The EK standard: B77W economy class: 10-abreast "the best economy class in the world by large margins". B77W Premium economy: 9-abreast "business class standard at economy prices. Champagne after boarding, caviar as starter, personal Eastern European hostess at your service to fulfill...
Jump to postEY have attempted to gain access to markets by taking over local airlines. However, this strategy has backfired. Italy has happily sold AZ to EY and Germany is happy with EY taking care of AB. AZ was a basket case before and even under the new Alitalia under CAI management and the merger with Air On...
Jump to postI do not understand why countries actually negotiate open skies with the UAE, as a matter of fact. No one gains but EK. One would expect that the consumer gains: more competition, more flight options usually is beneficial to the consumer. Do you really think that some marginal customer savings are ...
Jump to postMy 2 cents: JAL for 50 A321 NEO and 25 A330 Regional (NEO?).
Perhaps launching the A350-2000?
I don't think Abu Dhabi has such big problems. Of course the low oil price will be felt there, too, but overall they should survive. They bailed out Dubai in the financial crises 2009, which is lacking the mineral resources Abu Dhabi (oil) and Qatar (gas) have. But what everyone knew, but no one co...
Jump to postSome of the theories being thrown around here are funny. If EK is one huge scam by the government of the UAE, then why announce such disappointing results in the first place? I would have expected another year of record profits and high load factors to be reported... And how exactly does a broke go...
Jump to post... So EK is one huge conspiracy, involving many of the worlds largest auditors, banks, finance houses and oil companies, set up to fly huge numbers of loss making aircraft all over the world, with the sole purpose of "laundering" the UAEs oil wealth? Why on earth would they go to all tha...
Jump to post2. Let's see proof that EK has never seen equity injections beyond a first equity investment. Don't show me a balance sheet though, that's pointless. Nice try but, as Karel has already pointed out, it was you who claimed that equity injections have been made, so the onus is on you to prove it.. The...
Jump to postThe U.S. is quite a big market for EK, as being left out of it would give them a significant RPK hit. No, the US is less than 7% of EKs business and, given the geographic locations of Dubai and the USA, it will always be a relatively minor part of their business. People here say that EK is getting ...
Jump to postEK is at a tipping point. They have more capacity induction planned than they can absorb. It's like a sponge that can't take no additional water. The first trigger could come within a few months, when Trump puts limitations on further EK growth in the U.S. and perhaps even forces them out partially....
Jump to postEasyjet's strategy is flawed since a long time. They come into main markets, try to steal market share the easy way, trying to take business clientele on the profitable routes of established airlines, but then spread themselves too thin and offer too few frequencies. They could have done much better...
Jump to postThe subsidies are drying out. The decreasing profit PR is in my opinion just an introductory statement to a long line of route cuts to come. Without subsidies, they can't grow, and the only way to make this look good is to issue deteriorating financials, before starting to announce the cuts. Unfort...
Jump to postThe subsidies are drying out. The decreasing profit PR is in my opinion just an introductory statement to a long line of route cuts to come. Without subsidies, they can't grow, and the only way to make this look good is to issue deteriorating financials, before starting to announce the cuts. Unfortu...
Jump to postIt's amazing how every week brings a new Norwegian thread on airliners.net For boasting to be a LCC, they're not even cheap and don't even have a business model or any profits to show for all the soundbytes that they are making. What I wonder is who is pouring all this capital into this money pit an...
Jump to postWill they be 220-seat aircraft? Given the radome, I have the feeling the cabin will be more premium oriented. The radome looks huge, doesn't it? It looks huge because we are used to see it on widebody jets. What you guys are referring to is the SATCOM antenna (cover). I've never heard them being ca...
Jump to postPricing where ? i have a flight from MAD TO DXB EK was the most expensive it's so easy just to throw accusations around without doing an actual search on my other flight from PAR to HKG EK wasn't the cheapest option I've been trying so hard to fly with EY but they are always the most expensive opti...
Jump to postI think that there is a disconnect between what people know about the ME3 and the reality. 1. EK, EY and Flydubai are owned by one and the same family. The only conceivable reason that they are operating as separate entities is to gain more slot access than they would have as a single airline. They ...
