However, I don't foresee an environmental engineer ever detailing an "engineered crash site" consisting of "large aircraft wreckage" to improve salmon habitat. ;) I work in the salmon habitat restoration space. You are correct. Within the rivers, it's all about having good grave...
Jump to postOr alternatively, do what Breeze is doing and have a family seating section in the last few rows of the airplane where parents traveling with their children can select seats together for free. That's a solid idea. Get em on quick and right to the back, then off last (as usual). Right by the bathroo...
Jump to posthttps://www.alaskahighwaynews.ca/indigenous-news/flair-ceo-says-airline-flying-high-enough-to-stave-off-growing-pains-large-loans-7438881 Stephen Jones tries to paint a pretty rosy picture, but he's also quite candid about F8's financial position: Moreover, Flair must continue to make payments of m...
Jump to posthttps://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1684250432879616000 what does this mean? Well, two non-human biological pilots were onboard Sputnik 5 (two dogs, Belka and Strelka) and there was a single non-human biological pilot on Mercury-Redstone 2 mission (a chimpanzee named Ham). So we already know...
Jump to postWhatever happened to the infield terminal? Is it still there?
Jump to postA good landing is one where you can use all the dogs again.
Jump to postjimbo737 wrote:Will they break Roots Air’s 32 day record Of futility as the fastest Cdn new entrant to Implode after launch?
If ever you wonder whether there are Fijians in Vancouver and Western Canada, just go to the Rugby Sevens tournament in Vancouver. Fully 1/2 of the flags in the stadium are Fijian.
Jump to postThere would definitely be something gratifying if one was travelling PHL- ACY/ABE and the lineup was getting thick from weather, and you just jump on a bus airside and drive away home.
Jump to postWow crazy. I remember working some of the first domestic ops these guys did - a YYZ-YYJ-YVR triangle, all at night (even thought it was mid summer). Brand new -800, first time I'd ever seen that kind of density. They actually found an unknown soft spot on the ramp on the first turn IIRC. We turned t...
Jump to postSimilar issue happened to me very recently actually, just a week ago. Flying AS (for the first time in ~4 years, mind you) SFO-LAX. Leave SFO on-time, arrive LAX early. But what happens? We end up sitting on the ground at LAX for ~1 hour. Not even at the gate. We just spent one hour going round and...
Jump to postIt looks like he was wearing a common medical mask, and had hand-written LGB on it. Kinda a crust punk vibe if you ask me.
Jump to postPIC was trying to recreate a scene from his favourite movie. The only question is, is it Tenet or Air Force One?!
Jump to posthttps://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/uaes-defense-ministry-destroyed-2-houthi-ballistic-missiles-wam-2022-01-24/ Quite the wing for a "ballistic missile"..... I was only pointing out that the term "Ballistic Missile" came from the press. Yes, I share your incredulity at the...
Jump to posttravaz wrote:
The problem with YUL is that it's dominated by International travel. Domestic numbers are relatively low and include a lot of transit to international I suspect. While this is true, there are still barriers to international travel which don't exist for domestic vis-a-vis testing and isolation requi...
Jump to postMaybe the hostler was pulsing the brakes, or released them prior to impact. I seem to recall learning somewhere that it was better to have some power applied at the moment of collision (or at least not be braking) as it reduces the likelihood of a derail. I could definitely be wrong on this.
Jump to postSounds very much like a dispatcher error; its his/her job to make sure that the payload goes where it's supposed to go and feed that information in to generate a loadsheet. I don't know what system AC uses, though I'm sure it's automated, for an airline of that size. They will have a central load c...
Jump to postThis is starting to remind me of close to almost 20 years ago. While trying to fill the "void" left when AC bought up CP, Canada at one point had Canjet, Harmony (HMY), and Jetsgo vying for domestic capacity alongside AC and WS. Add the summer domestic charters Skyservice and Air Transat ...
Jump to postHear hear. If someone doesn't explicitly invite you to touch them, you are taking a risk by touching them. This lawsuit really hangs on the prior allegations, which as the story says, may or may not be based on fact. If in fact, a standard background check uncovered, as the article states, "pro...
Jump to postGreat TR, brought back a lot of memories from the many hours I spent at SeaTac when I was a YYJ-based road warrior. Definitely a trip to see it so empty in the summer months. Definitely miss the smooth rides on Delta.
Jump to postThe article didn't specify the funding mechanism, saying it was a "co-investment". Does anyone have any more info that this? I am guessing this is going to fall under SDTC.
Jump to postPorter attempted a “premium niche” in the past, but today, they are little different from the competition. Don’t forget, it was Porter that introduced Canada to checked baggage fees. Totally, but I think that has less with them trying to position as an LCC, and way more taking an actual OPEX proble...
Jump to postHaving thought about this for an hour, here is my WAG at the strategy. Pearson is a bluff - it's all about YOW. Rapidly growing metro area, good name recognition in the area, lots of gates to use, and as another commenter pointed out, poor connectivity outside of the Quebec-Windsor corridor. We just...
