Re: Busan to Ulaanbaatar on a MIAT Mongolian Boeing 737 (June 2019)

It is so refreshing to read such reports in these times of not flying much. Thanks for this and hoping to visit Mongolia in the future

Re: Part 1: South American escapades - On BA's Longest flight to Santiago

Thanks for your comments :) The other reports in this series are here: Part 4: South American escapades - Domestic Peru on LATAM(s) Part 3: South American escapades - Bye Bye Chile, Hello Peru! Part 5: South American escapades - Is there a worse way to get back from Lima to London? Part 2: South Ame...

Re: Part 1: Virgin to Mumbai - India and China Trip 2019

Thanks for the comments Luftymatt
Wrt the toilets, off the 4 available toilets in Eco, only 3 of them were functioning for the entire duration of the flight. So for a full flight with 25% less toilet availability, it was not a good place to be towards the end of the journey.

Re: Part 4: Return from Shijiazhuang on Hebei, Qatar and British Airways - India and China Trip 2019

Aw! thanks for your wonderful comments, VTCIE. Much appreciated. Yeah. Hebei Airlines, did surprise me with the service. More noticeably and Indian drama being played on their overhead screens! I do have quite a few videos of the Chinese High Speed rail on my YouTube channel, including second, first...

Re: Part 4: Return from Shijiazhuang on Hebei, Qatar and British Airways - India and China Trip 2019

1. I would not hold my breathe with AI Privatisation, but we shall see
4. It was seamless. Checked in my bags in Chengdu and received in London. In Doha, it was like any other transit experience.

Thanks and wishing you and your family a very happy and prosperous 2020.

Re: Part 4: Return from Shijiazhuang on Hebei, Qatar and British Airways - India and China Trip 2019

Thank you AirIndia for your detailed feedback and comments. 1. I would agree. In the long run, this (Monopoly) may not be the best situation for an Indian consumer and I would like to see other airlines stand up on their own feet. But for now, I would probably only book IndiGo unless there are valid...

Re: Part 4: Return from Shijiazhuang on Hebei, Qatar and British Airways - India and China Trip 2019

Previous Trip Reports Part 3: Air China Business Class to Beijing - India and China Trip 2019 Part 2: Tour of Himachal Pradesh - India and China Trip 2019 Part 1: Virgin to Mumbai - India and China Trip 2019 BA A350-1000 New Club World Suites - To Madrid and back Linked In Post Bank Holiday weekend...

Part 4: Return from Shijiazhuang on Hebei, Qatar and British Airways - India and China Trip 2019

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49234757328_b90c7364e9_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49235451822_7798352e75_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49234757458_fb320d1dba_b.jpg Video Report Hebei Airlines - NS3209 - Shijiazhuang to Chengdu - B737-800 Qatar Airways - QR861 - Chengd...

Re: Part 3: Air China Business Class to Beijing - India and China Trip 2019

Thanks for the comments.
Yeah, it was indeed a very comfortable cabin to sleep in. Pod gives you a more private feel whereas this 2-2-2 layout is more airy.

Re: Part 2: Tour of Himachal Pradesh - India and China Trip 2019

Thanks for the feedback stl07.
I have heard very good things about Vistara. Would be good to see, as you say, a comparison between the two. Hope you have a great trip.

Re: Part 3: Air China Business Class to Beijing - India and China Trip 2019

Previous Trip Reports Part 2: Tour of Himachal Pradesh - India and China Trip 2019 Part 1: Virgin to Mumbai - India and China Trip 2019 BA A350-1000 New Club World Suites - To Madrid and back Linked In Post Bank Holiday weekend to Romania - BA and Wizz Air Bank Holiday weekend to Ireland - BA and A...

Part 3: Air China Business Class to Beijing - India and China Trip 2019

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49217937786_cdcf2cdac9_b.jpg Video Report Air China - CA890 - Business Class - Mumbai to Beijing Chinese High Speed Rail G523 - First Class Report Background Hello A'Netters! For our second leg of our journey we had to get from Mumbai to my wife's hometown - Shij...

Re: Part 1: Virgin to Mumbai - India and China Trip 2019

Thanks for the comments, Ryanair01.
Yes, I would agree. A very pleasing cabin.

Re: Part 2: Tour of Himachal Pradesh - India and China Trip 2019

Previous Trip Reports Part 1: Virgin to Mumbai - India and China Trip 2019 BA A350-1000 New Club World Suites - To Madrid and back Linked In Post Bank Holiday weekend to Romania - BA and Wizz Air Bank Holiday weekend to Ireland - BA and Aer lingus Part 4: South American escapades - Domestic Peru on...

