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- Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:01 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: WOW Cargo Alliance?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 992
Re: WOW Cargo Alliance?
KFTG wrote:Did you bother to read the Wikipedia article you linked to?
The article presents the information as if they're still operating. It doesn't seem that's the case but I can't find any information beyond that. Jump to post
- Mon Jul 22, 2019 5:49 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: WOW Cargo Alliance?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 992
WOW Cargo Alliance?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOW_Alliance Does anybody know what this group is or was? Is the alliance still alive? I haven't found any news of disbanding in a google search, and the only news or articles I've found about the group at all are almost a decade and a half old. Any knowledge would be a...
Jump to post- Sun Aug 26, 2018 1:14 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: B747-SP for sale, just $9.5m
- Replies: 64
- Views: 13225
Re: B747-SP for sale, just $9.5m
Man, the Qatari famy must really be hurting, selling of the two Anet favorite variants of the 747! http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23001/qatari-royal-flight-747-8i-jumbo-jet-is-up-for-sale-and-yes-there-are-interior-pictures I haven't been following Qatar much recently, any particular reason th...
Jump to post- Mon Aug 13, 2018 12:31 am
- Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
- Topic: How would you make a SAA new fleet?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4688
Re: SAA new fleet!
If you were the CEO of SAA and had the choice of choosing the fleet, what would you choose. If I were the CEO I'd close down the company, sell all of the fleet except for one A346, and use the funds to make it a private jet. I also wouldn't have to worry about JHB's altitude, seeing as I'd need to ...
Jump to post- Tue Jun 19, 2018 9:17 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Wells Fargo sues AA for not returning leased planes on time
- Replies: 65
- Views: 11164
Re: Wells Fargo sues AA for not returning leased planes on time
Sounds like some typical corporate head butting that WF decided to take public. What is WF losing by not getting those planes back on time? Is there some other airline that is on pins and needles waiting for the plane? Like the good ole days of VHS tapes when someone just happened to return a hot n...
Jump to post- Mon Jun 18, 2018 4:17 am
- Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
- Topic: Airlines That Still Fly The Airbus A310 (Passenger Only) As Of June 2018
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3590
Re: Airlines That Still Fly The Airbus A310 (Passenger Only) As Of June 2018
One of Tarom's A310 stored at OTP is apparently getting a new owner, current reg EK31001. Didn't look like it was converted to cargo. According to Planespotters, the Tarom A310 pair is supposedly going to a new airline "Armenia Airways." https://m.planespotters.net/airline/Armenia-Airways
Jump to post- Thu Jun 14, 2018 3:45 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: What airliner is this?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 9379
Re: What airliner is this?
Almost definitely an Avianca Brand, here's a view of their curtains from business class.
If it's an A318, would we know for sure it's AV and not Avianca Brazil?
https://www.waytofly.com/img/business-class/AV/business.jpg
- Wed May 16, 2018 4:54 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Bloomberg Article on Second Lives of 747s
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3196
Bloomberg Article on Second Lives of 747s
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-05-16/boeing-747s-given-up-for-dead-find-new-life-in-air-cargo-surge Am I wrong in doubting the claim that operators "rushing to snap up the aging jumbo jets?" Sure, there's been growth in cargo activity overall, but the boneyard 747s don't ...
Jump to post- Tue Apr 24, 2018 4:47 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Passenger Forcibly Removed off an AA Flight @ MIA
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5984
Re: Passenger Forcibly Removed off an AA Flight @ MIA
You mean like the guy who was killed while being subdued? That is a very slippery slope to walk. The ‘guy who was killed while being subdued’? Wanna include some specifics in your reply? Passengers aren’t as likely to sit still and do nothing after the events of 9/11 if some nutcase starts making a...
Jump to post- Wed Mar 21, 2018 9:40 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Delta screws the pooch.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 781
Re: Delta screws the pooch.
After the recent incidents, I was scared the title of this post wasn't an exaggeration...
Jump to post- Fri Jan 26, 2018 5:32 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Etihad to retire A330 freighter fleet
- Replies: 57
- Views: 14802
Re: Etihad to retire A330 freighter fleet
Max Q wrote:Not too many A330F’s are there ?
Who else operates them ?
Not too many, Turkish and MNG, three of the Aviancas, Hong Kong, Qatar, and Malaysia. I doubt it'll be long before these frames are snatched up though, if I had to guess it'd probably be HK and/or Turkish. Jump to post
- Sun Dec 03, 2017 10:17 am
- Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
- Topic: How likely is one to get Secondary Security Screening Selection (SSSS) flying through IST?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1592
Re: How likely is one to get SSSS flying through IST?
