According to Google, "When you fly private, you can expect no security lines, no baggage check-in, and no waiting for hours in the terminal. You can also expect comfort, privacy, and flying on your own schedule. Flying private means having your flight and travel catered to your needs, whether y...
Jump to postPS - I've got more than 20 years experience in business in a lot of industries including travel management and digital marketing and what I do know involves a lot of commerial and behavioural analysis with a consumer focus. I'm not using this forum to predict the future but I love to put ideas out ...
Jump to postWith strikes in the Icelandic oil and hotel industry looming this week, Play’s stock has lowered a further 4% this morning to an all time low of 12,1. https://keldan.is/Markadir/Hlutabref/PLAY It has continued plummeting since and is now at another all time low of 11.3, having gone down a further 3...
Jump to postSomething they've mentioned/claim in their presentations the last two quarters is that as much as people have been finding their fares or can book O&D to Iceland itself, they aren't booking from accommodations being sold out, so their O&D ratio isn't as high as they've hoped. They do acknow...
Jump to postAbout two weeks ago I got a phone call in the afternoon, telling me to head directly to the town of Darlington in northern England. Being in Reykjavík that was a bit of a problem, so I decided to head straight for the Flybus terminal whilst travel arrangers booked me a flight, thinking they'd send m...
Jump to postThe long-term benefits of careful investigation and fostering an open environment where ATC and crews feel they won't lose their careers for making a simple mistake are proven. The behavior of the AA crew after the incident points to more than a simple mistake. I'm afraid we will never find out wha...
Jump to postTC957 wrote:I would have thought QF would look at PER - FRA before any CDG flight.
Doubt AF would send their own metal. Would be a QF flight with perhaps some AF code-sharing at the other end? I'd have thought AF marketing Perth as an alternative Indian Ocean holiday destination would help the route. 8,900 nm according to great circle mapper. Wonder what kind of payload restricti...
Jump to post7news report of the first Bonza flight. Appears that they might be waiting for SWZ to open before they serve Sydney. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-oqlplcl6k So if they start flying SWZ/AVV/MKY can we say they’re players on the copper triangle? Jokes aside, I know they boast about how their busi...
Jump to postSorry Nicoeddf, but this was a serious event that bears significant scrutiny. Had the DL aircraft that departed before the incident aircraft not been a widebody, and thus had a longer interval before the incident aircraft could depart, this could have been an actual metal-bending event. I disagree ...
Jump to postI also wonder if the American Crew really didn't appreciate what had just happened. Otherwise, I have no idea how you could consider yourself fit for Duty. My brain would want to spend way too much time thinking about every aspect of what just occurred. And how could American's legal department or ...
Jump to postNope. Pete Buttigeg, the US Transport Secretary has already told WN that he expects the airline will compensate passengers for their lost tickets and compensation for accommodation, lost luggage etc. Obviously WN lobbyists don't have the Chairman's Lounge membership card to play which QF has to use...
Jump to postBottom line - "The Ethiopian government investigation placed the blame for the crash on Boeing. The NTSB’s critique concluded the pilots failed to follow Boeing recommendations and should be partly held responsible for the probable cause of the crash. Had they followed procedure, the NTSB conc...
Jump to postSorry Nancy, what exactly do you expect the South Africans to do? If the flight plan is filed to DXB what do you want? Enough with the conspiracy theories... And you know for a fact that the flight plan was filed to Dubai or who knows where else? Like it is an every day occurrence that 4 A340 leave...
Jump to postThat’s my point—you have to transit Russian airspace on polar routes, so no Russia, no polar flights to Asia. Done them many times, also Siberian flights. Erm, no, no you don't. Back to the topic. My guess is staff radiation exposure (no really). Natural radiation at the poles is 4x times greater t...
Jump to postThis isn’t, or shouldn’t be, news. The tropics can have nasty, unexpected turbulence. Wear your seatbelt. Not hard. Vexing post, as this is one of the worst turbulence situations in commercial aviation in some time. Given that turbulence of even two or three injuries normally makes the news, I am c...
Jump to postOh, boy. You expect to land in Helsinki, Sofia and and in Athens as well every day of the year, no matter which weather they might have. The last 20 years of having snow eventually was not enough for England to get used to it and understand that it will happen again and again and again. Airports un...
