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You are right Duke !! Both planes carried the name "Discover" ...

sn26567 wrote:Just one question: what was the load factor of OO-TUC? After all, it could contain twice as many pax as the originally planned A320.

As far as I could see the plane was half full. I only saw the rear part of the plane as my seat number was 41 and I didn't make a walk trough the plane ...

Great to find out that I'm a vegetable. But I know that at least my wife loves me the way I am ...

The first point in my posting was that in my opinion nobody is waiting for another A vs B war in the forums. We have enough of this stuff on airliners.net

The second point was that indeed competition ...

Bla bla bla .... another A vs B war ... looks like airliners.net here ....

Maybe we can all agree that both manufacturers are making great planes now and in the future. Both manufacturers will have their customers and everybody will be convinced that its plane is the best.

Let's stop discussions ...

Our hotel in Sharm El Sheikh was under the climb out route of runway 04 of SSH.

Sharm El Sheikh is a very busy airport, operating day and night. Al kind of western airliners, but mostly B737's and A320. Also a lot of Russian build airliners, which really seemed to have trouble to gain height after ...

I decided to start the new year with a sunny holiday, so booked an all inclusive trip to Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt. The flying part of the trip was to be done by Thomas Cook.

On January 1 my wife and I headed to the airport. We were very early because we first had to pick up our tickets at the ...

Virgin Express B737-300 and B737-400
SABENA B 737-200, B 737-300, B 737-400, B 737-500, Airbus 319 and Airbus 320
IBERIA B 757-200, MD 87 and Airbus A320
Lufthansa CRJ 200, Dash 8-400, B 737-300 and Airbus A320
Alitalia MD 82 and Airbus 320
Turkish Airlines B 737-800
SNBA RJ 85, RJ 100 and Bae 146 ...

Professionaly I am in close contact with a lot of entrepreneurs and employers. A majority of them is really thinking about closing down their business or relocate it abroad due to the unrealistic way the unions are acting.

Not only with respect to the retirement topic, but also with respect to the ...

The planes will be based at Cazaux in France. The BAF and FAF will work together for the training of new pilots. At the longer end Belgium is expected to join a larger collaboration, called the European Training School.

bringing in the Juventus team I presume ...

A bit of confusion ... latest update: two pilots and not yet found ....

Latest news:

- Belgian F-16 callsign Sting13 (according to callsign it would be a plane from Florennes)
- crash site 40 nautical miles from Den Helder
- pilot should be safe (but news not yet confirmed)
- Belgian Sea King is scrambled to pick up a specialised crew at Bevekom in order to assist in ...

According to press sources a F-16 crashed this morning at Vlieland (one of the Wadden Islands).

At this moment it is unclear whether or not the pilot/crew survived the crash. It is also unclear if the crashed plane is from the Dutch Air Force.

More soon I guess ...

It might have been a Chinook of the Dutch Air Force or the Royal Air Force ....

Could be in Belgium for some exercises ...

heb eind de jaren '80 de luchtkadetten onveilig gemaakt met mijn aanwezigheid en heb nooit enig gefoeffel of wat dan ook gemerkt ... wel reuze tijd gehad !!

As far as I know the order is official, but the airline wants to remain undisclosed for some time ...

Airbus also announced an order for 1 A340-600 for an undisclosed VIP client. Who is going to fly this enormous VIP-jet?

Airbus says also to expect more A350 orders the coming days ....

Source: Airbus website - announcement with respect to orders collected at Paris Air Show

Any idea about the identity of the European airline which may order new planes ??

Did Lufthanse at the end decide to replace their ± 60 B737's by A320's? Is BA going for the A380?

Airbus expects an order for 40 single aisle to be announced tomorrow morning. Also expected is an order "from a European airline".

At this very moment an order is announced by Airbus and TAM for 8 A350's and 7 more options.

Another Airbus order ..

Mexican low cost start up ABC (will use the name Interjet) orders 10 A320's and took options for another 10 ...