Re: What's TUI Airways' rule when it comes to using jetbridges? Do they try to avoid?

flyjay123 wrote:

Someone83 wrote:

And you can use both a jetbridge on the front door, and stairs on the rear, for quick turn arounds

I've never seen that.

Re: Alaska Airlines prohibits Emotional Support Animals

It wasn’t the greed of the airlines, it was mostly people taking advantage who didn’t want to pay extra for their animals to go in the cargo hold. Cause and effect. No cause no effect. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Deny all you want. People managed fine since the 1900’s as passen...

Re: Likelihood of a Battleship Gray Retro Livery

airbazar wrote:

Arguably the ugliest livery in United's history, not to mention the livery associated with Ch.11. I doubt very much we'd ever see one.
This is the only United retro livery worth considering, IMO:

Re: Alaska Airlines prohibits Emotional Support Animals

Thank goodness I have the ability to change my dogs designation to PSD. For all the abuse legitimate ESA should still be allowed, luckily the changes provided an option. The PSD designation will be used by legitimate former ESA owners. Like it or not the greed of the airlines caused this abuse. I w...

Re: 737 variants vs. A320 variants and smooth landings

The one 737-800 I've flown on felt like we were going incredibely fast on approach to MAN, AIrbuses however is an entirely different story on the A332 i didn't even feel the wheels touch the ground. Your experience probably means that your 737-800 was landing at flaps 30 versus flaps 40. Flaps 30 i...

Re: Round trip routes where both legs travel the same direction

Flights between UK and the Canary Islands more or less follow the same right in either direction, they fly off the coast of Ireland, France, Portugal and then Morocco all the way and the same on the reverse.

I can’t say why but they spend 90% of the flight over water I’d estimate.

Re: Air China and the B777X to Domestic/Latin America?

AirKevin wrote:

Thread title was a question, but I don't see a question in the post, so I'm very confused as to what's being asked.

Re: 737 variants vs. A320 variants and smooth landings

The one 737-800 I've flown on felt like we were going incredibely fast on approach to MAN, AIrbuses however is an entirely different story on the A332 i didn't even feel the wheels touch the ground.

Re: Teenager 787-8 ?

VSMUT wrote:

TheWorm123 wrote:

Have any 787’s actually gone for scrap yet?

The 3rd prototype was scrapped.

Re: Teenager 787-8 ?

Have any 787’s actually gone for scrap yet?

Re: What's your opinion about Bare Foot Pax

Why do I get the distinct impression that this is a fetish question?

The dead giveaway being the extra positive adjectives for describing women’s feet but then the misandry when talking about mens.

Re: Updated: Jet2 acquiring A321's

All A321’s have now have G regs: G-HLYA G-HLYB G-HLYC G-HLYD G-HLYE G-HLYF G-HLYG What happened to the previously sourced ex TC A321?! The rest I think are still with lessors around Europe and possibly the US (at least a couple of TCX aircraft were). So far only G-HYLF is in service and G-HYLG is p...

Re: Updated: Jet2 acquiring A321's

Another A321 G-HLYG is joining the fleet soon according to Planespotters, Jet2 brought back 757’s from storage not long ago and are actively using them now so looks like they’ll either fly them in parallel for the moment or possibly scrap a 757 for every new A321 that enters service.

Re: First New-Build ATR-72 Freighter Takes Flight

There are a lot of small cities, remote towns, islands that this will be a great for, especially for relatively large cargo items. I wonder if this model and version can be used in winter environments, has improved de-icing systems that would expand its use year round into the northern USA includin...

Re: Surf Air lands $200mil investment; refocus on leisure customers; plan IPO

Is the subscription model successfully working as they intended?

Re: Air Peace set to take delivery of Emb 195 E2

I thought Air Peace was a suspected front for money laundering?

Re: B-747-300SUD Question

I’ll understand that the 747-300 was a -200 with a stretched Upper Deck ! What were the pros and cons for this modifaction ? There were no “cons” from the manufacturer’s point of view as the enlarged upper deck became a standard feature on the -400 and -800 passenger variants. In the cockpit and sy...

Re: What saved the A320?

Not to nitpick But wasn't that fwd cargo door a United 747-122 out of Hawaii? UA811 was indeed the fwd door. Interesting case as well in that the NTSB initially found it to be operator error, which given the evidence they had at the time was reasonable. More cases occurred with 747s, and the discov...

Re: What saved the A320?

