Re: What is the most important part of a flight to you?

The most important thing for me... is that the flight takes place on the day originally advertised. That means no cancels and no 12+ hour delays. With some airlines and airports, this can be overly ambitious at the moment The EU261/2004 is quite nice too. When in holidays mode, i don't mind a min o...

Re: Your longest Discontinued flights

NBO-HKG with Kenya Airways.

Not sure if it counts because, despite being discontinued and having no operator at the moment. The real routing was NBO-BKK-HKG with the first leg currently still sold and operated.

Re: African Airlines & Airports

piedmontf284000 wrote:

In order from largest to smallest:

Ethiopian Airlines
Royal Air Maroc
Egyptair
Air Algerie
Tunisair
Kenyan Airways
Airlink
TAAG
Air Cairo
Rwandair
Air Arabia

Re: East African Aviation Thread - 2022

Let's bet it will 2x weekly via BRU + 1x via LHR (or LGW). It seems unlikely to be direct and nonstop. Or which other European destination can be tagged on ? They can't run the route via London without imposing a UK transit visa requirement on DATV nationals (which include Rwandan citizens) headed ...

Re: East African Aviation Thread - 2022

rukundo wrote:

[b]
National carrier RwandAir plans to open a new direct flight to the French capital, Paris

Re: Help Me: I don’t get why doors are so important in business class

Was I able to see what my seat mate was eating? Yes. Could she look at the reading material I had? Yes. And while I am an introvert, it was kind of nice every once ion a while when I could communicate with those around me. While I agree with you, those travelling for work with sensitive infos/datas...

Re: Airport Terminals that you really thought were unique?

Bujumbura airport (BJM), Burundi.

Passenger side consists of 4 traditionnal houses (= rugos in Kirundi). One house for arrival passengers, one house for departing passengers, and middle one is landside shops and airlines offices.
It's not closed at all (no windows) and no air/con

Re: Connecting from a premium product to economy

Not my experience, but read from this comment from this memorable great trip report :smile: (Africa 2: SN BRU-BJM, SA BJM-KGL. Biz To Burundi by Gabrielchew ): https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=973263 I was also rather intrigued about the concept of couchsurfing, which I'd never heard ...

Re: Airports with longest and shortest takeoff queues

LHR should be high on that list...

Re: What kind of problems have you experienced with baggage claim?

Limitation of bag tags: if you have 4 connecting flights sometimes the system can't produce one bag tag so bag is tagged with 2 tags... trouble ensues along the way and bag will go missing for a few days. Not surprising but funny, especially afterwards (=not for you on that moment). Is it possible ...

Re: Six arrests after brawl on board KLM flight

Ban alcohol on flight to/from UK.

Re: BEA : EgyptAir MS804 crash caused by pilot smoking

This is why the report took so long to be released!

Re: Airports You've Transited Through In Cities You've Never Visited

- Bkk (nbo-hkg: kq)
- Gmp + bne ( cdg-gmp-syd: ke)
- Bah (dxb-bah-cdg: gf)
- Sou (self transfer)
- zrh (lhr-zrh-ist: lx)
- ist (self transfer)
- jed (fco-jed-jnb: sv)
- lys (nce-lys-bod: af)

Re: Your 5th-freedom flights - Where did you go?

Kuwait Airways A300-600 Rome FCO - Paris CDG return. Same here, except just one way ;) Other 5th freedom trips: Kenya Airways: Bujumbura (BJM) - Kigali (KGL) VV a few times in E70 or E90 Qatar Airways: Entebbe (EBB) - Kigali (KGL) A320 Emirates: Lusaka (LUN) - Harare (HRE) A343 KLM: Harare (HRE) - ...

Re: East African Aviation Thread - 2022

In none of these incidents official reports have been released ?
I wonder why overwing emergency doors have not been deployed ?

Re: East African Aviation Thread - 2022

Kenya Airways will send the Dreamliner to MRU (Mauritius) on 15th, 17th and 18th of April 2022. Usually E90 is operated on that route KQ270/271. Interesting, KQ rarely uses its 787s on Africans routes. Only to Johannesburg and Lagos. During festive season and Easter, Mombasa has often welcomed the ...

Re: East African Aviation Thread - 2022

Kenya Airways will send the Dreamliner to MRU (Mauritius) on 15th, 17th and 18th of April 2022.
Usually E90 is operated on that route KQ270/271.

