DakotaFlyer wrote:The $240 million facility with have 4 gates and is scheduled to open in 2019.
http://www.wdaz.com/news/north-dakota/4 ... on-airport
Often Airbus and Boeing will make a lower gross weight, and a higher gross weight version of the same aircraft, and both versions will have the same structure. In this case, does the lighter gross weight aircraft get any maintenance "credit" (like longer intervals between maintenance check...
Jump to postjumbojet wrote:I've seen a thousand cross wind landings but none as hair raising as that. That was pretty darn close to a complete wipe out
Quoting CXH (Reply 63):In the EASA document, it refers to "Pratt & Witney Canada Corp." Only the PW1100G based engines will primarily be built in the USA. There are provisions, dependent upon much improved sales, to assemble PW1500G in Connecticut just as the LEAP has multiple assembl...
Jump to postDon't be so quick to beat up UA! They are damned if they do, and damned if they don't. In America now, Islam is more protected than the basic rights of American citizens. So pick your poison. Well, that's not right. Avoiding sexism = winning Doing sexism = losing Seems pretty clear. There was a win...
Jump to postHow do the few piston airliners flying still pass regulations? Are they grandfathered in, or did someone test them?
Adding some data, a C-130, a DHC-8-300, and a Saab 340 are all stage III aircraft.
http://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/medi ... C36-1G.pdf
the ultimate question is what year will the 747-8 be fully phased out of operation? Quite honestly any answer is as good as the next because no one has a clue. At this point in the 747-8's life It's the equivalent of starting a thread with the question of "What will the weather be like in New ...
Jump to postHow would old propeller airlines (DC-3, Constellation, Electra, etc. ) do with today's noise regulations? Could they be stage III, or even stage IV?
(Yes, I know they are missing a bunch of other regulations, but I'm curious about noise.)
We switch seats for many reasons. Parents want to sit with kids, or keep kids together. I given up an aisle seat to a man who couldn't get one but had a serious bladder issue and said he would have to go to the lav multiple times. I've been between two people who wanted to talk to each other, so I ...
Jump to postThis stretch sounds like a tail dragging fuel guzzler to me. Thrust bumps increase fuel burn and efficiency drops correspondingly, as well as hiking maintenance budgets. Can your provide a source for the premise that thrust bumps decrease SFC? I'm not saying you're wrong .. I'm hoping to learn ... ...
Jump to postThis: Yes, we are to be tolerant of others and do our best to accommodate. But, we should not have to tolerate the intolerance of others. It has to be a meeting in the middle, or at least acknowledgement by the party imposing their beliefs on others when there is no plausible middle ground, that th...
Jump to postThe financial grip on Boeing is strong because three product offerings in a row have failed financially and undermined confidence - 748, 787 and 777X. ... For now, no-one will have the balls to sign-off a major new project. They are too busy trying to work out how to financially save the 787 and 77...
Jump to postA thrust boost would help the 737-9MAX of the ground. A thrust boost on a 737-9 would increase the rudder/tail requirements for the engine out scenario. Stretching the tail away from the center of gravity makes helps meet this requirement, but without a stretch one would have to wonder if the curre...
Jump to postObama is on the ground in Israel for a total of six hours. He is scheduled to land back in Bangor, Maine, for refueling at 6:50 p.m., and at Andrews at 9:15 p.m. Stopping in Bangor doesn't save much distance, but if you have to stop, I guess it doesn't matter. From GCMap: Tel Aviv to Bangor: 5308nm...
Jump to postDo they really publicize exactly when AF1 will be on the ground somewhere? As opposed to a general timeframe like the President is expected to arrive in Tel Aviv on Thursday or he is flying into Chicago Monday morning. Often he will be met by hundreds of reporters, and a head of state, and lots of ...
Jump to postGSPSPOT wrote:Not sure, but I'd bet it can. If not, I believe it is set up for air-to-air refuelling.
--Obama is on the ground in Israel for a total of six hours. He is scheduled to land back in Bangor, Maine, for refueling at 6:50 p.m., and at Andrews at 9:15 p.m.
(Sorry for the newbie question; I know airplanes not airlines) Suppose an airline wants to start once-a-day service to a new city. They don't want to hire a bunch of people to sit around when the flight is not there, they don't want to rent/buy a gate and use it only for one flight, and they don't ...
Jump to postCould you specify which country, perhaps? Gates in particular tend to be in a different situation in the USA to most of the rest of the world. Outside the USA, gates are mostly common-user, and there are also remote stands with buses to the terminal, so the airport is almost always able to find som...
Jump to postNote the bit in vv701's post about new entrants. It is very much in the interest of the airport operator and the UK government to encourage additional airlines to come to LHR. This often creates non-stop service to cities, or entire countries, where there was none before. It's unlikely that startup...
Jump to postHeathrow Airport Holdings Ltd (HAHL) is not owned by the British government so clearly they could not sell LHR slots. ... However everything that HAHL charges the airlines requires the approval of the British government's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). ... and lots more interesting details It seem...
Jump to postThis is needed for the future of Air Berlin. By getting rid of flights in Europe as well as increasing long haul with turn the airline around. This is also a good move because while Air Berlin may compete with Lufthansa, it's better than letting EasyJet and Ryanair expand in Germany. And I thought ...
Jump to post(Sorry for the newbie question; I know airplanes not airlines) Suppose an airline wants to start once-a-day service to a new city. They don't want to hire a bunch of people to sit around when the flight is not there, they don't want to rent/buy a gate and use it only for one flight, and they don't w...
Jump to postVCEflyboy wrote:That's why they get away with this race to the bottom and keeping the ME3 out of the door, or even allow US airlines to operate flights to third countries.
So we can deduce that 374 weekly slots, equivalent to 187 weekly slot pairs or approaching an average of 27 daily slot pairs have been awarded free of charge by the slot coordinator to operators. Note here that 50 per cent of such slot pairs must be first offered to new comers to LHR. First, awesom...
Jump to postThe 747-8 is clearly the best large freighter on the market Why is the 747-8 a better large freighter than the 777F? It cannot be the nose door. And what about the A330F. The 777F has 158 orders in total, with 34 outstanding. There were 13 ordered since 2013, and 52 delivered. The 747-8F has 74 ord...
Jump to postAlmost 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...
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