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

    Opeing up SZB thread for 2019.

     

     

    One has to wonder, how Weststar acquired jets belonging to big US corporations like Trump and Google? This 767 (2-TSSA), belonged to Google at one time

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    The Chinese carriers are probably out of fresh livery ideas. Lucky Air for example, has the British Airways livery in red and yellow. This China Eastern Airlines Executive Air (B-6186, A318 ACJ), tops it all by adopting USAF gov. jet livery.

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    Copycat culture is pretty much alive and kicking in China. The new Lucky Air livery appears to be Boeing factory dreamliner livery at the front combined with British Airways logo at the tail. It seems their design is just about copying and adopting others' idea. Cathay Pacific's old livery too - it is so BOAC at the cheatline level.

     

    By the way, I wonder how much it would cost to hire a Weststar 727? :)

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    Long live the Queen of the Skies - the Boeing 747!

     

    Sure the A380 is a nice plane to fly in as a passenger, but its aesthetics is just not right. I won't be sad to see the end of its production to be honest.

     

    Have to agree with you. Aesthetically it is just too hefty and nothing in terms of beauty to speak of. The 747 is another case, the nose is just sexy and iconic. The command centre of the 747 is high above the ground and most importantly the nose will pop open when it is intended to be a freighter for an alternative usage, which Boeing had planned since day 1.

     

    I think Airbus needs to revamp their marketing strategies - they seemed to have the markets wrong most the time in recent time. A340 = failed, A350 = too late to the party, A380 = failed.

     

    Boeing has hit most of the nails in comparison. The 747-8 will stay on as a freighter as originally intended to be. It managed to kill the A380F before it becomes a real plane.

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    Apparently just happened over the weekend. Not sure if it was to do with NZ government's decision not to use Huawei's 5G network.....

     

    Flight NZ289 AKL to PVG did not have the permission to land in PVG... So they flight had to do a U-ie.

     

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/106529769/air-new-zealand-flight-to-shanghai-returns-to-auckland

     

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12202728

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    More or less guaranteed a Boeing of some sort or other. But JAL does not need to replace their narrow body fleet that quickly. If they order something, it will be for expansion first and fleet replacement later.

    ANA mainline will have a split fleet of A320 and A321 (ceo and neo) plus the B737s. Quite a good move as the Neos use PW engines. They may need some backup in case there are problems with the PW equipment.

    Thanks, Francis.

     

    What's with those PW Geared Turbo Fans? Seems problematic.

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    That's what happened if you are a Chinese citizen or Chinese business. Government intervention and you cannot thrive as an individual - The Chinese Government come and meddle with your business, you have no say in what-so-ever..... if your business grow large enough, government will come knocking on your door and ask you to share and redistribute your wealth for the "poor". Or if the government policy changed - sorry, you will have to derail your original plan and work according to the new government policy. Sorry, it's socialism we are talking about.

     

    Another thing is that the Chinese were too quick on buying up assets previously, even those who may not be making profit or economic sense. I believe it was also a government policy to acquire "foreign expertise" through purchasing of foreign business hoping for technological transfer. Now that the government policy has changed, many are forced to sell out or liquidate their assets.

     

    If I am a Taiwanese, I am really in no hurry to "return to the motherland"....

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

    A few of us were there to catch a glimpse of this rare aircraft. The sun was playing hide-and-seek though.

     

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    Ex-Qantas 767-200ER apparently! VH-EAQ.

    Didn't know QF has had a few PW powered 767s before. Thought they were all GE or RR powered

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    They are just doing what most commercial companies do - trying to sell their products. It is good to have competition, otherwise companies get lazy and produce substandard stuff.

     

    Just look at Intel - before AMD released their Ryzen processors, Intel had the market to themselves and brought out new processors with hardly any improvements. But look at them now - they are scrambling to get new designs out and their supply chain is suffering. So they have not invested in their back end production facilities and were caught with their pants down.

     

    I think you cannot look at A340 in isolation - A330/A340 was one programme, they are family members. The A330 for short to medium haul and the A340 for long haul. These days, the A330 can do it all - so there is no longer a need for the A340. The B777-200 was Airbus' A340-300's original competitor and Airbus did OK with that. It was only the A345/346 that failed miserably because the B77W exceeded all performance expectations, including beating the B744.

