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Ryanair closes Girona
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OFSO » Fri Aug 23, 2019 3:23 pm
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Ryanair has announced it is closing its base at Girona and sacking 164 staff including crew stationed there. Writing had been on the wall for years...
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Quite a few Harpair flights to REUS now, obviously getting a better deal there.
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Last post by Woody
Wed Aug 28, 2019 10:30 am
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Iberia and Vueling on strike in August
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OFSO » Thu Aug 22, 2019 5:35 pm
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Says it all. Just been on TV news. Union leaders have been on a course in Paris, learning the French couldn't care less shoulder shrug.
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BA pilots standing up to the Spanish Bully ^:)^
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Last post by ribrash
Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:22 pm
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Ryanair strikes in September...
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OFSO » Wed Aug 14, 2019 3:26 pm
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1. 2. 6. 8. 13. 15. 20. 22. 27. 28... October will continue if management don't give in.
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Read in the paper today that Ryanair said that most of their pilots earn £175k per year and are demanding it to be doubled...
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Last post by 1DC
Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:10 pm
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Last post by svhar
Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:38 am
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Pilots arrested at Glasgow airport
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ricardian » Sat Aug 03, 2019 9:39 pm
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2 pilots arrested after failing breath test
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Loftleider flight, Glasgow to Reykjavik was held for us at the ramp. Shacklebus trundles up next door, out comes pilot in immersion suit, life...
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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Thu Aug 08, 2019 6:02 pm
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:56 pm
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200 mile an hour tailwind!
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Cacophonix » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:47 pm
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Who needs the Concorde, anyway? On Monday, somewhere over norther Pennsylvania, a Virgin Atlantic-flown Boeing 787 Dreamliner traveling from Los...
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I was positiong an Aztec into Vagar (Faroes) from Glasgow to collect a pax.
Anyway, and positioned myself using the weather radar in the mouth of...
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Last post by Slasher
Thu Jul 18, 2019 11:10 am
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Last post by Rwy in Sight
Tue Jul 16, 2019 9:03 pm
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When the registration requires change?
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Rwy in Sight » Sun Jun 30, 2019 5:24 pm
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We were discussing with a friend yesterday when an aircraft must change registration when is is leased/hired to an airline. For instance Alitalia has...
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I once rebuilt a car retaining only the chassis registration plate.
Did you inform the insurers you had modified the vehicle? ;)))
It was done...
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Last post by G-CPTN
Mon Jul 15, 2019 9:52 pm
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737 Max cancellation
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OFSO » Mon Jul 08, 2019 7:54 am
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I see a Saudi loco has cancelled an order for the 737Max and switched to Airbus. Only 30 aircraft plus follow-ups, though. Probably FR will take the...
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I believe they are taking the orders from their parent company, Saudi Arabian Airlines. It will be interesting to see what SAA does now - is this...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:15 pm
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Air France
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OFSO » Mon May 07, 2018 10:27 am
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See the French government is suggesting that Air France may not survive if the unions keep up their demands and/or unless Macron gives in to their...
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Plan B then!
Air France’s subsidiary Joon has operated its last commercial flights under the Joon brand and will be merged into the Air France...
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Last post by Woody
Fri Jun 28, 2019 8:49 pm
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7700 Alerts on EZY JER <-> BFS flights
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by Capetonian » Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:43 am
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Switched my phone on just after landing at BFS, and got amongst other stuff, a FlightRadar24 7700 alert. Looked at it and thought the flight number...
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It's you? :))
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Last post by Boac
Thu Jun 27, 2019 12:12 pm
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Air New Zealand to allow staff to show tattoos.
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John Hill » Mon Jun 10, 2019 6:18 am
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Air New Zealand says it will allow all staff, including those in uniform, to display their non-offensive tattoos at work.
From September 1 all new...
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It's an odd policy.
It's a cultural thing for Maori but not for Pakeha (apart from older ex-servicemen), and as prospector says, who decides if a...
