Re: Updated: VS To Be Largest Shareholder In New Airline Group Comprising BE And RE

Reckon airports like Southampton and exeter will have massively reduced services with the new Virgin Atlantic feeder. I see AMS, LHR and MAN to be a few times daily and only the most profitable domestic routes as well as public service routes to remain

Re: CAAC unveils slots allocation/airline distribution for Beijing’s upcoming PEK/ZBAD dual-hub system

Sorry what airline is "CN"?

Re: Moxy's hubs?

Does anyone think that Moxy will succeed?

Re: London Airports Thread - 2019

What happend to STNs 2nd runway and expansion plans ?

Re: London Biggin Hill airport

I would rather re-establish Northolt as a civil airport. Kick the military out of there, they can do their business at other places just as well. Build a satellite at NHT and connect it by some kind of rail/tube/People mover transport to LHR. Travelling time should be less than 10 minutes. Still be...

Re: London Biggin Hill airport

Been talked about before, its just a logistical nightmere and would cost a lot of money for probably not a lot. Manston, Farnborough and Oxford are probably better overflow options.

Re: Boeing 797 Thread - 2019

Dear a.netters, First of all my best wishes for 2019 to all of you! Now, after having read quite a bit about the MoM project of Boeing, please let me write down some of my concerned toughts about it: [Economics] This is the main driver in our current market. We hardly have got any unserved market s...

Re: London Airports Thread - 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/18/gatwick-plans-using-emergency-runway-to-increase-flight-capacity This has to be the biggest news for London Airports.The will effectively mean Gatwick will be a twin runway airport when/ if the emergency runway is reworked with the correct gap between...

Re: London Airports Thread - 2019

W6 really is expanding to become top carrier at LTN. How many aircraft based now ?

London Airports Thread - 2019

We have a MAN thread, the rest of the UK thread, however I thought a London airport thread, covering the London area would be an interesting one, especially with Brexit and its possible effect on aviation in the UK capital. I often find myself wanting to know more about LHR and LGW mainly and no rea...

Re: How is the A350 performing for DL

So I saw this thread and thought "oh it would be interesting to know how DL is finding their A350s" only to read two pages and found the usual Airbus vs Boeing, some waffle about other airlines, the value of underbelly cargo vs pax being left without an actual answer.

Yes or no?

Re: Has Delta Ever Run A Daylight ATL-LHR?

I am sure the CEOs of all the airlines in question would have asked this question themselves and researched and came up with the idea that its best not doing it.

Re: 757s in Vail

I'm sure an A319 can do the mission. However, even if they can fly with no payload restrictions, there are only 128 seats. The 752s, when I've been a passenger, have had 150+ passengers. The route seems to have too much demand for 1 A319 but not nearly the demand for 2 A319s. Not a lot of seats, an...

Re: Strange Delta flight

Secret flight for the US government I believe.

Re: Help ID this type (LHR 1992)

Can i ask why you need to know?

Re: Second Suborbital Test Flight Completed by Virgin Galactic

I just watched the video - they said 66,000ft it reached? I swear the concorde flew at 60,000ft. Am I missing something here?

Re: Gatwick closed because of 2 drones

While this is still officially police operation its clear that military is also involved. Problem is not to find and follow these drones but UK clearly know that this is not done by couple geeks but someone with high knowledge and resources. Why this takes time? Because UK wants to get solid eviden...

Re: Gatwick closed because of 2 drones

I know someone currently working for BA as staff at Gatwick, just rang him, he says the police have said that drones just keep popping up every hour and they dont want to shoot them just in case a bullet hits the drone and then deflects and hit someone or something. He also said every BA flight till...

Re: EK A380 Abuse?

Its the secondary markets connecting to bigger markets that does it. Id love to know the % of pax are connecting vs Direct. Does anyone have any figures for any routes?

Re: Gatwick closed because of 2 drones

johns624 wrote:

Aren't there any skeet or trap shooters left in merry ole England? That's what they get for gun control!

Re: "Christian" Airline Receives OK To Start-Up

What makes it a Christian airline? Will pax turn up to the airport to see no aircraft and be told to "have faith" that its there?

Re: First plane painted in Sun Country’s new livery

I am still not sure.

Re: New DL seat map site as well as Airbus 220 Seat map

I am surprised to see 3 toilets on this thing

Re: Norweigan 737 Max Diverts to Shiraz, Iran

It must have been serious enough to warrant going to the nearest airport. I mean Doha, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Kuwait are all 'closeby' in consideration to most diversions

Re: Brazil: Foreign Ownership Limit of Airlines Eliminated

This is a massive opportunity for an airline to come in build another area of their network, can see an US carrier being interested, having the Brazil-US market monopoly....

Re: Did the 737 MAX go one step too far?

The MAX wasnt a step to far, the MAX 10 was though. The design is pushed so far that its got a weird MLG just to make sure it doesnt crash on takeoff. I feel brain cells dying after reading this post. Yeah he really does not get why the landing gear was modified, does he. In hindsight i should have...

Re: Airbus , just stretch the A320NEO a few rows, 200 seats.

The Airbus A320.5 might eat into A321 sales as well.

Re: Did the 737 MAX go one step too far?

The MAX wasnt a step to far, the MAX 10 was though. The design is pushed so far that its got a weird MLG just to make sure it doesnt crash on takeoff.

Re: Southwest agent mocks child’s name

Agent should have kept it to themselves, maybe have a giggle in the staff room after. The name of the child is Abcde for christ sake - might has well have called them Alphabet.

Re: FT: Brexit Britain close to agreeing open skies deal with US

The older generation were fooled by the negative marketing around the EU.

Re: Should BA use B788's on short-haul ?

Nah, A321NEO are easier to fill and higher yielding on intra-european routes.

Funny/Interesting Airline/Aviation PR thread.

I thought this might be a nice Idea for a thread (I hope). A thread about airline and aviation PR funnies. I will kick things off with this tweet I saw from Pedimont airlines: https://twitter.com/piedmontair/status/1067101385362153472 Does anyone have any funny PR stories from airlines and aviation ...