From MAN’s tweet:
“@redsmartie_ no you just have to pay for the car regardless of how many people in it!
about 6 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to redsmartie_”

Update to story – may have been dead for up to 12 hours?!

Not to mention the thousands of A320s and 737s sold. Airlines are still ordering planes, so you can’t blame the economic climate for the state of the A380s order book.

You’re right about airlines ordering planes still. Only the other week I believe Air Berlin ordered -10 of the 787. Don’t recollect too many passenger orders being cancelled for the A380 -a few deferrals yes but not cancellations. The B748i hasn’t exactly been setting the world alight either….makes me wonder whether Boeing has wisely spent money developing the B748 as there were no real challengers to the B744F programme.

EI-DAN has been operating LGW-MAN
EI-DHP has been operating LGW-GLA
EI-DHR has been operating LGW-EDI

Anyway, I see it as good news because the more bad news and f**k-ups this airline makes, the more the public will become cautious about using them. 😀

Err?? Surely mistyping digits can happen to any pilot on any airline. To try and single that out as a reason not to fly EK is bizarre. After all, have we not had in the UK an airline whose pilots inadvertently shut down the wrong engine which caused almost 50 deaths – no one said, “I’m not flying British Midland any more – their pilots don’t know their left from their right!”

Plus if EK “folds” due to passengers losing confidence in them and refusing to fly on them, I daresay both Boeing and Airbus will be hit financially with the current and future sales of large aircraft that they will lose out on. And I wouldn’t have thought this would be good for the industry?!

Your Spantax DC9 is very much an Aviaco DC9. DOn’t think Spantax made that many daytime visits (perhaps my memories are fading?).