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RE: Uniteds 757 Video Monitors

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/IAHFLYR" class="quote" target="_blank">IAHFLYR</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i> This is really sad, but I haven't flown in ...

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RE: Question About Surprise Upgrade Tomorrow On Un

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/rdh3e" class="quote" target="_blank">rdh3e</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i>It doesn't really have anything to do with Chase...

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RE: Question About Surprise Upgrade Tomorrow On Un

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Stitch" class="quote" target="_blank">Stitch</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>You are likely the beneficiary of an Operation...

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RE: Question About Surprise Upgrade Tomorrow On Un

You were upgraded because the account holder has a Chase credit card with United. This allows reward tickets booked by that account holder (regardless of who they are for) to be eligible for upgrades.

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RE: DLH Axes IAD-FRA?

The operator doesn't matter anymore on these routes, as they're part of the revenue sharing agreement. All members benefit equally, regardless of operator. It's very possible that you'll see some adjustments in the airline operating individual transatlantic routes going forward.

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RE: Delta Unveils New Boarding Pass Design -PIC

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/FlyASAGuy2005" class="quote" target="_blank">FlyASAGuy2005</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>There is a reason why the space ...

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RE: Delta Unveils New Boarding Pass Design -PIC

Wow - this is incredibly bad. At a glance: - Airport codes as the largest, most prominent text? This is meaningless to the vast majority of passengers - Tiny, tiny "sky priority" text which needs to be looked at in security lines and at boarding to determine eligibility. They're going to need magnif...

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RE: CO EWR-HKG?

This is still a daily flight operated by a PM<acronym title="Continental Airlines (USA)">CO</acronym> 777, but now coded as "Operated by United Airlines". The <acronym title="Continental Airlines (USA)">CO</acronym> designation has been removed from some flights due to regulatory reasons related to ...

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RE: UA EWR Terminal C Check-in Not Re-branded. Why?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/TOMMY767" class="quote" target="_blank">TOMMY767</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>I'm just saying if the <acronym title="Uni...

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RE: UA EWR Terminal C Check-in Not Re-branded. Why?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/TOMMY767" class="quote" target="_blank">TOMMY767</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i> I have no idea why they are doing ...

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RE: New Kind Of Exit Sign

The green sign is the ISO standard. See here for some background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_sign

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RE: IPad2 3G Versions

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/flyAUA" class="quote" target="_blank">flyAUA</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>So the Micro-SIM is already inside the <acrony...

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RE: 777-200: Rolling After Take-Off

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/MrFord" class="quote" target="_blank">MrFord</a> (<a href="#21" class="quote">Reply 21</a>):<br/><i> Maybe a long shot, but could it be related ...

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RE: Flight Times East To West & West To East

As others have already said - the earth's rotation does not play a role in the difference, it is related to the winds over the Atlantic which are generally eastbound. By your logic all Olympic long jump events would be set up in a westerly direction to maximise the length of the jumps <img src...

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RE: How High Up Is A Plane 20 Miles From Touchdown?

Have a look at the flight track on flightaware.com: <a href="http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BAW213/history/20110409/1015Z/EGLL/KBOS" target="_blank">http://flightaware.com/live/flight/B...3/history/20110409/1015Z/EGLL/KBOS</a> The track log may also be helpful: <a href="http://flightaware.com/li...

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RE: London Atc

I don't see what you're describing at all:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/D...9/history/20110327/1130Z/EGLL/KJFK

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RE: BA To EK Connection At LHR

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/bpat777" class="quote" target="_blank">bpat777</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i> So the transfer bus wont drop her off post ...

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RE: 737-800 At 615MPH?

As always - http://www.groundspeedrecords.com/

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RE: United Changed My Itinerary, Why?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/kgaiflyer" class="quote" target="_blank">kgaiflyer</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i>Since I'm a 1-K, I hollered and scream...

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RE: Fly CO Towards Global Services?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/kgaiflyer" class="quote" target="_blank">kgaiflyer</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>So far, except for a couple of Gulfstrea...

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RE: 737-900: Mid-aft Door, Why And Why Not

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/LH422" class="quote" target="_blank">LH422</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>I don't quite get it. Why does a 739ER need more...

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RE: President Obama Visits Afghanistan

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/hka098" class="quote" target="_blank">hka098</a> (<a href="#24" class="quote">Reply 24</a>):<br/><i>His concerns should be at home and not abroa...

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RE: WikiLeaks Site Down, Assange Close To Arrest

Most of you are missing the point. The information has long since been disseminated by WikiLeaks to a range of news agencies. It is entirely within their control to release some or all of this information as they see fit. What good is launching "massive attacks" against one website? Are you proposin...

