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  • February 21, 2009 at 7:43 pm in reply to: Ryanair To Close Check In Desks #572494
    LERX
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    What happens if the online check-in system crashes? What’s the contingency plan?
    Don’t you still need somewhere to drop your hold baggage (if applicable)?

    February 16, 2009 at 8:09 pm in reply to: Airbus quietly works on A320 successor #574120
    LERX
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    The World awaits with bated breath!!!

    …and depressingly empty pockets! 😉

    January 31, 2009 at 1:52 pm in reply to: What airlines have you been on? #578940
    LERX
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    IIRC,

    British Airways
    Air France
    Lufthansa
    Swissair
    Singapore Airlines (SIA)
    Cathay Pacific
    Thai
    Philippine Airlines
    Sri Lankan Airways
    Royal Brunei
    China Airlines
    Malaysian Airlines (MAS)
    Qantas
    Pan Am
    Virgin Atlantic
    Jet Airways

    Not as many as some!

    January 7, 2009 at 7:38 pm in reply to: Too much curry?? #587352
    LERX
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    It’s the ghee that does it. 😀

    December 23, 2008 at 10:52 pm in reply to: Tommy's Questions 1 #490315
    LERX
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    The weak pound is good for tourism in(to) Britain – or at least that’s what the Govt would like us to think.

    December 20, 2008 at 3:48 pm in reply to: Winglets, on an Airbus #491450
    LERX
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    Cool.

    I can’t wait to see some blended winglets on an A321! 🙂

    December 8, 2008 at 11:46 pm in reply to: first T-50 export customer? #2471329
    LERX
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    It looks like Poland would be making a leap of sorts to have such modern designs.

    F-16 – first flight 1974

    Poland’s F-16s may be block 50/52/60s, whatever, but the basic F-16 design is not really “modern” anymore, is it?

    😉

    October 29, 2008 at 8:45 pm in reply to: Ukrainian fighter replacement #2499122
    LERX
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    I don’t think Ukraine is going to buy Russian.

    NATO membership is obviously not a pre-requisite for buying arms made in a EU/NATO country.

    Probable contenders:

    Gripen NG (Sweden is outside of NATO)
    Rafale (“no” American content?)

    If NATO membership is really not on the cards, then perhaps Chengdu J-10 (not sure what Sino-Ukrainian relations are like, but J-10s presumably offer reasonable value for money)

    October 27, 2008 at 10:21 pm in reply to: Large aircraft carriers compared #2064139
    LERX
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    This is very impressive work, dude. Like others, I will certainly look at this in greater detail later, perhaps this weekend.

    I don’t know if you’ll pardon me for saying this or not, but, dude, you need to get out more 🙂

    Blimey.

    October 26, 2008 at 2:04 pm in reply to: Hutton serious about JSF pull-out? #2452243
    LERX
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    Forgot to add that F-35B for CVFs could be replaced by Rafale or F/A-18E/F/G

    October 26, 2008 at 2:03 pm in reply to: Hutton serious about JSF pull-out? #2452245
    LERX
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    I’m no fan of JSF.

    Scrap UK buy of JSF & buy more Typhoons or perhaps Gripen-NG for the “low” end of a high-low mix.

    I would not make any cuts to current/future RAF airlift capability – that would be a serious mistake.

    UK can spend more on defence – it spends c. £125 billion pounds a year on QUANGOs 😡

    Kill some QUANGOs, buy more military hardware 😀

    October 26, 2008 at 1:55 pm in reply to: Ever get nervous flying? #502783
    LERX
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    Ever NOT get nervous flying?

    Like everyone else here, I (obviously) like aviation a lot – but I don’t enjoy flying. I do get a tad nervous during sustained turbulence.

    I also fear the obese passenger – the ones that spill into your seat.

    October 24, 2008 at 9:08 pm in reply to: Rebuilding the Royal Navy #2064667
    LERX
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    What about RFA?
    If RN surface fleet expands, it would surely need more tanker/re-supply ships to support them.

    What about some AGIs to pootle about in the Mediterranean & Black Seas & listen in on “the bad guys”? :diablo:

    October 16, 2008 at 12:59 am in reply to: BA flight makes emergency landing #504108
    LERX
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    The original post refers to 2 BA flights which diverted.

    Only in the 2nd diverted BA flight was there any mention of a burning smell.

    Of course I agree that if there is a burning smell, urgent diversion is required.

    But with NO burning smell, is a faulty IFE screen a reason to initiate emergency diversion?

    October 14, 2008 at 11:42 pm in reply to: BA flight makes emergency landing #504306
    LERX
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    I don’t understand why a fault with an individual IFE system warrants an urgent diversion.

    I was recently on a flight (NOT BA) where my IFE unit was clearly malfunctioning. The cabin crew tried re-booting it multiple times without success. No diversion or any other effect on the flight.

    Je ne comprends pas.

    I must be missing something….:confused:

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