And transit through LHR T1 to T3 hard? Pah.
Done, dusted and through security in 15 minutes, with a 2 minute queue to be scanned.
Quick review on an Avro with Brussels Airlines in Economy. If I slept through it, I consider the seats must be comfy. And I did.
Could be delayed out to a medical emergency - not so good at all. That and it's a packed flight
And I've just been advised to stay in the lounge whilst the signage says "Go to Gate"
Who says this frequent flying game is easy?
Showing posts with label SAS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SAS. Show all posts
Friday, 16 September 2011
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Paris 2011: Tuesday Lunchtime Update
Well we're into Day Two of the Paris Air Show, so let's see who's opened up their Chequebooks this morning
Firstly, SAS Group have decided to do a partial fleet renewal and addtion, with the purchase of 30 Airbus A320Neo's
Malaysian Airlines have taken up an option for ten Boeing 737-800s - an addition of aircraft to their fleet
Aeroflot has been busy and has signed a deal for an additional eight Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.
CIT Group has signed memorandum of understanding with Airbus for 50 A320neo aircraft form the A320neo Family.
TransAsia (a Taiwanese Airline) have signed for six A321neos as an expansion for it's current fleet. Interestingly, it will operate a mix of Airbus shorthaul aircraft with A320's, A321's, the Sharklet A320 (when they enter service) and at the end point - A321neo.
Norwegian have ordered another 15 Boeing 737-800s (and interestingly have the 1000th ever 737 constructed in their fleet), whilst firming up the 787 order first made in May. However Norwegian are piling on the pressure along with other short haul carriers about the 737 replacement. With Airbus stealing orders with the A320neo/A321neo, this is surely playing on the minds of Boeing Execs...
The surprise of the morning so far goes to Korean Air who as well as providing backup support for Airbus, has signed a letter of intent with Bombardier for up to 10 initial CSeries Jets, with options for 10 more, and purchase rights for an other 10 - a possible 30 jets.
The next top up from Paris will be sometime this evening. Lots of time for more deals to be signed...
Firstly, SAS Group have decided to do a partial fleet renewal and addtion, with the purchase of 30 Airbus A320Neo's
Malaysian Airlines have taken up an option for ten Boeing 737-800s - an addition of aircraft to their fleet
Aeroflot has been busy and has signed a deal for an additional eight Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.
CIT Group has signed memorandum of understanding with Airbus for 50 A320neo aircraft form the A320neo Family.
TransAsia (a Taiwanese Airline) have signed for six A321neos as an expansion for it's current fleet. Interestingly, it will operate a mix of Airbus shorthaul aircraft with A320's, A321's, the Sharklet A320 (when they enter service) and at the end point - A321neo.
Norwegian have ordered another 15 Boeing 737-800s (and interestingly have the 1000th ever 737 constructed in their fleet), whilst firming up the 787 order first made in May. However Norwegian are piling on the pressure along with other short haul carriers about the 737 replacement. With Airbus stealing orders with the A320neo/A321neo, this is surely playing on the minds of Boeing Execs...
The surprise of the morning so far goes to Korean Air who as well as providing backup support for Airbus, has signed a letter of intent with Bombardier for up to 10 initial CSeries Jets, with options for 10 more, and purchase rights for an other 10 - a possible 30 jets.
The next top up from Paris will be sometime this evening. Lots of time for more deals to be signed...
Sunday, 16 January 2011
Airplane p0rn - SAS 737-600
It's Sunday, and it's automated as I'm probably in the air, or heading to the airport for the return trip.
But that doesn't stop any Airplane p0rn appearing.
This week - it's a Scandinavian Airlines System Boeing 737-600 being tugged out of London Heathrow Airport
More of course next week
But that doesn't stop any Airplane p0rn appearing.
This week - it's a Scandinavian Airlines System Boeing 737-600 being tugged out of London Heathrow Airport
More of course next week
Sunday, 31 January 2010
Airplane p0rn - SAS A340
Time for this week's airplane p0rn.
And this is one taken on the ground in Downtown Seattle - about a block from the Space Needle - A SAS Airbus A340 climbing out and beginning its long flight back to Scandinavia.
More Airplane p0rn next week!
And this is one taken on the ground in Downtown Seattle - about a block from the Space Needle - A SAS Airbus A340 climbing out and beginning its long flight back to Scandinavia.
More Airplane p0rn next week!
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
SAS puts some of it's MD-80's out to stud... with Alligent.