Jump to postOpening Pandora’s box here. Not hyperbolic or rhetorical. Is there a formula that dictates what aircraft can operate at YTZ? Is it a combo of capacity, dimensions, performance ( think speed on landing/takeoff etc) and is there a bias regarding a shrouded turbine? Is it a tipping point in capacity r...
Jump to postI'm assuming Porter will configure the E2s more in the fashion of a ULCC, not premium: no 35" seat pitch in coach, lie-flats or such. They will compete with AC on cost, not network breadth or frequency. IMHO Eastern Canada air travel could use some more price competition; like a lot of Canadia...
Jump to postUPlog wrote:cirrusdragoon wrote:
WS operated YVR-SNA pre pandemic, and had no issues.
AS tried to run the route prior and had it's inaugural YVR-SNA diverted once they realized it was not legal to operate!
I'm sure it will come up, so here is the avherald instance of the 2012 CFIT crash at Palana: https://avherald.com/h?article=455c0bcf/0000&opt=0
Jump to postbikerthai wrote:The old girl had a long and productive life. Two bad they will crane her up for an investigation instead of let her lie in peace and be a playground for the fishes.
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GalaxyFlyer wrote:Cool place to plane watch, only competitor is the Flying Beaver pub in YVR.
Your right about it being the second or third time, it is most likely to succeed this time with the massive movement to BOI. And it becoming a big tech area possessed to become the next Silicon Valley There are no MASSIVE NUMBERS, not from California into Boise, not from everywhere into all of Idah...
Jump to postAresxerexade wrote:Air Canada’s new safety video. Beautifully shot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0byfHIAXIcY
In my opinion, the reaction of these pax is nothing less than their civic duty. This is the airline and airport authorities fault for allowing a PR stunt to take place airside.
Jump to postIt’s all about AA’s attempt to maintain a high ESG score. The drive to be “carbon neutral,” the social engineering programs all employees must attend and the jihad HR is currently running to fire/force retire employees who say the wrong things or hurt someone’s feelings are more examples. Safety an...
Jump to postOnce we are back to normal traffic levels, would YYZ have enough room to provide Porter with the economies of scale that are required to sustain their business model? I mean....where would they go? T3? Domestic ops out in the satellite pier? Sure its new and fancy but its also a 10 minute walk from...
Jump to postGonna be hard to keep this thread clear of politics but still worth a discussion. Essentially, the letter seems to ask why are employees prohibited from expressing political views but the company itself can do whatever they want. Which is a valid question, and also one that transcends any one indus...
Jump to postVelocity7 wrote:Surely its the former here.
Nobody likes this answer, but this behavior is directly tied to fares. When fares reach exceptionally low levels, you start to see more of this behavior onboard the aircraft and in the terminals. There's a reason ULCC carriers see more of this than mainline legacy carriers (at least pre-pandemic). ...
Jump to postThis is definitely a bizarre case. I worked the CRJ family on the ramp for a couple years and it strikes me as hard to believe that the crew wouldn’t have had a door warning prior to takeoff if the door was indeed not shut properly. Conversely, once that door is shut, the physical movement required...
Jump to postQuick question - are there still slot-equipped smoking lounges at LAS? Something like "connect here and hack a butt airside" international. No joke - I routed YYJ-YVR-LAS-PHL once on a business trip so I buddy and I could hack butts and gamble in the airport for 45 minutes. The downside wa...
Jump to postI'll take that YVR-YOW flight next summer to visit my buddy's cottage. Oh wait, no I won't - the pandemic will still be in full swing and I won't have yet been vaccinated. In what reality is this plan going to take effect?
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:Not legally, must have a PMA from your regulator and the OEM. The OEM owns the IP in the design, so you’d have to buy it—at great cost.
Ahh, the Q400, we hardly knew ye.... A cautionary tale about airframers' allocation of engineering resources. The Q and C-series will always be inextricably linked but for reasons most may never realize. Strange how things unfold. Also a business case study. BBD played the same game on the rail sid...
Jump to postI'll bite. Rail-launched scramjet provisioned (and possibly stationed at) the bottom end of an orbital tether. Skips across the outer edge of the atmosphere to get to the target zone, drops multiple decoys to mask the asset's signature during re-entry, drops off the goods and GTFO.
Jump to postHello all, I have a need to ship ~150 dense kilos from Vancouver to Peru in the next month or so. Prefer belly cargo as the product is temperature sensitive - I'm also trying to avoid cold chain. I have never done this before and thought I would ask if anyone on here had any advice or background. Ch...
Jump to postI'm in YYJ - one of these would make a hell of spot from Dallas Road.
Jump to postIf Canadians can fill planes from YYT to MCO, an island with almost half the population of Oahu, surely HA have the potential to make 2 x week work from HNL. Plus they have Asian connection capabilities. I like YYT - enough to keep going back... but people from YYT aren't leaving Hawaii behind when...
Jump to postThrowing away plastic is an action that pollute the environment but I don't think it's a big emitter? Throwing it away vs recycling would represent a marginal increase in the demand for plastic starting material to manufacture. Making plastic starting material is an activity which is carbon polluti...
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