mafaky wrote:Sorry, "radar altimeter" is a very wrong term, it needs to be "radio altimeter"!
Thanks. Finally someone is calling it Radio Altimeter. Even some "experts" at TAI call it Radar Altimeter which makes me want to harakiri.
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mafaky wrote:Sorry, "radar altimeter" is a very wrong term, it needs to be "radio altimeter"!
TK787 wrote:On other news, airporthaber.com reports that Russia joins, Serbia, Armenia, Croatia and Greece to start vaccination tours to Turkey. Russians pay around $650 for a roundtrip ticket from Moscow to Istanbul, 2 night stay at a 3 star hotel and a vaccine. The article suggests that this is an alternative to Sputnik V vaccine they can get at home countries and that vaccine is not recognized for some international travel.
I imagine they get the Pfizer Biontech vaccine once in Istanbul.
mafaky wrote:TK787 wrote:On other news, airporthaber.com reports that Russia joins, Serbia, Armenia, Croatia and Greece to start vaccination tours to Turkey. Russians pay around $650 for a roundtrip ticket from Moscow to Istanbul, 2 night stay at a 3 star hotel and a vaccine. The article suggests that this is an alternative to Sputnik V vaccine they can get at home countries and that vaccine is not recognized for some international travel.
I imagine they get the Pfizer Biontech vaccine once in Istanbul.
Assuming they get shot with the Pfizer-Biontech vac., what about the further (2nd) shot(s)?
This thing has gone totally crazy. It looks like we are not far from the days that someone will declare: "dear World Citizens! You need to get vaccinated once every two-three months and that will be good only for the known variants and/or for the variants that current vaccine may provide immunity!!"
LAXintl wrote:After taking two years off, TK wil be back with a commercial for Super Bowl 2022 scheduled to be played on February 13th,
Any hints to its content TK787?
I don't get it, I've been to JFK, EWR and LGA within the last 4 months. I have 5G service where available in NYC, never checked if that was the case near the airports. The service goes to lower speed LTE where no 5G available. Still pretty fast and no disruptions.
a) The 5 TK owned 332s (which are truly ER) will be used for long and this routes for several more years and then either scrapped or sold over top some "innocent" third party and may later find tehir way to Iran Air.
robcol99 wrote:a) The 5 TK owned 332s (which are truly ER) will be used for a few long and thin routes for several more years and then either scrapped or sold over top some "innocent" third party and may later find their way to Iran Air.
TK needs to pick up Avianca's or Norwegian's new and stored 788 s and replace the A332s. A332 are 15-16 years old now and they can find useful life serving as freighters.
mafaky wrote:robcol99 wrote:a) The 5 TK owned 332s (which are truly ER) will be used for a few long and thin routes for several more years and then either scrapped or sold over top some "innocent" third party and may later find their way to Iran Air.
TK needs to pick up Avianca's or Norwegian's new and stored 788 s and replace the A332s. A332 are 15-16 years old now and they can find useful life serving as freighters.
What makes you think that TK is in need for some more, used (second-hand) 787s, which have a totally different cabin configuration and mostly are 787-8 version, simply to replace these 5 332 frames? Other way round, does TK need to replace those aged and outdated 5 frames, at all?
emre787 wrote:Seems like the 5G topic in the US is getting really serious. For tomorrow, TK changed all of the 777-300ERs to 787-9s (instead of just canceling those flights like EK which of course would be insane). Let's see how this will develop...
ankaraflyjet wrote:wow, this is incredible, AYT above LHR, this is the new world order we should get used to I guess...Let's hope these accomplishments will not be "Pandemic Special" and will continue....
mafaky wrote:As per figures compiled from Anker-Report (Dec 2021 statistics) for 2021 IST has placed as No. 1 in Europe's airports for total (domestic & international) pax traffic.
01. IST 37.176.509
02. SVO 28.024.906
03. AMS 25.492.633
04. SAW 24.968.761 (Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen)
05. MAD 24.135.220
06. DME 23.262.096
07. CDG 22.712.666
08. FRA 22.096.095
09. AYT 22.007.108 (Antalya)
10. LHR 19.394.451
A recent list at Wiki also confirms this but their list exclude SAW & AYT, being that they are geographically located in Asian territory.
LLA001 wrote:Due to snow they have suspended the flights to IST till 6 pm, a lot of airplanes are diverting, some examples flights; from JFK to ADB, from YUK, KBP, TLV to AYT and a lot of ESBs,
However one flight diversion is far from ideal, EK123 with A380 came over to IST and then flew to Cairo for diversion. I guess there are no other terminals in Turkey to receive A380 and thus this long diversion.
