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RE: Alitalia MXP Cuts List For April 2008

What about Alpi? Seems to be doing fine from what I read and see, though I admit I don't have access to anyone there like I do at Alitalia and Air One. I fly Alpi once several weeks ago and saw no problems but I don't have access to their books. I have read that Volare is fine and WindJet has been t...

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RE: Alitalia MXP Cuts List For April 2008

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RE: American Airlines Recovery In Jeopardy

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RE: Alitalia MXP Cuts List For April 2008

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RE: Alitalia MXP Cuts List For April 2008

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RE: CO To JNB

IAH had South African service in the 80s but Apartheid killed it and it would be nice, but I don't see it anytime soon. I would expect LOS before South Africa.

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RE: DL Exec - We Want To Be #1 In Latin America

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RE: Delta Is Coming To Lawton, Oklahoma?

CO seems like the better fit. There are multiple busses a day from lawton to <acronym title="Oklahoma City - Will Rogers World (OKC / KOKC), USA - Oklahoma">OKC</acronym> as it is but with Army contracts and Air Force contracts out of Altus it might last a year. If <acronym title="Continental Airlin...

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RE: Alitalia MXP Cuts List For April 2008

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RE: Alitalia MXP Cuts List For April 2008

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RE: Alitalia MXP Cuts List For April 2008

The domestic cuts suck. Making folks from Sicily connect at <acronym title="Rome - Fiumicino (Leonardo da Vinci) (FCO / LIRF), Italy">FCO</acronym> to head north is beyond a pain in the culo. I think this will just make airlines like Alpi and wind and volare and airone get a bigger domestic market s...

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RE: Euro Vs Dollar Effect On Flights Over The Pond

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RE: Euro Vs Dollar Effect On Flights Over The Pond

First of all overseas visitors and European visitors are two different things (5 of the top ones on that list get just as many visitors from Asia, which is a different demographic), second, who finances the discover America partnership and what are their methods? You can read stats from C&I (in the ...

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RE: Euro Vs Dollar Effect On Flights Over The Pond

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RE: Southwest...To Europe?!

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RE: Houston IAH Food Bargain

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RE: US Carriers International Route Profitability

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RE: DL Exec - We Want To Be #1 In Latin America

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RE: US Carriers International Route Profitability

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RE: Chairman - Alitalia Is In A "comatose" State...

Having just sent in some taxes to Rome it warms my heart...not. If any of my recent flight experiances are any indication, the flight crews seem happy go lucky and the ground staff more pissed off than usually. no mi piace. Maybe SkyTeam can find another willing Italian participant but I can't think...

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RE: Spirit New Paint PIC

So who was the child that won the "Colour the New Spirit Plane" contest winner? The press release did not give the child credit where credit is due.

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RE: 747 In OKC! EDIT: Maybe TWO!?!

Just a note guys- All aircraft (not the 747s, as they are not at Tinker) at Tinker do transition (touch and goes) at Will Rogers. Amarillo and Clinton Sherman are also huge places for transition training. Various reasons include other airfield practice, winds, and BASH. So do not be suprised to see ...

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RE: Volare.web First MXP Route - Maastricht

Yeah I will fly this route!! A much shorter drive than <acronym title="Dusseldorf - International (Rhein-Ruhr / Lohausen) (DUS / EDDL), Germany">DUS</acronym> or <acronym title="Brussels - National (Zaventem) / Melsbroek (BRU / EBBR / EBMB), Belgium">BRU</acronym>. Thanks for posting it. Ciao, AWACS

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RE: Plane Crash I 95 FL

Was flying over I-95 around Vero Beach and <acronym title="West Palm Beach - Palm Beach International (PBI / KPBI), USA - Florida">PBI</acronym> today and saw some of the traffic backup. Hadn't seen that bad since the Houston evac for Hurrican Rita. Good luck to all the aviators involved. Ciao, AWACS

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RE: New Astronaut Apps Opening At JSC

Well, for a start go to the Houston Chronicle, and Orlando Sentt newspapers and read the forums attached to the articles. people's comments are sad in a way.

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RE: New Astronaut Apps Opening At JSC

I am sending an application as are two of my friends (no joke). Might as well put my pilot training, physics, and former military background out there with the 10,000 others and give it a shot. All they can say is no. The sad part in my mind is the negative blogging and forum posts the story is gett...

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RE: Nato Jets Intercept 3 Russian Warplanes

Having spent over a year doing this on NATO AWACS watching for these things I can tell you it happens often. Why this is so newsworthy??? I don't know. We do it in the US also. Those pesky Russkies punch into Alaska sometimes too.

Should be in milav forum BTW

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RE: B52 Takes Nuclear Missiles By Mistake

I like how a retired Navy E-3 (not my old airplane, the rank...) is such an expert on Current Air Force procedures. Their death count looks a bit high. At least two of the stories are about the same guy. The "SSgt"'s paper has one point. Minot is a s#!thole. Ciao, and Hook 'em Horns, AWACS, Il capo ...

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New Astronaut Apps Opening At JSC

<a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5146727.html" target=_blank>http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5146727.html</a> A chance to really shoot for the stars NASA looking to hire 10 to 15 new astronauts By MARK CARREAU Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle NASA posted a hiring notice f...

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RE: Brazil, Argentina And Uruguay To Join Visa Vaiwer

GIG, I got my new Official (maroon coloured) Passport this Febuary and it was biometric with the new (quite attractive) USA vistas and history on each page. I am replacing my tourist one as we speak and was told it could be the old machine readable but not biometric. We shall see. I am betting it wi...

