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They said they’d be seated with an adult, but they didn’t say it would be you or your wife!

It's not surprising that they need it. No ice at all is allowed on upper surfaces. Historically, Oz wasn't all that well equipped to handle it though.

No. I didn't keep track of differences. They weren't large enough to matter for the extra amount of fuel that I might order. Almost certainly not...but then I never had to take avoiding action either.

Almost always. The flight planners produced a plan which always had the minimum possible fuel. In most cases fuel solves your problems, so I was not keen on making it one.

There is no doubt that it's all quite a maze. The only reason I have a power bank at all, is to run my cameras. When shooting star trails, I often need to be running a heater blanket to stop the lens misting, and I use an external adapter that lets me run the camera continuously all night. The...

So you have to get down, slow down, cover the distance to the runway, land, stop. If the alignment and distance to the runway were perfect, perhaps 10 minutes. In reality, too long. Even though I own a number of power banks, the more I think about it, the more I’m on the side of a complete ban...

Very little, but it will knock the fire down on any surrounding material, and may make getting access to the battery easier. The crews are well aware that water is the only real option, but you won’t have a bucket of it available…..

Most of the people you’ve mentioned are already on a 24 rostering system, and in the case of pilots and cabin crew are almost always keen to leave town. Cleaners will be waiting for you to get out of the lounge and are also likely to have restricted hours…which in itself will cause the lounge to...

I suspect that we are only a small step away from power banks being banned outright. Their use has already been restricted in many places.

So, can I understand from this, that those of you who work would be happy to have unplanned overtime, with no particular end point, and no warning, as a normal day to day happening.

Over at QF, aircraft were more or less the same, as long as they were optioned exactly the same way. There was a large difference between 767/200 and 300, and also between 300GE and 300RR. Jumbos had the same sort of difference. The -400 was dramatically more frugal than the -300, and there was...

Apparently a somewhat contentious interim report has been pulled by the Koreans. The gist (supposedly), is that one engine had severe bird strike damage, but the other didn’t, and that this good one had been shut down in error. That does go against official reports from way back to the effect...

Jumping to a conclusion there. All that means is that he’s on a staff ticket, and if cabin crew were seated further forward, it means that they were on duty tickets.

Just a question out of curiousity... Does this mean that you're showing them an unlocked phone?

Duty period before departure from Singapore. Plus flight time to Melbourne. Duty period on ground in Melbourne. Flight time to Sydney. Duty period after landing. It would be more than 8 or 9 hours, and probably limiting if a 2 man crew. Assuming they actually diverted and that it wasn’t a charter.

The surcharge will disappear, but the stores will still add the 'cost' into whatever they charge.

The conditions in Hobart (or Melbourne) aren't anywhere like Europe or Canada. There, the de-icing is done with passengers on board, because the "holdover time" (basically how long it lasts before you have to start again) can be quite short. But here, it will last long enough that in many, and...

Disconnected autopilot, and didn’t crash? Impressive.

If the airline uses multiple FOs or SOs instead of multiple Captains for long haul ops, then the FO being left in charge will require an ATPL.

Airbus is more or less the same. Which is why the power off condition is to either run, or no change. It always looked normal, until around the point where the gear would be selected. Nobody jumped to 'start levers/fuel switches', because it made zero sense. I expect that there are numerous...