TACA is still one of the safest airlines in the world. The problem is when you operate under extreme circunstances as in Central America, one has bigger changes of getting “the price”.

We have to remind the poor safety of the airport as many other in the region surounded by mountains, with a really short runway, and deficient drainnage system.

The plane attempted to land previously twice, and the weather was not nice at the moment. This roughly is taken from one El Salvador newspaper.

I am flying next friday 🙁 FR to STN…………..keep on watching the weather like mad all the time. 🙂

We wanted to send a satire of the festival, and decided to send a freaky thing, which has ashamed the country. Eurovision is a net of influences, friendships and so on. I do admire Italy for having withdrawn themselves from it.

With “never”, I still can remember how silly Spanair has been. They operated with Spanair Link on the Balearic Islands, using B717, which proved to be too big. Then other regional airline came in using ATRs and dropping the prices.

Spanair decided to play the “ignorant fear” game. “We only fly jet aircraft, because we take care of our passengers”. They went on and on advertising how bad properlers were, how unsafe, how turbulent the fights were. They promised never to use propellers

But passengers didn´t follow Spanair strategy. So, now most Spanish domestic routes can´t be profitable using Spanair big planes. So, never say never. It´s not intelligent.

I agree.

Bye bye Ryanair. Not more bookings as far as I am concerned. Rising costs for the same thing again?. Aviation authorities should say something. It´s absolutely impossible to accomodate 50% of the baggage in the cabin holds. Impossible at all. Evacuation with dozens of bags in the cabin, passengers getting them, or in the middle of the aisle, it´s dangerous.

I find it more decent, imposing fuel surcharges like all airlines instead of criminalazing some of the passengers. What´s next, weighting passengers in the check in.

I have had enough. Iberia is repulsive, but has increased the free baggage allowance, and has proffits. In some routes, with only Ryanair as sole airline, they are not cheap. I understand the fuel costs are consuming the industry, they have to make passengers to pay for them, but not in this way.

BUT, some others are doing more funny things: “Vueling is charging for all seats”. An extra of 4 euros. So…..can I choose a aisle standing possition 🙂

I don´t know about comparisions with other routes, but planes are still flying from Madrid to Barcelona. Note that most connections are made in Madrid, and these feeder routes are still essential. The point is that train from both cities takes the same amount of time. If you get an offer and go from downtown to downtown it could be convinient. If you don´t get an offer, plane is more convient and usually cheaper.

About 50 flights a day in each direction. Served by Iberia, Spanair, Air Europa and Vueling. Competence will be fierce now.

Unless it´s a Boeing 747, produced in China, slightly modified under Boeing advise and with chinese name..:)

I wonder why people don´t take seriously the lives of other people. Four warnings………?. What where they doing?.

They should be fired off inmediately 😡

Haven´t we learnt anything from the Swiss mid-air disaster a few years ago?. :confused: :confused: :confused:

Certificated airplanes have a maximum demonstrated crosswind component that they can land in. Most airlines have in their operational manuals the maximum crosswinds that they will operate under. The winds are a key thing that a pilot and dispatcher are supposed to evaluate. It’s pretty clear in this case that they were trying to operate beyond the limits. In this case they should have selected a more appropriate runway (which I understand they did for the second approach) or diverted to another airport with a different runway layout (less crosswind).

Thanks. So as I far as I can understand, it´s not important the speed of the wind, but if it´s crosswind?. Same speed and different runway configuration make a big different, doesn´t it?