I've read a somehow similar comment, made by a senior Lib Dem <acronym title="Martinair (Netherlands)">MP</acronym>, suggesting to move some supposedly point-to-point flights from Heathrow elsewhere. In that case, he specifically mentioned flights to Larnaca or Athens, saying they were "stealing spa...
Jump to postHi Hannah! I read the entire series in one stand, fuelled up with caffeine after a 4.45 <acronym title="Aeromexico">AM</acronym> shift (you know the feeling I guess). What can I say? A most brilliant read, written with a vivid style and passion. You know, two of the things I don't like about some TR...
Jump to postLuke, Although some previous misadventures made me opt out of airliners.net, I couldn't resist the temptation of writing a couple f lines to thank you for this trip report. I bet that some will say that this report is too long, or doesn't feature enough airline photos or that you're biased towards <...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/lhr380" class="quote" target="_blank">lhr380</a> (<a href="#15" class="quote">Reply 15</a>):<br/><i>Showers are located where the Spa Is if I re...
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Jump to postThe past days have been quite "thundery" as far as I could see from my office (between <acronym title="Turkmenistan Airlines">T5</acronym> and <acronym title="Eastern Airways (United Kingdom)">T3</acronym>). We had strong crosswinds, moments of very low visibility, heavy rainshowers and plenty of li...
Jump to postI guess that, unlike many, I had the chance of seeing her today. She taxied past my office today and spent some hours in the afternoon at the remote gates of T5A (524-527 with the latter being the most probable place as it is the first one I can see from my desk). I have to say that the pictures pos...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/airbuseric" class="quote" target="_blank">airbuseric</a> (<a href="#26" class="quote">Reply 26</a>):<br/><i>Hi, Fabrizio, well, it's my nightshi...
Jump to postHello Marc! thanks for posting, it's been an interesting read! <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/MSS658" class="quote" target="_blank">MSS658</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thre...
Jump to postHi 797! thanks for sharing your trip, it's been a true pleasure to read it all. You know, I might be doing your same route for the same reason next year, albeit I'll be leaving from London and perhaps flying Iberia. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" fa...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/FlyingFinn76" class="quote" target="_blank">FlyingFinn76</a> (<a href="#21" class="quote">Reply 21</a>):<br/><i>Good to see another one of your ...
Jump to postHi Philip, thanks for sharing! I guess that <acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym> is working hard to be back on track, let's hope that the group will eventually return to profitability soon. I think they still have a long way forward but they seem to be going in the right direction, at least by r...
Jump to postHi Robert, thanks for sharing! It's been a pleasure to read your <acronym title="Transbrasil SA Linhas Aereas">TR</acronym>. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/roberts87" class="q...
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Jump to postHello Martin! <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/deltamartin" class="quote" target="_blank">deltamartin</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i>A few days befo...
Jump to postHi all, many thanks for commenting! <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/flightsimboy" class="quote" target="_blank">flightsimboy</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><...
Jump to postHi Gab! thanks for sharing your 12 hours of true pampering! Flying Singapore Airlines is a thing I'd love to do one day but I don't think it'll happen very soon unfortunately. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A...
Jump to post<b>The return leg – or how Swiss definitely won my heart</b> Hungary, I’ve already written before, is a merciless place. As soon as I get used to its rhythms, as soon as I wake up one day thinking “You know what? I’d happily settle down here for good” it’s time to go. This time is no difference, wit...
Jump to post<b>The Hungarian stay</b> Hungary isn’t exactly an exotic country hidden in the depths of the Himalayas and, from my side, what I did was mainly sleeping, eating and drinking. However, there’s a little bit of my trip that I’d love to share with you. For the first time in years no one could come and ...
Jump to post<b><i>Budapestre megyek Fokkervel!</i></b> ...which would mean something like “Going to Budapest with a Fokker” in my rudimentary Hungarian. However, it’s still too early for that, I’ve woken up on my comfy bench to realize that the staff has put the chairs back in place without even waking me up. I...
Jump to post<b>The Zurich overnight stay </b> Encouraged by my first A.net meet, when Markus, Petteri and I dined at an African restaurant in London (there’re two Finns and an Italian at an Eritrean restaurant in London… doesn’t it look like the beginning of a joke?), I arranged a quick chat with our Infodesk, ...
Jump to post<b>Outbound – It’s a long way to Budapest</b> So, why Swiss? Well, when you’re the sort of unlucky fellow flying only between three places it’s just a question of time before your standard hops – no matter how frequent they are and despite the business class treats coming as perks of your job – star...
Jump to post<i>Jó napot kivanok, kedves forumers!</i> I guess you’ve all noticed that, recently, there’s been a certain flourishing of trip reports on a certain carrier from Helvetia: <a href="http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/trip_reports/read.main/206789" target="_blank">Jonas</a> flew it to and fro Sh...
Jump to postHi Petteri! what to say, a true gran finale for your Caucasic-Middle Eastern trip report. I have to say that the lounge in Yerevan is looking seriously cool, better than many in more important European airports, kudos to them. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font ...
