Genesis is/was horrible!

saw it on BBC today morning.

RIP.

I have been on Garuda once…. forgettable flight to say the least.

great shot.

hmm interesting…. my trips on BA into LHR even in business have been average although now i usually take 9W to LHR on Y (thanks oil prices).

When going to Melbourne….for the past 6 years i have only taken SQ. Both business and cattle and i just cant think of taking anything else. Even last time i thought i would try the new 9W/Qantas link but didn’t do it. SQ has additional dawn flights into Delhi now… departing DEL at 8 am i think which is a good time.

may i ask where you work bring_it_on?

I think IT better look @ its buisness model if it wishes to go international and be succesfull , I think that starting out with Non-stop sectors is not going to be profitable specially with oil so high and buisness traffic dropping as a result (Either to cheaper airlines or no travel at all) . 9W has a good hub going at brussels , a very sound buisness move , they can basically grow from there and 90% of their flights to NA will be through there . They can make shanghai their smaller hub and direct flights to LAX , SFO , seatle etc from that . Good buisness sence . Non-stop flights from the subcontinent to most US cities wont be profitable until oil prices drop , biusnesses are back on its feet (Economic upturn) and we have New 787,350 jets well established in the market .

Well, true mostly. Till now most of AA’s direct Chicago services are seeing pretty good load factors. Infact every airline coming into India is seeing good load factors. The Indian traveller still does not have the luxury of choosing from a few number of flights for destinations to the US and Europe as well.

From what i see every international airline is seeing good passenger numbers from India, which is not surprising since still there are not enough flights servicing the worlds largest middle class.

and nice pictures from “the good old days”… sadly my existance wasent destined at that time. :p

Kingfisher should be starting non stop flights to india , and jet allready flies through Brussels . Why the heck would any one want to fly Air india now days 😉 ….. I’ve flown to india 3 times this year , twice on LH and once on 9W and the service has been great .. Flew AI once from LHR to delhi long ago , vowed never to fly them again ……

Kingfisher will fly international only by august i believe. They first had ideas of operating their A330s on lucrative routes such as DEL-BOM but the domestic tarmac at Delhi only caters to medium aircrafts such as 737s and 320s.

Anyway IT’s crew is phenomenal, its like a beauty pagent in mid air. 😀