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Stansted to Vienna and back on Lauda A320s. A touch different to the normal Ryanair experience. Planes are fairly spacious and comfortable compared to the 737, but they are definitely showing their age. Stansted its usual crowded self. No issues in Vienna with passport control.

This. Many airlines are doing it to help drive up average fares and drive up load factors to improve profitability (or reduce losses for less fortunate airlines) given current fuel prices. Jet fuel prices are through the roof and flights which may have run when Jet A1 was sub $100 per barrel...

The image of Stansted Airport station on the NR website (https://images.nationalrail.co.uk/e8xgegruud3g/6NcvNcurjdHf1up9RNPZPe/d7051bbd56b59841f6a9f6bde9944f3c/Stansted.jpg) is a bit useless as it doesn't show the barriers and shows stuff like cafes which don't exist/ are in very different...

I don't think you get it. To conduct the Madeira RNP AR approach, Jet2 would require approval from both the UK CAA to conduct RNP AR approaches and from the Portuguese CAA to conduct the specific RNP AR approach in Madeira. The RNP AR into Madeira would need special authorization and...

@TerryTibbs has got there before me again, but, just to reiterate, an RNP and an RNP AR approach are two very different things. For one, authorisiation is required for each approach. For example, an airline might have approval to fly the RNP AR approach into Salzburg's Runway 33, but not the...

Just to add from the above, it's not possible to do an autoland at Maderia so it would definitely have been manually flown. Funchal's 05 has two options. Two different RNP AR Approaches which sort of leave you close to the runway. They are approval required and require special training for...

Agree with @GRALISTAIR above. Incredibly impressive. My flights are oh so vanilla in comparison. What's it like traveling to Afghanistan now?

Have to agree with @Tetchytyke here, sorry.

Yes, BA, JAL and ANA were all about £1500 or more. Air China £500 (£420 if I'd been willing to fly from Singapore coming back - a £160 detour, but a chance at visiting two places). Amazingly, the Chinese airlines often have competitive flight times despite connections as they fly over Russia (a...

Note that even Southwest Airlines has now moved to allocated seating. People are willing to pay to sit together, to be near the front, for extra legroom seats, for window seats etc etc. and it's a lot of money the airline is leaving behind if they don't charge. easyjet, or indeed any airline...

Just booked my third long-haul trip of the year. Heading to Japan next month which is something to look forward to. Going with Air China via Beijing one way and Shanghai the other. The Chinese airlines are just so much dramatically cheaper than any other option. Just one weekend left to go...

They appeal to very similar markets. They both heavily rely on the transit market for volume. UK <-> India/ Pakistan/ Bangladesh, UK -> Thailand, and UK <-> Australia/ NZ in particular. They both also heavily sell their 'premium' experience - both being highly mixed (middle seat in business on...

Of course captains do have discretion to deviate from SOPs (which the checklists are a part of) if something is in the interests of safety. This was not one of those scenarios. There have been cases where checklists are overly long and complex. When that comes to light, many of those are...

Yes, it's an exceptionally odd comment. Checklists are not supposed to be 'skipped' - in part or in whole.

Which pilots are these? There aren't that many 787 pilots in the UK - Probably about a 1000-1500 between BA, Virgin, Norse and tui. There are about 1250 787s in service and they have been operating commercially coming up to about 15 years now. The 737 Max (and newer NGs) and the 777 family...