Ponte City Apartments Johannesburg - not only ugly but said to be most dangerous area in J'Burg. There are/were talks about making this a high rise prison. Building is tallest residential building in Africa and sign at the top of the building is highest/brightest in Southern Hemisphere. <a href="htt...
Jump to postWow! This is indeed "gold standard" in customer service. Hope they last long enough. Most in Indian media have already written them off - poining out CEO's young age etc. Paramount had Brazilian pilots (deputed from Embraer directly) when I last saw them - so were your pilots Brazilians or Indian na...
Jump to postAbsolutely agree with other commenter - non-aviation photos of India are impressive than aviation photos in this trip report! Good to see IC 300s still going strong. Wonder whatever happened to A300 planes Indian government donated to Afghanistan?
Jump to postThanks for the report - gives good info on what is in store as I am thinking of doing somewhat identical trip (<acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym>-<acronym title="Auckland - International (AKL / NZAA), New Zealand">AKL</acronym>-<acronym title=...
Jump to postJet Airways <acronym title="Safair (South Africa)">FA</acronym> arrested in illegal immigrant racket - scary to think within months of operations to US, Jet employees have started "side business". Wonder if there are any background checks at all on whom they hire - especially to countries like US wi...
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Jump to postHate to be a conspiracy theorist - but I do wonder if <acronym title="Air India">AI</acronym>/IA merger was used only as an excuse for the delay in taking delivery of planes (after discounting the hilarious last minute change of seats - "planes are ready, but seats are not ready") India's current Ci...
Jump to postUnconfirmed reports say "Crew had partied late into the night". So perhaps pilot wanted to get any 'hol out of the system before flying? <b> Sorry, pilot is busy sleeping </b> New Delhi, April 15: Bomb hoaxes, guns in luggage, “Asian-looking” passengers… now a flight has been held up because the pil...
Jump to postIndia clarifies.. <a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1090608" target=_blank>http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1090608</a> <i>All countries had been informed about Agni test: India Rejecting claims by Jakarta that it had no knowledge about Agni-III missile launch, India said a...
Jump to postTerrific report. Chile is indeed lucky to have a great carrier like LAN - I flew them <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> - Lima and then intra-Peru. I was indeed very impressed with professional setup and operations. Great photos of Eastern Isla...
Jump to postLet us see. Some airlines that I can think of right away - flying with own metal. Ethiopian (to Addis Ababa and Beijing) Turkish Airlines (<acronym title="Istanbul - Ataturk (Yesilkoy) (IST / LTBA), Turkey">IST</acronym>) Druk Air of Bhutan (to Kathmandu and Paro, Bhutan) Asiana Airlines (<acronym t...
Jump to postIf one has to go by US Census statistics, people are moving out of <acronym title="STAF Airlines (Argentina)">SF</acronym> - city had -5% population growth in last five years while California in general had +7% gain. So all complaints about being "pricey" is very much true. Also compared to other "b...
Jump to postThis "Firefox" livery bus from India was all over the Net last year. Pictures linked from photographer's blog (kalyan.livejournal.com) which has some more photos of the same bus <a href="http://kalyan.livejournal.com/204212.html" target="_blank"> here </a> <img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/kalya...
Jump to postGood report, though you are lucky in the sense flight departed Bangalore on-time. I am not sure if you have followed <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym>'s Bangalore operations, but flights are always delayed resulting in missed connections in <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL),...
Jump to postNot sure if someone has already posted this, but today's <acronym title="Southern Air Transport (USA) and Freedom Air International (New Zealand)">SJ</acronym> Mercury News Business section has an article on soaring demand for direct flight between <acronym title="STAF Airlines (Argentina)">SF</acro...
Jump to post One of the victims included chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha, who was on his way to Vienna.
There are still some conspiracy theories about this crash - considering it carried Indian nuclear scientist considered "father of India's nuclear program".
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Jump to postThat is an interesting route. If connecting passengers stay in transit area, US immigration is done at Vegas then? Did you (those who boarded in Vancouver) have to go through US Immigration at <acronym title="Vancouver - International (YVR / CYVR), Canada - British Columbia">YVR</acronym> before boa...
Jump to postThe closest to authentic one I had was hear in Mountain View, California at a place called DeeDees. It is run by folks from Bombay (Gujrati) Cost around $3-$4 per plate. <a href="http://www.mydeedees.com/restaurant.html" target=_blank>http://www.mydeedees.com/restaurant.html</a> There are few other ...
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Jump to postGood report - gives a peak into life of Cargo pilots. How much visibility do you have on what type of cargo you are carrying? i.e.fluid, perishable food - and any extra settings (temperature etc) you need to make on what you are carrying? Does that require lot of calculation or you just input that i...
Jump to postHey great report as usual. Air India domestic leg looks fantastic. Too bad check-in desk on your return let you down. <TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=95% style="border-top: 1pt #28455E solid;border-right: 1pt #1B2E3F solid;border-bottom: 1pt #1B2E3F solid;border-left: 1pt #28455E solid;table-layo...
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Jump to post<img src="http://static.flickr.com/80/272889575_8bf6e82044_o.jpg" width="170" height="155" border=0></a> I believe this is the first trip report for a revenue Kingfisher Airlines flight on Airliners.net, so feel free to post comments and let me know any questions. Some photos were taken in restricte...