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-sss ... tsa-2017-9aviatorcraig wrote:Just for the rest of us, what on Earth is SSSS?
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-sss ... tsa-2017-9 Jump to post
- Sun Jul 16, 2017 5:13 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Next new international carrier/route for SJC?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4480
Re: Next new international carrier/route for SJC?
IMHO, Given the California Salvadorean/Central American demographics AV should be studying by now SAL-SJC/ONT plus SAL-PHX/LAS. As a Bay Area Salvadoreño (Who's actually taking SFO-SAL next week), Avianca would be much better off going to OAK, the area has much larger Central America demos than SJC...
Jump to post- Sat May 20, 2017 7:09 pm
- Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
- Topic: Cities with alternate airports
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4115
Re: Cities with alternate airports
They're not legally in the same city, but it's a very official alternate airport... OAK to SFO
Jump to post- Sun May 14, 2017 7:45 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Here we go again -- B6's turn in the barrel
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8704
Re: Here we go again -- B6's turn in the barrel
Not even the angel airlines seems to be safe from publicity scandals this year... I'll bet money Alaska is next
Jump to post- Wed Apr 05, 2017 4:21 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: United "coolest" airline for teenagers in brand study by Google
- Replies: 52
- Views: 6296
Re: United "coolest" airline for teenagers in brand study by Google
I think awareness is more important than is given credit. I'm a teenager who lives in the Bay Area, and I can say with certainty that a large percentage of my peers haven't even heard of Virgin America. As someone who's converted to an avgeek relatively recently (about a year ago), I hadn't develope...
Jump to post- Wed Mar 29, 2017 6:55 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Pan Am / TWA aircraft still flying
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8458
Re: Pan Am / TWA aircraft still flying
Until last October, there was a Pan Am A300 flying for Brazilian cargo carrier Sterna Linhas, but it went off the runway at Recife and has sat there ever since. This was their only aircraft at the time, and the accident esentially killed the airline before even a year in the air.
Jump to post- Tue Mar 28, 2017 1:17 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Brazil tribe gets compensation for plane crash over Amazon forest (GOL 1907)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2529
Re: Brazil tribe gets compensation for plane crash over Amazon forest (GOL 1907)
Why is Gol paying? Both the NTSB and the Brazilian investigators agreed (to some extent) that there should have been far more blame put on the (government owned) ATC and Embraer pilots.
Jump to post- Sat Mar 25, 2017 6:43 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Air Canada and the A340-500?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11270
Re: Air Canada and the A340-500?
accargofra wrote:C-GKOL was hardly damaged by TAM and parts were taken out to get C-GKOM airworthy, then broken up at GIG
How was it damaged? Can't find much online. Jump to post
- Mon Mar 20, 2017 9:57 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: US/UK banning electronics in cabin from multiple Middle East/African countries
- Replies: 411
- Views: 41727
Re: Royal Jordanian banning electronics in cabin on US flights
https://twitter.com/Saudi_Airlines/stat ... 1795926016Can anybody translate the image in their tweet?
Confirmed: Saudia also has electronic ban.
https://twitter.com/Saudi_Airlines/stat ... 1795926016
Can anybody translate the image in their tweet?
- Sun Mar 19, 2017 6:16 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: When was the last US widebody to LAX?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4557
Re: When was the last US widebody to LAX?
747d10 wrote:Today, actually. Delta flies 3 x 767 (400s and 300) from JFK, 1 x 777 from ATL.
No, he means US as in US Airways Jump to post
- Sat Mar 18, 2017 9:19 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: AA and the American flag
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7633
- Sun Feb 26, 2017 5:28 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Why do some regional jets not have airline branding?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1265
Re: Why do some regional jets not have airline branding?
I know that some Skywest CRJs painted in the Skywest liveries do runs for the big 3 sometimes, but Skywest does have quite a few more flights operated seperate from other brands compared to other regionals. Those are what these planes are usually for.
Jump to post- Wed Feb 22, 2017 4:44 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Ukraine Int'l Airlines getting B777s?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 11117
Re: Ukraine Int'l Airlines getting B777s?
PatrickZ80 wrote:but for the comfort I'd prefer Norwegian.
That's not a phrase said often on A.net
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- Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:37 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Sunwing 737-800 grounded in FLL
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1875
- Mon Feb 13, 2017 11:54 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: BA A318 flight grounded after engineers download wrong map
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6394
Re: BA A318 flight grounded after engineers download wrong map
One of the passengers mentions that they had "too much fuel" to land back in city... This is clear a bs excuse by BA to not have to waste fuel, they could easily burn it off on the way back, or go to another London airport. But just curious, how much would the fuel waste costs have been co...
