Almost as bad as the "gold standard" example of the woman who sued McDonalds for 2 million -and won- back in the 90's for the coffee being too hot (she spilled it on herself). This is why lawyers get a bad name. Not really accurate. She was awarded $2.86 million, it was reduced down to $6...
Jump to postThis whole problem goes away with better laws and better contracts. The governments caused this, not airlines. I do disagree with the assessment this was caused by the government only. WARA was a result of the "Five Party Agreement" and was written the way it was based upon that agreement...
Jump to postIn this case, the suburban airport, DFW, has one of the largest surface areas in the world. The best market solution is to have all commercial air travel located there. Multiple airports around a single metro area should only exist in the cases where it is impossible to bring the air travel infrast...
Jump to postYou know well competition in a limited urban airport is tricky - be DAL, DCA or LGA. There is no way to "remove all restrictions" and let airlines play the market out. You cannot make gates where there is not physical room. Beyond that .. 1) Lease the gates to the highest bidder. 2) Let t...
Jump to postEvery time I read about a 737 replacement, I'm reminded of an interview of a Boeing exec published in Aviation Week a few years ago. He basically said that absent any significant change in materials and weight (e.g. composites) or engines (such as the GTF), there aren't any game changers left to be...
Jump to postIf it wasn't for the 1500 hour requirement, pilot pay would continue to be crap because regionals would continue to pry on young and eager freshly minted commercial pilots willing to work for nothing just to fly a shiny jet! ... There is no easy solution to this problem, but I can assure you that g...
Jump to postThe question being is a pilot safer at 1500 hrs vs 250 hrs, the answer is unequivocally yes. My web searching does not find any such statistics. Can you find any? Alternatively, can you find an airline accident that would have been prevented but for the presence of the copilot with fewer than 1,500...
Jump to postThere are two main reasons to prefer a larger aircraft over a smaller one. 1) You are slot limited 2) The larger aircraft gives you a lower cost per seat (CASM). KLM is not really slot limited, and an A380 has no cost advantage over an A350 or a 777X. Almost every airline looks at the same two facto...
Jump to postWhat many of you are missing is that the 1500 hrs is not about learning to pull back or push forward during a stall recovery. The 1500 hrs is all about exposure to different real life scenarios and fostering proper decision making. You can poo-poo the ones who "waste" their time instructi...
Jump to postThey need to just allow a 250 or 500 hour minimum for copilots in EAS markets on aircraft of under 20 seats and oila the problem is fixed. It's only a matter of when then has to happen. Actually, pilots on these small aircraft have some of the hardest flying jobs. More takeoffs and landings per hou...
Jump to postThey need to just allow a 250 or 500 hour minimum for copilots in EAS markets on aircraft of under 20 seats and oila the problem is fixed. It's only a matter of when then has to happen. Actually, pilots on these small aircraft have some of the hardest flying jobs. More takeoffs and landings per hou...
Jump to postNonstop flights to Rome, Auckland and Johannesburg are on Dallas/Fort Worth Airport’s wish list. To convince airlines to launch flights from these cities, the airport is revamping an incentive program it uses to attract carriers. Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/busin ... rylink=cp...
Jump to postI think the best path forward for SAA is to follow to the LAN model and regionalize itself into a pan-African carrier. Hook up with local investors in other African countries and open up franchises around Africa. There is no reason why their can't be an SAA-Senegal or an SAA-Ghana to feed their IAD...
Jump to postFinally divesting Mango from Comair must take place, so Mango stands as a low-cost on its own right and provides completion in the domestic market to keep the fares at bay. Then a full merger of Comair into SA should happen with Comair ending its franchise agreement with British Airways. Your post ...
Jump to postI don't know much about SAA but it seems it would be important for the country to have a viable national carrier. I understand why they need air service, but why do they need a flag carrier? Speaking of international travel (and that's almost all the $$$), if SAA ended tomorrow the other internatio...
Jump to postSurely SAA is prime investment opportunity for IAG. With BA flying 2-3 daily LHR-JNB and 2 Daily LHR-CPT and with BA's Franchise partner ComAir I think it would really work. The SAA problem has been zero direction. When airlines have been parking A340's for 777 and 787 SAA just solider on. With man...
Jump to postThere are small turbine engines (business jet and turboshaft for turboprops or helicopters). Since one core easily powers both types, most engine families compete for both. I've always wondered about this. It seems that in the small engine world the same family covers a wide range of power. For exa...