Re: East African Aviation Thread - 2022

Otherwise Sam Chui is in Rwanda. We will surely have a Trip Report on RwandAir. Another famous aviation vloggers who have traveled on RwandAir: Many thanks for this great news, Kigali is a "table top airport" :smile: . His professional written report (video on YT) is available here: https...

Re: French presidential election : 1st round on Sunday, April 10th 2022

First round final results : https://media.sudouest.fr/10564913/1200x-1/visactu-presidentielle-les-resultats-du-premier-tour-resultats-complets.jpg?v=1649678150 It was quite close between Le Pen and Mélenchon in the end, 400 000 votes separates them, but since the gap was wider earlier in the evenin...

Re: French presidential election : 1st round on Sunday, April 10th 2022

SpaceshipDC10 wrote:

At 5 pm local time, participation is estimated to be around 65% of the voting population.

Apparently, both Le Pen and Macron are at 24%, based on polls of people having voted.

Re: French presidential election : 1st round on Sunday, April 10th 2022

Last day of the campaign.
Zemmour is no more.
Macron in trouble due to the retirement age or the Mackinsey affair ?

Re: Southern African & Indian Ocean Aviation Thread - 2022

KQ and SAA announced a new lounge access agreement for their customers as part of a Strategic Framework Agreement (SPF) signed by the carriers in November 2021. The lounge access agreement will allow KQ business-class customers to have exclusive access to the lounge services at SAA’s ultra-modern P...

Re: What is the shortest flight from your airport?

MPL-AJA, 272 nm

Re: Southern African & Indian Ocean Aviation Thread - 2022

Looks like flights from JNB to St Helena (HLE) have resumed today: https://www.iol.co.za/travel/africa/what-to-know-if-youre-planning-on-travelling-to-st-helena-via-johannesburg-with-airlink-e68c0da3-4f81-4173-8e12-94099102f9c4 Airlink flights between Johannesburg and St Helena Island will resume e...

Re: Southern African & Indian Ocean Aviation Thread - 2022

Looks like flights from JNB to St Helena (HLE) have resumed today: https://www.iol.co.za/travel/africa/what-to-know-if-youre-planning-on-travelling-to-st-helena-via-johannesburg-with-airlink-e68c0da3-4f81-4173-8e12-94099102f9c4 Airlink flights between Johannesburg and St Helena Island will resume ev...

Re: Airport(s) where the number of your departures matches the number of destinations.

6 departures: BRS to BZR Jeez...what did you do in Beziers?!?! For the féria? It was the jumping off point for a touring holiday. So we spent the afternoon and evening there then left the next morning for places like Carcasonne, Perpignan and Albi. Lovely, hope you enjoyed along the Canal ! It's qu...

Re: Airport(s) where the number of your departures matches the number of destinations.

jumpjets wrote:

6 departures:
BRS to BZR

Re: Airport(s) where the number of your departures matches the number of destinations.

Marseille (MRS):
- AMS
- CDG
- FCO

Jeddah (JED) connecting though:
- JNB
- CGK

Barcelona (BCN):
- AMS
- CDG
- IBZ

A few with one time too

Re: East African Aviation Thread - 2022

yoshoward12 wrote:

Thoughts on all of this?

Re: East African Aviation Thread - 2022

Otherwise Sam Chui is in Rwanda. We will surely have a Trip Report on RwandAir. Another famous aviation vloggers who have traveled on RwandAir: Many thanks for this great news, Kigali is a "table top airport" :smile: . His professional written report (video on YT) is available here: https...

Re: Humanitarian Aid Flight - Air X Embraer Lineage

Wow, that's a very unusual and useful trip report.
Will other flights like this be organized in the near future ?
Many thanks for sharing !

Re: Etiquette for sitting in seats at the gate

Indeed, with covid-19 restrictions, many airports leave every second seat empty with labels. However nowadays the social distancing stickers appear to be less and less enforced/respected, thus creating some confusion for people looking for a vacant seat.

Re: Your 2022 Booked/Flown Flights

eastafspot wrote:

January:

* MPL-CDG-MPL
* MPL-CDG-AMS-KGL-AMS-CDG-MPL ( sadly certainly the last long haul flights before a decade)

Re: East African Aviation Thread - 2022