Jump to postThey should do more practical things like appointing more immigration officers or at least, keeping the automatic passport control for EU nationals operational, instead of these pointless name changes. I flew through it yesterday and it was complete chaos with many people missing flights. That chao...
Jump to postI think it is unlikely the C919 will be certified in Europe. My feeling is that certification will be used as a barrier to defend European jobs. That's no reflection on the C919, which might be a fantastic aircraft, but this is politics.
Jump to postHello again. So, this turned our to be a fairly eventful trip. I’d travelled down from Keflavik to Gatwick without anything of note, although I did capture this nice photo and have a giggle at this “seat art”…. Still, I’ve written lots of trip reports between Keflavik and London so didn’t feel much ...
Jump to postI am going to assume the air pressure was too much to get the cockpit escape hatch open since the forward part of the plane was under water? That doesn’t make any sense. Escape hatches swing inwards; the water pressure would be greater than any residual air pressure. Should swing right open. Unless...
Jump to postHello again, I thought it would be a good idea to write up my recent trip from Heathrow to JFK with American Airlines. Oddly, I had never actually flown American before, in fact the last time one of my family did, they were invited to the onboard Piano Bar. Needless to say I was not expecting the sa...
Jump to postMy husband and I arrived in London on September 20, the day after the procession to Windsor. What a surreal time to visit! Insert shameless plug for my own trip report... Great pictures, btw - I'd love to know how you post pictures directly. I can only do links and a.net photo thumbnails. Thank you...
Jump to postFROTH. Senseless gibberish. They don't *NEED* 321s, 787s, and A330s. You people love to get carried away. It will be 737s MAX 8/9/10. Serves their need PEFECTLY. If they need to carry more people, they can add a second daily. End of story. That’s not true. At several airports they are slot constrai...
Jump to postI worked for company with a large office sort of between the loop and Gary. The execs would fly private through Gary and to honest I always figured it could be Chicago's Teterboro.
Jump to postThe Port Authority of NY/NJ could build the most beautiful stations ever conceived at each airport, but the problem is the OTHER stations on the NYC subway system. They were built anywhere from 90 to 114 years ago and most do not have elevators to get you to street level (actually I don't think any...
Jump to postExcellent report! Out of curiosity, which airliners can you visit inside, apart from the A300? I'd love to visit the Caravelle and the ATR. Hi, thank you, sorry for the slow reply. You can go inside the Test Concorde, A300 and A380. There are "mock flights" on the Air France Concorde each...
Jump to postI’m not so sure this is the case. Trademark (unlike other IP rights) requires use or it goes away. Like, you can have a patent, and decide to never build the patented thing, but still charge others for infringing it. With trademark though, if you’re not using it, in the United States, for commercia...
Jump to postFlying on visuals towards Fairoaks, then decided to divert to Farnborough and climbed over Cobham from a minimum of 900 ft.
Jump to postHello all, I recently visited Toulouse which gave me a chance for some avgeekery. Here is the return leg of my journey featuring Part 1: Aeroscopia Museum Part 2: Ryanair 737-800 Toulouse to London Part 3: Play A321 Neo London to Keflavik Part 1 Museum Aeroscopia is a museum dedicated to Toulouse’s ...
Jump to postI wonder how much of additional US flying (at the expense of elsewhere, such as to Asia) is actually in the interests of VS and its customer base, versus the interests of 49% owner DL and their customer base. :duck: One city surprising VA has never flown to and should is Singapore, maybe because of...
Jump to postVirgin Group is suing Alaska Air Group for approximately US$160 million in a London court over a trademark deal, telling a judge that it is entitled to royalties even if the Virgin brand at issue is no longer in use. Per court filings, the Virgin Group was due to receive a minimum of $8 million in ...
Jump to postThe doors in question at MEL are literally the exact kind of doors you are describing. Another reason as to why I think this was not an accident. The ones I'm talking about have a mechanism which means you can't get back in, because if you pass wrong way through the landside door, the airside door ...
