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    Did you see the DC-10 falling out of the sky every day :huh: Well the 330 and 340 could be the modern day dc-10 or next generation. I don't think anyone realised that the A340 will also be affected <_<

     

     

    Adoi.. if it has those defect at the moment and are so life threatening, just ground the flights that involves flying through a bad weather... until a solution to the funny working pitots are resolved!! If they were so life threatening, a330 would be falling out of the skies everyday I tell u!!!

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    Maybe a daily 744 service will work as MH has the laziest 744 fleet in the world even if they only get 60 % they have at least enough to break even :rolleyes:

     

     

     

    Actually I think SQ is not doing so well with the double daily. I have done a few trips in the past year and there are plenty of empty seats, and flying economy is great as I get 3 seats all to myself...

     

    This is the way for SQ to cut costs and capacity. 1 x A380 is surely less capacity than 2 x 77W. There is also too much competition from the Middle eastern airlines.

     

    MH should have stayed and increased their frequency to capture more premium traffic. To come back in now would be very difficult if even SQ has to cut capacity.

     

    Anyway, this is just a rumour started by someone who used to work at the airport. The truth is that the Airport is not yet ready - the taxiways, gates have to be upgraded. By the time these are done, business might pick up again and it would make sense again to upgrade to 2 x 77W.

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    :rolleyes:

     

    From http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/...es-in-july.html

     

    EU may lift ban on four Indonesian airlines in July

    By Siva Govindasamy

     

    The European Commission could allow four Indonesian airlines to serve its members from July, partially lifting a blanket ban that it imposed in 2008 after a number of accidents involving the country's carriers.

     

    Senior officials from Indonesia's Directorate General of Air Communications (DGAC) will travel to Brussels next week for talks, and the ban on Airfast Indonesia, Garuda Indonesia, Mandala Airlines and Premiair should be lifted as they have fulfilled most of the EU's criteria, says a DGAC official.

     

    Garuda is Indonesia's national carrier, Mandala is a privately owned scheduled carrier, Airfast is a charter airline that does much of its work for western mining companies and Premiair is another charter airline that does corporate jet charters for European and US customers.

     

    The European Commission issued the ban last June after Indonesia failed an ICAO safety audit, and asked the country to implement some of the 600 recommendations that ICAO put forward. These included having an independent regulator, improving rules governing airlines, and increasing the standard of its safety inspectors.

     

    Indonesia has been taking steps to fulfil these criteria in order to get the EU ban lifted. Earlier this year, it suspended the air operator certificates (AOC) of five of the country's smaller airlines for failing a quarterly audit that is now conducts on airlines to ensure they fulfil safety standards.

     

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