I do business with Venetian Macau. Around 10 or 15 years ago, for sure after 9/11. They flew about 30 of us with about 20 of their staff from Macau to Las Vegas and back on Mr. Adelson's 767 for a few days of meetings and presentations in Las Vegas. None of the Venetian Macau staff with us had ever...
Jump to postI do business with Venetian Macau. Around 10 or 15 years ago, for sure after 9/11. They flew about 30 of us with about 20 of their staff from Macau to Las Vegas and back on Mr. Adelson's 767 for a few days of meetings and presentations in Las Vegas. None of the Venetian Macau staff with us had ever ...
Jump to postSeveral years ago, flying BKK-CAI-CDG on Egypt Air. I had headphones on watching a movie on my iPad. I noticed some commotion around and a couple of announcements but didn't pay to much attention. Then I felt the airplane start to descend differently than I had ever felt before. I have been on many ...
Jump to postintothinair wrote: The travel company recuperates the loss by taking the groups to dedicated stores (often owned by the tour company themselves) where they are pressured to purchase overpriced goods. Their entire agenda is planned and they are not allowed to deviate from it (I.E. go to another area)...
Jump to postI remember after checking in the luggage and going through what they called security at that time. then getting to the gate and we would give the boarding pass to the gate agent and they had a paper with stickers on it in the shape of the plane. One sticker for each seat with a seat number on it and...
Jump to postMy wife is filipina. I can't speak for all travelers in Philippines, but just from personal experience I help a lot of her friends book their tickets between Philippines and USA, Canada or UK as a favor since I know more about flights and routings than their other friends. And the ones I don't help ...
Jump to postI visited Lebanon many years ago around a year after visiting Israel on a different trip. I did not get my passport stamped in Israel. In the Beirut airport, the immigration officer repeatedly asked me if I had ever been to Israel. I told him I never went there. My USA passport at that time had page...
Jump to postDoes anyone know any resource such as seatguru that you can find out which aircraft on a given aircraft has air nozzles? I am uncomfortable on a plane without air blowing on me. I always try to make sure a flight I will book will have air nozzles even if the ticket is more expensive. The only fleet ...
Jump to postEverybody always quotes the cheap prices you can get on Eurostar by showing the prices of the date of the cheapest prices they can on some off peak day in the future. I have seen those prices a couple of times while clicking through the eurostar website, but never on a day or times that I actually n...
Jump to postI was on a Star Alliance Biz <acronym title="Saratov - Tsentralny (RTW / UWSS), Russia">RTW</acronym> ticket and had to change the routing to meet a last minute meeting. Because of the meeting time I had no choice but to change to an <acronym title="Asiana Airlines (South Korea)">OZ</acronym> flight...
Jump to postFor me the most important thing is to have air nozzles to keep fresh air blowing on me for the whole flight. I originally became 1K on <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> many years ago just because it was the only airline (before the <acronym title="Continental Airlines (USA)">CO</a...
Jump to postMy family lives about equal distance between <acronym title="Newark - Liberty International (EWR / KEWR), USA - New Jersey">EWR</acronym>, <acronym title="Philadelphia - International (PHL / KPHL), USA - Pennsylvania">PHL</acronym> and ACY. They used to be loyal <acronym title="Continental Airlines ...
Jump to postDo horses have jet lag when they arrive?
Jump to postI hate settling into my seat and finding a box blocking my space under the seat in front of me. I rarely use the IFE anyway and I have to sacrifice much of the the little room I have for other people's entertainment.
Rather than IFE, I would rather find a plane with an air nozzle at my seat.
I have been on several airlines where they didn't force people to turn off electronic devices. They do make an announcement, I think during the safety demonstration, to turn off electronic devices for takeoff and landing, but nobody follows it and the FAs don't care as long as the phones are in airp...
Jump to postHKG total passengers 55 332 886 <acronym title="CURRENT: Hong Kong - Chek Lap Kok International (HKG / VHHH), China - Hong Kong AND OLD: Hong Kong - Kai Tak International (HKG / VHHH) (closed), China - Hong Kong">HKG</acronym> Int'l passengers 54 869 495 Just a little curious where did the other 463...
Jump to postI left an iPod and Bose headset on a <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> flight a few weeks ago. Too bad they didn't divert the outbound flight so maybe I could have had them returned to me. <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/sarcastic.gif" ...
Jump to postI own a chain of shops selling handbags and shoes. We had 2 on the job injuries last year requiring trips to an emergency room. It's not like we are building machines bigger than my home there.
Considering the operation they have in Everett it doesn't sound too bad to me.
Dealing with this security nonsense and going through the US visa process is why my family and friends changed our vacationing to other places like Australia instead of America. We know more and more people making this kind of decision. One day maybe someone will count how much American businesses a...
Jump to postIf they do revert back to 744 for <acronym title="CURRENT: Hong Kong - Chek Lap Kok International (HKG / VHHH), China - Hong Kong AND OLD: Hong Kong - Kai Tak International (HKG / VHHH) (closed), China - Hong Kong">HKG</acronym>-<acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore">SIN</acrony...
Jump to postI apologize if some people may think this is inappropriate, but after seeing the thread about the 787 wing flex test, it got me thinking. Many people said that they wouldn't flex the wings until they snapped because basically the material would disintegrate into a pile of dust that would be too expe...
Jump to postJust had the chance to visit the new <acronym title="Singapore Airlines">SQ</acronym> lounge in <acronym title="CURRENT: Hong Kong - Chek Lap Kok International (HKG / VHHH), China - Hong Kong AND OLD: Hong Kong - Kai Tak International (HKG / VHHH) (closed), China - Hong Kong">HKG</acronym>. It must ...
Jump to post