Thanks for that report Carl, it confirms my earlier decision not to fly Olympic at any price.;)

kermitz28, I think you got it right, and apart from the beautiful flight attendants, it doesn’t cost a lot either. Look at Manila – Puerto Princesa, (I just checked the figures) , scheduled 1hr 15min flight, Mabuhay(Business) Class in A333, – cost £47.:cool:
(Actually it’s the only Biz Class flight I can afford!)

Thanks for that, Kabir. Very relevant for me, as my first flight at age 9 was KLM from London to Amsterdam by DC3 (second was DC6 Ams to Kano)
Recent flights include Ams-Mnl by KLM 747.:cool:

Well, it was G-JEDL that I was trying to post a pic of, but that will do!

There’s only one top whiskey – and it aint Scottish!:D

Just a quick comment regarding Air Malta. I flew back to LHR with them (A320) on Saturday and it was a good experience, plenty of legroom (I’d guess 31″/32″), a clean and tidy aircraft, very informative Captain, and an excellent Cottage Pie in-flight meal!

Thank you wys.
That is exactly the kind of information that I come to this Forum for.
The various pretty c/s of different airlines are not quite in the same league as real information, and I am one of those with the outlook that “knowledge is strength”, although after some of the revelations in the TV programme the other night I might chicken out – falling, strapped in the seat for minutes until you hit the sea ………….
However, in the hope that I won’t experience that, I like to understand how the professionals are receiving the information that will prevent them falling into the sequence of events that become a disaster.
My own experience is nautical, but there are many instances of occurences leading to an event which was preventable, and there is little doubt in my mind that this is how most “accidents” happen.
So we will wait for the accident report on the Algerian crash, but in the meantime I would like to follow up on “Comet’s” comments on the age of some aircraft being operated.
My, very delayed, flight report PPS-MNL-FRA-LHR will, if ever written(!), comment on the 732 that I saw at PPS. Having spent some time at my son’s house in Puerto Princesa and being reminded daily how old some of the Air Philippines 737’s are (the noise gives it away!), I noted the details of the Air Philippines 737 that was on the stand when we boarded our Philippines Airlines flight to Manila. The AP aircraft was “RP-C2021”, which I found was 732 Line Number 6. It is in fact the oldest 732 around.
Now, I genuinely find that very interesting, but I don’t want to fly in it! That aircraft has been marvellous, but I think it should be in a museum. I feel that there is a limit to the number of checks that can be carried out, and there must be items that don’t appear to warrant an inspection, but might fail after 35 years. So I won’t be saving a few Peso’s to fly with that airline. (Mind you, if the ground engineer who checks out my one year old aircraft has been in the videoke bar until 4am, I might be unlucky with my choice!).
So I guess I’ll keep my fingers crossed, and stay away from very old aircraft!