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    United Continental Holdings Inc. issued an updated policy to ensure crew traveling on its aircraft are booked at least 60 minutes prior to departure, according to a United spokeswoman.

     

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-15/united-modifies-policy-for-booking-crew-on-crowded-flights

     

    Laterally last minute crew booking has priority over boarded pax is inviting trouble.

     

    Good move! Every other airlines should follow suit.... but then again... which other airline would force their pax in that manner?

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    Chinese mainland airlines ex hkg promotional fare to Europe and North America could be very cheap. Not a surprise CX profit is depressed.

     

    Most mainland Chinese prefer to fly direct these days as mainland airlines are reaching out for more destinations. Either that they will fly Korean Air or Asiana, or even ANA and JAL.

     

    Many of them are becoming more and more uncomfortable of the unnecessary cocky attitudes of Hong Kongers too, so they are staying away.

     

    Many Hong Kongers are flying Chinese airlines too as the fares are sometimes unbeatable. Return fare to US starts from HKD 3600 including tax even though if it means laying over at Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai for a day or so. Return fare offered by China Eastern or Shanghai Airlines to Japan have been pretty unbeatable too compared to CX's fare.

     

    I, for one, prefers not to fly with CX/ KA unless it is business trips. For personal trips, I always opt for airlines other than CX/KA.

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    Wake turbulence while at holding pattern just outside of HKG/ VHHH, another aircraft was flying too close above.

     

    http://www.airlineratings.com/news/1167/qantas-747-was-struck-by-wake-turbulence-

     

    Aircraft involved in the incident was VH-OEF "Sydney", a GE powered Boeing 747-400ER, in One World livery, which I caught last year too from MEL to HKG as QF29.

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    How could they have the right when passengers already boarded and seated and about to take off then only to be "randomly" selected and removed? And this is sensitive and catchy, right? People might ask again.. what right? with violence?

    Airlines and authorities do have the rights to remove people from flights. You would have agreed to it too on the conditions of carriage too.

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    I've always disliked UA and haven't flown with them for 7 years now because of poor customer service and rude cabin crew (even in International First Class!). It was my experience flying on UA in F between SYD and SFO 7 years ago that helped me to decide never to fly with them again. I wasn't treated badly but I saw how the flight attendants treated some of the other F passengers and it was just unbelievable!

     

    Yep, Delta is definitely better and consist of more interesting fleet types than UA, even if it means they will Deliver Every Luggage To Atlanta (DELTA).

     

    It is funny that in China, people think this is a racist case and now mainland Chinese are boycotting UA... how stupid! Even in HK... the news headlines read "Chinese American was dragged off from the plane by force - why did they pick a Chinese person?". Many in this part of Asia are quick to judge this case to be racial discrimination and are often reminded how racist western countries can be towards Chinese.............

    I've always disliked UA and haven't flown with them for 7 years now because of poor customer service and rude cabin crew (even in International First Class!). It was my experience flying on UA in F between SYD and SFO 7 years ago that helped me to decide never to fly with them again. I wasn't treated badly but I saw how the flight attendants treated some of the other F passengers and it was just unbelievable!

     

    Yep, Delta is definitely better and consist of more interesting fleet types than UA, even if it means they will Deliver Every Luggage To Atlanta (DELTA).

     

    It is funny that in China, people think this is a racist case and now mainland Chinese are boycotting UA... how stupid! Even in HK... the news headlines read "Chinese American was dragged off from the plane by force - why did they pick a Chinese person?". Many in this part of Asia are quick to judge this case to be racial discrimination and are often reminded how racist western countries can be towards Chinese.............

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    I thought they pick people on the fare they paid... for example... heavily discounted economy class fare, rather than randomly select people and bump them off.

     

    I certainly would not be happy to be bumped off the plane if I am paying higher grade Economy class fare if I know there are passengers who paid cheaper fare than I did.

     

    The victim in this case is an East Asian looking person, could have been Chinese, Mongolian, Korean or Japanese. That could easily escalate or be sensationalised to be another case of racial discrimination....


    very violent scene indeed, was there no other alternatives than resorting to violent? i guess we should all thank Trump for this manic behavior which is getting rampant in the US.

     

    I have been to the US just last month... and I don't feel it to be any different from my previous trip years ago. So... it could be media spin-doctoring... or demonising Trump.

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    They learned it hard way; Only 80 A318s were built, with Avianca Group is the biggest operator, 25 A318s (Avianca Brazil-15 and Avianca Colombia-10).

     

     

    Those BA has a handful of them for operating into LCY London City Airport? IIRC... Qatar has some A318 for pure business class config to Europe?

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    I made a quick transit at ICN on both ways during my tecent trip to the US two weeks ago, it seems that Incheon Airport will open a new terminal and a satellite terminal (called Terminal 2) very soon. Construction is almost finished and looked to be ready by end of the year.

     

    Current terminal will be renamed as Terminal 1. ICN already has three active runways. They are building runway 4 to the west and another runway, runway 5, to the east of the cargo terminal will be built and become a dedicated runway for freighters.

