Continuing with my Thailand theme, I found the new program Bangkok Airport to be both compelling and repelling! Here is the trailer: A BBC TV series, this show seems to find the dumbest people who have ever travelled and matched them with the most horrifically funny airport staff. I could not work out whether to cringe, laugh or cry. Sadly, having been through Bangkok airport 37 times, some of the passengers exhibit behaviours I fear I have seen!\ This is the second reality TV show which is focussing on Thailand. The other was Embassy which focussed on Australians in…
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Virgin presents the most boring movie ever!
Would you watch a 5 hour boring movie for 2500 frequent flyer points? Virgin America has created “BLAH AIRLINES FLIGHT 101”, a boring, beige and dull five hour and forty-five minute flight set in real time on a flight from Newark to San Francisco. The passengers aboard seem pretty creepy, the pilots bored and tired and the flight attendants over perked. The film’s trailer can be viewed here: Already almost one million people have already watched the film on YouTube since the film was uploaded in October, 2014! (Did they skip parts of it -like…
Air NZ: 75 years – nothing has changed
This hilarious commercial invites people to an exhibition celebrating of Air New Zealand by showing nothing has changed in that time. Well worth the 46 seconds as the video shows images from the early Trans Empire Air Lines (TEAL) Days to the current Air NZ days. From flying boats to 747s. The exhibition is on at the country’s national museum Te Papa, in the capital Wellington. Air New Zealand, began as a flying boat operator TEAL in 1940. It adopted the current name in 1965. Their 106 aeroplanes currently fly to 58 airports. I have flown Air New Zealand 44…
J’aime beaucoup- Love Air France’s Safety Demo!
I enjoy watching safety demos. Air New Zealand, traditionally have had some of the best safety films. I think Air France have a winner with their newest one. Its fun, informative, catchy and of course that French accent is irresistible! What do you think? It accompanies the airline’s newest advertisement: France is in the Air Here is the film about the making of the ad: Air France, has been the country’s flag carrier since 1933. Their 245 aeroplanes currently fly to just over 200 airports. I have flown Air France ten times. I rate…
Shaming Passengers
I have met and seen my share of passengers that have made me smile, giggle or cringe. Ironically, I am typing this while a mother across the aisle, ignores her bored, screaming, bouncing, yelling child! Tempted to take pictures of her for a website I discovered this week that aims to shame. Passengershaming.com and its associated Facebook page and Twitter account displays pictures of the half naked, drunk, shoeless passengers one hopes not to be sitting next to (one also hopes that one is not a culprit too!). There are some who see this “resource” as…
Wow. “Nut Rage” Airline Executive Jailed!
Cho Hyun-ah (Heather Cho), the former Korean Air Head of Cabin Service, who demanded staff kneel before her to ask for forgiveness over how they served macadamia nuts in first class, has been sentenced to one year in jail. I must admit, I am surprised that it got this far! On 5th December, 2014 Cho, the daughter of Korean Air’s Chair, ordered flight 86 back to the gate at New York’s JFK airport and had the chief steward removed from the plane. A South Korean court yesterday found her guilty of: violating aviation law changing flight path and interference of operations.…
Etihad delayed flights end with passenger death
One does not associate fog with the desert kingdom of Abu Dhabi. Last weekend, chaos hit the capital when fog blanketed it for hours. There was a 19-car pile-up on on Saturday morning which left three people injured. The airport saw 20 flights cancelled and thousands of passengers stranded. One flight EY183 to San Francisco sat on the tarmac for 12 hours before its 16 hour journey! In other words, passengers sat inside that metal tube for 28 hours.Another, EY023 to Dusseldorf, Germany was kept on the tarmac for 13 hours. It was then forced…
Paris locks bridges down to stop love locks
“Paris is the capital of love, and we are all proud of that…But there are other, more beautiful ways of showing love than attaching padlocks.” I have said a few times in this blog how I hate people damaging the things they visit. Nothing riles me up as an example of this than the vandalism of Parisian bridges! What started as a romantic symbol on one bridge in 2008 has become a blight on bridges across Paris and seems to be spreading to other cities. After part of a bridge railing collapsed on the Pont…
This week’s nutty incident
I think everybody has been bemused this week at the news of the recent behaviour of the daughter of Korean Air‘s CEO on board Flight KE086 from New York‘s JFK to Seoul. Heather Cho was a senior vice-president at the airline and the airline’s head of cabin service. If you have missed what happened; Ms Cho was seated as a passenger in the first class section of the A380. She became angry at the way a junior flight attendant served her some macadamia nuts. Apparently, he failed to ask her if she wanted the nuts. To add insult to injury, he…
Weird things Aussies ask embassies
I have commented a few weeks ago about the TV show “Embassy”, that portrays the trouble travellers can get into while overseas. The Guardian newspaper is reporting today, twelve of the strangest things Australian travellers have asked help for from embassies or consulates. My favourites are: A mother wanted the embassy in Bangkok to book accommodation and a return ticket to Australia for her son, then provide an embassy driver to take him to the airport. and Why won’t the Australian Embassy come and pack my bags for me? I’m an 80 year old travelling by myself…
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