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June 4, 2003 at 9:07 pm in reply to: Gibraltar Airport #674261

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It’s all relative – Gib seems an awful lot cheaper than London for property. It’s even cheaper than the Isle of Man from what I can gather. £250k gets you a tent in someone’s garden in central London.

June 4, 2003 at 9:02 pm in reply to: Emirates splashing the cash!! #674267

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Dubai IS a tourist destination. Half the people I know have been there for holiday. I think it is a different matter in the US as the place is probably tarnished with the “middle east” brush. Shame, as having grown up in the middle east I can attest that Dubai is about the freest and most fun place in that region. Abu Dhabi is positively drab by contrast.

Ditto house deals; there is no such clause on my house, and I’ve never heard of it happening to anyone else. One of the main reasons to buy a house is to sell it on for a profit in 3 or 4 years time. The only time you get restrictive covenants about resale is generally when you are buying your place with a government grant or state subsidised loan, or some such. Again, maybe the US property market is different to here.

What do you expect Airbus to do – say to EK “sorry, you have to sign this clause saying you can’t sell the aircraft on”? No chance – EK would go to Boeing instead. Anyway, what if Emirates did sign such a clause then broke it anyway? Airbus would have a tough time enforcing the contract and would certainly loose future sales from a big customer if they tried to.

June 4, 2003 at 12:45 pm in reply to: Flybe and Belfast City #674681

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…which is why it needs 5 of them!

June 4, 2003 at 12:41 pm in reply to: Some nice pictures! #674684

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Judging by the amount of tyre smoke, I’d say it was landing.

June 4, 2003 at 11:00 am in reply to: China Air crew missed red flags #674868

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I’ll never fly with a Chinese airline (Cathay apart).

You do hear a lot of horror stories and there seem to be more than their fair share of crashes. I have no confidence they are ever investigated, but brushed under the carpet in true commie fashion. Just look at how their true colours came out with the SARS debacle and the disinformation they produced. Stalin would be proud of his comrades.

Then there is the fact that all these strange airlines are really the same but with different names – China Eastern, Southern, Northern or whatever. It is just too Orwellian for me. I feel that Big Brother is watching all the time, because he really owns and controls all these supposed “independent” airlines.

June 4, 2003 at 12:30 am in reply to: General Discussion #416950

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Everyone seemed to like Joey Dunlop. Unfortunately I thought he was a tosser when I met him the only time, but apparently he was like that – mostly a solid bloke but a bit erratic.

We had the Red Arrows today. Flew right over my house in a Concorde formation 🙂

June 4, 2003 at 12:30 am in reply to: TT week #1986503

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Everyone seemed to like Joey Dunlop. Unfortunately I thought he was a tosser when I met him the only time, but apparently he was like that – mostly a solid bloke but a bit erratic.

We had the Red Arrows today. Flew right over my house in a Concorde formation 🙂

June 4, 2003 at 12:13 am in reply to: French strike hits BA flights #675076

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Can airlines recover anything from their insurers in respect of lost flights due to 3rd party strike action?

June 3, 2003 at 8:23 pm in reply to: Gibraltar Airport #675144

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Being able to take in that view from the window is reason enough to go there! Can’t speak a word of Spanish, though not for lack of trying. Guess I’m just a dunce with languages.

June 3, 2003 at 8:11 pm in reply to: Gibraltar Airport #675285

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Nice.

It is one of the places I am thinking of moving to when I qualify – there is a developing offshore finance industry there. Not as developed as the IOM, but with a nicer climate!

Does anyone have any idea about property there? I mean, in Jersey you can’t buy anything unless you’re born there or have lived there for ages (unless the rules changed in the last few years). Not that I want to go to Jersey anyway :p

June 3, 2003 at 7:55 pm in reply to: Gibraltar Airport #675300

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Reminds me of when South African had to fly to LHR using the 747SP, because they were denied overflight rights for Black Africa. They had to follow the coast all the way up.

Equally banal – whatever the rights and wrongs involved, making life tricky for an airline route planner aint going to make a government change its policies.

June 3, 2003 at 7:52 pm in reply to: Frequent Flyers #675304

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Not sure about Air Miles, but BA Miles work on the basis that you can book a free flight anywhere. The world is divided into zones, and you pay a set number of miles for any flight anywhere in those zones.

Zone 1 for BA is UK domestic plus Ireland and maybe a few bits of Europe like AMS or BRU. ANY return flight in that region is available for 13,000 miles. It can be LHR-EDI or MAN-GLA or whatever you want.

Zone 6 extends out to Australia. Obviously that will cost you a helluva lot more miles.

13,000 miles is what an Economy ticket costs you. You have to double that to get the Biz price and triple it for the First price. You could quadruple it for Concorde.

June 3, 2003 at 6:55 pm in reply to: Gibraltar Airport #675338

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Are you still banned from Spanish airspace when flying to/from GIB?

June 3, 2003 at 6:52 pm in reply to: Frequent Flyers #675341

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The BA one is really simple. Your fare category determines how many miles you get, but once you have them a mile is a mile is a mile. You can upgrade any economy fare to Eco Plus, Biz or First for payment of the appropriate number of miles. The more your ticket costs, the more miles you get. Seems very fair to me.

So my understanding is that even if you have a super duper gold card, your mileage for a particular flight is the same as for a basic blue card holder – what counts is the fare you’re flying on, not your card status. So a blue card holder flying in First will get a lot more miles than a Gold card holder in Economy. The only advantage of a higher tier of membership is access to lounges, better luggage allowance and use of First and Biz check in desks. You probably get to the top of wait lists as well.

The only poor part of their scheme, is it is not really a Oneworld card. You automatically get miles credited to your account for codeshare flights, but if it aint codeshare you have to physically fax over your boarding pass coupon to BA. Very poor. I had to do that on a flight I took on Qantas from Melbourne to Hobart.

June 3, 2003 at 6:27 pm in reply to: Frequent Flyers #675559

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I don’t know, I seem to build up a few miles without spending too much extra. I got a freebie flight in January, return IOM-LGW with BA. I say “free” but the tax is quite steep.

My next target is to earn enough miles for an upgrade on my next long hauler.
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