Jump to postA recent article in the New York Times highlights how Saudia Arabia is starting to feel the pinch from continued low oil prices, using the example of the dairy farm of Almarai. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/world ... .html?_r=0 For those who don't know about Almarai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
Jump to postThank you so much, very appreciated.
Jump to postIn what world is ANA a 5-star and JAL 4-Star? JAL is the best of the best, better than the ME3 combined. Skytrax wouldn't publish my bad experience with Qatar. They said "that can't be true". TK is Europe's best airline according to Skytrax. Except when it comes to landing on the actual ru...
Jump to postJAL has changed their seats on the B788's already once in Y. They offer the Sky Wider II seats on most routes now, so the Seatguru data seems wrong (unless that's a different domestic configuration). Everything is published on their website, just look for the Sky Suite SS8/SS9 signs. On the B777's, ...
Jump to postI would appreciate if you could share the following aircraft data:
MD82
MD83
MD90
B717
B733
B734
B753 (if there is any data at all?)
B764 (if there is any data at all?)
SSJ100
EMB120
Fokker 50
CL415, by any chance?
Thank you.
Yes, yes and QR is a "5 star airline" according to "industry standard" Skytrax. See,their marketing machine keeps turning even on airliners.net. Fix all the issues that I pointed out in the last page, otherwise it's all mambo jambo to me, as is AAB's pretentious quality standard ...
Jump to postYou may fall for that marketing ploy spread by the airlines and seat manufacturers. If you ask me it's bias. While the visuals may be great, the product in itself is not "exceptional". In fact, seatguru and such shows the seat width at 22 inches but I doubt that that is correct. It looks m...
Jump to postOnly few Asian airlines airlines need the capabilities of the LR. From HKG, you're way into the outback with the LR's range. The LR's mission is to serve thin long mid haul routes pushing over 6000km. That's not the profile of routes in Asia. Most Asian routes are dense and in the 2000-4000km range....
Jump to postThis is my input on QR's order announcement yesterday: (...) 1. Once Meridiana stabilizes under the new QR commercial ownership, transfer at least 10 B789s to them to operate on key high volume Italy-trans atlantic and Italy-SE Asia routes. In this way, the airline will have a nicely streamlined st...
Jump to postFor good measure, a picture confirming the narrow C seats, most of private space being wasted on places to leave your phone and tablet, and lack of privacy. If that is exceptional in any way, you must be working for QR. Exceptionally poor, yes. http://www.kennysia.com/images/2013/Qatar-Airways-Boein...
Jump to postWhat is exceptional about their C-class in your opinion? The lack of privacy on the aisle side or your behind neighbor's legs banging into the separation wall? The seats are rather narrow because most of your private square footage is taken up by places to keep your smartphone that you can't use any...
Jump to postMore dreadful B789's coming online. They may be making QR some good money but I really wonder how long it will take until people stop flying them. Okay, you fly it once in Y just to have a try, but do you keep flying them? Never again for me, no thanks. Not only is it tight, the pith is ridiculous a...
Jump to postQR better get their act together. They are a long haul LCC promoting themselves as a premium carrier. Their 9-across B787 is ridiculously claustrophobic and their B787 C class doesn't seem like much either. No wonder that people would onlly fly them on rock bottom fares. As for Meridiana, they won't...
Jump to postI think of the A321NEO LR as a small small niche of probably maximum 200 aircraft over 10 years. If Boeing were to build a strong clean-sheet competitor for it and split the market 50/50, it's 100 aircraft each. It won't be worth the paper it will be designed on. For the short haul 200 seat market, ...
Jump to postIf everyone is going to speculate based on rumors, I'll add my fair share. First of all, I think that bringing the avionics bay forward was the right decision. Advantages: -weight savings because of less/thicker wiring running up and down the length of the aircraft -mass and balance: ground stabilit...
Jump to postThis is an airliners.net myth. 1. The A320 NEO is still outselling the A321 NEO 3 to 1. 2. With less than 50 A321 NEO LR on order, there is no evidence to suggest that the reason that Boeing is losing market share is the lack of performance at the top end. 3. I think that Boeing is losing out in th...
