Re: Why does Bern Airport (LSZB) not work?

As PhilInBRN already pointed out, the actual catchment area for BRN is quite a bit bigger, than the 350'000-ish people in the greater Bern area. The superb rail connections work not only to Zurich an Geneva but also in the opposite direction. And the fact that BRN is pretty small, has short distance...

Re: Airports You've Transited Through In Cities You've Never Visited

Rather few here, but FRA, MUC, CAN, IST, KWI, LJU, MSQ, LYS... well I guess that's it. Some grey zone: - CDG: always transited there (or flew straight back), but for going into Paris itself it was always ORY for some reason - FCO: overnight stay at an airport hotel, never left the airport area, but...

Re: Airports You've Transited Through In Cities You've Never Visited

Rather few here, but FRA, MUC, CAN, IST, KWI, LJU, MSQ, LYS... well I guess that's it. Some grey zone: - CDG: always transited there (or flew straight back), but for going into Paris itself it was always ORY for some reason - FCO: overnight stay at an airport hotel, never left the airport area, but ...

Re: Icelandair postpones widebody renewal, citing better than expected MAX performance

So future, you'd have a fleet of ~13-16 737MAX, dozen plus A321neo in the near term for 757 replacements (Again thx Qatar), but really having a 150-190 seat aircraft plus a 200-250 seat aircraft with solid cargo capabilities and range is probably the goal for them (plus their subsidiary cargo). Do ...

Re: AirBaltic A220 Slides Off Of Snowy Runway at Riga

That runway looks to be completely covered in snow .. why would they have even been trying to operate in those conditions? Absolutely no problem to operate aircraft in such conditions. In northern countries it is not uncommon to stop removing the snow from runways but start compressing it with kind...

Re: Nordic Aviation 2021

toga998 wrote:

A flight that long will require 3 crew up front and blocking a first class seat for the pilot on rest.

Re: Russian Airliners - what have you flown and on which carriers?

Limited here too: 1x Tu-154M with Belavia and 2x Superjet with Aeroflot & Brussels Airlines once each.

Re: Fokkers: What Have You Flown On?

1x F50 with swedish carrier Amapola Flyg
1x F70 with KLM
10x F100 with Helvetic (3), Air France opb BritAir/Régional (6), Montenegro Airlines (1)

Dude, how I miss this the F100... one of my all time favourites

Re: How can I get from London to Newquay Airport?

thank you everyone. Looks like its going to be the train! Would also recommend the train. I want to put the Night Riviera Sleeper service on the table: leaves Paddington at 23:45 starting from £84.- in a sleeper cabin. However you would be in need for a connection/layover at a town called Par and a...

Re: Your shortest flight on a widebody and longest flight on a narrowbody

As the OP revealed in this thread , he is in deep love with the Dash-8 series... Crash-8. I hate that thing. 'nuff said. ...so I should ad this one to the list as a honorable mention: Berne BRN - Preveza PVK and back on a Q400, to a week of beach holidays. This is 1397 km or 755nm oneway, which resu...

Re: Your shortest flight on a widebody and longest flight on a narrowbody

That's an easy one :) Shortest WB flight: Swiss 777-300ER ZRH-GVA on the inaugural flight (231km), barely half an hour in the air. Did the same trip later also on an A340-300. And there are a bunch of flights comming close, like Garuda 77W on LGW-AMS, LX A333 on ZRH-BRU or Kuwait Airways A300-600 on...

Re: "The Boeing 880" Create your own nickname for an airliner.

I frequently use the term canadian stick-blender for the Q400

Re: DC-10: Whose (NOT who's!) have you flown on?

Four flights, three airframes: HB-IHK of Balair, two flights on S2-ACR of Biman Bangladesh and an unknown Swissair frame. Sadly I only remember the Biman flights (guess which they were...), for the other ones I was too young

Re: Imagine flying on a 34 year old Fokker 50 in Ireland! I did just that with Amapola Flyg DUB-CFN.

Great trip report! Had the chance to fly the "grandmother" as the F50 is sometimes refered, last year. Also with Amapola, from Stockholm Bromma to Visby on Gotland. Great experience! The cabin is really cosy, however they indeed should have stuck with the old large windows from the F27... ...

Re: What is your favorite widebody aircraft?

767 lover here. At least as long as we talk of economy class on in-service planes. Up front I honestly don't care that much, as long it isn't an A380. Hate that one for some unspecific hatred . If it comes to classics, nothing beats a DC-10

Re: The seat of which LCC or ULCC do you like most?

The question should probably read; which LCC seat do you hate least?

Ryanair: seat says "I'm an a****le" and you know it. Fair deal. And you get still 30 inches of seat pitch (pre -8200 era obviously).

Re: Smallest city getting regular 777/A350 service

Would put in (bad pun here, sorry) Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: daily 77W service from Moscow at ~180'000 inhabitants seems a fair deal to be way up in this ranking. Same in Greenland, A330 /Kangerlussuaq ( sondre stromfjord), pop. 500. Good one! Even if you count the whole population Greenland, it's s...

