The Financial Times reports Delta's stock price and finances have been shielded against Boeing's problems unlike other US airlines. https://www.ft.com/content/d9121c2e-0444-4f33-86fb-36d34c68c228 Delta Air Lines is the notable outlier. It is the top performing US airline stock over the past year. Am...
Jump to postA lot of analysts, pundits, people on a.net, and others have said Boeing should return the HQ to Seattle to fix its broken culture. Boeing has now officially responded and it's a definite no. https://edition.cnn.com/business/boeing-shareholder-proposal-hq-seattle/index.html Boeing’s attorneys argued...
Jump to postJust hitting the wires this am - sadly they kept Pope who is from the same rotten apple. https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2024-03-25-Boeing-Announces-Board-and-Management-Changes Too little, too late. They are all criminals. And they all get richer with the inevitable stock pop this will cause. No info...
Jump to postLufthansa Group announces increased revenues (+15%) and profit (+76%) in 2023. Groupwide, 2023 is still below 2019 in terms of flights (~20% below) and passengers (~15% below), but its offset by an increase in RASK. https://investor-relations.lufthansagroup.com/en/publications/financial-reports.htm...
Jump to post1). for the record we have flown 747-100s into and out of Renton (for post certification mods). 2) using aircraft to move fuselages at the rate 737s can be produced is not happening.. If the line is running at a 2-4 a day rate, you need that many incoming flights on a field that is trying to handle...
Jump to postBoeing made a deal with Ryan Air for them to buy any 737-10's that might be cancelled. https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/rryanair-boeing-737-max-10-dropped-orders I saw a TV news article where Boeing people were talking about flight planning. They seemed to be trying to figure out alternatives lik...
Jump to postI am uncomfortable with the heavy use of the term, Bean Counter. Of course, every company needs to know how many beans it has and what bins they are in. Successful companies do not measure their success by how much stock they buy back or how much dividends they pay. Rather, they work at what produc...
Jump to postEverything is now called into question because Boeing is incapable of producing a safe and reliable 737 Max. A door plug is considered an innocuous part of many aircraft, but Boeing's unreliable manufacturing unexpectedly caused a near deadly accident. The 737 Max is an aircraft flying with too man...
Jump to postBoeing has withdrawn the request for 737 Max 7 engine anti-ice exemption. Either the FAA privately told them to pound sand or Boeing felt it was not worth the PR hit to continue to pursue it. Still believe if the issue is one that the FAA feels is not serious enough to allow the MAX8 and MAX9 to op...
Jump to postI didn’t see anything in their statement about timelines, I wonder if they still think it would be two years for a fix. Wonder what they propose, reverting to metal inlets... too bad the Max doesn't have an EICAS, would have probably been a simple area to place an EAI HEAT Alert. Welp Right, they m...
Jump to postitripreport wrote:This has the same energy as southwest saying they are "considering" the A320. Its a negotiation tactic
Here is a complete summary of cuts from FRA, MUC, ZRH and GVA. Quite a lot of cuts. I wonder if this has purely to do with engine issues could it be that the economic situation in Germany also contributed to a certain extent. FRA -10.6% MUC -6.5% ZRH -3.9% GVA -1.5% Almost 11% in Frankfurt is a lot...
Jump to postDUB-HKG is much smaller market than BHX-HKG False. DUB-HKG had 40,245 O&D in 2016 - the year before it launched. BHX-HKG only had 37,592 O&D in the year to September 2018. Ask why did CX launch DUB-HKG pre-Covid and not BHX-HKG? It's also about connections with Australia/NZ, and the rest of...
Jump to postIn my opinion, Boeing should direct all airlines with the affected aircraft to perform an unscheduled D check. Do you even know what a "D check" is? Each airline has their own mx program approved by their applicable aviation authority and on the MAX, I don't know of any airlines that have...
Jump to postDan Gryder has some thoughts on this situation, and I think he's spot on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waEw41Rtp6w It's all the FAA's fault? All of Boeing's atrocious recent history is the FAA's fault. Thanks for clearing that up. Allowing too big to fail McDonnell Douglas to use Boeing's own mo...
