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Remember, you only need to fill the front to make a transatlantic flight profitable 😉
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Only if the yield is very strong, and whilst we are talking about the oil industry (ie a sector willing to pay high fares), it is only to an operational centre, and not for most senior management/execs, for whom these companies will pay the most to transport. In the cases of operational staff and management, experience shows that whilst they will typically be flown up front, the companies will not pay the highest of fares unless they really have to, and so such a route would struggle purely relying on the up front pax. If the fares are too high then some of those travellers will still find themselves connecting, which then reduces the pax demand.

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UK CAA suspends Emerald Airways’ AOC
Kerry Ezard, London (05May06, 11:23 GMT, 111 words)

UK carrier Emerald Airways has had its air operator’s certificate (AOC) suspended by the UK CAA.

A CAA spokesman says the AOC was revoked yesterday at 20:00 because the regulator is “no longer satisfied that the operator can continue to maintain the requirements of the CAA”.

He declines to disclose specific reasons for the decision, but notes that Emerald could have the AOC reinstated “if it can demonstrate that it has taken action to meet those requirements”.

Emerald could not immediately be reached for comment.

The carrier operates passenger and cargo services using a fleet of five British Aerospace ATP turboprops, 12 BAe 748s, seven Shorts 360s and one Shorts 330-200.

Source: Air Transport Intelligence news

Does the original Embraer 50 seater count, it was originally conceived as a prop?

and also this flew overhead, dont know what it is though…..(i must be thick!!!)

I’m sure you’re being sarcastic here and I’ll look a fool, but JUST in case, it is one of our RAF’s venerable old VC-10s, and very nice it is too!

Not saying it was in this case but do they do this every time a light bulb goes – surely perhaps procedure could be to replace the lightbulb before declaring emergency, not an easy task but should be made easy,

Wozza

I’m not sure whether the bulb had actually gone, it could have been some other fault, wiring or sensory for example. There are so many reasons for this potential problem that it would be unrealistic to expect a pilot to mess around changing a bulb. Studies show that landing is the most stressful period of any flight for the pilots, whilst I acknowledge that having to declare a full emergency landing would just add to the stress, I don’t think it would be fair to expect a pilot to have to start dealing with a bulb replacement along with multiple checks and whilst monitoring the aircraft itself and the crowded skies in which they are flying, so in some ways I would guess that it is more approriate to follow this procedure.

The busiest route out of the UK is now London – Dublin, and infact this is now the busiest international route in the world. In 2005 there were just over 4.36 million passengers between LON and DUB, by comparison JFK attracted 2.94million and Palma attracted 1.21 million passengers. The other major spanish route, Malaga attracted just under 2 million passengers. As correctly stated earlier LON- Paris was formerly the busiest route, but Eurostar saw to that!

P.S. If you add EWR (Newark) onto the total then that adds another million passengers out of London. But remember that overall New York is not as well served as Dublin from the regions and the Dublin routes from the regions generate some large passenger volumes. So overall DUBLIN is the largest destination from the UK.

I didn’t see the clip when originally on the TV, but I would gues that the titles were blurred out at that point because its shown on the BBC, and therefore they cannot endorse brands. That CV took a beating though!