I don’t think the 380 fits in the business models followed by US carriers, which is frequency based and not size based. But a lot of aircraft will be required by US carriers to replace ageing fleets of 757s, 767s and a whole lot of MDs. It will be interesting to see what Boeing pitches against the A320NEO family.

Emirates will face an increasing amount of resistance from countries, as the recent problems with Germany have shown. Even India has not allowed EK to operate the 380 into DEL. My EK source tells me EK wants to fly the 380 to five points in India as soon as possible including Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai.

The only A380 that may get permission for operations into Delhi seems to be LH, and that depends on how soon AI joins Star Alliance.

maybe she was more of a Diet Coke person?

I am sorry, but I just had to do that. :p

You would have to work very very hard to make a 773ER look bad.

Love the livery…has a bit of a modern yet retro feel to it. 🙂

coming from your business. That’s advertising.

I saw it…while it was downright horrific I think it is very important that documentaries like these are made.

For the most, it just reinstates my belief that the UN has just become a disaster management organisation. And barely at that.

Congratulations, Jim.

Makes me feel positively strange that I have been on these boards for around 12 years. 😎

I find both platforms highly useful. Facebook for purely keeping in touch with friends and family alike, as I change my geographical location often.

Twitter is great for following news outlets, companies etc. specially for a journalist. Statistically today, Twitter is where most news is broken first. Much faster than TV channels or any other news outlets.