Boeing can't compete with A220, A320 and A350 line so the only thing left is to build a double deck quad jet with a ultrafan like engines now that A has exited the market. That would go against B has said and done in the last 20 years but counter intuitive thinking is required when talking about lon...
Jump to postJohn Leahy was prophetic about it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V61iuZV8Iwk
Was someone bragging yesterday here about great safety of aviation?
Jump to postI think they need to raise the output to burn through the order book until A350 NEO and then A330 really has no viable future.
Jump to postBecause of the new engines and the passenger growth.
Jump to postWhy is it necessary to add "Airbus" designation to A220? The A already denotes Airbus
Jump to postYes, being grounded in Bordeaux looking pretty. Of course , no one will steal them I am sure. I am not so sure about HK airlines orders and China Eastern or even future of Cathay now, South African is alwayts shaky as is LATAM. All of this to prove that these orders are as shaky as a snowflake and ...
Jump to postOperators who ordered it wanted something cheap and quick and they got something totally different . As someone says, be really careful what you wish for because you may be wishing contradictory things. It's the operator fault and they should pay the price even if they go under, lots of them do and ...
Jump to postEK cancelled maybe 24? Boeing removed 35 from Emirates order. And of course the EY frames are very secure . . . Yes, being grounded in Bordeaux looking pretty. Of course , no one will steal them I am sure. I am not so sure about HK airlines orders and China Eastern or even future of Cathay now, Sou...
Jump to postEK cancelled maybe 24? Boeing removed 35 from Emirates order. There is only EK and TK that are firm upcoming deliveries for A350 and many shaky orders mostly to lessors. This Qantas order is really badly needed one and it fits very well for both sides. Really? BA, AF, DL, CX, SQ, JL, SU, VS... :sar...
Jump to postA350 order book looks very weak and Airbus must have offered very wide spots. I'd hate to say that it may have been the deciding factor here as A350 is the best aircraft right now. Any you think EK cancelling all those 77Xs doesn’t leave a hole either ? EK cancelled maybe 24? There is only EK and T...
Jump to postWAIT! You just got shown that your entire “three years” premise is completely wrong, and that there is an entire extra year in the schedule, and yet you simply double down, shrug, ignore it, and claim it STILL isn’t enough time. Dude! Seriously, your cognitive dissonance is astounding. It’s sad rea...
Jump to postCan someone tell me why the MAX was a bad idea? I mean to me it makes perfect sense for them to developed it. It was a bad idea because it's totally outdated design , it looks absurd and has misfitting parts like engines. It was just a financial short term decision and a purported cash grab at the ...
Jump to postCan someone tell me why the MAX was a bad idea? I mean to me it makes perfect sense for them to developed it. It was a bad idea because it's totally outdated design , it looks absurd and has misfitting parts like engines. It was just a financial short term decision and a purported cash grab at the ...
Jump to postA380 requires half the pilots of single decks for the same amount of passengers which nullifies much or any other cost. I want to know how that calculation goes. Sure... Fuel delta between (full) 7x 380s and 10x 77Ws on a specific ULR route is that the 380 burns 77.7t more fuel (per direction). Usi...
Jump to postYou can't charge premium with 787 compared to A380 as It has terrible reviews by passengers. It doesn't have ground clearance either for reengining.
Jump to postWhen cars and everything else goes electric, how can aviation compete? in 10 years around half of the cars will be electric and super cheap to drive, why would anyone pay to fly under 500km?
Jump to postasr0dzjq wrote:Vladex wrote:But all of that can be compensated and then some with newer engine provided there is ground clearance.
Please, stop. The A380 is beyond dead already.
as per Tim Clarke , A380 wastes 13 tonnes per hour when full and flying long range DXB-LAX but 12 tonnes when going medium range so there is a penalty for long range. But all of that can be compensated and then some with newer engine provided there is ground clearance. Just stop, because the 737 ha...
Jump to postThere are only a handful of things that could bring Airbus to do a 180 on the 380 and invest in a NEO and all of them are highly unlikely: 1. Somehow in the next six months multiple countries (EU+some others) decide to limit international long haul from and to their country to 1 flight per route pe...
Jump to postIf after accounting for all costs, the 300 seat B77W brings in a 30.000 USD per flight profit and the 500 seat A380 brings in a 30.001 USD per flight profit, which one makes more sense? Heck, let's throw this open. Your 350 seat B77W earns you a 30.000 USD profit per flight. You are alone on this r...
Jump to postas per Tim Clarke , A380 wastes 13 tonnes per hour when full and flying long range DXB-LAX but 12 tonnes when going medium range so there is a penalty for long range. But all of that can be compensated and then some with newer engine provided there is ground clearance.
Jump to postAfter nearly 5,000 MAX currently on order, there will probably still be another 5,000 ordered. Something like 7,000 of the NG were built. Every generation of 737 has been succeeded by a generation that has sold more than double the number of the previous generation. I think you're forgetting the el...
Jump to postWhat works for EK works for no one else. In the end, the amount of money wasted to reinforce runways, taxiways, build special gate access, and service a plane that was built with the intention of eclipsing the 747 (something of a corporate vanity project) that cost billions and will never recoup R&...
Jump to posthttps://www.airlineratings.com/news/emirates-tim-clark-slams-airlines-poor-use-a380/ He is saying that the big state airlines like EU3 have no drive in them to innovate since they have a captive population whereas city states of Dubai and Singapore have to please and attract other people Also he tal...
