Yes many US airports have shared gates. Especially smaller ones. A quirk I've noticed is how British airports have those arrival lounge waiting areas and they don't announce the gate until relatively last minute. Generally everywhere else I've been, in Europe and the US, does share the gate informa...
Jump to postThe bird at A29 has some remains of a jetway sticking to its L1 door as well. Some funny cut and paste activity at google from someone who is betting with a colleague how long it will take for a-net to find out this anomaly... :-) Look at the wings as well - clearly some copy and paste plus swap of ...
Jump to postfeels like yesterday when they retired the last passenger DC-10...
Jump to postzuckie13 wrote:kjeld0d wrote:zuckie13 wrote:Leaving the terminal you'd just turn right to shit into that bridge if you wanted to
Pardon???
Dang. Bad typo on my part. Meant "shift". Too late for me to edit my mistake.
Had the pleasure of using one in AMS a long time ago when boarding a 747. Was actually just a looooong jetbridge - nothing else. The section that actually reached over the wing did not have windows, so no unusual views were granted... I guess some of the T5 jetways at LHR today are even longer - wit...
Jump to postGreat to see competition coming - domestic airfares have seen a significant increase post Covid and post the death of AB and U2 cancelling intra-Germany flying... Whether they can manage to stay afloat will be exciting to see - I am a bit surprised about their choice of destinations from MUC - FRA a...
Jump to postGermany's team will travel on Nov 14th on a LH A330 to Muscat/Oman for the final training camp and thereafter to the tournament to Qatar.
News release (in German only)
https://www.lufthansagroup.com/en/newsr ... -fort.html
There is no separation of national and international departing travellers at US terminals (never noticed there is no border/passport control either when leaving the country?) - hence the true "duty free" experience is technically limited. In Europe /elsewhere when departing to a non EU-cou...
Jump to postseat1a wrote:what color will the engines be?
Very nice change - very different indeed, spotter's delight. Curious about the cabin design. Definitely provides ample opportunities for corporate branding which even without "condor" makes it instantly recognizable as condor. I would have preferred they kept the capital C in condor and a ...
Jump to postI see that IndiGo (6E) has a lot of flights going to Istanbul. And some even fly further from Istanbul to another European destination. What happened here? Since when are they using Istanbul as a stop for flights to Europe? Edit: It seems all flights are heading to Poland, Hungary and Romania? What...
Jump to postThe Russians from their perspective have no reason whatsoever to close their airspace - why should they? In case tensions in the Eastern Ukraine turn into a broader war (god forbid!) I would expect partial closures of Russian airspace near the Ukrainian border. Western Governments to impose sanction...
Jump to postI would also expect Charles to only "take over" as soon as QE2 passes away. I have to admit I always felt Charles was a bit strange, not really the winning type of person whose fate was that all his life he would have to wait for mum to die to really reach the top level of his career. Then...
Jump to postThe -400Ds were exclusively used for short missions (the lack of winglets is only one of a few modifications from the -400). I don‘t think FedEx has a dedicated MD-11 fleet solely for the domestic network. Instead the flexibility is more important than weight savings for a few short sectors.
Jump to postquite entertaining to read through this chat - a competition of who can not only bash BER, but Berlin in general the most/best/ugliest... On topic: Used BER on two roundtrips so far - I can agree to some of the criticism on space in the check-in-area (this was my first thought when I participated in...
Jump to postBack in the day, with pistons, crosswinds were more limiting. We can land up to a forty knot crosswind. That's quite a bit of wind before you need a different runway direction. Having only parallel runways simplifies things significantly, which is why almost all large airports built in recent decad...
Jump to postnot a bad idea to request input from those who have to deal with the issue on a day to day basis (aka the airlines) and then see what additional measures would be needed/helpful. This is not a US-only issue, not a too-wide-a$§ in a too-narrow-seat issue, not a too-much-booze-in thin-air issue... I h...
Jump to postInteresting thoughts....however the two industries in the renewables space you use for comparison had at that time (and still do have) multiple manufacturers. Some went belly up or were taken over by others - others had the ability to adapt, not only increase productivity but also foster R&D lea...
Jump to postGuess dropping Orient helped their expansion in Europe. I remember flying with my family to the US in 1984 on N601US - NW‘s very first 747 - and my mom asked my dad why an airline from the Middle East would fly from Europe to the U.S.
Jump to postT54A wrote:Is that a MEL or CDL dispatch?
Fantastic tribute!!! Flew upper deck FRA-SIN and back on OJT and OJC a long time ago - great memories.
Jump to postReduction in commercial flights due to COVID-19 leading to less accurate weather forecasts: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200717101026.htm That is quite remarkable - not the fact that there is less accurate forecasts available- no, I was not aware about actual weather data taken inf...
Jump to postNot sure about HND - the dedicated fleet of domestic workhorses (aka the SR and 400D-Version) was only a fraction of the total number of 747s in use by ANA and JAL. And hardly any other 747 operator had access to HND. In terms of passenger airline variety LHR, FRA and JFK would likely be on the top ...
Jump to postNot sure about HND - the dedicated fleet of domestic workhorses (aka the SR and 400D-Version) was only a fraction of the total number of 747s in use by ANA and JAL. And hardly any other 747 operator had access to HND. In terms of passenger airline variety LHR, FRA and JFK would likely be on the top ...
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