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With the recent fire in an overhead bin on one carrier, if you are faced with a fire that can’t be contained, how quickly could you realistically within aircraft limits get back on the ground? Would 5-10 mins from the upper flight levels be possible if you have a runway nearby?

They are doubling the premium seat count on the 787s soon, so that might somewhat make it more viable. Economy Fares are $1200~ to LAS on full service carriers. Jetstar would need to be somewhat less with baggage to be competitive, I think full service fares to the US West coast are often...

Fuel burn will be a cost killer for 11/12 hour missions. Hard to see how a LCC could make USA work.

They could do much more using NEO equipment into Australia that connects to all their hubs but they don’t seem interested. I thought a NEO on DPS-MEL/SYD would have be a top priority. They failed with the 330 but the Neo is the weapon. I guess they don’t want to fork out a few grand each night...

They have been place for a number of years. I think I took one about a decade ago also.

Looks like they have moved many people off the 3K SIN-DPS flights and onto that JQ flight. I have one SIN-DPS later this year on the JQ flight, seat map was pretty empty before the announcements, few weeks later only about 10 seats left and the price has jumped to something that is nearly sold out.

Is this an issue in Sydney also? I can’t say I’ve seen it.

Do you see any noticeable fuel burn differences in newer vs older equipment? Like a new and 20 year old machine?

Woolworths and Coles absorb the charges into pricing. It’s nothing new.

I see BA SIN-SYD diverted into Melbourne yesterday and remained on the ground no doubt as crew ran out of hours. Apparently BA left pax in Melbourne and said find your own way to Sydney. I thought they might have arranged QF to pickup the pax. Surely this is not the case? I find this pretty...

Who remembers the days of credit card fees ‘per passenger per sector’. They got away with that scam for a number of years. Jetstar and Tiger became notorious for that behaviour and the fees got up to like $10. And when they took it away they said they needed to raise fares which proved it was...

The only issue with Jetstar going into Bundy or Albury is they will likely just be diminishing group margin (ie the QF services, most who connect on high prices fares across the nation). At a group profit pool level, for these regional like markets they are probably better off leaving QF alone...

I’d say Melbourne to Toowoomba will eventuate when they can get the right deal in place. Melbourne to Mackay in peak I’d say is likely probable. A route that Tiger and Bonza ran that was relatively ok during peak. Bonza did well on Melbourne to Bundy so not sure if that’s an option...

India is full of interesting aviation tales. Logbooks and Pilots are another.

I got x15 points on Stationary at BIGW. So generous!

So FO calls for gear up. Captain for whatever reason, pulls the switches. That’s likely another human factors discussion in itself. FO asked why. Said he didn’t. Captain glances down to check and notices switches off. Startle sets in. Moves one switch then checks screen, looking now a growing...

I find it interesting that it needs to do hundreds of flights over two months before entering service. Rex certainly didn’t do as many flights before adding its 737s to the AOC. I just thought with the likes of simulators and the same type already operating in the group, that a month would be...

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They are shocking, I see them hanging around the exit part at T4 nearly every time. Very quietly they just mumble to everyone walking past ‘you need a taxi’ ‘taxi taxi’

Interesting. Going to need to dive into the Captain’s life now. Was he demoted? Not happy with the new direction of AI? Obviously a lot of change at AI and he appears to be one of the older legacy employees from the prior era, with management running it now from the west, I’d imagine that will...