Thanksf or the report. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/fasty" class="quote" target="_blank">fasty</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i> All the passenger...
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Jump to postIt has been a year since I took this trip, never had time to do a detailed trip report. So here is a condensed video trip report that is limited to most of the flights I took. This was a 10-day trip to Spain that was not well thought out but turned out to be amazing. I was contemplating cancelling t...
Jump to post@OP, great trip report. Always enjoy reading yours. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/abrelosojos" class="quote" target="_blank">abrelosojos</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Threa...
Jump to postMy flights on A330s have generally been the smoothest of all landings I have experienced. Here's one I took landing at Khartoum, Sudan on KLM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DhcKSdl5RE
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/JoeCanuck" class="quote" target="_blank">JoeCanuck</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i> Holy crap...! Where did Alanis Morisset...
Jump to postThere are many more cities that are further west than Victoria as well ... so guy's wrong for sure but not surprised. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PacNWjet" class="quote" ta...
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Jump to postClears skies over Calgary today, was out and about, and came across a flying formation that consisted of a large plane (I forgot to count engines) and four small planes that appeared to be fighter jets. The aircraft were flying at a high altitude. Anyone have any idea as to what it was all about? It...
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Jump to postHad to do a quick trip to <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym> from <acronym title="Calgary - International (YYC / CYYC), Canada - Alberta">YYC</acronym> last week, where the only palatable fare had me routin...
Jump to postWhile the rules differ from one country to another in terms of duty/flight times, what are the known longest single-crew (flight, cabin or both), nonstop or multi-stop duty/flight times out there? With the ultra long hauls, do airlines carry two sets of crew or something like 1.5? How about the mult...
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Jump to postFeature / enhancement request: Instead of having us login by hitting the login link first, then entering our username, going to the login confirmation page, and giving us the link to go back where we came from, can you please have the username/password fields visible in all pages (at the top) if we ...
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Jump to postReturn should be at 1210.
I guess with EK at 2x daily, LH wants to be in on the action - there's gotta be some $ to be made, and it's from their home turf.
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ANCFLyer, I have seen a few cart products, and this one looks great. I don't know how the soon to be spousal unit and step daughter are installing/configuring it, but I just installed it using an auto-install script with my web host, which took less than 2 minutes. Having logged in for the first tim...
Jump to postWhat is the history behind the luggage piece vs weight issue that exists? Airlines in North America allow for 2 pieces of luggage @ 50lbs each (was 70lbs) within and ex-North America. European and other airlines limit a passenger's maximum allowed checked luggage to 20 Kilos provided that the trip d...
Jump to postEthiopian Airlines has leased two B747-200Fs, the first of which joins the airline this week.
http://www.ethiopianairlines.com/news/report.aspx?nid=186
Saudia getting Airbus? Well, seems like Bush, unlike Clinton, is not working hard at delivering personal pitches to sell Boeing aircraft to the King and Princes. When it comes to modernizing fleet, is this related to replacing A300s, or the MD90s which were acquired a decade ago?
Jump to postIs Westjet in Canada still considered a low cost carrier? The only thing that lacks on <acronym title="WestJet (Canada)">WS</acronym> as compared to Air Canada is the upper class. Fares are similar, <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym> charges extra for everything other than the seat and two pie...
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Jump to postI wonder what the utilization of the aircraft at SAS was like, versus say those of Horizon Air. I don't recall hearing of similar events at Horizon...
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Jump to postDrumroll to the invasion of Iran ...
dammit where is the drumroll smiley when you need it?
I was looking at <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym>'s flight arrival info at <acronym title="Dubai - International (DXB / OMDB), United Arab Emirates">DXB</acronym> yesterday and was wondering of the same - multiple wide-bodies arriving at the same time during different ba...
Jump to postEthiopian Airlines has applied special stickers to its aircraft to promote Ethiopia's new millenium ... too bad one cannot tell what it's all about without squinting and/or being closer to it. <br> <center> <font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"> MyAviation.net photo: <br><a ...
Jump to postI just came across this, though it may have already been mentioned .. DL05 <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym> - <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym> 0805 - 2020 DL06 <acronym title="...
Jump to postAnyone know what happened to the Lufthansa matrix-style show of fares once you enter your city paid and dates? Now it seems that it is only limited to same-day flights with no plus/minus 3 or 7 days worth of fares.
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Jump to postI wonder if whoever is in "Low Winter Sun" feels the same way as the chap in this video: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dIfMRbb5KBQ"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dIfMRbb5KBQ" type="a...
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Jump to postI am either noticing a pattern or I am not the ideal customer for a travel agent. For the second year in a row, I am being shunned by travel agencies from all four corners of North America, with me approaching them thinking that they would be the best outlets for economical fares to Africa. Here's h...
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Jump to postWith the Canadian dollar doing so well these days (right now 1USD: 1.02975CDN - was 1.02990 two minutes ago), I was wondering how often airlines adjust their exchange rates between the CDN dollar and USD? Is this GDS-specific as well? I read on some other thread/forum that Westjet still converts 1US...
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Jump to postA conman who swanned around in chauffeur-driven cars he had no right to and conned an airline out of thousands of pounds, collapsed in tears and wailing as he was jailed last Thursday For the first time at Isleworth Crown Court the confident and patronising façade adopted by the tall, suited 24-year...
Jump to postIs the PDX shuttle easy to access at SEA and vv? Close to checkin, short walk to aircraft etc?
Jump to postSome routes see increases, others see scaling back: - Bangkok will see 9x per week services: 3 to Hong Kong, the rest to Guangzhou - Delhi and Beijing go up to 5x per week - Abidjan service gets doubled More posted at <a href="http://www.africanflyer.com" target=_blank>http://www.africanflyer.com</a>
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