Re: Conservativism and a new Marxism

I have mentioned this before. After WWII one of our veteran uncles worked in baggage, rising to a decent management level with a major airline. Now those jobs are all mostly contract and all the workers are immigrants. Framers and sheet rockers are unskilled compared to the carpenters of the 1950s,...

Re: Why no AS trans pacific.

Good evening all, A thought had arrived. I’m sure this may have been discussed at length, however with Alaska’s large west coast presents, why haven’t they introduced trans pacific routes (ie Japan, Korea, etc...) Are they purely a domestic airline or too big a reach to compete with DL and UA? Alas...

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - Q2 2022

https://i.imgur.com/24Q0Rct.png What happened to US and Germany last week? Also, Chinese lockdown isn't stopping the Omicron. Although doubling time is longer than most other countries. https://i.imgur.com/lnQramq.png US looks fine this morning. It must have been a data glitch. Europe has a growing...

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - Q2 2022

What happened to US and Germany last week?

Also, Chinese lockdown isn't stopping the Omicron. Although doubling time is longer than most other countries.

Re: Conservativism and a new Marxism

It is easy to dismiss all this as so much verbiage. For all his corporation-bashing during the 2016 election campaign, Donald Trump ended up cutting taxes on the wealthy and lightening regulations on business, not least by starving the federal government of employees. And for all its populist rheto...

Re: Why is Hungary still in NATO and the European Union

I say kick them out of NATO and the European Union. If that is their attitude, then their future belongs with Serbia, Belarus, and Russia. The defense of Hungary is not worth the blood of one single NATO soldier. Serbia have maintained distance from Belarus and Russia although they also have differ...

Re: Trump's Truth Social App Taking A Spectacular Nosedive

1 million installation, for a political fraction gathering this much attention in a country of 300 million, not to mention potential overseas installation count, is just too small in number.

Re: COVID-19 - Vaccine News and Discussion Thread

It seems like, even after most people being vaccinated, the troublesome nature of Hong Kong's vaccine passport system still pushed most people to outdoor markets and roadside shops, against in door markets or malls

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - Q1 2022

As a number of Chinese cities enter lockdown again, scattered report on the internet claim lockdown enforcers are checking refrigerators of homes inside some lockdown area, and would destroy any foods that aren't purchased through official food purchase and delivery apps, as they claim such other f...

Re: Jamaica becoming a Republic?

The rise of the BLM movement in the USA, especially as to history of slavery in the Americas, has spread to other countries and they want to dissolve their colonial ties. Many in those still colonial entities like Jamaica are becoming more aware of how the Royalty and the historical very rich of th...

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - Q1 2022

As a number of Chinese cities enter lockdown again, scattered report on the internet claim lockdown enforcers are checking refrigerators of homes inside some lockdown area, and would destroy any foods that aren't purchased through official food purchase and delivery apps, as they claim such other fo...

Re: Jamaica becoming a Republic?

The rise of the BLM movement in the USA, especially as to history of slavery in the Americas, has spread to other countries and they want to dissolve their colonial ties. Many in those still colonial entities like Jamaica are becoming more aware of how the Royalty and the historical very rich of th...

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - Q1 2022

France and UK are seeing upticks in hospitalizations (just starting up in France, from a high baseline). https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/current-covid-patients-hospital?tab=chart In fact, despite the population difference, those two countries have more people in the hospital than the USA. Note: ...

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - Q1 2022

https://www.zaobao.com.sg/news/china/story20220326-1256113 Chinese media published article that said it is "100% confirmed" that Moderna made the novel coronavirus, because an amino acid patented by Moderna in year 2016 for cancer pill, contain a 19-nucleotide fragment that also appears in...

Re: China Eastern 737-800 crashes in Guangxi, southern China

Also, how could a piece of winglet end up hitting the stabilizer unless the aircraft flew through a tornado? Indeed, like I said, they'd have to be incredibly unlucky. (Not forgetting of course they were already incredibly unlucky) I think that bit we can safely discount. Point being, losing a bit ...

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - Q1 2022

From real time stream of government press release, the government claim they will stop banning flights based on region with too many inbound visitors found to be infected with coronavirus, but they will continue to ban flights of specific airlines from specific destination if any single plane is fou...

Re: China Eastern 737-800 crashes in Guangxi, southern China

Has the FDR been found? The first 'black box' was apparently the CVR, whose memory chip was reportedly damaged (per AvHerald) and cannot be read yet. No, the FDR has not been found. There were some erroneous reports yesterday, but the FDR has not been found as of now. Yeah, that was disappointing t...

Direct bus service from HKG to Mainland China cities will be available in 2023

The buses will be able to bypass Hong Kong immigration control, much like the ferries now. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Q7SIG3-CAf3apeSYyjeQow According to the Chinese ferry company they hired to operate the buses, the service will start available from 2023Q2 https://www.wenweipo.com/a/202203/21/AP623...

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - Q1 2022

https://hk.news.yahoo.com/%E7%89%B9%E9%A6%96-%E6%AA%A2%E8%A6%96%E5%A6%82%E4%BD%95%E7%90%86%E9%A0%86%E7%86%94%E6%96%B7%E6%A9%9F%E5%88%B6-%E4%B8%8D%E5%AD%98%E5%9C%A8%E5%B0%8D%E8%88%AA%E7%A9%BA%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B8%E5%A4%A7%E8%AE%93%E6%AD%A5-040054096.html Hong Kong government claim import case quota and...

