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RE: Last December In The Philippines

MHG,

Thx for the info... Really appreciated.

JA

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RE: Last December In The Philippines

Great trip report! How's the reservations and ticket prices on Philippines' domestic airlines? Is it <acronym title="CSA Czech Airlines">OK</acronym> to book the tickets once you're in Philippines? Because I was looking at Asian Spirit's website and they have 2 sets of prices, one for foreign bookin...

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RE: A300B4,-600,A310 Differences

Apart from Garuda with 9 A300B4-220FFCCs, Karair (Finnair subsidiary) did operate 2 A330-203FFCCs. I'm not sure whether Tunis Air's A300s were FFCCs though...

HAWK21M,
The fairing in the first generation A300 host the ADF antenna

JA

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Spotting In Thailand

Dear A.netters, I will be travelling to Thailand next week, and will be visiting/transitting several cities, namely Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket and Hat Yai. There are photos taken these cities in the database, and I wonder where are those spotting places located. Can anyone give the info regarding s...

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RE: Singapore Airlines

Latest news, the captain, Dwi M was found dead.. RIP... The plane itself, <acronym title="Pakistan International Airlines">PK</acronym>-LMN was operating <acronym title="Medan - Polonia (MES), Indonesia">MES</acronym>-<acronym title="Jakarta - International / Soekarno-Hatta (CGK / WIII), Indonesia">...

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RE: Lion Air Crashes, Others Slipped Over The Past 48h

Sorry, didn't see this thread before, But I translated the news in the other thread : <a href="http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/1841244/" target=_blank>http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/1841244/</a> Add the Air Force's Hawk 200 that belly ...

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RE: E170 Design For The Canadair?

From what I read in the magazines, the C-Series is aiming on the 110-140 seats market for short-medium haul (1-3 hours) high frequency flights, so it's a A320/B737NG competitor in terms of capacity, but not in terms of the mission flown, since the A320s and B737NGs are catered more for longer routes...

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RE: 4 Hrs Transfer Between EWR And JFK: Possible?

Thx all!! I think Independence Air is the best option now, and I like to try new airlines as well <img src="/discussions/graphics/smile.gif" ALT="Smile"> Anyone can tell me what's the plane they use on <acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (IAD / KIAD), USA - Virginia">IAD</acronym...

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RE: 4 Hrs Transfer Between EWR And JFK: Possible?

Thank you all for the replies... <img src="/discussions/graphics/smile.gif" ALT="Smile"> To answer some of the questions: - Mikephotos, my flight on NW017 will be on 4 January 2005 - GuyBetsy1, yes I did try to re-issue my ticket via Washington, but unfortunately all flights from <acronym titl...

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4 Hrs Transfer Between EWR And JFK: Possible?

Dear A.netters, I'll be in USA during Christmas/New Year's time. On the way back to Singapore, I need to catch NW017 from <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym>, which leaves at 11.45AM. The thing is the day before, I'll be sti...

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RE: Luggage Tag Man In Singapore

There's another one in Far East Plaza in Scotts Road, just a stone's throw away from Orchard Road.

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RE: Difference Between 738 And 739

Anybody can explain why B739 can't have winglets? is it because of weight issues?

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RE: Brakes On Nose Wheels

From what I read, most of B727s had their nose brakes removed due to the complexity in maintaning those brakes... I'm not sure why the Convair Jets still have them...

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Ditching Test

A friend of mine told me that every new design of an airliner have to be subjected in "ditching test" to determine the characteristic of the airplane during emergency ditching. It is the first time I heard about this, and I wonder whether it's true. Can anyone shed a light on this? Thanks beforehand...

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Brakes On Nose Wheels

Dear A.netters, I have a question the brakes on nose wheels. From the search function, I gathered that some airplanes have it, and some don't. But I can't find much info on which airplanes have the nose wheels brakes, and which airplanes don't have, except for Convair CV880 and CV990 which have the ...

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RE: AN-148 - A Russian Beauty

Technical info of An-148 can be found here:

http://www.antonov.com/products/air/air-liner/AN-148/its.xml

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RE: MAS KL-Singapore First Class. (Pics)

Obliged to read eh Docpepz? <img src="/discussions/graphics/biggrin.gif" ALT="Big grin"> I received the same SMS, but I was out the whole day... only got time to read it now... Anyway, Ryan, another excellent report, as usual... <img src="/discussions/graphics/biggthumpup.gif" ALT="Big th...

