It’s the wonders of competition! Airbus pushed Boeing to upgrade the 747, and now Boeing is pushing Airbus to to upgrade the A330.

So long as both manufacturers have decent sales of their new products, then the pushing ahead will carry on and we’ll continue to leap forward.

I look foward to the next generation of 737s and A320s, when the two companies lock horns in that market in about 8-10 years. 🙂

That’s a nice pic as well!

Do you reckon it was taken in the air?

Michael O’Leary = the Comical Ali of the airline world 😀

Are those VS 742s just mothballed or are they going to be scrapped?

I know that they run the airline, not me, and that they know what they’re doing best, but what is the point of mothballing airplanes when finances are no problem and you’re buying new planes? Why not sell or lease the planes if you don’t have further use for them, or keep them in service and thus avoid having to buy two extra a/c for your expansion plans?

For such a dissapointing aircraft the A340 has done quite well… 352 orders and no signs of stopping…

Good news.

From near bankruptcy to acquiring new a/c in 48 hours! Not bad going :rolleyes: 😀

On every single flight I’ve been to the flight attendants have pointed out the emergency exits during the safety demo. I’d imagine this is a legal requirement to all airlines.

I try to at least watch them and pretend to be interested during the demo- I think it’s a bit rude if everyone’s reading the paper or looking out of the window while the poor people demonstrate the use of a lifejacket.

Girl in our school from London, who incidentally was a complete bi*ch and failed her GCSEs (suppose you could say she went under lol) was called Sabena.

Like David Beckham’s son, was she named after the place where she was concieved? 😀

Still, better ‘Sabena’ than ‘B737-229Adv’ for a name I guess…