Part 2: Tour of Himachal Pradesh - India and China Trip 2019

Video Report IndiGo Airlines - 6E455 & 6E223 - Chandigarh to Mumbai via Delhi Hello A'Netters. Hope you are all well. This is part 2 of my 4 part trip report of our India - china trip in November 2019. This report will cover the domestic air travel in India taking us from Mumbai to Chandigarh a...

Re: Part 1: Virgin to Mumbai - India and China Trip 2019

Previous Trip Reports BA A350-1000 New Club World Suites - To Madrid and back Linked In Post Bank Holiday weekend to Romania - BA and Wizz Air Bank Holiday weekend to Ireland - BA and Aer lingus Part 4: South American escapades - Domestic Peru on LATAM(s) Part 3: South American escapades - Bye Bye ...

Part 1: Virgin to Mumbai - India and China Trip 2019

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49146953921_59616a6439_b.jpg Video Report Virgin Atlantic - VS354 - London to Mumbai - Boeing 787-9 Hello A'Netters. Hope you are doing well. Another one had bitten the dust and my younger brother was getting married in India (Mumbai), so we had to make our way o...

Re: Bank Holiday weekend to Romania - BA and Wizz Air

Thanks for the reply oschkosch
I thought EU261 was in place only after a 3 hour delay? In this case, net delay was for 2 hr and ~30 min.

Re: Bank Holiday weekend to Romania - BA and Wizz Air

Just an update. Due to the delays en-route to Bucharest, on my return, I used the BA claims portal, uploaded my taxi receipts and submitted a claim. I have received a credit of £15 sent to my bank account today, exactly 2 months after submitting the claim. I did not have to chase and this happened a...

Re: BA A350-1000 New Club World Suites - To Madrid and back

Previous Trip Reports Linked In Post Bank Holiday weekend to Romania - BA and Wizz Air Bank Holiday weekend to Ireland - BA and Aer lingus Part 4: South American escapades - Domestic Peru on LATAM(s) Part 3: South American escapades - Bye Bye Chile, Hello Peru! Part 5: South American escapades - Is...

British Airways A350-1000 New Club World Suites - To Madrid and back

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48869196403_c37f1a7785_b.jpg Video Report British Airways new Club World Suite Review - A350-1000 (G-XWBA) Hello A'netters. Hope you are well. This is bit of a random one. Thanks to The Points Guy , I wanted to try out the new BA A350 Club Suites, and this looked...

Re: Air Antwerp’s Inaugural Day – Fokker 50 between London City and Antwerp

Such a cool and unique trip report, thanks for posting it.
The service looked really good. Hopefully they can sustain it.
The tray tables looked unusually large for a small aircraft, which is good, unlike the tiny trays you get these days on the newer aircrafts
The welcome amenity kit was awesome!

Re: Bank Holiday weekend to Romania - BA and Wizz Air

Thanks for the comments 767747.

Yikes lychesma! that is a substantial difference. I would definitely like to try out Tarom and hopefully on their (rare) A318

Re: Bank Holiday weekend to Romania - BA and Wizz Air

Thanks theaviator380. So sorry to hear about your recent experiences with BA. That is awful :( I have heard of similar experiences on other forums too. I agree the entertainment on the G-YMM and VII series are way below the competition. I was in one of them, 6 years ago, albeit Club World https://ww...

Re: Bank Holiday weekend to Romania - BA and Wizz Air

Previous Trip Reports Bank Holiday weekend to Ireland - BA and Aer lingus Part 4: South American escapades - Domestic Peru on LATAM(s) Part 3: South American escapades - Bye Bye Chile, Hello Peru! Part 5: South American escapades - Is there a worse way to get back from Lima to London? Part 2: South...

Bank Holiday weekend to Romania - BA and Wizz Air

Video Report British Airways Club Europe BA884 - London to Bucharest - A321NEO Wizz Air W63031 - Bucharest to London Gatwick - A321-200 Background Hello A'netters. It has been a while since I have posted any reports here, mainly because there has been no travel since our last trip across to Ireland...

Re: Bank Holiday weekend to Ireland - BA and Aer lingus

Thanks for the comments shamrock350
Yeah, had a great time across Ireland, especially liked Galway region.
Shannon is a great small airport. Hope to travel there again in the future.

Re: Bank Holiday weekend to Ireland - BA and Aer lingus

Thanks for the feedback, jrfspa320
Yeah, my 3rd short haul flight with them and so far have been a solid performance.

Re: Bank Holiday weekend to Ireland - BA and Aer lingus

Previous Trip Reports Part 4: South American escapades - Domestic Peru on LATAM(s) Part 3: South American escapades - Bye Bye Chile, Hello Peru! Part 5: South American escapades - Is there a worse way to get back from Lima to London? Part 2: South American escapades - Over to Torres Del Paine and b...

