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No wonder I could not find it
You son of a pitch just joking
Foo,
I've moved your topic to this 787-topic !!!
Wow, everything is so sleek on the 787: just compare the APU with the 767 behind
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787 New pic livery 1
http://paineairport.com/kpae2253.htm
787 New pic livery 2
The livery looks nice could be DL/UA 767 launch liveries gen2
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Wrong
Its Sardine class not that it's called that something I made up
El Al to offer 'low-cost, no-frills' Europe tickets
By Zohar Blumenkranz
El Al will start selling low-cost, no-frills tickets on its regular scheduled flights, with services such as meals, earphones and baggage offered as extras.
The move is part of an experiment to create a product similar to that of low-cost airlines, in an effort to compete.
Bare-bones tickets will be offered only for tourist-class seats, and not in the more upscale business and first classes. The number of discounted seats in tourist class will be limited, and will be concentrated in a single area rather than scattered throughout the cabin.
The new product will be introduced gradually on all of El Al's regular scheduled flights.
At the initial stage the company intends to incorporate the discounted seats on flights to nearby destinations like Europe, since it's hard to imagine a passenger would be willing to forgo a meal on longer direct flights to Los Angeles or Sao Paulo, Brazil.
El Al's chief executive Haim Romano says the move is unrelated to an earlier plan by the airline's former CEO, Rafi Har Lev, to operate entire low-cost flights.
This idea was explored, says Romano, but the airline believed it would not be profitable at the time.
The current idea is similar to that implemented by hotels, which offer rooms with half-board, breakfast or no meals at all.
Tickets to European destinations will cost $199. Romano said that the first test case is being offered on flights to Rome in August, and reports that five tickets have already been sold.
El Al's announcement elicited varying responses from its competitors.
The chief executive of Brussels Air in Israel said his airline prefers to focus on the long term, rather than "just filling up empty seats."
Royal Jordanian Airline's Israel director said she would not recommend such a move to her bosses in Amman. "I can already imagine Israelis boarding the planes with picnic boxes. But I don't begrudge airlines that follow in El Al's footsteps, and rightfully so. Low-cost airlines like Easyjet must be outcompeted."
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Fake Airline Looks like we got Branson 2
Teenager wings it with a fake airline
A TEENAGE boy from Yorkshire succeeded in persuading British aviation executives that he was a tycoon about to launch his own airline. Using the pseudonym Adam Tait, the smooth-talking 17-year-old told airport and airline executives that he had a fleet of jets.
Tait, who said he was in his twenties, even flew to Jersey to attend a 1½-hour long meeting with the director of its airport. Their talks were considered promising enough for a further meeting to be arranged, which was due to be held next week.
Other air industry bosses found themselves dealing by telephone or e-mail with Tait’s fellow executives, David Rich and Anita Dash, who proposed to launch a cut-price Channel Islands-based airline servicing most of Europe.
What no one realised was that Tait, Rich and Dash were all the same person: an aircraft buff with the gift of the gab and an overactive imagination.
His exploits are reminiscent of those of Frank Abagnale Jr, who convinced the Pan Am airline that he was a pilot while still a teenager.
The Yorkshire teenager’s six-month-long ruse, which included placing articles in industry magazines, foundered only after one publication, Airliner World, became suspicious. It started to unravel the complex network that Tait had set up of fake websites, “virtual offices” complete with a real telephone receptionist and bogus names.
Last Monday he was questioned by Essex police while trying to gain access to a 93- seater jet at Southend airport, having convinced the plane’s marketing agent that his “company” wanted to lease it.
The police, who had intervened after being tipped off by Airliner World, discovered the boy’s true identity. Although no further action was taken, his fantasy was finally grounded.
The Sunday Times has agreed not to use Tait’s real name at the request of his father, who did not know of his son’s exploits until he was contacted last week.
He said that his son suffered from a form of autism and was “a phenomenal individual who is enterprising and creative” with an ability to recall the exact detail of every airline’s flight schedules. But the autism also made his behaviour highly challenging.
“He has been passionate about aeroplanes for about two years and his whole bedroom is plastered with them,” he said.
“Before that he came within two days of bringing the US cast of High School Musical to a 300-seat theatre in Shropshire by cutting and pasting mastheads from one company to another, masquerading as this or that.
“It would have happened, except when booking the hotel some queries were thrown up. I don’t know why he did it. He is not nasty or vindictive or malicious.”
