At least from what I have read in the last 19 pages, the 2 reforms that I am seeing are: 1. Advancements in approach runway lighting based on surface radar to indicate unauthorized runway intrusions. 2. Infared display on the HUD similar to fleetwide Fedex EFVS implementation. Its ATC's job to main...
Jump to postI'm reading a lot about how all the people at the airport were heroes... but 5 people still died and almost 400 people nearly died. It's fashionable to call people heroes... but still something went badly badly wrong. If everyone was a hero... then five families would not now be mourning lost ones ...
Jump to postLooking at random date in 2024 OOL-AKL NZ is listing the taxes and fees as: AU Passenger Movement Charge $60.00 F1 International Border Clearance Levy $36.00 KK Passenger Service Charge $22.80 WG Safety and Security Charge $9.86 WY Passenger Service Charge International $19.39 Total $148.05AUD Clos...
Jump to postQantas is hugely profitable thanks to his cutthroat business tactics but if you make an enemy out of everyone then you can’t be surprised when they turn their backs on you when you need all the public support you can get. QF has been going from PR nightmare to PR nightmare and year after year the r...
Jump to postskipness1E wrote:As Jon Stewart said this week, science is very clever but just because science can do something doesn't mean it should.
Financially Tourism generates a lot, but this pales into insignificance compared to the cost that Coronavirus has had to Australia Overseas students, whilst on the face of things may seem to be good for the economy, in effect is just a cash drain from our country as most students that come here enr...
Jump to posthttps://www.fliegerfaust.com/amp/bombardier-2645923174?utm_campaign=RebelMouse&share_id=5520969&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=FliegerFaust&__twitter_impression=true If true, it makes sense given the current state of the industry, further delays in the mrj progr...
Jump to postRemember 100% ownership > majority control > JV > minority shareholding > operational partnerships. I cant see how the mitsubishi / japanese govt giving up control for the MRJ program let along a takeover by Boeing.
Jump to postWhy didn't PER pull this stunt prior to the Covid-19 crisis? Pure grandstanding on their part. Some airport authorities need a good pick up the backside. Perth airport is 100% owned by Australia Development Group which is in turn owned by Heathrow Airport and a public fund and a private fund. Qanta...
Jump to postIt seems everyone is so pessimistic. A new company could still emerge from administration, right? It's obvious VA does not lack interested parties. What the voluntary administration does is to wipe out debt and existing shareholders. So this is not Ansett and all is not lost. The debt holders will ...
Jump to postAgreed - I do wonder what would happen if Qantas tried to follow suit with maybe just an daily MEL-SYD-BNE run now that VA is barely operating. Passengers could be staying away from flying with Virgin because of the rumors about them closing down. So maybe they are experiencing a double whammy! Qan...
Jump to postExactly, even QF’s survival is not guaranteed.
Jump to postSince J* has never made money in NZ, I wonder if this is an opportunity for QF to shut it down for good and bring the a/c back to AU.
Jump to postMorrison just announced NZ type isolation for international arrivals. Silver lining: more domestic tourism, possibly where needed in the bushfire-hit regions Highly doubtful. Unless you believe there is currently a lot of domestic tourism being done in places like Italy or China...etc. Even sources...
Jump to postIf this goes on for a few more months which looks like it will then half the airlines in the world are going to shutdown.
Jump to postUpNAWAy wrote:This is the best airline stock buying opportunity since 9/11, without near the risk of BK as at that time......Buy. Buy, Buy!!!
I wish they’d taxi and show the safety video at the same time instead of sitting at the gates for xxx minutes
Jump to postThe hysteria surrounding this outbreak will slow down aircraft deliveries significantly in the second half of this year. Perhaps the effect will go well into 2021. With record high delivery rate for all aircraft excepted the 737 MAX, one must accept the fact the whole thing could look like a train ...
Jump to postMake sense to acquire LR/XLRs to complement Max fleet like quite a few other airlines
Jump to postI'm going to guess United, for two reasons. First they're already on the board there for the A321XLR order, this could be an disclosed part of that order, and second they have 38 763s which while being recently nicely updated are getting old. They're 763 fleet ranges from 1991 to the three former H...
Jump to postWhere are you flying from? Can you arrange an alternate flight to SAW that avoids the conflict zone?
Jump to postWhy would anyone shoot down a civilian aircraft 5 minutes after its taken off from an international airport?
Jump to postDidn’t ZNJ had a pump issue as well on the first revenue flight?
