redsquareI guess we’ll just have to wait and see what, if anything, Boeing find out of the ordinary.
Don’t forget that the 777 has something called Thrust Asymmetric Compensation (TAC) which recognises a difference between the two engines’ fan speed and hence automatically adjusts the rudder to compensate during, for example, an engine failure.
Although, unlikely to be the cause of this problem, it could be something to take into account.
redsquareUh oh, Air France won’t like this one piece. Good. :diablo: Their policy of ‘everything must go through Paris’ is a chore. Ryanair have deviated from their normal policy of establishing multiple routes from other bases before making an airport a base itself. They were probably trying to mark their territory before EZY did.
However, undoubtedly Marseille will become popular for both inbound and outbound passengers. Marseille has suffered in recent times even though it is France’s 2nd city because of the Air France stranglehold who of course will probably attempt various methods of legal action before the base opens in November.
Certainly a brave move which will ruffle some feathers in France, who knows, maybe they’ll wake up and smell the competition coffee. Morocco, obviously with it’s large local immigrant population will be a success. Likewise, the other routes should be popular for business and pleasure. An airport like Marseille should be able to sustain far more than than the 5.8m it currently sees (perhaps more than double that?) with a population of 1.5m in the local metropolitan area.
Anyway, a very smart move to estabish in a major airport and area in France. 🙂
redsquareVery sad indeed. For info, I have the weather for Sochi (URSS) 2200z-2300z with accident at 2215z:
URSS 022200Z VRB01MPS 4000 -SHRA BR BKN006 OVC027CB 11/11 Q1018 TEMRO 1500 BR VV005 RMK G/?Z QFE762 SC05=
URSS 022300Z VRB01MPS 6000 -SHRA BR BKN005 OVC028CB 11/11 Q1017 TEMRO 1500 BR VV005 RMK QBB160 G/~Z QFE762 SC05=
Basically very light wind, 4000 metres visibility, light rain showers, mist, clouds broken 600 feet above ground, overcast at 2700 feet Cumulonimbus(CB) 11 degrees Celcius temporarily 1500 metres visibility, mist with low cloud at 500 feet.
Fairly bad weather with the cloud and vis but nothing which is out of the ordinary.
RIP to those who lost their lives 🙁
redsquareI have to admit I didn’t like it much at first but it has actually grown on me especially with the coloured overhead bins.
redsquareI’m not sure why an aircraft which was only a few years old looked like it had been in operation from the 1980s from the state of the cabin. Quite sad really. I suppose that’s from people treating the insides with no respect.
Bingo, probably the 8-12 sectors per day and the pax. I suppose the plastic interiors will last longer. It’s a bit random alright, I’ve seen some of the older aircraft looking ok but most are understandably wrecked. New interiors will go in during D checks scheduled for 7-8 years service if they aren’t sold off to avoid the cost.
redsquareThey have had four delivered so far this month. However, it is my understanding that these four deliveries were origionally scheduled for Jan 06, but due to the problems with pilot hours etc, they were defered until Apr. The delivery schedule so far this year is not as was planned in the first instance.
After todays arrival, I have no further details of what / when is next. Anyone able to advise?
The deliveries have been running exactly a month late since September 2005, the lastest 4 were supposed to be delivered during March instead of April etc.
All available options were converted to firm orders. Here’s the list I have with the optioned aircraft in brackets but definately getting delivered :dev2:
The next deliveries are supposed to be:
Sep-2006 4
Oct-2006 4
Nov-2006 4
Dec-2006 1
Jan-2007 4
Feb-2007 4 (1)
Mar-2007 4 (1)
Apr-2007 (1)
May-2007 (2)
Sep-2007 4 (2)
Oct-2007 5 (1)
Nov-2007 (6)
They’ve 6 aircraft placed in bases in Sep/Oct 2006 (1 Pisa, 1 Shannon, 2 Hahn, 2 Liverpool) which should mean more route announcements shortly. 😉
Is the bus style cabin been retrofitted to aircraft – EI-CSA-EI-DAN? I hope not! 😛
Nope, thankfully, although the early aircraft are tatty especially the cloth seats but at least EI-CSA – EI-CSE are leaving in 2007. (Probably sell them for more than the cost of the new aircraft)
All this means is that aircraft deliveries are going to accerate even faster in the next year (they got 25 from Sep05-Apr06 and will go up to 30 from Sep06-May07) by 20%. I expect more options to be exercised before the cutoff date of June 06. 😀
redsquareWow the Ryanair 737’s keep coming, every time you think you’ve flown on the newest one, you realise there has been about another 4 deliveries since!
