Overseas Aviation

Only a punt here, but my guess is that the cost difference between loading a 777 (400 pax thereabouts) and running the fuel-efficient A350 with fewer pax doesn't make sense, given the upfront cost of retraining staff on the A350 and setting up maintenance for a new model.

Very interesting.. think of EZ, only a couple of models to keep cost down. EK operating on a similar low-cost model w.r.t. fleet.

They are going with A380s

Very interesting indeed.

Despite Leahy's claim that he heard about the cancellation this morning, first hand information from EK suggests that this has been in the works for a long time.

DXB will be significantly constrained in years to come choking the growth of EK and the only way for EK to grow would be by upguaging their fleet.

Cancellation of the A350 was apparently discussed in the same breath with the order for 777X and A380 last year.

Come 2020, EK will be a two (work)horse fleet; A380 and B777.

Think of an airline whose smallest aircraft would be the 77W!

Emirates cancels order for 70 Airbus A350s

Dubai's Emirates Airline has cancelled an order for 70 of Airbus's A350 wide-bodied aircraft, the planemaker says.

Airbus said the cancellation had followed "ongoing discussions with the airline in light of their fleet requirement review".

In 2007, Emirates placed 50 orders for the A350-900 and 20 for the A350-1000, with deliveries due from 2019.

UK engine maker Rolls-Royce said the cancellation would lead to a £2.6bn hit to its order book.

"While disappointed with this decision, we are confident that the delivery slots which start towards the end of this decade vacated by Emirates will be taken up by other airlines," Rolls-Royce said

Three planes damaged, 21 flights diverted due to bad weather in Delhi

Three planes were damaged and 21 flights diverted due to the sudden rain and storm that lashed the national capital here Friday evening, officials said.

Airport sources said that three planes, which were parked at the T-3 (terminal 3) of the Indira Gandhi International Airport, were damaged. These belonged to Go Air and Air India.

Meanwhile 21 flights which were coming to Delhi were diverted, officials said. Among the flights that were diverted included four international flights coming from Kathmandu, Sharjah, Colombo and Kabul.

I thought 9M-MRO is B747

MH370 Missing?

Any updates/Info on the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER [9M-MRO]?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-scrapped.html

the last DC-10 of Biman Bangladesh airlines (SR-ACR) named "New Era" will return back home frm Birmingham (BHX) to Dhaka (DAC), the birmingham-kuwait-dhaka flight will be the last ever flight flown by a civilian DC-10,,, ending 43 yrs of service!!!!

And Tiger Airways announced Flights to Maldives .. There goes a piece of UL's pie ..

SQ increases baggage allowances ..

CLOSE CALL
2 Boeing 747s missed each other by 30m over Scotland, over 1000 people were on board!!!!!!!!! :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...tructions.html

This is gonna make SQ and the likes, who are pushing TAs away, pretty upset !!

India orders airline commission for agencies

Shekhar Niyogi, Kolkata, September 30, 2013

INDIA'S Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has ruled that airlines must pay travel consultants commission for the sale of seats, a much-debated issue in India's travel industry. However, it did not stipulate a rate, to the chagrin of the trade.

The order by the ministry’s secretary K N Shrivastava, recognised that intermediaries played a “significant role in the sale of airline inventory” and that “intermediaries do render service to air travellers”.

“Therefore, it is quite logical that intermediaries get compensation that is equitable, fair and based on the work-done principle. Since keeping any fee outside the ambit of a tariff is likely to adversely affect the objective of transparency, it is best that (it) is part of the tariff,” wrote Shrivastava.

According to the order, airlines will then have to determine a tariff including commissions to go towards travel consultants, and display both single consolidated fares and the fare breakdown for consumers, applying to all airlines that fly to and from India, including LCCs.

Without a set rate of commission, airlines, IATA-approved ticketing agencies and trade associations are expected to work together on a formula.

Biji Eapen, president of the IATA Agents Association of India (IAAI), said: “This verdict is a victory for travel consultants in India. IAAI has been fighting for consultants’ right to commissions for a long time, including going to court. IAAI will soon meet each airline to fix the quantum of commission.”

However, Iqbal Mulla, president of the Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI), commented: “The decision is unclear and there is no proper direction to travel consultants, airlines and other stakeholders. The quantum of commission is not defined. We will be consulting our legal counsel to take the matter further. TAAI will fight for five per cent commission.”

The Delhi High Court had instructed MoCA’s secretary to investigate the matter and include IAAI as party to the discussion after having received a petition from the Federation of Indian Airlines about the Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s restriction on airlines imposing transaction fees

Bird is 18yrs old... looking at the cycles and the damage.. will she be W/O?

Hard landing on nose gear ? From what I remember, the Airbus Flight law will never let that happen ..

most likely they ran out of runway .. let's wait for the investigation results .. (then again, a lot of One2Go supporters will say Thai CAA will fudge the report .. )

and how fast they managed to cover up the logo .. as if not many can recognise the carrier (Brand Value

From another source ..