Excuse my language... But fuck these idiots asking P80/hour to extend our check-out after staying a month. The el-cheaponess here has no limits.
Jump to postAlso this 2GO grounding is totally ridiculous. We will today go to Bohol, wanted to take Supercat... So we have SRN aka Weesam Express whose so called ships are glorified canoes with frequent engine failures. Guess they pray to god (or Allah as it's a totally muslim company) that they find TAG witho...
Jump to postI agree <acronym title="Zhongyuan Airlines (China)">Z2</acronym> was a bit shady. But it's 5-star operation compared to when Air Phils had 737-200s. Nothing was done to them. Cancellations, delays always, crew snacking in regular seats during takeoff and landing. <acronym title="Cebu Pacific Air (Ph...
Jump to postRepeating Bill142, yes <acronym title="Tyrolean Airways (Austria)">VO</acronym> is the operational company. It was <acronym title="Austrian Airlines">OS</acronym> to <acronym title="Tyrolean Airways (Austria)">VO</acronym> or get rid of <acronym title="Austrian Airlines">OS</acronym> by <acronym tit...
Jump to postZest is grounded because of the relationship between Yao and CAAP. As simple as that. Apart from some delays, i'd take them any day over Cebu or Tiger. Refuelling with pax onboard is the norm anywhere, just unfasten the seatbelts. Another kneejerk reaction to halt the ops of 2GO after SF2 (or St Tho...
Jump to postAfter a few fun days in Bohol (really nice) it was time to fly <acronym title="Philippine Airlines">PR</acronym> to Manila. Hilariously it was the cheapest between Cebu Pacific, <acronym title="El Palomar (PAL / SADP), Argentina">PAL</acronym> Express and the now gone Zest. <acronym title="Philippin...
Jump to postHello all, I thought it’s high time to get back into trip reports. This one will cover various asian flights and other modes of transport, and will start here in Cebu due to KLM throwing my camera in my backpack to lost and found when I had a shower in the lounge. <b>28 April 2013 Cebu Pier 2 – Tagb...
Jump to postAnd it srews our plans badly with flights to TAG/KLO and KUL booked with prepaid hotels.
Jump to postI'll answer part of it myself... It's a 2nd hand CFM machine, delivered all white to <acronym title="Air Asia (Malaysia)">AK</acronym>, repainted and now with <acronym title="Zhongyuan Airlines (China)">Z2</acronym> as <acronym title="Chautauqua Airlines/US Airways Express (USA)">RP</acronym>-C8987 ...
Jump to postWhat's the status of Zest Air? On my recent flight their own magazine had been replaced by Air Asia Travel 3Sixty and Air Asia Cafe menu. Also, there was an IAE powered A320 in full Air Asia colours near <acronym title="Transeast Airlines (Latvia)">T4</acronym>. The new immigration desks are bright ...
Jump to postIt's all so bad... OZ 777, ET 787 and French authorities report a TGV crach. Unconfirmed.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/lightsaber" class="quote" target="_blank">lightsaber</a> (<a href="#27" class="quote">Reply 27</a>):<br/><i>And since you mentioned <acronym tit...
Jump to post43 is cool because he obviously has some narrowbody time
Jump to postI think at the moment of disaster, the crew did a great job. saving a plane (UA to KIX) and everybody but 2 pax. 7742 is done but that's just metal.
Jump to postI haven't read all the stuff. The plane might originate in <acronym title="Shanghai - Pudong International (PVG / ZSPD), China">PVG</acronym>. And many Chinese prefed <acronym title="Asiana Airlines (South Korea)">OZ</acronym> for quality. It's very sad but I think the crew did their best to avoid t...
Jump to postIt's getting off topic <acronym title="Polynesian Airlines (Samoa)">PH</acronym>... Yes I understand your German view, but I will never forgive Swiss and <acronym title="Lufthansa (Germany)">LH</acronym> Group for not honoring the Myanmar fare. It was IATA full fare F, many flew, those who were tick...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/TC957" class="quote" target="_blank">TC957</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>Galileo is still showing the A380 on the <acrony...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PlaneHunter" class="quote" target="_blank">PlaneHunter</a> (<a href="#26" class="quote">Reply 26</a>):<br/><i>Will they let you board with all t...
Jump to postHi <acronym title="Polynesian Airlines (Samoa)">PH</acronym>, No variety on longhaul Y either from <acronym title="Istanbul - Ataturk (Yesilkoy) (IST / LTBA), Turkey">IST</acronym>, outstations much better variety. Yes it's in the back on <acronym title="Norwegian Air Shuttle AND Air Djibouti">DY</a...
Jump to postHi Superfly, Nice report... I have had similar experiences on nearly all my <acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore">SIN</acronym>-<acronym title="Bangkok - Suvarnabhumi International (BKK / VTBS), Thailand">BKK</acronym> and <acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singap...
Jump to postTrue <acronym title="Polynesian Airlines (Samoa)">PH</acronym> quality as usual! <acronym title="Macae (MEA / SBME), Brazil">MEA</acronym> looks very nice... <acronym title="Istanbul - Ataturk (Yesilkoy) (IST / LTBA), Turkey">IST</acronym> is a mess, I always exit via the Elite Plus line and get bac...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Devilfish" class="quote" target="_blank">Devilfish</a> (<a href="#101" class="quote">Reply 101</a>):<br/><i>Is that Itbayat Island?...ITB is the...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/The777Man" class="quote" target="_blank">The777Man</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i>I had a similar service and quantity o...
Jump to postI see Zest also retired theirs... Been out of the loop for a while for news.