Well we know that SAS are reorganising themselves as they've suffered in the current climate, and are in the process of disposing 21 of its MD-80 fleet.
It seems that Allegiant Air was in the market for some aircraft, and thus have brought 18 MD-80's.
These veteran aircraft are currently on the ground and are between 19 and 25 years old, so they're easy money for SAS to make with a total sale value of 200 million Swedish Krona.
This move sees Allegiant boost its MD-80 fleet to 52 units, and SAS reduce its MD fleet to 24 units for intra-Scandinavia use (although knowing SAS, they'll be be on Intra-Europe routes faster that you can think)
It seems that Allegiant Air was in the market for some aircraft, and thus have brought 18 MD-80's.
These veteran aircraft are currently on the ground and are between 19 and 25 years old, so they're easy money for SAS to make with a total sale value of 200 million Swedish Krona.
This move sees Allegiant boost its MD-80 fleet to 52 units, and SAS reduce its MD fleet to 24 units for intra-Scandinavia use (although knowing SAS, they'll be be on Intra-Europe routes faster that you can think)
Friday, 21 August 2009
The Friday News Roundup
It's Friday again, so it must be time for me to look at the news for the week:
Ryanair takes its balls away...
Ryanair pulls aircraft and services from Manchester - Analysis on here on why O'Liar is talking once again out of his back side.
BBC News, GhettoIFE.com
Korean Air - Profit!
Korean Air posted a net income of 78.5b won ( or about $62.4 million) for Q2/2009 - with their profit comes on the back of exchange rates working in their favour. Loads for cargo are of course still down, whilst passenger loads are static.
Korean air should be able to ride this out - however reliance on currency to make a profit is a bad idea....
(Flight)
SIA - Traffic Down
Singapore airlines are feeling the downturn at the moment with a 13% drop in traffic - From 79.7% from 81%.
Hard times are hitting this proud airline now - what is SIA's plan for getting out of this mess? With the withdrawal of 747's, the costs will drop slightly, but they will still need to deliver new capacity to replace these beasts....
(Flight)
Air AsiaX breaths down Eithad and Middle Eastern Carriers - Launches Abu Dhabi Service.
The Longhaul Ryanair of Asia - Air Asia X is extending its reach with a new service to Abu Dhabi commencing 23rd October, 5 times a week with a single A340.
This is an interesting play as it could mark the beginning of the expansion of Air Asia X into a Middle Eastern Virtual Hub. Certainly with the A350 order, they're starting to turn into a force not to be underestimated...
(Flight)
Qantas Profits 87% down...
But still in profit. Blames the usual suspects (H1N1, Ressesion, Flying Pigs, etc)
(Flight)
Virgin Atlantic considering NOT going it alone - considering Star Alliance Membership
And about bloody time. Whilst the CEO of VS, Steven Ridgway said that Virgin will “fight this right to the end,” while responding to the increased competition, they're "We know that Lufthansa now owns BMI and it would make a lot of sense to work more closely,” he said.
Virgin are on the brink of being a small fish in a big sea after cherry picking routes. Time to grow up possibly?
(Travel Blackboard via the BMI Diamond Club Forum)
Brown Goes Red... Once only though. Pretty much dumping your date after you've... (do I need to go on?)
According to different sources, the Virgin charter of a B747 is for ONE TRIP ONLY. Well talk about shouting out of ones backside. NEXT!
Wizz Air Wizzes into Bratislava - Declares Time up for SkyEurope
Just as Ryanair is decimating the Western European aviation sector, Wizz Air are doing the same in Eastern Europe. After dispatching of LOT's CentralWings (which is still flying in name, but is being slowly folded back into LOT), it's now time to deal with Sky Europe.
SkyEurope has been suffering (least of all having some of its aircraft repossessed by the lessor) and is currently in creditor protection. Therefore, WizzAir is going for broke in this sector, and to break the remains of SkyEurope.
Ryanair... WizzAir... The two big bloc controllers of the LCC market?
Ocean Air (Brazil) Comes out of near to nowhere and goes for broke...
Here's another airline I've never heard of - Ocean Air. Based in Brazil and currently running a Foker F100 fleet, they're branching out into A319's... and from 2015 - A350XWB-800's.
A quick look at the colour scheme gives away who owns Ocean Air - Columbian based airline Avianca who will be running 787's, citing different countries - different aircraft - different missions.
Well variety is the spice of life isn't it?
Norwegian up, SAS Suffering.