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RE: One More For Sharpness...

Maybe it's just me but the text under the DL logo "Force for..." looks oversharpened to me, also the end of the wing, towards the wingtip.

There are also some objects at the bottom of the image, presumably parts of the ground that are almost cropped?

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RE: Pre-screen-two Pictures

You uploaded the new preview as a GIF instead of a JPEG, with fairly dramatic loss of quality...

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RE: President Obama, "they Gotta Sit In Back".

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/soon7x7" class="quote" target="_blank">soon7x7</a> (<a href="#35" class="quote">Reply 35</a>):<br/><i>While technically he may not have committe...

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RE: Can Someone Explain Diesel-Electric To Me?

Cars like the <acronym title="Aeromar (Mexico)">VW</acronym> Golf TDI, even the US version, will regularly achieve an average of >40mpg, with 45+ mpg on highway driving. Also, don't forget the difference between US MPG and UK (Imperial) MPG: 40 Miles per US Gallon = 48 Miles per Imperial Gallon = 5....

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RE: What Is This Hump On The 77W?

That is a satellite antenna, I believe.

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RE: Hawaiian Flight 29 Strange Flightpath On 5/6/10

Just a Flightaware glitch.

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RE: CO28 (EWR-LHR), Thurs 13 May, What Tail No?

This won't be known until about 2 days before the flight, and could change several times after that.

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RE: First Class Suites On Cathay Pacific - Part II

Am I the only one who finds it absolutely disgusting that you were sitting there with you bare feet up on the footrest?

They give you those socks for a reason.

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RE: Continental LAX-IAH 757-300 Business Class?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/DocPepz" class="quote" target="_blank">DocPepz</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>I used <acronym title="Bloomington / Normal ...

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RE: What Legacy Airline Name Will Be The Next To G

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote" ><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PEET7G" class="quote" target="_blank">PEET7G</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i>With all respect... why is it so obvious th...

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RE: Need A Little Help With A Photo Request

I'm pretty sure this is what they would be planning to do with it (blue line is the centre of the 2xA4 spread:

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RE: How To Find Location Of A Waypoint

This site seems to have several of them: <a href="http://www.opennav.com/waypoint/BA/ELOSA" target=_blank>http://www.opennav.com/waypoint/BA/ELOSA</a> <a href="http://www.opennav.com/navaid/BAH" target=_blank>http://www.opennav.com/navaid/BAH</a> <a href="http://www.opennav.com/waypoint/IZ/TASMI" ta...

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RE: Would You Have The Courage To Fly A First Flig

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RE: 24h Airport - Who Is The Frontrunner?

PEK operates 24hrs, right? I believe it has a higher pax count than HKG.

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RE: Best Digital SLR For Under $1000 US

Amazon has the Nikon D90 with an 18-105mm VR lens for $1029 right now. This isn't the ideal aviation lens but this is an excellent deal overall.

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RE: Trip To Norway Via London Question

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RE: SQ Lounge In HKG

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RE: SQ Lounge In HKG

Maybe it is going to become a Star Alliance lounge for all ex-HKG flights?

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RE: A320 "Barking Dogs" With Banging Sound

I was on a Virgin America A320 today and the captain made an announcement pre-flight about how the people near the wing shouldn't worry about the mad barking dog sound, and that it was due to the single-engined taxi. He put an environmentally-friendly spin on it, saying how it saved a few extra gall...

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RE: GPS As Pitot Tube Backup?

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RE: CRJ Radar Safety.

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RE: Obtaining BP From Kiosk/counter After Check-in

When you use a credit card at one of these kiosks it's nothing to do with the card used to make the purchase, at least on the ones I've used - it's just for name verification. It should be no issue for her to use her card to pull up her reservation and get the boarding pass.

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RE: Is There A Limit On Headwinds For Landing?

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RE: CO Cancelled My Return Flight - Help!

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RE: LH: DXB-FRA-ATL "J"

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RE: Route With Most Expensive Fares?

The most expensive US domestic tickets I buy are usually <acronym title="Newark - Liberty International (EWR / KEWR), USA - New Jersey">EWR</acronym>-<acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW / KDTW), USA - Michigan">DTW</acronym> or <acronym title="Newark - Liberty International (EWR...

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RE: Completing A PPL In The US (Help Needed!)

One important consideration is the visa process. You have to go through a series of checks with the Dept of Homeland Security, and I believe enter the US on a student visa, to take flying lessons. It's not a simple (or cheap) process...

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