Looking at the airport schedules they are all 732s.

If Afriqiyah is Libyan why does it have a Tunisian flag on the tail? Is it ex-Tunisair or something? Nice photos anyway, I remember CDG very well.

Contact an airline or aviation based company that you would like to work for during work experience, explain the situation and see what they say. There are many aviation jobs available (at least I knew that from my experience last year), from mechanics to general office work centred on aviation. In July I worked at a local tourist attraction, it was brilliant. I was slightly jealous of my friends who were able to get free rides in aircraft although I thoroughly enjoyed me own experience.

Extending one of the points there, many European and American airlines strategies now focus on operating aircraft such as the A340 or 777 more, placing stress on frequency over capacity. Really it is a sign that passenger carriers now do not see as greater market for the 747 as before so the segment is much smaller.

Sorry I didn’t have time to do the rest before, here you go again. Some definitions might be slightly out on accuracy but here are the basics from what I understand. I think there are probably others who can help you out in more in depth terms.

1-Load factors are used to measure aircraft in-flight capacity utilisation. It works by comparing potential capacity of an aircraft in relative to its actual performance. Simply it is percentage of seats filled.

3- RPK is the abbreviation for revenue passenger Kilometres. It is found out by times the number of revenue passengers carried by the distance travelled in km.

4- FTK is the abbreviation for Freight Tonne Kilometres, similar to RPK.

5- I think to make profit on one seat you have to use CASMs (Cost per available seat mile) by adding up all your costs and then dividing by the number of seats available?

Freedom rights are the framework for bi-lateral and multi-lateral agreements between two or more countries. It basically states that an airline needs permission from the countries it wants to operate to before it can fly in, out or over that certain country. There are eight rights:

First freedom is the right to fly over a country without landing.

Second freedom is the right to land in a country for the purposes of re-fuelling or maintenance, not passengers.

Third Freedom is the right to land in a different country from their own country for the purposes of carrying passengers.

Fourth freedom is the right to fly from another country to their own country.

Fifth freedom (most famously of all) is the right to fly passengers from their own country to another country and then on to another country.

Sixth freedom is the state’s right to carry traffic between two other countries via the state.

Seventh freedom is the right to operate stand-alone services between two other countries.

Eighth freedom is the right to fly cargo and passengers within the boarders of another country.

Confusing but extremely relevant.

The strange thing is that the Easyjet uniform originates from Benetton. Though in my opinion they don’t look too stylish, they do their jobs in resembling the airline effectively.

My favourite…

Gulf Air, not the best image but still gives an idea of the Balmain designed uniform.