Norwegian is doing very well at the moment with an $11m profit (well for these conditions anything with a plus must be good). SAS on the other hand lost $251m. SAS is trying to recover, but is slowly turning into yet another European basket case airline - and implementing CoreSAS as reported last week.
Cut too close to the Core SAS and you'll loose it....
JAL Cargo to Merge... what lies ahead?
Japan Airlines s in talks to merge its cargo business Nippon Yusen citing falling cargo loads.
Ominously, there is a warning of further consolidation down the line...
BBC News, Flight
SouthWest - Mass WiFi deployment
Well someone had to do it - and hopefully this will kick start WiFi in the air competition into overdrive. SouthWest airlines is equiping its entire fleet of 737's (300/500/700's) - 545 aircraft with Row 44's KU based BroadBand/WiFi System.
This is very big news as it make the econmics of depolyment very cheap, and hopefully the cost of it to be cheap too.
And if other companies want to go with Row 44, this is simply going to mean the cost will fall for the equipment.
Flight
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Right - thats your bite sized news for this week.
I'm not sure there will be news next week as I'll be 35000ft or so in the air at publishing time - more to come!
Ryanair takes its balls away...
Ryanair pulls aircraft and services from Manchester - Analysis on here on why O'Liar is talking once again out of his back side.
BBC News, GhettoIFE.com
Korean Air - Profit!
Korean Air posted a net income of 78.5b won ( or about $62.4 million) for Q2/2009 - with their profit comes on the back of exchange rates working in their favour. Loads for cargo are of course still down, whilst passenger loads are static.
Korean air should be able to ride this out - however reliance on currency to make a profit is a bad idea....
(Flight)
SIA - Traffic Down
Singapore airlines are feeling the downturn at the moment with a 13% drop in traffic - From 79.7% from 81%.
Hard times are hitting this proud airline now - what is SIA's plan for getting out of this mess? With the withdrawal of 747's, the costs will drop slightly, but they will still need to deliver new capacity to replace these beasts....
(Flight)
Air AsiaX breaths down Eithad and Middle Eastern Carriers - Launches Abu Dhabi Service.
The Longhaul Ryanair of Asia - Air Asia X is extending its reach with a new service to Abu Dhabi commencing 23rd October, 5 times a week with a single A340.
This is an interesting play as it could mark the beginning of the expansion of Air Asia X into a Middle Eastern Virtual Hub. Certainly with the A350 order, they're starting to turn into a force not to be underestimated...
(Flight)
Qantas Profits 87% down...
But still in profit. Blames the usual suspects (H1N1, Ressesion, Flying Pigs, etc)
(Flight)
Virgin Atlantic considering NOT going it alone - considering Star Alliance Membership
And about bloody time. Whilst the CEO of VS, Steven Ridgway said that Virgin will “fight this right to the end,” while responding to the increased competition, they're "We know that Lufthansa now owns BMI and it would make a lot of sense to work more closely,” he said.
Virgin are on the brink of being a small fish in a big sea after cherry picking routes. Time to grow up possibly?
(Travel Blackboard via the BMI Diamond Club Forum)
Brown Goes Red... Once only though. Pretty much dumping your date after you've... (do I need to go on?)
According to different sources, the Virgin charter of a B747 is for ONE TRIP ONLY. Well talk about shouting out of ones backside. NEXT!
Wizz Air Wizzes into Bratislava - Declares Time up for SkyEurope
Just as Ryanair is decimating the Western European aviation sector, Wizz Air are doing the same in Eastern Europe. After dispatching of LOT's CentralWings (which is still flying in name, but is being slowly folded back into LOT), it's now time to deal with Sky Europe.
SkyEurope has been suffering (least of all having some of its aircraft repossessed by the lessor) and is currently in creditor protection. Therefore, WizzAir is going for broke in this sector, and to break the remains of SkyEurope.
Ryanair... WizzAir... The two big bloc controllers of the LCC market?
Ocean Air (Brazil) Comes out of near to nowhere and goes for broke...
Here's another airline I've never heard of - Ocean Air. Based in Brazil and currently running a Foker F100 fleet, they're branching out into A319's... and from 2015 - A350XWB-800's.
A quick look at the colour scheme gives away who owns Ocean Air - Columbian based airline Avianca who will be running 787's, citing different countries - different aircraft - different missions.
Well variety is the spice of life isn't it?
Norwegian up, SAS Suffering.
