Alpha Golf

Report in ATW re engine issues.

oliver2002

D-AIUS was delivered with the flex option this week, D-AINB (neo and flex)will follow after easter.

oliver2002

D-AINB was delivered today:

weero

It looks so innocent and innocuous from the outside .

Like in the case of the London dungeons, the true horrors happen behind closed doors.

starflyergold

You don't see that as a decal

weero

It should be part of the safety video ... could be made entertaining ...
"An unexpectedly confined journey: even for a hobbit" would be quite Hollywoodesque.

hugolover

Shareholder value guys. For their sake I hope they don't fly LH or have to put up with their WAGs complaining about it.

I hadn't flown LH for a while so I was shocked at how bad the seats were even in the exit rows when used to BA even with their own new cabins. Crew still find it as laughable as I do and there are numerous pillows deployed throughout the cabin to ease the park bench seating (except park benches have unlimited leg and knee room)

SEN lounge food has convinced me to ease back my BA complaints a bit too. Dreadful.

oliver2002

D-AINC is getting ready to be delivered this month:
http://xfw-spotter.blogspot.se/2016/...-ainc-msn.html

oliver2002

D-AINC is busy flying tests in Al-Ain to verify the modifications to the PW engines. NA & NB are due to get retrofits this summer.

N1003U

Any indications of an in-service date for the modified engines?

oliver2002

New engines in July, fix for existing engines in September.

oliver2002

So this week I had the 'pleasure' of flying with a 32V.

Overall they have made some modifications in the front, the galley equipment/walls between door 1 and the first row have been slimmed substantially to gain cabin floor space.

The last row really looks squeezed in. Now there is only a thin wall separating the last row and door 3. The fuselage narrows considerably there, so it looks like the last row of seats are narrower. No window, and no recline.

The galley and spaceflex lav are completely different to what is show in the picture above. There are only two crew seats at door 3 and the FA for 3L has to sit on a seat that is facing forward and retracted from a gap between the galley and the lav. It can be seen in the picture above stowed into the gap. Contrary to the picture above, the lavs are on the right side of the aircraft. I used the one in the middle and it is surprisingly spacious, very similar to the one on E19x aircraft, with the exception that you can stand upright/normal. In fact I liked it better than the current standard lav installed up front near door 1.

oliver2002

D-AIND was delivered this week:
https://xfw-spotter.blogspot.de/2016...-aind-msn.html

oliver2002

D-AINC is also in service now.

oliver2002

D-AINE went into service yesterday.

The schedule of the neos ex FRA for till end of February is as follows: