Trivia 2016 (miscellaneous news)

[Passenger]

KLM wants more Belgian passengers:

[sn26567]

The night before, a British Airways A380 hit a boarding bridge in Miami !

Tonight an Antonov-124 arrived at Heathrow to load an A380 engine and bring it to Miami to replace the damaged one which hit the jet bridge. Costly incident!

[flightlover]

So they don't want to (dis-) assemble the fan and engine.
Or is there a lack of materials and trained mechanics at MIA to do so?

[luchtzak]

So they don't want to (dis-) assemble the fan and engine.
Or is there a lack of materials and trained mechanics at MIA to do so?

Heard a story that sending your own engine is still cheaper than buying a new engine in Miami ...

[Passenger]

When flying to/from Egypt, Transavia no longer let its crew overnight in Egypt. The crew rests in Athens, thus adding an extra stop and adding some 1,5 hours flying time.

Transavia operates flights for Sunweb NL and Thomas Cook NL, and both Dutch touroperators are not happy with that decision.

[flightlover]

So they don't want to (dis-) assemble the fan and engine.
Or is there a lack of materials and trained mechanics at MIA to do so?

Heard a story that sending your own engine is still cheaper than buying a new engine in Miami ...

The only reason to charter a plane like the AN-124 to transport an engine of the A380 is that there is no need to disassemble the fan from the engine or you need to transport the engine and tooling to install the engine at MIA.

Otherwhise a standard B-747F will do the job just as successful and probably more cost effective also.

[crew1990]

When flying to/from Egypt, Transavia no longer let its crew overnight in Egypt. The crew rests in Athens, thus adding an extra stop and adding some 1,5 hours flying time.

Transavia operates flights for Sunweb NL and Thomas Cook NL, and both Dutch touroperators are not happy with that decision.

Why do they need a night stop! In jetairfly and Thomas Cook Airlines, the crew are flying triangular flight to Egypt and still coming back to Brussels!

[Passenger]

When flying to/from Egypt, Transavia no longer let its crew overnight in Egypt. The crew rests in Athens, thus adding an extra stop and adding some 1,5 hours flying time. Transavia operates flights for Sunweb NL and Thomas Cook NL, and both Dutch touroperators are not happy with that decision.

Why do they need a night stop! In jetairfly and Thomas Cook Airlines, the crew are flying triangular flight to Egypt and still coming back to Brussels!

Actually it's not a night stop for the aircraft, its a quick crew change (and refuelling perhaps). They fly from the Netherlands to Marsa Alam and to Hurghada, so they need to change crew. They used to do this crew change in Egypt, but now do it in Athens. Thus adding a stop.

[crew1990]

But Jetairfly and Thomas Cook are doing the same from Brussels, there is no need for a change of crew, the crew can operate the all rotation.

[sean1982]

But Jetairfly and Thomas Cook are doing the same from Brussels, there is no need for a change of crew, the crew can operate the all rotation.

they are doing it as a cost saving issue. Transavia chooses crew comfort over cost. Thats the only difference.
The egypt triangles are barely legal as they are and the smallest delay can result in unexpected crew overnights with huge delays for the passengers

[jan_olieslagers]

KLM wants more Belgian passengers

Or so they say... Why then did they give up their (quite successful!) ANR-AMS feeder service?

[crew1990]

But Jetairfly and Thomas Cook are doing the same from Brussels, there is no need for a change of crew, the crew can operate the all rotation.

they are doing it as a cost saving issue. Transavia chooses crew comfort over cost. Thats the only difference.
The egypt triangles are barely legal as they are and the smallest delay can result in unexpected crew overnights with huge delays for the passengers

No Sean in the case the crew is extended with another crew member the duty time can be extended with 2 hours so as long as there are 3 pilots there are no operational problem even in case of delay.

[sn26567]

Unexpected visitor at Warsaw tonight: KLM B777 PH-BVO flying from Bangkok to Amsterdam landed at Chopin Airport due to fuel shortage. Bad calculation, captain! Even worse: it will stay at Chopin Airport overnight. Passengers are disembarking and will wait in the terminal for further decisions...



Edit: it appears that the plane did not land because a fuel shortage, but because a passenger tried to open a door during flight. The man was mastered by the crew with assistance from other passengers. The plane has to stay in WAW because the door was damaged, and Boeing must say if the plane can fly with that damaged door. The door might also have been damaged by airport stairs...