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Last post by FD2
Wed Jun 12, 2019 2:37 am
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797
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OFSO » Mon May 20, 2019 3:08 pm
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So Boeing's new797 will be built for a single pilot to fly, with the second officer ground-based and assisting in flying several aircraft at a time...
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I read the above and wondered if I'd been in a time warp back to 1st April.
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Last post by llondel
Tue May 21, 2019 5:01 pm
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Thomas Cook Airlines for sale
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Boac » Thu Feb 07, 2019 9:23 pm
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. I assume that is Condor as well.
...and so it goes on. Not good times.
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I imagine that, like the EU's artificial currency, the company is too big to fail, and money is going be pumped in to keep it operating, but for how...
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Last post by unifoxos
Fri May 17, 2019 11:05 am
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Accross the Atlantic by A321
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ian16th » Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:17 am
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All Cattle Class, but its cheep cheep!
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Maybe they'll try and copy WFA and operate LCY to BOS stopping in Dublin for fuel and passport stamps?
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Last post by barkingmad
Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:57 pm
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Jet Airways in Trouble
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barkingmad » Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:47 am
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Jet Airways cancels international flights as crisis deepens
Sadly another one possibly on the way out.
Apparently unpaid lessors looking for their...
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S'gone!
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Last post by Boac
Wed Apr 17, 2019 4:49 pm
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To contenarised or not
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Rwy in Sight » Sun Apr 14, 2019 7:59 pm
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Ever since I saw a turn around of an A300B4 with a palletized load used back in1985, I am curious on the pro and cons of using pallets or containers...
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PN,
I think that this a recurring test. I remember a similar experience using a 747 some twenty years ago. It seems you can either reinforce the...
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Last post by Rwy in Sight
Mon Apr 15, 2019 4:36 pm
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ADS-B Rolled out.
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barkingmad » Wed Apr 03, 2019 8:00 am
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Just announced, satellite tracking fully live and being trialled over N Atlantic .
Presume MH370 has accelerated this development?
Nothing like a...
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Ha! I'll match your student pilot and raise you a cadet who asked me yesterday how did you calculate (ROD needed to maintain a 3* slope which is 1/2...
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Last post by ExSp33db1rd
Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:59 am
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Flybe listening to GPWS hard warning?
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barkingmad » Wed Apr 03, 2019 7:45 am
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Following the suspended pilot's e-mail to the management are we now watching the Flybe board sitting listening to the hard warnings and waiting for...
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Son needs to go back to MAN for a day next month and the month after. Looked at Flybe website this morning for flights.
Seems they have totally...
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Last post by Ibbie
Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:36 am
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Having a bone to pick ...........
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barkingmad » Mon Apr 01, 2019 7:09 pm
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Brilliant rant over in T O P from retiring apparently genuine airline pilot who sums it all up very concisely.
Don't read if you're on...
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I’ve read this, without logging on, makes lots of good points, but I reckon most of his points have been made already by the Pilots and others in...
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Last post by Woody
Tue Apr 02, 2019 8:13 am
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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Fri Mar 08, 2019 10:52 am
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Bye bye A380?
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Cacophonix » Thu Feb 14, 2019 6:35 am
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Airbus has announced it will end production of its flagship A380 superjumbo passenger jet, potentially putting UK jobs at risk.
The firm said it had...
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I thought the A-380 fans were RR Trent's?
And the wings are made in the UK too. Not good for our economy at all that this beautiful aircraft...
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Last post by Cacophonix
Sun Feb 24, 2019 1:34 pm
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Flybmi in administration
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Ibbie » Sat Feb 16, 2019 7:26 pm
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Flybmi has filed for administration today
Airbus shuttles are to be operated by Titan until a new operator is found,
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Imagine my surprise!
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Last post by Undried Plum
Sun Feb 24, 2019 8:53 am
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Flybe for sale
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CharlieOneSix » Tue Nov 13, 2018 10:58 pm
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Flybe has put itself up for sale:
Flybe for Sale - Daily Telegraph
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Another example of French 'management' in action. They are useless bosses, particularly the females.
I hesitate to say Flybe was ever a 'good'...
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Last post by Capetonian
Sat Feb 23, 2019 1:55 pm
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