Yeah, they must have done some serious damage to the bank account over the last few weeks alright :p
Also, they’re going to have send them all on heavy maintenance eventually so hence the creation of the major hangar setup going into Poland or Latvia it looks like (anouncement in the coming months) with Prestwick and Dublin doing the lighter, routine stuff.
redsquareYou’re probably right but I saw the flightplan yesterday listing it direct with the alternative as Keflavik, probably depending on winds. I have a DUB arrival time of 1359z from FRs network(always open to mistakes and BS) which is more likely to be non stop or a very quick stop but won’t be able to check again until Sunday.
I don’t know about -DLN but -DLM definately did it direct and the rest should follow in theory. The cheap gits will save on the landing fees yeehaw 🙂
redsquareFrom memory I think it’s 3 A320s with a fourth coming sometime. I’m sure someone else can confirm.
Aircraft are probably rotated from DUB for maintenance and to even up the hour:cycle ratios 🙂
redsquareIt looks like there are two former Royal Jordanian A320’s on the market http://www.speednews.com/listings/history/xls/latestlistings.xls . C/N’s are very old and in need of some TLC. I wonder if they’re the aircraft in question?
redsquareHad flights to and from DUB onboard Ryanair this week on EI-DLL and EI-DCS, both nice clean wingletted machines, must really annoy Ryanair that someone had already put chewing gum into the carpet of DLL where I was sat! Both good flights around 20 minutes late. People talk about Ryanair crews been rude and miserable, never found that to be the case yet!
I guess some people really think it’s a bus, I suppose it looks like one :rolleyes:
Where are you based now then redsquare, if you don’t mind me asking?
Pisa, nice and relaxed, no hassle off the management, it’s like working for a different company. It seems the further away you get from Stansted and Dublin the better. I trying to move back to Stansted however so I’m not stuck flying to the same 5 places over and over although it will be better come October with some new routes. Pisa’s also a bit out of my comfort zone.
The B738 is harder to land smoothly anyway because of the more “unforgiving” landing gear structure.
Correct, also the larger wing is designed for cruising ie speed and efficiency and near the ground it’s not very friendly (ground effect). 🙁
BTW, EI-DLO was delivered this afternoon on another direct flight from Seattle.
redsquareI operated some DUB-CWL services earlier this year and the loads were nothing to write home about, amongst the worst of the DUB base. It’s a shame what happened but MOL won’t be losing any sleep (& he just won £100,000 with his horse this aternoon 🙁 )
As with every dispute, there are two sides to every story and it looks like the 5 year deal had come to an end and normal prices would of applied. All airlines will get a discounted rate for starting routes and as other routes come up for renewal the same thing could occur.
Cardiff has just lost a route worth 10% of 2005s total passenger numbers. They were hoping for a 22% increase this year, that now looks impossible with this and the demise of Air Wales. Aer Arann will never get anywhere near the numbers required.
Ryanair have always had arguments with airports and sometimes patch things up eg Dublin, Kerry, Cork, Derry, Bergamo and Hahn. However, Cardiff is being used as a sacrificial lamb to show others that Ryanair is serious and will move if pushed. Airports are fighting viciously with each other for passengers and Ryanair know it. Cardiff and Klagenfurt (airport in Austria where charges went up, Ryanair left with its 400,000 pax, Styrian Spirit took over and promptly went bankrupt nearly bringing the airport with it) will be used as examples.
Abertis, the owners of TBI and therefore CWL are in merger talks so there could bw a change in management in the future. EasyJet dropped Zurich in favour of Basel not so long ago for the reason ie charges.
Ref. Air Wales on the route, they were a joke with multi hour delays often leading to cancellations, and I don’t know if it was just this route or not. At the end of the day, there will be winners and losers and I know where my money is 🙂
redsquareI did a short stint working from Dublin (alas no more Irish pilots allowed to be based in DUB..long story) just after Chrisrmas and made it to LBA twice, nice airport and busier than I thought it was, Rwy 14 is a little short when landing because of the displaced landing zone but good fun.
BTW, for some reason all pilots applying for a job in Ryanair are tested on a short flight from LBA and back in the 732 simulator. It’s probably the relatively complicated dearture routes to the west (towards FIWUD waypoint I think) that makes them use LBA for the test 🙂 It catches out a good few alright.
Yep, 189 seats and somehow they’re usually filled…it’s like magic.
redsquareYeah from Liverpool they can more or less always go with the full 22K thrust de-rate, not sure from Dublin if that’s the case?
Cheers
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Dublin’s not a problem but Rome Ciampino can be, particularly during the summer because of the heat and obstacles after takeoff. Icy runways are usually a recommened full power takeoff but you don’t want to use it whenever it’s not necessary to preserve the engines. Of course, some guys just like to give it some ‘welly’ occasionally; actually had passengers complaining once because of the resultant nose up angle was uncomfortable 😀 Sorry won’t do that again so.
Also, even with derated engines, should the throttles be firewalled ie. pushed fully forward, the power will be max certified for that aircraft type which is 27k for the 737-800. Never had to do that, thankfully (emergencies only) 😮
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