Re: What kind of vehicle do you drive?

I drive a 2022 Seat Arona 1.0 FR

110hp with a 7spd DSG transmission (oh boy) it has a lot of kit for what it is, and so far, I love it!

Before the Arona I had a 2018 Seat Ibiza, and before that a trusty 1999 Peugeot 206.

MIAspotter.

Re: Never have I ever (airport edition)

1. Gotten a haircut? No. 2. Gotten a massage? Yes at HKG airport, included on the Lounge access 3. Gotten a manicure/ pedicure? No. 4. Exchanged money? Yes. 5. Bought a postage stamp? Yes 6. Bought film? No 7. Picked up a paper timetable? Yes 8. Gone to an observation deck (not including those as pa...

Re: Airline cabin chimes as phone notifications

All my notifications have the Airbus seatbelt sound (taken from one of my FlightSim sound packs).

I would also like to get the CPDLC sound to add variety.

MIAspotter.

Re: Your shortest flight on a widebody and longest flight on a narrowbody

Shortest widebody was a SQ772 KUL-SIN
Longest Narrowbody was a CO752 BCN-EWR.

MIAspotter.

Re: Airbus A340 - Whose have you flown?

A340-300
Virgin Atlantic
LHR-MIA G-VFLY
MIA-LHR G-VSUN

Lufthansa
MUC-SIN D-AIGM
SIN-MUC D-AIGT

Iberia
MAD-LHR EC-GUP

This doesn´t count but I did get onboard an LX A340-300 HB-JMB during a tour of ZRH Airport and Maintenance base

A340-600
Iberia
MAD-LHR EC-IOB

MIAspotter.

Re: Airbus A330 - Whose have you flown?

A330-200
QR
HX

A330-300
CA
CX
QR

MIAspotter

Re: Boeing 777- Whose have you flown?

SQ 772 9V-SVK KUL-SIN
SQ 77W 9V-SWK MUC-MAN

GA 77W PK-GID AMS-LGW

QR 77L A7-BBI DOH-SIN-DOH

MIAspotter.

Re: Airbus A380 - Who's have you flown ?

AF CDG-LHR-CDG F-HPJB
QR DOH-BKK A7-APE
LH FRA-MIA D-AIMA
LH MIA-FRA D-AIML

MIAspotter.

Re: Boeing 737 - Who’s have you flown?

-200
None

-300
Lufthansa
Thomsonfly
Avensa (I was a little kid but I do remember seeing the weird shaped engine out of the window)

-400
None

-500
Lufthansa

-600
None

-700
Easyjet

-800
AirBerlin
Continental
Jet4You
KLM
Norwegian
Ryanair

-900
Continental
KLM

MIAspotter.

Re: Airbus A320 - Who's have you flown

A318 None :( A319 AirFrance Austrian British Airways Brussels Airlines Easyjet Iberia Lufthansa Lufthansa Italia Swiss TAP Vueling A320-100 AirFrance A320-200 AerLingus AirFrance Avion Express (Operating for Norwegian) BMI British Airways Brussels Airlines Clickair Easyjet Iberia Jetstar Asia Luftha...

Re: Boeing 767 - Who’s have you flown?

Lan Chile 767-300ER
CCS-MIA-CCS-MIA

AA 767-300ER
MIA-SFO

DL 767-300ER
LGW-ATL-LGW
BCN-ATL-BCN

DL 767-300
ATL-MIA and this plane was in awful condition, very worn out cabin.

MIAspotter

BA 767-300ER
MXP-LHR-MXP
LHR-MAD (just a few weeks before retirement)

MIAspotter.

Re: CoVid Vaccine Experience

Got my 2 doses of Moderna. 1st shot, late march: No side effects save a sore arm. 2nd shot last week: Again, sore arm and I did feel a bit tired and shivery on the next day, but I took some paracetamol and it went away. Also; i did took paracetamol before each dose (although they reccommend you not ...

Re: When where and why did you last fly pre Covid?

My last flights where on the first week of March, just before all lockdowns began in Europe. Before starting my new job, I took a joyride on the IB A350 from MAD up to LHR, then the next day I flew the TP A321Neo down to LIS and A320 to BCN, then on that weekend my friends and I flew up to GVA on Ea...

Re: What’s the last big purchase you made?

2018 Seat Ibiza Style Plus, last October. The local council imposed strict rules on ¨high emission vehicles¨ and created a no go zone around Barcelona, any car registered before 2000 can´t be on the roads MO-FR from 7am to 8pm, so sadly my beloved Peugeot 206 from 99 and only 50000km and running abs...

