Jet* NZ OTP
Join Date: Dec 2006
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Cathay Pacific no longer use JQ/QF for sectors within NZ. Cant imagine CX putting up with one star service hurting their or the One World brand.
Package flights ex WN/CH booked through Cathay now use Air NZ.
Package flights ex WN/CH booked through Cathay now use Air NZ.
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Jokestar - I love it!!!!
I sincerely hope OnestarNZ continues (running at a loss) for many years to come being subsidized (and depleting) QF's cash reserves, indirectly your keeping my preferred tickets (ANZ) at the right price.
Go Suckstar Go!!!!
I sincerely hope OnestarNZ continues (running at a loss) for many years to come being subsidized (and depleting) QF's cash reserves, indirectly your keeping my preferred tickets (ANZ) at the right price.
Go Suckstar Go!!!!
Join Date: Apr 2002
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delta whiskey, you are a to**er of the first degree, and obviously do not fly anything that goes faster than about 80 kts
Think about your assertion of estimates being out by 7 mins.
Look at the time/dist between reports and consider how much the GS would need to vary then determine what wind variation would be needed to cause such a change in GS / estimate.
Mate I have flown all over for years and years and even with 170 to 200 kts I have failed to see a discrepancy in GS that would cause an estimate correction of that amount and I know a lot of JQ pilots and if they DID have that type of change in wind component, it would not go unreported.
I suggest you do the maths and reconsider your post.
Think about your assertion of estimates being out by 7 mins.
Look at the time/dist between reports and consider how much the GS would need to vary then determine what wind variation would be needed to cause such a change in GS / estimate.
Mate I have flown all over for years and years and even with 170 to 200 kts I have failed to see a discrepancy in GS that would cause an estimate correction of that amount and I know a lot of JQ pilots and if they DID have that type of change in wind component, it would not go unreported.
I suggest you do the maths and reconsider your post.
These guys ground over 400 knots which is over 7 miles a minute. Pretty hard to loose or gain 49 miles especially when that pretty much covers the whole little backwater which is NZ.
Join Date: Sep 1999
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Easily done on the Tasman where winds can vary by over 100kts between waypoints depending on the position of the jetstream. It's all in the way you calculate your ETAs....through intelligent use of known data and the computer flight plan, or blindly off the FMC.
has this got anything to do with fudging the numbers so they can get the FL they want? Wouldnt be the first operator to do this
They are not some evil group of pilots that all get together after work and scheme to get desired flight levels. If they have been out by 7 mins I'm pretty sure it would have been a cock-up and taken seriously. It certainly doesn't happen often, or on purpose.Next conspiracy theory please.......