Norwegian is doing very well at the moment with an $11m profit (well for these conditions anything with a plus must be good). SAS on the other hand lost $251m. SAS is trying to recover, but is slowly turning into yet another European basket case airline - and implementing CoreSAS as reported last week.
Cut too close to the Core SAS and you'll loose it....
JAL Cargo to Merge... what lies ahead?
Japan Airlines s in talks to merge its cargo business Nippon Yusen citing falling cargo loads.
Ominously, there is a warning of further consolidation down the line...
BBC News, Flight
SouthWest - Mass WiFi deployment
Well someone had to do it - and hopefully this will kick start WiFi in the air competition into overdrive. SouthWest airlines is equiping its entire fleet of 737's (300/500/700's) - 545 aircraft with Row 44's KU based BroadBand/WiFi System.
This is very big news as it make the econmics of depolyment very cheap, and hopefully the cost of it to be cheap too.
And if other companies want to go with Row 44, this is simply going to mean the cost will fall for the equipment.
Flight
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Right - thats your bite sized news for this week.
I'm not sure there will be news next week as I'll be 35000ft or so in the air at publishing time - more to come!
Friday, 14 August 2009
The News: A New base, Cuts, Profits causing trouble...
Continental: Joins Star Alliance 27th October (Official)
Continental have confirmed they are to leave SkyTeam on the 24th October and formally join Star Alliance on the 27th October.
Expect trouble if things go wrong - and knowing how other airlines have handled integrations before - trouble isn't fare off.
(Continental)
Ryainair Opens a new base a Jimmy Savile International - I mean Leeds Bradford Airport
The odious little man is doing some good this week, and has announced the opening of a new base at LBA, where 2 aircraft will be based. Estimated 1000 jobs to come in. Whilst this is good for the area (as BMI pulled out earlier this year), this could spell trouble for Jet2 and FlyBe. New routes are: Carcassonne, Malta, Faro, Montpellier, Ibiza, Murcia, Knock, Nantes, Krakow,Palma, Limoges, Pisa, Malaga,Venice Treviso.
Yes, there's a fare sale, but in Ryanair land - every day is a fare sale!
(BBC News/Ryanair)
SAS... cutting to the core
SAS is going from bad to worse alas, with another net loss of kr1.05bn, and is cutting another 1000 jobs in the process under it's coreSAS programme. In addition, they'll be asking for paycuts from crew as well.
At the rate SAS are going, there not be much left to cut soon
(BBC News/Flight)
Gol hits the Goal and in the profit
Brazilian Carrier Gol is doing the impossible and actual has posted a rather tidy R$354 profit in Q2, whilst managing and reducing costs... and selling R$104 million worth of miles to institutions to sell on.
Hey.. that's the United business model isn't it? ;)
(Flight)
Asiana - Profit...
Again devil is in the detail, with Asiana selling off their IT unit - with weak numbers all around
(Flight)
Virgin Blue cancels all United Codeshares
Wholey expected as Virgin Blue and V Australia is snuggling up to Delta, and telling UA to find a partner to dance with in Australia to feed into their SYD services. Whilst Virgin Blue is happy to tart with other carriers, it wants no part of a global alliance. UA fliers heading to Australia had better open up a QF OneWorld Account to start throwing those spare miles into....
(Flight)
SouthWest is desperate for some Frontier LUV from the Courts... AND DOESN'T GET IT
SouthWest Airlines is seemingly desperate for Frontier and has upped it's bid to US$170m for the airline. Cranky has an excellent analysis of what it means, but it does mean an inital fleet reduction to 40 Airbus A320 Series and the possible creation of "SouthWest Express" - as well as the elimination of a competitor.
And in late breaking news, it's been confirmed that Republic Airlines have won the auction for $150m, citing management of seniority lists.
That'll set the cat amongst the pigeons... (Flight, Cranky Flier)
Branson Bleets about the AA/BA/IB tieup
See below ;) - Also his minons were out and about on Radio 5 Live. Change the tune please?
(BBC Radio 5, The Telegraph)
Air Asia X debating IFE+C
Air Asia X are to explore options in terms of connectivity for its inbound fleet of A350's... but the big question is how - it's a big out of pocked expense initially... so how is it going to be funded? Fun times.
