Round the world, awesome!

Bloomberg reporting that MCAS software was developed and tested by low paid developers in India
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... -engineers

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fran ... SKCN1U412B

New aviation tax in France!
(Can only be good news for Belgian airports...)

LOT operating WAW-BRU-WAW with a 787 this morning

United to Newark also had a significant albeit smaller delay.
And Delta's flight to Atlanta was cancelled.

Ryanair to Krakow and Essaouira confirmed:

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/ryan ... 2019-2020/

According to this source, British Airways is looking to add up to six second-hand A380s.

I wonder will they be taking them from Oneworld partner Qatar Airways, who have said they wish to phase out their A380's?

Vueling may move away from an all-Airbus fleet and migrate to the B737 MAX, according to Willie Walsh, CEO of parent IAG. Did Walsh lose some bolts and become nuts? How will his customers react? They're probably cheap to buy now, and will be delivered long after the MAX has proved itself safe :geek:

Flown: MDQ-AEP (Shockingly we took off before the safety demonstration was complete!) EZE-ATL (First time Buenos Aires Ezeiza airport) ATL-BRU BRU-JFK JFK-DCA DCA-MSP MSP-BOI (First time Boise airport) BOI-SEA SEA-JFK LGA-SDF (First time Louisville airport) SDF-DTW (Smooth operations in Detroit des...

The Delta Boeing 767-300ER's have a lovely emergency exit row in Comfort+ section. The Delta Airbus A330-200's do not, but have a warm floor at the Economy (Main Cabin) emergency row, which is great since emergency exit rows can get cold. All that said, the A330-200's are being retrofitted with a ne...

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/ne ... 88881.html

British Airways to increase Heathrow to Mumbai starting June (at the expense of some Heathrow - Johannesburg frequencies).

United have opted for a new livery which only makes me think of their competitor JetBlue
https://thepointsguy.com/news/united-ne ... irst-look/

https://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.co ... oeing-737s

Southwest showing interest in the A220!

Amazing how Alitalia can still survive, whereas Jet Airways has a couple of bad years and is suddenly in deep sh*t.

Nice!

Very interesting read! :geek: From October to March Delta also operated the 767-400 on BRU-ATL, but last week they changed back to the 767-300. Unlike you, I like my aircraft modern, so am very happy to see the 767-300's back. Delta also have some older 757's flying to Latin America if that tickles ...

Interestingly BRU-YYZ-YYT is exactly double the distance of BRU-YYT. Not the most efficient routing but I'm sure you don't mind.

As a loyal Skyteam flyer, this will sometimes cause me to fly longer distances (if it happens).
For example, instead of flying BOS-AMS-BRU, I would now fly BOS-JFK-BRU
Similarly, I would likely replace LAX-AMS-BRU by LAX-FCO-BRU

Funnily, the Boeing 747-400 COMBI is my least favourite KLM aircraft, and the Boeing 767-400 is my least favourite Delta aircraft. But of course I am happy that you enjoyed the experience.

This evening's TUI Casablanca CMN to Charleroi CRL seemed to divert to Brussels BRU...