Just a thought, but I have a question about the language spoken on those intercepted telephone conversation in the video released by the investigators. All the people, although swearing half the time, spoke fluent Moscow Russian instead of Ukrainian, which a rag-tag pick-up separatist would or could...
Jump to postThe trolls did come out today and it is good to know who they are. I was a foreign correspondent in the former Soviet Union and I see very little political change there, except during Yeltsin's drunken rule. Along came Putin and he declared supremacy for Russia. So now we're back to the USSR again, ...
Jump to postIn a world which regularly sees office assistants bound by non-disclosure and non-compete clauses in work contracts, AA committed a major blunder in letting Kirby's contract slip through. Anyway, it is probably too early for the full story.
Jump to postThanks PlanesNTrains for bringing up the Russian trollers subject, which in the last few years has grown substantially. While the West, after the end of the Cold War, had put the propaganda war on the back burner, the Russians established a work force in the hundreds in Moscow and St. Petersburg to ...
Jump to postQuickly, before the thread is closed, can someone tell me about how many SSJs are out there?
Jump to postNot all retailers try to gouge you at the airport. While living in Latvia several years ago before the country was let into the EU, you could actually buy real duty-free items. I remember one time while waiting for a connection in <acronym title="Copenhagen - Kastrup (CPH / EKCH), Denmark">CPH</acro...
Jump to postI remember that in 1954 I flew as an unaccompanied minor aboard a TWA Super Connie from Idlewild to <acronym title="STAF Airlines (Argentina)">SF</acronym>. It was a late afternoon departure with a refueling stop at Midway. When it got dark I at first got scared from the engine exhaust which glowed ...
Jump to postBack in the late 70s when I lived there, <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> had daily mainline 732 service from <acronym title="Allentown - Lehigh Valley International (Allentown / Bethlehem / Easton) (ABE / KABE), USA - Pennsylvania">ABE</acronym> to <acronym title="Chicago - O'Har...
Jump to postOn long-haul flights <acronym title="Scandinavian Airlines (Denmark/Norway/Sweden)">SK</acronym> has country flags pinned to <acronym title="Safair (South Africa)">FA</acronym> uniforms for easy recognition as to what languages they speak. English, of course, is a given. I speak Swedish, but if the ...
Jump to postI agree that there are quite a lot of Russian military photos. What really has me confused are the reams and reams of Iranian civil and military aircraft showing their muscle. Let's just call it propaganda and leave it at that.
Jump to postSpacepope, re the parked <acronym title="Istanbul Airlines (Turkey)">IL</acronym>-76, the tail colors look like the Latvian flag -- red white and red. If that's true, then there is a Russian operated heavy lift operation, based in the woods opposite <acronym title="Riga - International (Skulte) (RIX...
Jump to postMy first 737-200 flight was from Montreal to the Canadian north in 1972 aboard Nordair piloted by a former Luftwaffe ME-262 captain who was very good in landing this combi in wind and white-out conditions at Baffin Bay, as I recall. There has been a name change and apparently NWT does not exist anym...
Jump to postAs of today, the Russians have denied any official involvement in the Ukraine situation and that will likely not change. For them to compensate anybody, would be like admitting that their rocket forces were in Ukraine. Not going to happen.
Jump to postRussia, and/or the Soviet Union, as well as the Chinese, have had their main interests with anything that concerned the military. In the so-called good old days, defense spending was top, while innovate consumer goods were at the bottom of the barrel. Luckily, Tupolev developed the Tu-134 which was ...
Jump to postI'm not a F or a J passenger and usually stick to the cheaper Y, because I don't fly on business trips anymore since my retirement. I spent 16 years in Europe trying to figure out why my company was paying an arm and a leg to put me in <acronym title="Scandinavian Airlines (Denmark/Norway/Sweden)">S...
Jump to postWhen you check in at <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym>, double check your luggage tag to see whether your final destination is <acronym title="Stockholm - Arlanda (ARN / ESSA), Sweden">ARN</acronym>. If yes, you're good to...