Jump to postI personally would expect to see Honda and Silvercrest expand the ranges of business jet engines offered. If I was a business jet maker, I'd be reluctant to give business to Honda. I'd think of them as a competitor. I know GE owns a part, but the Honda part would make me avoid the engine if reasona...
Jump to postAs for market rates that SWAPA is looking for it is narrow body aircraft, not rates for the MAX itself. However there are more issues than pay that have to be resolved before a new contract is agreed to, these other issues include work rules and retirement. "The proposed contract would give a ...
Jump to postHaving a subset of aircraft was one issue the other was flying aircraft that aren't listed in the contract. Currently only the 737-300, 737-500, 737-700, and the 737-800 are the only aircraft listed in the pilot's contract. In response, WN is retiring the 737 classics prior to MAX EIS. This way, th...
Jump to postIf there is a cliffhanger with the Max program , it involves the launch customer Southwest. Will the WN pilots approve a new contract to cover the new birds coming on property by next summer? That's completely up to WN Management. If they agree to a market rate contract within the next few months t...
Jump to post14. Business jet travel will have eliminated first class at all but a handful of airlines. Oh wait.... Seriously, the Global 7K (and other future Bombardier jets), Falcon 9X (not-yet announced) and 5X, Gulfstream's 3rd "P42" airframe (smalled, G450 replacement) and G650 upgrade (or replac...
Jump to postThe emergence of another "up and coming" U.S. carrier with a strong regional presence and a national reach to major markets from wherever it may be based ... a la Alaska, jetBlue, etc, something along those lines Jeez. When was the last successful up-and-coming airline that succeeded? Vir...
Jump to postThis will be fun. 15 years from now we will see: Alliance carriers will create global airlines named for their brands (Skyteam Airlines, Oneworld Air, etc). That's an interesting idea. Alliances have been around a while and no one has tried that yet. It would be very tough for an airline to give up...
Jump to postFlew them for 4 years (in Europe though). Fun plane for pilots if you know what you are getting into. In good conditions you can throw it around if necessary, the speed is sufficient in the terminal areas to not bother the jets too much, and it's really nice to fly. In rough conditions you have to ...
Jump to postI suggest you educate yourself on the requirements of halal food before making such statements. It's not just killing the animals 'in another way', but in a more cruel way (unsedated). Eek. Why do you think they kill animals "sedated"? I don't think that's standard industry practice anywh...
Jump to postI think such religious exemptions should not be allowed. A private company should have every right to fire an individual who does not perform the essential functions of the job, but that has changed in recent years due to Christian extremism taking hold in this country that the courts have upheld. ...
Jump to postDETROIT — A Muslim flight attendant has sued ExpressJet, accusing the airline of wrongly suspending her because she refused to serve alcohol to passengers. The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Michigan chapter announced Tuesday it filed the lawsuit last week on behalf of Charee Stanley, a Det...
Jump to posta380787 wrote:Driving at least 1:40 - 2:00 to DUB isn't exactly a realistic option for anyone.
KLM didn't have to be saved in 2004. Earlier on it concluded it lacked a neccesary home market and scale. It decided negotiating from a position of strenght was better then from a future weaker position. AF seemed the best partner after BA was considered. Why was BA considered not the best partner?...
Jump to postThe PW1000 is also considerably heavier. That means that over short distances the KC-390 can haul a correspondingly heavier load with V2500 engines. A 31,500 lb thrust V2500 weighs 2,484 kg (wikpedia) and a pair burns about 3,000 kg of fuel per hour at cruise speed and altitude (internet). The inte...
Jump to postPrice is likely an important factor. The V2500 is likely considerable cheaper than the PW1000. Military planes typically don't fly every day all day long as airliners do. Therefore it takes much longer time to make fuel savings match the higher engine price, and maybe it never happens so. If we ima...
Jump to postThe KC-390 is a military plane. For a military plane reliability is more important than state of the art = latest technology, hence a different engine selection compared to C Series. That seems very unlikely. Boeing and Airbus and Bombardier would *not* tolerate an unreliable engine. Neither would ...
Jump to postIf you think the current agreement is a total scam to keep out competition then you need to put the blame where it actually belongs, and that is with American Airlines, the City if Fort Worth and DFW. Those 3 parties in the 5 party agreement were the ones to insist on a rediculous 20 gate cap. Hone...
