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Re: Malaysian Airlines Airbus flies wrong way for 1 hour, company files wrong flight In this case they had to work even harder than normal.

Re: Malaysian Airlines Airbus flies wrong way for 1 hour, company files wrong flight You are indeed correct. The flight plan would have been filed long before the intended departure time by MAS or its handling agent, more so since this was a scheduled flight by a 'main' carrier. Around 1 hour...

Re: RI, ACS and Saint Andrews boys only. All other sinkies DO NOT click on this threa YTP still going strong.

A loose definition of precipitation is.....Anything that falls from the sky except airplanes. After what TS posted I don't know if this definition will hold for very long.

She joined the airlines the same day i did.

Hi ,Cannot meet minimum sum so cannot withdraw so am still sad.

what the (big) fish is this?

Kind of early for typhoons to hit this part of the world but its global warming I suppose.

In this case it is not about the airlines , it is about whether the Governing authority who issue the airlines its' Air Operator's Certificate ( CAAS in the case of Singapore ) would allow. I don't think any of these authorities would be amenable to such requests. Safety would be compromised in...

This is a safety issue nothing more, nothing less. To share the seat with an adult most airlines stipulate that the child must be younger than 2 years old. A little give and take is usually allowed but at 3 years old it is not possible to accede to their request.

Usually the diversion costs have to be borne by the unruly passenger who may also have lawsuits against him from other passengers.

One of the reasons is that the fighters escort them to fly an air corridor that minimises overflight over populated areas.

Commercial jets are not likely to have vertical speeds that are faster than Cumulonimbus buildups and updrafts. His reported climb rate of 6000 feet per minute cannot outclimb most of these storm clouds during their mature stage. Flying through gaps in Cumulonimbus clouds is a very risky and...

The way they look and the shape they are in, if some of them wear briefs the airlines would lose their passengers.

You are in error on this as there is no such discrimination. All the major airlines have agreed on and implemented this and the ground staff have their briefs, guidelines and orders to follow these rules strictly .

Not necessarily so. There is usually no service recovery steps taken if it is the passenger's fault. In fact he would usually have to pay extra for admin charges.

For almost every major airline his arrival at the gate would be way too late. If by about 10 minutes to departure time and the passenger is not at the gate and cannot be located then the procedures would be to advise the baggage personnel to locate and offload his checked in luggage. Once this...

Re: It's really a bad idea to climb over the thunderstorm...AirAsia QZ8501 If the storm cells are too big and widespread as in big line squalls then the issue has to be resolved on the ground prior to departure. The pilot would have to plan an alternate route around the weather and he or his...

Re: It's really a bad idea to climb over the thunderstorm...AirAsia QZ8501 Correct...chances are you can never outclimb thunderstorm clouds, even one that is forming. The energy level of active cumulonimbus cloud in the forming, mature and dissipating stage can rip an aircraft apart without any...

SAR operations would have long started already