[skumfiduse]

KLM wants more Belgian passengers:

This is not a KLM-action. It was initiated by Amsterdam Schiphol airport. They approach Belgium (Flanders) the same way as Brussels Airport does with The Netherlands: raise awareness within their catchment area.

[skumfiduse]

KLM wants more Belgian passengers

Or so they say... Why then did they give up their (quite successful!) ANR-AMS feeder service?

Because it got replaced by Thalys-service. Air France shared their best practise at Brussels Midi with KLM. Somewhere in November, I noticed a big destination pole from KLM in Antwerpen Centraal station.

[Passenger]

Edit: it appears that the plane did not land because a fuel shortage, but because a passenger tried to open a door during flight. The man was mastered by the crew with assistance from other passengers. The plane has to stay in WAW because the door was damaged, and Boeing must say if the plane can fly with that damaged door. The door might also have been damaged by airport stairs...

Bas Barnas, a reporter from Dutch tv RTVNH (Radio TV Noord-Holland) was a passenger on the flight. He tweeted indeed that a passenger tried to open a door during the flight, and that the passenger was subdued by crew and passengers. However, the damage to the door indeed resulted from a collision with rolling stairs into the aircraft. Passengers were waiting on the aircraft when the crew (or KLM Amsterdam) contacted Boeing Seattle. They only deboarded once Seattle advised them to repair it.

Bas Barnas then reported that KLM wasn't that helpfull towards the passengers. They were offered the choise between a transfer flight from WAW via ... to AMS on Sunday, or a direct flight WAW-AMS on Monday, with hotel costs in Warshaw at own expenses.

https://twitter.com/BartBarnas

http://www.rtvnh.nl/nieuws/178437/geen- ... n-warschau

[Passenger]

When flying to/from Egypt, Transavia no longer let its crew overnight in Egypt. The crew rests in Athens, thus adding an extra stop and adding some 1,5 hours flying time.

Transavia operates flights for Sunweb NL and Thomas Cook NL, and both Dutch touroperators are not happy with that decision.

Just a few days after the above decision, Transavia already cancelled it. They will now operate flights to/from Hurghada with a "heavy crew" (multiple pilots onboard). Therefore both an overnight for the crew in Egypt and a stopover in Athens are avoided.

Source : Travel Magazine (the Netherlands), with this cynical blog (in Dutch) about Transavia:
http://www.travmagazine.nl/kanniewaarzijn/

[sn26567]

Exceptional landing at Amsterdam Schiphol (Polderbaan): A Porsche flew over the fence and landed near runway 36L, close to a departing China Airlines A340. Did the pilot, err driver, pay a landing fee?

[sn26567]

An Alitalia E190 was forced to abort landing at London City (LCY) after touching down because of gale force winds

This is the terrifying moment a pilot had to abort a landing on a gale-hit runway as Storm Imogen battered Britain with hurricane-force winds.

A shocking video showed the aircraft wobbling as it touched down at London City Airport, with smoke coming from the tyres as they hit the runway.

The Alitalia plane then bounced back up again and the pilot managed to safely take the passengers back into the sky as it continued to sway violently.

Flight AZ222 - which took off from Milan Linate Airport more than an hour late - was due to land at City at 3.35pm, but eventually did so at 5.13pm on 8 February.

An Alitalia spokesman said: ‘Our flight from Milan was forced to halt its landing at London City Airpot due to strong winds caused by Storm Imogen'.

Read more and watch video: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z3zgyMtno4

[sn26567]

US plane impounded in Zimbabwe; dead body and cash found on board

Zimbabwean aviation authorities impounded a U.S.-registered cargo jet, a senior official said today (Monday), after a dead body later believed to be a stowaway and millions of South African rand were found on board.

The Herald, a state-run newspaper, reported that the MD-11 trijet was traveling from Germany to South Africa "with millions of rands." At today's exchange rate, 1 million rand is worth $62,500.

Authorities here learned the money belonged to the South Africa Reserve Bank. Police planned to issue a statement later Monday.

Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe general manager David Chawota said the plane had landed in Harare for refueling. He said the jet, registered with Western Global Airlines, was impounded at Harare International Airport on Sunday. Western Global Airlines is based in Estero, Florida.

The crew did not know there was someone else on the plane, according to a police officer, who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press. It appears from photos on social media that the dead person had sneaked into the plane's landing gear which severed his arm when it contracted, causing blood to splatter onto the fuselage and arousing suspicion of the ground crew when the flight landed here.

More from AP: http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/3214 ... ound-board