Re: Craziest continuous commercial flights you have made

Does this one count? Couple of years ago, wanted to go to Riga, Latvia. Nonstop with Air Baltic ZRH-RIX was quite expensive, but a connection on to Helsinki was much cheaper. Could do a no-show at RIX. Decided to book an additional SK flight HEL-ARN-RIX back to Riga, was still much cheaper and gave ...

Re: Was the McDonnell Douglas MD-90 a good airplane?

But rear-mounted engines raise a lot of issues. a) The lack of a heavy engine on the wing means that the wing has to carry the full weight of the entire aircraft at its root with no bending relief from an engine, so it needs to be stronger (heavier). b) Wing-mounted engines can serve as anti-shock ...

Re: Favorite regional aircraft?

This thread is a threat to my mind, as I basically like all regional aircraft and decisions become a PITA :lol: For regular use when traveling (read: what ends up in your average itinerary, when not specifically hunting for aircraft types), my prefered ones are clearly the E-Jets and this is not lim...

Re: Was the McDonnell Douglas MD-90 a good airplane?

This might be an inconvenient opinion, but I dare to say, that the MD-90 was a superb aircraft, an industry benchmark and years ahead of its competitors - but 15 years late... Beside the new engines and a slight stretch to comply with those new and heavier engines, the MD-90 is mostly unchanged to t...

Re: Will commercial flying ever become obsolete?

Will something replace airlines in 10 years? Obviously not. Will something replace airlines in 40 - 60 years? 797s will have certainly gone the way of rotary phones by then. Sure, this is a pessimists view; but we may see the first 797 at line introduction in 4 decades, after years of delays and co...

Re: Will commercial flying ever become obsolete?

I fully second the negative opinions shared here on Hyperloop. Sad fact, that the fanboys refuse to see: the idea behind it is decades old and it never came to fruition for good reasons. A Hyperloop-track will always be much more expensive per mile to build, than a conventional railway line. And you...

Re: Russia constructing 2 x Il-96-400M "Flying Kremlins"

There is no monolithic "western regime." NATO certainly doesn't dictate foreign policy to its members, and certainly not in the fashion the Warsaw Pact did. I doubt that to a certain point. Or what would you call this: https://www.cruz.senate.gov/files/documents/Letters/2020.08.05%20Final...

Re: Regional aircraft on TATL routes.

Is anybody really eager for a 2700nm BOS-EDI E2 flight? I'd totally take an E2 over any A320- or 737 Series Aircraft on such a flight. In fact, on every flight, regardless of the length. I'd even prefer a Q400 if it had the legs to go TATL, just to avoid any probability to end up on a middle seat :...

Re: The Giant aircraft That Failed

Looking at all the unsuccessful giants, I think the adage "if it looks right, it flies right" holds true. None of the big giant planes of that era looks right to me. I would basically second that - with one exception: the Lockheed Constitution looked great in my opinion. Reminds me slight...

Re: France moves to ban short-haul domestic flights where same journey could be made by train in under 2,5 hours

That just shows that LH did not grow as fast as the overall market, as the passenger number nearly doubled from 2004 to 2019. And being as dirty as 1990 is not good enough, they need to be climate neutral asap and one efficient way to achieve this is simply making flying much more expensive and ban...

Re: France moves to ban short-haul domestic flights where same journey could be made by train in under 2,5 hours

What good are 15% or even 50% reduction in fuel consumption per plane if we have 5-10x the number of planes? He was not talking about a 15% reduction, but an actual fuel consumption of 15% compared to first gen jets, which means a 85% reduction. That's massive, isn't it? I can't find the source any...

Re: First schedulded Icelandair MAX 8 flight KEF-SEA today

What's their legroom like and what kind of service is there on such a long narrowbody flight? I suppose there is IFE? Flight time was 07 hours and 37 minutes... Seat pitch is 31-32 inches in economy (32" in the 757) and 40" in Saga class, where the latter rather can be compared to an aver...

Re: Swiss Aviation Thread - 2021

I would expect that longhaul traffic will be redistributed between the 5 LH group hubs and it remains to be seen what's left for ZRH. I remember reading in an interview with the previous LX CEO that only 5 l/h routes out of ZRH would be viable without feeding by the STAR alliance group. Maybe LX wi...

Re: Is Tesla going into aviation?

Vladex wrote:

What should they do to make it look more cockpit like?

Re: France moves to ban short-haul domestic flights where same journey could be made by train in under 2,5 hours

Frankly, a pretty small step. The problem isn't that France did something. The problem is, that they did something that doesn't help and sell it as a big win. They ban only selling tickets on the shortest P2P sectors which are mostly not sold at all, because everyone sane already takes the train on...

Re: Exclusive- Airbus floating concept for A380 combi

Sorry if I missed it elsewhere in the thread but aren't there many regulatory issues now that makes new combis very unlikely to come to market? Fire suppression, etc? I believe it's not just economics. There are some, but on the other hand, every normal airliner does carry cargo on the lower deck o...

Re: Exclusive- Airbus floating concept for A380 combi

While combis were indeed not really en vogue for the last two decades in regular services, Covid might change that to some extent and open up opportunities that were not feasible before? I would definitively have a look at new opportunities if I'm Airbus, before I say "will never happen, becaus...

