Manila: MUST have attained no less than an undergrad degree, have flawless skin, Unmarried at time of hire, and be out the door by age 36. This is SOP for Northwest Airlines Manila Base.
Jump to postMy understanding is that customs has the ability, and does in fact, download and store the entire contents of the laptop. Not being a computer person I don't know how this is done, but many people in the <acronym title="Kingfisher Airlines (India) AND Irtysh-Avia (Kazakhstan)">IT</acronym> field are...
Jump to postCheck this story out by doing a search, like customs inspection of laptops and the 9th circuit court ruling in favor of this. If you are a clean looking Asian you most likely don't fit the profile of the disgusting American sex tourists who go half way around the world to molest little children. In ...
Jump to postGet ready for the time of your life! U.S. Customs is coming down HARD on pedophiles (Thank God!) and you will have your laptop checked by agents who run a program called EnCase and it will expose everything that has ever been put in, or taken out of your computer. Think you erased that adult site? I...
Jump to postFirst of all I have been flying 42 years and this will be the record time in any plane, almost 14 hours. Business class due to poor health. I have never heard of Nagoya, I am going to Manila and this is a transfer point on NWA. This will most likely be my last long flight, and i want to see as much ...
Jump to postIs the "Tap" test considered proper maintenance? Must be something better than that.... Tapping the skin with a freakin' coin?
Jump to postJust saw the story on the Air Transat loss of a rudder climbing out of Cuba. Still can't see how the crew was able to handle this out of control roller coster, the pax say they will never fly again. I must soon leave on a NWA flight to Asia on a 330 and can't get this out of my thoughts, should I be...
Jump to postI just can't believe the airborne ego wars going on with the electric miracle church folks! Grandma's $10 a month love gift ends up fueling a 747? nice work if you can get it! In reference to Earnest Angely's "star triple seven" 747 yesterday, what would the lease be on something like that? I unders...
Jump to postJust found a stub from 1976 <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>-GTW for only $298! I went alone and just met people on the flight who hocked me up with a B&B in Earls Court... had a blast on a gas station employes salery! What ever bacame of thes...
Jump to postYes! to be exact that was the one that started it all.... so filthy with critters the government is still in the desert trying to kill every last one. When the galley was pulled off the bulkhead thousands of roaches, maggots, rats and ? made a mad dash for it. Snakes on a plane? This one had not onl...
Jump to postMarana: I live just up the street... Prepare to meet "Mr. Dutch" if you wander to close. This place is training area for <acronym title="Rome - Ciampino (CIA / LIRA), Italy">CIA</acronym>, FBI, Air Marshals, Fire Rescue, The Arizona National Guard Apache and Longbow base, and now a test area for whe...
Jump to postI love the funky way's of the Philippines... been living on and off there for the past 25 years... The Airports are mega $$$$ makers for the country, hell it costs $30 USD just for the pleasure of getting out of the place! Never could understand why the government could not care less what a trash he...
Jump to postGoodyear.... many homes now abandoned/forclosed right at the fence line... new homes that shake and rattle when the heavy mamma's roll. I have thought of picking one up and just having a rehab center for people with jet addictions to recover at. We could all sit around and talk about our habits and ...
Jump to postI have recently had a major auto accident (kid on a cell phone rear ended me at a stop light doing 55) and with an already damn near useless back and neck from arthritis over the years, I am in big time pain. I also just had my right knee totally replaced and you know how much fun that is, takes ove...
Jump to postIs this thing a monument to the corruption and inept powers that be in the Philippines? Or will it somehow become part of the airport? Last time in <acronym title="Manila - Ninoy Aquino International (Col Jesus A Villamor AB) (MNL / RPLL), Philippines">MNL</acronym> I saw more rats in the old intern...
Jump to postIn the old days you hoped a doctor with a little black bag would be on board. Now a special ground hospital takes a report from the crew, and if a confirmed doctor is onboard, he is given the keys to a special medical locker with controled drugs. Anyone know what the names of the drugs are? do they ...
Jump to postThis person was in his 20's, I am almost 60 and to me he is a kid. In the era of "Sir John The Impaler" I was often attempting his stunts with my girlfriend, while enjoying some panama red with foghat on my eight track player. Porno is all in the past for me, but I truly think it MUST be confined an...
Jump to postI was sitting next to some kid on NWA 001 to <acronym title="Tokyo - Narita International (New Tokyo) (NRT / RJAA), Japan">NRT</acronym> and he was watching a "Johnny Wadd" video in plain view! Is there not a law or regulation against this? His laptop was in the Ilse row and thus in view of the F/A ...
Jump to postNope.... This was a DC-8 !!! The "coke nose" vents gave it away. Plus I was on one of the first DC-8 flights out of <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> back in 1958. From the Philippine Village flop house you could see her sitting next to a Conni...
Jump to post"Long" John Holmes! Biggest Equipment, Longest Route!
Jump to postAll the F/A's were female, and had "full figures" no accident they were hired for being so stacked. Captain was a tiny chinese kid who had a hard time with english. Plane had oil leaking from every engine, but when it rotated it went up like an f-16, pure power. Sad this funky airline bit the dust. ...
Jump to postMany years ago we flew onboard a GREAT DC-8 out of Manila... Called Grand Airlines...Truly a blast from the past, and as we were first class and the drinks were free, got totally wrecked, it was really great. Anyone know who was behind this short lived venture? Any pix of the planes? Thanks!
Jump to postIf a new jet making it's rounds breaks down.... who fixes it, and how is the warranty charged back to the mfg?
Jump to postHe should have offered her a chili dog special and wrap it up with a strawberry shortcake! Insteed.... she gets the Clinton Blob Job!
