RE: Air France-The dirty mom!

I agree that the AF scheme is very boring, and their planes are dirty about 98% of the time, but the one type in their fleet that just looks beautiful, is the 777. I remember I saw one at IAD 4 years ago like a month after they had taken delivery of it, and I just loved it. Maybe because I was used to always seeing their 747’s at LAX. Shortly thereafter, they started seding the 777 to LAX as well, on the first of their 2 daily flights. I don’t know what it is about the 777, that makes it look so good in that boring scheme. Not all Euro-white schemes are boring, however. I quite enjoy Lufthansa’s and JAL’s. Must be the titling and the grey engine cowlings.

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RE: Virgin in talks to sell Heathrow slots to BA

Why would Branson do this? He is always quick to jump on BA’s every move, and now he is selling them even more slots to further increase their huge Heathrow presence? Why not use those slots for other routes other than Athens? And why cancel the Athens route? There’s no way that route was not profitable, especially now during peak summer time when all the Brits are flocking to the hot spots. He should get the ex Sabena slots, and keep the other ones as well. If anything, sell them to somebody that needs them more, and not to BA. As far as the BMI guy goes, this guy needs to work with Branson, not go against him. These 2 guys need to team up against BA. That’s just my opinion.

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RE: Farnborough

Thanks T5. How easy will it be to get a hotel room there, once I arrive. Will they be all sold out?

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RE: Help on Virgin fleet

What about the ex-NZ 747-219’s with the RR engines that Virgin had recently, are those gone too?

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RE: Farnborough

When are the dates for Farnborough, and where is it’s relative location to London?

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RE: Air France-The dirty mom!

Kabir, you are absolutely correct, and I notice the same thing about AirFrance. JAL has a white scheme, and you never see their aircraft dirty. Lufthansa’s planes are clean about 95% of the time, and I’ve flown through Frankfurt witnessing this, as well.

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RE: Funniest event on board

Yeah, the earthquakes are definitely a factor. No biggie, I’m used to them, plus, wood and stucko houses just shake a little bit, they don’t crack and crumble to pieces that that wonderful ‘modern’ architecture displayed in Greece. It’s funny that you mentioned, ‘this has nothing to do with aviation,’ because, it’s amazing how one topic can go off on a tangent to several others. I guess that’s what a forum is all about. As far as the Swedish go, they’re playing well right now. And the Swede coach aint doing too bad either. We’ll see how his boys do against Denmark.

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RE: Funniest event on board

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 14-06-02 AT 12:44 PM (GMT)]Kev, I do not happen to find anything humorous about Andrew’s situation. Why? Because come summertime when it gets warm, females begin wearing short little skirts or dresses(in the U.S. they do, at least) and many of them fail to cross their legs in public settings. Not that it is hot in a airline cabin setting, by any stretch of the imagination, but I’m guessing that’s not the first time that has happened either. The bottome line is, it is not a rare occurrence(again, at least not in the U.S.). I was merely pointing out that Andrew thought it was funny, which is obviously why he posted it. And why did he do that, because the topic read “funniest event on board.” That happened to be the one he thought was humorous, therefore, he posted it. What I find amusing is that you, and a few others, obviously took offense to this, and consequently referred to him as a 12 year old. Perhaps you should have heeded the warning that he gave at the very beginning of his post, and not continued to scroll down. As far as indescretion goes, who’s the innocent person here? The token flight attendant, or Andrew who is 15 and practically crucified at this point? Perhaps, we should put an age limit on this thing and you don’t have to worry about other ‘immature’ posts in the future.

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