Re: Royal Brunei Airlines to launch daily nonstop BWN-LHR service starting from Oct 28, with DXB-LHR to be dropped

The 787's are progressively being fitted with crew rests to enable BWN-LHR nonstop, although I'm surprised to hear BWN runway length is an issue. Also- paying royalties to EK for DXB-LHR? I thought DXB was an open traffic rights airport. However, the royalties BI paid to TG for BKK-FRA helped kill ...

Re: Royal Brunei Airlines to launch daily nonstop BWN-LHR service starting from Oct 28, with DXB-LHR to be dropped

NZ321 wrote:

I think this is quite a courageous decision... leave it at that.

RE: Carrying A Guitar As Hand Luggage In The UK?

I think you would have to purchase an extra seat for the guitar and rest it on the floor/against the empty seat. I'm pretty sure that's the policy with Ryanair.... I'm not so sure about other airlines..

RE: EK Announces New Service To IAD

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RE: Virgin Atlantic Downgraded To 3 Stars?

Regardless of whether VS deserves to be a 3 or 4 star airline, Skytrax is a load of rubbish! They'd rate Nepal Airlines as 5 star if the price was right.

Booking With EgyptAir

I'm thinking of booking a flight with <acronym title="Egyptair">MS</acronym> but I just wanted to get some advice first. I'm not totally sure on how the situation with Egypt is at the minute, but I just wondered what the chances are of the flight getting pulled or something, because I know that they...

RE: Royal Brunei B777 BI73 To BNE In Y

Ah its cool to see another RBA report. I'm pretty sure the IFE is the same on the triple 7 as the 767s, I flew them within months of each other and didn't notice any difference. I think they updated the interface slightly, but the content was identical. The SQ seating is kind of disappointing, but I...

RE: Airliners.net Best Airlines World Award

Favourite World Airlines 1- 2- Emirates 3- Malaysia Airlines Favourite Europe Airlines 1- Cyprus Airways 2- easyJet 3- Thomson Airways Favourite Africa Airlines 1- 2- 3- Favourite Asia Airlines 1- 2- Royal Brunei 3- Malaysia Airlines Favourite North America Airlines 1- 2- 3- Favourite Central Americ...

RE: Shortest Flight By A Mainline Carrier?

Cyprus Airways flies Paphos - Larnaca which is less than 20 minutes

Royal Brunei does Brunei - Kota Kinabalu (40 mins) and I think MH flies this sector as well.

RE: Revealing An Underdog: Royal Brunei Business Class

Nice to see such a great review on this airline. Thanks for posting.

RE: Airline 6

Yeah, I definitely applied them.

RE: Airline 6

Yeah I chose a design each for business & economy.

RE: Airline 6

I've assigned the configuration to the aircraft, but there are apparently 0 business seats and 0 economy seats, even though I paid for 18 business seats and set the economy pitch to 32".

It's frustrating because I cant go any further with the game until I get this sorted out.........

Airline 6

Hi there, I've just bought airline six and keep getting stuck at the aircraft configuration stage. I thought it was all going fine, until I got to scheduling my first flight when I realised that I had no seats.... The thing is I bought 18 business seats and set the seat pitch for the economy seats a...

RE: Royal Brunei LHR-BNE-LHR Business Class

I loved this trip report, thanks for posting! there were some great pics. I wish I was able to take as many from my flight with <acronym title="Royal Brunei Airlines">BI</acronym> last year. I did a report, posted it a while ago from the flight [<acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United...

RE: Yes,the Trijets Do Rule! SIN-BKK-SIN Biman/AirAsia

Ahhh gutted I can't get the pics, enjoyed the report nonetheless!

RE: Etihad Or Emirates?

I would say Etihad based on the fact that they still seem to care about their customers as much as they did when they started out.

RE: RAF A330 Tanker To Offer Chartered Flight Service

Hmm I very much doubt the RAF will be chartering capacity to <acronym title="Air 2000 (United Kingdom)">DP</acronym> <acronym title="MyTravel Airways (United Kingdom)">VZ</acronym> and <acronym title="OLD: Britannia Airlines (United Kingdom), NEW: Thomsonfly (United Kingdom)">BY</acronym> any time s...

