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I'm currently sitting in Boston and noticed this A220 with a hatch open at the back of the plane. Any ideas what the purpose of this is?

Charter or something else?

When your arriving off a long flight your not usually hanging around the airport anyways, get off the plane, go through immigration, collect bags and leave. Don't think the arrival airport matters too much. On departure a different story.

Haven't done this with Qantas/AA, but on your European LCC's has never been a problem. Once got paged to the desk at the gate to ask if the additional person was coming, but no dramas.

Hiya, Can I get loadings for QF1 SYD-LHR on 9 April please?

Minimum connection time between Iberia flights at Madrid is 45 minutes (Schengen to Schengen), which you will be. You could get lucky and its next door, or it could be a little bit of a walk. There'll be no passport/security control. Iberia generally have about 4 flights a day to Porto, so if...

Pretty sure the justification this time is that it helps repair the UK budget!

Hiya, Can some please search the loadings for QF2 LHR-SYD 12 March? Thanks!

On the way over I'd definitely stay in central London. I'd look at somewhere around London Bridge. Taking the Elizabeth line & then a short tube connection it'll take about an hour from Heathrow. This puts you in the centre of the city, can have a walk to Tower Bridge, have a look through...

Does anyone know what time Qantas check-in opens at LHR? I'm flying QF2 and will likely arrive at the airport around 2ish. Will need to have a checked bag and would rather spend the time waiting in a lounge. Qantas says on their website "Airport check-in opens 4 hours before the first Qantas...

I see that Etihad is now allowed to have their pilots fly both the A380 and A350 concurrently. Is this reasonable? Are the systems similar enough that they can do this with no issues, or is this a case of the company wanting increased flexibility and possibly compromising on safety/pilot...

I did the LHR-PER-SYD routing about 3 months back. Very smooth transfer. One benefit is that you clear immigration in Perth so arrive in Syd and can walk straight out. Passport control was quick, then go and pick up bags, walk outside and they had a people directing you to a dedicated counter to...

Other beauty of LCY is that its so small you can easily arrive 30 mins before departure and still comfortably make your flight (Checkin/bag drop closes 20 mins prior). This is partially why there are no lounges as its expected people just turn up and go.

Ryanair have been hammering these emails for months. I haven't seen anything similar from Easyjet/Wizz etc. Not sure what they are hoping to achieve/influence.

With Qantas currently operating a return flight from London to Tel Aviv (ASY1168) would this be operated by pilots who were on a London trip and then were just told we are extending your trip and you are now flying to Tel Aviv tomorrow? With the heightened risk there at the moment would the...