"Merica bashing is a long time favourite over here...trying to drag us down to their own level...it's ok...most of their flags fly today because American blood was shed to defend/return their country to them from invaders...and they know it..:ok:

And yes, the state of the education system in the USA is appalling...when one sees the calibre of people running it, it's understandable...

Laker

I stand corrected. :)

Thread drift is one thing but when some 'savant' launches an attack on one nation without mentioning their own - it deserves attention.

The only statistic that anyone really cares about is:

US % of global GDP is 25.3%

US % of global population 4.52%

Back to the brand - Emma has is right, unless careful subject to a big fall.

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How's that "brand" lookin' today at DXB boys? Looks more like the wheels have fallen off due a bit of fog. Doesn't exactly bode well for the looming single runway ops when every single IROP becomes a cluster-f.

Don´t think a late forecast fog situation can be compared to long time planned reduction in capacity. Only 4 diversions for mainly URL flights that departed before FG was in the TAF. It´s how you handle these situation that makes or breaks the brand, as discussed in this thread: http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...hard-work.html

I agree. The former is a one-day disaster, the latter has months to run. The nearly complete lack of forward planning embedded culturally doesn't exactly bode well.

Also agree. If today is any indication, the brand is poised to take a beating. When most of your traffic flows through a hub and said hub closes 50% of its capacity, well it ain't rocket surgery. Mitigation efforts aside.

If Dubai hadn't saved a buck when they built the runways too close together to allow true dual runway operations maybe there would have been no diversions, more than 4 departures an hour, no 90 minute holding, no holding at the FIR boundary, no 4 hour waits on the apron, no waiting on the ground at outstations, no 10s of thousands of people in the wrong place.

And it'll be the same tomorrow.

Who really cares what it bodes?

Claim some overtime if you go over the threshold. See if they pay you or find some excuse not to. Then go home to your cold beer and forget them for a few days.

Interestingly that time of year also coincides with flu season. What rotten luck!



PS.... Merikans: harden up, princesses, you sound like a bunch of whining pussies! Is it because you lost, scoreless, to the Great White North yesterday? :{

Yeah, I understand the northern runway is the only CATIII capable, but why cannot the southern be used for departures in LVP?

Canada is supposed to beat everyone in hockey. That's no surprise. :D

PS.... Merikans: harden up, princesses, you sound like a bunch of whining pussies! Is it because you lost, scoreless, to the Great White North yesterday?

Olympics? Hockey? Nobody in America cares, well maybe every four years. We are tied for the lead in the medal count with Russia as of today, how is your country doing? I know things like figure skating, skiing, and curling are taking the U.S. by storm. More highlights of Lebron and watching Jack Nicholson on the floor of the Laker games staring at dancers. Congrats to the Knucks, they take their hockey seriously, and should have won. Back to Emirates..

The same reason they don't clear you for T/O on RWY12R when there is an aircraft between 200-1000' on final approach for 12L. Through either ignorance or more probably to save money the runways were built too close together for unrestricted parallel operations as at proper airports.

It is slightly less of an issue on the RWY30s in good weather as their respective thresholds are further apart. This is why RWYs 30L & 30R are used 90% of the time, they can get more movements per hour because they are less restricted with simultaneous T/Os and LDGs using 30 than 12.

Fair enough. So why ARE they whining like girls then?

Yank pilots - they might cut the engines but the whining just goes on and on...

...child..

Canada is just the balcony over the big party eh

What do US wide body pilots make vs the rest of the world?
End of discussion!
Is it no wonder why so many pilots are leaving EK for the US?

Noise...? And I was rooting for the USA in the (ice) Hockey too....


(Country of Origin supplied)

Only one difference between an Ozzie & a Yank...

...we know we're hated...

Doh!

; >

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Canadians bragging about being the best in ice hockey is like bragging you are the smartest kid with Down Syndrome

The Canadians have to celebrate something. They certainly can't celebrate their airline salaries.
Won't it be ironic that with all the crap that the Americans get at emirates it will be the 'mericans that get EK pilots a pay raise this year. Not what wide body pilots deserve but better than wages we are getting now.
Nuff said.