The case has parallels with that of Gary McKinnon, 43, the Asperger’s syndrome sufferer who is facing extradition to the United States, accused of hacking into the Pentagon’s computers to look for evidence of UFOs (unidentified flying objects).
Tait began his elaborate hoax by buying up websites in the name of American Global Group and Island Airways. He then approached various established airlines to ask whether they wanted to give him a franchise agreement.
He claimed that the American parent company had a readily available fleet of 12 jets of varying size. His e-mails, like his telephone patter, were impressively well informed and persuasive. Each ended with the sign-off “American Global Group, 35 Countries, 22 Languages, One Team”, followed by a list of all the states in which it supposedly had offices.
Malcolm Coupar, the commercial manager of Aurigny, the airline owned by the Guernsey government, said he and Malcolm Hart, his managing director, had conducted discussions over a period of months with Tait, who was using the name David Rich.
“Some of the things he said were the sort of things that were indicative that there might have been some substance to his claims,” said Coupar. “If they were real then there would have been opportunities for us to expand our business and that’s not the sort of thing we are going to ignore.”
Tait also made approaches, with varying levels of success, to other airlines, including Titan Airways and Aer Arann.
When he made contact with Jersey airport, his patter was convincing enough to effect a 90-minute face-to-face meeting with Julian Green, the airport’s director, who said last night: “Jersey airport can confirm it has had discussions with Adam Tait over recent weeks about an ambitious network of services between Jersey, the UK and Europe.
“As further information has come to light in recent days we can now confirm negotiations on the proposal have ceased.”
Tait gained some initial credibility with an article about his supposed airline which appeared in Airliner World.
Richard Maslen, the deputy editor, said: “We spoke to a few contacts in the industry and they had also heard whispers about this proposed start-up and as a result we ran a small news piece in the magazine.”
When Tait suggested further coverage, Maslen smelt a rat. His reporter recorded Tait talking, then played the tape to Coupar, who confirmed it was the same voice as “David Rich”.
The magazine suggested Tait do some photographs and he suggested Southend airport, where he said one of his company’s jets, a 93-seater BAe 146-200, was hangared.
Tait then contacted Airstream, the agent which markets the plane, and said his company wanted to lease it. Airstream took him at face value, even offering to pick him up and chauffeur him to the airport to inspect the plane.
The teenager’s plans were about to crash, however. Concerned about his stated intention to start up the plane’s engines, Airliner World tipped off police. Officers, who intercepted the teenager and a number of colleagues who he had brought with him, warned Airstream that Tait was using multiple names and it should have nothing further to do with him.
When confronted by The Sunday Times at his family’s home in York, Tait initially denied any wrongdoing. He later admitted that he had “done some things in a bad way”, but said he had broken no laws and insisted he still harboured ambitions to make his “aviation business” take off.
His father argued that sufferers from autism have great potential. He said of his son: “People like him are not criminals, they are just misguided — they don’t understand what they are doing. Can someone grab hold of these people and harness their energy and use them for something that could be good?
“If someone with little or no education who has extreme enterprise and talent could have his energy channelled in the right direction, what could they achieve for themselves and our country?”
Sky-high poser
Between the ages of 16 and 21, Frank Abagnale Jr posed as an airline pilot, a lawyer, a college professor and a paediatrician, fraudulently earning millions of dollars. After serving time in jail, Abagnale has since worked for 35 years as a security consultant, advising companies on fraud. His youthful exploits were made the subject of a Hollywood film, Catch Me If You Can, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Jet America cancels all service in Toledo
TOLEDO (WTOL) - We have new details about the future of Jet America. The airline is eliminating service before the first flight ever took air.
Jet America was supposed to fly out of Toledo Express Airport, offering seats as cheap as $9. The company is now suspending sales to all markets and canceling previously scheduled flights.
Customers who already booked with Jet America will be refunded within the next two weeks, receive travel agent services, and get up to five days of free parking.
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press release from the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority:
JetAMerica Announces cancellation of all service
Toledo Express Offers assistance for Travelers
TOLEDO, Ohio, July 17, 2009 - JetAmerica announced this evening that it is suspending sales to all markets and canceling all previously scheduled flights and that it would immediately begin to notify affected customers and process refunds to all customers who have booked on the public charter flights. In addition, Toledo Express is offering all affected travelers who booked JetAmerica flights out of Toledo Express Airport assistance due to the inconvenience.
