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November 4, 2008 at 8:30 am in reply to: £8 Trans-Atlantic flights. (Merged) #500890

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Well sometimes. Ciampino is closer than Fiumicino, operares in Madrid-Barajas (instead in the new Campo Real), and Bergamo is probably as convenient as Malpensa. Ryanair Shuttles help a lot for downtown transport.

Some of them are outrageuos. Oslo-Torp………more than 100 km away. I got it last summer and it was really, really long.

November 3, 2008 at 6:12 pm in reply to: £8 Trans-Atlantic flights. (Merged) #500909

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I need flying to NY next october. So, I will rather wait. Stansted is the right one for me. It would give me connections to my hometown. Any idea if the EOS or MaxJet will be replaced in the near future?.

I wonder when the BA A318 will start. I am just amused about how cheap the fares from London are?. Less than 400 euros rt. Even business is really affordable.

October 26, 2008 at 9:54 am in reply to: Ever get nervous flying? #502800

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Always….all the time…..constantly. I can cope with it, but take off and landing in bad weather is a torture. In an alarming way, now after the Spanair crash.

Love aviation, love planes………but I start to enjoy flying after I land. 🙂

October 23, 2008 at 1:34 pm in reply to: Pop star in plane scare. #503422

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Oh Dear, our Enrique again. I am sure he was on his dad´s Gulfstream. No surprise about it, always creating news. Some of them, not always true. :diablo:

October 17, 2008 at 1:09 pm in reply to: Another One Bites The Dust? #504040

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We are being severly affected by crisis. Since tourism in a key factor over here, when visitor figures drop, airlines are starting to die. Lagunair, a regional airlines operating in small airport of central Spain has also closed down. They operated EMB145 and Saab340.

Also Flysur after 38 days, decided to cease operations. I am affraid more bankrupcies are going to come. :confused:

October 12, 2008 at 2:06 pm in reply to: Madrid Tragedy #504885

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In the back jump seats, as flight attendant you can´t see the wings, nor in the front ones. Passengers simply don´t pay attention to that point, in case they do, they would probably think the captain had´nt deployed them for any reasonable explanation.

Only another pilot, or working in aviation or safety could realize about it. And what could we do if we see it?. :confused:

October 1, 2008 at 10:36 pm in reply to: Ryanair New Route From EGNT #506697

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And new airline based here. No plans yet, but a website

http://www.aircompostela.com

Operating a Sukhoi Superjet 100.

October 1, 2008 at 10:34 pm in reply to: Ryanair New Route From EGNT #506701

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Some more routes in Spain today from the Madrid base. One will be to my hometown. So, cheap tickets to the Spanish capital from here.

September 18, 2008 at 7:59 pm in reply to: Madrid Tragedy #508999

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A leak….the video of the crash has been sent to the media

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmfmAGbFIE0

Huge scandal as the Ministry of Transport is leaking important information to the press before conclussions are final. The pilots from the Pilots Trade Unions who were participating in the comission has withdrawn considering that this is not serious for a civilized country.

September 10, 2008 at 8:29 am in reply to: (Breaking News) Futura Int'l to stop Flying from mid-night #511731

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30 million euros losses, GECAS withdrawing most of the B737 fleet (today 15 of the 30 planes), but probably most of them. 🙁

Sounds gloomy. Today, there are contacts with Pegasus Airlines.

September 9, 2008 at 11:34 am in reply to: (Breaking News) Futura Int'l to stop Flying from mid-night #511766

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Well, sorry. Too late. Many answers about it. We have been hearing about it for some time now. We expected it. A long list of troubled airlines for the moment in Spain, which eventually I am affraid they will be out of service.

My bet. Lagunair and Air Pullmantur will be next. :confused:

They had ceased operations, indefinitely yesterday. But today, the Ministry of Aviation has asked them to keep on flying despite the bankrupcy, as long as other potential buyers are foung. We are hearing strong reports about two airlines wanting to purchase it. The first is iranian-portuguese EuroAtlantic and Pegasus Airlines. The steps now for Futura are now to submit a financial report and management plan to ensure the continuation of operations.

So presumebly operations should have resumed today although there have been many new cancelations so far.

Pilots are starting to make jokes about the potential buyers, asking if they would have to wear nuclear protection wear in case the iranian buyers buys the airline. Sooooo, lots of confusion

September 5, 2008 at 2:00 pm in reply to: Madrid Tragedy #512593

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Latest. A mobile on could have caused the electric malfunction, which made the alarms, didn´t sound. So, the first crash caused by a mobile?. Sounds really disturbing.

Iberia is not using MD88 any longer after the crash. Spanair planes, are checked by Iberia, whose maintenance is simply perfect.

More cancelations. A groups of passengers rioted in Spanish Salamanca Airport after the B737-800 from Air Europa, had a minor technical problem. After negotiations the airline used a A330 to take them to the destination.

Media is mixing MD series aircraft with other Boeing models. I am feeling a little bit more uneased about flying.

August 30, 2008 at 9:36 am in reply to: Madrid Tragedy #513578

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Only the reverser. Something wrong was going on from the very beginning. One of the survivors, a flight attendant, was sitting next to a A320 captain. In the investigation she told the commission, that the captain had told her, on starting the take off, that something weird was going on.

So, the reverser deployment was not the prime reason for the crash. Why did the plane fail to have the right speed?. We have an paranoid situation over here. Yesterday, a group of passengers decided not to get on a A330 Iberwold plane, as it suffered problems with the undercarriage, after take off. While back on the airport, they tried to get a document signed by the company assuring the plane won´t crash. How could some passengers be so stupid?. They reported the media, they plane seemed too old for flying. A A330 OLD FOR FLYING 😮

Then some of them demanded a full report for not flying, and got it 😮 And then more horror stories of near misses, emergencies here and there. Media stuff all over.

August 26, 2008 at 10:37 pm in reply to: Bristol – Barcelona Ryanair divert. #514993

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We still don´t know if there was a real despresurization, or it was a mask malfunction. One of the few emergencies I had was taking off from STN on a charter airline B737-300, some years ago.

On climbing, the masks fell off, but we didn´t have to use them, and we landed normally shortly after. Crew told, no real despresurization.

I wonder if they were told, that descending quickly was part of the regular procedures.

August 26, 2008 at 12:10 pm in reply to: Madrid Tragedy #515055

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We have just heard the first survivor comments on TV. A young lady, who has said, that when the plane started to tilt, she knew something was not going well. She heard some cries, but at the same time she only remembers being lying down on the ground.

She has also told in the press conference, that the take off had been pretty normal, maybe a bit slow. No explosion, no strange noises.
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