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  • June 5, 2006 at 11:57 pm in reply to: What is your #597023
    greekdude1
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    Yeah, I think it’s around 5 hours, I went in 2001 so can’t recall really. I’ll have to ask my cousin again.

    EDIT: Aparently it’s 7/8 hours, so I must be getting it confused with Dubai again.

    The Star alliance timetable lists it as 8 hrs 55 min eastbound and 9 hrs 35 min westbound. I just looked it up right now. To be honest, I had no idea even the roundabout block time for that flight, I just thought that 5 hours was a bit low considering LHR-ATH is about 3 hours in its own right. I apologise in advance if I have come across the wrong away.

    June 5, 2006 at 11:43 pm in reply to: Helsinki-Vantaa (HEL) #597027
    greekdude1
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    Thanks for the input.

    June 5, 2006 at 8:31 am in reply to: What is your #597927
    greekdude1
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    Longest flight: London Heathrow – Mumbai, approx 5 hours.

    That flight is only 5 hours? 😮

    June 5, 2006 at 8:19 am in reply to: Loads and loads of AMS photos (04/06/06). #489257
    greekdude1
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    30th August.

    I’ll be there the week before. Oh well.

    June 5, 2006 at 4:27 am in reply to: Loads and loads of AMS photos (04/06/06). #489274
    greekdude1
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    Congrats on the sponsorship. Great photos as always. When are you guys planning on meeting up at AMS?

    June 5, 2006 at 4:14 am in reply to: If a flight #597932
    greekdude1
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    Moondance has been absent far too long.

    June 4, 2006 at 8:18 pm in reply to: air service to Greece…? #598067
    greekdude1
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    I rather enjoyed this thread and was actually a topic that I’ve thought about for sometime. Obviously not from the business aspect of starting an airline, but moreso from the “are the greek isles underserved to/from Europe by scheduled carriers as opposed to charter carriers” aspect. There’s my 2 cents and will no respect the wishes of the originator.

    June 3, 2006 at 1:00 am in reply to: White DC-10 at LHR #598533
    greekdude1
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    New second hand DC-10’s

    To quote Jack Nicholson in my favorite movie of all time A Few Good Men, “Is there any other kind?” 🙂

    June 3, 2006 at 12:58 am in reply to: 757 question #598669
    greekdude1
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    No prob

    June 3, 2006 at 12:53 am in reply to: air service to Greece…? #598678
    greekdude1
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    This thread just made me think of a headline I read back in late 90’s. Stelios Hadji-Iouannou came out and said that EZ jet was going to have a sizeable presence @ ATH Eleftherio Venizelou once it opened in ’01, even going so far as saying that they would have a mini-hub there. I don’t think that’s happened yet. Do they have any other gateways to ATH other than LTN?

    Call me crazy, but I think that the more popular greek isles like CFU, RHO, HER, etc. could use scheduled service rather than mostly charter flights to some of the more popular European gateways to the Greek Isles, like Germany, Scandanavia, and the UK.

    June 3, 2006 at 12:45 am in reply to: 757 question #598683
    greekdude1
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    Yeah, that guy has as much control of the plane as the guy sitting in 1A, Sam. He’s just riding jumpseat and enjoying the view.

    June 3, 2006 at 12:40 am in reply to: What is your #598685
    greekdude1
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    Longest flight : LAX-SYD UA/NZ 14 hours 7487 miles
    Shortest flight : ONT-LAX UX 12 minutes 47 miles
    Longest delay : surprising considering how much I fly, about 3 hours on America West out of LAS
    Biggest a/c flown on : 744’s of UA/NZ/QF/SQ/LH
    Smallest a/c flown on : either the Beech 1900D or the J31 (both are 19 seaters) and we’ll keep it commercial
    Largest airport visited : ORD, LAX, SIN, LHR, FRA
    Smallest airport visited : CHQ Chania, Greece
    Your favourite airline company flown with : Singapore, Austrian, and Air NZ
    Worst company flown with : Southwest
    Best plane flown on : SQ744 on a spacebed and TWA 741’s and L1011’s
    Worst plane flown on : CRJ100/200 Horrible window location and very uncomfortable. Cabin is just too narrow for 4-abreast, IMO
    Best looking cabin crew : Austrian and Air Jamaica

    June 3, 2006 at 12:19 am in reply to: 757 question #598690
    greekdude1
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    Ansett was the only airline to request the flight engineer station, due to union pressure, as was mentioned. There was an article on this in Airliners years ago. UA’s were always 2-crew standard. Ansetts’ 3-man 762’s were later retro-fitted to a 2-crew flight deck.

    In regards to the 737-100’s being 3-man, I’m not so sure about this. I have no official documentation on the contrary but can anyone confirm or deny this?

    June 3, 2006 at 12:13 am in reply to: Glasgow 02/06/05 not a good day for US Airways #490202
    greekdude1
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    US just switched the PHL-GLA run from a 762 to a 757 a few days ago, ex ATA if I’m not mistaken. The 762 will be used on either the PHL-MXP run or the PHL-ARN run, both new markets for US starting this week. They’ll obviously have to re-deploy a 762 used on another route to cover the other one of these two services.

    June 2, 2006 at 6:33 am in reply to: air service to Greece…? #599412
    greekdude1
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    Are you planning on competing head-on with BA and OA on the LHR-ATH run or routes that don’t currently exist? I know there are lots of charter flights to and from the Greek Isles, but does anyone fly MAN-ATH or LHR/LGW-SKG for instance?

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