It's also worth nothing that Air Asia (and its other LCC's Thai AirAsia and Indonesia Air Asia) have signed with OnAir to provide in flight Telephony hardware (who also provide RyanAir). I'd personally expect a similar deal along the line
(Flight)
Delta goes for Handheld IFE on it's 747 fleet whilst sticking the words "FOR SALE" on them
Meanwhile Delta 747 fans can start panicking... now. Rather than going for a complete internal refurbishment, Delta is going for Handheld IFE units for all classes. Whilst a great idea for a quick and easy deployment, this translates that Delta are no longer prepared to invest in a major upgrade for the 747 fleet (apart from painting the planes, changing seat covers, added DL product to them. However, its seen as a fill in solution until some more twinjet aircraft are located (777-200LR probably )
Now whilst you're at it Delta - any chance you can get some spares for your 767 fleet?
(Flight)
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More of course next week!
Continental have confirmed they are to leave SkyTeam on the 24th October and formally join Star Alliance on the 27th October.
Expect trouble if things go wrong - and knowing how other airlines have handled integrations before - trouble isn't fare off.
(Continental)
Ryainair Opens a new base a Jimmy Savile International - I mean Leeds Bradford Airport
The odious little man is doing some good this week, and has announced the opening of a new base at LBA, where 2 aircraft will be based. Estimated 1000 jobs to come in. Whilst this is good for the area (as BMI pulled out earlier this year), this could spell trouble for Jet2 and FlyBe. New routes are: Carcassonne, Malta, Faro, Montpellier, Ibiza, Murcia, Knock, Nantes, Krakow,Palma, Limoges, Pisa, Malaga,Venice Treviso.
Yes, there's a fare sale, but in Ryanair land - every day is a fare sale!
(BBC News/Ryanair)
SAS... cutting to the core
SAS is going from bad to worse alas, with another net loss of kr1.05bn, and is cutting another 1000 jobs in the process under it's coreSAS programme. In addition, they'll be asking for paycuts from crew as well.
At the rate SAS are going, there not be much left to cut soon
(BBC News/Flight)
Gol hits the Goal and in the profit
Brazilian Carrier Gol is doing the impossible and actual has posted a rather tidy R$354 profit in Q2, whilst managing and reducing costs... and selling R$104 million worth of miles to institutions to sell on.
Hey.. that's the United business model isn't it? ;)
(Flight)
Asiana - Profit...
Again devil is in the detail, with Asiana selling off their IT unit - with weak numbers all around
(Flight)
Virgin Blue cancels all United Codeshares
Wholey expected as Virgin Blue and V Australia is snuggling up to Delta, and telling UA to find a partner to dance with in Australia to feed into their SYD services. Whilst Virgin Blue is happy to tart with other carriers, it wants no part of a global alliance. UA fliers heading to Australia had better open up a QF OneWorld Account to start throwing those spare miles into....
(Flight)
SouthWest is desperate for some Frontier LUV from the Courts... AND DOESN'T GET IT
SouthWest Airlines is seemingly desperate for Frontier and has upped it's bid to US$170m for the airline. Cranky has an excellent analysis of what it means, but it does mean an inital fleet reduction to 40 Airbus A320 Series and the possible creation of "SouthWest Express" - as well as the elimination of a competitor.
And in late breaking news, it's been confirmed that Republic Airlines have won the auction for $150m, citing management of seniority lists.
That'll set the cat amongst the pigeons... (Flight, Cranky Flier)
Branson Bleets about the AA/BA/IB tieup
See below ;) - Also his minons were out and about on Radio 5 Live. Change the tune please?
(BBC Radio 5, The Telegraph)
Air Asia X debating IFE+C
Air Asia X are to explore options in terms of connectivity for its inbound fleet of A350's... but the big question is how - it's a big out of pocked expense initially... so how is it going to be funded? Fun times.
It's also worth nothing that Air Asia (and its other LCC's Thai AirAsia and Indonesia Air Asia) have signed with OnAir to provide in flight Telephony hardware (who also provide RyanAir). I'd personally expect a similar deal along the line
(Flight)
Delta goes for Handheld IFE on it's 747 fleet whilst sticking the words "FOR SALE" on them
Meanwhile Delta 747 fans can start panicking... now. Rather than going for a complete internal refurbishment, Delta is going for Handheld IFE units for all classes. Whilst a great idea for a quick and easy deployment, this translates that Delta are no longer prepared to invest in a major upgrade for the 747 fleet (apart from painting the planes, changing seat covers, added DL product to them. However, its seen as a fill in solution until some more twinjet aircraft are located (777-200LR probably )
Now whilst you're at it Delta - any chance you can get some spares for your 767 fleet?
(Flight)
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More of course next week!
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