Latest from Arabian Business yesterday: "Low-cost airlines seen moving to <acronym title="Al Maktoum (Jebel Ali) - International (DWC / OMDW), United Arab Emirates">DWC</acronym> from 2013." <a href="http://www.arabianbusiness.com/low-cost-airlines-seen-moving-dwc-from-2013-443597.html" target="_bla...
Jump to postMaybe a rumour but it wont happen in our near or medium term futures.... <acronym title="Al Maktoum (Jebel Ali) - International (DWC / OMDW), United Arab Emirates">DWC</acronym> currently has a single runway - and a growing number of cargo carriers. There is no passenger terminal and no passenger in...
Jump to postSadly 750/751 will stop operation - from March according to crew of CX750 a few days ago: From another site: Cathay 09 Summer change to Bangkok / India / UAE As per 05JAN09 Amadeus timetable display, Cathay Pacific is adjusting its service on the Bangkok / Delhi / Mumbai / Dubai route from 29MAR09 *...
Jump to postGuys, This started as a humble note about <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym> crew being told that they may not sleep during rest periods on long haurl flights except when crew bunks are provided. Out of sight and out of mind ! It was not meant to be a discussion on the rel...
Jump to postEmirates set for $20bn flotation on Dubai market From the Times newspaper David Robertson in Dubai Emirates, one of the fastest-growing airlines in the world, is considering an initial public offering (IPO) that could value the Gulf carrier at up to $20 billion (£9.7 billion). Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed...
Jump to postThe sleeping in the toilet references are sad but all too true. Such a glamourous profession..........
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FlyEmirates is right. This appears to be all about image rather than safety. Though hard to describe Perth as a day flight - the first takes off at 2.45am (tough after a midnight pickup) and the mid morning flight does not arrive until 1.00am. The 10 across 777 seating appears to only be used by Emi...
Jump to postThere seems to be a new rule on <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym> in respect of cabin crew rest periods on long haul flights where there are no crew bunks. <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym>, unlike most carriers, has the greatest number of its ...
Jump to postAnneTooh, I have flown this route on <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym> from <acronym title="Bangkok - International (Don Muang) (BKK / VTBD), Thailand">BKK</acronym> to <acronym title="Dubai - International (DXB / OMDB), United Arab Emirates">DXB</acronym> and <acronym ti...
Jump to post777MAS - fortunately your id gives away your strong bias. Pity MAS has been losing so much money domestically that it has had to give up most of its domestic network to <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym>. Your open letter to Tony Fernandes is totally misleading. You never sent the...
Jump to postThe following are three round trip reports of flights from <acronym title="Bangkok - International (Don Muang) (BKK / VTBD), Thailand">BKK</acronym> to <acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore">SIN</acronym> on each of the three new LCCs now operating this route. I wrote the three ...
Jump to postNokAir is Thai Airway's branded LCC. Nok means Bird in Thai. Website is www.nokair.com Their recruitment advertisements sort to hire "living" flight attendants. That was a good start. But they really deserves the bird for this one. NokAir's business class is called Nok Plus. The website link to Nok ...
Jump to postVancouver/San Francisco/Narita/Bangkok <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> 1045/853/837; June 21, 2004 - Business Class I know it is going to be a long day when my alarm goes off at 04.38; dawn is just arriving; Vancouver is so beautiful at this time of year. Out of the Marriott airp...
Jump to postAirbus Lover, The flight was booked through Chawla Travel in <acronym title="Bangkok - International (Don Muang) (BKK / VTBD), Thailand">BKK</acronym>. Online at www.chawlatravel.com Jcs17; the price difference was US$1000 not US$150; makes a difference! And the flight was through Narita. Do pay att...
Jump to postCX123, Pricing - <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> was US1,000 cheaper. That is a significant difference. And flying through the US is enlightening ! And there is a <acronym title="Thai International (Thailand)">TG</acronym>/AC mix through <acronym title="CURRENT: Hong Kong - Chek ...
Jump to postBangkok/Narita/San Francisco/Vancouver <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> 838 and <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> 1052; June 11, 2004 - Business Class/First Class from <acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym>. I ...
