Costa Rica been added although it does not say where from.

LGW only from their website. Flights are to Liberia (MRLB/LIR) (Aeropuerto Internacional Daniel Oduber).

Thanks for the photo’s Michael , I have seen some photos of one of Air Koryo’s TU134’s , but I’ve lost them somewhere !!!.

The airline’s website has IL76 and IL62 pics and a timetable. A 134 is here.

I agree, solo flights are like no other. Flying a PA28 at about 1,500 feet over Morecambe Bay with the Lake District mountains in the distance or almost clipping the chalet roofs of Blackpool Pontins!

Otherwise, sitting in the jump seat of an A320 for take off at Palma and landing at Manchester (Airworld) or flying across the Atlantic from the US on a BA 747-400 and seeing the sun setting somewhere over Greenland were both pretty memorable experiences.

And the abolishment of free catering.

Well, the catering before the abolition was a joke anyway. On a recent trip from Birmingham to Madrid, BA Cx ran out of one type of croissant (cheese and ham) before they had served the rear half of the Avro RJ (including me). The only alternative was mushroom and egg mayonnaise croissants. Nobody at all seemed interested in this option, so the mushroom and egg mayonnaise croissants went undistributed and were presumably thrown away in Madrid. Even one of the cabin crew members commented that “mushroom and egg mayonnaise seemed like a very unusual combination for a croissant”. As we didn’t get a sandwich, no complimentary KitKat was offered either (who knows why?)

Half the aircraft went unfed. Now, you would think that after so many years of flying the same route every day, BA Cx would know which sandwiches / refreshments are popular, which aren’t, and how many of each type to order from the caterers. Obviously not…

The question is though, will British Airways refer to it as “BA Barajas”? 😉

🙂 (groan)

The new terminal is HUGE, passed through Barajas in October and it was almost complete. The use of colour in the exterior paintwork is also erm…interesting.

Yes, it´s going to be an underground station, the idea is to extend the underground from the old terminal station. The regional goverment intention is to finish it in 14 months or so, just in time for the elections :diablo:

Funny, from memory the extension to line 8 opened just before the 2000 general elections.

I was confused the first time I flew with Lufthansa. They have no row 17 as that number is considered unlucky in Brazil and Italy!

Paul

13 is not considered to be unlucky in all countries and superstitions concerning the number vary by country. Not sure about airlines, however, I do know that many UK airports (e.g. Manchester) don’t have a gate 13.

Not if O’Leary has his way:

http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=16376885&method=full&siteid=50002&headline=ryanair-boss-call-to-axe-airport-expansion–name_page.html