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August 4, 2004 at 12:22 pm in reply to: easyJet adds 6 new routes including 4 new destinations! #714787

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Cool. I think they’ve got themselves a nice route there with Almeria…

August 3, 2004 at 5:08 pm in reply to: Taking things to far, what's your opinion #716489

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Not in Nice and Monaco you won’t!

Otherwise Spain has its fair share of young flesh 😉

August 3, 2004 at 1:54 pm in reply to: Taking things to far, what's your opinion #716729

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What puzzles me the most is that violence, guns and wars are apparently okay for kids and adults alike to watch or to have displayed on a t-shirt, but a female breast is not. :confused:

Never mind, that’s a philosophical discussion better suited for the general forum…

Incidentally, what is AA’s (and other airlines) policy on breastfeeding? Would a breastfeeding mother and child be kicked out of the plane too?

August 3, 2004 at 10:54 am in reply to: Taking things to far, what's your opinion #716752

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Sometimes I truly despair at the ultra-prudish attitudes that can be displayed by our friends across the Pond (or some of them anyway).

Well if I get to fly AA again perhaps I’ll wear one of those French Connection t-shirts, with its infamous FCUK logo in big letters, and see if they dare to say something…

July 30, 2004 at 11:48 am in reply to: 5 days and 2.6GB later, here are some of the results (no dial-ups please) #720734

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Great stuff tenthije!

July 27, 2004 at 8:35 pm in reply to: VS Denies A346 Rumors #725311

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Not to sound nasty or anything, but why on earth would Virgin want to buy 747s now?

In fact you could stretch the question and ask why would most people want to buy brand new 747s now? Airlines seem to either be downgrading (in size terms that is) to the 777 or upgrading to the infinitely more efficient A380. Virgin in particular ordering more 747s would strike me as an extremely bizarre move, especially since they’ve already ordered A380s and the A346 is a perfectly adequate replacement for the 747.

For what is worth the acquisition of 777s is not completely dead. 95% dead perhaps, but not entirely. But I could more easily see Virgin painting out the ‘4 engines for long haul’ logos and buying 777s than ordering new 747s.

Chances are they’ll end up buying A346s- at very cheap prices though.

July 21, 2004 at 10:14 pm in reply to: Airbridge Question #632762

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Naive as I am, I had always thought that the use of a airbridge was included in the landing fee.

Is there anythinng airports don’t charge airlines for?

Also, isn’t there a question of first come, first served rather than who pays the most? I’ve had both airbridges and bus-to-terminal with most airlines, including BA.

July 21, 2004 at 6:27 pm in reply to: LHR-BCN-PMI round trip with Iberia #430322

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The return flight to BCN was IB 1729 on July 18th at 17:50. This time we got a MD-88, which I was pleased with. The flight was very smooth and quiet. I took one photo of an adjacent AirPlus Comet A310 (below) but other than that the airport appeared very quiet.

One major lapse on security though. The cockpit door was opened right after take off. When the seatbelts signs came off a child and his father walked to the front of the plane, looking for a toilet as it turned out, but the child actually got his head inside the cockpit to have a look, with his father behind him, before a stewardess ran to them and asked them to move.

Final leg of the journey departed at 20:55 (IB4180) on an A320. The only thing worth of telling was a bizarre amount of condensation/vapour that was flowing out of the air vents. I took a couple of images of it but to be honest it looked even worse ‘in the flesh’. You could tell it wasn’t smoke because it didn’t smell of anything and felt cold, but a few passengers were a bit bemused by it. It stopped just before take off.

Other than that, the flight left on time and only had to hold for 10 minutes before landing.

It was nice to shop in BCN airport for a while, and the flight was cheap enough, but for next time I’ll probably fork out the extra £30 per head for a direct flight if I have to.

July 21, 2004 at 11:02 am in reply to: Airbus has harsh words for Boeing's 7E7 'hype' #633099

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If we could now get them to get on with their projects and stop bitching at each other, it’d be perfect. Because the current bickering gets uglier by the day and that’s not good for the industry as a whole.

Perhaps US and EU officials should lock the CEOs of both companies in a room and keep them there until they ‘make up’… 😀

July 20, 2004 at 3:49 pm in reply to: Virgin to Order up to 30 Airbus A340-600's #633641

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If this is true it’d be fair to think that Virgin had been the party actively spreading the rumours about a possible purchase of B773s. I bet Virgin has secured a rock bottom price from Airbus for this.

One has to wonder how much profit aircraft makers are prepared to make in order to win an order. It wouldn’t surprise me if A. or B. sell some aircraft at very small profit just to stop the other from winning orders.

LBARULES, I could be wrong but I thought Iberia were unhappy with their A343s mostly.

July 20, 2004 at 1:57 pm in reply to: Massive Ethidad Expansion, Including A380! #633759

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Good news for Airbus and the A380 programme!

July 6, 2004 at 10:37 am in reply to: Final lot of MAN photos (4/7/04) #647017

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Very nice pics! The water effect in some of them is superb.

July 5, 2004 at 1:46 pm in reply to: Boeing slams Airbus subsidies #648582

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Not to start another A vs. B row but both are as bad as each other. If Airbus is obtaining unfair advantage over subsidies Boeing is doing very nicely itself over USAF contracts, sometimes won through dubious practices as the now infamous (and suspended) air refuelling tanker issue revealed.

I can’t think of any other industry or any other two companies that love to be at each other’s throats so often… Time to take a new direction methinks…

July 3, 2004 at 11:22 am in reply to: Air Canada gets it's first A345 #651447

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What a differencence a set of nice-sized engines makes! The a/c looks great.

June 30, 2004 at 4:19 pm in reply to: Getting loaded on the way to Mecca #654339

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There aren’t actually many Muslim/Arab states in which alcohol is illegal. I’ve been to Jordan a few times and they all drink as if there’s no tomorrow… The same applies to Lebanon and others.

I thought that airlines flying into countries where booze is illegal were allowed to keep unsold alcohol (instead of throwing it away) but that it had to be locked away in a special compartment well before landing with one person (say the head steward) being the only keyholder. The authorities would then come and do their checks if they wanted to, and the airline would wait until the plane was away before unlocking the drinks.

Can’t remember where I heard this though… probably read it in a mag or something.
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