Jump to postI remember flying out of Leningrad, <acronym title="Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) - Pulkovo (LED / ULLI), Russia">LED</acronym>, to <acronym title="Helsinki - Vantaa (HEL / EFHK), Finland">HEL</acronym> for R&R aboard a Finnair DC-8 50 (maybe 70). My wife and I were the only passengers aboard. Th...
Jump to postIn the above thread everyone is showing his cards, and in my opinion, it is the clearest and most concise reflection of NEO and MAX orders. I think it should live as the poster child when anyone else broaches the subject. Neither A or B are going out of business.
Jump to postIt was back in the late 90s, I believe, when I flew <acronym title="Scandinavian Airlines (Denmark/Norway/Sweden)">SK</acronym> on a B767 from <acronym title="Copenhagen - Kastrup (CPH / EKCH), Denmark">CPH</acronym> to <acronym title="Newark - Liberty International (EWR / KEWR), USA - New Jersey">E...
Jump to postSo many different views on this situation. I'm actually surprised at the divergence. To our Norwegian poster earlier, do you remember a guy called Quisling during WWII. Silver platters are scarce.
Jump to postEven when I was living in Latvia, the Uzbek airline just sort of popped up without any great ad campaigns and landed in <acronym title="Riga - International (Skulte) (RIX / RSC / EVRA), Latvia">RIX</acronym> to take on fuel for <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK...
Jump to postSpeaking of trans-Atlantic prices, I just booked two RT flights on <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> from <acronym title="Tucson - International (Municipal No.2) (TUS / KTUS), USA - Arizona">TUS</acronym> to <acronym title="Palma de Mallorca (- Son San Juan) (PMI / LEPA / LESJ), Spain">P...
Jump to postI just booked on <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> <acronym title="Tucson - International (Municipal No.2) (TUS / KTUS), USA - Arizona">TUS</acronym>-<acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym>-<acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL...
Jump to postEarly on during my journalistic career for then UPI, I flew from Washington to Dayton, Ohio, to interview then Capt., later Maj. Hector Quintenella of the US<acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym>, who was the last head of Project Bluebook. What I found in Dayton AFB was a windowless building with ...
Jump to postJust because a country is poor, it doesn't mean that it should attempt to be a bully. I don't think those officials should be given any breaks.
Jump to postRegarding theft from the baggage caroussel in the US, I have read that it is becoming a growing problem. During my many years served in Europe, the posters are right in that luggage is delivered in a secure area, but not the sterile area. Sea-Tac in <acronym title="Seattle / Tacoma - International (...
Jump to post@Interflugmemory -- About unrestricted travel. I was allowed 25 km from the central post office and then within that, there were banned zones. One really had to look at the map. Outside that area, I had to get permission from the Foreign Ministry. This was tit for tat so the TASS correspondent in Sa...
Jump to postHaving lived in Leningrad (now back to St. Petersburg) in the late 70s as a foreign correspondent, international <acronym title="Aeroflot (Russian Federation)">SU</acronym> crews were the cream of the crop in both skill and loyalty. The skill part was self-evident, because it took plenty of skill to...
Jump to postMy curious experience with PA was in 1989 when I flew <acronym title="Seattle / Tacoma - International (SEA / KSEA), USA - Washington">SEA</acronym> to <acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym> on a B747 for a round trip price of $99. If I remember c...
Jump to postairBaltic, BT, has six B737-500, eight 300s, eight Q400s, and 10 F50s.
Jump to postDavid, Your mere mention of being a journalist immediately made some posters clam up. There have been instances of topics being milked by unscrupulous types and there are always those who criticize the media no matter what the reason. In my opinion, this whole thread has been strange. It did not sta...
Jump to postI recently heard that the Russians are also in a fight with the EU. The Russians want all the similar information, including banking account numbers, credit card numbers and all personal data for every person landing, or even overflying, Russia. Sourced from Radio Riga, but I can't give you a URL.
Jump to postThe only time I have been to Hellinikon was in 1989 when on a flight from <acronym title="Istanbul - Ataturk (Yesilkoy) (IST / LTBA), Turkey">IST</acronym> to <acronym title="OLD: Athens (- Hellinikon) (ATH / LGAT) (closed), Greece AND CURRENT: Athens - Eleftherios Venizelos (Spata) (ATH / LGAV), Gr...