Jump to postThere is the usual Hong Kong arrogance about airlines from what is perceived to be third world Asia; and airlines that are using second hand and older equipment. It really does become like a broken record sometimes. It really does irritate when people describe an airline as an accident waiting to ha...
Jump to post15 minutes - truly.
My first and only flying lesson was at 9.00am on 11 Sept 2001 at Kissimmee in Florida.
I posted this originally back in April - the only secret to playing golf at BKK is finding the course ! Have fun. Sandwiched between the two runways at Bangkok International Airport is one of the most unreal golf courses in the world. My colleague and I were there last Friday ! The course is called ...
Jump to postI filed this on airliners.net back in april but it answers most of your questions - and you do not have to be thai military to play here ! just a bit of an explorer - it is not easy to find the road to the club ! Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sandwiched b...
Jump to postJust one of UAs regular renumbering exercises on its continuation flights into Asia ex Narita.
897 now flies Narita to HKG.
881 is now Narita to SIN
805 is still HKG to SIN.
Still only 2 UA flights a day into SIN. Do not expect more.
Bill, Dragonair's suggested US expansion is purely for their growing cargo business. They fly (I believe) 3 747 freighters. They are not proposing any new pax flights at this time. Their Shanghai and Beijing flights are especially profitable. Non stop flights across the Taiwan Strait are inevitable ...
Jump to postArguably they have already paid for Virgin Blue once - whose money financed the launch of Virgin Blue ??!!
Sir RB must enjoy his generous Singapore benefactors !
Many thanks for all your replies.
Something that seemed so simple has taken on all sorts of complexities ! I am wiser and chastened.
One for the next generation maybe !
Robert
Guess I was thinking a little differently. A device that only floats when it comes into contact with water. Not an issue on land I realise. But it is not beyond current technology for some sort of inflatable device to be triggered by water. Think of it like the equivalent of an airbag in a car !? As...
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But both recorders do transmit a location signal - and the likelihood is that if they do drift they would drift with other wreckage.
My thinking is that it must be easier to recover from the surface than from the ocean bed.
Robert
This may not be a new question - apologies. I was thinking about the difficulty in recovering the Black Box and CVR from CI 611. Has there ever been an attempt to create a flotation device for the "black boxes", something that could inflate immediately on impact with water ? Underwater recovery is h...
Jump to postThis may not be a new question - apologies. I was thinking about the difficulty in recovering the Black Box and CVR from CI 611. Has there ever been an attempt to create a flotation device for the "black boxes", something that could inflate immediately on impact with water ? Underwater recovery is h...
Jump to postTrevor and Daryl, I dont disagree with either of you . It is an alarming safety record. But I do strongly believe that they have been making significant efforts to improve safety throughout the airline. They had to. This may be a tragedy that the airline could have no control over. But the impact on...
Jump to postDear hkgspotter, I often enjoy your contributions to this forum. But please, lets not beat up CI until we have a better clue what happened. It is unusual for an catastrophic accident at 30,000 plus feet to be caused by factors that the airline can be reasonably expected to have control over. And som...
Jump to postI hope I can help ref flight numbers. UA 895 arrives HKG at 17.15pm non stop from Chicago. UA 805 arrives HKG at 18.05 pm non stop from SFO. The connection from LAX to SFO uses the same flight number but a different airplane. All pax have to deplane at HKG. One of these two 747-400s then continues t...
Jump to postCX Flyboy - yes it was the simulator !!! I am sure you can try the same on CX. But it doesn't sound like fun !! I do enjoy Drury's writing - very thoughtful and very honest. And I assumed he was FedEx - as no other US carrier has regular night departures out of HKG. NW and UA are mainly daytime depa...
Jump to postRick Drury's Flightlines in June's Airways Magazine is great reading for anyone in Hong Kong. The lesson is contingency planning - be prepared for the worst and hope that it never happens. He is in the simulator... Its a clear VFR day in HKG - but 30 degrees C. He is at MGTOW - and needs maximum pow...
Jump to postBest: SIN; favourable mention to the new international terminal at YVR. HKG would be high on the list if they ever cleaned the washrooms ! And who wants to go to or from gate 66 ! Worst: JFK and New Delhi. Frankfurt is utterly charmless and one of the worst places to transfer. LHR does not really co...
