Trivia 2016 (miscellaneous news)

[sn26567]

After their large order from Airbus, and to a lesser extent from ATR, Iran and its airlines are nearing a tentative deal to buy 100 Boeing planes.

[Passenger]

Strange incident at Dusseldorf yesterday evening: a Germanwings A319 from Dusseldorf to Dresden took off with 60 passengers still on the bus from the terminal building to the aircraft. Only the 40 pax from the first bus made it. The pilot didn't want to wait any longer because he wouldn't take the risk of being stranded at Dusseldorf because of the night curfew. The German press reports that there was an upset at the gate.

http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/due ... -1.6058090

Aircraft involved was probably this one:
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/d-agwl

[Passenger]

Posted as trivia, but no trivial news at all:

a Russian Ilyushin il-76 firefighter with 8 people on board is missing near Irkutsk:
https://www.rt.com/news/349088-firefigh ... t-siberia/

[sn26567]

And simultaneously, An-2 plane crashes in Russia’s Saratov region, with two killed.

https://t.co/2aR661eecY

[sn26567]

Eurocontrol says that yesterday (1 July) was officially the busiest ever day in its Network with 34,513 flights, overtaking the previous record set in 2008.

[Passenger]

The Spanish press reports a serious upset at Vueling's office in Barcelona El Prat. At least four flights were cancelled, apparently an operational issue, and many passengers report they are overbooked because Vueling gave their seats to stranded pax from Thursday and Friday. There were so many angry passengers that the Spanish Police had to intervene.

http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2016/07/02/ ... 03071.html

http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20160702_02367849

[sn26567]

At least, Vueling has offices and ticket desks at BCN, where travellers can speak to a human being in case of problems. I saw those ticket desks during my recent trip through BCN and there were many people to speak to.

I was wondering why most Vueling BCN flights to BRU were late yesterday: you gave me the answer!

[sn26567]

The Spanish press reports a serious upset at Vueling's office in Barcelona El Prat. At least four flights were cancelled, apparently an operational issue

At the end of the day, 19 flights were cancelled on Saturday! And apparently more flights are cancelled today. Many others were delayed or diverted!

Vueling invokes "operational reasons", without giving further details. What a disorganisation!!!

[sn26567]

a Russian Ilyushin il-76 firefighter with 8 people on board is missing near Irkutsk

The wreckage of missing IL-76 fire fighting aircraft has been found near Kachug, Russia; there are no survivors. RIP!
https://aviation-safety.net/database/re ... 20160701-0

[sn26567]

Today a Martinair MD-11 makes the last cargo flight of the airline with the type, from AMS to MIA, and from there to the desert...

[sn26567]

Today a Martinair MD-11 makes the last cargo flight of the airline with the type, from AMS to MIA, and from there to the desert...

[Passenger]

To please the Dutch spotters, the last MD-11 with Dutch reg did a very low fly-by (at 350 ft) to runway 27 before heading to Miami (offload the cargo) and parking itself in the Californian desert:

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... cp#a4533e4

[Passenger]

The Spanish press reports a serious upset at Vueling's office in Barcelona El Prat. At least four flights were cancelled, apparently an operational issue

At the end of the day, 19 flights were cancelled on Saturday! And apparently more flights are cancelled today. Many others were delayed or diverted! Vueling invokes "operational reasons", without giving further details. What a disorganisation!!!

Here is their mea culpa:
http://www.catalannewsagency.com/societ ... last-weeks

[Passenger]

Today a Martinair MD-11 makes the last cargo flight of the airline with the type, from AMS to MIA, and from there to the desert...

For those who are online now: the final journey has just started: Miami-Mojave

https://www.flightradar24.com/MPH116/a48da40

[Passenger]

The Spanish press reports a serious upset at Vueling's office in Barcelona El Prat. At least four flights were cancelled, apparently an operational issue

At the end of the day, 19 flights were cancelled on Saturday! And apparently more flights are cancelled today. Many others were delayed or diverted!
Vueling invokes "operational reasons", without giving further details. What a disorganisation!!!

Well, they are working towards perfection now.

Vueling's initial BCN-AMS/AMS-BCN (VY-8322/VY-8323) from late afternoon is cancelled and replaced by BCN-AMS/AMS-BCN VY-8328 and VY-8325. Arrival BCN-AMS at Amsterdam: 19h10. Scheduled departure AMS-BCN from Amsterdam: 19h45. Thus a turnaround time of 35 minutes. Aircraft: EC-MKT, an Evelop Airlines Airbus A330-200...

https://www.flightradar24.com/reg/ec-mkt
(EC-MKT just crossed the Belgian-Dutch border)

[Passenger]

I don't want to start a political discussion, but there are rumours on Twitter that the Turkish army takes over power:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/istanbul?src=hash

We'll see what AF-1390 CDG-IST will do - now at 20 minutes from IST.

[Passenger]

And everyday too one of those SN african flights has a loooong delay ! Today the Accra's flight...Now more than 3 hours !!!!!!! What's happen ? Technical problems ? Transit passengers problems ?

A too high utilisation rate of the aircraft, as predicted by some here a while ago. If SN wants to offer real service in o their guest, they need a backup 330.
In case of a little mishap it takes days to absorb the delay, the same happens to OO-JDL.

It's not only Brussels Airlines and Jetairfly who have this kind of problem:
http://www.wheels24.co.za/News/clarkson ... a-20160715

[Passenger]

Drama at Schiphol Airport Amsterdam around 09h15 this morning when a ground worker near gate E18 (airside) was hit by a Still tractor. The Lifeliner medical helicopter (PH-MAA) transferred the man to a hospital, but his colleagues have just been informed it was too late. RIP.

(Source: Dutch Scramble forum)

[sean1982]

And everyday too one of those SN african flights has a loooong delay ! Today the Accra's flight...Now more than 3 hours !!!!!!! What's happen ? Technical problems ? Transit passengers problems ?

A too high utilisation rate of the aircraft, as predicted by some here a while ago. If SN wants to offer real service in o their guest, they need a backup 330.
In case of a little mishap it takes days to absorb the delay, the same happens to OO-JDL.

It's not only Brussels Airlines and Jetairfly who have this kind of problem:
http://www.wheels24.co.za/News/clarkson ... a-20160715

The difference is that BA has plenty of spare airplanes but no spare A380's. One of them was hit by a baggage truck in IAD so was AOG and still is, which is taking all spare capacity B777's to cover for it, sometimes sending 2 B777 or a B747 and B777 a few minutes after each other to cover for the missing A380. Any other type AOG can easily be absorbed.

[Passenger]

Yesterday's TS-725 Air Transat Glasgow-Toronto (A310-300 reg C-FDAT) is 22 hours delayed.

The title says it all:

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/1462 ... et_flight/