Incredible post! The fault with the door had already happened to an American Airlines DC-10, was that ground personnel to blame once again? and this may be news to you but aircraft doors are not supposed to open in flight, nor, when they do open, the passenger cabin floor not supposed to collapse c...

Re: SQ Boeing 737-800

Thread on it from last November when it was rolled out >>>> First SQ 737 MAX roll out https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1435589 To be pedantic, that was a thread on the SQ -8MAX. This is a respray on a 737-800, presumably ex-MI. Might make sense to consolidate this thread with that, u...

Re: Who want to fly the Max when it’s back ?

Outside of aviation, nobody that I know, willingly as a 1st choice. My non aviation friends tend to save up their questions until they see me, and it's a blizzard of 'my booking says 737, will I be on this new plane that keep crashing?' I can think of seven lead passengers I know who avoided flying...

Re: Another Passenger Opens Emergency Exit

Ummm, calm down there. The B738 trailing edge of the wings are low enough where an evac directs to sit and slide of the back of the wing. Interesting. I didn't know the 737 didn't have wing slides. Given some of the people I've seen on a 737 any drop more than about 8 inches would be a challenge. B...

Re: Deloitte doubted the ability of Vietnam Airlines to operate continuously

Even if the airline was try to sell their planes, there aren’t that many airlines with free cash to buy planes at the moment.

Re: Easyjet sued for discrimination by woman forced to move seat

If your religion requires something non-standard/out of the ordinary it is up to YOU to ensure that accommodation for yourself, not a secular airline's. Whether it's pre-ordering a religious meal or somehow ensuring you have an empty seat next to you because you cannot sit next to a non-familial wo...

Re: Manchester (UK) Thread - 2020

EasyJet will begin a 3 weekly Isle of Man service starting 26th October. Operates Mon, Thu and Fri. App suggests they wanted 5 weekly with Wed and Sun also highlighted as flying days, but no flights bookable on them yet. Will this be an A319? If I recall correctly the Douglas runway is long enough ...

Re: Updated: Jet2 acquiring A321's

Plane spotters and Jethros fleet lists have both removed all of the A321’s other than G-HLYF, could they have cancelled the orders?

Doesn’t seem likely though as they’re continuing to fly G-HLYF everyday under their own AOC and they surely won’t leave a single orphaned type.

Re: 747-200F with blended winglets.

One of the remaining 747-200 proof of concept winglets is on display out front of the Museum of Flight in Seattle: https://img.geocaching.com/waymarking/display/9b462c6e-5f9f-4df7-b01a-e6b36f80b753.jpg (I worked on the program) When you see winglets from afar they never look that big, but when you ...

Re: Easyjet sued for discrimination by woman forced to move seat

Exactly. Just because *he* has chosen not to leave the Bronze Age, doesn't make it anyone else's problem! As I understand the situation this is a case of religious freedom, the reason for not seating them together was not one of gender, it was due to religious beliefs. It is totally unacceptable fo...

Re: Cargolux B748F „Not Without My Mask“ livery

Look at the way the ear strap is wrapped around the C of ‘Cargolux’ that’s very clever.

Re: What airline was Alexei Navalny flying on?.

I saw a BBC news article that said it was S7 airlines

Re: Atlas Air 3591 Down in Trinity Bay, Texas

Amateur here, but. An aircraft that already has envelope protection could add terrain avoidance as a software layer. Admittedly, it would introduce new failure modes and new problems, very hard to do well, but fairly easy to do crudely. Just any steering that irrevocably would go into terrain would...

Re: JET2 - what next ?

I feel for all Jet2 personnel effected. Operating dinosaur airplanes like the once-venerable 757 and the geriatric 737-300s cannot be helpful in the low margin LCC business. If Jet2 survives this travel downturn, maybe it will be time to look for a fleet refresh. In addition to looking at more used...

Re: JET2 - what next ?

Is FR only news relevant to a Jet2 thread?

Re: Was KAL 007 saveable?

Which I again, wonder if it was ever possible any ways by using engine thrust like JAL 123, which lost almost an entire tailfin, but still retained limited control. JAL 123 also ended with 520 deaths, so I wouldn't say that it was "saveable". We will never know about JL123 as it was the t...

Re: Corsair's 587-seat 747-400s

This plane would be more comfortable to fly in than today's 787 or 3-4-3 777s. No it wont. I Agree it wouldn't be. not the 343 nor any other config. I worked for a charter outfit that had a 3-5-3 main Cabin config for 525 pax on a 747-100 and -200 the cabins were miserable. and we flew JFK to ATH/R...

Re: Are there any TATL routes that can be operated by a 737NG?