Re: Longest domestic and Shortest international flights

Longest domestic SYD-DRW 1699nm
Shortest international NWI-AMS 130nm

Re: U.S. Carriers Still Flying CRJs, E120s, and Q400s?

Cross the Pacific to where props come to die! Qantaslink has 50 DHC-8 around the country in n 200, Q200, Q300 ande Q400 form. REX has the world's largest SF340 fleet (mostly B+), and Link airways also have several, inclduing operating SYD-CBR for Virgin Australia. Curiously, I don't know that there ...

Re: NZ PM Arden to Resign

Something tells me NZ will be better off. She was horrible. How many Kiwi colleagues/relatives/friends do you have? How many times have you been to NZ? Something tells me you might know very little about the situation there. Not sure who you're asking... but if you're asking me, I have been to NZ a...

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/23/garland-biden-trump-classified-document-probes-00079072 “We do not have different rules for Democrats or Republicans, different rules for the powerful or the powerless, different rules for the rich and for the poor, we apply the facts, and the law in each ca...

Re: NZ PM Arden to Resign

... but I will not entertain this notion that I am not allowed to have an opinion about NZ. It's really insulting and totally wrong as well. If you want to continue with this pro forma forum posting dogma go right ahead but I am done here. I have no idea what you're talking about here. Everyone is ...

Re: NZ PM Arden to Resign

How many Kiwi colleagues/relatives/friends do you have? How many times have you been to NZ? Something tells me you might know very little about the situation there. Yet all the Euros here that have never been to the USA know better than people that actually live in the USA about the situation here....

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2023

So how were both the PER-CGK and PER-JNB planned, then announced with much fan fare including a press conference with both Joyce, PER airport, and the WA premier. The flights were then put on sale for weeks before it was finally realised the flights couldn't happen. Something doesn't add up or its ...

Re: Flights between cities with the same name

PSAatSAN4Ever wrote:

MEL-MLB: Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) to Melbourne (Florida, USA). And only 8,468 nautical miles! Why isn't anyone picking up this lucrative route?

Re: New defence pact AUUKUS

AUKUS has always struck me as a neat announcable for the three flailing conservative leaders involved, two since voted out by the people and the other resigning in disgrace. There is no good reason strategically why it shouldn’t be broader, but politics. So AUKUS was negotiated and announced with t...

Re: New defence pact AUUKUS

Top Canadian military official says country should be involved in AUKUS. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-officer-aukus-deal-1.6714845 While he obviously is not a politician he is a public servant, I take this as a sign that there are negotiations happening in the background. Trudeau was c...

Re: New conterversial artwork in Boston for Martin Luther King

BOS has a horrible Brutalist box for a city hall in a city with lovely 18th century classic touches all around. Not surprised they’d select something bizarre for a public MLK display. Don’t knock brutalism you heathen! :) Seems pretty on-point for the NYP to foment discontent on this particular day.

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

The situation is getting worse How is the situation getting worse? It appears nothing has changed regarding all of these classified documents for months and maybe years. I think he means that Trump supporters are increasingly using the false equivalency to justify the Trump administration's alleged...

Re: New conterversial artwork in Boston for Martin Luther King

Recently a new bronze artwork was unveiled in Boston dedicated to American civil rights leader Martin Luther King but it is generating significant controversy as to its composition. The artwork is supposed to be 2 sets of arms embracing each other, but to some part of it looks like a brown male pen...

Re: Advice on Solo Traveling Through Asia

If I was wandering around the markets in Petaling St in KL I might be concerned, but nowhere else. It's not Singapore sanitised, but it's certainly a modern safe city (apart from taxi ripoffs) in the most touristed areas. I'm a 6'3" blonde aussie guy and the crowds in Petaling St were my only w...

Re: Jeff Beck Died

[code][/code] One of rock's greatest guitarists, Jeff Beck passed away of bacterial meningitis. We shared a birthday (June 24, hence my screen name) but he was 15 years older. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jeff-beck-dead-at-78-obit-1234659559/ 78 is reasonably young these days. A ver...

Re: January 6 Committee public presentations and hearings

Boebert was on social media recently advertising the removal of metal detectors at Congress. Seems kind of ... odd.. to do that two days in advance of the one year anniversary of the violent insurrection. Hopefully the removal does not provide easy access to lawmakers for those who may wish to do h...