     

    http://kojects.com/2012/02/26/incheon-international-airport-to-open-second-terminal-by-2018/

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    Updating:

     

    Malaysia Airlines (MH): F27, F50, B732, B734, B735, B738, B744, B77E, A300B4-200, A332, A333, DC-10-30

    Air Asia (AK) - B733, A320

    Singapore Airlines (SQ): A312, A313, B742, B743, B77E, B77W, B744 (-412, -4H6), B773, A388, A333

    Cathay Pacific Airways (CX): A343, B773, A333, B744 (-412), B77W

    Dragonair (KA): A320, A321, A333

    Korean Air (KE): A333, B743, B744, B77W, A388, B748

    Philippine Airlines (PR): A300B4-200

    Shenzhen Airlines (ZH): B733, B738

    Xiamen Airlines (MF): B737-700, B738

    Shanghai Airlines (FM): B738, B752

    Qantas Airways (QF): B733, B734, B763, B744, B747-438ER, B712, A332

    Qantas New Zealand (QF): BAe146

    Air New Zealand (NZ): B732, B733, B762, B763, A320, ATR72-500

    Ansett New Zealand (AN): BAe146

    Pelita Air, Indonesia (6D): Hercules C-130

    Freedomair, NZ (SJ): B733

    Origin Pacific Airways, NZ (QO): DHC-8

    Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF): B752, Hercules C-130

    Jetstar.com (JQ): A320, A321

    LAN Chile (LA): A343

    Polynesian Blue (DJ): B738

    Pacific Blue (DJ): B738

    China Southern Airlines (CZ): ERJ145

    Japan Airlines (JL): B763

    Emirates Airlines (EK): A345, A388, B77W

    Air Pacific (FJ): B763

    V Australia (VA): B77W

    VirginBlue (DJ): E170

    Virgin Australia: B738

    Tiger Airways Australia (TT): A320-200

    Silk Air (MI): A320-100

    China Eastern (MU): B733, A300B4-600R

    Royal Brunei (BI): B77E, A319

    Thai Airways (TG): B772, B744, A388, B77W, A346, A333

    Hainan Airlines (HU): A346, B788

    Vietnam Airlines (VN): A321

    Air France (AF): B77W

    Garuda Indonesia (GA): B77W

    KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL): B77E

    Air China: B744, A321

    Hong Kong Airlines: A320

     

     

     

     

    Types:

     

    Airbus:

    A300B4-203, A300-600R, A310-200, A310-300,A319-100, A320-100, A320-200, A321-200, A330-200, A330-300, A340-300, A340-500, A340-600, A380-800

     

    ATR:

    ATR-72-500

     

    British Aerospace:

    BAe-146

     

    Boeing:

    B717-200, B737-200, B737-300, B737-400, B737-500, B737-700, B737-800, B747-200, B747-300, B747-400, B747-400ER, B747-8i, B757-200, B767-200, B767-300, B777-200, B777-200ER, B777-300, B777-300ER, B787-8

     

    DeHavilland Canada:

    DHC-8-300

     

    Embraer:

    ERJ-145, ERJ-170

     

    Fokker:

    F-27 Friendship, F-50

     

    Lockheed:

    C-130 Hercules

     

    McDonnell Douglas:

    DC-10-30

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  23. Posted · Edited by S V Choong · Report reply

    I think Sabah-Labuan bridge is more pressing matter than LCCT.

     

    I recently talked with a relative who works at one of the offshore banks in Labuan where only few employees work there.

     

    He was forced to call it sick on Monday because it is difficult to book a spot for his car (he bring along his family to mainland) on the Labuan-Menumbok ferry on weekend.

     

    For late afternoon schedule on Sunday, that would mean he has to drive from KK early morning to reach Menumbok.

     

    That is despite his boss discouraged so many staff to take extra days off at the same time to minimise disruption to the the bank's operation.

     

    A bridge would have eliminate those issues.

     

    The population vs. cost simply do not justify the viability of a bridge.

    Labuan is not Penang, the latter has a pretty important IT industry and substantial population size.

     

    On top of that, Malaysia is not China, where massive infrastructure projects are used to justify GDP....

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    Thanks for the analysis. Wonder what's the length they are looking at for the SDK runway extension. Emirates A380 has even landed in Glasgow with the runway length of 8720ft, but the turning pan at SDK currently is definitely too tight for many bigger aircraft :)

     

    Anyway here are some collections of the widebodies at SDK as mentioned:

     

     

     

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/48208213@N00/32871579050/in/dateposted-public/

     

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/48208213@N00/32871579050/in/dateposted-public/

     

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/48208213@N00/32439979203/in/dateposted-public/

     

     

    cheer

     

     

    I believe the 757-200 landed in SDK is not a surprise. The 757 has a pair of powerful engines which is prefect for short runways. The 757 has indeed landed at the previous TWU airport which I believe the runway was 5500 ft, it was the Boeing 757-200 demonstrator (N757A).

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    Brunei's entourage b762, Mytravel A330-200(with over 400 person onboard) did landed in SDK before and recently a b752 Thomson luxury charter.

     

    Talking about SDK it is a captains sector for 738 and A320 operators due to runway condition(it aint the smoothest leveled runway in borneo) and length. Malindo's B737-900ER and potential A321s would not be able to take off on that runway with 4-5hour(this may include sectors such as SDK-KUL where diversion and holding fuel load is applied as well) worth of flight time payload unless thrust and flaps modification are done which are not cost conservative to some airlines. Same issue with Melaka's white elephant Batu Berendam when China Southern's A320 had a hard time that they wanted to downgage to A319s on some flights to be extra safe. In fact larger aircrafts like A330/B772 would use less runway with the same 4-5hour payload and passengers carried as the 739 and a321 due to significant more powerful and larger engines equipped. Perhaps this runway extension is to accommodate more stretched narrowbody aircrafts from any 4-6 hour sectors instead of what the press reported as for widebody.

     

    The best runway length for b738/a320 to do 6 hour sector would be approx 8000feet+ if it were to be the B737-900ER etc it would need nearly 9800feet based on Maxed take off weight. Not really a good margin on hot day operation. Sandakan runway length is only 7000feet hence a lot of restriction.

     

    Thanks Jahur. Was only joking about the Brunei's entourage.

     

    By the way, fantastic analysis. I would imagine TWU's airport at the current stage is not long enough too. I remembered our 737-800 from KUL took nearly the entire length of the runway to come to a stop (8,809 ft).

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