starflyergold
@starflyergold.bsky.social
BRU based Irish #avgeek #aviation & #travel geek. The views expressed are my own. he/him. Also on flyertalk.com
Data from Belgian postal operator bpost appears on ransomware site, hack not yet confirmed tweakers.net/nieuws/24213... (that might explain why nothing is currently moving with bpost)
Data van Belgische bpost verschijnt op ransomwaresite, hack nog niet bevestigd
De Belgische postdienst bpost is mogelijk getroffen door ransomware. Op de website van ransomwarebende Tridentlocker is 30GB aan informatie verschenen. Mogelijk zitten daar persoonsgegevens bij. De in...
tweakers.net
December 2, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Data from Belgian postal operator bpost appears on ransomware site, hack not yet confirmed tweakers.net/nieuws/24213... (that might explain why nothing is currently moving with bpost)
Air China to connect Brussels with Beijing and Chengdu www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/20...
Air China to connect Brussels with Beijing and Chengdu | VRT NWS: news
The Chinese flag carrier Air China will start flights to Brussels Airport at the end of next March, the airport authorities have announced. The flights add an extra Chinese destination to the Belgian ...
www.vrt.be
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Air China to connect Brussels with Beijing and Chengdu www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/20...
Reposted by starflyergold
Today, Spain issued a NOTAM, urging Spanish aircraft operators to avoid Venezuelan airspace, due to “increased military activity, anti-aircraft weapons capable at all altitudes, and lack of coordination between the parties to the conflict.”
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Today, Spain issued a NOTAM, urging Spanish aircraft operators to avoid Venezuelan airspace, due to “increased military activity, anti-aircraft weapons capable at all altitudes, and lack of coordination between the parties to the conflict.”
Cork homes lie empty for 15 years amid delays in connecting to wastewater network (Incompetence and passing the buck par excellence 🤦♂️) www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...
Cork homes lie empty for 15 years amid delays in connecting to wastewater network
Uisce Éireann says ‘there is no capacity for new connections’ at Carrignavar near the city
www.irishtimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Cork homes lie empty for 15 years amid delays in connecting to wastewater network (Incompetence and passing the buck par excellence 🤦♂️) www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...
Reposted by starflyergold
Airbus says fewer than 100 remaining aircraft need ELAC updates out of 6,000 potentially affected A320 family aircraft. www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/...
Airbus provides update on deployment of A320 Family precautionary fleet measures
Out of a total number of around 6 000 A320 family aircraft potentially impacted, we are working to support less than 100 remaining aircraft. Read more.
www.airbus.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Airbus says fewer than 100 remaining aircraft need ELAC updates out of 6,000 potentially affected A320 family aircraft. www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/...
😂
The Pope has a word with the man in 27E who is listening to an action movie on his iPad's speakers.
November 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
😂
Lufthansa's new inflight quality initiative "Fox", bets on the wurst, the Currywurst to be precise (only "business class and above" 🤦♂️) (I actually like Currywurst but if LH it can regain a reputation for quality with THAT they are well mistaken) www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...
Mehr Deutschland: Projekt „Fox“ – Warum die Lufthansa auf Stadionwurst und Bier in der Business Class setzt - WELT
Zum 100. Jubiläumsjahr will die Lufthansa ihren Service an Bord verbessern und investiert 70 Millionen Euro in neues Geschirr, zusätzliche Annehmlichkeiten und ein neues Bordmenü – alles, um mehr „Ger...
www.welt.de
November 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Lufthansa's new inflight quality initiative "Fox", bets on the wurst, the Currywurst to be precise (only "business class and above" 🤦♂️) (I actually like Currywurst but if LH it can regain a reputation for quality with THAT they are well mistaken) www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...
Clickbait nonsense. Let's remember that Boeing only acknowledged it had a problem after being grounded by regulators after two deadly crashes.
Is The Airbus A320 Having Its Boeing 737-MAX Moment?
Is The Airbus A320 Having Its Boeing 737-MAX Moment?
After a sudden dive, a global software recall and thousands of grounded jets, is the Airbus A320 staring down its own 737 MAX-style reckoning or just a painful reset? Background: From One Bumpy Flight To A Global Headache This all started, at least in the public eye, with a rough ride on a JetBlue Airbus […]
dlvr.it
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Clickbait nonsense. Let's remember that Boeing only acknowledged it had a problem after being grounded by regulators after two deadly crashes.
Too right it’s wrong. Erasing Dublin’s Jewish history is very wrong. There are more appropriate ways to deal with war crimes and genocide.
Herzog Park denaming ‘divisive and wrong’ and should be withdrawn - Taoiseach
Herzog Park denaming ‘divisive and wrong’ and should be withdrawn - Taoiseach
Dublin city councillors expected to approve stripping of Israeli president’s name from Rathgar park on Monday
www.irishtimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Too right it’s wrong. Erasing Dublin’s Jewish history is very wrong. There are more appropriate ways to deal with war crimes and genocide.
For the German speakers here since it is the 1. Advent Sunday: A poem 😂
youtu.be/-PHvq5iOVTE?...
youtu.be/-PHvq5iOVTE?...
Loriot: Advent
YouTube video by Günter Czarny
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
For the German speakers here since it is the 1. Advent Sunday: A poem 😂
youtu.be/-PHvq5iOVTE?...
youtu.be/-PHvq5iOVTE?...
