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If avoiding the US becomes a long term trend, then I can see aircraft being redeployed/downsized. And yes, their border people seem to the the world's least human. I wonder whether they are hired that way, or the job changes them.

I'm sure the QF pilots will be looking for his input.

Such a pity that you can't let it open, just for them.

I wonder what the planned "floor" for the display was. I've seen some frighteningly low outcomes at Temora. Going super low increases the risk exponentially, without improving the spectacle. Reminds me of this: This F/A-18 Pilot Survived 75G Impact in Horror Hornet Crash - The Aviation Geek Club

Well, if you were in first the crew would obviously have suffocated the baby for you.

They'll always crab into wind for the approach until the flare. Some will land with it mostly intact (B), but others will do a flare/decrab (A). As a general rule, autopilots have their authority progressively removed as they get closer to the ground. Pilots on the other hand, are at their...

Almost identical coughpit to the A380…

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...