Recent content by ChrisGibbs

Last time I went through US Customs on landing off QF3 was back in December 2023. I used MPC and it worked well. Straight through. Others on the same flight took 2+ hours to get through the non-US immigration line. Sometimes you need to prompt the staff shepherding passengers into the various US...

I was staying at Le Meridien in Piccadilly with a late checkout and scheduled to fly out on the 15th April, 2010 QF2 Thursday evening service. On the morning of the 15th I had a couple of meetings at BT's, Ipswich site and was on a train up to Ipswich from London and got a call from the Qantas...

Back in April, 2010 I spent an additional 5 days in London with the North European airspace shutdown due to Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupting. There was a huge amount of caution with all the discussion being around the BA009 incident from back in 1982.... His PA was 'Ladies and...

https://www.airlineratings.com/news/miracle-pilot-takes-off-for-the-last-time/ Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere. Heard this week that retired BA Captain Eric Moody passed away. Captain Moody was in command of BA009 flying from Kuala Lumpur to Perth when it entered volcanic ash.

Was on todays (15/3) QF119 BNE-AKL A330-2xx service. Tech crew was made up of 3 * Captains and 1 * FO. Similar to QF32 does this indicate someone was doing an A330 command endorsement and someone was checking the checker? BNE-AKL-BNE would be a minimal duration route to do something like this...

In March 2023 I transferred from a company sponsored GU family health plan to QF / NIB Silver Plus Advanced Hospital. The original premium was $660 per month. This increased to $686 in October 2023 and will increase again to $711 from 1 April - about 7.5% in 12 months. Service Levels are...

Those balances wouldn't surprise me at all....

At some of the airports I've been to in the US (LAX, JFK) you need to shutdown prior to the gate and then be towed in. They also have ground crew walking in/out with the aircraft as it taxi's to/from the gate. I've often wondered whether these ground crew fulfil a useful role. Would the incident...

I have been a P1 since inception in 2012. Pre-Covid I looked after early staged US Tech firms across Asia Pacific & Japan. From 1994 - 2006 it was Y domestic and J for international > 8 hrs. From 2006 - 2019 the majority of domestic and international travel were in Y or PE. Between 2003 - 2015...

Good pickup. Apologies MPC was used exiting YUL to return to LGA.

Attempted to use it for the family at I getting into JFK back in late December 2023. After uploaded all the passenger details and photos it kept timing out when submitting so ended up in the 2hr+ queue. Following this first attempt have successfully used on 3 separate occasions at La Guardia...

From back in 2004 - interesting reading. A bunch of contributing factors including fatigue... https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2004/aair/aair200402747 "It is likely that both the pilot in command and the copilot were experiencing fatigue due to the coughulative effects...

Asiana (SYD-ICN (777), Korean (ICN-SYD (777), Turkish Airlines (VKO-IST (A330), American Airlines (LHR-ORD (777), MIA-LHR (777), BOS-LHR (757)) are just a few sectors I've done with 3 tech crew where the tech crew rest area consisted of two seats in the first row of business class. I'd be...

Yep - that helps for for international arrivals and departures from a certain date but doesn’t help for domestic flights.

Unfortunately no luck.... Always open to suggestions.....