Re: Truly terrible Airlines of the past and present

AA What's with all the hate for AA? I'm from Singapore and took a couple of domestic flights in the US 2 years ago on AA and I had nothing to complain about. They were probably new aircraft I was on so I reckon it doesn't represent their entire fleet but the seat pitch was decent, IFE was great wit...

Re: What would you do if someone was sitting at your assigned seat?

I double check my boarding card seat with the row number, then I say excuse me, I think you are sitting in my seat, what seat is on your boarding card? Then they check the seat and move, If they ask if I would mind sitting in their seat I say no because they are invariably trying to improve a middl...

Re: What would you do if someone was sitting at your assigned seat?

What's wrong with you people?! Why on earth would you approach the person sitting in your assigned seat directly? I'm pretty sure your questions here are tongue-and-cheek, but sometimes the situation can be handled at the lowest level by just discussing it with them. No need to immediately involve ...

Re: Bird Logos on Asian Airlines

Why wouldn't they, and not just Asian airlines? Birds are associated with flight- like how you might have a fish or a sea creature on the logo of a ship maker. With that said the legacy airlines usually have a story like the examples mentioned above. For Singapore Airlines, the bird is also meant to...

Re: What would you do if someone was sitting at your assigned seat?

What's wrong with you people?! Why on earth would you approach the person sitting in your assigned seat directly? It happened to me once on a SQ flight. I saw from a few rows down that someone was sitting in my seat.. I walked up to a flight attendant and told him someone was in my seat, showing my...

Re: What would you do if someone was sitting at your assigned seat?

What's wrong with you people?! Why on earth would you approach the person sitting in your assigned seat directly? It happened to me once on a SQ flight. I saw from a few rows down that someone was sitting in my seat.. I walked up to a flight attendant and told him someone was in my seat, showing my ...

Re: 65 Years Ago: CIA and British Intelligence Overthrew Iran's Prime Minister

You must be a novice to 'the ways of western governments past & present'... This kind of treacherous behavior goes back, way back beyond Brutus & Cicero thinking they would be better rulers than Julius Caesar. At the time you mentioned, guess who was US President...it was Ike, Dwight Eisenh...

65 Years Ago: CIA and British Intelligence Overthrew Iran's Prime Minister

Just came across this and I was speechless. How could something like this have gone unabated? [Foreign Policy magazine] 64 Years Later, CIA Finally Releases Details of Iranian Coup ... "Known as Operation Ajax, the CIA plot was ultimately about oil. Western firms had for decades controlled the ...

What was Iran Air like pre-revolution

I came across some literature about how culturally liberal Iran was before the Islamic revolution of 1979. I couldn't find much on Iran Air during the time beyond this article that shows its FAs in short skirts, a contrast to the present where all females on board need to have their hair covered and...

Re: Skytrax: Airline of the year is 'Singapore Airlines'

How do you know my personal life? Sounds like you're the one trolling. I definitely flew with them, but I did not find service to be better than AA. I flew from LAX to NRT to SIN in the early 2000s. I hate to break it to you, but nothing you've said is coherent. Let's take a look at what you've pos...

Re: Skytrax: Airline of the year is 'Singapore Airlines'

I've heard some allegations that the Skytrax methodology isn't fair. Not sure about that but I'm glad to see Singapore Airlines at the top after 9 years. Over the last decade, LCC competiton has grown exponentially in Southeast Asia and the ME3 have been offerin much more competitive fares in this r...

Re: SQ resumes direct SIN-LAX on A359ULR from Nov 2, adds 3 weekly SIN-SFO A359ULR

Wow.. that means there's now 4 to 5 daily flights between San Francisco to Singapore. I think it really shows just how strong a market Singapore is- that it can sustain such a high volume of high yielding O&D and connecting traffic. And yet every now and then, people here insist that SIN is goin...

Singapore-Vancouver: “Skyscanner Unserved Route of the Week”

With over 130,000 searches in the last 12 months, a potential city pair from Singapore to Vancouver has been identified as this week’s “Skyscanner-anna.aero Unserved Route of the Week” – a powerful analysis based on aspirational data captured from the Skyscanner.net flight comparison site used by +...

Re: SQ 516 SIN-CCU Flight Delay Turned Passenger Neglect?

That sounds horrible. I'm shocked..
Any response from SQ yet?

Re: Iran seeks to sue Boeing.

Trump did the right thing and so did Boeing. Maybe Iran Air should take the issues up with their radical islamic government. If they didn't behave the way they do these things wouldn't happen to them. Saudi Arabia ok, Iran bad :roll: This will make Iran moving into more radicalism. The only solutio...

SQ to start LAX non-stop; considering additional US city

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/sia-to-offer-non-stop-flights-to-la-soon-looking-for-other-us-cities-to-fly-non Facts based on the Straits Times article: - LAX will be SQ's 2nd US non-stop destination with the 350 ULR variant - It is unclear if their 1-stop options via Tokyo an Seou...

Re: Singapore Airlines to resume non-stop SIN-EWR from 11 October 2018

How far is this a350 better than the previous a340-500 economically Hello, A brief summary of the fuel consumption of airliners reported at http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1355819 states the following: Airbus 340-500: 8300kg/h Airbus 350-900: 5800kg/h Please note that the 350 figure ...

Re: SilkAir becomes 'Singapore Airlines'

By your logic, the UK should tear down the Big Ben because it screams '1800s'. There is such a thing as heritage and I dare say the Singapore Airlines livery embodies the heritage of the Malayan region (Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and and some parts of Indonesia) with its iconic blue-yellow and the...

Re: Singapore Airlines to resume non-stop SIN-EWR from 11 October 2018

The draw to EWR could be UA's massive hub and *A FF base. UA and Singapore never seemed too keen on collaborating. I flew the non-stops to EWR/LAX several times back then, almost always with a connection, and I often ended up on another carrier for the domestic leg, even when UA was a viable option...

Re: Singapore Airlines to resume non-stop SIN-EWR from 11 October 2018