If these numbers are in anyway correct it is a doomday scenario for the 777X. EK will not replace their A380's with brand new planes for billions of dollars if their business contracts. They will keep whatever amount of A380's and 777-300ER's they need and that's it. The only replacement will be th...
Jump to post9Patch, Covid-19 is a virus similar to the "flu" which we have learned to live with and will continue to do so. It is probably too widespread now to ever truly eradicate without a vaccination but certainly a vaccination will be developed and distributed before we as a species develop any k...
Jump to postI think this thread brings two of A-net's most hated things together in one rather unsightly edifice. What we have seen consistently throughout the history of the A380 and indeed of EK, is people with an axe to grind stating categorically - "they don't have the load factors for that" or &q...
Jump to postClose - 76B engines. Then G-VIIA to -O (plus - RAES) have 85B engines, and the rest of the -VIIx frames are 90B engines. Afterward, with the YMM units, BA went to the RR Trent 895-17. Did any other carrier opt for the Trent 895? Does anyone know the story behind why G-RAES has such an out of place ...
Jump to postcrjflyboy wrote:Nothing was wrong with the old ones to begin with
My view is that certain people are getting rich shorting Boeing stock and there is a nasty and rather vindictive campaign online to push the share price down through misinformation, exaggeration, smoke and mirrors and outright lies. Fake news, etc. Whether that is a group of investors acting illegal...
Jump to postWhy? This is baffling. There are so many ULCCs on this route that already charge next to nothing. Is EK this desperate? Because they are interested in PEN-DBX-Rest of the world. Today that market is captured by SQ and is not low cost. ULCC is for locals (Malaysians and Singaporeans to go back and f...
Jump to postSFOThinker wrote:I am curious why the 777 spends 5 hours on the ground at Penang. Would an earlier departure miss the connecting banks at DXB?
I'll lead with I don't think we'll ever see a KL A321XLR but where would they fly such a machine if they bought them? Am assuming we'd see two class, with the C product being the same as the WB fleet but 1-1 config. Say same as QR do on their A321s so 12 C / 165 J. Where would they fly these to that...
Jump to postA family member was a senior manager in Imperial Tobacco. He didn't believe any measures would / could reverse the numbers smoking. ICAO CORSIA steering group are already working on new measures from mid-decade, like linking JV's / interlining flights. There is a suggestion of how that can be taken...
Jump to postIssue here is that - as with a lot of this woke/PC thing - the folks doing the flight shaming are a broad group of people who don't need to fly, and hate on folks who do because its a wider class war thing. Its a lefty, socialist thing. They hate people who drive the fast cars, fly a lot, take cruis...
Jump to postI assume KLM will use slots for the highest profit. There is much focus here on one market, but a market that was over served depressing yields. I expect fewer seats to India in the short term. Right now Africa seems to be the profit center. A 777-300ER must be missing paper to go for so little. Ev...
Jump to postLH Group I could see - but I note LX just refurbed their five remaining A343s, and their A333s are all fairly new and very capable so if it is them the birds will be for OS and SN, perhaps Edelweiss but doubtful for LX mainline. 12 for SN, circa 12 for OS, six for WK would leave circa ten for LH mai...
Jump to postRe Airbus breaking into WN - it would be a surprise for some for sure, but then who saw AS with Airbuses (granted via Virgin America but still...) There was a time when DL was a Boeing/Douglas fortress and the preferred airline of the most vehement 'Murican Europhobes on here. We now see DL as argua...
Jump to postFlugerfaust today saying Bombardier already had plans for a 500 variant that Airbus are poking around, and also reporting on potential further stretches for a 700/900 variant. All with a pinch of salt of course, but an interesting read none the less. https://www.fliegerfaust.com/new-airbus-a220-264...
Jump to postKL will order 737 MAX to replace the NGs. Almost no possibility for an A220/320 series at all. Wont happen. They are as loyal to the 737 as WN and FR are. A320NEO would do the job, and certainly you could make a case for A321/A321XLR in the KL blue but wont happen. They'll likely be into the new MO...
Jump to postI have noticed a distinct cooling in enthusiasm for Project Sunrise from a certain section of posters on this site since the Airbus was selected. They were all over it as a very exciting final frontier in aviation pioneering, the cutting edge of technology etc. But now suddenly there's no business c...
Jump to postLots of folks complaining about the Eurowhite of A3's new livery - whilst forgetting that A3's livery was the definition of boring Eurowhite before and is, if anything, more colourful now.
Jump to postBlerg wrote:FluidFlow wrote:From Warsaw it is only 2260nm to AUH so it is for WIZZ possible to reach AUH with standard NEOs from all of their bases.
Even Luton? Isn't it a bit too far?
Binning the 778X makes sense as the 77L and then the A359 can do anything they would realistically want the 778X for. Believe their longest route is AKL non-stop isn't it? A359 can do that no problem.
Jump to postKL will order 737 MAX to replace the NGs. Almost no possibility for an A220/320 series at all. Wont happen. They are as loyal to the 737 as WN and FR are. A320NEO would do the job, and certainly you could make a case for A321/A321XLR in the KL blue but wont happen. They'll likely be into the new MO...