What kind of nonsense is this? There are no direct BRU-GLA flights? I presumed there would be. Any why does a google search for Glasgow include EDI? (and nice try with the train suggestion 😂)
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
What kind of nonsense is this? There are no direct BRU-GLA flights? I presumed there would be. Any why does a google search for Glasgow include EDI? (and nice try with the train suggestion 😂)
ITA had to fly an engineer to IST to fix the Pope's A320 chariot with a software update so it could continue the journey to BEY.
Leo XIV. im Airbus A320: Auch der Papst-Flieger braucht Softwareupdate: Auf weißen Socken hat Leo XIV. die berühmte Blaue Moschee in Istanbul besichtigt. Nächster Stopp seiner Reise ist der Libanon. Damit der Airbus am Sonntag starten kann, musste zunächst ein Techniker eingeflogen werden.
Leo XIV. im Airbus A320: Auch der Papst-Flieger braucht Softwareupdate
Auf weißen Socken hat Leo XIV. die berühmte Blaue Moschee in Istanbul besichtigt. Nächster Stopp seiner Reise ist der Libanon. Damit der Airbus am Sonntag starten kann, musste zunächst ein Techniker eingeflogen werden.
www.spiegel.de
November 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
ITA had to fly an engineer to IST to fix the Pope's A320 chariot with a software update so it could continue the journey to BEY.
Ranelagh’s latest MetroLink objection highlights bananas nature of hyper-minority rule (bonkers system, fanned by the extremely local politics system) www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
David McWilliams: Ranelagh’s latest MetroLink objection highlights bananas nature of hyper-minority rule
Ireland is moving from a democracy to ‘vetocracy’, where governance is paralysed because someone, somewhere holds a veto
www.irishtimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Ranelagh’s latest MetroLink objection highlights bananas nature of hyper-minority rule (bonkers system, fanned by the extremely local politics system) www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Lufthansa opens new "exclusive" First Class check in area at FRA (also open to *G). The pictures supplied with the PR make it look like sterile car park. 😬 Who comes up with this?
November 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Lufthansa opens new "exclusive" First Class check in area at FRA (also open to *G). The pictures supplied with the PR make it look like sterile car park. 😬 Who comes up with this?
The latest airline having lost confidential customer data: Iberia. 🤦♂️
November 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The latest airline having lost confidential customer data: Iberia. 🤦♂️
Happy Thanksgiving travel 😬
November 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Happy Thanksgiving travel 😬
This is effective 29 November 2025 23:59 UTC. Good luck travelling tomorrow 😬
And the EASA Emergency Airworthiness Directive is out ad.easa.europa.eu/ad/2025-0268-E
EASA Safety Publications Tool
EASA Airworthiness Directives Publishing Tool
ad.easa.europa.eu
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is effective 29 November 2025 23:59 UTC. Good luck travelling tomorrow 😬
And the EASA Emergency Airworthiness Directive is out ad.easa.europa.eu/ad/2025-0268-E
EASA Safety Publications Tool
EASA Airworthiness Directives Publishing Tool
ad.easa.europa.eu
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
And the EASA Emergency Airworthiness Directive is out ad.easa.europa.eu/ad/2025-0268-E
Meanwhile at Airbus and every A320 operator......
a blue screen that says working on updates 21% don t turn off your pc this will take a while
ALT: a blue screen that says working on updates 21% don t turn off your pc this will take a while
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Meanwhile at Airbus and every A320 operator......
Reposted by starflyergold
Airbus asks A320-operators to implement a software and/or hardware protection immediately after a recent event with a A320-family-aircraft revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Airbus asks A320-operators to implement a software and/or hardware protection immediately after a recent event with a A320-family-aircraft revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.
The Brussels Christmas tram is back.🎄🎅 www.stib-mivb.be/news-event/t...
November 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Brussels Christmas tram is back.🎄🎅 www.stib-mivb.be/news-event/t...
@speedbirdjulie.bsky.social Your research?
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
@speedbirdjulie.bsky.social Your research?
A rare failure by the airline.
Ryanair axes subscription service after it costs airline €1.6m
Ryanair axes subscription service after it costs airline €1.6m
Offering was only taken up by 55,000 customers despite initial cap of 250,000 being set in March
www.irishtimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A rare failure by the airline.
The issue is not the poetry, nor any possible infidelities, but the issue is some serious journalistic malpractice.
Claims that the US secretary of health sent poems of desire to an alleged mistress see him following a nauseating tradition of terrible erotic verse.
https://bit.ly/4pzc5vb
https://bit.ly/4pzc5vb
‘Harry Styles meets De Sade’: RFK Jr's sex poetry may raise a smile – but no one’s libido | The Observer
bit.ly
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The issue is not the poetry, nor any possible infidelities, but the issue is some serious journalistic malpractice.
Ireland had second-highest rate of HIV diagnoses in EU last year, amid concern over late detection www.independent.ie/irish-news/i... (Why on earth is there a waiting list for PrEP? This should be widely available (and free) from any GP. )
Ireland had second-highest rate of HIV diagnoses in EU last year, amid concern over late detection
Ireland had the second-highest rate of HIV diagnoses in the EU last year, with four in 10 people here with the virus only finding out they had it at a late stage of the illness, new figures show.
www.independent.ie
November 28, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Ireland had second-highest rate of HIV diagnoses in EU last year, amid concern over late detection www.independent.ie/irish-news/i... (Why on earth is there a waiting list for PrEP? This should be widely available (and free) from any GP. )