Re: Germany considers buying an A330 or A350

As noted in the earlier thread, the GAF already has 4 a330 MRTT which they intend to pool in the euro tanker force, they also have options on a further four. It's a no brainer that they simply copy the RAF and have one configured for VIP use, have one configured solely for VIP use (i.e. Without the...

Re: Germany considers buying an A330 or A350

The two A340s are very busy, too (what I've read...). So it could even make sense, to buy an additional aircraft. And why a new one? In this quite unusual case, the media was complaining, that Germany buys always used aircraft and close to never new ones for the Flugbereitschaft. So this could be o...

Re: Germany considers buying an A330 or A350

Better spend the money on more Crews....the 2nd A340 was available but there were no Crews. Also we are getting an A321 for Government use lets try things out with the things we already have instead of wasting tax payers money.... P.S. Usually I am a guy that cheers for new aircraft but this is nut...

Re: Germany considers buying an A330 or A350

Why would they need to do this? I read that dispatch reliability on the A340's has been great, on here? To be honest I don't know... Probably, such that they can keep a backup plane in Cologne at all times? The reliability of the aircraft itself is not that problem. It's, what I've read, in the nor...

Germany considers buying an A330 or A350

This Spiegel article reports that the German Minister of Defence wants to buy an A330 or A350 for the Flugbereitschaft (the VIP aircraft branch of the German air force) http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ursula-von-der-leyen-will-flotte-der-bundeswehr-flugbereitschaft-vergroessern-a-1243910.h...

Re: Brazil: Foreign Ownership Limit of Airlines Eliminated

Avianca Brazil will be taken over by Avianca. They are already owned by the same guy, but technically they are still two totally separated entities. This will make everything way more easier... Avianca Holdings is partially owned by German Efromovich, who owns Synergy which in turn owns AV Brazil. ...

Re: Brazil: Foreign Ownership Limit of Airlines Eliminated

Avianca Brazil will be taken over by Avianca. They are already owned by the same guy, but technically they are still two totally separated entities. This will make everything way more easier...

Re: British Airways loses New York crown to low cost rival Norwegian

I didn't know, that DY was that big in NY. How many flights do they have per day?

Re: LH CEO claims LH sells the most premium seats — is it true?

Thanks for your efforts! I think you are having a wrong seat configuration for the A330: they removed the first class last year from this aircraft... But is for both airlines a big part of the fleet missing: the short haul fleet for the European network. These are European style Buissnes Class seat...

Re: LH CEO claims LH sells the most premium seats — is it true?

Just done a rough calculation on the amount of premium seats each airline offers, albeit with some caveats: - Based purely on aircraft with longhaul seat configurations (i.e. for BA that includes First, Club World, and both World Traveller Cabins etc) - I've counted F/J/W as Premium cabins (can red...

Re: Lufthansa aircraft ops in 2004 question

I imagine that you flew on the FRA-MUC flight with an A300-600 or A310-300. Both flew on short haul flights. And for your second flight it could have been an ATR 42/72, a Dash 8-300/400 or a Fokker 50. That's the most precise answer I can give. Probably someone else knows more...

Re: Brussels Airlines to become Eurowings (-like)?

The integration has started, so it seems! Eurowings takes over 4 Brussels Airlines flights, even the so-wanted Lufthansa business class option has been dropped on these flights. Eurowings to operate some Brussels Airlines flights from Berlin Tegel, without business class But what's the difference b...

Re: Air Berlin to lease A330neo aircraft

KarelXWB wrote:

At this point MSN 1844 and 1861 have been allocated to Air Berlin.

Re: Lufthansa celebrates 25thBirthday of Munich Airport

I checked: It was not Germanwings. The first airplane to land after official opening was a Aero Lloyd MD-83 from Izmir, 10 Minutes before the two Lufthansa jets. One day earlier , already 16 planes landed for test purposes, deviated from Riem. The first passenger plane landed, therefore, on May 16 ...

Re: LH Cargo D-ALCM Status

Wow... Talk about a coincidence... Anyway, it is possible that LH will do future repairs on the bird in VCV. Back in 2009 when D-ALCO suffered a hard landing in MEX Lufthansa did minimal repairs there and then flew unpresurized to VCV for future repairs... Let's see what happens with the last deliv...

