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  • #152
    lord lucan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    bbk wrote: »
    I will look forward to seeing how this pans out. December 21st is the date I heard in Dubai. One hour after current flight. Delays and things could see a couple of 777s land one after the other - optimistically speaking.

    *waits*

    Heard it's a once off flight on 21/12 to cope with the Xmas extra demand. Haven't come across any official mention of it yet.


  • #153
    GTE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭GTE


    lord lucan wrote: »
    Heard it's a once off flight on 21/12 to cope with the Xmas extra demand. Haven't come across any official mention of it yet.

    That is what I hear re: demand. Not too sure if it is a once off flight or a one off "season" of Saturday flights.

    I have noticed some Aer Lingus flights doubling up to certain destinations, as in two lanes to London just to pick a destination. Would they be under the same flight code or would an additional one be used for the second plane?


  • #154
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    andy_g wrote: »
    Hows the weather at home?

    Absolutely lovely, just amazing.

    Coming home at 6 and it's feckin pitch black and freezing cold outside.

    Malta can't beat weather like this.



    :mad::(


  • #155
    andy_g
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,561 ✭✭✭andy_g


    Ah we're dark an hour before you so. Ok it is warmer and cheaper :D


  • #156
    eatmyshorts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 821 ✭✭✭eatmyshorts


    bbk wrote: »
    I hear that a second Emirates flight to Dubai is confirmed for December onwards, Saturdays only. Waters being tested with a second 777.

    The 22nd, there are 2 EK flights to dublin. The scheduled one at 11:20 and an extra one arriving an hour later at 12:20.
    An extra flight due to Christmas demand.


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  • #157
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,796 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Dear Aer Lingus. How ****ing difficult is it to develop an app that actually works when trying to check in for a flight ? Despite my mega fast internet connection in the hotel it still manages to tell me I have no connectivity.... About my ninth time to try this it's worked once which I'm convinced was an accident.


  • #158
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    http://www.dcu.ie/prospective/deginfo.php?classname=AMPS&originating_school=

    Does anyone know anything about this? The first group is in their fourth year now.

    The "With Pilot Studies" just basically means you can go to Jerez or Oxford after third year, you'd still have to fund it yourself.


  • #159
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 9,927 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    whitebriar wrote: »
    Greetings from aboard Ei 137 at 37,000 ft,somewhere near New found land ,3hrs and 20 mins from Bos.
    Apart from the lovely food,our Ei premier hostesses are drowning us in a tasty South African red.
    we may need wheel chair assistance on dis embarking :D

    Showing your age there....."Premier" has been replaced by "Business"


  • #160
    whitebriar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭whitebriar


    Tenger wrote: »
    Showing your age there....."Premier" has been replaced by "Business"
    It will always be premier to me with service like this excellent crew :)


  • #161
    GTE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭GTE


    lord lucan wrote: »
    Heard it's a once off flight on 21/12 to cope with the Xmas extra demand. Haven't come across any official mention of it yet.

    Second daily flights from March is what I hear, after a one or a series of January "extra demand" ones for lack of a better term.

    Mad thing also about a Dublin to USA route by Emirates in an effort to expand. Nothing to do with Dubai to JFK, its a seperate route. All I can say at the moment.

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  • #162
    eatmyshorts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 821 ✭✭✭eatmyshorts


    Atlanta.

    That is all...


  • #163
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Good as place as any for this :)

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  • #164
    flazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Windy day, 2 Aer Lingus 1 ryanair and a Luftsansa to come in. Battle for the best pilot begins.


  • #165
    Growler!!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Growler!!!


    Only competition will be for safest pilot!


  • #166
    flazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Completely agree. Good news is they are landing again


  • #167
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 9,927 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    Well it does have 2 aircraft in the shot..........

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=779199752096621


  • #168
    durandal01
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭durandal01


    A parody of Van Damme's Volvo ad featuring Chuck and some Lockheeds.


  • #169
    andy_g
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,561 ✭✭✭andy_g


    durandal01 wrote: »
    A parody of Van Damme's Volvo ad featuring Chuck and some Lockheeds.

    Moved to off topic thread.