Re: Embraer New Turboprop Aircraft News and Discussion Thread

How much of a penalty results from mounting the engines to the top part of the wing, as opposed to the normal location underneath the wing? Is this really a question? To be honest, you asked it initially wrong. Correct would be: How much of a penalty would results from mounting the engines to the n...

Re: Why not wider runways?

It seems like a simple solution to what probably causes a whole lot of pilots a whole lot of stress when it comes to landing aircraft. Ehm, no, never felt stressed about runway widths at all and also never heard another pilot complaining about. In fact, isn't it actually the contrary? Don't steal o...

Re: Embraer New Turboprop Aircraft News and Discussion Thread

How much of a penalty results from mounting the engines to the top part of the wing, as opposed to the normal location underneath the wing? Is this really a question? To be honest, you asked it initially wrong. Correct would be: How much of a penalty would results from mounting the engines to the n...

Re: help list movies about flying, airports, or airplanes

While not actually about flying, airports and airlines as a primary narrative, I would recommend the danish 1972 comedy movie The Olsen Gang's Big Score : a part of the story plays at Copenhagen airport and there are tons of classic airliner to spot - not only DC-9 or 737-200, but also lots of Carav...

Re: Nordic Aviation 2021

Also, will they still operate domestic flights out of RKV, and international flights from KEF? There is no reason to switch the domestic flights over to KEF as these are mostly used for P2P trafic. And if one needs to drive from Reykjavik out to KEF for an hour and be there two hours before departu...

Re: Can the A321XLR make it LHR-HLE direct?

I would assume, that the question of the opening poster refers to a nonstop service? I mean, that's the actual sense of a long range plane: do it in one stretch. Otherwise an A321XLR wouldn't make any sense - if you can't go for the range, you can take every other model. As fellow A.netter sagechan ...

Re: Aircraft you've been aboard but not flown in

As far as my brain has kept track off: At Museums - Concorde (2x actually: Sinsheim & Yeovilton) - Tu-144 - Vickers Viscount - Avro RJX100 - Canadair Challenger - VC-990 Coronado At Airshows/fairs - CH-53G - AW-169 - Aérospatiale AS 332 Super Puma - Aérospatiale SA 319 Alouette III - Bell UH-1 -...

Re: Swiss Aviation Thread - 2021

Very strange - it seems only operating these 2 flights a week and on Saturday is a large gap between arrival and departure in PMI (more than 6hours ground time)... Guess, this is space reserved for the w-pattern flights to Sion SIR, as they did it in 2020. Planing further ahead doesn't seem to make...

Re: Can someone explain all the components of this ORD METAR?

Plain English, no abbreviations in METARS, TAF’S and NOTAMS should be the required standard worldwide I agree with you on the NOTAM part, however for WX, METARs and TAFs work fine. I've never met a fellow professional pilot who was struggling to understand the coding (it's hardly rocket science, an...

Re: Updated: Ju-52 crash from 2018 in Switzerland - Final accident report published

Most likely, the pilots did that, to give their passerngers an impressive sight on the mountains. I would say, you can cancel the term "most likely" and replace it with "for sure". The reason why they flew that low is the Martinsloch (Martin's hole), a roughly 60 by 70 feet size...

Re: A319/A320 Ops from an 1803m Runway?

I do remember back in like 2012/2013 Helvetic Airways flew with their single A319 from Berne BRN to Larnaca LCA (among other destinations) which is 2557km great circle. It was the furthest destination flown with the A319. The runway in Berne has a length of 1730m at a field elevation of 1673ft. And ...

Re: What would a modern heavy bomber look like?

Personally I like the idea of a high winged, four turbofan design, that can replace the B-52 as heavy distant ammo dispenser and the C-5 heavy airlifter on the same basic frame. For stealth attacks I would prefer a smaller, midsized and more agile plane in larger numbers. While I agree in general, ...

Re: Airbus 1993-2023 alternative history

I'm not stopping you! :) Touché :mrgreen: 8-) 1993-1994, A340-200 vs. A330-200 A340-200 skipped and the A330-200 brought forward from 1998 to 1994. The extra cost of the A340-300 compared to the 200 was small and it already had quite a bit of range. Hence the A340-200 did not sell. The A330-300 had...

Re: What would a modern heavy bomber look like?

This is a controversial and somewhat exaggerated opinion: I'm sure too that a new heavy bomber would look like a B-2 or B-21, because the military always wants the best of the best of the best at any cost. But I doubt that this is a good idea. I'd rather say a modern heavy bomber should look like a...

Re: What would a modern heavy bomber look like?

This is a controversial and somewhat exaggerated opinion: I'm sure too that a new heavy bomber would look like a B-2 or B-21, because the military always wants the best of the best of the best at any cost. But I doubt that this is a good idea. I'd rather say a modern heavy bomber should look like a ...

Re: Fish carried by Air Cargo

arcticcruiser wrote:

LucaDiMontanari wrote:

Here is a default image of such a transport, where you can clearly see these white Styrofoam boxes used for transport of frozen stuff being unloaded:

Fresh fish, never frozen.