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I can already see press releases about how Europe's favourite airline opens a new 'Flight Center' in Bangladesh.

On a more serious note though, I can imagine that a pilot does not need to do much for most of the flight. Then a remote pilot could typically control multiple planes at once.

There is no mention of the plane actually being stolen. For all we know, the pilot may have been the plane's regular pilot, thus was normally allowed to use the plane, except nobody asked the company owning the plane for permission. In fact if they did not intend to permanently keep the plane then b...

Well, if none of the pilots are in the cockpit, then it can take quite a while to serve that cup of tea.

Of course, the real solution is to make the planes controllable through a smartphone, so the pilot can sit in business class all the time if he wants to. Or at home. Or at the beach.

Norway is part of the ECAA . It actually includes 36 countries, including Norway. And of course, excluding Switzerland, not sure how that all works with Swiss, or is that now considered a German airline? Actually, who needs to ask? Did nobody notice routes flown by Norwegian such as Warsaw-Mallorca?...

I think they meant delivered, not ordered.

I recall reading that all the adaptations completely negated all weight advantages of the lithium batteries. Boeing said the whole package adds 60 kg( or was it lbs? Quite a difference, but I should look it up again as I only remember it was "60" xp ), they said the impact on the whole ai...

RoMax wrote:Because they may not be a safety issue anymore, but they could still be a operational/commercial issue. But I assume Boeing and their customers worked that out in the past 3 months...

I recall reading that all the adaptations completely negated all weight advantages of the lithium batteries.

A bit off-topic to reply to this, but why would you want to deal with some arrogant distributor if you can buy from the source for less?

Back on-topic, the gulf carrier thing is in essence a kind of price dumping issue.

I didn't mind the grounding as we were 'forced' to extend our stay in a really nice 5-star hotel in Antalya. It was very relaxed, no worries about how will we get back because, well, we just couldn't. The bad part was the chaos when flights resumed. Nobody knew anything and it took a few days after ...

b720 wrote: a flight from BRU to JFK is both trans atlantic and trans continental..

No, it is transatlantic and intercontinental.

Fingers crossed that the 787 grounding will be lifted soon. At least they could get the 787 that was used to fly the new battery anyway.

Yes, it would be very interesting/entertaining to watch a video of said ground test.

I thought the blue bits of the BA livery were much darker, or is that just the camera?

The lead-acid battery in my car has a venting tube leading to outside the car. The battery is located under the floor of the trunk, so inside the passenger compartment. Now, I know lead-acid batteries might produce hydrogen gas when overcharged, and we all saw what that can do in Fukushima, and Li-I...

DId they already forget how to fly the 787 then?

Wut, 5 hours in a cramped LCC cabin.

The point of most health insurance schemes is to evenly spread the cost among all participants, irrespective of actual risk. That being said, using age is sort of discriminatory, because it is not directly linked to health costs, only statistically. So in such a scheme you pay more because you are o...

Also, do you get a discount if you bring helium balloons on board?

Well when Chris Barrie was exploring the history of flight and airlines on National Geographic, he showed a historic airline terminal, and showed a big scale on which passengers were weighed. This was of course in the era of the Ford Trimotor. Yeah, as if this is some new idea.

I think Belgium is about the only country in the world with automatic inflation correction.