  • #170
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    20m passengers through DUB this year.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/transport-and-tourism/dublin-airport-welcomes-20-millionth-passenger-1.1639819


  • #171
    Sterling Archer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭Sterling Archer


    Anyone watch any of Season 13 of Air crash investigation


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  • #172
    sully2010
    Registered Users Posts: 594 ✭✭✭sully2010


    Bit of a laugh:)

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=88250444&postcount=6574


  • #173
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,796 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Had a very fun night flying from DUB - LGW yesterday evening on EI... Having a bit of banter with the FAs while buying beers and one says yeah you might want those if your nerves are bad and it could be a while before we get you to a bar ! Little did I know she must have been briefed as what happened next was my first go around..... The aircraft was all over the shop coming in... We got the main gear on the runway just as my buddy says "yep we are down" we spool up and away we go back into the night sky.... The idiot... Anyway next go is even bumpier... But somehow we actually get down.. Great job by the guys flying EI246 last night and a super cabin crew too....


  • #174
    Sterling Archer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭Sterling Archer


    Robbed from Twitter
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    barrabest Barra Best 20m
    Plane gets damaged at @ShannonAirport as wind gusts up to 99mph/159kmph. Photo by Brendan Begley #stormireland pic.twitter.com/ifvf4fQyaG


  • #175
    kerry4sam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    Photo from Shannon Airport, linkie here. Hope all are okay!

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  • #176
    jamo2oo9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭jamo2oo9


    kerry4sam wrote: »
    Photo from Shannon Airport, linkie here. Hope all are okay!

    1796545_743650682319263_1523250571_n.jpg

    Reported that it was an empty aircraft so I imagine there are no injuries as a result.


  • #177
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 9,927 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    jamo2oo9 wrote: »
    Reported that it was an empty aircraft so I imagine there are no injuries as a result.

    Looks that way. Doors all closed, no equipment in the area. Maybe more susceptible as it was lighter than normal at the time?


  • #178
    lord lucan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    I believe the Fire Training aircraft at DUB,the old FR Eircell bird,took a 45 degree turn last week during the strong gusts. When i arrived back into DUB from HAM on Sunday i noticed it had what appeared to be concrete blocks either side of its nose gear,i assume to stop another repeat.


  • #179
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,538 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Booking what is increasingly likely to be my last ever flights on a trijet and possibly even a Douglas at the moment - doing a self-transfer in Montreal to get to Portland Oregon to allow me to get a scheduled MD11 both ways.

    Going to be slightly weird knowing they're all gone from Europe considering my first flight was on a British Midland DC9-30 what didn't feel like *that* long ago.


  • #180
    sully2010
    Registered Users Posts: 594 ✭✭✭sully2010


    Was thinking that it must be pretty boring being a fireman in an airport as they rarely get any action, practically never any fires.

    Does anyone know any and what do they do all day apart from the fire training on the static aircraft? Are there lots of short shifts together with part-timers or are they full-timers?


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  • #181
    Growler!!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Growler!!!


    They are mostly firemen AND airport police. So if not on duty in the station they are on patrol as policemen. Not sure about DUB but defo in ORK and SNN.


  • #182
    flazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    They also do duties such as Bird watch and scare, the ambulance crew and regular runway inspections.


  • #183
    LoonyLovegood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,068 ✭✭✭LoonyLovegood


    Question for you all. I'm flying into Manchester, and there's an A380 due in about two hours after me. Can you walk from the terminals to the Runway Visitor Park? It looks like it'd be interesting enough, and I've never seen the A380!


  • #184
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,538 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    There's a bus service, timings are fairly poor: http://www.ghacoaches.co.uk/Timetables/200DY12A.html


  • #185
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Pan Am's first office is now a micro-brewery owned by Kelly McGillis.....
    Home of Pan Am's first office, where the first American international flight ticket was bought has now become a bar owned by Top Gun's Kelly McGillis!
    Pan American World Airways was the US' largest airline from the 1920s until it's collapse in 1991. But it had it's origins in a quiet corner of America's southernmost point, Key West. On October 28th 1927, Pan Am flight number one took off from Key West, headed for Havana, Cuba. It was the first American international air service in scheduled operation. Pan Am was started by Juan Terry Trippe with the aim to "provide mass air transportation for the average man at rates he can afford to pay". Securing the air postal routes between Florida and Cuba, Trippe turned his fledgling airline out of this office into one of the world's biggest air carriers.

    Where once the well to do Clipper flying boat travelers of the 1920s would buy their airplane tickets, Kelly McGillis of Top Gun fame turned the building into a bar and restaurant. Currently it is home to Key West's only microbrewery.


