Boeing B767-200/-300 are developed in 1980's to respond to the fall of trans-Atlantic air traffic. They are the smallest & narrowest widebody in the world, and were the only 200 seaters having over 7000km range before A310-300 & A300-600. Because of its long range, 3-hour ETOPS compliance, widebody comfort, and better economy due to ...

<a href=''http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=news&news_id=reu-hkg66942-u1&feed=reu&date=20020807&cat=INDUSTRY''>http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=news&news_id=reu-hkg66942-u1&feed=reu&date=20020807&cat=INDUSTRY</a> This makes Cathay Pacific the 3rd Airbus A380 customer in ...

<a href=''http://www.thewest.com.au/20020808/business/tw-business-home-sto67205.html''>http://www.thewest.com.au/20020808/business/tw-business-home-sto67205.html</a> What a good news for Australia residents! They have more comfortable domestic choices & international choices, so no need to suffer high fare of Qantas after the ...

There is no doubt that Boeing used to be good, but those days are over. B737NG recycles most of the 1960's technology, just because Boeing cannot create anything new so they hype what they have and run the Spaceman & US Presdient ads to cover their dark thihgs. If Boeing did come out with a superior product again, I would be interested and ...

There are some flag carriers operating low cost airline subsidary to compete with the true low cost airlines, like Air Canada's Tango & ZIP to compete with Westjet, United Shuttle (closed since Oct 2001), Delta Express, US Airways Shuttle, Continental Airtrain to compete with Southwest, Buzz of KLM & Go of British Airways (now sold to ...

A revised suggestion of Hong Kong - Brazil air route suggestion is made after reading comments on the 1st edition of the air route. This new air route would have routing of Hong Kong -> Los Angeles -> Rio De Janeiro -> Sao Paolo -> Los Angeles -> Hong Kong, having frequency of 1 flight per week, operated by Cathay Pacific & ...

There are many low cost airlines in Europe, but unlike USA, which has low cost airlines of very different inflight services (Jetblue offers best entertainment, Frontier features generous 33'' seat pitch, some carriers like Frontier & American Trans Air offer free meals on long flights), the European low cost airlines have very similar inflight ...

There are 2 families of widebody trijet invented in 1970's after the invention of Boeing B747, the first widebody aircraft in the world, Douglas DC-10 & Lockheed L-1011. The L-1011 was the most advanced aircraft in 1970's, which is the first aircraft in the world featuring fly-by-wire system, earlier than Airbus A320. It is also installed with

There are much more choices for 50-100 seats aircrafts than 100+ seats aircrafts, with types ranging from turboprop to wing-mounted jets to fuselage-mounted jets, from 4-abreast to 6-abreast Economy Class, from low wing design to high wing design, from baggage space placed after the passenger cabin to the space placed between the cockpit & the ...

The closed Kai Tak airport is of very backward 1960's terminal design, with only 10 fixed boarding gates, hence most passengers had to board on an aircraft via shuttle buses & movable boarding ladders. What a joke for such rich & advanced city of Hong Kong to have such backward airport until 1998, when Chek Lap Kok airport was opened! In ...