I first came to Hong Kong almost 40 years ago! Hong Kong and I have grown up a lot since then! The bad news is that my Iphone has died!
Yearly Archives
Yearly Archives for 2010.
Comparing Trans Tasman Carriers
The Trans-Tasman route Between Australia and New Zealand is one of the more competitive in Asia Pacific. Multiple airlines have slugged it out on this route. Because I like ranking everything, the list below, ranks the airlines on that sector based on my rating of my experiences with them. These ratings are only for the Trans Tasman (Aust-NZ) Service: Emirates (amazing meals, great service, comfy planes, individual entertainment): 92% LAN (good meals, v good service, comfy planes, individual entertainment): 85% Air New Zealand (no meals to good meals, v good service) : 83% Continental (ceased this…
2011 “Bucket List”
With one month to go until 2011, I am in full swing of planning the year. I am not sure you can have a bucket list for a year or whether it is part of a list!! What do you think? I have a very exciting and busy travel schedule for work. I am trying to add some equally exciting travel adventures!! New CountriesMy Goal is to have gone to my fiftieth country by my birthday in July (I am NOT 50 on this Birthday). At this stage, one of the four I will be…
What happened to Qantas QF32
For me it was a double grief: My much loved airline (Qantas) and my all time favourite plane: the Super Jumbo A380 – both tainted. Worse my favourite engine type, the Rolls Royce is in disgrace. Up to now, I had always felt safer flying with the best of British engineering. A Qantas flight powered by Rolls Royce? Mythically in my mind this meant creme de la creme! On November 4, this all changed. In a highly publicised incident, on that day, aircraft VH-OQA called Nancy Bird Walton, (which was in fact the first of…
Five Fun Safety Briefings
Today, I have chosen what i believe are the five most fun safety briefings in the sky. See what you think (below). First: a few comments about on board safety. I have flown 683 times. In that time, while I have had five scarey flights*, i have never been in an emergency. Air Travel is indeed a very safe way to travel. However, the time I am in an emergency, I want and need to know how to get off that plane alive-fast. So, it amazes me how many people sleep, chat or read…
Airports brace for ‘don’t touch my junk’ protests
From MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40351426/ns/travel/ Travelers dismayed by airport body scans are headed to airports Wednesday with the makings of any good protest: handmade fliers, eye-catching placards, slogan-bearing T-shirts — and Scottish kilts. The loosely organized effort dubbed National Opt-Out Day hopes to highlight what some call unnecessarily intrusive security screenings. Others fear it will merely snarl pre-Thanksgiving airline operations on one of the busiest travel days of the year. If enough people opt for a pat-down rather than a body scan, security-line delays could quickly cascade . More than 40 million people plan to travel over the…
Lan Fantastic way to travel!
My flight with my 70th airline (LAN Chile) almost came to blows in the Check In line. Check In: 10/10 I get to stand in the priority check in queue because of the curse/benefit of having flown too much! When I arrived at Auckland, New Zealand airport for my 430am Check in for Sydney, I went straight to the Priority Line. As I stood there, I observed the man in the regular line was eyeing me carefully. When the check in clerk gestured to me to move forward, he was off! He roared across with his…
Is Qantas now unsafe?
Charlie: Ray, all airlines have crashed at one time or another, that doesn’t mean that they are not safe. Raymond: QANTAS. QANTAS never crashed. Charlie: QANTAS? Raymond: Never crashed. Charlie: Oh that’s gonna do me a lot of good because QANTAS doesn’t fly to Los Angeles out of Cincinnati, you have to get to Melbourne! Melbourne, Australia in order to get the plane that flies to Los Angeles! In those words from the movie “Rain Man”, Qantas was immortalised as the world’s safest airline. What was not strictly true was the “never crashed” statement. Qantas, which…
Dont use GoldCar rent a car in Spain
Not my article but helpful one recounting someone being stung by a car rental company in Spain–some helpful warnings http://www.spanish-fiestas.com/holidays/goldcar.htm
A letter to United – you are terrible
Dear United Airlines Not flying with you between Australia and the USA again (I still have to fly home with you!) because: your 747 is so old and so tatty, it looks like no one cares. So much so the woman next to me was nervous that the maintenance was being done in the same slip shod fashion. your staff were very unfriendly They didn’t care and resented the passengers being there. The Cabin crew chatted through the safety briefing. They gossiped loudly in the galley when people were trying to sleep. They visibly read magazines…
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