To give AI credit, I think it has actually improved quite a lot in the last 2-3 years. They started with a really Low base marks, and while they are still not as good as major carriers like SQ and QR, I have to commend them as 'most improved airline' in my books. Ground staff while check-in now smi...
Jump to postIt is interesting to see how so many people on Airliners.net view demand to/from India/Pakistan/Middle East as a bottomless pit of gold when in reality demand to and from those regions to and from United States is finite. Not sure that's really accurate - most discussions here also acknowledge that...
Jump to postI also agree about DEL. In the summer they look like barren deserts while landing from the opposite side. No scenery even at night; but opposite take-off's are nice particularly 9 - into Delhi, straight ahead before the right turn - on a clear day you can see Rajpath and Rashtrapati Bhawan. Also I ...
Jump to postGreat Report. Agree with previous comments that said steward must have been angry due to photography during safety briefing. Other than PNQ where they get antsy (obviously) even if people take selfies on the tarmac, faced few issues of late. VT-SCF was actually the first of the 'new' owned CFM Airbu...
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Part 2 viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1342937
Part 3 viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1344259
Quite an informative read; DPRK seems like a fascinating country. Still a tinpot dictatorship in my opinion, but the people seem nice.
Jump to postMan - not just domestic J/F in India but just in general. Crazy how that market has changed. Haven't been to India in a few years but I remember back in the day even in domestic Y on BOM-NAG, 9W would serve a very high quality full meal in Y. Those were the days! Next time see if you can snag an AA...
Jump to postGreat report Cricket, I have never been happy with BA's offering in J, believing as I do they try to put too many seats in the plane! I also hate (with a passion) the idea that you pay upwards of £2,500 for a seat then you are asked for MORE money to choose your seat when booking!! I do think the l...
Jump to postI must say that the entrees in F/C on AA have really improved. Try the shrimp with cheese grits. It's to die for. Improved? Really? Yes, the latest concoctions are better than what LCC management switched to in late 2014, however IMO (and most AA FFs), current AA meals are still inferior to what pr...
Jump to postAfter a great couple of days being hosted by The Ford Motor Company at Dearborn where we heard the top leadership of the company talk about their transition to a ‘Mobility Company’ although Chairman Bill Ford ruled out a change in the name of the company. I also got to experience riding in an autono...
Jump to post"BA IFE is just about passable. Their hardware needs a desperate reboot. Nowhere close to the HD quality IFE on some of the other carriers." Very odd; I'm typing out my report of BA294 ORD-LHR of September 14 operated by G-BYGE which had the super-fast and high-resolution Panasonic ex2000 ...
Jump to postjeffrey1970 wrote:Is the Ford museum as awesome as they say it is?
Nice report, interesting how they have A321 painted on the ground but the aircraft is no where near it. Indeed it is, I hadn't even noticed I caught that - given the A321 is a long plane I wasn't surprised the pilots were worried if they went into the ramp since the gates were clearly only for narr...
Jump to postjeffrey1970 wrote:Did you get to go into the city of Detroit? If so, what did you do for fun?
Doing the D's - that was this trip in a nutshell (and from Delhi to boot) I had a great couple of days in Dallas, meeting various family members I hadn’t seen in years. And well, I did the touristy thing by going to the rather nice ‘Sixth Floor Museum’ where the events leading up to and following th...
Jump to postExcellent report - great detail! Seems like you had a pleasant trip with British Airways. Did you consider a Skyteam Itinerary at all? Actually, given that DTW was my 'main' destination in the US - Skyteam via AMS/CDG would have been ideal - as much as AF/KL Y-class sucks, their J-class product is ...
Jump to postI’ll be writing this report flight by flight and try and do it as close to the event as possible. Otherwise they tend to get stalled like most of my other flight reports. This year has been a big one for international travel for me, and it has been on a different airline every time. I’ve flown to 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/ams747757" class="quote" target="_blank">ams747757</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>Nice catch of the <acronym title="Luftha...
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Jump to postThis was another eventful and short trip to Europe and my third time flying Lufthansa business to Europe in the past twelve months. As some of you know I am automotive writer and thus am invited to drive various cars through the year. An advantage of that is always flying different airlines dependin...
Jump to postI flew <acronym title="Delhi - Indira Gandhi International (Palam) (DEL / VIDP), India">DEL</acronym>-<acronym title="Istanbul - Ataturk (Yesilkoy) (IST / LTBA), Turkey">IST</acronym>-<acronym title="Stuttgart (- Echterdingen) (STR / EDDS), Germany">STR</acronym> last year and I was flown away by <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/Karan69" class="quote" target="_blank">Karan69</a> (<a href="#16" class="quote">Reply 16</a>):<br/><i>Which car was that for or was it a persona...
