What is France trying to pull

[siucavflight]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7466583/

What do you guys think

 

[bocefus]

"The cost of strengthening the runways could be high and the work lengthy, La Tribune said. For Air France, switching overseas territories flights to Paris’s Roissy airport could cannibalize some future expected capacity, La Tribune said."

And I suppose the costs of modifications to airports in order to be able accomodate the A-380 are minimal? What rubbish!

 

[Flyeys]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7466583/

What do you guys think

Obviously trying to keep the better plane out of there to make the A380 look better.

 

[EuroWheenie]

The runways in Orly has been found to be less structural sound than expected, and the -300ER excercises more pressure pr. wheel than a 747-400, in fact higher than the (revised) limits allow for.

Air France has therefore told ADP to get the runway sorted in time for the -300ER to enter service from there. You will have noticed that there are no runway issues for CDG, and one could therefore be led to belive that Air France is simply being prudent and planning ahead.

Or you could just bash the French out of ignorance ... FWIW, Air France chose the -300ER over the A340-600 in close competition. I suppose that does very little to help some with their patological and ridiculous hatred of anything French, simply because they had the audacity to say non when GWB invited them to join in GWII, and took the time to defend their position in an international forum.

bofecus

Air France has no plans to operate the A380 out of ORY, and ADP will be modifying CDG to cope, very well thank you very much, with the A380. The A380 also has a lower LCN than a 747-400.

Flyeyes

I don't think even Boeing would claim that the 777-300ER is in any way, shape or form a competitor to the A380. And both Air France and KLM are very happy with the performance of their 777s, as stated above.

Still eating Freedom Fries?

 

[siucavflight]

Still eating Freedom Fries?

Nope, but I am still not buying anything French.

 

[bocefus]

EuroWheenie, I never suggested that the A-380 was to be operated from ORY. No one is French bashing here, it sounds like a classic case of poor planning and construction on behalf of whomever is responsible for runway engineering. Are there any other airports in the world that have runway strength issues with the 777-300ER??

 

[cynic]

Cheese eating surrender monkeys

 

[EuroWheenie]

bocefus

I haven't the foggiest If one read between the lines, it's aparent that the ORY runways was capable of handlng existing traffic, and should technically be able to accomodate the -300ER. Then someone went out and got engineer-ish about it, did some measurements and ups-a-daisy found the runway not in the state it should have been. AF then rung the alarm bells and told ADP to get cracking with a refurbishment job. Present issues seems to revolve around who gets to foot the bill. AF is obviously saying that since they pay their "taxes", ADP should pay. ADP are, equally obviously, dragging their heels but will in all likelihood end up paying.

siucavflight

No Cognac? No Grand Cru's? No Champagne? No LVT bags, Hermés scarfs or Chanel perfumes for she who must be obeyed, no strolls down Pont Neuf with her indoors? I can understand anyone not wanting to buy a Peugeot or Citroen, but there are quite a few french products I would not like to live without! Likewise, there are quite a few American products that continually makes my day - like the cloud of aluminium that keeps me in beer and sandwiches, the Coca Cola that clears my drain pipe when it's clogged and SoCal that keeps me ROFL

 

[Flying Illini]

Cheese eating surrender monkeys

I just sprayed water out of my nose, thanks! Hilarious!

 

[siucavflight]

bocefus

I haven't the foggiest If one read between the lines, it's aparent that the ORY runways was capable of handlng existing traffic, and should technically be able to accomodate the -300ER. Then someone went out and got engineer-ish about it, did some measurements and ups-a-daisy found the runway not in the state it should have been. AF then rung the alarm bells and told ADP to get cracking with a refurbishment job. Present issues seems to revolve around who gets to foot the bill. AF is obviously saying that since they pay their "taxes", ADP should pay. ADP are, equally obviously, dragging their heels but will in all likelihood end up paying.

siucavflight

No Cognac? No Grand Cru's? No Champagne? No LVT bags, Hermés scarfs or Chanel perfumes for she who must be obeyed, no strolls down Pont Neuf with her indoors? I can understand anyone not wanting to buy a Peugeot or Citroen, but there are quite a few french products I would not like to live without! Likewise, there are quite a few American products that continually makes my day - like the cloud of aluminium that keeps me in beer and sandwiches, the Coca Cola that clears my drain pipe when it's clogged and SoCal that keeps me ROFL

Dont shoot I'm a French Euroweenie

 

[XGmaninGA]

That would be Wine Sipping Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys.

 

[NuGuy]

This from the same people who want to bring Continental and it's execs up on criminal homicide charges for causing the Concorde accident.

As Dennis Miller once said "you might as well gas up the dinghy and go fishing with Freado, because the French are dead to me"

Nu

 

[jimpilot]

Below is a list of things French that are of value:

 

[sqwkvfr]

From the article:

ADP said the B777-300ER, a new version of the Boeing 777, was lighter than the Boeing 747 or EADS’s upcoming Airbus A380 jumbo jet, but its mass was centered on 12 wheels compared with 22 for the Airbus A380.

I don't know about anyone else, but I only count 20 on the mains.

Now, the difference my be small, but considering that someone seems to be skewing the numbers in Airbus' favor coupled with the comparision to the A380, --not to mention the any article written by Reuters is automatically suspect of ant-American bias-- and I'd say that anyone who read this article and said "WTF" to themselves was certainly not out of line.

 

[sqwkvfr]

Below is a list of things French that are of value:

Laetitia Casta.

But she moved to New York.