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The SHOW: Airlines still a "good gig"??
- Thread starter A4sForever
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Think of the interstate network of Hooters spotters available. As well as friendly AW aerial ISR and AEW assets curated from this site. You're uniquely situated...I'll work the Waze and monitor the scanners from the backseat.
Will need a few mechs to install the aux fuel tank in the trunk though.š
Damn...what kind of covered switch on the seat would cause this?
www.foxbusiness.com
Cockpit accident believed to be cause of nose dive on LATAM Boeing 787: WSJ
A cockpit accident reportedly was the likely cause of the sudden drop that sent passengers aboard a LATAM Airlines flight to New Zealand tumbling out of their seats.
Damn...what kind of covered switch on the seat would cause this?
Cockpit accident believed to be cause of nose dive on LATAM Boeing 787: WSJ
A cockpit accident reportedly was the likely cause of the sudden drop that sent passengers aboard a LATAM Airlines flight to New Zealand tumbling out of their seats.
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Motorized adjustment on the seat track? I donāt know a lot about the 787, but in other aircraft I have been VERY careful to lock the seat in position when first sitting down. Some tracks are long enough to keep you from reaching the controls if the seat slides all the way aft. If you had your hands on the yoke (or got pushed into it going forward) in flight, the results would suck.
If thatās the case, Iād put this one down to crew error, rather than adding to the āBoeingās faultā media frenzy. Next thing you know, youāll need an FAA inspector aboard to adjust your crew seat position.
Really? Would delayed deliveries impact pilot employment that much, or is this just being used as a bargaining chip?
This is the result of delayed AC deliveries, planes are full and still making money.
Then why ask pilots to take unpaid leave? Couldn't the active flights just be redistributed amongst those crews? How big a percentage of planned flights are contingent upon newly-delivered aircraft?
Sorry, I'm an idiot when it comes to airline management- it's always baffled me how mercurial it is, especially when there is clearly a lot of demand. Help me make sense out of that.
Donāt worry, they often are too...
Massive delays in 737 maxā¦ zero hour lines offered to about 125 Widebody pilots at UAL.
5 787s delayed in 2024 = 757/767, 777 and 787 Pilots offered zero hour lines.
Itās highly suspected that turning off classes for a couple months and now the zero hour lines etc. are levers being pulled by UAL leadership in negotiations for greater discounts and concessions from Boeing. Theres apparently a clause in the max 10 order contract that allows for max 9 to be substituted at āfavorable pricingā.
The greater the Boeing discounts are, the more leverage UAL has to get pricing concessions from Airbus now that AAs favored customer clause has expired and Airbus wonāt have to pay AA the difference between what they sell the 321 family for and what they over charged AA back the day. A lot of people would rather UALs 277 Max 10 orders + 200 options get shitcanned for 321neos/XLR but Scott Kirby is a numbers guy and doesnāt care what his passengers ride in as long as the bottom line is favorable.
Really wonāt be surprised if UAL gets more max 8/9, and more a321s to go along with the same # of Max 10 5-7 years down the road As long as thereās not some economic disaster.
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