Jump to postI've commissioned and been involved in cost effectiveness studies for airports on interventions involving design, passenger flow and accessibility. One thing that has always surprised me is that when we did studies that interviewed people after experiences and we got an idea why people misinterpret...
Jump to postIf this is the case, I will happily eat my words. Again, I have seen people do crazy stuff at the airport because they think it will save them a minute, or a dollar, or be more convenient for them. I'm just speaking from experience working in this environment. I've commissioned and been involved in...
Jump to postLufthansa never really built much of an operation in Berlin. They purchased Pan Am's Internal German Services which connected TXL with the major former West German cities, but never added very many other routes. Now only Frankfurt and Munich are left, with places like Stuttgart and Dusseldorf served...
Jump to postThough using wet lease aircraft for IASC international decisions are generally 'not' permitted unless the carrier has requested for it prior as part of their application (e.g the now defunct Air Australia initially applied for a temporary wetlease before they acquired dry-leased aircraft - which ac...
Jump to postACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance) might be an option, it's a part of VA's business model for routes that a 737 doesn't fit after all (look at all the Fokkers flying around). I'm not too sure that the wet leased aircraft has to be re-registered in Australia, CASA didn't require it for...
Jump to postACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance) might be an option, it's a part of VA's business model for routes that a 737 doesn't fit after all (look at all the Fokkers flying around). I'm not too sure that the wet leased aircraft has to be re-registered in Australia, CASA didn't require it for ...
Jump to postNice report and great interior shot of the bizjets. What airport where you? You just mentioned a hangar on a London airport...... cheers Thanks. The hangar is at STN. Nice pictures and report. EW looks pretty good for an LCC Thank you. I think most people would struggle to out pick much difference ...
Jump to postBerlin's economy is all smoke and mirrors. It was fuelled by a speculative real estate boom, start-ups and IT companies that now are lay-offing people or closing down and city-break/AirBNB tourism. Now all that is falling like a house of cards. I don’t know enough about Brandenberg to comment on th...
Jump to postThe key reason budget carriers are pulling out is airport charges. The passenger fee for a domestic flight from Heathrow (lets say with a A321NEO) is capped per flight at £800 per flight. At Brandenburg the equivalent is about 1600 Euros per flight. Of course there are a lot of other charges, but th...
Jump to postBA has a little snippet on their website.. given her popularity, do you think some sort of special livery or sticker might go on a plane? Nah. Most businesses trading in the UK have something similar on their websites, it has been planned that way for many years. Here are just a few: https://www.sa...
Jump to postIn my experience the 170 is a nasty plane to travel on, very unstable indeed. I actually quite like the 190s and have found them to be fairly smooth.
The 737-700 had a bad reputation with cabin crew for being rough down the back.
Hello everyone, I had an interesting invitation to visit some Executive Jets under maintenance in London, alongside Instagram’s CaptainChris. As I was in Berlin at the time, at short notice, there were no affordable fares. However, Eurowings had an offer at just over 100 Euros if I changed in Dussel...
Jump to postIt’s a marvellous time to watch airlines blame airports, airports blaming airlines, and everyone blaming ground handlers. The truth of the matter is, that this entirely of the airlines’ own making. They’re the one’s who’ve insisted on ever lowering ground handling costs, by tendering the services f...
Jump to postWhat's awful about it? The IFE would be a little dated in Y, but the J offering is pretty much the same? I'd arguably say it's a little better with the roomier Y. This was exactly my thought as well. I prefer Y on the A332's at 8 abreast vs the tight 9 abreast on the B789's. I do wish there was a Y...
Jump to postThere have been other customers complaining about the 'peeling paint' issue. Messages show Finnair (FIA1S.HE), which operates in the colder north, raised paint concerns as early as 2016, and reported in October 2019 that damage had spread below to the anti-lightning mesh. Cathay Pacific (0293.HK), ...
Jump to postHave Australians fallen out of love with Qantas? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-24/qantas-crisis-delay-cancel-aviation-fuel-covid-impact/101262422?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web For me this statement is the key one: Tony...
Jump to postWhilst accurate, that's also true of every other industry, including those where former aviation workers have gone. I think it runs deeper. If you've to choose between a job at an airport with irregular working hours or deliver food or packages and have regular working hours, what would you do? Don...
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