December 31
December 31
December 30
December 30
China Eastern Airlins have been busy and got themselves a later Christmas present of an order to Airbus for 50 A320′s.
These units will be delivered from 2012 through to 2015, and firmly puts aside the homegrown C919 at this time from this fleet.
This is in addition to the 20 already ordered by China Eastern in 2009, with better fiscal terms for the airline.
So where does this leave the homegrown COMAC C919 Aircraft? Dead in the water or just waiting in the wings?
For now – waiting – there’s a lot of aircraft to sell still, but for imminent growth verses an aircraft that only got 1 in the series and has been certificated for test work, going back to the old airframers is a lot easier…
December 30
December 29
December 29
Korean Air have annouced how they’re going to configure their A380′s.
And it’s an intresting configuration, with 301 Economy seats down the back, 94 business seats on the top deck for business class, and 12 seats at the front.
That’s 407 seats only on the plane – which isn’t a lot in comparatively to some other carriers (Air France’s 538 seats come to mind).
The A380′s are to enter service in May 2011, initially on short-haul routes to Japan and eastern Asia, then when ready, they will be deployed to USA and Europe in August.
It’ll be interesting to see the seats and the space on it… and see how Asiana, JAL and ANA react…
And it’s almost tempting enough for me to get a bunch of points on SkyTeam to redeem on Korean Air…
December 28
As there’s not a lot happening thankfully this year (apart from the East Coast of the USA being snowed in – as I said – not a lot), I’m going to release some more airplane p0rn images over the next few days between now and the New Year.
And these will be images taken over the past year (where as some Airplane p0rn can date… umm.. years if I was honest…)
First up is an airline that has labour troubles through most of the year, and heading into more next year – British Airways and one of the 767-300ER fleet being towed around Heathrow Airport in the early morning.
More Tomorrow!
December 26
December 25
December 24
… Is the cost of travelling in these conditions on the Great British Railway system when the weather goes bad.
Oh, and the cancellations don’t help really.
As it always seems by the train loads, everyone wants to escape London, but no one wants to go there. Which would be nice but for one thing: it seemed the heating had packed in…..
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