I am appalled that one of the complainants is an ex-RAF pilot.

Actually, I believe one of the leading complainants is a former British Midland captain – used to drive DC-9s amongst other things. It is indeed ironic that one who was presumably happy by way of his employment to inflict aeroplanes and aeroplane noise on the lives of those living in the vicinity of Heathrow (and other airports) is not now happy to have a much lesser number of aeroplane movements inflicted upon himself in his retirement.

Andy

And where does that idiot think he’s going to get 787s or A350s from, for the turn of the decade??? :confused: Lets see, turn of the decade is 2010, 787 production sold out until 2012, A350 EIS 2013… :rolleyes:

Mind you, I don’t really care. I wouldn’t give O’Leary my money if he ran the last airline on the planet. I’m more interested in the likes of Silverjet and Maxjet than Ryanair-longhaul – these will offer the real competition to the established Trans-Atlantic carriers if they grow and prosper, whereas all Ryanair will do is take away the real low-fare end of the market that the likes of BA don’t make money on and with a bit of capacity downsizing could do with less of anyway.

Andy

Good selection there, damn it! And I was thinking of going to MAN today, but decided on a lay in instead! :rolleyes:

Andy

…or, if it has to be beans, I guess “Beanz Meanz Heinz” now becomes “Beanz Meanz Airlinez” 😀

Andy

By the way, QUANTAS is the only major airline that has never had an accident.

I guess parking one of ther 747-400s on the golf course at Bangkok Don Muang Airport with the nose gear collapsed doesn’t count as an accident then???

Andy

These have been variously attributed to different airlines and even the US Air Force over time…

P: IFF inoperative.
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.

So what’s Qantas doing with IFF – a military system if ever I heard of one!

Andy

From what I can tell, it is some of the mid-African (sub-Saharan) carriers that can be a bit questionable, but by no means all of them are such – i.e the likes of Ethiopian, Kenya Airways etc from mid-Africa are well respected carriers. Carriers from South Africa and from the northern countries in Africa are fine.

All of the major South African airlines are fine – South African, South African Express, South African Air Link, Comair (operating both as kulula.com and as a British Airways franchise), Mango (SAA low-cost carrier), One Time Aero, even Nationwide! Many of these carriers operate networks radiating out of the major airports in South Africa, both within the country and throughout the rest of southern Africa.

Andy