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1. British Airways (57 deliveries) Engines: RR
2. SIA (54) Engines: PW
3. United (44) Engines: PW
4. JAL (42) Engines: GE
5. Korean (39) Engines: PW
6. Lufthansa (31) Engines: GE
7. Qantas (26) Engines: 22RR, 4GE
8. ANA (23) Engines: GE
9. Cathay (22) Engines: RR
10. Malaysian (21) Engines: 17PW, 4GE

Are you quite sure this information is up-to-date? By my count KLM has 22 B747-400’s in passenger configuration as well as 2 B747-400’s in cargo configuration. That would bring it at the 8th spot.

Next to that there are 8 B747-200’s (there were 10 but the cargos have gone) and 3 B747-300’s.

(Jay330, I already sent this message to you e-mail before I read your reply here. I’m posting it anyway for Mark)

I personally believe Easyjet ALSO stands a good chance of surviving. Ryanair is quite certain in my opinion.

I do not believe that Ryanair covers more business destinations. They cover more destinations, that is obvious, but that does not tell everything. Business men/women want to travel to the bigger cities. Ryanair’s strategy is to fly anywhere EXCEPT to big cities.
Take Holland as an example. How many business men do you think will be interested in flying to Eindhoven (SE), Groningen (NE) or Maastricht (SE) or Niederrhein (in Germany, very close to the border near Nijmegen). All these airports are the airports that Ryanair flies to in/near Holland. Not all these airports have decent bus links. Endhoven for instance has one bus that leaves after the flight arrives. If you miss it due to customs/baggage problems etc you are stuck. I do not believe Groningen has a bus service at all.
Few business men will fly there. Now take Easyjet, they fly to Schiphol. That’s the place where business men want to go. To the densely populated area of Amsterdam/Rotterdam/the Hague. Moreover, there are more connections which are also what is interesting for business men. Not just planes mind you, trains, busses, cabs you name it Schiphol has it.
Another big bonus for Easyjet is that they offer more frequencies on their routes, whereas a lot of Ryanair routes have only 1 or 2 daily rotations.

Another important point to bare in mind is that Easyjet will get Airbusses. These planes are usually more economical to operate. Since Airbus has pretty much guaranteed maintenance and operating costs (and appparently even pays part of it!), this could prove to be a very good deal for Easyjet.
Note that the A319s are a “new” model. It has 2 overwing exits (A320 style) so they may cram in even more people. This could make the Airbus even more economical.
Of course this is only hypothethical. The operating costs may be much worse then expected or something else may happen. This deal will make or break Easyjet.

Another factor few people know is the way Easyjet buys its fuel. Easyjet is one of the few airlines that does not buy its fuel in advance. Most companies go to the futures exchange and agree with the fuel companies to take their fuel for a period of # months. The price they pay is fixed. The fuel company makes a guess of how high the fuel costs will be in # months and adapts their price accordingly.
This system changes variable costs into fixed costs. It is a double edged sword though. If the fuel prices lower then Easyjet can buy the fuel at a low price whereas other airlines are stuck with their contracts. This will give Easyjet an cost advantage. On the other hand, if the fuel prices increase then Easyjet will have to buy the expensive fuel whereas the competitors get their fuel cheaper because they bought the fuel in advance.
I got this information from my international economics teacher approximately 1 year ago. I am assuming this system is still in use (can any Easyjet worker confirm this perhaps?). It is interesting to note that the amount of airlines using this system can be counted almost on your hands. One of the airlines that also used this system was Swissair. If its latest incarnation, Swiss, also uses this system is unknown to me.

I don’t mind to help either, I studied logistics so I can hopefully help you out! How do you want to do this, over this thread or with e-mails?

just mail me at [email]petertenthije@yahoo.com[/email]

blackmail
bribery
changing laws so he can not be prosecuted
business practices “a la Enron”
using state assets to get re-elected

if you give me a few hours I can add more, but I can’t really be bothered so I’ll wait for the others to add to the list :D;)

POWER TO DA PEOPLE!

Long live la revolucion! 😀 😎

Is that the link? Could be, I have heard 3 or 4 stories and the story of AL changing to Hola came up most… therefore I figured that was the best answer. 😀

I stand corrected!

Radio 3FM

and while I was in England for school I listened to Capitol FM. Especially the late night Steve Penk show! And at work there was some local Bexleyheath/Dartford/Erith station. Forgot the name.

Yep, I made my very own avatar of a pic I took myself. To make your own avater:

1. Choose a picture you like a lot;
2. Resize it, at AW the avatar may not be larger than 70×70 pixels with a maximum size of 50000 bytes. Quite small indeed;
3. Go to the “user menu”;
4. Go to “Edit Options”;
5. Click “Change avater”, should be on the bottom of the screen;
6. Tick “Yes” behind “Use Avatar”;
7. Look for the file on your computer/on the web. Whatever you prefer;
8. Save changes;
9. Show off your new avatar.