Re: BT with CS300 to TXL

As more CS300 aircraft are delivered more routes will be operated. Here are the routes currently served by the 2x CS300s: - YL-CSA - YL-CSB Riga (RIX) to: - Amsterdam (AMS) - Vilnius (VNO) - Barcelona (BCN) - Milan (MXP) - Stockholm (ARN) - Helsinki (HEL) - Munich (MUC) - Frankfurt (FRA) - Zurich (...

BT with CS300 to TXL

I've just seen that Air Baltic offers RIX-TXL flights with the CS300 around May. Is it just a mistake or do they really intend to use this aircraft on this route, because I found no announcement, that they will to use this aircraft on this leg...

Re: BER opening postponed

To be honest I start to think these delays are wanted, because in 2018 or 2019 they have to equip the surrounding of TXL with anti-noise measurements, which costs a huge ton of money. And these measurements are the main argument to close Tegel. But then they have to do it to have a working airport i...

Re: Airport with the most A320 movements is...

What I find quite interesting is that Fra or Muc is not number 1 for the A340...

Re: Oldest Terminal Building Still In Use?

What about Rand Airport? It seems to me that they are still using the original terminal building. The airport was opened on 1931, but the construction started in 1920.... So probably the terminal building is standing longer than the one in Burbank...

Re: Emirates to open a long haul base in Geneva? Swiss authorities are holding back

If there is realy a market other US flights from gva, why don't the US3 serve it, if not LX? United is the only US airline serving gva from ewr and iad. air canada serves yul, too...

Re: Congress tries to block Boeing/Iran deal

Airbus just has to get the US parts below 10%. Just above 10% US parts they have to ask the US for an export permission... If Airbus really wants to get below 10% US parts, they'll do it in my opinion. The other question is of course how much would it cost? Is the group of potential costumers large...

Re: Congress tries to block Boeing/Iran deal

Airbus just has to get the US parts below 10%. Just above 10% US parts they have to ask the US for an export permission... If Airbus really wants to get below 10% US parts, they'll do it in my opinion. The other question is of course how much would it cost? Is the group of potential costumers large ...

Re: How many Economy class- seats can fit in a Gulfstream 650, or B. Global 7000

Polot wrote:

The Global 7000 slots in size between a CRJ700 and CRJ900, no need for an airline to buy it.

Re: Why no more flights to Sarajevo?

I understand those links. However I couldn't understand why there are so few other flights from Sarajevo to Western Europe. At the moment there is not a single scheduled flight from Bosnia to the UK, France, Spain, Italy or Netherlands. As I said Skopje (which no one knows in Western Europe) has al...

Re: Why no more flights to Sarajevo?

I'm quite often in sjj, i found that most of the flights are filled with people, who are having family ties to Bosnia. and a lot of them are connecting to the states later (a lot of people on the flight to muc and vie are having an us passport). and you don't have to forget, that a lot Bostonians as...

Re: The Lufthansa 737 phase-out thread

rutankrd wrote:

Two remained in the fleet through to 1993 D-ABGE and 1994 in the case of D-ABHE which served 23 years in group and must surely be the oldest 737 ever in LH group.

Re: The Lufthansa 737 phase-out thread

Luxair747SP wrote:

duboka wrote:

Does LH still use one of the PrivateAir B737?

Yes this one is still in use by LH

Re: The Lufthansa 737 phase-out thread

Does LH still use one of the PrivateAir B737?

Re: The Lufthansa 737 phase-out thread

Yeah, it's kinda sad.... I think for most people it's 'just' a european carrier, which retires it's last b737... But on the other side it's the first B737 costumer and the costumer, which lead Boeing to even built it.... I've read somewhere, that Lh's first passagiere flight of a B737-300 was from F...

Re: Why does Germany have so few airlines

In my opinion, compared to example France, the German airline market was quite diverse, until a couple of years ago. France on the other hand has just Air France, and a couple of other smaller airlines...

Re: Exit : Boeing Customer Code

I don't think it's an overall removal. The B747-830 and B747-89L for example are officially two different versions of the same aircraft. 30 stands for lh and they are having a special fuel sys.... I found for example a B737-7... after L/N 6000. It's just in my opiniom an indication that lafter L/N t...

Re: Foreign airlines serving the most US states

Here is a overview with all states BA & LH are serving: BA 15: GA, TX, MD, MA, IL, CO, NV, CA, FL, NY, NJ, PA, AZ, WA, WDC LH 14: GA, MA, NC, IL, CO, TX, MI, CA, FL, NY, NJ, PA, WA, WDC But if you count the hole airline group, IAG has 16 (CT additionaly with EI) and the LHG has 15 (NV additional...