I flew 9W to a very short trip to new delhi (2 days only) from JFK and i must say that at this time the comparison with SQ and what not is totally unwaranted . The airline is very good but missing some very important things . The service was good but not @ that level , 2 out of the 4 meal sectors , my choice of food wasnt there ( i had to settle for indian veg. food ) , drinks werent topped up , the FA’s were very freindly though although not imformative enough and one could easily see that they needed a lot of EXPEREINCE under their belt…For example it took 3 FA”s too finally tell the man in row 60 (second to last row on the t7) that the armrests wouldnt go up in this row . 2 FA’s kept trying…All in all it was a good expereince but if i have the choice of flying them or SQ i would choose the latter .

As far as Kingfisher is concerned , i really cant say but i am waiting for them to start flying non-stop to the US west coast whenever they go international. I bet their 380 product would be nice.

Yes but you have to remember there long haul product is very new and should be allowed time to come at par with airlines such as SQ etc.

As i have mentioned before somewhere the owner of 9W is an ex-SQ man so he only looks upto SQ for all the improvements 9W needs.

so..Led Zeppelin eh?

1) Make use of my super expensive gym membership at the Hyatt
2) Actually plan a tour with my band
3) Spend some more money on guitar gear
4) earn some more money before

An absolute tragedy.

But expected nonetheless, it was either Sharif to go first or Bhutto.

a sad day for democracy.

Merry xmas and a happy new year to everyone here and at AW. 🙂

whats a bath?

Interesting, but not suprising to see that these two LCC’s are merging together:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7153407.stm

Kingfisher Airlines is not LCC.

And it was a no brainer for Deccan. It was either continue with the huge losses and fold up operations a few month later of just let Kingfisher take over and get into a cozy cushion seat.

Deccan started very well and brightly but lost its way due to lack of… not actually lack of but sudden disappearence of management abilities. Even Warwick Brady tried to help but the outcome was not very satisfactory.

Kingfisher premierly bought Deccan to use its 5 year term next year to start flying internationally. If they wouldnt have done this and waited the original time required by Kingfisher to fly abroad, Jet Airways would have capiltalised the situation very aggresivly and 4 years down the line Kingfisher would have found a very difficult situation to tackle with an updated and grown Air India, an aggressive Jet Airways amongst the other major players such as BA, LH, EK etc.