Does anyone know what is the status of the ETOPS certification on the 787? I know the FAA type rating and cert has basicaly been sent to the printer, but how about the ETOPS? Will Boeing get the ETOPS330 as "out-of-the-box" for ANA (as they wanted)?
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Stitch" class="quote" target="_blank">Stitch</a> (<a href="#35" class="quote">Reply 35</a>):<br/><i>Well, Boeing could improve the noise insulat...
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Jump to postOk gigneil, let me give you a dose of your own medicine here. If you look at leeham as your God, here it is: LEEHAM: •Delta Air Lines deferred the highly anticipated order for the 100-150 seat airplane due to worries about taking on too much debt in the current economic environment. Multiple sources...
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Jump to postCongrats <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> and Boeing. Nice to see more Bowing planes in <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym>'s hands. The B739's will be a nice replacements for the old 752's. Ok, now, if the B739RE would meet expectations, could it possibly replace ...
Jump to postAlthough, I would be also worth noting that somehow the majority of the passengers and crew walked away from all the creashed you mention. As we say in avaiation: "Any landing that you can walk away from is a good landing!"
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Jump to postHello all, I was just looking for tickets to Romania, from the US, and was on Tarom's website. I know that they are a SkyTeam member and have codeshares in place with <acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym> to serve US routes. I had realized that it is impossible to book tickets on their site from ...
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Jump to postOk so I did the math for the P2012 on a 1 hour flight with what we know so far: 30 gals/hr used auto gas at 4.0 $/gal Crew cost, maint, insurance, loan, marketing, airport fees, and profit ($100) included, the cost for the flight is $467. If the plane is full at 9 pax, the cost is $51.89/pax, if 7 p...
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Jump to postOk, so if we need to move to a 19 seater, for about the same price you could get a 30 seater (particularly Saab 340's or EMB-120's). World there be a good argument for them? Maybe not on the routes provided, but serving <acronym title="West Palm Beach - Palm Beach International (PBI / KPBI), USA - F...
Jump to postAgain this whole excercise is academical, there is not serious consideration of an airline. I am trying to figure out if there would be a plane that could make something like this feasable.
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Jump to postOk, to come clean, I was thinking about what airplane could be used for in and out of <acronym title="Orlando - International (McCoy) (MCO / KMCO), USA - Florida">MCO</acronym> as a commuter to airports around Florida, Florida Keys, smaller islands in the Bahamas, etc. It would have to be cheap enou...
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Jump to postI was thinking about commuters. What aircraft would come to mind in the 9-15 pax range that could operate at very low cost on up to 300 miles segment. Speed is not necessarily an issue, piston acceptable as well. I am trying to figure out what would be the absolute lowest operating cost. Thanks,
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Jump to postAll I know when the A380 came to <acronym title="Orlando - International (McCoy) (MCO / KMCO), USA - Florida">MCO</acronym>, we used 10 miles separation and 5 minutes on departure. Again, at that time it was still a test flight and you know, better safe than sorry. It visited <acronym title="Orlando...
Jump to postHello all, Anyone discovered any good/legal spotting places at <acronym title="Orlando - International (McCoy) (MCO / KMCO), USA - Florida">MCO</acronym>? The terminal top parking garage level 11 is not really working for me. Any way to get closer? I tried the Red lot also known as the cellphone lot...
Jump to postA while back the Romanians were approved to buy used F16's? What happened to that?
Jump to postWell my first flight ever was on an old Tarom AN-24, the engine looked like it was on recentrly on fire and black with smoke because of its side exhaust. <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/7/6/3/0723367.jpg" width="640" height="417" border="0"/> It was from Constanta, Roma...
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Jump to postHello all, I have yet to have a bad experience with DL, and I am a frequent flyer. Their seats seem to be more confortable than other airlines I've flown and customer service has been good. Many people I work/travel with complain all the time about DL's bad customer service. Could someone enlighten ...
Jump to postOk, purposely left out one detail. Here it is. for the Orlando market we had a letter of intention signed for Disney Vacations and Disney Cruise Lines where we would have allowed them to provide airfare inclusive packages thru their channels. On the Orlando bound flights we have anticipated that 20-...
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Jump to postHello all, Some time agi we were working on a startup low cost airline but failed to get the funding needed. Our model would have been like I will describe below and I would of like to get some thoughts on would it have worked or not. Basically the idea is simple, we would have used a fleet of Dash ...
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