According to my Flightmemory, flight number 767th of my life has ticked over. My 767th was with Qantas on a “Red Eye” Boeing 767 from Perth to Melbourne. At one point I thought it was going to be Air New Zealand but life is unpredictable isnt it? I acknowledge it has become an obsession of mine to match the Boeing type to the number of flights I have done! So far, managed it with flights 737, 747 and 757. (How I know how many flights I have flown is described in my blog here). After this fight, I have now been…
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Yearly Archives for 2011.
Irene cancels 6000 flights–what to do?
Irene is coming to the world’s busiest air region. Its already chaos. New York port authority will close all 5 airports to arriving domestic and intn’l passenger flights beginning at noon Saturday. Across the east coast, carriers are scrambling to cancel flights American Airlines has canceled 235 flights for Saturday so far. It will shut down its Washington operations for 24 hours starting at noon EDT on Saturday Amtrak has cancelled flights. Delta Air Lines said it was canceling 1,300 of its 16,500 flights systemwide from Saturday through Monday. This includes all flights on Sunday to and…
Virgin Australia Velocity Changes Analysed
Love the updated Velocity Rewards Frequent Flyer Program unveiled Thursday by Virgin Australia. Already Qantas has responded with media advertisements promising exciting changes to their program. The competition in Australia is starting a new round. I am currently a Gold flyer with Qantas and Virgin so my focus is on the Gold benefits. At the end of this post, I will paste a table comparing the two programs. Please let me know what I leave out. The eight immediate features I like about Velocity Rewards: seemingly generous access to award seats Subject to space availability, Velocity Platinum and Gold members are welcome…
787 Contest to win a flight
It looks like Boeing will finally deliver the 787 to ANA in September, 2011. The inaugural flight is therefore going to be in October, 2011. Until September 5th, 2011 go to ANA’s Facebook page, like them and then upload a picture of you smiling with the numbers 787. A winner receives two tickets to Japan for the inaugural 787 flight, between Tokyo’s Narita airport and Hong Kong. The flight will take off approximately one month after the delivery of the aircraft and seats will also be available via a special package tour organised by ANA. Following…
Amazing Amman
Amman, the capital of Jordan is somewhere I almost never hear about. I was curious to find out what the city was like. I loved it.Home to almost 3 million people, the city straddles a series of hills. Originally it was built on seven hills – now 19.Amman has had an existence for almost 12 000 years. The city is expecting to double in size in the next 15 years straining its natural resources such as waterIts transit system is very frustratingly under developed. There are buses running throughout the city but information is hard to access and it…
AIR NZ VS V AUSTRALIA 777
I use Flight Memory to keep a record of all of my flights- every single one of them since I first flew in 1968. For my 737th flight, I flew a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 from Portland to Spokane and had a brilliant flight.747th was on a Qantas 747 from Melbourne to Los Angeles. The Qantas team put on a great flight- and Qantas even followed up with a souvenir 747 in the postUnited Airlines turn came next with flight 757 on a B757 from DC to LAX and it was terrible. 767 is fast approaching on an Air NZ Boeing 767 Business…
China Southern A380 Almost flying
Prior to fit out China Southern Airlines has completed initial test flights for its first Airbus A380 aircraft. The airline is buying five.The plane entered the skies for its final test flight during the week at the Airbus facilities in Hamburg. The plane has been painted and had its cabin fully fitted out. More advanced tests will be held in Hamburg before the plane flies on to Toulouse in France for final preparation for delivery to the airline. October? China Southern Airlines will become the seventh operator of the A380 later this year. #1 Singapore…
Qantas Big Changes -Positioning for the Future
We have been waiting for some big changes Qantas will be making for some weeks. I thought it was going to be in a week’s time… Today Qantas had full page ads in most Australian newspapers. The ads promised that a new stronger Qantas was being built. One of the promises was that Qantas “will always be proud that the vast majority of our operations are based in Australia‘. The text of that advertisement is here. Today at 10am Australian EST Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce held a press conference to launch the “a new spirit” concept that is…
Sleeping from Sydney to Melbourne
ThursdaMy No Fly July has meant I have not been inside a plane for over a month and have sampled a lot of Australian rail travel. My latest trip was from Sydney to Melbourne in a sleeping carriage on the XPT (EXpress Passenger Train). It was such a delightful experience, I would do it again. The train leaves from Platform Number One of the grand Central Station in Sydney, Central never quite looks right. It always seems a bit down at heel and always seems to be under construction. Currently the clock tower is being…
Real 787 delivery
Pic: Seattle Post-Inquirer Boeing rolled out the first 787 on Saturday, August 6, 2011. The plane is meant to be delivered to Japan’s ANA by the end of September. Seeing I am hoping to fly it three weeks later for my 787th flight it had better be on time!! Please, please, please!!
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