Isn’t “I would like one and it’s my money” a good enough justification?

Moggy

Exactly. I don’t tell anybody else how they should spend their money, nor do I want them to justify why they have made that purchase so why should I justify my purchases?

Methinks there is a smidgeon of envy being displayed by some people elsewhere in this thread.

Post Office …? Or transporting the Manchester United youth team about????

and FW190…

At the moment until she gets her permit. Sadly for me, she might then head further north.:( I would have preferred RAF Odiham myself!
Air test No.2 will be in November, once the AEO is back from his hols.

I would have preferred Odiham as well given that the extended centre line goes right over Basingstoke….

WARNING…….this film is German and has sub-titles,so if you’re not prepared to really concentrate on this film,switch off now.

This has been sitting in my “to watch” pile for a couple of weeks but,due to pressure of work etc,I only got round to watch it tonight.
Oh boy,what a film! Made for only 2 million Dollars,which is peanuts by todays standard Hollywood fare,it shows the despair that dictatorship and the totalitarian state bring with it.
It stars Ulrich Muhe,who died of stomach cancer 3 months ago,and was regarded as the German “Tom Hanks” and Martina Gedeck,the German “Meryl Streep”.
When our anti-hero bought the book in the final scene,I had tears on my cheeks.

“HGW XX/7
gewidmet
in Dankbarkeit.”

I thought it was agreat film too and with the relatively slow pace it made a welcome difference to see the characters develop through the film. Mrs ZHR is from Russia originally and wonders what files there are on her back home..

Well, the MOD think it’s going to fly tomorrow (Thursday)…

http://www.blogs.mod.uk/

….but then they also thought it was going to be today (Wednesday)…

And they’ll probably advertise a bit in nuts (or some similar pish) that the top 30% wouldn’t buy 🙂 (they just buy different pish :D)

They will cover all spectrums of the public in their ad campaigns – it would be a pretty poor effort if they didn’t.

But the emphasis for both airlines who, lets face it, have totally differenet business models is to maximise the sector of society who is not looking for the cheapest fare i.e the business traveller flying on a company travel budget.

I don’t have individual airline data anymore (and the summary document is at home) but it was interesting comparing a breakdown of revenues by class of service by airline by major route. At that time (five years ago) business class was pretty well subsidising economy class on most airlines. The picture on a route by route basis varied in line with the level of competition but over all the major airlines needed business class passengers to keep them above the financial water level. But then I was the person who calculated airline loss figure of $5billion…

It’s just not about advertising everywhere and hoping for the best.

I agree with KilCoo.

I dont think BA or FR really care where their passengers are from and anybody who reads anything into this is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

On the contrary, both airlines are very interested in the social type of passengers as it helps them to direct advertising spending more precisely.

We used to do passenger research for BA and we classified people into social grades largely on the basis of their education level (none /high school / university / post graduate). It was a bit broad brush but it was a easy (and not very intrusive) question to ask and most people put something in.

We also asked questions about the purpose of the visit as well as the aircraft class seated in.

I have no problems about trying to compare FR and BA but a total sample of 1000 for both carriers is not sufficient to draw any real comparisons.