     

    The A380 was late and it coincided with a change of thinking because airlines now prefer more frequency for their customers' convenience.

     

    We are lucky that airlines now have a choice of quality aircraft. Boeing can no longer buy out smaller competitors (like MD) and shut them down. They really need to work their butts out and earn the respect of their customers now. If you hate Airbus, you can at least be grateful that they are pushing Boeing into making better aircraft!

     

    They are acting like Samsung trying to demonise Apple product. If they want to be the King of the jungle, they should stop that because Airbus isn't a personal consumer product. Even after years of trying, Samsung is still unable to dethrone Apple as the market trend setter. Whether you like it or not, Apple is the market lead and trend setter in the mobile phone sector.

     

    Airbus' statements are often short-sighted and won't hold water through time. Only companies with inferiority complex will make such silly comments by defaming others. I don't see company B defaming company A in similar fashion.

     

    Am I the only one in thinking Company B actually produce better planes than Company A? Company B is the trend setter and their B787 forced company A to come up with the A350. The A330 NEO would have been the A350 if it wasn't due to the protest of Qatar Airways forcing them to come up with a whole new design to match the B787.

     

    I don't hate Airbus, but I do think they produce boring looking planes that doesn't produce any chemistry to cause the heart to excel. A380, A320 and A350.... for example.

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    Airbus just love to talk loud but their marketing studies seems like they often tried to match or out do Boeing....

     

    Look at what happened to:

     

    1. The A340 programme - thought they can out do the 777s.

    2. The A380 programme - thought they can sell more than 500 of them.

     

    It's too early to say whether the A330 NEO is successful and also the A350... Airbus should have learnt their lesson to shut their pie hole....... as situation can change and often move quickly.

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    Malaysia Airlines moves closer to widebody order

    Adrian Schofield

    Oct 21, 2018

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    MAB is believed to be considering a range of aircraft including Airbus A350s and Boeing 787s. The carrier previously signed an MOU with Boeing for 787s, but the MOU lapsed in June.

     

    http://m.atwonline.com/aircraft-engines/malaysia-airlines-moves-closer-widebody-order

     

    What does the lapse of MOU involved? Forfeiture of bond or deposit?

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

    I would like to chip in on the seat selection issue and completely in agreement with Shazmiey and CH Teo above.

     

    Flew MH3 last Friday with only seat 20K was available for selection in the 220 seats Y cabin on the A359.

     

    When I completed the online check-in process, my sequence number on the boarding pass was 39.

     

    I find it strange that the entire cabin is blocked despite only 17% of the seats were actually occupied at the time of my check-in.

     

     

    On to exhibit the inconsistencies of the product:

     

    - Paid RM395 for KUL-BKI on the overwhelmingly undesirable LCC config 9M-FFF.

    - Paid RM374 for LBU-KUL on a BSI IFE config 9M-MXS.

     

    One can't help to think of being ripped-off on the KUL-BKI sector.

     

    Had this same issue with my recent flights with MH. Seats were blocked or shown occupied during seat selection when you check-in online. When you turned up for the flight, many surrounding seats are unoccupied. I think this is a tactic to get you to pay for the seats. You are only allowed to a handful of seat choices during online check-in.

     

    I get this with my recent flights with Qantas as well, they purposely block out many seats which are found to be unoccupied once you are in the aircraft.

     

    I really dislike those laggy IFE on the B737-800s. They are so laggy that it is becoming a waste of time. May be thats the way ancient IFE used to be, but since then the competitors have upped their game....

     

    There is so many aircraft sitting on the tarmac too... two A380s doing nothing in KUL. The recently leased in A330-200s too........ do not seemed to be doing much. Our aircraft, 9M-MTW, was only doing KUL-HKG and HKG-KUL for the day and the next day....... Surely they can be better utilised!

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

    Oh i see, so I guess the hissing noise on ground as you can hear with MH's Fokker F50s were the APUs?

     

    I am sure some of us have been on the Fokker F-27s, which was my very first aircraft in life, the F-27s had to be attached to a diesel generator whenever they were on the ground. Hence you can't hear the hissing noise with the F-27s. I love the noise of the Rolls Royce Darts better!

     

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