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TK787 wrote:Finally one runway operational at IST.
HB-IWC wrote:TK787 wrote:Finally one runway operational at IST.
I wonder whether that is still the case. An Air Algerie flight just turned around and seems to be moving back to ALG.
HB-IWC wrote:It turned around seemingly back to Algiers but then turned around again and is now flying past IST so maybe to ESB indeed. It seems that open runway at IST may be closed again.
TK787 wrote:
Snow operations never fair Once during a snow storm, our TK IST-JFK diverted to BOS, waited 6 hours on tarmac after an 11 hour flight from IST. Out of all the airlines at BOS that night, we were the last ones to get our bags and hotel rooms. The next day BOS shut down and I was stuck in Boston for 2 days at the hotel.
TK787 wrote:Few pictures from IST today. Things are getting back to normal slowly.
https://www.airporthaber.com/havacilik- ... 92021.html
I hope TK and IGA took some notes and prepare better for next time. It is a given that this will happen again, it might happen every year, it might happen next month. They need better weather forecast, they need to cancel flights before people arrive at the airport. They need to be able to house transit pax that will get stuck, get emergency facilities to feed/house pax/personnel days at a time. Basically they need a better contingency plan.
TK787 wrote:An update on the TK crews stranded in Kazakhstan; a TK 77W is bringing them back along with some ACT and Silk Way Airlines personnel. And Ilker Ayci of TK, who got out earlier out of Kazakhstan on a Cargo flight with his wife, is actually gone back to bring the crews, a much needed PR move
TK787 wrote:https://www.cnnturk.com/ekonomi/istanbul-havalimaninda-kis-hazirligi-tamamlandi
This Turkish Language article from CNNTurk is from 2 years ago. "We are ready for winter operations" says IGA Airside Operations Director, having been visited winter facilities at Toronto, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, Stockholm, Tromso ve Frankfurt.
It is not rocket science. It will snow, airport operations will stop. Like I told you earlier, years ago BOS closed, during Xmas few weeks ago SEA closed. I live in New York area, all airports around us close one time or another during snow. People get stranded everywhere, sleep on the floors at airports all over the world. THis happens.
Figure out a way how to deal with it.
IMHO, most important is to have the guts to cancel flights beforehand and to do that you need the best forecast.
MeCe wrote:they have to load to trucks and move snow somewhere else or melt at the point.
MeCe wrote:TK787 wrote:https://www.cnnturk.com/ekonomi/istanbul-havalimaninda-kis-hazirligi-tamamlandi
This Turkish Language article from CNNTurk is from 2 years ago. "We are ready for winter operations" says IGA Airside Operations Director, having been visited winter facilities at Toronto, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, Stockholm, Tromso ve Frankfurt.
It is not rocket science. It will snow, airport operations will stop. Like I told you earlier, years ago BOS closed, during Xmas few weeks ago SEA closed. I live in New York area, all airports around us close one time or another during snow. People get stranded everywhere, sleep on the floors at airports all over the world. THis happens.
Figure out a way how to deal with it.
IMHO, most important is to have the guts to cancel flights beforehand and to do that you need the best forecast.
Yes It is not rocket science. Unfortunately they managed ruin simple snow cleaning job. Their understanding what is snow plowing, push snow somewhere else. It may work for couple cm snow but became disaster snowfall like this. They are so stupid that they plow all snow into in front of parked airplanes and on ground equipment; later had to work so much clear the compacted snow. If the director really paid attention during visits how they clear snow he/she can realize they have to load to trucks and move snow somewhere else or melt at the point.
ricq wrote:Isn't this much snow somewhat unusual in Istanbul? How can you compare it to Anchorage or Stockholm or Moscow or Chicago? Those airports have snow all winter long, year after year. They have lot's of equipment and trained personnel to deal with it. How can you expect IST to invest so much time and money into snow removal when snow is less of a regular occurrence? It would be nice, but I doubt it will happen.
ricq wrote:Isn't this much snow somewhat unusual in Istanbul? How can you compare it to Anchorage or Stockholm or Moscow or Chicago? Those airports have snow all winter long, year after year. They have lot's of equipment and trained personnel to deal with it. How can you expect IST to invest so much time and money into snow removal when snow is less of a regular occurrence? It would be nice, but I doubt it will happen.