Jmc1975 From Israel, joined Sep 2000, 3162 posts, RR: 17 Reply 2, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 2998 times:
Congratulations to the spotters of Guangzhou for new material......and Congratulations to the citizens of Guangzhou who will now be able to experience Robert Mugabe's unsurpassed level of fine-quality air service.
Planemanofnz From New Zealand, joined Sep 2005, 1653 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 2920 times:
Do these flights even have overhead IFE? Does anyone have a picture of the interior of the Air Zimbabwe 767 and do they have local traffic rights SIN-CAN?
Kevin777 From Denmark, joined Sep 2006, 1154 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 2677 times:
Quoting N754PR (Reply 4): Rather simple. Africa is a huge market and Southern China makes and supplies almost any product in the world.
I wouldn't exactly say that Africa is a "huge" market... Maybe some parts of the continent are doing all right, but.. Must say I don't buy that argument.
However, China is investing and doing a lot of governmental "stuff" in Africa, among other things searching for natural resources (battling with the US..). This could be an important factor.
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Pmg1704 From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 162 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 2520 times:
Quoting Cornish (Reply 6): Of course the flight will only be to Guangzhou on those days that a member of Mugabe's family don't want to go shopping in Paris or Milan Wink
Amen to that.
Back in '99 Air Zim had to rent an MD-80 to fly us back from HRE to LGW thanks to the royal family. Unfortunately that required a stop in Benin and then Marseille on our way to LGW. But I wouldn't want to inconvenience the man of the people. Each way the load factor was 25% at most.
I can't believe anyone would do any business with these guys any more. Back then the exchange was 27 Zim for $1US. Now they probably have to pay cash to land and tank up their planes. And i'm not talking Zim cash either.
Jimyvr From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 2170 times:
Quoting Cornish (Reply 6): Of course the flight will only be to Guangzhou on those days that a member of Mugabe's family don't want to go shopping in Paris or Milan Wink
Try short hop to Shanghai, they get to buy chinese and western stuff at the same time
Leskova From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 6075 posts, RR: 72 Reply 10, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 2125 times:
Quoting Planemanofnz (Reply 3): Do these flights even have overhead IFE? Does anyone have a picture of the interior of the Air Zimbabwe 767 and do they have local traffic rights SIN-CAN?
The B767s UM operates have main-screen video... in both classes.
Quoting Pmg1704 (Reply 7): Back in '99 Air Zim had to rent an MD-80 to fly us back from HRE to LGW thanks to the royal family. Unfortunately that required a stop in Benin and then Marseille on our way to LGW. But I wouldn't want to inconvenience the man of the people. Each way the load factor was 25% at most.
First of all, it's not a 'royal' family - Mugabe, while governing the country like an emperor, still is 'only' the president.
And he's also been known to not completely hijack a flight, but only most of business class - at least he did on one of my HRE-FRA flights in 2000: half of the cabinet was on board as well, as well as several other government officials, but there were around 120-150 regular pax on board as well.
FlyDreamliner From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 2759 posts, RR: 15 Reply 11, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 2110 times:
Pardon my ignorance, but didn't UM just place an order for some IL-96-400s?
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