Jump to postSecond A350 AIR FRANCE (Lyon) - Delivery Flight - AFR371V - F-WZFQ/F-HTYB - AF371V - MSN349 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjweNdYrhHE First A350-900 FIJI AIRWAYS / Check-Flight / AIB02FR / F-WZFR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU3kkpRi6z8 First A350-900 AEROFLOT / Run with Push / F-WZGT / MSN383 ...
Jump to postWith 6000 birds yet to be delivered (and growing) I don't think Airbus needs to do anything (other than incremental improvements) until Boeing plays its card. Even if Boeing brings a new narrow-body it will be 8-10 years before mass production. Depending on what Boeing brings (will be just CFRP win...
Jump to postwilliam wrote:I asked the question 5 months ago and no one answered, whats the fuel burn difference between P&W GTF and CFM?
Why aren't they converting to A321 entirely?
Jump to postWhy doesn't Boeing just ask "What do you want your next airplane to be?" That’s pretty much how the MAX happened. Boeing wanted to start a clean sheet design but the A32Xneo family caused 737 customers to force their hand. It wasn't the customers who caused Boeing to design the MCAS syste...
Jump to postCongratulations QF on a successful research flight. I think "research" is a bit of a misnomer as the flight is of similar length to the existing EWR-SIN. I'm considering this a PR exercise as the main test should have been on economy passengers, since SQ "research" with premium ...
Jump to postEtihad is accepting and paying for 787 but refuses A350? Those Boeing corporate men must be armed and dangerous or something .
Jump to postInteresting. This gives 777x five or more years without competition from an UltraFan than many people on this board think it will have. You are, as always reading what you want to read https://www.cleansky.eu/the-uhbr-engine-flight-testing-programme-gathers-momentum The first wind tunnel tests will...
Jump to postBy similar reasoning, "we want to get it ready for the back end of the next decade" then means it will not be on an in-service airliner by "the back end of the next decade"... Yet I doubt few are now reading it that way. That can probably mean exactly that. If there is no applic...
Jump to postHaving 10 passengers on a 787 seems like a waste for example https://youtu.be/lugCnaTc-bs?t=614 For example, if there are multi flights a day, why not consolidate into another flight? Yes I know there are logistics and aircraft have little use if not flying but why not have flexibility to cancel and...
Jump to postTwins will likely be the future for some time. But, they have gotten about as big as they can. Maybe even too big which an argument could be made of the max. They will learn to produce more power and efficiency without getting bigger. Just as the automobile has. Everything I read says that more sub...
Jump to postTwins are the future and the quad engines are dead.
Jump to postCould they have done A330-1000? I mean new engines favour the longer fuselage.
Jump to postAccording to FR24 the recorded data from this "flight" starts at 13:31 UTC and goes until 15:00 UTC. If we account that the total fuel consumption from engine start to engine shutdow was 6,2 tons and that the engines were running for arround 1h30 the average fuel burn per hour is ~ 4,14 t...
Jump to postLike Rolls Royce when there was the near disaster with QF32. They never said a word. SOP. Completely off topica nd will probably be removed. But hey anything to support the beloved. Event was on 4th November. 'Rolls Royce reported on Nov 8th that they are making progress in understanding what cause...
Jump to postAccording to the capetan, Air France A350-900 delivery flight with about 250 people on board burns 6.2 tonnes for one hour . https://youtu.be/DqmViXCyVKA?t=433 And as he said, 6.2 tons is the fuel consumption of the full one hour flight, including take off, climb and cruise. According to FR24 the r...
Jump to postAccording to the capetan, Air France A350-900 delivery flight with about 250 people on board burns 6.2 tonnes for one hour .
https://youtu.be/DqmViXCyVKA?t=433
No future. Both the 748 and a380 are dead. There's no need for a quad anymore. Maybe and maybe not. I believe that twins are maxed out, pun intended and have inherent limitations so saying that twins are the only future seems like a trap which leaves only quads as a way of getting better efficiency...
Jump to postNo future. Both the 748 and a380 are dead. There's no need for a quad anymore. Maybe and maybe not. I believe that twins are maxed out, pun intended and have inherent limitations so saying that twins are the only future seems like a trap which leaves only quads as a way of getting better efficiency...
Jump to postI know you have a holy war on Airbus going here and on your vlog so I am not here to convince you just as an insight to others . .... War against Airbus?? This is the kind of sentence that I hate most. I just pointing out that there was no market for VLA. Is that a "war against Airbus"? T...
Jump to postThere never was any market. The people who did those studies were wrong, perhaps on purpose. People change data to fit desired outcomes, see "man caused global warming," or, "peak oil, or, "housing crisis," or, Trump Russia collusion," to name just a few. There was no ...
Jump to postWhere has the Very Large Aircraft category gone? Hehehe. Really? It died with the 748 and the A380. Why did those aircraft disappear? Perhaps because there has never been any market. Because of the lack of modern engines and over order and production of narrow bodies. There is a huge market for it ...
Jump to postThey answer that questions themselves here: http://youtu.be/4qtDgCjdYGU He says things that he heard somewhere but that doesn't apply or that applies in the opposite. What he is saying is CX policy. Obviously, given that it is released by CX's PR department, his statements have been reviewed by his...
Jump to postWhy not just wait for reengine in 2025 which should be substantial?
Jump to postThey answer that questions themselves here: http://youtu.be/4qtDgCjdYGU He says things that he heard somewhere but that doesn't apply or that applies in the opposite. Is Cathay really a legacy? If it is , it's still a city state which carry advantages and limitations. It's stupid to talk about freq...
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