Jump to postFinally some sense denying <acronym title="Jet Airways (India)">9W</acronym> and <acronym title="Oman Air">WY</acronym> slots as the situation just gets worse by the day. <acronym title="Clark Field - Diosdado Macapagal International (CRK / RPLC), Philippines">CRK</acronym> airport is off the menu f...
Jump to postYou soon need to go to Zimbabwe as Merpati and Zest crashes one after the other...
Jump to postGreat report from a great trip reporter. I have flown on that thing maybe 10 times, old F, C, Y and new C. The Y looks so different from 2004 when it was always HL7533 or 34 to <acronym title="Bangkok - Suvarnabhumi International (BKK / VTBS), Thailand">BKK</acronym>/<acronym title="Manila - Ninoy A...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/N14AZ" class="quote" target="_blank">N14AZ</a> (<a href="#23" class="quote">Reply 23</a>):<br/><i>Does anybody have experience with this 72-hour...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/UA735WL" class="quote" target="_blank">UA735WL</a> (<a href="#28" class="quote">Reply 28</a>):<br/><i><acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA<...
Jump to postWhy can't this Cat 2 just be lifted? Because they realize <acronym title="Philippine Airlines">PR</acronym> 77W will steal a lot of folks from <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> etc... 4 flights to Cebu again on their new A320s and they are one of the finest carriers out there along...
Jump to postAirphil Express is no more since 15 March. It's <acronym title="El Palomar (PAL / SADP), Argentina">PAL</acronym> Express like the Q300/400 were originally branded. Very wise move IMO. Now a flight to PPS or KLO on a <acronym title="Air Philippines">2P</acronym> A320 carries the <acronym title="Phil...
Jump to postGreat Superfly style! <acronym title="Vietnam Airlines">VN</acronym>-Axxx - it's leased fron Vietnam Airlines. Or maybe Airbus forced them to use a more reliable place for regs? <acronym title="El Palomar (PAL / SADP), Argentina">PAL</acronym> Boeings used to carry US and Airbuses F registrations......
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/huaiwei" class="quote" target="_blank">huaiwei</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i>That said, with AirAsia's rock-bottom fares,...
Jump to postGreat read from you, long time no read! I can only agree on <acronym title="Garuda Indonesia">GA</acronym> - heavy flooding in Jakarta today (17JAN13), so I scrapped my <acronym title="Transair (Australia)">JT</acronym> ticket 18JAN morning in case it gets worse. (5 separate tickets to get home so b...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Akiestar" class="quote" target="_blank">Akiestar</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>How beat up, if I may ask? These ex-DL bir...
Jump to postEK/5J/GF/EY/QR/SV/KU really all go for the same low yield labour market - there is no other market between these places. Last time I flew EK in J there were 6 paid pax but the cabin went out full and that's a daily occurrence.
Jump to postLook at way less important Euro routes where the 388 will be deployed. <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/wink.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0"/> <acronym title="London - Gatwick (LGW / EGKK), United Kingdom">LGW</acronym>, I don't know the airport co...
Jump to postNice read. Glad you had better luck, the old <acronym title="Air Philippines">2P</acronym> royally screwed me with cancelled flights, 4h delays and totally disinterested crews chewing on their snacks in passenger seats during takeoff. The ex-DL were rather new, the ex-US were really beat up. I think...
Jump to post[quote=Akiestar,reply=10] I think <acronym title="El Palomar (PAL / SADP), Argentina">PAL</acronym> is 1x A319, plenty of A320 and the positioning A330 <acronym title="Manila - Ninoy Aquino International (Col Jesus A Villamor AB) (MNL / RPLL), Philippines">MNL</acronym>-<acronym title="Cebu (Lapu-La...
Jump to postI live in the Nordics and they keep mourning the 800 that went down with the Estonia. Not a word of this tragedy at all, even though PA103 appears in the news some days... Sickening, a life is a life no matter where.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/L-188" class="quote" target="_blank">L-188</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>Thats an incredible death toll but you know that...
Jump to postGreat report Gab, as usual.
Just I is not biz award on BA. It's U rather... Still that availability makes no sense as I is the lowest C-class paid fare and where paid online upgrades book...
Nobody seems to care, but today it's 25 years since this tragedy. <a href="http://www.maritimequest.com/daily_event_archive/2005/dec/20_dona_paz.htm" target="_blank">http://www.maritimequest.com/daily_e...t_archive/2005/dec/20_dona_paz.htm</a> And nothing seems to be changed, 25 years later I went o...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/CRJ900" class="quote" target="_blank">CRJ900</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>I finished 2010 with 884 block hours under my ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/CRJ900" class="quote" target="_blank">CRJ900</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i>ATR72 is a very nice aircraft, so no wonder th...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Superfly" class="quote" target="_blank">Superfly</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i>If it's now a 777-300ER, that means that...
Jump to postNice report as usual from you A. Doesn't look too bad, in fact that looks about on par with my <acronym title="Qantas (Australia)">QF</acronym> F <acronym title="Sydney - Kingsford Smith International (Mascot) (SYD / YSSY), Australia - New South Wales">SYD</acronym>-<acronym title="Johannesburg - OR...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Superfly" class="quote" target="_blank">Superfly</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>I'd love to see Thai do <acronym title="Lo...
Jump to postExcellent report as usual Carfield. The food ex-<acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym> indeed looks delicious. I agree even Z to A transit is a monster, no lines for me but it's still a mess. I just flew D-AIMG and AIMI, the crew was really nice b...
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