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I'm sure that Scandinavian consider themselves to be special.

Maybe it would be quicker to do it in reverse. Find a place that already has a rail line, and build a new airport there.

A couple of weeks ago, a nearby house burnt down. The fire was started by a battery. The house was ‘gone’ by the time the brigade arrived, in an impressive 10 minutes. But, nobody was trapped inside the house, and everyone could stand on the street and watch (or run away as appropriate). Sadly...

Or perhaps a step along the way to banning their carriage entirely…. I would not be surprised to see that step eventually taken, irrespective of the howls.

You have to think about the overall QF management of its staff. They basically have been at war with all staff, except office dwellers, since around 2000. Divide and conquer is the only rule that they follow, in all activities. That then colours everything, especially new aircraft purchases...

I suspect, probably all of them. But it would solve the getting off problem.

I am not a fan of Bali. I suspect that I've said so in the past. It was especially memorable by having one of the two worst smelling groups of passengers that I ever carried. Care to guess at the other?

And that comes back to there being far too much grandfathering, though whether it's actually involved here, I don't know. And note also, that the flaps are not deployed....

The pilots who flew the 717s are being retrained to fly the 220. The one bloke I know who's in that boat hasn't actually started his training yet, so, like all things "new QF", I expect they've left everything to the last minute, and are now wondering why they aren't prepared. But, where 220s...

I’m surprised this one hasn’t had a mention. The image of people on the wing, with luggage, is especially insightful. https://avherald.com/h?article=52537102&opt=0 The lack of an off wing slide is interesting, and I wonder if that’s yet another Boeing exemption. The equivalent Airbus has them.

The reality has always been that a very small percentage of the kids who think they'd like to be pilots ever end up getting there. It is not a job that everyone can do...most people simply aren't wired the right way. There are lots of hurdles, of which the biggest initial one is the cost. Cadet...

Nothing is normally flown in the hold for the return journey. I guess it would be freight, by the cheapest possible means (i.e. ship or horse).

That was the original story. I got the comments re cycles from an internal forum, though QF isn't good at keeping staff up to date on anything. But, if you simultaneously have some aircraft with engine issues, and also some with high cycles, then there's an obvious source of a few engines, and...

A story doing the rounds that two of the QF330s are now permanently grounded, having run out of 'cycles'. If so, that represents the most hideous failure of management, from the board on down. And of course, it will only get worse. Failure to order new aircraft in a timely manner is not...

Going back over a number of those flights, I can see that they're adhering to the minimum radar altitudes (i.e. ATC are giving headings), and all are higher, and slower, than the Easyjet flight. Whilst not ideal, it's not uncommon around the world. Like most things, it's safe enough, as long as...

At this point he's at the lowest, and is reducing the sink rate. Next data point he's climbing at 3,200 fpm.

I read the initial "click bait" line and was immediately offside. But then I looked closely at the entire approach. Wow, it really was an interesting effort, to say the least. The track flown is similar (but not exactly the same) as this one. Note the numbers in blue. They're showing "not...

I don't know why it's this way, but as far as I know, none of the 737s have steering tillers on the right hand side. The wide body aircraft, on the other hand, all do. There would be a limited amount of nose gear steering available, via the rudder pedals (about 7º on most aircraft), but you...

Only a few 330 minute circles give coverage over the vast majority of the ocean, so I can’t see ETOPS being a part of reason these flights diverge.

I doubt that there was any human input in the planning at all. It's basically a case of starting at the destination, and working backwards through the various possible routes and flight levels, overlaid on the projected wind/temperature. Slow when done manually, but computer systems can run...