And i dont think so Skyteam ahs any hold in the Latin Americans sector? So if they operate scheduled services to Latin America it adds Skyteam although not a big scale, but a medium scale in Latin America.

Well, I would definitely consider AeroMexico, one of Skyteams charter members, to be of Latin American origin. Therefore, they are relatively strong in that area.

With the introduction of CO, NW, and KL, Skyteam will be a very formidable alliance, in my opinion, second only to Star, of course. 😉

The 737’s won’t make it without a stop enroute, direct rout from SYD to LAX is 6508NM, the 737-800 can only go 4,200 with 140 passengers, 10,000lbs of cargo, and 46,500lbs of fuel. Stop of enroute perhaps?

Of course they won’t, Matthew, which is precisely why I said this on my first post on this thread:

a 73G with stops in Fiji, Tahiti and Hawaii en route?

I think they should open up a San Francisco to Sydney Service, it will be the only australian on that route, i think United still operate on the route!

Indeed they do.

Why not follow the lead of NZ and just continue one of 2 daily VS flights to LAX onto SYD? They they’d be serving Australia from the east and west.

No offence, but “yuk”

Steve, didn’t you also not approve of the new UA livery? I like it, Nasir. A nice derivation of their current livery.

Worst: Funchal, Singapore

WHAT!!!! 😮 Do you have data supporting this argument?

All Greek airports are the same, so I now know what to expect, and yet airlines still operate 767s, Dc10s, 747s etc. into these wee airports! 🙂

Can’t argue with you there. ATH was among this breed, as well, till they opened the new one. Considering these airports only handle decent sized traffic during the summer, it really isn’t all that feasible to build top notch facilities on every island. We have Olympic venues to worry about finishing! 😉

What type of equipment does DJ plan on using from Australia to the U.S., a 73G with stops in Fiji, Tahiti and Hawaii en route?

Its is because of the military the 707’s fuselage is the width it is.
It was originally drafted as a refueler for the USAF and USAAF. With modifications possible for radar sentry’s. Once McDonnell Douglas (then just Douglas Corporation.. hence DC prefix on their planes at the time.) announced the DC-8. not to be outdone, Boeing revised the 707 to a 6 abreast pax liner. This was possible because the USAF and USAAF wanted the fuselage a certain width (the numbers escape me right now), making it wider than the rival DC-8 which would only have 5 abreast seating.

Actually, the commerical 707’s have a widder fuselage than the KC-135 tankers. And although the 707 was marginally wider than the DC-8, the Douglas bird was still able to have a 6-abreast seating configuration. Example: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/061945/L/ . I’m sure there were some airlines, however, that used the ‘Eights’ with a 5-abreast config.

Thank you all, gentlemen. I’m still in shock myself. Did we really win it? :confused:

By the way, props to the person other than myself, that picked Greece to win it all in the poll at the beginning of the tournament. Way to go out on a limb. 😉 http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=26677 . Turns out I got 55-1 for my $50 bet. I should have put $100. 😡