Jump to postIn view of the latest "discoveries" i.e. loose or missing nuts and bolts in the rudder, door plugs departing in flight, what is next? a wing falling off? Would it not be prudent at this stage to inspect a number of 737 Max'es in all areas that have safety relevant bolts, nuts, connectors,...
Jump to postI think the answer will depend on the answer to: "If you can't trust the manufacturer to tighten [those] bolts, can you trust them to tighten all the other bolts in the aircraft?" Granted, there doesn't seem to have been a previous finding that there are improperly torqued ... oh wait ......
Jump to posthttps://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/aar-corp-says-it-did-not-perform-any-work-near-alaska-airs-mid-cabin-exit-door-2024-01-08/ AAR, the Wi-Fi installers, says they did not do any work near the door plugs. Unless they are lying, this should put to bed the theories that AAR was responsi...
Jump to postSafe enough for the President apparently. All sides realise that shooting at, let alone shooting down, Air Force 1 is not going to end well for them. When Biden's plane approaches TLV, everyone is likely to be a little more restrained in what shooting is taking place. I'm sure the US government wil...
Jump to postJust reading this article https://www.aero.de/news-45667/Ministerium-Kein-Reformbedarf-bei-Flugbereitschaft.html It says that they have a reliability if 'over 95%'. Depending on how much over 95% they are I would consider that a poor reliability, as from here the A340 has got 99% https://www.airbus...
Jump to postIn the US air force, the air force maintains all the VIP aircraft in house, without using commercial maintenance providers. Their standards for maintenance is very high for these aircraft. I think the Luftwaffe needs to take over maintenance responsibility for their VIP fleet. But in reality, the L...
Jump to postDue to damage to the landing flaps of her Luftwaffe Airbus A 340- 300 "16+01", German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerback was unable to continue her flight to her state visit in Australia after a refuelling stop in Abu Dhabi and had to return to the Emirate. After a layover of several hour...
Jump to postLong-form article from 'The Drive', covers other short-comings in DE military maintenance: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/germany-cans-its-a340-air-force-one-jets-after-two-failures-in-24-hours Poor journalism that eagerly gathers the low-hanging fruit that German candor about military readi...
Jump to postVloggers always will have personal biases which come through - some just hide it better than the others. Sam Chui doesnt even bother to hide the fact that his videos are in some form or the other "sponsored" by the airline he is reviewing. Atleast, he is honest and upfront about it! I sto...
Jump to postNew Allegris cabin product is now delayed again and won't arrive before 2024. First aircraft with the new cabin will be a factory new Boeing 787-9 in early 2024, which will be delivered in three class configuration without First Class. The first A350 with the new F are expected in 2024 as well. htt...
Jump to postWill this bigger bathrooms, or combining two small bathrooms?. Revenue real estate is precious in an airliner. Most likely the scenario will be two LAVS that open into one. There is NO REVENUE in LAVS. Right? Humans are horrible! They need to pee, poop, eat, and sleep. We all wish humans can be tra...
Jump to postIt has been a week since this happened and it's my understanding that Spirit has not put out any kind of statement about this incident. The silence is very bad from a reputational perspective.
Jump to postand then there was the video... https://www.tiktok.com/@ifyoureashleyanduknowit/video/7254585817761451307 That’s it? They diverted because he was standing in the aisle and using the F-word? I guess this video shows just a piece of the „drama“… There's probably much more to the drama than one short ...
Jump to postThis incident proves that not all flight disturbances are caused by ULCC passengers on flights to and from Florida.
Jump to postIt sucks that one of the last airlines flying big quads around is impossible to take anywhere without paying 3x the price of every other airline. If you book a direct flight, yes. However if you add a tag-on flight it saves you a lot of money. For example on a random date I found a Lufthansa flight...
Jump to postIn Germany specifically, Lufthansa has a de facto monopoly which is facilitated by the German government because there's an unspoken policy that LH is too big to fail. This article (in German) compared the price change of several European airlines from 2022 to 2023. Lufthansa and Swiss ticket prices...
Jump to postSome of the tarmac delays on arrival today at EWR are wild - 1518 from PUJ on at 8:06pm, estimated in at 11pm...351 from AGP on 12:44pm and in 3:57pm. Even HND waited over an hour for a gate. JFK last night was a mess too (I was on SK from CPH and waited close to an hour and a half for a gate at 10...