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RE: Singapore Airlines

Carmy, Long time haven't heard from you.. Have u finished the NS yet? E-mail me at johannes.arianto@indoflyer. com if u're free to go spotting. Back to the topic, <acronym title="Singapore Airlines">SQ</acronym> has a hug market in India, China, Indonesia, and to some extend Australia. So it's not s...

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RE: Lion Air To Take 734, MD90

The 15 aircraft will include 10 units of Boeing 737-400 and five units of <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-90 produced in 2000, company chief spokesman Hasyim Arsal Alhabsi said on Tuesday. Only three <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-90s were produced in all of 2000, and t...

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RE: Who Is Airfast Indonesia

Add <acronym title="Pakistan International Airlines">PK</acronym>-MVE in the list of Merpati's Vanguard fleet. If I'm not mistaken, Merpati operated no fewer than 8 different Vanguards during the 12 years of Vanguard operations with <acronym title="Merpati Nusantara Airlines (Indonesia)">MZ</acronym...

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RE: EK Economy On 777 - 10 Abreast

I flew <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym>'s B777s quite often between <acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore">SIN</acronym> and <acronym title="Jakarta - International / Soekarno-Hatta (CGK / WIII), Indonesia">CGK</acronym>. The seats and aisles are nar...

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RE: Who Is Airfast Indonesia

Airfast Indonesia is an air-charter company, specilizing in Oil and Mining charters across Indonesia Archipelago. More info on the company can be found in <a href="http://www.airfastindonesia.com/index.htm" target=_blank>http://www.airfastindonesia.com/index.htm</a>. Airfast is getting 3 <acronym ti...

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RE: BHX-DXB-BHX EK 777-200

Nice trip report!!

Ryan, I have to admit, your trip report is getting more and more interesting to read.. Keep it up mate...

JA

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RE: BHX-DXB-BHX EK 777-200

Well, considering A6-EMD is the oldest B777 in <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym> fleet, the interior condition is not that bad..but I think it's time <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym> refurbished some of the oldest plane in their fleet. I flew ...

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RE: AirAsia To Fly To Australia Via Indonesia?

Ryanair!! A bit out of topic, but Lion did start <acronym title="Jakarta - International / Soekarno-Hatta (CGK / WIII), Indonesia">CGK</acronym>-<acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore">SIN</acronym>-<acronym title="Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) - Tan Son Nhat (SGN / VVTS), Vietnam">S...

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RE: AirAsia To Fly To Australia Via Indonesia?

One thing, I doubt Air Asia has the fifth freedom right to serve this route, only <acronym title="Qantas (Australia)">QF</acronym> and <acronym title="Thai International (Thailand)">TG</acronym> have it. Regarding the Indonesia government protecting either Lion or Garuda, no one knows for sure. Rumo...

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RE: Why Did Singapore Remove The Leadership Titles?

I too heard the Jubilee and Megatop titles will be removed from the B777s and B744s, but I'll believe it when I see it...

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RE: Budget Flight S'pore Style! SIN-BKK On VF

A well written report... as usual <img src="/discussions/graphics/biggthumpup.gif" ALT="Big thumbs up"> I'm glad that your <acronym title="British World Airlines">VF</acronym> experience is much better than mine. I booked on VF202/201, <acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore...

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RE: Buy Or Sell: A 717 Shrink

Actually per capacity basis, the proposed B717-300 is competing with B737-700. The now in production B717-200 is competing with B737-600.

AirTran bough the B73G because of the proposed B713 doesn't have the range that they want..

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RE: Spotting At Jakarta

Angkasa Pura 2 in <acronym title="Jakarta - International / Soekarno-Hatta (CGK / WIII), Indonesia">CGK</acronym> is damn hard to penetrate... But there are excellent spotting places in the airport perimeter... You can contact Mandala499 when u're in Jakarta. I might be in Jakarta in July as well.. ...

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RE: Photography At Singapore Changi

Charles,
I'll probably be in the airport on Monday and Tuesday morning. I'll SMS you when the plan is fixed.

hkg_clk,
How about Sunday, 6th June? I'll be in T1 for sure...

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RE: Photography At Singapore Changi

Actually Nicoll Drive only extends untill the entrance to the Airline House and Cargo Complex. The part where most of the shots were taken is indeed the Changi Coast Road. There are couple of outdoor spotting places in <acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore">SIN</acronym> as ment...

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RE: Democracy In Action : 20000 Miles To Vote (w/pics)

Great trip report Sean..

You did put on some weight since I met u in Singapore couple of years ago..

Johan

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RE: An Extinct Airport You Wanted To Go To?

