I was going to respond to Kabir’s 2nd to last post, but you took care of it Saab, thanks. Kabir, I respect everything you have to say, you know your stuff. But seriously, if everybody did things the same way, the world would be a boring place. “Variety is the spice of life,” one of my graduate professors used to tell me. As long as you’re not doing things illegally, which I’m sure Branson is not, tactics out of the norm are refreshing.

London Churchill, THAT IS NICE!!! I very much approve. I like Trafalgar, as well. Named after the square, or is the square named after a person that I’m not familiar with?

I should have known that was JFK, shame on me! The runway to the left there is the one I’ve always taken off on, I fly in there enough!

To say that Virgin is not a class airline is flat out ludicrous. I’ve never flown them, but their reputation from those who have flown them speaks for itself. I’ve flown Singapore and I don’t think they’d invest in 49% stake in some schmuck airline. Saab, I agree with your take on Virgin 100%. Ditto on Kev’s take on Concorde, you pretty much took the words out of my mouth. Mongu, I typically agree with everything you say, with few exceptions. You didn’t disappoint here either. I’ll throw my own 2 cents in here, no pun intended. So Branson offered one lousy pound, big deal? Is it a gimmick? No. Is he getting publicity from it? Probably. Does he think anyone, let alone BA, will take him seriously? Probably not. That’s just Branson. This from a man who drove a tank across the Harbour Bridge in Sydney to celebrate the start-up of Virgin Blue. He may come across as cocky at times, but so what? In today’s society it’s good for a high profile figure, and CEO of an energetic, innovative company to have some personality. Does that mean that his company and his person have any less class than British Airways? God, I hope not! As far as “insulting” and showing “more respect to the grand flying lady;” please gentlemen, are we talking about a form of transportation or Queen Elizabeth, here?

What 2 airports are those?

I pound, that’s it?

T5, I had a delay at Montego Bay airport, as well a few years back. Not nearly as long as yours, but a delay nonetheless. I don’t remember what the reasoning was, but we were sitting in the airplane for a good 2 hours before we took off. Inside the terminal, it wasn’t very “user friendly,” to say the least. The facilities were definitely lacking, so it’s a good thing you took your scrabble. I just recall there being no organization to the ques. Just a bunch of people squeezing in to the checkout desks. That’s how it was for Air Jamaica, at least. That being the hometown carrier, was pretty brutal on their part, to say the least. Probably the silliest reason I ever had for a delay, was when I flew Air Cananda from Montreal to Denver, we were delayed about 45 minutes because, “the wrong meals were loaded.” I started laughing. They had to unload the wrong meals and load the correct ones. I thought I had heard it all.