Good taste.. stick with Star! 😀

Oh you know it, baby!

Yes we are talking about different hotels, mine was to the south of the airport.

I just realized that, I looked up all the Holiday Inns in the Frankfurt area and saw the one you’re mentioning. I also looked at the map and realized it was to the South. The cost also came up as $52Euro. Did you have some good views of that runway pointing to the South, either for approaches or take-offs?

That shouldn’t be because if the gear collapses on the runway, the engines will shear off.

I would assume that to only be the case if the aircraft is in motion, which I don’t think was the case here.

I’d like to know how the passengers for the flight got to Taiwan or perhaps even Thailand (since they fly there, too). EVA Air only comes into LHR perhaps once or twice a day, so getting another aircraft to them would have taken a fair amount of time!

Rebooked onto other carriers flights. China Airlines, British Airways, etc. With one-stops, I’m sure they had a multitude of choices. My NZ SYD-LAX flight was cancelled due to maintainance one time, and I got rebooked on QF via AKL. That’s the one-time I flew QF and I wouldn’t fly Oneworld normally. It was an award travel ticket so I didn’t have to worry about FF mileage. Also, good thing I was flying business as we all got rebooked first and most of the econo-class had to wait till the following day.

Yet another Euro airline for Skyteam. They need to start expanding elsewhere. Still a nice decision, nonetheless.

Fantastic photos, Hans. I very much enjoyed my tour of AMS, thanks to Peter. Got a lot of good photos, but I still have an SLR. I need to get a digital.

Extremely childish

What do you mean? I’m not the only one that makes typos! 😡 You feelin’ me?

as I have read many bad things about all the US majors.

Interesting literature. As I mentioned before, there are a few airlines that stand out above the rest as having supurb service. The aforementioned SQ, EK, CX, VS plus a small handfull of others lead the way. Everybody else is pretty much in the same echelon. The same ‘bad things’ you read about U.S. carriers applies to the rest of these carriers, as well.