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July 8, 2003 at 4:03 pm in reply to: Some pics I took last week when we were off #642889

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Great active shots. I was in Glasgow about a year ago now. Nice airport.

July 8, 2003 at 3:18 pm in reply to: Zoom Airlines Help. #642916

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I saw them landing at Toronto’s Pearson on Saturday. I had no idea who it was until it got close. It was just this big dark shadow moving across the surburbs that surround the airport. Kind of cool looking up close though.

July 8, 2003 at 3:15 pm in reply to: Pics I Took #642919

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Excellent photos Monster! Qantas is one of my all time favourites, and it was great to see the 737 with winglets. Are they all taken at Perth? Any other airlines?

June 6, 2003 at 2:30 pm in reply to: Boeing 737 wing, on approach, little thing? #671838

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Some 737’s have an extra landing light on the outer canoe, though I haven’t seen it on any next generation.

June 4, 2003 at 2:59 pm in reply to: European Air Charter #674497

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they’re introducing flights to TO this summer.

June 4, 2003 at 2:57 pm in reply to: Top award for airport #674639

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Doesn’t Athens have a new airport that is supposed to be pretty cool?

June 4, 2003 at 2:55 pm in reply to: Some nice pictures! #674641

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Iberia is long overdue for an update anyway. Like I said before, the A346 is so long that and slender that it needs something specific like larger lettering, no cheat lines, the aircraft is too long. You can barely make out “Iberia”.

Nice photos by the way.

June 2, 2003 at 2:53 pm in reply to: Air Canada's Last Chance? #676518

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The issue is that AC wants to move most of its domestic pilots to its regional arm, Jazz, where pilots apparently make substantially less than mainline pilots, rumoured even less than Westjet’s pilots. AC will be reducing most of its widebody service within Canada and moving to 110 seat next generation (assuming A319/20/21) for point to point service as opposed to the current hub and spoke set up. they were also asked to take wage concessions, work more hours, and take a cut to benefits.

They reached a tentative agreement three hours after the deadline on Sunday morning. Details have not been revealed and the pilots will be voting soon. Apparently AC was minutes away from collapse. Though it is said that the airline would have been liquidated as an operating company (as opposed to non-operational) at a very cheap rate. It would almost have to remain operational with 80% of market share and coast to coast operations.

May 30, 2003 at 9:04 pm in reply to: Air Canada's Last Chance? #733479

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That’s true.

May 30, 2003 at 6:03 pm in reply to: New JAL cargo c/s #734011

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striking!

May 29, 2003 at 6:51 pm in reply to: Lufthansa A346 #736139

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They need to make the letters very large on a fuselage this long. Almost top to bottom I think. It would be cool if airlines had modified liveries to recognize their large Airbus aircraft.

May 23, 2003 at 6:18 pm in reply to: KLM to go buddie with Air France #741404

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True enough, business is business and money is money. If you don’t make any you can’t continue to exist.

May 23, 2003 at 4:51 pm in reply to: KLM to go buddie with Air France #741428

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I agree with this last point. I don’t think KLM was pulling the strings in this case. NW has become very strong over the last decade. Also, the KLM/NW codeshare agreement is second-to-none in my understanding. It would have been very short sighted to give that up, it also might have paved the way for BA/AA to get theirs approved if the other was no longer in existence.

It seems as though the prophecy (sorry just saw Matrix Reloaded) of what was it five European majors in enroute to completion.

It’s so strange when you look at this from North America, with such as huge land mass, then you have so many massive carriers in Europe so close together. yes, I know it’s a part of national identity.

May 23, 2003 at 4:45 pm in reply to: Virgin in talks to take over BMI #741430

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This would definitely be an interesting move for Virgin. I also think that it would vault them into serious LHR competition with BA. They can only go so far as a long distance airline, and to that extent, would it not be better to entice people to your long distance flights by offering them convenient connections at LHR?

Although Branson has been tentative about joining alliances in the past, he must recognize the advantages now, especially in today’s climate. Also, with their “cheap” concept expanding throughout the world why not extend it to LHR? Didn’t he say in the past that he regrets not setting up no frills in the UK? Although, I think that would forgo an alliance, but may make up for it in sales.

It seems like a good marriage to me. BMI gets international routes, and Virgin gets domestic. Also, with BA getting Terminal 5 Virgin must be desperate to increase their presence at LHR.

May 20, 2003 at 1:31 pm in reply to: Pic of the day #743774

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Delta’s 727 looked great.
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