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February 25, 2007 at 12:10 pm in reply to: Virgin Blue chooses 777-300ER's #561993

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Oasis running a similar successfully operations?

February 25, 2007 at 7:00 am in reply to: Rambling #408882

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welcome to Melbourne. 😀

February 25, 2007 at 2:39 am in reply to: Virgin Blue chooses 777-300ER's #562001

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What are we talking about here, all-economy trans-pacific flights with no meals and about 10 servings of pretzels?

I doubt it… as it says Virgin Blue, the parent company might split into three airlines, so i am guessing it won’t be a LOCO airlines.

February 24, 2007 at 9:55 am in reply to: PIA fleet banned from EU #562249

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Thats a big blow for the airline, atleast till more 777s arrive. I am guessing the 742s and A310s were facing quite a lot of problems. But with the recent “image makeover” for the airline, it is quite a big blow.

February 21, 2007 at 6:15 am in reply to: Virgin Blue chooses 777-300ER's #563682

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well an expected announcement. Instead of launching a new brand all-together they could go with expansion of Virgin Pacific as well.

February 20, 2007 at 6:19 am in reply to: New CRJ variant #564205

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I am guessing they have renamed the CRJ900X as the CRJ1000?

February 20, 2007 at 6:17 am in reply to: Aeroflot to phase out Tu fleet by 2010 #564207

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The 204 didn’t really “fail”, just nobody bought them, mostly for financial reasons.

I wouldn’t bet on Aeroflot buying large numbers of A320. That is all so political here. Maybe if some Russian outfit accquires a substantial share in EADS, then they might buy more 320, otherwise I’d say that the 204 is still a realistic option, esp for domestic services alongside the Superjet 100.

Btw, if anybody wants to see old Aeroflot liners go to Domodedovo airport. Whole crowds of Il-62, Il-86 and Tu-154 there.

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204 not selling hence bein a commercial failure. I am not saying the aircraft is a failure initself, if it was it wouldnt have been flying with operators such as DHL.

February 20, 2007 at 6:16 am in reply to: Aeroflot to phase out Tu fleet by 2010 #564208

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Have Aeroflot lost any Tu-154s recently? It’s a bit of a red herring to bring up the old safety record thing, especially when you consider that around 1000 Tu-154 have been built.

We don’t say that the B737 for example is unsafe do we, do we?

Well i think quite a few 154s have been lost over the time. 1000 Tu-154s and over 6000 737s. You cannot compare accident rates like that.

February 19, 2007 at 5:13 pm in reply to: what is happening with A380 #564250

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they are trying to fix the problems with play doh. 🙂

February 19, 2007 at 11:59 am in reply to: Aeroflot to phase out Tu fleet by 2010 #564453

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As much as I’m all for progress, I have to say the aviation world will be a less interesting place with the decline of the Soviet classics. Much like the decline of the British classics, Tridents, Comets, VC-10’s etc.

I had the good fortune to observe an Aeroflot Tu-154, gleaming in it’s new livery as we taxied right past at Kiev last Autumn. Lot’s of head’s up against the windows looking at it. I can’t see the reaction being quite the same for an A320 somehow…

Quiet agreed but there safety records, specially the 154 are not helping Aeroflots image in any given way. Not to say they have a good image in the first place, but bringing in Western jets seems like the only thing to do specially after the TU 204 failed.

February 19, 2007 at 7:26 am in reply to: Aeroflot to phase out Tu fleet by 2010 #564463

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All good for Aeroflot, how many SU RRJ’s do they have on order?

February 19, 2007 at 7:24 am in reply to: Talk about irony…VB cries foul!! #564465

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NZ ceased to operate LAX-SYD flights around the 2nd half of 2002, around the same time UA ceased to operate LAX-AKL flights. So yeah, they haven’t done that in a while. Hawaiian operates into SYD, by the way.

ah thanks for the corrections.

February 18, 2007 at 10:43 am in reply to: Talk about irony…VB cries foul!! #564695

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And not forgetting Hawaiian airlines via Honolulu

ahh didnt know that… into SYD or MEL?

February 17, 2007 at 5:08 pm in reply to: Talk about irony…VB cries foul!! #564709

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Not surprising at all, and its not just VB, with the passengers that Australia offers into US and the big stronghold that VB has to break which is with QF at the moment, am not surprised one bit that they are crying over this. This will be a double blow to them with SQ and the proposed LOCO Tiger coming into play. Not to mention domestically QF offers as good fares as both JetStar and VB.

The Australian market is not THAT big, passengers do also have choices of UA, SQ for flights into US. If i remember correctly even Air NewZealand offers LA flights via SYD?

VB will have a big competition to break.

February 17, 2007 at 5:02 pm in reply to: Indian to Melbourne #564715

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But wouldnt it be the same since AI and IC will merge withing the next few months?

If scheduled correctly, i think this may even put competition to EK as well, if the IC MEL flights are connected onto Euro bound destinations with AI.

Well, lets wait till the merger happens. 🙂

I dont think Euro bound people from Australia will get anything out of this route. They have much better connections with TK, QF, SQ etc. MEL-SIN-DEL in order to catch a EU bound flight would make very little sense.
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