I hate to repeat a comment I made in an earlier thread but there is certainly more aviation crashes than usual. It is getting to a worrying level now. I think for the first time in my life, I would be worried about getting on a plane any time soon.

Don’t think you should cancel that flight just yet. (And just how many crashes are usual for you )???

Matt 😉

2008 was one of the best years on record for air safety, according to the latest data from Ascend, the world’s leading provider of information and consultancy to the global aerospace industry. Ascend’s annual safety bulletin, published today, shows a 25 per cent decline between 2007 and 2008 in the number of fatalities resulting from aircraft accidents.

With 539 reported passenger and crew fatalities, 2008 represents a notable improvement on the 730 fatalities recorded in 2007 and makes last year the safest on record, bar one. Only 2004 recorded fewer fatalities at 434. However, 2008 also saw 28 fatal air accidents in total, an increase of 17 per cent on 2007’s 24.

The fatal accident rate for 2008 of 1 per 1.3 million flights is better than the overall rate for the nine years since 2000 of 1 per 1.2 million flights. The year also compares very favourably with those of the 1990s, which recorded an average of 37.4 fatal accidents per year. Furthermore, in the 1990s, an average of 1,128 people died each year – more than twice the number in 2008.

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£8 is about the going rate for a credit card fee these days, and the reason the charge is so high is because the airlines do not recieve the money for the flight you purchased until you have paid off your credit card bill…and if you are paying the minimum amount off each month, airlines have to wait before receiving all the funds, so I think they have higher surcharges for using a credit card because they want to try and discourage people from using them.

Are you REALLY sure about that. The credit cards payments we accept at my company are FULLY paid for by the credit card company. We don’t receive part payment until the payee pays off the bill.

Also we pay a percentage of each transaction per credit and debit card. Ours is approx. 3% Credit card. 1.4% Debit card. I should think that the amount of business MOL puts his banks way he would have negotiated that the card charges would be very small to him.

Matt

I think that the papers definition of ‘celebrity’ is pushing it a bit if you want to compare Le Tissier to JFK. Perhaps name an aircraft after him, but not a sodding great building.

“If the petition is successful, Le Tissier would join an exclusive list of celebrities to have airports named after them.

They include John Lennon (Liverpool), George Best (Belfast City), Charles De Gaulle (Paris), John F Kennedy (New York) and even medieval folklore hero Robin Hood (Doncaster).”

Matt 😮

PS Aren’t they dead anyway

PPS Isn’t there anyone better fitting IF they were going to re-name the airport

Hello and welcome to the forum.

Perhaps it might be helpful if you introduced yourself, and told us little bit about you and your course. People may be a bit more helpful and understanding.

Matt:)

Looks like there will only be 30 of these delivered in 2009. Does anyone know who would be likely to receive them?

Would Boeing go for 1 each per customer and then back to the top of the list for the left overs?

Cheers
Matt

Looks like it wasn’t only apples being grown in the “Garden of England”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7267333.stm 🙂

Matt

Now what the airlines should do is include the news reel clips in the Safety Briefing. It might just help hammer home the fact that if you’re sitting; belt up.

Lifted from Pprune :rolleyes: (Thread : Amusing and curious incidents as a passenger)

BA flight AMS to LHR, a stormy winter evening in 2006.

Everyone on board, captain comes on the PA. PAX are no doubt expecting the usual announcement in plummy home counties tones that the flight will take x minutes, safety is our priority blah blah.

Instead he asks that those of us with a Daily Mail should turn to page 5 and read the report about the Virgin aircrew and pax recently injured when a plane encountered severe turbulence over the Atlantic. “This is why”, he says in a rather irritated tone, “we ask you to keep your seatbelts fastened at all times when seated”.

Unorthodox, but the cabin crew’s safety demo received a lot more attention than usual

Matt

Signed for you. Noticed that this is an American petition site. Ever thought about getting one set up from Number 10. Then you can put pressure on the health department aswell.

Matt