Re: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote

One might describe this entire debacle as a deplorable abdication of orderly governing and service of the people by the GOP, but I remembered we aren't allowed to use the d-word because of MAGA feels.. my bad. From outside the USA it really does seems that the two party system in the US currently h...

Re: Cheques/checks - do they still exist where you are? If so, how widely are they used?

Cash, hard currency can never be removed from the financial system. Just like the post office is for communication and trade, cash is the ultimate form of monetary transaction between parties. Tugg I would never say never. While I find it prudent to keep a small amount of cash on hand in case elect...

Re: Cheques/checks - do they still exist where you are? If so, how widely are they used?

In Australia they are fewer than 0.2% of transactions. 80% of cheques are tender by people over 65yo, and the other 20% people over 50. Banks want to get rid of them. I have a chequebook in a drawer, but it’s at least 5 years, maybe longer since I wrote a cheque. My bank still offers chequebooks, bu...

Re: Everything That George Santos Has Lied About (So Far)

As astounding as his lies are, they aren't what concerns me. Where did he get the money to loan his campaign $750,000? Somebody bought and paid for him and I want to know who it is. For a newcomer with no influence to get that amount of money is "curious"... Have any of the people who fun...

Re: One Person Dead in Shooting at Mall of America

We don't spend out time thinking about other nation's gun policy. Might be an idea to at least be aware of what does and doesn't work elsewhere... and perhaps be a little more pragmatic on what good the 2nd Amendment does to the modern citizen in a modern US. Conservatives need more bullet riddled ...

Re: 2022 US Elections

He is part of the 2022 election, but, yes, this whole thing is so crazy. I was wrong: he has not stayed silent. In fact, he has said it is "liberal media's" fault he lied and "so what" and "it was resume embellishment, not lying" and every excuse but taking personal re...

Re: China opens up Jan 8

Probably a decent chance for travel restrictions on passengers *from* China for a bit, given the current COVID explosion there. It will be very interesting to see the response to outbound travel from China. My local airport, SYD, is down at least a dozen daily flights from mainland China (plus othe...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - December 2022

Sydney Airport Limited's CEO (with support from Adelaide Airport's CEO) calls for more to be done to attract more international flights. This is definitely a call on the States and the use of the various State aviation funds (such as AAIF Qld/NSW, Reconnecting (State), Attracting Air Services (Vict...

Re: Fiji Airways US Expansion

My experience was the complete opposite, when I flew FJ910 SYD-NAN, which is the flight that is timed to connect with LAX and SFO. Only about a dozen or so passengers, went to flight connections. Same here- I've flown to LAX with FJ 5 times and never seen more than 30 transit pax. Could stopovers p...

Re: Oregon Gov Commutes death sentences.

The United States of America has the greatest criminal justice system in the world. The death penalty was never meant as revenge or a deterrent, it's about justice and accountability. Many states have found it nearly impossible to secure drugs for lethal injections, hence why methods like the elect...

Re: Fiji Airways US Expansion

I'm surprised they haven't considered any direct flights to India from Fiji given the ancestral ties? A350 aircraft could definitely make it. Given the Australian market is challenging for India flights in the absence of an obvious O&D hub in India it’s difficult to see how FJ could make it wor...

Re: Fiji Airways US Expansion

I'm surprised they haven't considered any direct flights to India from Fiji given the ancestral ties? A350 aircraft could definitely make it. Given the Australian market is challenging for India flights in the absence of an obvious O&D hub in India it’s difficult to see how FJ could make it wor...

Re: Oregon Gov Commutes death sentences.

Why all the bloodlust? It's discomforting. Sentences are not supposed to be for revenge. They are about justice and rehabilitation. Not to mention the fact that the U.S. legal system is a mess and gets it wrong at an alarming rate. 'Since 1973, at least 190 people who had been wrongly convicted and...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - December 2022

QF prior to covid has always said W was hard to generate profits on to Asia, it was profitable when combined with an EU sector. I’ll try dig up the quote. I wonder now though, in the current economy if smaller business will be changing their business travel policy to premium into Asia? I also wonde...

Re: UK to scrap 100ml liquid rule by Jun ' 24