All customers will receive automatic refunds within seven to 14 business days. Any customer not receiving a full refund in 14 days should call JetAmerica at 727-451-3970.
Toledo Express is offering the following services to all passengers affected by the delay who hold a valid ticket on a JetAmerica flight originating from Toledo Express between July 13 and October 31, 2009:
Travel Agent Services via Atlas World Travel
All passengers who hold a valid ticket on a JetAmerica flight originating from Toledo Express Airport between July 13 and October 31, 2009 will be provided travel consultant services via Atlas World Travel. The agents at Atlas World Travel will consult with our passengers to help them identify new travel arrangements. Toledo Express will cover booking fees for any passengers who use Atlas World Travel when making their new arrangements. (Passengers will be responsible for their airfare.) To initiate a consultation with Atlas World Travel, passengers must email their booking confirmation, daytime phone number and email address to Atlas World Travel at smiller@atlasworldtravel.com. Atlas World Travel and Toledo Express jointly host www.flytoledoexpress.com, the air passenger booking agent for Toledo Express Airport.
Free Parking at Toledo Express
All passengers who hold a valid ticket on a JetAmerica flight originating from Toledo Express Airport between July 13 and October 31, 2009 are eligible to receive up to five days of free parking at Toledo Express. To obtain the free parking voucher, travelers should email a copy of their confirmation and proof of purchase along with their mailing address and daytime phone number to Toledo Express Airport at contactus@toledoportauthority.org.
"Though we are disappointed to hear about this situation, our first priority is always with our customers," says Michael J. Stolarczyk, President and CEO of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority. "Toledo Express is providing travel agent consulting services via Atlas World Travel to assist our affected passengers as they rebook their flights and will cover their booking fees if they choose to rebook via Atlas. We are also offering the affected passengers free parking the next time they fly from Toledo Express. Though we have no control over cancellations such as this, we have asked our community to support us and we appreciate that support and are trying to mitigate their inconvenience as much as possible."
"We are reluctantly suspending our public charter operations effective today," said John Weikle, JetAmerica CEO, who has been with the company since April. "Finalizing the slots required to support our charter program at Newark has taken longer than expected and we have decided to suspend our flights in order to refocus on different markets. We still strongly believe that there is an unmet need for affordable air service to secondary markets and we look forward to offering this option again in the near future," concluded Weikle.
In May, JetAmerica announced the start of non-stop service from Toledo Express (TOL) to Melbourne International Airport in Florida (MLB), Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in New Jersey and Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP).
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Wah Qantas scene again
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Forced to resign how did that happen. If in Peru he would of got jail big time
I hope can find another job as a pilot for maybe MH
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I've got a pic of 9M-BBJ I think one of Mastar planes
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V Australia has a better one the music makes you want to sleep and is very depressing
Making people to pay attention to safety instruction are pretty hard. Creating something catchy like this attract attention to many people. I think this is cute and have done it pretty well. I think those kids get attracted to it when they are onboard and understand easily
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjHCc6TZhaM
I think it is very poorly made, cheap, very hard to understand and the children don't know fashion. Kind abit obvious when the children are wearing socks and sandals typical British
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Link News link
Fur starts to fly as Pet Airways takes to the skies
Updated Thu. Jul. 9 2009 1:47 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
The fur is really starting to fly, now that the first pet-only airline in the U.S. is taking to the skies.
Pet Airways, which will fly from airports in five American cities starting next week -- with plans to expand into Canada next year -- is focused entirely on pet "pawsengers."
In fact, human passengers aren't even allowed on the planes, said CTV's travel expert Loren Christie.
"It's actually an airline only for pets," Christie told CTV's Canada AM.
"It's not just pet friendly, you actually can't fly on this airline unless you're an animal. The only humans allowed on are the pet attendants."
An estimated one million animals fly each year in America, and Pet Airways' goal is to capitalize on that traffic.
Flights begin at US$149, and come with the promise to "transport your pet with lots of love, care, safety, and comfort in the main cabin," according to the company's website.
Planes have no overhead baggage compartments, no seats, and are designed entirely with animals in mind, the site states.
The airline also offers a "lounge" where pets can be checked in up to 72 hours prior to take-off.
Dan Wiesel, president and CEO of Pet Airways, said most pets travelling by air are transported in the cargo hold and "handled as baggage."
