He sure does!!!!!!!!!

Yep! I can remember the same relentless propaganda from Boeing Co. at the time of the creation of the 747 assembly plant. “Largest single roofspan” “Clearance of entire hillside and forest in days of endless rain etc, etc” I have a Boeing video which manages to fill 55 mins on this sole topic, again just a “warehouse” They all do it!

But how on earth does a strike do anything to soothe concerns about a floundering airlines future?
It sounds as though the management of Alitalia need to sharpen their act up in the field of communication. From what I’ve read on this the staff don’t seem to have any idea about whats going on, and thats not good for anyone.
Come on Alitalia “Communication-The art of better Business!”

On this one please.

A beautiful aircraft! Have flown on 3 over the years, Sterling, Transeuropa and Transwede.

In the days of the Soviet era air transport served an alloted purpose within the structures of a command economy, which like everything else in the command economy was subservient to the needs/interests of the state. As far as Aeroflot and the other flag carriers in the socialist states were concerned, this meant that these enterprises performed duties vastly greater than airlines in the west. The roles of passenger and freight transport ran alongside the roles of mapping and survey work, air ambulance flights, agricultural duties as well as weather and environmental reaserch flights. The destinations served by the communist airlines were by and large dictated by their governments on the basis of political suitabilty of the destination countries and by the ability of some routes to generate foreign currency, ie routes to capitalist countries. Most of the citizens of the socialist states were eligable for heavily subsidised fares, although these were still fairly expensive in relation to income. Most communist airlines, in particular Aeroflot, were obliged to provide cheap service on so called “socially essential services” at fares even more heavily subsidised. The aircraft flown were designed to operate from low standard airports/airfields and also to be easy and cheap to maintain as well as durable and where economics were not important then Soviet types fulfilled the bill perfectly. Which is why direct comparison between genuine Soviet era aircraft and “western” equivalents are not realistic or fair, as the design strategy behind both were very different

Really good to see genuine interest in Russian/Soviet types at last

Have worked with these types for many years, though not at present. Have flown on the following.

Aeroflot: IL18, IL62M, Tu134/134A, Tu154M
Balkan Bulgarian: Tu134A, Tu154B
CSA: IL62M
Cubana: IL62M
CAAK: IL62M, Tu134A
Interflug IL18, Tu134A
LOT: Tu134A, An24
Malev: Tu134A, Tu154B
Tarom: IL62M

Thank goodness for staff travel…certainly could’nt have done it all otherwise. These trips were spread over 10 yrs or so. As these types and some of the carriers have gone, I’m really glad I had the chance fly on these aircraft, although my colleagues at the time thought I was mad!

Dispatcher is a great job! I did it from 1980 to 1987 and again from 90 thru to 96. Other than between these dates I was engaged on other Ops related tasks. If you love aircraft (as I think we all do ) then short of flying the things its possibly the best career in civil aviation there is. (Just my opinion),although I always wanted to try cabin crew! I hold licences for SAS, NWA and Cathay Pacific types, although these are now lapsed and are no longer relevant to my present career in the industry. In short I would’nt have missed it for the world-Go for it!