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  1. markis10

    Western Sydney Airport (WSI) Discussion

    Does that mean WSI floods easily, has poor mobile coverage and gets invaded by Singapore on a regular basis? And I forgot to add, the local youth practice stealing the reproductive parts of all the bull statues around town to hang near their towballs?
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    Virgin Australia Boeing 737 Max 8

    The 800s have more powerful engines as it stands, makes sense given fuel use is the focus of the airline ie Bain for the max
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    A pre-wedding Honeymoon? (21 days around Asia)

    I usually take the E11 bus to pacific place from HKIA, cheaper and quicker if traffic is playing nice, as well as being more scenic.
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    Qantas' Schedule Change Fails MCT at SYD

    I am being pedantic here but its ground speeds, not air speeds
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    QF to replace F100s with "mid life" E190s

    Probably come from Alliance after they take some of the KLM city hopper fleet. Shows how much the world has changed from the time VA ran the jungle jets, now they are the flavour of the month/year/decade.
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    Virgin Australia Boeing 737 Max 8

    Current operations are seeing the max lack power in hot and high conditions, from a VA pilot “might enable Queenstown or OOL-DPS ops, something the existing Max8 can't do.”
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    Virgin Australia Delays/Cancellations

    VH-YFE just took off from Sydney while will operate your flight back, probably an hour late
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    Virgin Australia Delays/Cancellations

    Winds being stubborn and remaining right at the point where it doesn’t favor any runway: WIND: 300/25-40 XW MAX 30 KTS RWY 34. XW MAX 30 KTS RWY 25 0940 update, winds swung to favor 07/25 + WIND: 290/25-40 XW MAX 33 KTS RWY 34L. XW MAX 22...
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    Virgin Australia Delays/Cancellations

    Single runway operations using the east west runway (07/25). They have updated the forecast to indicate the winds will pick up an hour later at 0900 local and issued a warning YSSY AD WRNG 1 VALID 242300/250200 AERODROME WARNING NUMBER 1 FOR SYDNEY VALID 250900/251200 LOCAL ISSUED...
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    Virgin Australia Delays/Cancellations

    Winds due to increase from 0800, using two runways at the moment with cross wind already in double figures, would not be surprised if the go to 07/25 ops from 0800.
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    QF2 diversion to Baku

    Posting from NSW health on FB
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    Rex in voluntary administration, ending all 737 services

    Still do, Rex have most of them in QLD https://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/travel-and-transport/long-distance-air-services
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    Qantas Delays/Cancellations

    I suspect FlightAware has for some reason got them resuming flights, Qantas them selves were quoted by news.com: Due to airspace closures and congestion through the Middle East resulting in air traffic restrictions, QF9 (Perth-London) has been diverted to Singapore and QF33 (Perth-Paris) is...
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    Qantas Delays/Cancellations

    FlightAware has them back to Paris but QF themselves have Perth, crew hours will be an issue
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    Qantas Delays/Cancellations

    Now back to original destinations, with a kink in their track
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    Qantas' New A321XLR

    Will be here July 2 apparently
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    AirNZ Domestic Starlink Trial Started June 2025 ZK-OXE

    One of the issues is the backhaul, ie getting the traffic of the satellite network on to the terrestrial one, sooner it happens the better the experience, and New Zealand’s locale means ground stations are hard to come by in the middle of the ocean.
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    Virgin Australia Boeing 737 Max 8

    Next bunch of deliveries feature uprated engines which will help, 8IA-8IH: 25k same as current fleet 8II-8IK: 27k lb thrust 8VA-8VC: 28k lb thrust
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    Fred Smith, founder of FedEx passes away

    News has come through that he passed away on the weekend @ 80! Not to many end up with a net worth of 5.8b in Aviation Frederick W. Smith - Wikipedia
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    Air India B787 crash Ahmedabad

    The fact it had not been posted here before and was presented as new info is why it was shared, with obvious disclaimers from the moment it was posted as well as naming the source, it’s called peer review! Once shared other members pointed out its history. Better to be aware of the falsehoods...
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