<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/jonathanxxxx" class="quote" target="_blank">jonathanxxxx</a> (<a href="#78" class="quote">Reply 78</a>):<br/><i>People from Tampa going to Europ...
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Jump to postThis is the best thread I have ever seen on A-net. Rhapsody in blue. Was written by George Gershwin. He was commissioned to write a symphony and he had procrastinated to great lengths. In the end he hopped on a Train in New England for NYC with nothing in hand. Being typical procrastinator he wrote ...
Jump to postTPA also had <acronym title="Martinair (Netherlands)">MP</acronym>, obviously <acronym title="Amsterdam - Schiphol (AMS / EHAM), Netherlands">AMS</acronym> is not a major hub being only three times the size of <acronym title="Tampa - International (TPA / KTPA), USA - Florida">TPA</acronym> and havin...
Jump to postI am deeply saddened by this news.
As a hockey and sports fans I have always feared this happening.
Crashes are tragic at best, and so so sad.
My thoughts go out to the families of those onboard.
Question: what are the expected delivery times for first and last bags for B757, MD80, B737. Also: B767, A320, A330 etc. I realize airport layout is critical. Is first bag in 35 minutes, last bag 50 minutes reasonable for a B757 when the ramp agents are literally two minutes walk from the inbound ba...
Jump to postIf you ask 500 professional pilots they likely would 95% agree. Reason why, the Boeing planes beg to be flown. They are a real mans airplane. The Bus as good as they are are not Airplanes for the crews, they are video programming games that need to be programmed and not flown. The customer probably ...
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Jump to posthey has anyone made a skype call on a flight and if so please let us know
a) how well did it work
b) if the other pax were amused/ irritided etc..
The NOTAM is quite clear. I am amazed by the number of blogs. Rules are rules, and it is ANET to enforce them. Nothing personal but I think pilots should have some extra time to discuss how to manage an airline because there isnt enough time to discuss management when cruzin. Only kidding. Could you...
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Jump to postI was wondering how large aircraft economic performance is revealed and the results of different birds testing versus what is expected by engineering. The <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-11 was an aircraft that did not live up to specifications. When was this discovered and when did sal...
Jump to postDutch press reporting that the acft did 4 attempts at landing. yes 4 missed landings due to very poor visibility problems. ATC had ordered the acft to divert, but the President told the pilot to keep on trying. Dutch press is saying the Polish rules where the President can overrule the Pilot will no...
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Jump to postThis is a question i addressed recently with <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> HDQ and know the corporate response but I would like to see how pilots, flight attendants, ground crew, management and frequent fliers would resolve this. here are the facts: Passenger Status: Skyteam El...
Jump to postI got screwed by <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> once. I had a meeting in <acronym title="Minneapolis / St. Paul - International / Wold-Chamberlain Field (MSP / KMSP), USA - Minnesota">MSP</acronym> and left Fla at 7:00am with a conx in <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackso...
Jump to postSad story. But anyone remember "United Smashes Guitars"? The airlines have problems with both rev and non-rev bags. I had a brand new golf club scuffed up and chips taken out of it, yet all others were not damaged. Lest hit rocks in the bagroom anyone? The non-rev situation is truly unfortunate beca...
Jump to postI just bought a ticket on <acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym> with segments on <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym>. I grabbed my <acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym> seats on Airfrance.us and my Delta seats on Delta.com and had no problem doing it that way. It is a bit conva...
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Jump to postLets see here. We have an airline executive who will obviously say bah-hummbug to whatever is a barrier to his airline. What he misses is the issue that what he thinks is irrelevent, its what the person who buys tickets thinks. He could spend money an a rebuttal film.. Why not after all he probably ...
Jump to postSX reported a $16M loss during the third quarter on a load factor of 79%. Yield was reported at a "apalling" 5.08 cents versus a 12.5 cents on <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym>. The loss does not mention any start-up write offs but is their operational loss. Michael Boyd said <a...
Jump to postSeveral of the airlines planning people I have spoken with recently in the USA have mentioned that Q1-2008 advance bookings are very soft, alarmingly soft. If the trend remains so, what is the long and short term impact? Will <acronym title="Aeroejecutivo SA de CV (Mexico)">SX</acronym> fold, or wil...
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Jump to postJeez, anyone can land an airplane, any airplane. The question is whether anyone can walk away? I am 100% sure that any airplane will land unless water is brought into the question which raises an even more difficult question: How can we do a WATER LANDing, wouldn't that technically be a "watering"?
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