urban909

The Chron weights in on old know-it-all Culberson.

Seems like his plan is not as genius as he thinks.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/4574737.html

i wonder what the true motivation behind culberson's plan to elevate it, move it mostly to westpark, etc, is? i mean, the new plan doesn't even go past residents that oppose this plan, if i am correct in that assumption. grrrr...

Hamburg is a lovely city filled with friendly people

For the 777LR service, has the government relaxed the restrictions on twin engined aircraft that would allow this flight to take a much more direct path?

ETOPS is an ICAO rule that permits twin-engined commercial airplanes to fly routes that are farther than a distance of 1 hour flying time from an emergency or diversion airport. however, LROPS may replace this rule which will apply to civillian airliners, not just twin engined.

on a side note, i believe the FAA have recently implemented a new rule for only US registered twin engince aircraft. basically they are allowed to fly over any place in the world, exept the south pole region and certain areas of the north pole.

Well hopefully there are more people that feel the way you do and this carrier will succeed here and grow.

well, as far as the oil business goes, Qatar Airlines and Virgin Nigeria have expressed interest. the best thing about emirates, again, is that its a direct non-stop flight as oppossed to a stopover in manchester or london. but perhaps a stop-over wouldn't be bad now. IAH and HAS as a whole has grown expodentially and houston seems to be a hot market for middle-eastern and asian carriers wanting to fly here...

Great news! If they are planning on doing it in 15 hours, it will definetly be a 4 engined jet. Not limited to the distance from land restrictions like twin engined jets. My guess is they will use the A340-500. Its capable of making the jump nonstop.

actually they will be flying the 772LR when they are delivered sometime this year...

That may be true, but they are prepared to make the changes when a carrier lets them know they plan to fly an A380 in to IAH. That would presumably take very little time. But agreed with the earlier post that the Dubai flight would probably not have the traffic for an A380 anyway. I would think the potential customers would much prefer greater frequency of flights over a giant aircraft with low flight frequency.

yes, but i don't forsee any carriers bringing in the A380 to houston. and it takes lots of money and time to prepare taxiways, runways, lighting, spacing, gates, etc. its been a mess for some like LAX...

It is one of the big buyers of the A380, though apparently it hasn't been thrilled with the delays and might cancel some orders. However I don't think the A380 is capable of flying nonstop from Dubai to Houston (and I wouldn't expect the route would support the number of passengers).

yes, and the fact that IAH isn't A380 ready. they may have the proper taxiways, but not the gates. anyways, once CO introduces the 787-8 in 2008/09 and soon other carriers as well, we'll be seeing alot of direct routes to asia, africa and more to south america. its going to be a wonderful aircraft...

China Airlines will be adding another weekly flight.

i didn't know the CI would be adding another flight. do you mean the cargo service or PAX service? i've had conversations with Molly Waites of HAS and she said the both CI and PK aren't leaving, so thats good. and now the Emirates is coming, this is just opening up the door for more international carriers. good job houston!

there's no way a 747 could operate out of Hobby! Runways too short. Others here can give actual figures, but I think longest runway is 7500 feet. Probably need at least 10-11000 for a 747.

what does a 747 have to do with hobby? its virgin america not virgin atlantic. VX operates or rather will/may operate A319/320's...