Jump to postPossible conversion of the A359 was mentioned on leeham, which is probably what got UA over the line. In anycase, a win for A as this opens the door for followup orders of the neo.
Jump to postOkay, last year I flew BNE-AKL-IAH and I had to have my passport checked and electronically tagged making the connection. If that's not clearing customs, then :confused: You may have had the airline check your passport to make sure you were entitled to enter the USA but that’s absolutely nothing to...
Jump to postOW is the smallest of the three alliances - doesnt hold a candle to *A
Jump to postSo there was a failure 3x at what is ever expected in the most extreme real life situation ever. Why is this stuff news? Thats not really true. Severe turbulence experienced by airliners are between 2 - 2.5G according to Boeing (Such as one 2.5G turbulence encountered by TWA374). It is still well b...
Jump to postWhich is strange that they also launched Zip air at the same time. Or maybe its just having eggs in different baskets.
Jump to postQantas drops Beijing / PEK from March. Makes sense given their low yield / LF in premium cabins. Also, the other OW airlines ate moving to PKX.
Jump to postkonkret wrote:What benefits does Air Japan offer ANA to justify extra cost for separate AOC, corporate affairs etc.?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-01/ ... s/11661320
3 grounded out of 33 inspected. I recall QF not having much spare capacity in their NG fleet. Will we see more domestic 747 flying in the near term?
Can you imagine if the NG was grounded. That would be the vast majority of the domestic air system gone, would probably put VA out of its misery completely. I mean, its not that hard to imagine, given it has actually happened before, to the entire QF fleet, for reasons unrelated to safety, and was ...
Jump to postQantas engineers union is calling for the airlines' entire fleet of B737s to be grounded following the discovery of cracks in the pickle forks of a second aircraft. Is this a reasonable request, or an overreaction? Qantas has not yet confirmed there were cracks found in a second B737. https://www.s...
Jump to postConcept designs for the new Sydney West Airport have been released: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/first-glimpse-of-terminal-building-at-sydney-s-new-5-billion-airport-20191027-p534mn.html https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.42%2C$multiply_1.06%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_26%2C$y_0/t_crop_...
Jump to postI thought Delta has a larger international network by countries & cities than AA? For the discussion to be constructive, you need to define whats international presence. Not flying to, say, HKG, is probably not a good definition. For example, just because Chinese airlines fly 3x as many frequenc...
Jump to postGood looking a/c, absolutely dreadful livery...
Not that any pax would care of course...
braniff2hav wrote:And note that there is scant mention of Sky Team in Delta's press release ... except way down in the 'disclaimer' section. I think Sky Team is soon to be d.e.d.
Title should also include LAN leaving OW as its just as important
Jump to postNarita is dead... just about every flight cancelled as roads, rail access are cut. Both JR and Keisei trains to NRT are not running.
Only some local Keisei trains restored by 6pm local time but it takes >2 hrs to get to from central tokyo. CNN reports 7K stranded and its likely to get worse.
The only thing more predictable than Virgin positing an annual loss, is the queue of the same a.net users who come out to stick the boot in, pedal wild conspiracy theories about JB’s boardroom antics, and yearn for the airline to change back to Virgin Blue. Probably not as predictable as posts like...
Jump to postEh what about JQ australia?
Jump to postGreat livery but completely ruined by the font they used for the catchline - did they have to use something off the shelf like Arial???
Jump to postNZ haven’t ruled out more than 1 configuration on the 78J. The 78J cannot and will not do AKL- NYC, there was some misreporting going on. Wait a min, can the 7810 even do AKL-LAX? They’d have to run with <220 pax right? Omg. Please read prior posts, especially from JayUnited. First, it’s 787-10/J/X...
Jump to postNZ mentlons "premium" lay out for their 787-10s. Could be they plan AKL-NYC but they already have the 787-9 which can operate AKL-NYC now. Why they would use the 787-10 for that particular route doesn't make sense. NZ haven’t ruled out more than 1 configuration on the 78J. The 78J cannot ...
Jump to postI'm guessing Qantas will make the switch as well
Jump to postCan confirm you can open a 172 door against the slipstream. Not all would be able to but many could. Have flown Cessna 172s for years. One can definitely open a door, but whether it can be opened wide enough to fit a person through is another matter. Those doors are pretty broad to allow entry and ...
Jump to postWell we’ll never know for sure what happened with the only accounts being from the three people in the a/c at the time
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