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Sun Country flew Miniapollis St Paul - Gatwick using 738s. I think 12 in business and about 160 y class with a 33' seat pitch. They route through Gander for a refueling stop, flight takes about 11-12 hours.What people must remember with low cost is some people are paying full fare to subsidise the cheaper fare.
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A Ryanair flight from Palermo - Bologna has made an emergency landing in Rome Ciampino. An electrical problem in one of the engines. Passengers left the aircraft on ladders. No reports of injuries. Reports smoke entered the cockpit.
On the assumption that neither fire nor injury occur and no damage to the aircraft, how much does it actually cost an airline to deploy emergency slides, and then install fresh slides, including the obvious cost of an airframe out of service while this goes on.
And yes I know that one serious accident even without loss of life causes far far greater cost
And yes I know that one serious accident even without loss of life causes far far greater cost
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There was a fault with one of the motors. There was 3 pilots on board and smoke sped into cockpit. Beleaved a short circuit caused the problem.
The aircraft made a normal landing.
Can't say how passengers left the aircraft but there was only a little amount of smoke and no fire so I don't see why the slides would be needed.
The aircraft made a normal landing.
Can't say how passengers left the aircraft but there was only a little amount of smoke and no fire so I don't see why the slides would be needed.
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The slides cost about £8000 each. But after speaking to a friend of mine who is a capt, we did not need to. Plus we dont know the full details yet, so lets not go jumping around calling ryanairs safety record.
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Perhaps smoke only filled the cabin immediately after the engine problem occurred as the air/con is linked to the engines. Once the engine was most likely switched off smoke would have stopped filling the cabin, and slowly left. By the time they landed perhaps no smoke remained in the cabin and thus no need to evacuate the aircraft urgently. Did the pilot turn of the runway? If so this would further support the fact that there was no immediate danger on landing.
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Bout time we stopped paying for adverts in this anti ryanair homophobic middle endland news paper. The free stuff will do fine 
Ryanair passenger in cardiac arrest treated with sandwich...then CHARGED | Mail Online
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Ryanair passenger in cardiac arrest treated with sandwich...then CHARGED | Mail Online
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Schedule mistake?
After FR introduced new flights to EIN, I've found one weird thing on the schedule. Given any monday in dec-jan-feb-mar, there are three morning flights departing KUN. Gatwick (07:10), Dublin (07:45) and Eindhoven (08:40). KUN base only has two airframes, and winter schedule does not indicate there could be the third one.
Has anyone got a clue, if this can be just a planning mistake (unlikely), or some kind of spare a/c rotation?
Has anyone got a clue, if this can be just a planning mistake (unlikely), or some kind of spare a/c rotation?
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08.40 is very late for an initial morning departure. I would expect you will find this is an aircraft that has flown in from somewhere else first. Maybe it could be on a W pattern. ie fly from X to KUN then to EIN, back to KUN then back to X.
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@Ballsout - this is not the case. All the schedule looks perfectly fit for two aircraft with some 7-8 weekly rotations still to be filled in. KUN is in GMT+2 zone, and all winter destinations are either GMT+1 or GMT. It is actually unbelievable to have an arrival at 08:15 in the morning. So the question is still standing...