Jump to postKL will order 737 MAX to replace the NGs. Almost no possibility for an A220/320 series at all. Wont happen. They are as loyal to the 737 as WN and FR are. A320NEO would do the job, and certainly you could make a case for A321/A321XLR in the KL blue but wont happen. They'll likely be into the new MOM...
Jump to postIs the A350 something KLM could at least consider to replace their 777s? Nope they rejected it out of hand and passed the ones they were supposed to be taking over to AF, who are indeed replacing their 777s etc with them. When KL replace their 772s it will be with 789/78J metal. We are unlikely to ...
Jump to postThe 757 is known as the Ferrari. No one buys a Ferrari for it's cost efficiency. But both the 757 and Ferrari are a hell of a ride. Neither the boring 737 or 320 will ever give such a feeling. Go on an A319-115 on American out of an airport that has a short runway and it will be much the same feeli...
Jump to postMRJ need this order for the Spacejet. I really hope they get it. The Spacejet is smaller than what SAS appears to be interested in. Spacejet would be CRJ replacements, not filling in the gap between them and the A320neo. Just checked and you're right - its maxed at 81 seats which I think is a wee b...
Jump to postMRJ need this order for the Spacejet. I really hope they get it.
Jump to postI've just realised what that livery reminds me of - you know when airlines haven't debuted a new livery yet so use a placeholder in internal documents to signify the new livery but not show it? Its like that. Or one of the liveries from one of those SimAirport games you used to get.
Jump to postGod-awful livery aside, I hope they do well. Some of the best flights I've ever had ever were on JAL and they remain one of the very few airlines I still look forward to flying on, not least because it usually means I'm going to Japan again and that's something I love doing above very few things, tr...
Jump to postThat has to be ones of the worst liveries I've ever seen in my entire life. I hated and I mean HATED the JAL rebrand a few years ago but this is China Eastern sort of bad. Disastrous. But why bother with a flashy uber-modern livery outside when the service will be basic inside ? Zipair is not a pre...
Jump to postThat has to be ones of the worst liveries I've ever seen in my entire life. I hated and I mean HATED the JAL rebrand a few years ago but this is China Eastern sort of bad. Disastrous.
Jump to postI absolutely loved the old livery and this is even better. Surely one of the best rebrands in recent history. Stunning.
Jump to postSurprises me that neither serve AMS. I think a daily 788 AMS-HND would work pretty well. There are no slots available at Haneda for The Netherlands (something KLM was recently complaining about). For the time being it has to be NRT or nothing. I still think AMS-NRT would work well on a 788 for JL o...
Jump to postSurprises me that neither serve AMS. I think a daily 788 AMS-HND would work pretty well.
Jump to postAny plane can create chemtrails, just depends how much chemical agent has been loaded on board to spray over us to keep us all in check*.
* - sarcasm obvs.
Enjoyed this, thanks for sharing. Am glad you got your passport things sorted.
Jump to postBit of wishful thinking from the AS fans there. "I heard a rumour that they are getting rid of all their Airbuses" - with the MAX not sorted out yet?
I don't think so mate.
the A321 is nothing more than a "Pathfinder".. if that's the lead airplane to establish a route? And the route is a HIT? Then somebody else will be on that route with a bigger airplane PDQ. unless the yield can only support that airplane in which case? the route isn't any route to grow on...
Jump to postAntonioMartin wrote:CHRISBA35X wrote:YVR, YYC, TLV, BER, MEX, BOG, HNL. Struggling to see many more places they don't already serve that they would want to.
PHX
Disgruntled crew deliberate sabotage by putting onion bhajis in the bleed air system?
Jump to postYVR, YYC, TLV, BER, MEX, BOG, HNL. Struggling to see many more places they don't already serve that they would want to.
Jump to postFlag waving silliness aside, I think AS is now seeing that the Airbuses aren't inferior French crap and are more comfortable and more popular with the pax. I get why they would want to be loyal to hometown Boeing but the difficulties the MAX is facing, and the extremely capable NEOs they have make f...
Jump to postOne of the last A306F operators - Uni-Top in China have ceased ops I'm hearing. Parent group not able to fund them, not making any money.
They also have a couple of leased 744Fs. Used to see them in Dubai etc.
I wasn't a fan of theirs. Dodgy operator, corners being cut and the A320 of theirs I went on was older than the dinosaurs and really showed it. Search them on PPrune. - they had some "interesting" feedback on there from former crew. Suffice to say that's a smoking hole in the ground that w...
Jump to postIts SOP at KLM fleet wide, certainly at AMS, not sure about other airports but every KLM flight I've taken has been this way. I've been on FlyBe Embraers that do it as well. Its an odd sound to hear the plane land on the Polderbaan and be tootling along toward the terminals and to hear them shut dow...
Jump to postTook Juliet Bravo - CDG-DXB November last year and she wasn't in great condition. Tatty inside, still had the original screens and seats.
Jump to postAre there any SilkAir A319/20 left and if so will we see these in SQ livery at all?
Jump to post8herveg wrote:They’re putting an A332 on the LGW-JFK route.
What are they using LGW-JFK? I'd be all over an opportunity to get on one last VS 747-400 if they are using those.
Jump to postDo you see a hole for a light weight regional five hour people mover though? I have a feeling EK is just going to use the 787's for that. Send A350's and 777's in between flights if they need to also. I think you're right - 789 easier to "abuse" short haul than a heavier A359 etc. If they...
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