Lets not give Boeing a pass on the 737-900. Hey lets stretch this baby and lower the approach speed - what could possibly go wrong? Oh yeah, lets not plan on climbing above 33,000 if your heavy and its warm out.

Scoop :D

Lots of MD stretch and pull influence coming in to the Big B.

The Harry Stonecipher Effect! That's why they called it McBoeing for years!

And they should have put a tail wheel on that thing!:D

Timber puts it succinctly: They're old and overweight with technology shoved up their butts.

I'm a bit late to the party as the discussion has already drifted from the original topic but after I read about our 350's having performance issues, I asked around on another discussion board and several 350 pilots told me the airplane performed well and as advertised. Only the first 3 350-900 were overweight and even those were fixed before delivery. Lax-Syd is under the advertised range for the 350-900 (so is atl-Jnb) and the figures published by Airbus imply a cabin with 325 seats and I believe we only have 306 seats. Lastly, I heard from a well informed person on the 4th floor that we need to (and we apparently will) purchase some sort of unlocking software from Airbus and we will then be able to connect the dots as desired/expected. (I.e: Lax-Syd, Atl-Jnb) So it appears that this is the issue with our airplanes and that it will be fixed.

I spoke with one of the check airman on the aircraft. The airplane is meeting or exceeding airbus promises. Our last 10 can be converted to ULR’s if the want to start replacing 777’s. Currently that does not seem to be the plan as they have completed the prototype 777 cabin mod and in the fall will start pouring a bunch of money into the remaining 777’s. They plan to follow that with the 767-400’s. This is a complete tear out and redo of the cabins.

That’s a terrible thing to say about senior pilots! :D

Hahaha, well done sir! That was good.

I really wish we had a like button. You may have set a record. :D