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Jul 28, 2009 | 11:54 am
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Wow, you must have missed the announcement... Here's a picture of it in the Shamu livery:
I was talking about how we're concerned about the medallion change not the number of pax on a 747. And really, drop out of the sky?
747-400D: All-coach domestic version, carrying 568 passengers. Entered service with Japan Airlines in 1991
I was talking about how we're concerned about the medallion change not the number of pax on a 747. And really, drop out of the sky?
747-400D: All-coach domestic version, carrying 568 passengers. Entered service with Japan Airlines in 1991
You really need to spend more time on FT so you can keep up with all the changes.
It will only hold 500 people ATL-NRT, since most of the pax on that route are Americans. However, it can hold 580 NRT-ATL, since most of the pax are Japanese.
When my brother was flying 10 seat Beechcraft islanders out of Pago Pago for South Pacific Island Airways he often had to limit it to 7 pax, since well-to-do Samoans can be people of significant size. Same thing with ATL-NRT vs NRT-ATL.
Exactly. All Japanese pax. 16 professional Sumo wrestlers in F, 552 normals in Y.
It will only hold 500 people ATL-NRT, since most of the pax on that route are Americans. However, it can hold 580 NRT-ATL, since most of the pax are Japanese.
When my brother was flying 10 seat Beechcraft islanders out of Pago Pago for South Pacific Island Airways he often had to limit it to 7 pax, since well-to-do Samoans can be people of significant size. Same thing with ATL-NRT vs NRT-ATL.
Exactly. All Japanese pax. 16 professional Sumo wrestlers in F, 552 normals in Y.
You neglected to mention the Sumo emergency that a few years ago on NRT-ATL.
The japanese sumo team was coming to ATL for some sort of tour well unfortunately the pilots didn't calculate the extra weight for 200 sumo wrestlers (they were all in Y) and they had to divert to ANC, SEA & MCI to pickup extra fuel just to make it to ATL!
The japanese sumo team was coming to ATL for some sort of tour well unfortunately the pilots didn't calculate the extra weight for 200 sumo wrestlers (they were all in Y) and they had to divert to ANC, SEA & MCI to pickup extra fuel just to make it to ATL!
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Jul 28, 2009 | 11:59 am
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WOW you are right, I forgot about that! they are installing the new standing up seats, right? I know the announced capacity of 831 was increased to what, 1,100 with all of the standup seats. The only picture of the new design I could find was the difference between WN "elite" seats & the current coach & stand up seats:
Of course they could revert to an older Texas method: Stampede!
Jul 28, 2009 | 11:59 am
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No need to be racist here. To say that it takes more fuel on ATL-NRT than NRT-ATL takes offense to me if you're saying Americans are heavier than Japanese tourists. I'm sure they'd take offense too if you were calling them skinny, or if you were making fun of Japanese sumo wrestlers.
Americans:
Meanwhile, the average weight for men aged 20-74.... 191 pounds in 2002, while the average weight for women...164.3 pounds in 2002.
Source
Japanese:
The Average Weight of in 2002 Japanese Men 61.9kg (136 lbs) / Japanese Women 53.3kg (117 lbs)
Source
Please see above.
Jul 28, 2009 | 12:06 pm
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Also, as WBurcham points out, the fuel loads and flight ranges are based on pure scientific data. That's why they always have to book less pax ATL-NRT than NRT-ATL.
Jul 28, 2009 | 12:09 pm
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If anything, my remarks could be construed as disparaging to Americans, not to Japanese. And, last I looked, "Americans" were not a "race", so how could you consider it "racist"????
Also, as WBurcham points out, the fuel loads and flight ranges are based on pure scientific data. That's why they always have to book less pax ATL-NRT than NRT-ATL.
Also, as WBurcham points out, the fuel loads and flight ranges are based on pure scientific data. That's why they always have to book less pax ATL-NRT than NRT-ATL.
Jul 28, 2009 | 12:18 pm
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Jul 28, 2009 | 12:23 pm
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WOW you are right, I forgot about that! they are installing the new standing up seats, right? I know the announced capacity of 831 was increased to what, 1,100 with all of the standup seats. The only picture of the new design I could find was the difference between WN "elite" seats & the current coach & stand up seats:
Jul 28, 2009 | 12:24 pm
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Interesting, I thought DL was planning to make some orders for some new Airbus A390 equipment with 20" flat screen PTV's in a 2-2-2-2 configuration (3 aisles), for a total of 3,000 seats, enough to carry 2x the size of my high school and staff. I heard this plane was going to be doing the BOS-PBI runs and maybe starting some new routes BOS-HNL and BOS-NRT.
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Man that cheeseburger was huge. It would take me a week to finish it.
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