John Walton

Choir that drowned out Germany’s AfD leader happy to ‘bend the ear’ of country Group ‘surprised’ when their song was used to disrupt an interview with Alice Weidel – but now they face a backlash

brb making this into a club remix with Bella Ciao

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Hee, thank you!

…for a minute there I thought this was the hair thread :))

VERY this with the purple, gotta say — if I cared about greys I'd have to dye it more frequently because my "elderly Labrador dog" greying pattern is edging its way up to the line where I usually bleach it for the colour :))

This is a fascinating thread from the perspective of someone super-keen on aviation CMF (colour, materials and finish).

There's something about this EVA Air Vantage XL that's cool and futuristic rather than blah and corporate, and it's fascinating to peer at each of these shots to figure out what.

The Up Front Update #10: Vueling MAXes, Heathrow plans, 0% tariffs and more Spanning geopolitics, Vueling 737 MAXes, duelling plans for Heathrow’s future, tariff geopolitics, lounge segmentation and yet another chapter in the Allegris/FICE debacle, it’s our tenth Update

If you're just starting your week — or even if you're well into yours — check out The Up Front Update:

• why IAG's 737 MAXes are heading for Vueling
• duelling concepts for Heathrow's third runway & new terminals
• the latest on Allegris/Swiss Senses
• and more…

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Haven't looked into it for ages, but might LGW be a better point to connect?

Your semi-regular plug for Dr Nerdlove (www.doctornerdlove.com) who is *amazing* at offering compassionate, practical advice that is not shy about calling out toxic masculinity and implicit misogyny and working to decouple masculinity from both of them.

oh godddd I was so embarrassed and just *speechless* at that

welcome à paris I know, but REALLY

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I am if anything what @garius.bsky.social calls Pony Famous (and even that makes me deeply embarrassed to admit), but I think you may be right on the aviators-skewing-right thing.

That's so interesting — I know my crowd is more interiors and experience than pilot stuff, but mine are all over here and it's better than Old Twitter by far. (Not invalidating your experience at all!)

Rear end of testbed MD-80 with PW-Allison open rotors from 1989…

Also: did you work on the 1989 Pratt & Whitney/Allison/Hamilton Standard open-rotor MD-80 testbed? I'd love to talk to you if so…

MAEVE pivots startup aircraft to 5-abreast, 76–100-seater open-rotor hybrid-electric jet MAEVE's third iteration aircraft feels like an A220 on the inside and a DC-9 on the outside, with open-rotor engines and a keen eye on scope clause restrictions

Is the MAEVE Jet the future of the 76–100-seat aircraft market?

With support from MHI RJ (which took over Bombardier's CRJ) and a deal with Pratt & Whitney for the critical open-rotor engine — and a very familiar-feeling cabin — the credibility is there:

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Pro Readout: Lufthansa Group financials flag aircraft and certification woes, send mixed messages on transatlantic demand Lufthansa's airlines are hitting headwinds with aircraft delivery, certification — and, in some cases, US travel demand, but these messages are mixed and somewhat confused

Our latest Readout for our Pro-level subscribers dives into what we've learned this week about Lufthansa — and Swiss, and Austrian — ongoing woes with aircraft, seats, certification and US demand:

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The real story is Hippos Georg over here, who has been killing 500 people per year…

wait I just looked it up this isn’t a bit this is REAL

*slaps stack of Chalet School books*

this baby can hold so many posh kid names

GET. OFF. SUBSTACK. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GET OFF SUBSTACK ALREADY

lol as if Sadiq’s urban policies are why Trump dislikes him, c’mon man

This makes me want to curl up and cry with joy but also loss. I was looking through my photos of the Quilt the last time I saw it recently. Just so very many of us.

Seat 1A. Up-Front and Lie-Flat Truths feat. John Walton (Editor in chief, The Up Front) The Indian #AvGeek · Episode

Ep# 46 of The Indian AvGeek, featuring @thatjohn.bsky.social, focussing on #paxex

✈️@IndiGo6E’s Premiumization playbook
✈️Economy innovation @emirates? height-boosted seats, and certification hurdles
✈️ Wide-body retrofit opportunities for older 777s & A330s

& more

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this is INCREDIBLE

WHAT

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked grok”

Well I asked Captain Marko Ramius and he told me that shome thingsh in here don’t react well to bulletsh

Yeah, I think their only weird thing is owning a golf course in Tochigi somewhere? But I LOVE their hotels, like seriously, open offer to be interviewed for this piece as someone who used to collect their every-hotel trading cards from the big displays in the lobby

Notre Consul à Jérusalem a remis ce jour une lettre d’Emmanuel Macron à l’Autorité palestinienne : la France procèdera à la pleine reconnaissance de l'État de Palestine en septembre.

Le Président de la République s’y est engagé, je confirmerai cet engagement à la tribune des Nations unies ce lundi.

Voli, niente limite ai liquidi nel bagaglio a mano: l’Europa verso il via libera, cosa cambia e da quando Ai controlli si potrà passare anche con profumi, creme e bottiglie di vino e olio nel trolley a mano. Da Malpensa e Linate, Fiumicino e Catania, ecco gli aeroporti italiani coinvolti

EXCLUSIVE / European Union prepares to (re)approve next-generation scanners at airports: passengers will soon be allowed to carry liquids well over 100 ml in their hand luggage – via Corriere [in Italian]

more like a cappuccino after 11-abreast, amirite