The kingboard share were originally acquired on the public market, so they do not comes with any board seat. With Swire and Air china owns a combined 74.9% of CX, I highly doubted they will release control of any board seat during future shareholders meeting. So essentially this purchase doesn’t giv...
Jump to postWell what a big waste of resources and money for an airline that is about to announce staff cuts. I get the intent behind it but rather wasteful if you ask me. It is a charity flight for underprivileged kids and their family who has never flew on an airplane before. It is good corporate work. The f...
Jump to post[*]Ok however being that they are now more closely aligned with a Star Alliance and yes my mistake only 30 percent owned by Air China, this could prove the catalyst for them to switch alliances, not a guarantee though. Another avenue is they start a Joint Venture with Air Canada considering when the...
Jump to postEmergency evacuations always result in injuries, using the stairs no-one was injured. While there was fire outside the aircraft, nothing I have seen suggests that there was smoke in the cabin or the cabin was compromised. The fuselage protected the passengers, and the RFF quickly took the external ...
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/aerokiwi" class="quote" target="_blank">aerokiwi</a> (<a href="#216" class="quote">Reply 216</a>):<br/><i>Ad in the wordmark, why oh why does th...
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Jump to postQuoting Max Q (Reply 23): Anyway, superb job by the <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> crew as expected and a fantastic response by ATC and emergency services. "I don't think it was particually great controlling, she didn't say anything to the Speedbird until he called her, she concentrat...
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/HiflyerAS" class="quote" target="_blank">HiflyerAS</a> (<a href="#56" class="quote">Reply 56</a>):<br/><i>One thing I've looked for with no luck...
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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/tomlee" class="quote" target="_blank">tomlee</a> (<a href="#264" class="quote">Reply 264</a>):<br/><i> Quoting tailskid (Reply 262): But the "at...
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Jump to postThe ideas was great but the execution is appalling... <acronym title="Cathay Pacific (China-Hong Kong)">CX</acronym> from this series of ads is trying to mimic what Apple had done with their holiday ads (plus all the recent Apple ads), where they are not trying to sell the products and brand but mor...
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/VCEflyboy" class="quote" target="_blank">VCEflyboy</a> (<a href="#38" class="quote">Reply 38</a>):<br/><i>They may not have got money, but they ...
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Jump to postAssuming the plane was originally line up on the yellow line, the plane got push quite far off the original position... Really quite surprising to see how the wind can push a 150 tons plane and move it so far (considering they must have the chocks in as well)... Anyone got the ATIS at the airport fr...
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/planemanofnz" class="quote" target="_blank">planemanofnz</a> (<a href="#38" class="quote">Reply 38</a>):<br/><i>The fact of the matter is that <...
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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/Rara" class="quote" target="_blank">Rara</a> (<a href="#11" class="quote">Reply 11</a>):<br/><i>Perhaps I missed this, but why Zhuhai? Were Maca...
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/timtam" class="quote" target="_blank">timtam</a> (<a href="#145" class="quote">Reply 145</a>):<br/><i>SNAP! What do you think Virgin Australia h...
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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/MaverickM11" class="quote" target="_blank">MaverickM11</a> (<a href="#62" class="quote">Reply 62</a>):<br/><i> And where has that ever happened?...
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/LAXintl" class="quote" target="_blank">LAXintl</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i> 91,329,000 million folks chose United in ...
Jump to postFirst of all... sorry for my bad grammar... <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Rara" class="quote" target="_blank">Rara</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i>Yes,...
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Jump to postI wonder what happen... I landed on the other runway (19R, that Thai was on 19L) in Bangkok literally 2 aircraft after that Thai Airways (Emirates A380 was in front of us on 19R)... Didn't hear that Thai flight calling Mayday or PanPan prior to landing... So what ever happen, this must have happen a...
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Jump to postThis post make it sounds like John Sloasar was replace by the bad result, which is not the case... John Sloasar actually got a promotion, he is now the guy incharge of the overall Swite group because Chris Pratt (the current guy incharge of Swire is retiring). So John Sloasar took over Swire and bec...
Jump to postPersonally I love the idea that I don't get the seat in front of me right in my face, like how you often get on the traditional airline chair... and I flew on these fix back seat a few times on <acronym title="Cathay Pacific (China-Hong Kong)">CX</acronym> and I do like it... however, I agree with e...
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/Speedbird128" class="quote" target="_blank">Speedbird128</a> (<a href="#46" class="quote">Reply 46</a>):<br/><i>Quoting wowpeter (Reply 43): It ...
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Jump to postJust wondering... Why haven't anyone mention the possibility of erroneous <acronym title="Royal Nepal Airlines">RA</acronym> (radio altimeter) that causes an early thrust reduction at an extremely low level of flight (which explain the landing short and increase rate of descent and slow speed and hi...
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/Mir" class="quote" target="_blank">Mir</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i> But the fact remains that it still was their respon...
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