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Quite a few of the pictures are mine.

The wikipedia article is pretty good. It was roughly 10 tonnes lighter than planned, but honestly that would be barely noticeable when looking at an overall weight of around 120 tonnes. Also, at the time, the 767 was very new, and at all weights it was quite sporty compared to previous...

It was a 767 operation. Last one I can find in my logbook was in 98. It was a fun little sector, that you had to brief the arrival for at the same time as the departure. There were no slips in KL. You operated through to Singapore or Oz. My only slip in KL was around 1990, when we operated a...

Sometimes. Call it 50% of the time.

They certainly do. You might even need to consider the known areas of turbulence whilst writing the roster. Not really. Basically, if you need to call someone back from the crew rest, then things are happening which will probably preclude you getting to destination anyway, so the roster goes by...

If you aren't in a control seat, there's a limit to how much influence you can have.

The longest, predictably, was Dallas to Sydney, which clocked in at 16:58. There were a number of others, (Sydney-Dubai) that were in the 16:45 region, though I expect they had appreciable holding. It's not just flight time that you need to consider, but duty period. Even back on the 747, I hit...

AV, how to they run the rosters with the MAX? Do you chop and change during the day, or stick to the one variant for a while?

I'm not normally a fan of the talking head aviation reports, but Hoover does a pretty good job.

400 volts. Convert that..... If a seat charger trips, it will most likely trip power for the entire seating row, not just that seat.

Yes, but you're talking about commercial's view of things. As a passenger, I'd go to some trouble to avoid these flights.

Isn’t one of the major attractions of SQ (et al) the fact that they don’t generally fly single aisle jets on long routes.

It's all quite doable, but my point is that it would not be cheap. And as best I can gather the aim is cheap flights, not convenience. I doubt that it would have either.

None really. I doubt that loads are there anyway. The result of one coming in would probably be someone else pulling out. You’re never going to be filling LCCs at low cost. There was possibly an opportunity for using Darwin as the ULR hub instead of Perth, but I think that ship has long sailed.

The maths don't work...not for cheaper fares, anyway. Remote. Low population. Expensive fuel.

Season 2 of Andor. And MobLand (perhaps this is Bond in retirement).

And the crew have probably been eating at Fatties for most of that time. 1745567330 I remember Elsie when she first started. Lovely lady and always both cheerful, and very efficient.

A warning about power points on aircraft. If you find one in a random spot, not specifically marked for passenger use, it could be for maintenance or cleaner use, and if that’s the case, you’ll put a lot more voltage through your device than you’ll be expecting.

I was in Queenstown a week ago. The weather was pretty poor, which resulted in two ANZ flights, and one QF diverting to Christchurch. What surprised me, was that all three of these aircraft then had their outbound flights from Q’town cancelled, even though the weather improved shortly...

Obviously I can’t comment on whether it’s changed at all, but they were never all that nice in the first place. I always wished that our government would treat their crew the way they treated ours (in particular with regard to requiring a visa, that meant you had to send you passport away for an...