Tubular transport

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

What is it with Air Deccan and tires in the cargo hold? Merely odd coincidence?

teemus — Oct 18, 2006 8:42:08 AM — # ↩

[pj]They wish to have a Goodyear.[/pj]
kalyan — Oct 18, 2006 10:35:54 AM — # ↩

I noticed this many times too.
bluesmoon — Oct 18, 2006 7:44:20 PM — # ↩

What if they get a flat in transit?
Anonymous — Oct 18, 2006 8:55:26 PM — # ↩

Air Deccan and remote airports
Air Deccan flies to some of the most remote airports in India. Some of these airstrips built during British days and in most cases Air Deccan is the only carrier to that airport. So not a surprise they may have many incidents of hard landing which requires frequent or backup tires at their remote (non hub) stations.
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Oct 19, 2006 3:25:24 PM — # ↩
  
  Re: Air Deccan and remote airports
  Interesting theory, but the tire was clearly the wrong size for the plane carrying it. Air Deccan only flies ATRs and A320s, and I doubt the A320s (for which this tire may be suitable) are used in those remote areas.
latelyontime — Oct 19, 2006 1:17:25 AM — # ↩

where have you been travelling this time? Sorry for the long silence....am back to the world of the interwebz now…long story. will try and write over the weekend.
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Oct 19, 2006 3:25:58 PM — # ↩
  
  You, sir, have a lot to say.
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Oct 19, 2006 5:15:53 PM — # ↩
  
  Oh, and I’m in Hyderabad until Friday.
vinit — Oct 19, 2006 6:20:36 AM — # ↩

Give em a break.

Most airlines do this when flying to airports without proper facilities.
After all, why pay others to ship spare parts when you are already in the transportation business.
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Oct 19, 2006 3:28:57 PM — # ↩
  
  See, that is the curious part. I’ve seen this at Chennai and Hyderabad airports, both of which can be expected to have decent facilities.
  
  Or maybe not.
  - vinit — Oct 19, 2006 7:09:33 PM — # ↩
    
    And how are we sure that the tires being unloaded at Chennai or Hyd. were not the damaged ones the airplane picked up at a smaller regional airport and if getting to the metro city for a fix/recycle.
    - Kiran Jonnalagadda — Oct 20, 2006 8:09:13 PM — # ↩
      
      Because the flight was coming from Bangalore, where presumably Air Deccan has facilities, that being their hub.
      
      Or maybe not.
      - vinit — Oct 20, 2006 8:18:53 PM — # ↩
        
        I want to continue this trip … maybe Bangalore Airport doesn’t have any more storage/engineering space (we all know that) … so the tires were sent from some small airport to Bangalore (hub, et al) and then to Hyd or Chennai.
        
        Or the other way round … the tires were being sent from BLR to Hyd/Chennai and then to be fwd’ed to a smaller airport!