Jump to postI would support this if I get a discount as a slim person. I require less fuel than a heavier passenger. If there is no discount, then I am against this because it's just a slippery slope to prepare charging passengers by weight in the future. Do you see the contradiction in your post? You said you...
Jump to postI'm surprised no one has mentioned one of the biggest airport mistakes of the last 20 years - the construction of the Berlin airport! It was massively delayed and over budget due to poor construction planning, execution, management, and corruption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Ai...
Jump to postLH made losses the last couple of years because of COVID. Before that they were highly profitable. So judging the investments on the COVID years is a bit shortsighted..... The LH €432m loss is for all of 2022, which was a profitable year for many other airlines around the world. By comparison, LH d...
Jump to postLH made losses the last couple of years because of COVID. Before that they were highly profitable. So judging the investments on the COVID years is a bit shortsighted..... The LH €432m loss is for all of 2022, which was a profitable year for many other airlines around the world. By comparison, LH d...
Jump to postLH Group in the future will do with ITA the same it does with its other foreign subsidiaries. Each unit needs to earn the right for investment and aircraft orders by achieving established performance metrics set out by the group. There is no free handout from the parent, and each subsidiary needs t...
Jump to postI would support this if I get a discount as a slim person. I require less fuel than a heavier passenger.
If there is no discount, then I am against this because it's just a slippery slope to prepare charging passengers by weight in the future.
One track operations is feasible if they use the most modern digital signaling systems like ETCS level 2 or 3. Systems like ETCS can safely add more traffic onto existing tracks versus older signals. The US Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has a number of regulations outlining the use of safet...
Jump to postNo. I use a Brita filter. The water where i live is safe but it is extremely hard. In my opinion, the water quality is low because of the hardness. So i use Brita to soften the water before i drink it or cook with it
Jump to postAnother day another mass shooting in the US. They happen so often now that many just shrug and yawn. The horrific impact is dulled by the frequency of these shootings.
Jump to postOne track operations is feasible if they use the most modern digital signaling systems like ETCS level 2 or 3. Systems like ETCS can safely add more traffic onto existing tracks versus older signals.
Jump to postPer media report, isn't the pay level for cabin crew at Cathay nowadays even lower than that? Like apparently for HK$14000-15000 a month it appears to now require 2 long haul trip in a month, and that they no longer pay extra for voluntary extra work That's correct. The base salary for new hires, b...
Jump to postLH Group seems to be a dysfunctional company that makes its money by virtue of its monopoly position over aviation in DACH+BE. It looks like British Airways did in the 1990s - arrogant, complacent, and (partly because of German tax policy) frequently charges its customers too much money for the pro...
Jump to posthttps://news.mingpao.com/pns/%e8%a6%81%e8%81%9e/article/20230505/s00001/1683223502883 Egyptair applied and approved for resumption of air service to HK on October this year, however they cannot find ground handling service provider to support the resumption. It is said that HAS which they used to b...
Jump to postBoeing is now like an airframe built by bean-counters rather than engineers, in which age is causing the cracks and improper work to finally show through catastrophic failures. I disagree with you, the planes are designed by qualified engineers built by qualified mechanics. The bean counters are th...
Jump to postRyanair's product has probably improved a little bit since 2019 True. The only downside is that they don't accept cash anymore for on-board purchases, only credit cards. They don't seem to realize that not everybody has a credit card. Not even debit cards (Maestro) are accepted, only MasterCard and...
Jump to postGood riddance. This should have happened years ago
Jump to postQuestion: Just realized there are no more DUS-NYC flights...seems a little odd given the size of the Rhein-Ruhr area and the amount of business there...any guesses as to an EW return? I'd say LH but given them pulling back from secondary points in Germany I'd doubt it. Maybe as a JV with UA? Or any...
Jump to postService to CGN/DUS/HAM/STR isn't going to happen with the LH partnership. They can just codeshare to those destinations out of FRA and MUC instead. Business destinations - which certainly describes DUS/HAM/STR - get n/s premiums. 321XLRs, if they can be maintained 4x weekly year-round, ought to do ...
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