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RE: 9/11 "Doomsday Plane" On CNN

Air TranTUS, The escort F-16s were from the 111FS at Ellington Field, in Houston. (ironically the Presidents Guard Unit where he flew Deltas in the early 70s). Pleanty of military planes were aloft that day. Tankers, AWACS (I know I was on one), an E-4 (i know a friend was on one), Fighters, and bom...

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RE: Brazil, Argentina And Uruguay To Join Visa Vaiwer

an aside-Machine readable passports and biometric passports are two different things. All biometric passports are machine readable. Not all machine readable passports are biometric Machine readable passports have been around for some time now (in many countries). Biometric ones are very new. Ciao, A...

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RE: B52 Takes Nuclear Missiles By Mistake

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RE: B52 Takes Nuclear Missiles By Mistake

There is most definetly a way to catch this, if any of you have ever actually seen the weapons in question. Munitions screwed up, crew chief and PIC also had access and checklist steps to <acronym title="Aviation Québec Labrador (Canada)">QC</acronym> the weapons. And the leaks from 3 officers doesn...

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RE: 1x Weekly Flights To Angola

I knew it was twice weekly and the route is flown and has been flown for some time now though I was not aware it had gone to thrice weekly. NAteDAL do you know when did it go 3x? Many of my contractors have flown the route and enjoy the service and I know it is quite popular in Houston. There is an ...

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RE: Approved: AZ: Single Hub At FCO, Job Cuts, Etc.

FlySSC, Milan is basically becoming a focus city and cargo hub. "Poor Alitalia" ...Never underestimate the power of Alitalia to f#@% things up. They never cease to amaze me. My flights two weeks ago were the worst I'd had and that was when my flights a month before were the worst I thought they coul...

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RE: Approved: AZ: Single Hub At FCO, Job Cuts, Etc.

No mi piace tutto. It is a start but things are so broken at Alitalia I wonder if it will be enough. Being in Sicily most of the time I tend to take the southern viewpoint on things (as noted on the other thread). Also, Alitalia needs to get better integrated in the SkyTeam system-that work is going...

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RE: Thunder In The Cabin?

I was on Continental 1687 last Friday night Orlando to Houston and we were struck by lightning on the left wing. I was in the last row of First class and saw the flash and heard a bit of thunder but not as bad as lightning strikes I had heard while flying on the E-3 for years. Apparently some people...

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RE: 1x Weekly Flights To Angola

World Airways flies weekly non-stop for Sonair from Houston and back.

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RE: Larry Kellner Interview On The Today Show

Well as Lauer noted <acronym title="Continental Airlines (USA)">CO</acronym> isn't walking through as much crap as the other airlines. He did ask and Kellner talked about Virgin and related it to the Southwest market battle in Houston. A happy interview no doubt but I haven't seen any of the other a...

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RE: Venezuelan Aviation: Reloaded!

Well the rumour is still around in Houston at Citgo that <acronym title="Continental Airlines (USA)">CO</acronym> is starting <acronym title="Houston - George Bush Intercontinental (IAH / KIAH), USA - Texas">IAH</acronym>-<acronym title="Maracaibo - La Chinita International (Rafael Urdaneta) (MAR / ...

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RE: Howdy Partna! Texas Aviation Thread V4!

True bos. Who the hell goes by restaurant reviews in Texas Monthly? What a dirt rag magazine to begin with, and I had a gift subscription in Europe the last two years! (though I see the Houston and Dallas section as the same size???) Wine Spectator, Zagat's and othersconstantly rank Houston higher o...

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RE: Howdy Partna! Texas Aviation Thread V4!

FTW is still open. I wish that COex would start a few daily flights to <acronym title="Houston - George Bush Intercontinental (IAH / KIAH), USA - Texas">IAH</acronym> from there. It woud serve my needs <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/smile.gif" alt="Smile"> Ciao, and Hook 'em Horns, Ca...

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RE: Howdy Partna! Texas Aviation Thread V4!

Well Emirates is coming to Houston (yes old news but nice to mention again) and of course <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym> is opening up for <acronym title="Houston - George Bush Intercontinental (IAH / KIAH), USA - Texas">IAH</acronym> and <acronym title...

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RE: Texas TV News Legend Dies

very sad. An institution I grew up with while in Houston. Had a lifetime contract from ABC, helped create modern consumer advocacy, and he helped a lot of people. Neat guy. Marvin will be missed. To bad "best little whorehouse in Texas" got him so wrong on screen. Good Golf, Good Tennis, or Whatever...

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RE: PBI Vs MCO Airport Convenience Info Wanted Please

well I lied, looks like I am doing <acronym title="Orlando - International (McCoy) (MCO / KMCO), USA - Florida">MCO</acronym> first. I have already ordered my "Sunpass" for the toll roads hopefully that helps. Thanks for all the info. I have two round trips out of <acronym title="Orlando - Internati...

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RE: Which Epaulets Are PPL Pilots Allowed To Wear?

At Flight safety int'l we have to wear stripes, otherwise just wear big sunglasses

Ditto what everyone else said-wear what you want.

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RE: PBI Vs MCO Airport Convenience Info Wanted Please

Thanks for all the info folks. I really do appreciate it! I always know if I don't know, someone here will <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/smile.gif" alt="Smile"> I think for the first trip I'll try it <acronym title="West Palm Beach - Palm Beach International (PBI / KPBI), USA - Flori...

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PBI Vs MCO Airport Convenience Info Wanted Please

Greetings Floridians, I will be staying in the Vero Beach area for several months (soon) and will be flying into Houston on many weekends. I am looking to buy some nice cheap $200 RT tickets on <acronym title="Continental Airlines (USA)">CO</acronym> from Florida during these time(Will stick with <a...

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RE: DL Strange Flights To BZE

Those stats are nice, seeing as the majority of Belizeans are not Hispanic it has little bearing on the flight to Belize.

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