@b-hkd

Does EK or any other airline wash their mothballed frames daily??? Particularly with desalinated water.

@ExDubai

When you say EK MX, Are you taking about the United Nations of outcasted airline mechanics (or) Ameco/HAECO Buy One Get One specials???

Why did AI Engineering got the contract to build and maintain MRO facility at DXC?

Sure EK has multi billion $$$ PR budget, doesn't me it can change facts.

@Notapilot15

I left EK years ago, so don't care about the marketing budget. But I do have strong concerns about the safety culture in the Indian aviation industry. There is a reason why AI is on the "unofficial NoFly list" of 99.99% of my colleagues.

@ExDubai

Are you suggesting GCAA safety culture is superior to others???

Aviation regulators in large poor countries may not be able to keep up with the growth, what is the excuse for rich city countries.

India domestic market is growing at 20+%. Your friends may not be flying, but millions are.

EK has a safety culture the works it's entire work force to the bone with the vast majority paid poverty wages. Then the airline compares itself to other airlines?

Hi notapilot15


I have flown for both AI and EK, you are comparing apples with oranges.

Passengers choose to fly with EK they choose NOT to or NEVER AGAIN with AI

Your comments however misinformed and emotional at times are amusing so please keep them coming.

Back to the thread, I would like to bid for AKL (fly some stolen passengers down there) but I can't find it in the new CRS bidding any help would be appreciated.

Enos

Enos

Text book grooming speech. May be it worked well on Indians but not on us. Look what Richard Anderson did to 777 resale value, without any government help. $130 Million 77W wouldn't be worth more than $30 Million. Lets see who will finance/lease all those orders.

Now with Iran orders flowing, Airbus wouldn't give a damn about legacy ME3.

What % EK's premium traffic is revenue based. Filling with non-rev government and award travel just to show LFs is not going to work forever.

How many years do you think other arm length concerns take losses for EK?
How many more years do you think neighboring countries will finance?

Brotherly love is not forever.

Does anyone know why the AKL pairings are not yet in the CRS?

Email pilot bid help?

"Does anyone know why the AKL pairings are not yet in the CRS?"

Perhaps due to "lack of code-share partners"?:eek:

aeropix

Codeshares to Antarctica!

According to the March bid help document, AKL will not be available for bidding in March.

Yet l can buy a ticket for it on emirates.com......

halas

What are the hurdles EK facing from 1) Refitting aux tanks and 2) MTOW upgrade paperwork.

As we have been told EK has world class MX/MRO facilities, and if they want they can design and build B777 and A380 on their own. They are purchasing from other peasants out of charity. So #1 should be easy peasy lemon squeezy.

And we also have been told it is a profitable enterprise and loaded with cash, so Boeing CEO should be delivering the upgrade documents personally.

Unless they used the tanks to transport something very important.

Don't know if you were referring to my comment about not available for bidding, but just to clarify:

The flights will depart (so far), we are just not able to bid for them as the pairing is not/will not be loaded into the CRS.

It's certainly superior to India's. At least EK's pilots and engineers all hold GENUINE licences.

On the CRS bidding interface, under "March and General Bidding Tips"- note 5 - it explains why AKL was left out of bid package.

Aluminium Shuffler

So a fake CAA with genuine licences is better than a sloppy CAA with fake licenses?

IMHO any CAA without employee representation (not the ability to form union, so save your keystrokes, but the ability to express themselves freely to the oversight authority) shouldn't even be rated by ICAO. So GCAA is like a NR movie, no one knows it is safe or not.

ICAO was formed when aviation was mostly state owned and an elite industry and all aviation employees were well represented. But who thought slavery will make its way to modern day aviation.

What does ICAO audit? CAA's documentation. Going by the quality of English it probably copied from the best in the world, hence the 99% score. Nothing to do with reality on the ground.

With ONE major airport and 20 miles of airspace, what makes them experts in overseeing complex aviation systems?

UAE almost became head of ICAO, that was cringe worthy moment for world aviation.

Couple of years back United pilots complained to FAA on FTL exceptions, FAA fined UA last year. Does it make the system unsafe, no it makes system open and safe. That is how democracies handle issues, by discussing publicly.

Similarly AI crew gave written complaints to their CAA almost everyday about AI's Australian tag flights. Both CAA and Airline couldn't take anymore and dropped the tags.

How many times EK pilots successful got GCAA rule against EK?

I don't dispute your comparisons with the CAA or FAA, but comparisons with India are ridiculous. Nothing in that country is free from endemic corruption, from the authorities and self-certified "professionals" alike, which is why it is the mess that it is. Make the criticisms you wish, but don't fluff up IA or India, because to say they're better costs you all of your credibility.

I compare because both are third world, one masking as advanced western entity.

These third world countries with sloppy CAAs are main resource pools for ME3 aviation. Roadkill doesn't turn into filet mignon with chef's touch.

Same self-certified fake license holder doesn't turn into cream of the crop as soon as GCAA issues license.

BTT, where are those aux tanks?

Dubai, the nicest city in India :}:}