Thomas

767 ground ops out of SYD. Occasionally do other stuff.

[Kyle Potter @kpottermn]

The Biden admin blocking JetBlue’s acquisition did not kill Spirit. Nor did $4+ jet fuel alone - though that clearly hastened its demise.

Spirit was circling the drain for years. It’s gone now because:

- richer pilot contracts raised its costs significantly. You can’t have an ultra-low-cost carrier with high costs
- it tripled down on the cheap “revenge travel” boom post-pandemic, betting it would continue
- but travel demand rapidly shifted to “premium” travel and heading abroad - two segments Spirit can’t serve
- massive engine issues forced Spirit to ground a large (& expensive) chunk of its fleet
- the big one: Buoyed by massive hubs and even bigger frequent flyer programs, major airlines like AA, Delta & United finally figured out how to weaponize stingy basic economy fares and fill larger planes with passengers who previously booked Spirit

[Israel News Pulse @israelnewspulse]

This is how the first day plays out.

America bombs Iran.
Israel preempts Iran.
Iran fires on Israel.
France surrenders.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Just finished two days of filming in Western
Sydney with fellow Greek Aussie Patriot @PeteZog.

We visited dozens of NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) providers in the diverse suburbs of Lakemba and Bankstown after being inspired by @nickshirleyy’s work exposing massive disability fraud in Minnesota.

Australia is ripe for this kind of investigative research because government NDIS spending on child autism almost matches the entire overall Australian national defence budget.

In Lakemba, western Sydney, there are more than 1,300 NDIS businesses within a 5-kilometre radius.

Lakemba has one NDIS business for every 13 residents, so we wanted to assess how many of these businesses are actually operating.

Time after time we found NDIS offices with locked doors and blacked out windows despite their websites insisting that they were open.

We visited one $3 million house in Bankstown that was registered as the primary business address for an NDIS provider accused of multiple significant compliance breaches by the official NDIS regulator. An elderly Somali grandmother answered the door and refused to answer basic questions about the compliance breaches on the grounds that she did not have a translator. She very clearly understood what we were saying though because she became extremely agitated and hostile before slamming the door on our faces.

Later, staff at a day care business located directly across the road from the ISIS-linked Al Madina Dawah Center - the mosque that radicalised the Bondi shooter - tried to prevent @PeteZog from leaving their office, blocking the door and threatening him after Pete tried to ask basic questions about their business.

The day care staff member admitted to praying at the extremist ISIS linked Al Madina Dawah Center across the road and called men from a neighbouring NDIS shop to try surround us and fight us. They yelled that they were “calling their boys” and heaps of strange foreign Middle Eastern men materialised out of neighbouring buildings to try attack us.

Luckily we had two extremely tough, 7 foot tall Christian Pacific Islander security guys with 200 kg bench press records. We hired these guys after leading that they protected Kendrick Lamar on his Sydney tour, and they completely mogged the guys trying to surround us. Best $800 I ever spent.

The overall scale of NDIS fraud in Australia is likely in the tens of billions. Really excited to publish our video.

Follow @PeteZog - he makes awesome Mr Beast style videos.

[Wiggle Wiggle Vigil @DaOfficialVigil]

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
AN IMAGE OF THE DELTA FORCE OPERATORS WHO RAIDED VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT NICOLÁS MADURO HAS BEEN LEAKED:

[Thomas @thomas_witham]

@analyticflying Agreed, however it will be interesting to see if the 126/127 stays as a 330, without the previously common equipment swaps to a 737

[R3tards Down Under @r3tarddownunder]

“Diversity is our strength” — @AlboMP

[Thomas @thomas_witham]

Yellow is a great colour 😉

[Thomas @thomas_witham]

@InfantryPilot @imohappy Guy who controls them here. We set it and forget it, someone just man's the emergency stop. As long as the refueller can still reach the hydrant then we really don't care if it's too far by a tiny bit

[Thomas @thomas_witham]

@RangaRunner Still remember when that happened...

[Keg ✈️🇦🇺 @Keg767]

Still not as long as the Sultan of Brunei (he was doing the flying) into Sydney a bunch of years ago. This as 1700m into the runway. The Indian one was only 1000m. (We normally touch down 330-600m into the runway.

📷@aussiepomm ? @16right_media ?

[Thomas @thomas_witham]

Sydney has definitely been ...interesting sofar. Nice to be working on some decent aircraft though

[Breaking Aviation News & Videos @aviationbrk]

Air India AI171, a 787-8 Dreamliner, with around 242 passengers on board has reportedly crashed near Ahmedabad airport during take off. More details to follow.

[ProLosco @ProLosco]

24/7 Shanghai only 3200tk USvsUS !votekick

[Thomas @thomas_witham]

@CadeCad84010759 @FlyAirNZ And the 787 PDU's never work 🫠

[Breaking Aviation News & Videos @aviationbrk]

Urgent repair works are underway at Perth Airport after a Qantas A330 tore up part of the main runway when taking off on Sunday.

The airport confirmed the main runway was partly operational on Sunday afternoon after Qantas flight QF71 damaged the runway as it took off around 12.15pm.

The aircraft continued its takeoff and landed safely in Singapore.

📹 ypph_plane_guy

[Thomas @thomas_witham]

Not many of these left

[Natasha ❀ @ndelriego]

The rest of the world watching the US #Debates2024

[Thomas @thomas_witham]

What in the third world country is this shit

[Thomas @thomas_witham]

Baby Qatar and Thai