I don't understand their fleet strategy. They are retiring some A320 variants for MAXes. While maintaining many A320 variants on Rogue. But they are still keeping A330ceo. Presumably they are going to stick with MAXes and B787 in the future and abandoned Airbus all together? Rouge (not Rogue!) was ...
Jump to postmercure1 wrote:Now EU will open full-scale investigation into AC-TS deal over worries purchase could reduce competition on 33 routes.
https://business.financialpost.com/tran ... t-scrutiny
Air Canada to layoff 15,000 workers due to COVID-19:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavir ... -1.4874611
A few days ago it announced the layoff of 5,000 FAs, and it's unclear if this is included in this tally.
Sorry, in French only: https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/202003/27/01-5266811-le-bureau-de-la-concurrence-voit-dun-mauvais-oeil-lachat-de-transat-par-air-canada.php Summary: Competition bureau says that the merger would eliminate or reduce competition for air travel and vacation packages. However th...
Jump to postArion640 wrote:Insertnamehere wrote:The train.
If we had a proper high speed rail network 80% of the mainland UK flights probably wouldn’t be needed.
Between the virus and over expansion where Vietnam Airlines was using long haul aircraft on short to medium haul routes, it isn’t surprising they have excess capacity Using long-haul, or seemingly long-haul aircraft on short to medium-haul flights is *extremely* common in Asia. In fact, it's standa...
Jump to postand become 100 times darker, effectively eliminating more than 99.999% of visible light. Nice... though it's gonna suck on those airlines where the crew uses a mother-switch to just override everyone's window and make the cabin dark as throughout the flight. Good because sleep is spoiled too much b...
Jump to postBut they likely need the 75s for SLC & LAX for runway performance out of DCA. What do you think happens to that route once the 757s are retired? Does the A32N DL has on order have the performance for this? Maybe they'll get a permanent waiver to use some later build ERs and do this again :wink2...
Jump to postIndian aviation is the last place anyone should invest. It would be like buying the worst house in a good location. Nah, that implies being able to either take down the house or improve it, neither of which seems feasible for AI. It's more like buying the worst house in a good location and having s...
Jump to post2, There is no partner for VS in TYO and HKG, but VS has a long term cooperation with Air China on PEK-LHR and PVG-LHR routes. So VS flies LHR PVG and Air China flies PEK LHR. They codeshare on each other's China route and have a degree of cooperation. However, I wonder if this would last long. It ...
Jump to postFrom the article in this tweet, it seems that LH will terminate Low cost long haul by Eurowings and replace it with another brand. https://twitter.com/RunwayGirl/status/1209071590106906624?s=19 If true, I say good riddance of that brand! It's already been rumored in the spring that LH would take ov...
Jump to postWhich reminds me if China demand is so high out of YYZ, why did CA (Air China) hand the route over to Hainan!? YYZ-PEK would be perfect route for CA. As some have mentioned, Hainan may have been there first. As well, AC doesn't like it's JV partners operating routes to/from YYZ as a rule. See LX/SN...
Jump to postFor the same reason the 787 is branded the Dreamliner and the 737 was branded the MAX. It's a marketing effort. The airbus equivalent to Dreamliner is the XWB part of the name, not the actual aircraft design. There is no way Airbus is designing for the 0.0000001% of the population that cares about ...
Jump to postNow I can see that EK do not want to be a sole customer of a frame again like 380 or 77x. Do you know that Lufthansa, Cathay, Qatar, ANA, Singapore, and British Airways have all ordered the 779? With orders also likely from Air Canada, Air New Zealand, and Qantas in the next couple of years. Also, ...
Jump to postFor the same reason the 787 is branded the Dreamliner and the 737 was branded the MAX. It's a marketing effort.
Jump to postThe new configuration could not begin revenue flying until earliest December 1st, I believe, as the flight attendants only have ammended safety documents for it valid on that date. If anyone from AC sees this, can you just go ahead and throw that config on the YUL-GVA route on December 2nd? Kthanxbai
Jump to postKeep in mind that many of these shifts are related to current JVs, with the theme being that AC prefers to be the metal operating out of YYZ and lets the other airlines into YUL. OS got shifted to open up a new route, and AC took over the YYZ one. Same for SN. Same for some LH frequencies, same for ...
