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The cabin crew don't have to wait for the pilots before they can board. Procedures may well differ with other airlines, and airports, customs, and security can throw their own rules into the mix. Probably best if we don't discuss the doors.

You’d be surprised. Many people seem to think the crew arrive and the aircraft can go 30 seconds later.

Curfews themselves can generally be worked around. But inflexible, rigid ones are problematic. A big problem is the interaction between destination and departure point, when they both have a curfew. That can have the effect of making only a fraction of the available open hours useful for any...

I think you overstate his capability.

Haven't had much cause to use it lately, but I was a heavy user in years past...

Free first class tickets, in unlimited number, on demand, for all flights.

And that's exactly what I would have expected to happen too.

It will happen, in the same time frame that all the passengers are also replaced by AI.

Sadly they will still be unreadable gibberish.

I fill Alan Joyce’s details, for any of these. I hear he’s hard up, and needs the help they offer.

Won’t happen. The 767 had much more of a claim to preservation, and they just disappeared, and have been forgotten by almost everyone.

In larger aircraft, the holding line will be below the bottom of the windscreen, and I suspect it comes back to not being happy about that. But, as I said, it’s easy to see the marking out of a side window, or a camera. It’s not at all safe though, as it often puts the tail of the aircraft over...

I did eventually follow up about the lack of condition clearances at Melbourne, via our Fleet Manager. It was causing some quite considerable take off delays, as gaps that we could easily have fitted in were seemingly being wasted. I don't have the actual email any more (again, from the FM when...

If you don't mind, I'll reply on the pilot thread.

The SO would defiinitely be doing the external preflight, if encounters with snakes were common.

No, only one, on the tarmac at Perth.

It's a few years now, but if I haven't lost all of the cells, the rest of the world uses conditional clearances. Sydney did. But Melbourne didn't. And in the 380 it meant a lot of lost take off opportunities, especially when waiting to line up on 16, with ATC waiting for a bloke to get to J.

So, does that make it an ATC error. Or an ATC error abetting a Blackhawk pilot error. Or were they really all poor sods, who were set up by a system that was never really designed, but just brought itself into being. TBH, no matter how I look at this, it just falls into the category of “sooner...

Common enough. As long as they're a few hours apart, they'll be able to use the same callsign. If not, then the delayed aircraft will be assigned a 'delta' suffix.

It's certainly an issue that has to be resolved. The military do accept operations with reduced safety, as a matter of course. But, their standards should never end up being applied to civilian aircraft. The CRJ, for whatever reason, and contrary to what we might expect, was not seen. To be...