Jump to postCBS source saying Snowden will check in on <acronym title="Aeroflot (Russian Federation)">SU</acronym> flight for <acronym title="Havana - Jose Marti International (HAV / MUHA), Cuba">HAV</acronym> at 0400 EST, accompanied with a number of newsies. I assume the journos out of Moscow have Cuban visas...
Jump to postBoeing most probably could contract out to K-Line and/or Wallenius-Wilhelmson Line. Both have specialized Ro-Ro car carriers that can take oversized cargo of almost any type. These ugly vessels don't even look like ships. Both have scheduled service to Tacoma-Seattle.
Jump to postThe driver whose dash-cam took that horrible video must have been a security contractor, because about half way into it, his dog starts yelping and he hushes it up. Looks like a security officer with a K9, but I may be wrong.
Jump to postThanks, Charley, for another fine and informative report. My one and only encounter with an <acronym title="Swissair">SR</acronym>-71 was in the early 80s at an air show at Willow Grove <acronym title="San Diego - Miramar MCAS (NAS) / Mitscher Field (NKX / KNKX), USA - California AND Mountain View -...
Jump to postAlpage, I contribute to this forum materials and comments when I think that I am qualified to do so, and not to build up my posts. I have not contributed anything to any of the 787 battery topics, because I'm no engineer and I don't want to sound foolish and lose any respect among our fellow members...
Jump to postI read the article three times, but nowhere do I see Walsh threatening to move <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> flights to <acronym title="London - Gatwick (LGW / EGKK), United Kingdom">LGW</acronym>. The headline should have a backup quote if such a move is contemplated.<br><br>[Edited...
Jump to postFYI, NOK 400 million is about USD 68.7 million.
Jump to postAfter 16 years of living in Europe, I settled in Arizona. When I showed up at the local DMV and showed them my EU drivers licence, the clerk went into confusion. Only licenses with *D* for Germany could be transferred. Since mine was not, I had to take the computer test and the driving test. No prob...
Jump to postWell, as a reporter back then, I scored pretty big time as an in-flight jumpseater. My first was aboard an <acronym title="CSA Czech Airlines">OK</acronym> Il-62 from Montreal to <acronym title="Prague - Vaclav Havel (Ruzyne) (PRG / LKPR), Czech Republic">PRG</acronym>. Second, on an <acronym title=...
Jump to postThanks to my cousin, who is a retired senior <acronym title="VASP (Brazil)">VP</acronym> at <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym>, my wife and I were able to ride <acronym title="Amsterdam - Schiphol (AMS / EHAM), Netherlands">AMS</acronym>-<acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson ...
Jump to postGeezer,
Thanks for your informative and interesting postings, especially the historical ones. I'll never get tired of reading and learning about what happened when. Keep it up, please.
Hi Vio, Thanks for the answer. At the time, I was a reporter for United Press International (UPI), when it was still a viable news organization. Based in Montreal, I was doing a series on life in the Canadian north. I wrote the story and took a lot of heat from Nordair for disclosing that their 737-...
Jump to postA very "cool" report. Pardon the pun. I can empathise with you. In the 1970s I flew Nordair 373-200 with a former Luftwaffe ME-262 pilot at the helm from Montreal to Frobisher Bay and then on to Panguerton (sp) on a Shorts. I had a terrible nose bleed for two days, but what can you expect in zero hu...
Jump to postI know that I'm late to the party, but I was thinking not only in the case of <acronym title="Philadelphia - International (PHL / KPHL), USA - Pennsylvania">PHL</acronym>, but about <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> and its new refinery. Surely they can supply <acronym title="Phila...
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/Aesma" class="quote" target="_blank">Aesma</a> (<a href="#21" class="quote">Reply 21</a>):<br/><i>Wow that's an "interesting" website !</i></fon...
Jump to postThat was a great trip report on the QE2. I would like to add that I sailed from Southamton to New York on the Queen Mary and it took only six days to cross in May 1953 when I was only nine years old. Fond memories of that event.
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I don't think that the blogger had a dog in the fight. Reading some of his previous blogs, he seems pretty friendly toward <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> and it would seem rather unlikely for him to falsely take on <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> in order to ...
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