Jump to postThe beginning of the end... or a new beginning? Who knows. .? But this sure feels like earthquake territory to me - I am not trying to be dramatic But neither am I optimisitic about the latest decision to desolve Silkair and move it into SQ. Why was this necessary? SQ is 100% about top brand. This ...
Jump to postThe beginning of the end... or a new beginning? Who knows. .? But this sure feels like earthquake territory to me - I am not trying to be dramatic But neither am I optimisitic about the latest decision to desolve Silkair and move it into SQ. Why was this necessary? SQ is 100% about top brand. This ...
Jump to postIs it? Virgin is doing that with a much smaller fleet. Emirates certainly has the size to sustain 2 types. As others have noted, they went for the 787-9, not the shorter-legged 787-10. This could indicate that an A330-900 fleet would be a regional workhorse, while the 787-9 is aimed at longer route...
Jump to postEK has done a lot of things very well. Yes, I agree, I think perhaps they oversimplified their fleet a bit much, but they're in the progress of walking that back a bit.
Jump to postGoing to start a battle here, but this is truly asked in the spirit of "really wanting to know how much we can know based on the facts". What percent of this decision is based on the MAX grounding, and what percent is based on all other factors? I truly don't know the details of how we go...
Jump to postminilinde wrote:It looks great on the A320NEO, but seems the NEO has the A350 style racoon black around the cockpit windows.
SCQ83 wrote:9 carriers in Paris-NYC and there are no flights between Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes or Toulouse to the US. That is French centralism at its best!
For example the daily Ryanair flight HAM-DUB has different departure times almost everyday, varying from the early morning to the afternoon, the flight number is still the same. AFAIK one flight number can exist once a day, or to be more precise: one flight number can takeoff once a day and only on...
Jump to postFor example the daily Ryanair flight HAM-DUB has different departure times almost everyday, varying from the early morning to the afternoon, the flight number is still the same. AFAIK one flight number can exist once a day, or to be more precise: one flight number can takeoff once a day and only on...
Jump to postSo we are not expecting a law suit for removing the pilot from work based on non-professional / authorized notification to the employer? It's The Sun, we won't be getting the full story from that article. I'd say it's almost certain that he has been stood down on full pay pending psychiatric assess...
Jump to postI have to say I think its a great idea and frankly, we should look at something like this in the UK - although the snowflakes and bleeding heart liberals will cry all the way to the ECHR about it. We (the Brits) are in a few cases a shockingly poorly behaved race of people abroad on occasion and mo...
Jump to postUmm...didn't realized that MU actually ordered ARJ21. I guess those will come from leasing companies? For CZ - perhaps they'll put C919 on Xiong'an Airlines? I don't think any of these airlines really get a choice. They are probably 'allotted' a certain number of purchases. Just as the government i...
Jump to postI am amazed at the amount of AC employees that keep apologizing for their airline. It is the only disgrace that exists in arguably the worlds nicest country. Saludos, Alex Hmm? Why is this being attributed to the whole country? "The only disgrace"? If you want to talk about Canada the cou...
Jump to postThey would if their goal was a fast repaint, but they said they would do it over the normal course of repaints which is about 7 years. Big waste of money to replace perfectly good paint even if it isn’t the new livery. 7 years? AA was able to do their repaints in 4 years. AA also dumped a lot of th...
Jump to postbaje427 wrote:I wonder if these will see any Caribbean ops.
Does AC treat it as a serious matter? We've just had a case of a pax - accused of being verbally abusive - being de-boarded in a third country (ie - country they had no intention of visiting)that they may not be a citizen of/have no right to enter, because AC can't share travel ban information with...
Jump to postI think that over time you'll see Rouge moving its narrow body fleet to A320/A321 sized aircraft, given that AC can operate the mainline product at lower cost in that size category. AC can hand down quite a few A320s once the 737MAX deliveries resume. They have already been opportunistically purcha...