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/ba319-131" class="quote" target="_blank">ba319-131</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i>Was the car any good? - not keen on th...
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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/SQueeze" class="quote" target="_blank">SQueeze</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>I agree that the monsoon clouds could be wor...
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/allrite" class="quote" target="_blank">allrite</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i>Glancing at your photos of the terminal in D...
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Jump to postHi, apologies for the double post, I have suggested to the mods that the other post be deleted. My bad!
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Hi it has been a while since my last trip report, although there has been far too much flying in between including an Epic <acronym title="Delhi - Indira Gandhi International (Palam) (DEL / VIDP), India">DEL</acronym>-<acronym title="CURRENT: Munich (- Franz Josef Strauss) (MUC / EDDM), Germany AND ...
Jump to postThank you so much for this golden oldie; don't apologise for the pictures, I'm grateful they have survived and been scanned for us to enjoy.
I'm sure there are a.net film/slide experts who could help restore the images.
Great report, I was thinking of flying <acronym title="OLD: Crossair (Switzerland), NEW: Swiss International Airlines (Switzerland)">LX</acronym> out of <acronym title="Delhi - Indira Gandhi International (Palam) (DEL / VIDP), India">DEL</acronym> sometime, they use the newer A333 on this sector. I ...
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/vio" class="quote" target="_blank">vio</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i>On that note, I had a chuckle at your "version" of...
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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/teme82" class="quote" target="_blank">teme82</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>Looks like you had fun with those cars on that...
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Jump to postSorry forgot that a.net doesn't allow https:// links - video links again Slo-Mo videos of the Audi Ice Drive experience - it was mad amounts of fun <a href="http://youtu.be/uxJYZDbPaog" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/uxJYZDbPaog</a> <a href="http://youtu.be/bUvTmqZ9274" target="_blank">http://youtu...
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/mad99" class="quote" target="_blank">mad99</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i> Nice report! I'm thinking of getting a A5 but i...
Jump to postMarch 2015 06/03 <acronym title="Finnair (Finland)">AY</acronym> 22 <acronym title="Delhi - Indira Gandhi International (Palam) (DEL / VIDP), India">DEL</acronym>-<acronym title="Helsinki - Vantaa (HEL / EFHK), Finland">HEL</acronym> 06/03 <acronym title="Finnair (Finland)">AY</acronym> 559 <acronym...
Jump to postNice report really liked it. Surprised that Skymark uses a 2-3-2 layout for domestic Japanese flights which I always thought packed passengers in tight!
Jump to postI'm surprised you said that <acronym title="Jet Airways (India)">9W</acronym> gives IFE on domestic; I'm a regular <acronym title="Delhi - Indira Gandhi International (Palam) (DEL / VIDP), India">DEL</acronym>-<acronym title="Mumbai (Bombay) - Chhatrapati Shivaji International (Sahar / Santa Cruz) (...
Jump to postMy parents took that flight when they travelled to Kenya a few months ago; both flights were badly delayed and the ground handling staff told them that this is a regular occurance. On top of that, my step-dad (not a very large man) cribbed endlessly about the long 737 flight. <table border="0" align...
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/freqflyer" class="quote" target="_blank">freqflyer</a> (<a href="#27" class="quote">Reply 27</a>):<br/><i>Modi will not favour Tata with anythin...
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Jump to postYup, makes sense. Indigo has already received 99 out the 100 it ordered from Airbus and 16 planes all of them <acronym title="Air Tahiti (French Polynesia)">VT</acronym>-IN* registrations have found other homes. The remaining <acronym title="Air Tahiti (French Polynesia)">VT</acronym>-IN* will likel...
Jump to postInteresting, I flew back on LH760 a few weeks ago; loads were around 95% in Y on a 748; some middle seats empty here and there, but not too many. When I was buying the <acronym title="Lufthansa (Germany)">LH</acronym> Herpa Wings A380 model the crew said "You'll be flying her from Delhi soon"; the G...
Jump to postHonestly, going by your description a far damn sight better than the s**t I got on <acronym title="Jet Airways (India)">9W</acronym> in May <acronym title="Delhi - Indira Gandhi International (Palam) (DEL / VIDP), India">DEL</acronym>-<acronym title="Dubai - International (DXB / OMDB), United Arab E...
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/AviationAware" class="quote" target="_blank">AviationAware</a> (<a href="#15" class="quote">Reply 15</a>):<br/><i>Quoting ojas (Reply 7): And mo...
Jump to postGiven that <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym> is the largest operator of A380's and B777's in the world and between <acronym title="Qatar Airways">QR</acronym> and <acronym title="Etihad Airways (United Arab Emirates)">EY</acronym> there will be over 500 American/European ...
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