"The experience is frightening to the pets, and can cause severe emotional and physical harm, even death. This is not what most pet owners want to subject their pets to, but they have had no other choice, until now," Wiesel said in a release.
When it begins operations on July 14, the airline will fly between Baltimore, New York, Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles, with plans to expand to Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver in 2010.
There is some competition here in Canada, however. While their mandates aren't as pet-centric as Pet Airways, major carriers West Jet and Air Canada both offer pet travel options, Christie said.
Both allow passengers to fly with their pets with some restrictions.
On both airlines, only animals that weigh less than 22 kg, including their carrier, are allowed to stay in the cabin. Those that weigh above the limit are transported in the baggage hold.
And, Air Canada allows no animals to travel in the hold during peak season between June 20 and Sept. 10.
While West Jet allows cats, dogs, birds and rabbits to travel, Air Canada only allows dogs and cats.
Both airlines charge a $50 fee for pets that travel in the cabin, but Air Canada ups the fee to $105 for pets that are transported in the baggage compartment.
Website http://www.petairways.com/
Now flying East and West of America only 299 USD
Now Mr Whiskes can fly in First Class
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It's via sydney for brisbane
Although MH planning deparment is stupid first you wreck SYD and BNE now MEL What next Adelade then PER 
How can any market for the Kangaroo Route when the consumer can go quicker with CX,SQ,QF,VS/VA or NZ. MH needs to have better connections and not stopovers. Customers don't want to be still in the air when they could have been at their hotel. You do not need to be a 3year old. 
"Among the regional full-frill carriers, MAS has one of the largest narrow body fleets that will put it ahead in capitalising on regional routes."
He for got to add the largest and the oldest narrow body fleet.............
Think about it , if you were heading for melbourne would you like to be on the plane for 7 odd hours or almost 10? If it was a brand new plane also can consider, A380,777 300er or a newish bus.Because that will be a pulling factor for the masses.
MH has nevr been able to make up their mind about Aussie routes.
First it was KUL- MEL- SYD
Ten it was KUL-MEL and another flight KUL-SYD
Then it was a transit in MEL/SYD (either one) to BNE
Now it is KUL-CGK-MEL
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Any free tickets, refund of ticket or miles any word
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Qantas fined for price fixing
Posted 28 minutes ago
Qantas has pleaded guilty to a price-fixing charge in the Canadian Federal Court in Toronto.
A Qantas spokesman says the company has been fined about $168,000 by Canada's competition regulator for fixing the price of cargo shipments.
Canada's Competition Bureau says Qantas Freight trucked cargo from Canada to the United States for onward shipment to Australia and other destinations between 2002 and 2006.
Qantas is the fourth air cargo carrier to be convicted in the bureau's conspiracy investigation.
It says it will cooperate fully with investigations being undertaken by authorities in a number of other countries.
Link http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/08/2620095.htm?section=business
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SIA Pilot testing the company's New Big toy
Vmu Style 
SQ226 Departs after a passing rain shower.
<img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c169/Imoy1/Perth%202009/June%202009/IMG_6409_9V_STC_E1.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
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Should we collect tenders on who QF will blame
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Star Alliance B777-212ER of Singapore Airlines 9V-SRE
I put too many pics in one go and turned out to be very bad, I actually had the 1st one up also I have a very bad V Australia 777 If anybody want
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These are mine sorry if I didn't get jetstream, But must practise catching planes at 10,000 stinky feet
These are mine sorry if I didn't get jetstream, But must practise catching planes at 10,000 stinky feet
B777-212ER Singapore Replaced by 330
Korean Rego must do soul searching
Qantas 763 I think VH-OGF
Quiet Please
JAL 747-400 Now replaced by that 767
Comments Appriciated
I have to do again to many pic
JAL 747
JAL 747 Replaced by some 767
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Show Sir Richard Branson that pic and he immideitly wants that to happen
all in the name of saving green house gases<!--quoteo(post=230634:date=Jun 24 2009, 06:19 PM:name=Li Ren)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Li Ren @ Jun 24 2009, 06:19 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=230634"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Nice pix of Vietnam Airlines,TangoKilo and more pix please <img src="http://www.malaysianwings.net/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/drinks.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
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You have to admit i've have a better moral Now Serving strippers on board as part of IFE
I guess US Airways is competing with Southwest for entertainment 
A better way is US put those darn IFE's in the seat not IFE which would make US the cheap alternitive then going to the Playboy MansionWell, how many ppl can claim to wrestle a naked man on a plane?