Jump to postNice to see the emphasis on consistency between equipment. Like the E75s before, this offers fundamentally all of the same amenities as the larger narrowbodies and widebodies.
Jump to postWith 331 seats, the A350-1000 will boost capacity on YYZ, though...? Available seats isn’t the issue. Butts in the seats is the problem. If butts in seats were the issue then BA wouldn't be sending a larger capacity aircraft to YYZ. They have more than enough plane types to size up and down as appr...
Jump to postI do think there's room for modest growth especially a morning departure from LHR at around 10am But would depend on whether 'modest growth' on an alternative route would bring in more profits. Thats what IAG is all about now. I get the impression LON-CAN is low yield generally. Certainly. That wou...
Jump to postI'm still curious why they ordered 60. That's 10 more than they need to replace the 318s and 319s. No mention at all about the A320 replacement. Abs they added seats. No mention at all about their plan to cut capacity. Kind of a confusing picture. At a.net we tend to assume carriers exchange like f...
Jump to postchunhimlai wrote:Will they order a35k to replace b77w?
Sorry if this has already been asked - but is AC building up 330's at mainline to eventually replace the Rouge 767 Fleet? So Rouge is all Airbus and Mainline goes almost all Boeing except for the A220's? (Assuming they order more 787 or 797 to replace the 330's) Unlikely in the immediate future. AC...
Jump to postIt's pretty easy to give "free wifi" to only a select number of people. On the other hand, if free wifi only comes with more expensive fare classes, it's not exactly free, is it? By that reasoning, if you're paying for a ticket on the plane, nothing is free. It's all rolled in there no ma...
Jump to postLooking at the current 787 orderbook, I would say potential future -10 customers would be : AC, CA, AF/KL (top), AI, NH (top), AA, BA (top), LY, HU, QF, QR, UA (top), ... It depends how long in the future we are looking, but I really don't think AC is interested in the -10 for anything remotely nea...
Jump to postEqually don't see QF. The 330 fleet still has some life left. Might be one more small order of 789s, then onto 777/350 deliveries, plus 321XLRs. If anything once Jetstar gets its 321LRs and later XLRs they may send some 788s back to QF. And ideally Qantas would likely want a cheap capable 797 for d...
Jump to postAF needs Boeing 777X I love the math. AF struggles to use existing supers, therefore, AF should buy more supers. Or, perhaps, AF should NOT do that and should stick to its largest plane being the 77W, since the current strategy of 'big plans' hasn't really worked well at all. I mean the 779 is only...
Jump to postRainerBoeing777 wrote:AF needs Boeing 777X
Man, the remarketed name was not a good idea. The collapse of one Avianca has done significant harm to all of the other Aviancas based on perception alone, and it's really difficult for the average joe to understand that Avianca Brasil =/= Avianca Argentina =/= Avianca Colombia, etc.
Jump to postLH doesn't have F on their A350 because they're being used out of MUC only. Before LH moved some A380 to MUC there wasn't supposed to be any F out if MUC anymore. This is quite inaccurate. They do have loads of 346s based in MUC with F and they do and will want to capture the Bavarian high rollers....
Jump to postBA A350s WILL HAVE FIRST CLASS. The FIRST A350s won’t. They are 3 class. The second batch will be 4 class. Well the 18 they have on order will all be delivered with Club World, World Traveller Plus and World Traveller. So unless they place a follow-on order (which they may do), the fleet as current...
Jump to postThat color scheme is hideous! Looks like a throwback to the '70s. I agree but sadly it's what the young kids love these days. The 70's and 80's are in again. The photos don't do it favours. It's actually quite nice in person (they have the same colours on their newer widebodies). Just warm brown hu...
Jump to postDelta owns 49% of several airlines that do their own fleet planning or tell Atlanta to keep their advice to themselves. AeroMexico has Boeing 787 for their long haul fleet, a plane Delta seems to have an allergy for. Virgin Atlantic buying A330-900 is their decision. AM's purchase decision on its f...
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