We appear to have a lost an <acronym title="Sudan Airways">SD</acronym> card of the A380 flight but never mind, I'm sure you've all seen plenty of photos of A380s. This is the landing gear flap that failed to close. The wheels went up on both sides but this door didn't close afterwards. A few minute...
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Jump to postSince my wife is a Filipina and we reside in the UK, we decided to take our 6-month old son to meet his grandparents in the Philippines. Since Oasis, our previous preferred choice, was not a guaranteed connection in <acronym title="CURRENT: Hong Kong - Chek Lap Kok International (HKG / VHHH), China ...
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Jump to postIt's nice to read somebody else's perspective on similar experiences... first of all, we also couldn't book the Cebu Pacific flights on their website. They helpfully suggested, after telling them that we were phoning from the UK, that we visit their nearest local office (that would have been Bangkok...
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Jump to postThat's sensible advice. Most of the connections I've seen are way under that, which I'm not happy with. I'll try to manually select a longer connecting time if I can.
Thanks.
Geoff M.
Ah, thanks for that. Obviously the embassy websites are the first place to look (and the Schiphol website) but I just couldn't find the right page - which you have.
Cheers
Geoff M.
My fiancee and I will be travelling from the UK to <acronym title="DAS Air Limited (Kenya)">SE</acronym> Asia, which is where she comes from. She normally needs a Schengen visa to visit the Schengen countries. My first choice (based on price and lie-flat seats in biz class) is KLM through Amsterdam....
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Jump to postMy fiancee and I had originally planned a trip to Paris for just over a week. However, after looking at the costs of staying in a decent hotel and flying or taking the Eurostar there, it seemed more cost effective to try out the new Oasis Hong Kong airline that had just started selling tickets. My f...
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Jump to postQuite a long report this, so excuse the terse nature! <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym>-<acronym title="Bahrain (Manama) - International (Muharraq) (BAH / OBBI), Bahrain">BAH</acronym> Gulf Air GF2 A343 (low density) Arrived at check-in to find queue exten...
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Jump to postDid you bump it without contributing anything further to the discussion? If it was simply "bump [filler filler filler filler]" then I could understand it. If not, then it's a very hazy line as MrNiji has pointed out. I'll have to remember to contribute further or ask another question if I want one o...
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Jump to postApparently a lot of people are believing that this series is real and based on facts... but it's all fiction.
Oh, and sexually explicit? This is the UK and the BBC you're talking about! Tits and arse, that's about it!
Geoff M.
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A burning question this: When aircraft cleaners hoover/vacuum the aircraft, what type of vacuum cleaners do they use? Special ones that plug into an aircraft's mains power? What voltage? What plug type? Or do they just run a long extension cable from the airbridge and use whatever the local plug/vol...
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Jump to postSlightly damp weather seemed to have put many kids off this year - hardly any compared to last year. Tesco's had a half price offer on their pick'n'mix, so that worked out a bit cheaper. Trouble is, I've now got about 0.5kg of chews left! Last year over a kg went (same type of sweets, one each). One...
Jump to postTry taking the CD back to where you bought it for a replacement (could be slightly faulty), or send it back to the manufacturers, or call the phone number that is usually in the manual.
Geoff M.
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Jump to postTomTom always gets good reviews - but are other Sat Nav systems just as good, if not better? I'm looking at the TomTom Go 500. Halford sell it for £449 which includes 6 months TomTom Plus subscription (though looking at the TomTom website, there are various different subscriptions so I don't know wh...
Jump to postI flew on LAN Peru's A320s (<acronym title="Lima - Callao / Jorge Chavez International (LIM / SPIM), Peru">LIM</acronym>-<acronym title="Cuzco - Velazco Astete (CUZ / SPZO), Peru">CUZ</acronym>-<acronym title="Lima - Callao / Jorge Chavez International (LIM / SPIM), Peru">LIM</acronym>) and was perf...
Jump to postThis doesn't surprise me. I'm most of the way through reading Piers Morgan's autobiography at the moment and there are references to her demands every few pages - even taking Mr Morgan's comments with a bucketful of salt (he was a tabloid editor, after all) - which is way OTT and abusing her positio...
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Jump to postI saw it in Turkey (IST), albeit visa staff rather than airline staff. They were also far more interested in talking to each other than serving me.
Geoff M.
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Jump to postI've done most of the long distance Amtrak trains. Apart from the UK (far too many to list), I've done Eurostar 4 times (three times to Paris, once to Brussels, two trips free because of a FUBAR service on Christmas Eve once), Paris to Barcelona, Barcelona to Paris (sleeper), Brussels to Cologne (re...
Jump to postI'm not really defending Ryanair but there are a couple of points there: 1. Flight plans, recycling paper - great that a company is enforcing this 2. Pilots pay for their own food - so do 95% of employees in all sorts of industries Do Ryanair pilots stay at hotels? I thought they were all RTB... unl...
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Jump to postOver Exeter or Gatwick? Both are off the direct course.
Thanks
Geoff M.
My girlfriend and I will be travelling from Rome to Pisa on 17th November. We can take two routes - direct, along the coast, or via Firenze. The former is a regional train; the latter is partly Eurostar Italia. Both take around the same time. Which is the more interesting route? Is it worth upgradin...
Jump to postCan anybody give me a rough likely routing of my flight from Bristol to Rome next month please? I'm assuming we're going to overfly <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym> like we did on the way to <acronym title="Prague - Ruzyne (PRG / LKPR), Czech Republic">PR...
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