Or Lufthansa (too many to list)

(Written on 2021/09/03)(Permalink)

+1

(Written on 2021/09/03)(Permalink)

Did the yacht have MCAS installed?

(Written on 2020/11/06)(Permalink)

ABQ has a nice upstairs seating area inside security with a great runway view, and a designated parking area for plane watching off the approach end of Runway 8.

(Written on 2020/09/11)(Permalink)

Sounds like a new episode of Mythbusters.

(Written on 2020/08/28)(Permalink)

Mating season?

(Written on 2020/06/19)(Permalink)

Had to look up "swarf." Thanks for enlarging my vocabulary. (Seriously.)

(Written on 2020/02/21)(Permalink)

Efficiency involves a lot more than fuel burn with hypothetical full loads. Just on fuel: If you've got 448 seats, but only sell half, then your fuel consumption per passenger mile is going to be a lot worse than a fully-loaded 350 passenger version. (And let's not go down the rabbit hole about the weight of a business class seat vs that of an economy one.)

(Written on 2020/01/24)(Permalink)

Off-topic, but I noticed something else in that slide: common type rating for A330, A340 and A350. I hadn't known that. The A330/A340 commonality doesn't surprise me: they launched at the same time and are essentially two- and four-engine variants of the same airframe. But the A350 came much later and was supposedly a clean-sheet design. I ask those of you who know more than I about this - is this a problem waiting to happen, as some claim the "all generations" B737 type rating to be?

(Written on 2019/11/08)(Permalink)

Just enough time to take a 777 out of service for a D check.

(Written on 2019/11/01)(Permalink)