Perhaps he was an illegal immigrant?

…Well, whoever he was he was bloody stupid – bet he was nice and warm in the landing gear bay of a 747 at FL390 with nothing but shorts and a t-shirt? 😀

If they had some industrial heaters, then who knows, they might have been able to de-frost him again afterwards? 🙂

Jokes aside, what’s South African security doing? If he jumped a fence and climbed into a 747, I’m guessing he hadn’t been security vetted? He could have had 20kgs of plastic explosive attached to him for all they knew?

I’ll be interested to see where the aircraft come from ?

That’s what I was thinking, I had thought they might strike a deal with Virgin America and get some of their delivery slots… The problem there being VX don’t have any more A319s on order.

So unless they can strike a deal with any of the other airlines, it looks like the aircraft will be second-hand…

Julian has not been convicted of any crime

XD No wonder he’s not been convicted – he’s too busy hiding away!

He’s sexually assaulted women and you want to give him the nobel peace prize? What kind of sick … are you?

Trouble is we will cow-tow to the US government instead of recognising Julian for what he is… a Hero of the People.

What have the US government got to do with this? This is about extraditing him to Sweden.

Sweden (along with the UK) do not extradite anyone to the US – if they believe that in doing so the defendant will face the death penalty… So, Assange doesn’t have that to fear.

If someone’s performed a crime – they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it. Excuse me while I just rape some Swedish women, hack into secret government computers then post it all online and get away with it…

Assange can’t stay in the Ecuadorian Embassy forever… I mean, who would want to spend the rest of your life confined within the 4 walls of a building? You might as well just serve your time in prison.

So, when Assange finally does emerge from the embassy, he’ll be stepping back onto British soil – where he is then under British law, and he can be arrested.

What have civilian airline operations got to do with a nuclear energy program

Nothing, on the face of it… But firstly, this isn’t an nuclear energy program – it’s a nuclear weapons program.

I’ll spare you the politics, the long of the short of it is it would not be good if Iran were to complete its nuclear program and have nuclear weapons. Because the US elections are just around the corner another Iraq style war is off the cards – so instead we must turn to trade embargoes as a short term solution to make Iran’s job that little bit more difficult and as a vain attempt to persuade the Iranian government to stop the program altogether.

It is for the very reason these embargoes are so hard hitting, and damage so many different sections of the economy (eg. Aviation, as we’ve seen) – that they are used.
If it was just Iran’s weekly installment of Japanese Manga comics that failed to get through due to the embargo – I doubt the Iranians would really care… But because the embargo has such wide consequences it has an impact.

So to conclude – and to answer your question – if the Iran government abandoned its nuclear program, the embargo would be lifted and Iran Air could get its vital spare parts.

The 787 sales have not stalled. The Airlines who want them have ordered them. For the rest, they have to wait. The order book is full and you can’t get one for several years because of it. No sense in ordering until they become available again.

Could we not say the same about the A380… Looking at the current backlog and rate of production – you could say all the A380 slots in the coming years have sold out too.