I saw this photo the other day. Looks awful and I still can’t get over how ridiculous the airline’s name is!

Originally posted by mikeconnell
Just a thought – if you’re not already in UAL’s Mileage Plus make sure you join before you travel – the miles from one transatlantic round trip can be enough for a bmi freebie within Europe if you count all the bonus miles they keep throwing in.

The 744s have the same excellent Y class seats as the 777s but no PTVs and (IMHO) the 747 configuration isn’t as nice as on a 767 or 777 because of the three seat sets by the windows. Still a very nice aircraft though, we’re just spoiled with the latter.

Another suggestion is if you are travelling Y class avoid rows 32-34 – they’re a little area in front of the economy plus, and because of the structure of the aircraft they’re horribly cramped.

Hope this helps

Mike

I joined the British Airways Executive Club and the Thai Airways Royal Orchid Plus schemes.

A return trip to Bangkok will allow to me take an extra 10kg of baggage for the next 2 years and once you fly 50,000 miles (LHR-BKK-LHR almost 10 times) you get a free flight in the next class. So, if you fly economy, you’ll get upgraded to Business Class.

British Airways gave me 250 points for a return flight to Edinburgh. You need to make this trip 320 times in order to get a return flight to Bangkok (in economy)!!

Re: Pics from Brooklands

Originally posted by A330Crazy
Sorry to Dial-up users!

So you should be! 😀

Excellent shots, I’m curious as to what has been going in the Sultan’s bed though!

Another brilliant photo. I agree, you’ve done a great job. The sun catches very nicely on the side of the aircraft. 😀

But by using some of the country’s smaller airports, is this not just another Ryanair, flying to a random field, miles from anywhere? :confused:

They can try, but like ‘Now’, ‘Mama Air’ and ‘Sky-Bus’, the project probably won’t take off!

Originally posted by Hand87_5
Nice pix Kev.

I flew once on this Ryanair logojet between DUB and Paris

Ryanair flying to Paris? I bet they don’t go within 50 miles of the place! 😀 😀 😀

Consider yourself lucky! The 747s have only recently made a comeback at Heathrow.

When I flew on one of their 777-200s about 14 months ago, the inflight magazine which summed up each of the transatlantic aircraft gave the impression that all of the aircraft offered pretty much the same in the way of service etc, although you have a wider range of audio and visual entertainment on board the 777.

I’m sure you’ll have a great trip, what date in March do you go?

With this chicken, flu thing in Thailand, I don’t know if my trip will be affected. 😡

:rolleyes: Oops, here’s the image!