Jump to postSooner787 wrote:The most logical solution is for VX to sell their 2 gates to DL when they're absorbed
by AS. I don't think AS has any interest in those 2 gates. Only question is how much
will AS want from DL for thes gates?
The KC-390, which began design studies in 2006, chose V2500 engines. The CS-100/CS-300, which had design studies start in 2004, chose the P&W Geared Turbo Fan. My question is, why would anyone chose the V2500 as their sole engine choice? Bombardier had enough data to chose the better engine. Why...
Jump to postAbsolutely love this post. Best post of the week to me! Thanks but just to be certain that there aren't any attribution errors... All the work from that spreadsheet is Ferpe's. ;) Doing math and using data from the chart above, an A330-200 has an L/D of 18.55 and a 787-8 is at 20.61 That's an 8.7% ...
Jump to postMost of the gains for the 787 lay in engine SFC. ( visible in the A330 NEO being competitive with the 787 if kitted out with the same engine generation.) This seems contradicted by the data in reply #20. From that chart the math seems to show an A330-200 has an L/D of 18.55 and a 787-8 is at 20.61 ...
Jump to postI'm willing to be educated, but I don't think a 10% higher L/D is within the realm of reasonable. For example, does the 787 have a 10% L/D than the A330? It would not surprise me however if one could not have significant weight savings (thank you new materials) over an older generation aircraft. I ...
Jump to postI'm willing to be educated, but I don't think a 10% higher L/D is within the realm of reasonable. For example, does the 787 have a 10% L/D than the A330? It would not surprise me however if one could not have significant weight savings (thank you new materials) over an older generation aircraft. Th...
Jump to postAll of this depends on the kind of efficiency delta a MoM could bring, and at what sales price. A quick stab: If the MoM had the following relative to A321LR: -10% lower SFC -10% higher L/D -equal weight/seat ...then its fuel consumption on a 4,000nm route could be ~25% lower per seat (about what L...
Jump to postBoeing's retort: "Frankly, when we talk about the middle of the market, it's an airplane that the A321 doesn't serve today or in the future, or that our 737 Max doesn't. It's a unique opportunity and I can tell you that, just based on the response we've seen from our customers," says Tins...
Jump to post[...]If the MoM has only the range of an A230/737, then it would need much better CASM to justify it's cost. And I don't think anyone knows how to build a plane with very significant cost advantage over the A320/737. You are absolutely right. But lowering the CASM can't be the primary aim of develo...
Jump to postI began wondering if any of you who have flown the 788 can confirm (or deny) whether or not the design of the wings dampen the effect of turbulence like Boeing claims, or whether the plane feels like any other widebody jet flying through rough weather? That makes no sense. Suppose you fly in plane ...
Jump to postI think these projects would be much too ambitious, resultung in overweight aircraft that would be inefficient on the vast majority of real world routes. Regardless if they would have one or two aisles. In my oppinion the economical range of an ordinary MoM plane should not exceed 1500nm, and it sh...
Jump to postStill, several posters here are looking at this wrong. A widened oval fuselage of a given height is not worse at resisting bending than a round fuselage of the same height as long as you maintain the shape to prevent buckling and delamination. It actually has a slightly higher moment of inertia for...
Jump to postI'm curious about the difference between manufacturer stated ranges and real world schedule-able ranges. For example, JFK-LHR is 5,555 km. But there are imperfect ATC routings, maneuvering around the airport approaches, and expected headwinds. What sort of manufacturer range would one need to reliab...
Jump to postAs has been modelled and shown many times before on this board - by going oval you can get a 2x3x2 Fuselage with A320 Container's in the belly by going oval with only about 3% more surface area than a A320. There is a lot of wasted are in the top and bottom of even a 320 Fuselage. Cool number to kn...
Jump to postThe 777 Refresh Should definitely been 11W at the same seat width as the 787. Then the new Middle Market Cross Section Ovalized 7W 2x3x2 with the same seat width. Then they would have nice 7W/9W and 11W cross sections to use to build future models. I would think changing the fuselage width is VERY ...
Jump to postI'm aware of the 80 meter box, but I'm also aware that most airport gates cannot handle an A380. How much of a problem operationally is it to operate very large aircraft like the A380 and the upcoming 777-9X? Are most of the airports one would want to fly to ready for such a large aircraft, or are t...
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