  • #186
    tobiaswatson
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭tobiaswatson


    hi um I'm not sure what this thread is but it's the most recent one I could find, and hopefully ye know what you're on about as regards aviation but I have really bad insomnia, and there are planes flying over my area on the five to ten past every hour from like, eleven to six in the morning and it's driving me nuts, i live around galway, so if ye know anything I would appreciate it, gotten really curious about it


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  • #187
    Stealthirl
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    CTYIgirl wrote: »
    Question for you all. I'm flying into Manchester, and there's an A380 due in about two hours after me. Can you walk from the terminals to the Runway Visitor Park? It looks like it'd be interesting enough, and I've never seen the A380!

    I was only there at the weekend and just missed it,took me about 40min- an hour to walk from T2,a taxi is about a tenner.


  • #188
    LoonyLovegood
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    Thanks everyone, I'll probably get the bus across, the times should match up.


  • #189
    pajor
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    Cork feed working on liveatc? Says it's up but not a peep. Or is it just because it's Cork? :pac:

    OH coming in from AMS. 3 flights diverted to SNN this evening because of fog. :(


  • #190
    Lustrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 758 ✭✭✭Lustrum


    Came across this today, very interesting to see how these guys operated, at 75000ft!!

    http://www.sbnation.com/2014/3/7/5447310/sr-71-blackbird-pilot-interview


  • #191
    pajor
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    pajor wrote: »
    Cork feed working on liveatc? Says it's up but not a peep. Or is it just because it's Cork? :pac:

    OH coming in from AMS. 3 flights diverted to SNN this evening because of fog. :(

    Her flight wasn't though. :D


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  • #192
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,533 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Data visualization of Air Traffic in Europe: http://vimeo.com/88093956


  • #193
    L1011
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    In the YUL post-CBP lounge at the moment waiting for a hugely delayed flight. Makes what's provided post-CBP in T2 look practically Soviet - two bars, about ten food outlets, electronics outlet, etc.

    This is all here for 3.4M passengers to the US a year, considering DUB has about half or more (the list of passengers I've seen doesn't have the EWR, CLT or IAD figures) of that you'd imagine that maybe providing half as much in terms of facilities might work?


  • #194
    tricky D
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    Thought this might be worth a mention

    Former Lancaster bomber pilot, POW and Aer Lingus pilot Don Harkin lived nearby until he finally passed away last week at the age of 92.

    http://www.ww2vetsproject.com/archives/79 (check out the audio)

    What that link doesn't mention is that because he was Irish, he had to fly with the Poles which made for some interesting stories according to his son.


  • #195
    lord lucan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    There's a new toy to play with in T2. There's a flight simulator that's been installed airside,think it's a 737NG mock up cockpit with latest graphics. The graphics for DUB look fantastic and the guys were saying they plan to connect to the DUB network and show realtime aircraft on stand.

    Not sure how well it'll do,i think it's €45 for 15 minutes and up to €220 for 90 minutes. Interesting idea to try though and i'm sure it'll appeal to some passing through.

    IMG_20140605_083226.jpg

    ****Disclaimer,i've nothing to do with the company behind it,i only knew about it from working in T2.****


  • #196
    jamo2oo9
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    *books a flight to Manchester to make use of this opportunity*


  • #197
    andy_g
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,561 ✭✭✭andy_g


    You'll see most of us from Fr and Air Contractors up to keep our sim time up :P


  • #198
    flazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    andy_g wrote: »
    You'll see most of us from Fr and Air Contractors up to keep our sim time up :P
    Imagine watching a pilot making a shambles of the sim, then heading towards your flight as your pilot.:cool:


  • #199
    andy_g
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    flazio wrote: »
    Imagine watching a pilot making a shambles of the sim, then heading towards your flight as your pilot.:cool:

    Well i'd love to see that i'd find it funny.


  • #200
    Strumms
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    Indeed... It must be tempting for some pilots to give it a go the comedy value would be priceless... Make a right balls of it.. start arguing with each other outside the sim " but I thought you wanted to try it upside down before the real flight "and then off to gate 403 for the 509 to CDG.


  • #201
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    I like :cool:

    10369576_897030876977426_1832363307362576925_n.jpg

    That's the European kit. I'd say their League kit would still say EADS til 2015 though.


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