Jump to post- Sat Feb 11, 2017 11:28 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Elal 747 In TWA Colors? 1988 ( Video )
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3837
Re: Elal 747 In TWA Colors? 1988 ( Video )
It went to Family Airlines in 1993 an02155860215586d Family only had this one aircraft and their business model was to fly internationally on charters with a butt in every seat and very low fares. They never flew even one flight and this a/c was broken up in Mohav. Close, they tried to fly domestic...
Jump to post- Sat Feb 11, 2017 7:46 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Elal 747 In TWA Colors? 1988 ( Video )
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3837
Re: Elal 747 In TWA Colors? 1988 ( Video )
I've worked that aircraft many times while at TWA. Anyone know where it is today or its history to the boneyard? It went to Family Airlines in 1993 an02155860215586d Family only had this one aircraft and their business model was to fly internationally on charters with a butt in every seat and very ...
Jump to post- Fri Feb 10, 2017 4:41 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: AS Looking to Cancel VX Airbus Orders
- Replies: 166
- Views: 28346
Re: AS Looking to Cancel VX Airbus Orders
Seems less and less likely that the Virgin style will live through Alaska. "Virgin America will be the worldwide launch customer for those aircraft, which will be configured with 185 seats, and we are very anxious to see how they perform," Pedersen said." I thought ILFC was the launch...
Jump to post- Thu Feb 09, 2017 5:42 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Air Canada reveals new corporate livery
- Replies: 588
- Views: 87793
Re: Air Canada reveals new corporate livery
The livery looks pretty damn nice on their small jets and the 73Max. The 767 in the PDF looks almost there, just needs winglets.
Jump to post- Thu Feb 09, 2017 5:33 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Air Canada reveals new corporate livery
- Replies: 588
- Views: 87793
Re: Air Canada reveals new corporate livery
Any idea when the livery on other planes will be released? I feel like it'd look better on the A330 or 73MAX.
Jump to post- Wed Feb 01, 2017 6:27 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: A380's at Kai Tak?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5306
...- Fri Jan 27, 2017 5:55 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: United retires ual.com domain.
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7138
Re: United retires ual.com domain.
N776AU wrote:I'm going to kick it way old school here but type in valujet.com and enjoy the redirect.
Interesting that ValuJet.com works, but Airtran.com takes you to an error page. Jump to post
- Sun Jan 15, 2017 12:18 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: VECA's A319 (N1821V) repossessed by Aercap
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1134
- Thu Jan 05, 2017 4:26 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: 767CF vs 767(ER)CF?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1033
767CF vs 767(ER)CF?
I noticed that in the world of 767, there are quite a few more passenger to cargo converted 767-200s than 200(ER)s, even though I don't believe the 200 sold many more models than the ER. Would there be any major reason that airlines would prefer a default range to an ER? Besides maybe the cost of th...
Jump to post- Wed Dec 28, 2016 10:13 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Avianca switches Barcelona to Boeing 787
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2939
Re: Avianca switches Barcelona to Boeing 787
I'm surprised they're not happy with them because they're so young! N948AC and N967AG went to Thomas Cook at 8 years old, and N508AV is in VCV at only 2 years!
Jump to post- Sat Dec 17, 2016 5:37 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Boeing sued over Iran Aircraft by Israeli Group
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5304
Re: Boeing sued over Iran Aircraft by Israeli Group
Now we wait for the lawsuits against Airbus, ATR, Fokker, and MD for daring to have aircraft operated by Iran, and Saudi, Turkey, Kuwait, Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc for daring to be Muslim and operate western aircraft. What are they trying to accomplish besides publicity? If this gets by...
Jump to post- Fri Dec 16, 2016 4:06 am
- Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
- Topic: Is it possible to get an upgrade to the first class when you know a crew member personally?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2719
Re: Is it possible to get an upgrade to the first class when you know a crew member personally?
December 20 LH839, probably an E-190
December 20 LH712, probably a 747-400
December 21 PR469, probably an A330-300
These are all just the normally scheduled ones, they could change at any point, although most likely these will be the ones.
- Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:01 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: CI 17(HNL-NRT) Diversion to AWK(Wake Island)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4528
Re: CI 17(HNL-NRT) Diversion to AWK(Wake Island)
Must've been pretty interesting, considering the number of passengers would probably outnumber the number if citizens there#
It'll be interesting to see how they get this one fixed.
- Thu Nov 24, 2016 8:12 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Why more wide body than narrow body types?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2813
Re: Why more wide body than narrow body types?