Calculating Flight Times

Hi there, [I didn't know if this should be in Tech/Ops so I'll post it here and it can be moved if neccesary] Something thats been bugging me - when an airline starts a new route that no airline flies and they need to know how many hours it will take to fly the route, how on earth do they work it ou...

RE: Paint Peeling Off The Tail Of An A/c?

I think it depends on the quality of paint or how thick of a layer you put on....maybe someones else can give a more detailed explanation.

RE: List Of Longest Flights By Airline

BI BWN - DXB - LHR

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RE: Summer Trip To Brunei: Part 1

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RE: Summer Trip To Brunei: Part 2

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RE: Summer Trip To Brunei: Part 2

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RE: Summer Trip To Brunei: Part 2

Thanks for all the positive responses guys! Keep them coming!

 

RE: Summer Trip To Brunei: Part 2

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Summer Trip To Brunei: Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of my trip report. Thanks for taking the time to have a look! In Part 1, I wrote about the outbound flight ( <b><acronym title="Royal Brunei Airlines">BI</acronym> 098 <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym>-<acronym title="Dubai - Internationa...

RE: Summer Trip To Brunei: Part 1

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RE: Summer Trip To Brunei: Part 1

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RE: Summer Trip To Brunei: Part 1

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RE: Summer Trip To Brunei: Part 1

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Summer Trip To Brunei: Part 1

Thanks for taking the time to have a look at my report! Before I start, I'd like to apologise for the quality of some of the pictures. <a href="http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg250/Chemistrylad/PHOT0001.jpg" target=_blank><a href="http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg250/Chemistrylad/PHOT0001.jp...

RE: Really Desperate: Return Tickets From Kathmand

Maybe you could try Emirates to DXB and then from there to KTM on Nepal Airlines?

RE: BA Club Eurpoe

You should probably bear in mind that this is an ANA Business Jet plane - not your average BA 737/A320....

RE: Emirates Boss: Global Warming Theory Is Rubbish!

I know people will probably flame me for this but I totally agree with this guy - and I'm part of the next generation of people & don't buy any of this global warming/climate change stuff!

RE: Royal Brunei's 777s?

AFAIK they are now only getting the two -ER 772s, god knows where the other two are going. No sign of the 777s arriving at all with all the money problems they have at the moment. Last I heard they were looking for extra 767/A320 to fill the void of the 777 not arriving.

RE: Biman To Opt For Boeing

Great news, but where are they getting these "interim" 787s from? On lease?

RE: Holiday Decorations On Airplanes

I know SQ do... or they certainly have done in the past -- not sure about now.

RE: Air Sylhet Announces Its First Route

Always nice to see a new long-haul flight from Luton!
Hopefully this will get off the ground!

RE: EasyJet At Luton

I don't really know what kind of answer you're looking for but heres what I know... They started at Luton back in 1995 with two 737-200s leased from <acronym title="ABX Air (USA)">GB</acronym> Airways. Luton was their first base. A few years later they got some used 737-300s and by 1999 they had the...

Any Chances For A WestJet Livery?

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RE: SAS "new" A340, Where From?

There should be one or two 343s available when JM stops using them...

RE: Longest Scheduled A320 Flight

It may be 10h45mins but thats with a stop in between so probably only two 4h30min flights? Surely it would just be like doing 10h45mins worth of intra-european hops, right?

RE: BA744 Refit Status.

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RE: PIA Scrapping One 747-300

I can't understand why they'd scrap the younger 743 before those old 742s which are probably 10 odd years older, maybe more! I think it may be to do with the 742s being combi versions though.

RE: Who Supplies Engines For Russian/Ukraine Aircraft?

I know some Tu204s have RB211s made by Rolls-Royce... not sure about the others

RE: Austrian News 2008

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RE: Austrian News 2008

Seeing that there are 737s in the timetable, are these leisure flights operated by Lauda or will Austrian start using the 737s in their own colours?

RE: BE To Gerona

I'm sure I heard they were also starting NQY - REU
Can anyone confirm this as true or just a rumour and nothing else?

RE: Kingfisher Rated 5 Star By Skytrax

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