News and notes from around the interweb:
- The Pentagon’s UFO chief says, in what amounts to his exit interview, that we’re being visited by aliens. How is this not on the front page of every paper?
- Struggling Vietnamese airline Bamboo Airways had its bank accounts seized over unpaid taxes
- Mexico’s government is bringing back defunct national carrier Mexicana because reasons. The President really wants to jump start service from the new Mexico City airport. It’s supposed to fly this year with Boeing 737s. But they’re apparently using a 50 seat regional jet for air carrier certification.
The Embraer 145, registration XA-VGQ, is being painted with the Mexicana brand and being leased under the Wet lease scheme. pic.twitter.com/js9KJqtctY
— FL360aero (@fl360aero) November 9, 2023
- Talk of Southwest Airlines Dallas – Honolulu is impossible since they don’t have aircraft that can make it. Their 737s don’t have the range over water. Apparently there’s consideration of overnight, one-stop same plane service.
- Kaley Cuoco brings corkscrews through airport security so she can open her own booze inflight?
- Hong Kong applying its national security law to actions that occurred before the law was passed, and for activity that occurred in other countries a woman has been sentenced to prison for democracy posts from 2018 made while in Japan. Tell me you can watch this from summer 2019 – while Hongkongers sought to hang onto their grasp on freedom – without tearing up?
More than thousand HKers sing Les Miserables' 'Do you hear the people sing?' at HK international airport with their calls for free election and democracy. Here is the Ground Zero in the war against authoritarian rule. That's the reason for us never surrender. pic.twitter.com/1MkTp4BkVg
— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 (@joshuawongcf) August 10, 2019
“Do You hear the people sing,” by the way, is banned in China.
A flight medically diverted to Hong Kong may cause a situation for some.
Gary’s next article. How to get frequent flyer miles on UFO trips?
China has the right idea about a lot of things.
re: LUV DAL-HNL-DAL
BN operated the Fat Albert 741 daily from delivery until January 74 when DFW opened.
AA, BN and DL all operated 741s from the 8800′ 13R/31L.
DAL-HNL is 3289nm.
The shortest weather/emergency return is to SFO; HNL-SFO is 2084nm.
Thus required ETOPS range before reserves is 5384nm.
standard ranges w/ multi-class configurations:
788: 7355nm
789: 7635nm
781: 6430nm
The 787 family can clearly do it, even in a high-density config factoring the bridge & tunnel crowd checking their kitchen sink on vacation, and maximizing the lucrative cargo market to HI.
So there is only thing stopping a wet lease of 3 aircraft to operate this route, painted in proper rocket mustard like WN20 with the titles on the tail.
SWAPA
If unbounded by our current understanding of physics, I still say it’s much more probable that “aliens” are from our future rather than from a faraway planet.