In the narrowbody short range market, the niches aren't quite as significant. Even if an airline has a number with specific capacity, range, etc they want, they can easily settle for something different in the narrowbody market, and this is not true at all in the wide body market. For example, if an...
Jump to post- Sun Nov 13, 2016 2:28 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Which aircraft types have never had a fatal incident?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 12115
Re: Which aircraft types have never had a fatal incident?
a320fan wrote:Has ther been any fatal E-170/75 accidents? I believe the E-190 has had a couple but unsure about its smaller siblings.
The E-190 has had one fatal accident and one pilot suicide. It's brothers are clean. Jump to post
- Sun Nov 06, 2016 5:53 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Juliet Romeo Aviation??
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3492
Re: Juliet Romeo Aviation??
It seems to be a VIP based in Dallas. According to planespotters it owns 1 other 752 as well as a 734. I found a broken newssite with the headline appearing in google, showing that the company has used their other 757 for the Coyotes in previous years. https://img.planespotters.net/photo/569 ... 569...
Jump to post- Fri Nov 04, 2016 4:36 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Here's What it Would Look Like if Airplanes Took off all at Once
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2078
Re: Here's What it Would Look Like if Airplanes Took off all at Once
KrustyTheKlown wrote:How many planes does KLM actually sends to LAX? I can easily count at least 15 of them on the first picture.
It's not LAX, it's AMS. They're shot at different airports. Jump to post
- Wed Nov 02, 2016 11:07 pm
- Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
- Topic: Closest major airports
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3074
Re: Closest major airports
flyDTW1992 wrote:OAK-SFO is also 11 miles.
If you've ever driven that approximate route, it sure seems like a lot longer than 11... Jump to post
- Tue Nov 01, 2016 1:02 am
- Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
- Topic: Rare planes you can fly: 2017
- Replies: 99
- Views: 12536
Re: Rare planes you can fly: 2017
NDiesel wrote:jfkflyer wrote:Thankyou! Where can we catch the BAE?
I flew the BAe146 with Swiss a couple of weeks ago on FLR-ZRH. Quite a fun plane to fly on, actually.
I'm pretty sure you flew the Avro RJ 100. There are quite a few of those in Europe, but not many B146s. Jump to post
- Sat Oct 29, 2016 5:03 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: The one oddball in a fleet!
- Replies: 93
- Views: 22600
Re: The one oddball in a fleet!
https://img.planespotters.net/photo/615 ... 615295.jpg
Speaking of Ryan, this used to be a full special livery, but now it's just horrible.
https://img.planespotters.net/photo/719 ... 719189.jpg
rutankrd wrote:
This is certainly an odd one not just a panel swap
But it's ertainly been odder!
https://img.planespotters.net/photo/615 ... 615295.jpg
Speaking of Ryan, this used to be a full special livery, but now it's just horrible.
https://img.planespotters.net/photo/719 ... 719189.jpg Jump to post
- Sat Oct 29, 2016 7:41 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: The one oddball in a fleet!
- Replies: 93
- Views: 22600
Re: The one oddball in a fleet!
There were some strange winglet procedures at Ohare due to the two wing strikes a couple weeks ago. An Austrian 763 had to borrow from United: https://s22.postimg.org/esihkxwip/2016_ ... _02_31.jpg And Lufthansa couldn't find any spare right winglets for an A346: https://s3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws....
Jump to post- Tue Oct 18, 2016 5:41 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Iberia to retire their last active A340-300
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13919
Re: Iberia to retire their last active A340-300
Sad to see them go, I loved to see IB's old paint on an four holer. Also, I heard somewhere that the 6s would stay even after the 50s are delivered?
Jump to post- Wed Oct 12, 2016 1:11 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: United B777 and Lufthansa A346 a/c clip wings at Newark
- Replies: 37
- Views: 11979
Re: United and Lufthansa a/c collide
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Pl ... 23421.htmlhttp://abc7ny.com/news/2-planes-clip-wi ... t/1550777/
United was taxiing after coming from Beijing, and Lufthansa was empty and being towed.
NY news reports:
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Pl ... 23421.html
http://abc7ny.com/news/2-planes-clip-wi ... t/1550777/
United was taxiing after coming from Beijing, and Lufthansa was empty and being towed.
- Thu Sep 22, 2016 5:22 am
- Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
- Topic: NYTimes Opinion Documentary about LAX Aviation Employee Mobile Home Park
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1912
Re: Long-term parking lot at LAX becomes a home for airport workers
I loved the video. It was a bit scary as someone that desires to be a pilot, but I think the idea of freedom that was in it quenched my fears a bit. Thanks for the share.
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