RE: Concorde – Whats the story?

Well, I bet for Concorde. VIPS have got used to it and don´t have any alternative in the market to cross the Atlantic. Powerfull people get what they want. I suppose they leave huge amounts of money and I suppose BA doesn´t want to lose them. Taking into account that Boeing is studying faster planes, the most intelligent thing to do is developing the new Concorde. It´s a question of national pride as well.

RE: Boeing shelves Super Jumbo 747X

Boieng´s philosofy was always: If the classic things work, why should be rejected”. For years they have only stretched, shrink or redesign old concepts. The market has always prefered profitabiliy, costs and few innovation. But fortunately this time, this laziness is over and will demand Boeing to rack a bit more their brains to take something really new. Yellowstone jet flying at match 0,95 is not really something too quick but with a fantastic design. It will have regular engines and an improvement in design. Long live innovation…. I am sure now the new versions of Concorde will be approved.

RE: BA and it’s Tails!

We have to judge the idea, not some of the design which were not really nice. However some where brilliant. I don´t know why an airline is more “national” if we put the flag on it. Airlines must have a more global image since they operate in international market. Some people sees in this (excesive use of flags), sights of ultrapatriotism, a bit of racism and a lack of elegance. And I don´t want to say that I see it in this way, since I don´t really care what airlines put on their planes. But many passengers out of the UK think this.

RE: TWA 800 & Egyptair?

I have talked to a pilot and make some comments about Gulf air crash and he told me that it wasn´t odd at all. Its really feasibly on landing at low speed, over running the runway, for poor visibility. If the plane is too low and with a low speed if you try to pull up and regain altitude, the plane needs space to go up. So close to the sea its feasible that it might hit the the water on trying to go up again, unbalance the place and make it stall. Or simply stall due to loss of sustentation (is that called like this is Enlglish?)

RE: concord test flight

Well, Concorde will be back in service soon. Americans, despite their sayin they were not interested in supersonic flights, are developing a new supersonic aircraft (Boeing) which will be able to fly at small costs with 250 passengers and sonic sound speed. Europeans have the advantage and should learn and develop the new Concorde soon. So more supersonic flights in the future

RE: Holiday Airlines – Is their service up to scratch? MONARCH!!!

I think British charters are superior to any one from other nationalitiy. They set standards. The best one is without any doubt Monarch. The worst, JMC. For bad service, I say….British Midland and their…..”only salad” for European flights for High fares. Dan Air was superb, I am a bit partial to it I have to confess. British Caledonian was a great airline, specially flying
the Bac 1-11 which is the finest ever built.

RE: WHY IT IS SO MUCH MORE FOR TRAVELLER’S IN SCOTLAND

That´s right. It happens the same in my SCQ. It is supposed that some places have higher fares, because:
-No competence.
-High yield passangers.
-Lack of traffic to compensate empty seats and
-Airlines tend to abuse the public as much as they can. In airports with lots of flights they have to lower the prices because they are many alternative.
THAT´S RIGHT I´LL will be visiting Edinburgh on the first weekend of February I couldn´t get reasonale fares to get there. I have to fly LDL and then train to EDI.