Jump to postI flew LP030 from Cuzco to Lima back in June. Lima to Cuzco I flew Taca Peru. Yep, absolutely loved Cuzco (and Machu Picchu) Were there native musicians near baggage claim when you landed? <img src="http://static.flickr.com/68/227858686_65686ccd68.jpg" width="500" height="356" border=0> Here is deta...
Jump to postMangalore (IXE) receives its first scheduled international flight - Air India Express from Dubai (3x weekly for now). All Dubai - Mangalore flights are fully booked till Oct 28th. Some pictures from the event here: <a href="http://www.daijiworld.com/live_directflight.asp?id=9" target=_blank>http://w...
Jump to postI recently had an opporunity to fly many times in and out of India's brand new International Airport Mangalore (IXE). Since this is being inaugarated on 3rd October by Mr.Praful Patel, I thought it will be a good time to have this picture online. I visited this airport after a gap of two years. When...
Jump to post<img border=0 src="http://static.flickr.com/83/227858864_be54170dfb.jpg" width="500" height="333" border=0></a> While in Peru, I realized a long time dream of visiting Machu Picchu. This trip report is about one of the most scenic flight in South America Andes region - from coastal Lima to Cuzco. Cu...
Jump to post<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaja/218253604/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/91/218253604_60a2ee0ebe.jpg" width="500" height="212" border=0></a> <i> Above image from LAN website </i> Had a great trip on LAN from Los Angeles to Lima and back, so thought will jot dow...
Jump to postHow many hours <acronym title="Auckland - International (AKL / NZAA), New Zealand">AKL</acronym>-<acronym title="Mumbai (Bombay) - Chhatrapati Shivaji International (Sahar / Santa Cruz) (BOM / VABB), India">BOM</acronym> may take? If convinient connections or stayover packages are provided at <acron...
Jump to postSo you were also subjected to sad behavior of <acronym title="Taca (El Salvador)">TA</acronym> gate agents at <acronym title="Lima - Callao / Jorge Chavez International (LIM / SPIM), Peru">LIM</acronym>. I flew Taca from Lima to Cuzco (early morning flight) and check-in staff, gate agents and then T...
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Jump to postThose who were with Netaji during the said crash have said that he was injured, but not dead. So there may be something to the Russia - Siberia theory. India's first Prime Minister Nehru and his Congress party were not exactly friendly with Netaji. And the conspiracy theory folks think that Netaji m...
Jump to postHow about taking passengers to West Coast USA from India via <acronym title="Air New Zealand">NZ</acronym>? This may be a small number but Qantas at San Francisco seem to be picking up few India bound passengers. <acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acro...
Jump to postSome hilarious clipping from a South Indian movie involving a plane. Is it <acronym title="Air Tahiti (French Polynesia)">VT</acronym>-DEW? And airport looks like HYD? Headsup - violence, blood and gore.. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZJDTszmN_Y" target=_blank>http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Jump to post<I>wonder that in the future (if not already) greater scrutany will be given to transiting passangers at the stop just before they enter the USA or <acronym title="Anglo Cargo (United Kingdom)">EC</acronym> countries. </I> This is already happening for years. For example: UK and some EU airports req...
Jump to postMalmoaviation - cool report and reminded me of my trip in 2005 to <acronym title="Beijing - Capital (PEK / ZBAA), China">PEK</acronym>. Cheap shopping, lot of sightseeing. Did you buy any DVDs? I purchased like 150 DVDs <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/wink.gif" alt="Wink"> - out of whi...
Jump to postWhile there is significant VFR, student and Aussie backpacker traffic to keep up with the number game, is there any premium traffic between Australia - India? Qantas last heard was struggling on BOM route? India Australia trade so far is confined to commodity - coal, gold, copper etc and not service...
Jump to postFirst A319 lands at Mangalore airport! This really is a great news. Next step for Mangalore airport is making the new runway operational and starting International operations. It is said that 60-70% passengers currently flying from Mangalore are flying international (via Bombay), primarily to Gulf c...
Jump to postParamount has already axed Kochi! Their website now lists only Chennai, Delhi, Coimbatore as active stations. So I guess there is not yet a good market for Kochi - Delhi?
Jump to postcricket says: <i>there are over 5000 passengers move between India and China every week and this number is exploding - a direct and more frequent <acronym title="Shanghai - Pudong International (PVG / ZSPD), China">PVG</acronym> service (from DEL more likely since <acronym title="China Eastern Airli...
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Jump to postI saw first day first show. Movie is bit heavy, but I had read the book "Vengeance:True story of an Israeli counter-terrorist team", so knew what was coming in every scene. Book has lot more details, so those who have read the book may find many pieces in the puzzle missing in the movie. Anyone know...
Jump to postToday's <acronym title="Lan Chile">LA</acronym> times has an article on the plight of <acronym title="Air India">AI</acronym> passengers on this plane. Unlucky guys as their second attempt to fly out of <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> on a di...
Jump to postThis chap blogged about his experience climbinh Mt.Kilimanjaro with one guide being sick etc. Has plenty of photos too.
http://tblogs.bootsnall.com/theglobaltrip/updates/002498.shtml