Jump to postJonas, an interesting read as usual, thanks for sharing. Congrats for your Gold status and don't get crossed if lounge personnel doesn't, well, quite believe you're entitled for it. Lounge aficionados are, you know better than I do, quite a singular tribe recognizable by their very little carry-ons,...
Jump to postVolvair, great to read from you again! Your Bolivian series is an ever-increasing row of gems, I really appreciated them a lot, too bad you've come back from there. It's interesting to see how the military is working in a sector that, if not private, is usually run by civilians. Does it happen anywh...
Jump to postGood evening Lee, look at the coincidences! I've just arrived from an <acronym title="Royal Jordanian">RJ</acronym> ride and here I am, reading about another forumer flying on one of those funny little things. Plus, I've slept at a Swiss airport as well, even if not in Basel and on a slightly more c...
Jump to postBonsoir Madame! Thanks for sharing this great <acronym title="Transbrasil SA Linhas Aereas">TR</acronym>! I've never been a fan of Monaco, despite having been there a score of times (someone'd call it the "poor cousin syndrome", I guess), but your photos make it look like a gorgeous place - and, of ...
Jump to postHi Petteri, thanks for sharing! I have put this <acronym title="Transbrasil SA Linhas Aereas">TR</acronym>'s URL in my "to-read" list (it's dangerously geeky, I know) and I finally managed to catch up by saving it and reading it today. I daresay that your <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirat...
Jump to postHi Rasmus, I started reading your <acronym title="Transbrasil SA Linhas Aereas">TR</acronym> two days ago and now I'm finally at the end. I know, I've been extremly lazy but, hey, better late than never! First of all, congrats - it's been a hearty read and, once again, condolemnces for your loss. <t...
Jump to postLuke, I was waiting for some lines from you ever since your Indian reports. I'm a bit of a fan of travel literature and I daresay that you have everything it takes to write a book of your own and to have it published in no time - if you do, give me a shout, I'll buy it in a heartbeat even it it's th...
Jump to postPetteri, great read! I loved your chronicle of the Armavia experience, it felt - I know I've already used this line before, sorry about that - as if Bill Bryson joined you and did the writing in his best "A walk in the woods" style while you took care of the pictures.... And the pictures! The Zagros...
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Jump to postHi Jonas, thanks for the <acronym title="Transbrasil SA Linhas Aereas">TR</acronym>, for sure quite entertaining and some funny remarks. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/LH4116"...
Jump to postHi Gabriel, thanks for the read, as for the rest of your <acronym title="Transbrasil SA Linhas Aereas">TR</acronym> it was extremely interesting and lively. I guess my feelings now are the same as yours as you landed in Zurich, i.e. "Too bad it's already over". The Swiss First class is precisely the...
Jump to postHi Robert, great read! Seeing your <acronym title="Transbrasil SA Linhas Aereas">TR</acronym>, and knowing that you had friends and relatives in Hungary, made me think that we'd have a final <acronym title="Transbrasil SA Linhas Aereas">TR</acronym> about Malév, a kiss from the tomb or whatever you ...
Jump to postHiya Petteri! Good read, thanks for sharing! I was actually looking to read it but, judging from your Facebook updates, one might say that the best is yet to come. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quotin...
Jump to postHi Jonas! Great read, it's been a pleasure to browse through your <acronym title="Transbrasil SA Linhas Aereas">TR</acronym> which, along with the usual excellent pictures, made me giggle a lot (seriously, how crisp and neat are the pictures you make!?) <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" c...
Jump to postHi Gab! Another great <acronym title="Transbrasil SA Linhas Aereas">TR</acronym>, congrats. You really make me want to fly to the Great Lakes region (or to Africa as a whole) more than ever! From one side the places you've seen are magnificient and, from the other, flying down there seems a more rel...
Jump to postHi Eric! Well, it seems you had a very nice day of flying! Your pictures are stunningly beautiful, especially those about Geneva: you managed to capture vividly the autumn mist and the morning lights on the mountains, well done. Too bad you missed my little home office when taking off from <acronym ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PEET7G" class="quote" target="_blank">PEET7G</a> (<a href="#49" class="quote">Reply 49</a>):<br/><i>The biggest problem is (according to another...
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Jump to postWhat happened to the government's claims of protection from creditors and so on? How likely is Malév to be back again in the near future?
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/GCT64" class="quote" target="_blank">GCT64</a> (<a href="#67" class="quote">Reply 67</a>):<br/><i>Any additional capacity will be filled up to 9...
Jump to postGreat report, Gabriel. Africa is one of the places I'd dream to go and the Great Lakes region ranks among the very first... your pictures of Rwanda just confirmed and strenghtened my desire. It's been a pleasure to read this instalment and I'm an idiot since I haven't read the previous two beforehan...
Jump to postI hope today's events will convince Downing Street that more capacity at Heathrow is needed and NOT some preposterous new airport with two runways on the other corner of the city.
Jump to postI'm at home in Shepherd's bush and the amount of snow in my garden is less than 2 cms. I don't know how much of the white stuff <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym> got but if it's anything like that I guess it won't be long before things get back to normalit...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ammunition" class="quote" target="_blank">ammunition</a> (<a href="#107" class="quote">Reply 107</a>):<br/><i> Damn! I have an Alitalia ticket w...
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