A350-1000 and other Fleet News
11-07-2023, 10:24 AM
#1451
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Joined APC: Jul 2021
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According to the last base visit in SLC they are still planning SLC 330. Need to get authorization for packs off takeoff and extend runway lengths. Sounds like it’s still a few years out. It will be interesting to see what they say on the 9th.
Last edited by Cft23; 11-07-2023 at 10:44 AM.
11-07-2023, 10:47 AM
#1452
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Joined APC: Feb 2007
Posts: 2,539
I've said it before, I'd much rather see a legal framework that requires foreign carriers to comply with the standards of the ATP rule as well as Pt 117. That would've been way more effective than the subsidy battle ALPA was trying to fight years ago.
11-07-2023, 11:04 AM
#1453
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Joined APC: Aug 2015
Posts: 555
Second hand but per MSP visit this week SLC330 and BOS of any kind are dead… but Taipei, Melbourne, Mumbai or Delhi, and 350-1k’s and 330/350 options are around the corner…
11-07-2023, 11:11 AM
#1454
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Joined APC: Jan 2023
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LR was a fleet of 10 with engines that couldn’t be overhauled in house. I guarantee the 350 with payload limits still is a more cost effective machine when you put in economies of scale into view. Fleet of 44 jets, or 18 (10 with GE and 8 with RR)? Not to mention how much less dino juice it burns. Also the yolk.
11-07-2023, 11:18 AM
#1455
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Joined APC: Apr 2020
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Well I've flown both, other than the thing between your knees, the LR was by far the better performing aircraft for where we used it. 350-1k is going to struggle. But that's not our fight, as JB has stated earlier. That's management. We just fly what they buy and hopefully at the highest rates possible.
11-07-2023, 12:00 PM
#1457
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Joined APC: Sep 2013
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We really don't know how good we have it here. I remember 2020 when every flag carrier was furloughing. SAS was firing, that's right firing their junior pilots. Social-Democrat workers paradise. At least they honored seniority, unlike the ME3, who simply fired pilots from the seats they wanted. To this day many pilots have not returned.
And here at Delta guys were complaining about a possible 2 hour cut to the TLV.
And here at Delta guys were complaining about a possible 2 hour cut to the TLV.
11-07-2023, 12:25 PM
#1460
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