Jump to postThe pax in Iran were still so upset over the Anna Nicole- Britney Spears shockers they just were not in a position to fly.
give these fine people time to grieve and I'm sure all will be OK! Some times we're living in, ain't it airplane fans?
Anytime an offical (local cop-security) tells a forigner he is prohibited from doing something, it means in most cases, and I have live in that place for 21 years, that he needs a little pasalobong ($$) Very common custom for the newely arrived and un informed slack jawed tourist.
Jump to postGROUND ..... PEOPLE, NOT RUNWAY, BUT THE EARTH! SHORT FIELD LANDING GOING BAD.
Jump to postI saw the <acronym title="DHL Worldwide Express (Belgium)">ER</acronym> in Baghdad for the troops getting half there heads blown off in this useless war... In the <acronym title="Air Comores and Crimea Air (Ukraine)">OR</acronym> the surgeon was a Major, but the charge nurse was a full Col. WHO is i...
Jump to postIt was my understanding that because the country (New President) stiffed the German firm that put up the cash and brought in the equipment to build this massive new, however never seen one plane or passenger International Terminal of tomorrow, the world court lifted PAL and any other Philippine airl...
Jump to postNow that the pay off of the once new, abandoned, and now ready for work (but very dusty) International Terminal is hopefully in the works, will that lift the blacklisting of PAL in Europe and thus usher in a new era of Manila to Europe flights again? And will NWA move to the new digs?
Jump to postWhat happened to the NWA 747 that took it's graceful final bow on the runway in Guam? Also, as I recall there was the mystery of a 727 missing in Africa..
Jump to postFor me it was in 1983 on NWA 001 <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>-<acronym title="Tokyo - Narita International (New Tokyo) (NRT / RJAA), Japan">NRT</acronym> in business class, upper deck. Salmon that was so over the top everyone asked for mor...
Jump to post"US ARMY MOVES <acronym title="Bahamasair">UP</acronym> <acronym title="Wangerooge (AGE / EDWG), Germany">AGE</acronym> LIMIT <acronym title="President Airlines (Cambodia)">TO</acronym> 42" <a href="http://www.usarmy.com" target=_blank>www.usarmy.com</a> goarmy.gov army.com People want to come here ...
Jump to postI notice while flying overseas, and watching DVD's on in flight aviation, that even nations that have issues with other treat each other with respect and courtesy while navigating in and around major airports. Even the recent NWA DC-10 that had to make an emergency landing in Iran was handled with d...
Jump to postI pray bush will be hauled off in hand-cuff's and get what Saddam got after his trial. USA (me too) was suckered into this fools wake, and now we are on our knees and broke and bleeding thanks to Bush. <acronym title="Alaska Airlines (USA)">AS</acronym> a paralyzed Vietnam Vet.... let me tell you, y...
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Jump to postIf you have ever openly flagellated on a aircraft while the APU was inop, and you were at the gate with closed doors and ready for pushback in very hot and stuffy conditions, while sitting near me, then you should have ssssss tattooed on you forehead. Anyone here know what the meaning of a Cleveland...
Jump to postIt is a new and apparently revolutionary way to do D checks on the <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-80, Fast and very cost saving. The Jet is put in a hanger, or in many hangers all at the same time. ( 30 Jets-30 hangers) and specially trained "gangs" (micro fine skilled crews) move from...
Jump to postI just saw the story on <acronym title="Virgin Express (Belgium)">TV</acronym> about the <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> maintenance procedure in <acronym title="CSA Czech Airlines">OK</acronym>. Simply brilliant! My congratulations to the people who came up with this new proce...
Jump to postI would assume the planes from jungle or tropical areas would get hell from all the critters that rule the place. No wonder outlying areas in the Philippines fog the cargo holds, as well as the cargo/luggage that goes on board below.
Jump to postI was in Marana a few days ago with a friend from evergreen. I made a joke about how many beer cans a 747 in front of us that was being ripped apart would make. His reply was these airliners are so filthy, as to mean contaminated metal, that they are not of the purity needed for human consumption co...
Jump to postScrew Jet Blue! I hope they vanish and go tits up because of this! 11 goddamn hours? BULLSHIT!
Jump to postWell! did you have to sit on your ass for 11 hours and snort the funk from the crap filled toilet's.... while babies cried and people fumed? Hell no! you just sat in your room and went on line to express your love for jet screw! I wish you were on that plane...... someday pal... you will see what it...
Jump to postWhen we flew out of North Vietnam airspace.... we went wild! It's on film.( I was a medic on the fight to P/U <acronym title="Portoroz (POW / LJPZ), Slovenia">POW</acronym>'s) When we landed at clark, same thing! As we arrived in Travis AFB in <acronym title="Air China">CA</acronym> same deal! All r...
Jump to postParis is (or used to be a cool place) however, all things considered I think it would have been one hell of a lot more simple all around to just shell out s few pesos and ride on in, and be free! What was this guys point? He was already on the plane, he had to have bought a ticket..... And getting t...
Jump to postManila Based NWA F/A Called "Faye" but real name is Melanie..... Thee most stunning vision of beauty in the heavenly Sky's! And someone who could save many lives if ever an emergency came up. Really makes an inter Asian flight a real pleasure.
Jump to postIn the mid 1980's in Manila, just off the side of the airport coumpound sat a plane that had been owned by Elvis at the time of his death, A replacement for the 880 "Lisa Marie" It had been made into a sitting restaurant called the "Club 707" and was really a great place to take a date! Totally inta...
Jump to postPhilippine Plaza is truly a worn out and incredibly poor run place, it's been closed for years and was to be torn down, I am totally amaized it's back open. I understand they put some money in the lobby, and the lobby only! Just for a good impression then when you get to your room....BAM! too late n...
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