Two Ks for me:

1. Kai Tak (Hong Kong), for the magnificent approach via the checkerboard.

2. Kemayoran (Jakarta), bring back the memories of planes flying on my backyard.

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RE: Garuda Adding Widebodies, Expanding Network

I believe GA still has option for 3 A330-300 with Airbus Industrie.. however June is a bit too early to get these planes built, unless other airlines cancelled/deferred their orders.

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RE: Singapore_Air Goes To Hong Kong On CX -Speculative

ENCORE...ENCORE....

This was the best post ever written in A.net since the last S_Air speculative trip report

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RE: CX711 Singapore To Jakarta On 270204

700 rupiah for airport taxi?? Wow.. I've never been to my hometown for more than 4 months and I don't know that the prices are so low nowadays <img src="/discussions/graphics/biggrin.gif" ALT="Big grin"> (700 rupiah is barely US$0.09) Anyway, good report. <acronym title="Cathay Pacific (China-H...

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RE: Vickers Viscount Reputation?

Vickers Viscount always has a place in my heart.. since my first ever flight was on this beautifull plane on June 1987. The route was <acronym title="Jakarta - International / Soekarno-Hatta (CGK / WIII), Indonesia">CGK</acronym>-SRG on board of Mandala Airlines. Those were the days when only Garuda...

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RE: I Dream Of Bouraq

Flown with Bouraq twice.. The first time was in 1989, Semarang to Jakarta on HS748. The second time was in 1995 on the same route, this time on B737-200Adv.

Service-wise was quite standard for Indonesian domestic flights, snacks and soft-drinks, nothing more...

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RE: Bali Trip Report Part II (with Pics)

Seamefly, Terima kasih... You've been to Indonesia before? Your Bahasa Indonesia is quite good.. SIA fan, BTW, Di photo pesawat Surya Paloh kan ada tali/kabel yang extend dari atas badan pesawat ke ekornya. Itu sebenarnya apa sih dan gunanya buat apa? Let me translate your question: "In Surya...

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RE: Bali Trip Report Part I: AO7830 SIN-DPS

The continuation of this trip report, with pictures included can be seen in https://www.airliners.net/discussions/trip_reports/read.main/41756/

Regards,
JA

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Bali Trip Report Part II (with Pics)

Note: This report is the continuation from the part I <a href="http://www.airliners.net/discussions/trip_reports/read.main/41753/" target=_blank>http://www.airliners.net/discussions/trip_reports/read.main/41753/</a>, it contains spotting report as well as some holiday stories in Bali. For those w...

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Bali Trip Report Part I: AO7830 SIN-DPS

Prologue : Early January 2004, I received an e-mail from my cousin inviting me to his wedding in Bali. He wrote that food and lodging will be provided, I just had to be in Bali on 14 February for the wedding. After getting approval for my leave, I started looking for a ticket. There are only ...

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RE: Pic-Rep Part 3: Jakarta - Bali On Lion Air

Nice report Ryanair!! <acronym title="Denpasar / Bali - Ngurah Rai International (DPS / WRRR), Indonesia">DPS</acronym> domestic terminal is indeed a dump. It used to be shared with International traffic before the present International Terminal was built, so you can imagine what it was like before....

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RE: Nikon D70 Memory Card Types

Jwenting,

Sandisk Ultra II CF cards are CF type I. Ultra II series is the improvement over the original Ultra series, but still retain the CF type I format.

JA

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RE: Nikon D70 Memory Card Types

Hi ArmitageShanks, Good purchase... I have D70 myself and have been totally satisfied with the performance. As for the memory card, CF type I cards are typically more expensive per <acronym title="MNG Cargo Airlines (Turkey)">MB</acronym> compared to CF type <acronym title="Business Air (United King...

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RE: Pic-Rep Part 1: Singapore-Jakarta / CGK On SIA

Great report... happy to know that you enjoy my home country... :P

Anyway, SMS-ed u my Singapore phone number already...

JA

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RE: Any Panasonic FZ10 Users?

1world, I'm a proud user of FZ-10. You can see the result below <center><a href="/open.file/512057/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a href="/open.file/512057/M/" target="_blank">View Medium <IMG SRC="/photos/small/7/5/0/512057....

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RE: Jpeg Or RAW?

Guys,

Thanks for all the replies!!! I guess I'll try using both and compare them.

JA

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Jpeg Or RAW?

Dear A.netters, I just got my first DSLR, a Nikon D70. For those who owns DSLR, what picture format do you use? the finest JPEG or RAW? What are the plusses and the minusses of both? I'm used to use slides with Nikon F70 or JPEG format with Panasonic FZ-10, so I'm unfamiliar with RAW format. Thanks,...

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