Jump to postThis is an airliners.net myth. The A320 NEO is still outselling the A321 NEO 3 to 1. With less than 50 A321 NEO LR on order, there is no evidence to suggest that the reason that Boeing is losing market share is the lack of performance at the top end. I think that Boeing is losing out in the NEO vs. ...
Jump to postI think that the cheapest and best option for the MOM is for Boeing to relaunch the B757 with new engines. Even if the tooling is destroyed, the blueprints and type certificates are there. How much does tooling really cost? The airframe was pretty light, the wing is quite good. All it needs is EFIS ...
Jump to postOh the Chinese are involved now. Then sorry, but it will never ever happen. I think that it was in 2011 China and Russia finalised a deal to jointly design and build a MI-26 replacement, an even heavier helicopter. It's 5 years later now and in June 2016 they finalised a contract to build a thinned ...
Jump to postRCair1, does it mean that you are happy that things continue the way they are? Aerial firefighting is a very useful tool if applied correctly and at the right scale. However, fires get out of control year after year and cause environmental catastrophe at a huge scale. The reason? Because cost consid...
Jump to postThe DC-10 tanker is pretty useless by itself on big fires like the ones raging in California now. It's comparable to trying to extinguish or even control a fire engulfing the entire Empire State building using a single fire extinguisher. The way they are doing it now, they might as well not do it a...
Jump to postThe DC-10 tanker is pretty useless by itself on big fires like the ones raging in California now. It's comparable to trying to extinguish or even control a fire engulfing the entire Empire State building using a single fire extinguisher. The way they are doing it now, they might as well not do it at...
Jump to postRegarding the TOGA switch inhibit logic contributing to the accident, it's possible. However, if confirmed, this would be a pilot error case as it's the flight crew's responsibility to have sufficient knowledge of the aircraft they operate and to monitor all automated functions, correct it if necess...
Jump to postaviationaware wrote: So after your tirade about how awful they and their country's government are you tell us that you flew with them on eight sectors because you a cheap ticket. This is just like Ryanair or Spirit, everyone says they would never fly on them for a thousand and one reasons, but secr...
Jump to postTK is now the best airline in Europe 6 years consecutively. With new IST airport in 2018, TK will reach a new position with an unbeatable home infrastructure. Ah the famous Skytrax awards. It's a paper award, it doesn't mean anything because TK offers a very poor product at every level. It's just a...
Jump to postThe first time ATR floated the stretch idea was about 10 years ago. Nothing happened in that timeframe. I don't see a business case for a heavier ATR with bigger wings, higher landing gear (where to stow them efficiently?), more powerful engines and strengthened fuselage. Not only will it lose a lot...
Jump to postFor a company that forecasted 600 orders this year, below expected deliveries, it's not a good show.
97% of orders were for narrowbodies too.
Not a single blue chip order.
Is this it for this year's show? I'm very disappointed in Airbus. A320 NEO: A few orders here and there, but the next big show is far away. The backlog is big enough for now, so not much to worry about. However, a huge backlog is not a good thing when the program is not running as smoothly as expect...
Jump to postIt's one thing to go from 50 to 150 aircraft in a few years, it's a different matter to go from 150 to 450. They are not going to operate 450 aircraft, pretty sure those 100 A321neo's will replace some 100 A320ceo's. Their CEO's are pretty young aircraft. The oldest is 11 years old and the median a...
Jump to postI'm very skeptical about the Air Asia growth. They are growing at a fast pace, starting up joint-ventures all over Asia which are either not doing well or already cancelled, ie Air Asia India or Air Asia Japan. Their own operation is barely profitable considering the size of their fleet and profits ...
Jump to postA B777-10X would really make any new A380 orders improbable, given lower CASM and ownership costs. If Boeing launch it, it's probable that we would see a shift from ME3 B777-9 orders to B777-10X and perhaps also a shift on the part of EK from the A380's. The A380 was an expensive but effective marke...
Jump to postI think that the show will be quite disappointing on the Airbus front. We'll see the firming of previous orders but who is really looking to order with affordable oil prices, a huge inventory of used aircraft, the looming Brexit, as well as a banking and liquidity crisis centered around Europe? Less...
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