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US Airways flight diverted to Albuquerque after male passenger undresses in seat
By HEATHER CLARK , Associated Press
July 1, 2009
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A passenger stripped naked during a US Airways flight and resisted a flight attendant's efforts to cover him with a blanket before two off-duty law enforcement officers on board subdued and handcuffed him, authorities said Wednesday.
Keith Wright, 50, of the Bronx in New York, was taken into custody after he disrobed while sitting in his seat in the back of Flight 705 on Tuesday evening, authorities said. The plane was carrying about 148 passengers from Charlotte to Los Angeles, the airline said.
Wright was unresponsive when a flight attendant asked him to put his clothes back on, said Dan Jiron, a spokesman for the Albuquerque airport. "She asked him on more than one occasion to put on his clothes. She covered him with a blanket and he took that off," Jiron said.
Wright punched and kicked the flight attendant, who asked two off-duty law officers for help, according to a criminal complaint. A Los Angeles police officer and sheriff's deputy helped the flight attendant subdue and handcuff Wright before the flight landed, Jiron said.
The flight attendants also were dealing with an unrelated onboard medical emergency at the same time, which exacerbated the situation, the FBI said. The aircraft was diverted because of the medical emergency, and Wright's actions were a secondary reason for the unplanned landing, the complaint said.
Roger Finzel, an assistant federal public defender representing Wright, said he has not yet met with his client and had no information about the case other than what was in the complaint.
Wright told the FBI he is suffering from a bipolar disorder and had not taken his prescribed medication before leaving New York that morning, the criminal complaint said. Wright told the FBI he recalled nothing about the flight or his behavior, it said.
Wright had been seen dancing in a crowded boarding area before the flight, but when approached by Flight Service Supervisor Claudia Kearney, he told her he had drunk one beer. Kearney told the FBI she did not smell alcohol on him and determined he was well enough to travel, the complaint said.
US Airways spokeswoman Valerie Wunder could not confirm that Kearney worked for the airline.
Passenger Ginny Keegan of Detroit was sitting in the front of the plane, when there was commotion coming from the back. The people on the flight were notified of a violent passenger as the plane began to approach Albuquerque, but Keegan said no one was fearful.
"No one was really panicking. The flight attendants seemed to handle it very well," she said. Keegan said the man was "completely naked" as he was taken in handcuffs off the plane.
As the plane took off again, Keegan said the usual announcement to please fasten your seat belts came over the loudspeakers with a twist. The message included "a reminder to everybody to please keep your clothing on. It got a couple chuckles," Keegan said.
Wright is in federal custody on a federal charge of interfering with flight crew members and attendants. He is expected to appear in federal court in Albuquerque on Thursday.
http://www.startribu...3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsZ
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Ah well, C. Foo (sifu?) beat me to this by 5min.
Mod, pls merge, thanks!
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An unidentified man from the boogie down Bronx just streaked half of America! The 50-year-old became naked as a jaybird for no apparent reason during a US Airways flight last night. One passenger says the 50-year-old appeared to fall asleep, but then started taking his clothes off. (Could a bad Ambien reaction be involved?) He refused to cooperate with flight attendants and threw off a blanket that was placed over him. Is it some kind of crime to fly au naturale? Probably, right? An off-duty police officer on board helped restrain the man, and the flight, which originated in Charlotte and was bound for LA, made a pit stop in Albuquerque to eject the mile-high streaker. WABC 7 says he may be transported "to an FBI facility. He will likely be taken to a local detention center in the meantime." Meanwhile, everyone who landed in California will be enjoying life naked in a hot tub.
Link http://gothamist.com/2009/07/01/naked_man_diverts_flight_to_los_ang.php http://http://gothamist.com/2009/07/01/naked_man_diverts_flight_to_los_ang.php
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Was the cabin full of Football Fans
Diesel 9 crash lands in Knyan
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Astral cargo plane crash lands at JKIA
Posted Friday, July 24 2009 at 22:05
An Astral cargo plane has crash landed at Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta International airport blocking the runway. Sources indicate that planes scheduled to land at the airport are being diverted. No details of casualties have been reported so far. Details to follow
From http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/629458/-/ul2fk8/-/index.html
Astral's fleet
Freom http://www.astral-aviation.com/fleet.php