Air fares?

[flappist]

Latest 380 news, they are now being retro fitted with a tow bar to drag a 747 with them everywhere so the passengers are not constantly left stranded all over the world.

AND, Shell are holding a barbecue with free grog for all senior QANTAS desk vegetables to thank then for choosing a new aircraft that takes 30 tons more fuel to move the same number of pax as a 747-400.

Scarebus, XBox 360 with wings.........

[ltd]

We fly them out of Melbourne with 300 pax and no freight, because with the fuel needed anything else would exceed MTOW. Crap aeroplane built by idiots and really, it is more or less a mid-haul A/C. On paper, it looks like a long haul but in the real world, it is crap. Infact, weight is such an issue with this A/C which looks like a short fat man in a white tracksuit, that the turning mechanism on the main gear was deliberately left out to save 7 tonnes. The pictures below show the result.

[ltd]

I just realised that on this forum most people wouldn't know what I was referring to with the scarebus and the chainsaw; 600 trees per minute thing.
Well, at an airshow a number of years ago an air france A320 was performing a fly by in landing configuration and would execute a missed approach for the benefit of the audience. Anyway, the captain throttled up but the engines took 12 seconds to respond, a failure in the FMC of the airbus and the design in general. It had happened before but never with such catastrophic consequences. See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EM0hDchVlY

You can see at 16 seconds he pitches the nose up to avoid the obstacles, but to no avail. At 28 seconds you can hear the engines spool up. Anyway, the flight data recorder was recovered and photographed (orange with three diagonal reflective strips), and the one used in the enquiry was orange with two horizontal strips. Surprisingly, the segment where the uncommanded throttle failure was magically disappeared and Scarebus (who are owned EADS, a division of the french government) had no idea what happened to them. The pilots survived the crash but spent time in jail for alleged negligence, and trying to speak out about the design flaw which is why I say, "If it aint Boeing, I'm not going"; possibly one of the reasons why Jetstar is always delayed, pilots have to get their last will and testament in order first.