Re: Zimbabwe Airways 777 deal in jeopardy over a lack of funding

Its just so puerile. Honestly, where on earth do they think they are going to fly 4 772's profitably? Does nobody in that airline actually own a calculator? How do these guys stick their underpants on the right way round when they dress in the morning? beautiful country with so much potential. The t...

Re: AA And 787 Options/A350 Order Review

The AA A350 order was deferred to Q4 2018. So we should see in the spring of 2018 if AA frames are in production, we often get information about pre FAL production like the big parts for the fuselage. Just a quick side question (not to derail the thread) but are lead times for the 787/A350 shorter ...

Re: Leeham: LH shows indications to reduce 779 order

I would say without the ME3 the 777-8 wouldl not be build and the 777-9 would be in big trouble. Even if they were to base a freighter on it (the 778)? I would assume that they would offer it even if no one bought it because they would sell some freighters. I read somewhere that the 778 would be th...

Re: Etihad Airways To Retire A340 Fleet Late October

Its a great shame that the A345's were not painted in the new Etihad livery. One of the best looking planes, in my current favourite livery, would have been beautiful.

Re: Irish Aviation 7/17 Thread

I was waiting at gate 334 at DUB this afternoon and out on the apron I saw an area marked out for 'chocks, cones and pigs'. There were chocks and cones there but no 'pigs'. What is a 'pig'? I googled it and just got loads of articles regarding a 'therapy pig' at SFO. I am assuming it's not the same ...

Re: Bloomberg: Airbus talking additional A380 orders over with IAG, ANA and TG

How would the growing LCC transatlantic market affect this decision for BA? Will there be enough economy passengers to go around in the future to fill an A380? If there are enough economy passengers to make the A380 profitable for IB and EI, surely Norwegian et al will simply muscle in and compete (...

Re: Official 747-8 Flight Tracking/Production Part 18

Could the three white tails be the first 747-8 BCF's? Or is it cheaper to build the freighters from scratch?

Re: Cutbacks at Air Zimbabwe

Judging by the flight schedule of the Air Zim website, they only have two international destinations - JNB and DAR - http://www.airzimbabwe.aero/Flight-Schedule Most airlines in the world exist to transport passengers. Air Zimbabwe exists to provide employment to well connected people. Although we s...

Re: Future of SAA's A340's?

To be honest I don't know if the SAA management even know the answer to that question.

Re: Air Zimbabwe to be renamed, Gov't paying off debt, ET to partner AirZim

Why do they need a 777 except to fly the shopping errands? Hre Gatwick is quite lucrative at the right price, thats actually the major market for ET, EK, KQ, SA flying into HRE Then why did BA dropped LON-HRE? Speaking to a BA pilot back in 2007, who used to fly the route shortly after it was cance...

Re: 2017 Paris Air Show - Airbus News And Orders

Looks like an end to the orders for the Paris Airshow from Airbus with 144 firm orders and 182 MoUs https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DC6OlEgW0AEZKOH.jpg https://twitter.com/jonostrower/status/877795765439127552 thats nothing to sniff at really considering the worldwide economy. Nothing for the A380 desp...

Re: Boeing 747-400 Passenger Fleet Tracking/Retirements Thread

Why is there an oddball serial number in the UA fleet: N105UA 26473/985 Boeing 747-451? All the others are 747-422. Airfleets said that UA have operated the plane from new - was initially intended for someone else?

Re: Irish 4/17: Remembering the fallen

I'd let to get people's opinions... In the last few years DUB has managed to significantly grow its long haul map with additions such as LAX, SFO, DXB etc. With MIA & DOH soon to come, what are the most LIKELY next routes? Rumours continue to rumble about China but nothing more so is it likely ...

Re: F1 2016/2017 Off-Season Thread

moo wrote:

you cant switch engine suppliers mid-season, so...

Re: F1 2016/2017 Off-Season Thread

This morning Autosport reported that McLaren sounded out Mercedes about engine supply if Honda can't make the necessary improvements: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/128530/mclaren-sounds-out-mercedes-on-engines How soon in the season could they make this call do you think? 2 to 3 races...

Re: Most Overrated Airlines

Emirates - Disorganised service in flight from crew. It's a reasonable airline but for an airline who thinks so highly of itself it is piss poor. That applies in Business Class too. The thing with EK is that I only fly on them when on a budget and I have been shopping for airfares based on price. S...

SAA v. Air New Zealand

Quite a good article comparing SAA and ANZ - two quite similarly sized airlines (SAA 53 planes and ANZ 57, SAA 11,500 employees v 11,000 ANZ) and how the usual excuses rolled out by the management of SAA for poor performance should equally apply to ANZ yet ANZ is profitable. http://www.fin24.com/Biz...

Re: Airbus cuts A380 production for the 2nd time

I think this is just the beginning. The A380 is for all intents and purposes, dead. Is there precedent of an airliner being written off as finished, only for market conditions to change and the airliner gets a second wind? I cant think of any from Boeing or Airbus but maybe with other manufacturers?

Re: BA latest to be rocked by strikes

Let's assume they work 8 hours a day flying time x 3 GBP = 24 GBP a day x 5 times a week let's say 120 a week x 4 = 480 GBP a month! + 1000 a month basic salary that comes to 1480 GBP a month x 12 == 17760 GBP a year. That, in my opinion, is a really low wage. Yeah that does seem very low for the j...

Re: BA latest to be rocked by strikes

Being the capitalist pig that I am I usually don't sympathise with striking workers but the BBC article doesn't paint a very good picture of working conditions at BA. Although it is not the most well written article, "more than two-thirds were going to work "unfit to fly" because they...

Re: Airbus A380 Production/Delivery Thread - Part 24

by Axel Janssen , on Flickr I checked the pictures from XFW today as well and found another amazing shot made by Mr. Jansen: https://c6.staticflickr.com/6/5693/31389934165_a9631fa194_o.jpg Hamburg-Finkenwerder 03.12.2016 by Axel Janssen , auf Flickr Apologies for going slightly off piste here, but ...

Re: Ryanair to grow to 585 aircraft by 2024

I would have thought priority boarding figures would have been higher.

No comment on Brexit and how it will affect Openskies and UK / Ireland flights?

Antonov AN 124 flights from Brize Norton

Over the last few weeks there have been almost daily An-124 flights from Brize Norton. They tend to fly over us in Cirencester at about 11pm (but not exclusively so). On Flight Radar the final destination is never shown but they always seem to be heading to eastern / central Europe. I haven't seen t...

Re: Air Zimbabwe Fleet

G'day There is simply no money... An uninformed post in my opinion. Where else in the world can people afford to pay millions to buy a loaf of bread........ Cheers Peter As someone who lives in Harare, you may want to check your facts every once in a while there chief. We stopped using the Zim Doll...

Re: Remnants of old terminals

BestWestern wrote:

The original terminal in Dublin, Ireland is still in use for bus departures.

Re: 787 Production/Delivery Thread - Part 48

[quote="KarelXWB"]LN 500 rolled out from final assembly.

Sorry I may have been asleep when this was discussed, but I was under the impression that the full AF/KLM 787 order were for KLM and the A350's were for AF.

Was this just speculation at the time or did management change their minds?

Red Arrows Farnborough aerobatic display scrapped