For Sale In Malaysia-3 Slightly Used Boeing 747-200s!!lol

Cathay unionized and now having serious financial problems. The stewardess have attitude problems since they unionized and even wanted their uniforms changed so men wouldn't look at them so much. In other words, now they're Americanized!
"Cathay Pacific flight stewardesses have told bosses to change their uniforms, amid complaints that they are too sexy.
The union representing cabin crew says that skirts hug their figures too tightly and blouses are too short, exposing stewardesses' midriffs when they bend down.
It says the eye-catching outfits have led to a surge in incidents of sexual harassment at work, which it claims stewardesses face at least once in every 10 flights."

New uniforms-Cathay Pacific~~~~~~Hainan Airlines stewardess~~~


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2621273/Stewardesses-complain-new-Cathay-Pacific-uniform-sexy-led-increase-harassment.html#ixzz557bluYi1
I use Hainan Airlines now. Direct flight from Beijing to Las Vegas.

 

I have been there actually on a couple layover days to visit.

Long ago we used to stand on the open observation deck above the passenger loading rooms like 20 feet from the planes below us at Friendship Airport in the early 70's prior to it's demo and reconstruction into KBWI, Baltimore Wash Intl. Security was maybe two cops at most and they passed out gum to us kids.

The 727's were remembered because at the time there was no noise restrictions at all, no emissions problem except for the whisperJet L-1011... (More on that in a minute) and the 727s had crazy rocketship angles coming off runway 100 screeching into the air with that icepick in both of my ears with a head full of Jetfuel fumes. God it's great. The L-1011 was about a half million pounds of lead sled in those days it had the early filters gagging and castrating it's three engines for whisper jet. It would use the ENTIRE RUNWAY to get unstuck, lift it's nose a little bit, get light on the wheels a tad and use up the rest of the pavement lumbering into the sky. Espeically the Heathrowbound British Airway speedbirds. (These are NOT speedbirds... UGH... Imagine a tractor trailer with a 40 horse power cub tractor engine.... and a 1 inch two muffler pipe....)

We used to mentally PRAY those fat sleds into the air. For thier sakes.

In 1987 I came into BWI to fly to Heathrow. We come into the gate, picked our seats and settled in. The plane diagram showed it was a British Airways L-1011.

OMFG, Im too young to die... here we go... LOL. What a ride on that pig. And it used all of the runway to stagger into the air like a preggo Cow it was.

 

DragonAir is pretty good too:

 

Their 787 rolls past my office window every Wednesday afternoon.

 

It's Airbus 380 not 780 (guess you were thinking about Volvo) and it's already been retired at couple of airlines after only 10 years in service! They simply can't fill up the plane with enough passengers to make it profitable.

 

Emirates Airlines, THE de-facto Airbus 380 operator (101 operating of 162 ordered, Singapore Airlines is #2 with 24), just signed for another 20 with an option for a further 16. They also recently (November, 2017) signed an order for 40 Boeing 787s and purchased 150 777s in 2013, with 165 777s in operation.

I did some concrete consulting to the contractor that was building the A380 final assembly facility in Hamburg, Germany when it was under construction... big place.

 

I just have one minor question that has bothered me ever since airlines decide it's ok to fly trans ocean routes on two engines. Have the planes gotten that beef so one engine can maintain flight that far that high that heavy? Or is it something else and not exactly advertised?

I have been a fan of heavies, 4 engines give you options when one of them go out for a variety of reasons on those kinds of routes.

There was a Boeing in Chester PA and the closest I got to seeing anything was when they were testing the Osprey Tilt Rotor blades and associated hardware in the test cage outside. That thing beating on the air being driven by a humongous electric motor was something back in the day like the late 80's and when it settled into what I would interpert as operating cruise the roar was intimidating (Remember in those days we had the old Hueys, Chop chop chop chop... (Who stole the chop anyway? LOL.) and the new blackhawks that were able to approach you straight on without you hearing much until it's close enough to unload all over your base.

 

What? Singapore Air just parked one of their first A380s and decided not to order or lease any more of them.Latest order from Emirates has saved A380 for now but there aren't any more orders in sight.
Btw I flew lately on KLM's 747 COMBI.It was comfortable as Combi is half passenger plane, half freighter so boarding went fast.