Jump to postAll, Bluntly - what was a terrible tragedy has rapidly turned into farce. There were seven press conferences on Friday in Taipei and Singapore. How do we pull out the facts from the mud slinging. This forum is a great indicator of the continuing arguments tinged with fierce jingoism that will contin...
Jump to postChiawei, Frankly your following comment is offensive - and everyone here would expect a little more courtesy. "Also, one of the previous post mentioned soemthing that is also very dumb. CI crew can not simply just cut in to same frequency that the tower and SQ006 is using. " If the CI crew saw that ...
Jump to postAll, I hope for the sake of the bereaved and their families that a report is released that is fair to all parties and is accepted by all parties. Almost every airline accident arises from a cascade of circumstances that all contribute to the crash. There is no mystery here - the authorities have acc...
Jump to postIn mid 2001 UA did have 7 daily departures from HKG. The Narita and JFK flights were separate. The JFK flight was non stop on the polar route from HKG. HKG-LAX HKG-SFO HKG-ORD HKG-JFK HKG-NRT HKG-DEL HKG-SIN They dropped the JFK route at the end of August. Most of the pax when I flew it were non-re...
Jump to postTsentsan and hkgspotter, Read my notes in full - the "qantas approach" gets an honourable mention - the plane ended up on the 16th hole ! QF came in on 21L which is a short runway to land a 747-400 on a wet day at the best of times ! For hkgspotter the nearest we have to this in HKG is the driving r...
Jump to postSandwiched between the two runways at Bangkok International Airport is one of the most unreal golf courses in the world. My colleague and I were there last Friday ! The course is called Kantarat Golf Course. It is owned by the Royal Thai Air Force. It is 6,500 yards off the mens tees and par is 72. ...
Jump to postUA will use a 767 from JFK to LAX. You change plane at LAX to their 747 onto UA's NRT hub. You will likely change plane again to another 747 for NRT to SIN. FYI - UA restart HKG to SIN on April 7. The 767 that used to be based at HKG flew their old HKG to New Delhi route. This was part of their roun...
Jump to postGuess this does not mean any recall for United's Singapore crew base. UA will restart HKG-SIN on April 7. So Singapore will be back to two UA flights a day. Presume cabin crew will be from Tokyo and Hong Kong bases. Can anyone confirm ?
Puck,
I really like the Canada 3000 scheme - very classy.
I would love to see your re-invention of the Cathay Pacific scheme - to me the existing scheme is dull and corporate and offers nothing that hints at its Hong Kong home...
Thanks for sharing your work with us.
Robert
I can offer Batam to Singapore.
Batam is an Indonesian Island just south of Singapore...about 40 minutes by ferry and five by air.
Flight was an SQ A310 from BKK to SIN that had been diverted to Batam after crosswinds closed SIN.
To clarify a couple of points. SIN to HKG ceases operation on 1 October. SIN to NRT continues to operate. Connections to the US (including LAX for Singapore_Air !!) will be via Narita.
Delhi - Hong Kong and vv was crewed by the AFA base in Hong Kong.
For Singapore, my understanding is that SIN-HKG and HKG - SIN end on 30 Sept. The daily Tokyo flights are expected to continue. The cabin crew will be AFA probably from Narita base.
I assume BKK - Narita continues (I think this is a 777). But again no BKK based cabin crew.
B747-337M - you are right of course. They are not AFA - althought they are represented in Singapore. Union or not - it is a very human part of the events that are unfolding post Sept 11. And I wish there was another solution or at a mimimum these people could have just a little more time to try and ...
Jump to postOn Monday 30 September United Airlines will be closing its crew base in Singapore. This base has been in existence for fifteen years and currently employs some 300 Singaporean flight attendants. The Bangkok base will be closing as well. The closings are directly related to the September 11 attacks ...
Jump to postThe UAL cuts will include closing its crew bases in Singapore and Bangkok. With some 400 cabin crew redundancies.
The HKG and NRT bases are under the US union and will continue.
Sad - there are some great people in the SIN and BKK bases. Good luck to them all.
Mel,
Check this site for latest flight info: airport recovers fast ! and weather is OK ! Just depends who you are flying with and where their planes and crew ended up over the last couple of days !
http://www.hkairport.com