my post. It's not. You can spell it both ways, and I've heard it and saw it both ways throughout the ages. Even if it wasn't, nobody would care, but you. Rega...

Re: Emirates (EK) lack of expansion in recent years

Thanks for the stats SQ317.. That pretty much kills DWC in the foreseeable future, no??.. I mean, just do the maths. 24 hour ops, expansion to 118 M. Movements have flattened. They still have room to grow at DXB without bothering too much on infrastructure investment. Even with some natural growth i...

Re: Emirates (EK) lack of expansion in recent years

It's pretty interesting, but I think they may have reached "cruise mode" and are fine with it. They already fly 10 A380s a day to LON, for example, and in Europe save for a few adjustments here and there, growth may have peaked. Just a comment about China. The sheer size of the population ...

Re: Air Tahiti Nui CEO Hints Nonstop Flights To Paris With 787-9

The interview is pretty extensive. A few stats that he mentions. 40 pc of TN's traffic originates in the US. LAX is "easily" their biggest market of those 40. 20 pc of pax are local French Polynesia residents. The rest as I understand it is mostly Paris. He sounds really cautious. If it do...

Re: Air Tahiti Nui CEO Hints Nonstop Flights To Paris With 787-9

This is very interesting. A few thoughts. The kind of traffic it attracts is not high yielding. It's very high yielding. One word. Honeymooners. The kind of people and the circumstances that specifically want to avoid that unpleasant lounge in LAX. And they're prepared to pay for it. Routing? Very c...

Re: Concorde economics vs. 787/A330/777/A321LR

Concorde was actually meant, and in the end it was, economically viable for airlines, and it was originally designed to be produced in larger numbers. What killed it were the oil shocks of the early 70's. "Economics" and "Concorde" placed not far from in each other is a fairly hu...

Re: World's Busiest Airports 1990

Actually I thought about starting a thread about this recently.

Does anyone know the busiest airports in the 1950's and 60's.?

I can't find the data...

ORD? Already?.. Or JFK?

Or even HND?..

Thanks.

Regards.

B8887

Re: Airports with service to all 6 LON airports?

No one mentioned LIS yet. All but SEN...

I know some people who would not mind using SEN over Gatwick...

Regards.

B8887

Re: Bloomberg: Airbus considering A330NEO Regional

Good question. Only Saudia bought it? The 797 isn't green lighted yet and I would be very cautious to say it will be. Bread and butters are called 737s and A32x series, not risky clean sheet designs. "Regional" by Chinese standards should mean feeder flights of less than 3/4 hours, I think...

Re: Republic E175 - moving passengers for weight and balance?

Happened a few tines to me arguably a while ago..

On a 727 in the early 1990's and on some RJ's, possibly a Saab 340 and ERJ 145.

Regards.

B8887

Re: What will be the impact of a 3rd runway on LHR slots?

Excuse me, but what would the impact on the cost of the current slots be?

Goes up because airlines will pay a bigger premium for LHR? Goes down bcs more slots will be available?

But I agree, this is all a bit iffy and wheny (still)...

Regards.

B8887

Re: Courier box flying on passenger seats

@stylo777

Is my memory right, or is it possible that I saw a large metal box "traveling" on a seat like a passenger, also many moons ago on my intra-european flights?.

(more than once)

Regards.

B8887

Re: Air Astana EMB 190 Squawked 7700 after erratic flight; landed safely

Interesting that a day later and we still have no comments from the pilots? I'm intrigued what it was they were facing I am pretty sure they are needing some kind of psychological support now after their near-death-experience. Agreed. They will most likely have medical follow-up at least for the ne...

Re: Air Astana EMB 190 Squawked 7700 after erratic flight; landed safely

It might explain the unusual vectors somewhat, but for those not in the know, the area around Lisbon can get surprisingly hilly, especially the north bank of the Tagus, as with Lisbon itself. The Alentejo around Beja, on the contrary, does have some rolling hills, but it's much flatter. Regards. B8887

Re: Air Astana EMB 190 Squawked 7700 after erratic flight; landed safely

Does Portugal have a different system of incident reporting and investigation that's more public? I'm almost certain this event will be classified as an "accident", like others such as very severe turbulence, w/ or without damage (airframe and/or overhead bins for example), and will there...

Re: What was the first plane with a crew rest area?

Yep, way before the jet age then.. Did the Stratocruiser have it?..

Since it's not specified, but military planes possibly beat civilian ones.

The B 52 has them, not sure about the B 36 and B 29, but it's very probable...

Regards.

B8887

Re: Taxi out on one engine?

Just to add that I'm pretty sure I already saw an airline bragging about SET in an inflight magazine if I'm not mistaken. Not sure which one, possibly U2, and this was easily like 5 years ago, not 5 months ago. They even publish savings figures per fleet due to RETI. Correct. I separately saw the fi...

Re: Could Rolls-Royce plc be absorbed by Airbus in a near future ?

This will not happen. Although truly inseparable from one another, both benefit from each other being independent. Airframers like A and B are not metal tube makers. They make extremely high tech stuff that requires billions in R&D plus enormous production means. Same for RR in a completely othe...

Re: Taxi out on one engine?

On my recent intra-european flights, single engine taxi in and out is becoming quite routine, almost a non-event. Much more frequent than say 5 or 10 years ago. I suppose cost and environmental considerations have a much bigger say than before.

Regards..

B8887

Re: N777UA- How much longer does she have?

I agree. This particular plane is a piece of living history.
The Triple 7, and - I insist -the GE 90, changed the game for the better.

She will earn a well deserved place in a museum.

Regards.

B8887

C17 Buzzes Brisbane Skyline