Bank Holiday weekend to Ireland - BA and Aer lingus

Vide Report British Airways - BA838 - Club Europe - A321-200 (G-EUXJ) Aer Lingus - EI386 - Shannon to London Heathrow - A320-200 (EI-DVL) Background Hello A'netters. So, it is the May bank holiday and we had a spare Avios Upgrade voucher to use. I did not have much holidays to take and hence wanted...

Re: Part 4: South American escapades - Domestic Peru on LATAM(s)

Thanks Debonair
Sad indeed
That entire booking with Star Peru, from the start, was a bit suspect. It was too good to be true, and we know what happened in the end.

Re: Part 4: South American escapades - Domestic Peru on LATAM(s)

Previous Trip Reports Part 3: South American escapades - Bye Bye Chile, Hello Peru! Part 5: South American escapades - Is there a worse way to get back from Lima to London? Part 2: South American escapades - Over to Torres Del Paine and back Part 1: South American escapades - On BA's Longest flight...

Part 4: South American escapades - Domestic Peru on LATAM(s)

Video Report LATAM - LA2013 - Lima to Cuzco - Airbus 320-200 LATAM LA2123 - Cuzco to Juliaca - Airbus 319-100 LATAM LA2092 - Juliaca to Lima - Airbus 320-200 Hello! Welcome to the last and final part of this series of trip report, albeit this is Part 4 of 5. The previous set of reports, here: 1. Pa...

Re: Part 3: South American escapades - Bye Bye Chile, Hello Peru!

Thanks MedFlyerArg85.
Your air plane? Wow!

Re: What is your favorite airplane as a passenger?

As a passenger from the outside
-> B747-400/-8
As a passenger sitting inside
-> Economy - A330-200/300 or B767 (But not too many flying around, especially in Europe)
-> Business - upper deck B747-400/8 or B787-8/9
-> First - A380

Re: Part 5: South American escapades - Is there a worse way to get back from Lima to London?

That is unacceptable in todays' day and age. Even LCC like Norwegian have free Wi-Fi for streaming.
On a similar note, how was Caracas? Especially in today's political situation?

Re: Part 3: South American escapades - Bye Bye Chile, Hello Peru!

Thanks N809FR. It is a lovely aircraft, albeit, not sure much changes in terms of passenger comforts, except for a quieter aircraft. The toilet sizes are a bordering unusable these days, on these newer aircrafts. That being said, after riding on the A320NEO, now i get why Boeing were scrambling to g...

Re: Part 3: South American escapades - Bye Bye Chile, Hello Peru!

Previous Trip Reports Part 5: South American escapades - Is there a worse way to get back from Lima to London? Part 2: South American escapades - Over to Torres Del Paine and back Part 1: South American escapades - On BA's Longest flight to Santiago Part 2: Hopping across India on Indigo and Air In...

Part 3: South American escapades - Bye Bye Chile, Hello Peru!

Video Report SKY Airline - H2800 - Santiago to Lima - A320-200NEO Welcome to Part 3 of this report. 1. Part 1: South American escapades - On BA's Longest flight to Santiago 2. Part 2: South American escapades - Over to Torres Del Paine and back 3. Chile to Peru - On SKY Airlines 4. Domestic Peru - ...

Re: Part 2: South American escapades - Over to Torres Del Paine and back

Thanks for your comments, NearMiss.
Indeed, I had never seen such a boarding before. As you see in my next reports, they have this process done uniformly in all their outstations.

Re: Part 5: South American escapades - Is there a worse way to get back from Lima to London?

Thanks debonair. Oh, just read that report! that is shocking indeed! If it is true, EY are going to loose out quite drastically to its ME Competitors, especially when, I recently read, that QR are ramping up their economy food offering. Next report in a weeks time, something called 'Work' is in my w...

Re: Part 5: South American escapades - Is there a worse way to get back from Lima to London?

Thanks for the comments debonair. I agree with seat changes, since it is charged for, I am entitled to pay for it. Bottom line. But, I have never had any issue with long haul seat changes over the counter, especially if the auto select seats have given us seats which are not together. Which does not...

Re: Intercontinental Wizz Air - 5 hours on an A320 to Georgia

Stunning pics from Georgia! Always wanted to go there, but not had the chance.
Would I do it on WizzAir, do not think so. 5 hours is above my threshold to survive on a LCC. 3 is my absolute limit.
But, great reporting! thanks for that.

Re: Part 1: South American escapades - On BA's Longest flight to Santiago