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February 20, 2012 at 9:25 am in reply to: Volotea Airlines #552861

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The second and third Boeing 717 are being prepared for Volotea Airlines! Both aircraft will receive the livery of Volotea in Florida/USA. Now we can count at least three Boeing 717s in connection with Volotea Airlines who aims to start ops at the beginning of April 2012!

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February 19, 2012 at 12:34 am in reply to: PICTURES: DC-9 knocked mini-bus on its' side during taxi-ing… #552878

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Wonderful picture:)

February 19, 2012 at 12:33 am in reply to: Turkmenistan Airlines retires their Boeing 717-fleet #552879

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That´s correct! I think that all Boeing 717s will go through Birmingham/UK.

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February 7, 2012 at 10:04 am in reply to: Your favourite in flight announcements. #554290

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Here is another popular video showing flight attendants of Cebu Pacific Air:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_L4yu19og0

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February 7, 2012 at 9:52 am in reply to: PICTURES: DC-9 knocked mini-bus on its' side during taxi-ing… #554293

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Maybe one less DC-9?:( The repair could be more expensive than the remaining value of the DC-9.:p

Regards!

January 29, 2012 at 2:52 am in reply to: Spanair suspends their operation #555027

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I think that the demise of Spanair is a combination of several factors including those mentioned by you. Spanair was in a bad shape for several years and the influence of politicians to “use Spanair as an instrument of have an airline in Barcelona” etc. was not helpful either. Up until the end of the 1990s Spanair was a well-managed airline with their main business (charter services) and scheduled flights operated by MD-80s and Boeing 767s. During the first half of the 2000s Spanair somewhat changed their cautious business-plan and during some periods Spanair expanded dramatically mostly on a scheduled basis, probably with the aim to compete with Iberia (and their domestic network during that time!!). This was not helpful to remain profitable.

During mid-2008 Spanair drastically reduced their network and all flights of AeBal were suspended in September 2008. The crash of an MD-80 in August 2008 was another factor and the public image of Spanair deteriorated. A new corporate identity was introduced but changing the livery is in most cases not the answer to counter the changes of market-conditions. During 2010 Spanair shrunk even more with the retirement of their four Boeing 717s and the return of MD-80s.

Spanair officially operated 29 aircraft on the day of their collapse including 19 Airbus A320s, five A321s and five MD-80s. The last MD-80 should have been retired from scheduled service on March 8th to reach their goal to operate Airbus-aircraft only.

I think that several airlines will enter the void left by Spanair but not on a 1:1.basis because I think that the market is currently overheated.

Best regards!

January 24, 2012 at 5:18 am in reply to: Embraer Brasilia and RJ145 question #555559

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I always thought that many parts and the design of the cute ERJ 145 shares commonality with the Embraer Brasilia.:)

December 21, 2011 at 5:52 am in reply to: Delta's Last DC-9's #558239

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Here in Europe the DC-9 wasn’t ubiquitous at all. Only a few of first tier airlines used the (Iberia, Alitalia, Finnair and SAS) but some small IT charter companies flew them.

During the 1960s European carriers like Swissair, Alitalia, Iberia, SAS, KLM, Turkish Airlines introduced DC-9s and in the 1970s Aviaco, JAT, Austrian Airlines, Finnair and British Midland and others began to use the DC-9. SAS operated the biggest DC-9-fleet outside the USA and the fleets of Alitalia and Iberia were rather big during that time. The impact of the DC-9 in Europe was quiet huge during the 1970s and 1980s and lasted long and it is notable that the majority ordered MD-80s at a later stage. McDonnell Douglas was able to secure a high number of DC-9/MD-80-operators in Europe during the 1980s. The gradual decline began with the decisions by Swissair and Austrian to take the A320-family as replacements from the mid-1990s but even up to the 1995 Alitalia took delivery of factory-new MD-82s. The advantages of the A320-family were nevertheless clear and more and more operators replaced their MD-80s by these fare more modern aircraft and it is interesting to note that most Douglas-costumers choose Airbusses as replacements after McDonnell Douglas died and Boeing lost a considerable number of loyal Douglas-costumers.

Here are the factory-new DC-9-10-deliveries to European companies:

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines 6
Swissair 5

Here are the factory-new DC-9-30-deliveries to European companies:

Alitalia 38
Atlantis Airways 3
Austrian Airlines 9
Aviaco 16
Balair 1
Iberia 35
Inex Adria Aviopromet 5
Italian Defence Ministry 2
JAT Yugoslav Airlines 14
KLM 18
Martinair Holland 4
Pan Adria Airways 1
SAS 2
Südflug 2
Swissair 21
Turkish Airlines 10

Here are the factory-new DC-9-40-deliveries to European companies:

SAS 49 (+ 10 DC-9-20s)

Here are the factory-new DC-9-50-deliveries to European companies:

Austrian Airlines 5
Finnair 12
Inex Adria Aviopromet 2
Swissair 12

The numbers are OK for that period and several airlines introduced used DC-9s at a later stage.

That was a pretty paintjob that was copied by a UK airline, also calling itself Northeast Airlines in yellow and grey.

Yeah, they flew Tridents, right?

Long live the Douglas twins!

🙂

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December 20, 2011 at 11:48 pm in reply to: Volotea Airlines #558254

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Thank you very much for your information!

December 20, 2011 at 11:01 pm in reply to: Delta's Last DC-9's #558266

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Nice to read that there are a few who also like the aircraft-types and the advantages when it comes to comfort (5-abreast etc..)

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November 26, 2011 at 9:09 pm in reply to: Delta's Last DC-9's #559386

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Anyone else here a fan of the DC-9?

YES 🙂

November 12, 2011 at 1:46 pm in reply to: Allegiant Air #560932

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Nice to read that you like Allegiant Air.:)

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October 29, 2011 at 1:33 pm in reply to: All Qantas flights grounded. #562583

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Flights of QantasLink, Jetstar and Jetconnect are not affected by the temporarily suspended operation of Qantas.

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September 28, 2011 at 7:44 am in reply to: DC9 nearly looses engines on heavy landing (photo!) #565695

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This particular DC-9 was originally delivered to Finnair in 1976.

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May 29, 2011 at 4:43 pm in reply to: Delta MD-88 at Atlanta, wheel fire after landing #478981

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However the slide was not deployed. Maybe the light load of the flight enabled the flight attendant in the aft to redirect passengers to the aft service door on the left side of the aircraft.

Just a guess.
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