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - Q1 2022

Last figures out of NZ is that in the space of 6 weeks the Omricon outbreak here has progressed from very predominantly Ba1 to now very predominantly Ba2. This means that daily infection rates, and hospitilisations are much higher then modelled only two months ago. The daily case numbers in Aucklan...

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - Q1 2022

https://hk.news.yahoo.com/%E7%89%B9%E9%A6%96-%E6%AA%A2%E8%A6%96%E5%A6%82%E4%BD%95%E7%90%86%E9%A0%86%E7%86%94%E6%96%B7%E6%A9%9F%E5%88%B6-%E4%B8%8D%E5%AD%98%E5%9C%A8%E5%B0%8D%E8%88%AA%E7%A9%BA%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B8%E5%A4%A7%E8%AE%93%E6%AD%A5-040054096.html Hong Kong government claim import case quota and ...

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - Q1 2022

I've been watching the cases in Europe go up and lookie here, the hospitalizations are either slowing the decline or going up again: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/current-covid-patients-hospital?country=GBR~ISR~FRA~ITA~ESP~BEL~NLD Actually, the hospitalizations in the UK are going up scary fas...

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - Q1 2022

https://www.hk01.com/%E7%A4%BE%E6%9C%83%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E/749074/%E6%9E%97%E9%84%AD%E9%A0%90%E5%91%8A%E5%B0%87%E9%87%8D%E5%95%9F%E5%BC%B7%E5%88%B6%E6%AA%A2%E6%B8%AC%E5%85%AC%E5%91%8A-%E8%A6%81%E6%B1%82%E5%85%B7%E9%A2%A8%E9%9A%AA%E5%B8%82%E6%B0%91%E5%88%B0%E6%AA%A2%E6%B8%AC%E4%B8%AD%E5%BF%83%E6%8E%A1...

Re: China Eastern 737-800 crashes in Guangxi, southern China

https://hk.news.yahoo.com/%E6%9D%B1%E8%88%AA%E5%BB%A3%E8%A5%BF%E5%A2%9C%E6%A9%9F%E7%8F%BE%E5%A0%B4-%E5%B0%8B%E5%9B%9E%E5%AE%A2%E6%A9%9F%E6%AE%98%E9%AA%B8%E6%83%9F%E6%9C%AA%E8%A6%8B%E5%A4%B1%E8%B9%A4%E8%80%85-030525026.html It is reported that the plane did not carry any foreign passengers, but MU sa...

Re: China Eastern 737-800 crashes in Guangxi, southern China

Could it be a pilot suicide? Yes. Need to keep bias in check most flights in mainland China are not two crew. It is very common for Chinese mainland airlines even on domestic flights that they operate them with 3-4 cockpit crew. This is part of their pilot development program they have to observe f...

Re: China Eastern 737-800 crashes in Guangxi, southern China

I don’t think there’s been official confirmation that any fleets have been grounded. The airline grounded their own 737 fleet, they announced that yesterday. If you look at FR none of them are airborne and it’s the morning busy period. Would you mind sharing a link? I don’t doubt it, but I’m intere...

Re: China Eastern 737-800 crashes in Guangxi, southern China

Users on Chinese Social Media saying one pax missed the flight by a few minutes. New lease on life So final passenger count should be 123 and 9 crew member a total of 132 souls on board.. RIP. Yes one PAX was not allowed to fly due to not having the Covid pass! There seems to be at least a dozen of...

Re: China Eastern 737-800 crashes in Guangxi, southern China

Users on Chinese Social Media saying one pax missed the flight by a few minutes. New lease on life So final passenger count should be 123 and 9 crew member a total of 132 souls on board.. RIP. Yes one PAX was not allowed to fly due to not having the Covid pass! There seems to be at least a dozen of...

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - Q1 2022

https://preview.redd.it/7nwnrmahoco81.jpg?width=541&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7eb73d948a108a3ab50c9f4e5063e00ef6fd637c Capture of an online comment from a Chinese user on the internet, which I found worth considering when it come to the context of possible reopening of China. The current o...

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - Q1 2022

https://www.hk01.com/%E7%A4%BE%E6%9C%83%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E/749386/%E4%B8%80%E6%96%87%E7%9C%8B%E6%B8%85-%E6%9E%97%E9%84%AD%E5%85%AC%E5%B8%83%E5%BE%A9%E5%B8%B8%E8%B7%AF%E7%B7%9A-4-1%E8%A7%A3%E9%99%A49%E5%9C%8B%E7%A6%81%E9%A3%9B%E4%BB%A4-4-21%E6%99%9A%E5%B8%82%E5%8F%AF%E5%A0%82%E9%A3%9F Hong Kong govern...

Re: 2021 Airport Passenger Totals

Japan https://www.city.kobe.lg.jp/a11380/kurashi/access/airport/riyouzisseki.html Kobe UKB 1,595,474 (monthly tally added together) https://www.pref.aomori.lg.jp/soshiki/kendo/airport/files/schd_R03.pdf Aomori AOJ 434,394 https://www.okhotsk.pref.hokkaido.lg.jp/fs/5/0/1/1/7/4/9/_/12%E6%9C%88%E7%AE%A...

Re: 2021 Airport Passenger Totals

Taiwan https://www.caa.gov.tw/Article.aspx?a=1088&lang=1 Taipei Taoyuan TPE 909,012 Taipei Songshan TSA 1,701,698 Kaohsiung KHH 836,594 Taichung RMQ 581,767 https://www.kma.gov.tw/BulletinBoard/StatPassenger.aspx?1=1&MenuID=423 Kinmen KNH 1,102,050 https://www.mkport.gov.tw/Bulletin/TradingS...

Re: 2021 Airport Passenger Totals