ACE to Announce $6Bn Aircraft order in 3mo
Apr 15, 2005, 9:02 am
#31
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Originally Posted by superdawg
Boeing is no longer making the 757, the last one rolled off the line a few months ago.
Apr 15, 2005, 9:04 am
#32
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I can't see AC ditching Airbus entirely (and would not be surprised if they wanted to go all-Airbus on larger aircraft). ACTS is without doubt the leading maintenance supplier for Airbus planes in North America, and has a decent business of providing overhaul services to third party airlines. This in turn really improves the overheads of maintaining the AC fleet.
Apr 15, 2005, 10:51 am
#33
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Originally Posted by taupo
I'll take the rattle of the 767, over the feeling of never going to leave the ground in the 330/340.
The idea of buying anything let alone an aircraft, from a consortium made of countries that historically battle each other, speak different languages, drive on different sides of the road, have lots of government involvement boggles my mind.
The idea of buying anything let alone an aircraft, from a consortium made of countries that historically battle each other, speak different languages, drive on different sides of the road, have lots of government involvement boggles my mind.
Apr 15, 2005, 2:12 pm
#35
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Originally Posted by Scott218
What's going to be used to replace 319/320/321 from Boeing? 737s? 767s would have too much capacity.
Apr 15, 2005, 2:42 pm
#36
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after looking at seat guru, some of the airlines are able to have 2x3x2 in J and have the J seat width set at 20.5 inches, the airlines with 2x2x2 in J have at most 22 inch wide seats. AC's current J seats are 20-21 inches in width, so the door is open for a 2x3x2 seating config upfront.
Apr 15, 2005, 3:47 pm
#37
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Originally Posted by shore9
after looking at seat guru, some of the airlines are able to have 2x3x2 in J and have the J seat width set at 20.5 inches, the airlines with 2x2x2 in J have at most 22 inch wide seats. AC's current J seats are 20-21 inches in width, so the door is open for a 2x3x2 seating config upfront.
I'd be more worried about Y. There are a lot of middle seats on the 777 in Y for both the standard 3x3x3 or 2x5x2 configurations.
Apr 15, 2005, 3:54 pm
#38
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Originally Posted by StuMcIlwain
I'd be more worried about Y. There are a lot of middle seats on the 777 in Y for both the standard 3x3x3 or 2x5x2 configurations.
Apr 15, 2005, 4:43 pm
#40
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I do most of my flying LHR-YVR and then Dash8 to PDX.
When travelling in the back my preference is for a 767. 2-3-2 so that if I can get the centre aisle there is a good chance that the 2 other seats will go to
a couple and the occupier of the middle will disturb their partner rather
than me. So, the same would happen if it was 3-3-3. 2-5-2 and there's
no chance of not getting disturbed.
Now that I've been corrupted by travelling up the front I like the single
seat on a 767 (if only the inflight entertainment didn't suck so much).
What a poor range of rubbish movies on DVD. The seating was much
better on the 343 and the VOD was really good.
Also, the service was better on the 343, probably down to galley space.
My nuts were served warm rather than cold (ooh er).
So, if I continue to manage to get to sit up front then I don't really care.
But in the back of the bus the difference is much greater.
I sat at the very back of a CRJ PDX-SBA last week. My colleague, with the
aisle seat spent the entire flight shutting the toilet door.
Chris.
When travelling in the back my preference is for a 767. 2-3-2 so that if I can get the centre aisle there is a good chance that the 2 other seats will go to
a couple and the occupier of the middle will disturb their partner rather
than me. So, the same would happen if it was 3-3-3. 2-5-2 and there's
no chance of not getting disturbed.
Now that I've been corrupted by travelling up the front I like the single
seat on a 767 (if only the inflight entertainment didn't suck so much).
What a poor range of rubbish movies on DVD. The seating was much
better on the 343 and the VOD was really good.
Also, the service was better on the 343, probably down to galley space.
My nuts were served warm rather than cold (ooh er).
So, if I continue to manage to get to sit up front then I don't really care.
But in the back of the bus the difference is much greater.
I sat at the very back of a CRJ PDX-SBA last week. My colleague, with the
aisle seat spent the entire flight shutting the toilet door.
Chris.
Apr 15, 2005, 5:30 pm
#41
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Originally Posted by ChrisA330
Who said they would configure a B777 with a middle seat? Do you have inside info? Not all airlines configure their 777 J class 2x3x2.
In fact most airlines who operate 2 class aircraft have a 2x2x2 config. DL, CO, as well as TG (new config), and BA have 6 abreast seating.
In fact most airlines who operate 2 class aircraft have a 2x2x2 config. DL, CO, as well as TG (new config), and BA have 6 abreast seating.
Apr 15, 2005, 7:45 pm
#42
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Originally Posted by AC_flyer
BA have the funky 2-4-2 seating for their Club World...
Apr 15, 2005, 8:09 pm
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Originally Posted by shore9
out of curiosity, how do you get out of one of those middle seats? climb over the person on the aisle? would that not be kind of hard?
And how do you get into the isle when your in a window seat? Don't you just climb over on the aisle seat as well?