Re: Your 2020 Booked/Flown Flights

FLOWN BCN-MAD Iberia A321 EC-IXD MAD-LHR Iberia A359 EC-NGT LHR-LIS TAP A321N CS-TJO LIS-BCN TAP A320 CS-TNQ BCN-GVA easyJet A320 OE-IVW GVA-BCN easyJet A320 HB-JYI Cancelled due to COVID19 BCN-ORY Vueling A320 ORY-BCN Vueling A320 Nothing booked, with these uncertain times, who knows. Stay safe ou...

Re: Your 2020 Booked/Flown Flights

Just went ahead and finalised some bookings March: BCN-MAD Iberia A321 MAD-LHR Iberia A359 LHR-LIS TAP A321N LIS-BCN TAP A320N BCN-GVA easyJet A320 GVA-BCN easyJet A320 And starting a new job... they are sending me to Paris BCN-ORY Vueling A320 ORY-BCN Vueling A320 Busy march, love it! MIAspotter.

Re: Is There a Market for a Plain, Ordinary Car?

I was quite surprised the other day to find a 2015 Ford Focus with hand crank windows! Didn't even know it was an option nowadays. Tugg I own a 2018 Seat Ibiza and it has manual rear windows lol, funny thing is that it has a front emergency braking assistance (basically if something/someone jumps i...

Re: AeroMexico 787 in HNL

Wow, quite surprised that they can fly MEX-ICN direct, given that MEX is a high altitude airport, usually AM´s asian flights do a stop-over in Tijuana before continuing to Asia (NRT, PEK, etc)

Not implying that the 787 doesn´t have the legs, obviously it does just curious.

MIAspotter.

Re: TAP banned from Venezuela

Yes, where and how to start without getting political, I started a thread about this particular topic and was deleted. Anyways, as for which Intl airlines are serving CCS, Copa, Air Europa, Iberia, Airfrance and Turkish. Estelar flies to MAD, LIS, EZE and I think FCO using A340s and A330s leased fro...

Re: Your 2020 Booked/Flown Flights

So far only one flight booked. March: BCN-GVA easyJet (A320) GVA-BCN easyJet (A320) Same day return as we are just attending the Geneva AutoShow, the original booking was made on Vueling, departing early morning and back in the afternoon, but we received an email with a change of times, turns out th...

Re: What former carriers have you flown?

Viasa Avensa Aeropostal (they are sort of on and off, not sure what the current status is) Thomsonfly Lufthansa Italia BMI Clickair Spanair Jet4You AirBerlin Continental Song Ted Portugalia (think they are now TAPexpress or White) FlyNiki Darwin Airlines / Etihad Regional (wtf was all that about bac...

Re: Your 2019 Booked/Flown Flights List

Flown.

-April 2019
BCN-FRA / Lufthansa / A321 D-AIRN
FRA-BCN / Lufthansa / A321 D-AIDJ

-October 2019
BCN-PMI / Vueling / A321 EC-MLD
PMI-BCN / Vueling / A32N EC-NCU

Booked.

-November 2019
BCN-LGW / Vueling /A321
SOU-MAN / FlyBe DH4
MAN-BCN / Vueling A320

MIAspotter.

Re: Argentina, or how crazy South Americans can be

Sad day indeed.

I saw a facebook post yesterday that pretty much sums latin-america.

70 years of Peronismo
61 years of Castrismo
20 years of Chavismo
13 years of Evo in Bolivia

But the blame falls on:

4 years of Macri
2 years of Trump
1 year of Lenin and Piñera.

MIAspotter.

Re: What do you do for work?

Administrative for the Corporate University at a multi-national here in Spain.

Leaving next week after 7 years (job got way too monotonous and boring) to take a couple months off to chill, and after that I will start setting up my own business

MIAspotter.

Re: Your 2019 Booked/Flown Flights List

Flown.

-April 2019
BCN-FRA / Lufthansa / A321 D-AIRN
FRA-BCN / Lufthansa / A321 D-AIDJ

-October 2019
BCN-PMI / Vueling / A321 EC-MLD
PMI-BCN / Vueling / A32N EC-NCU

Booked.

-November 2019
BCN-LGW / Vueling /A321

Planned

-November 2019
SOU-MAN or SOU-LBA
MAN-BCN / Vueling / Airbus

MIAspotter.

Re: Protests in Barcelona

Right now, Spain behaves like Russia or Serbia in the 1990s... trying to keep a dysfunctional country together by force. The only difference is the EU turning a blind eye to it. I wouldn´t call it dysfunctional, just that a few of the autonomous regions took advantage of the self-governing status t...

Re: Protests in Barcelona

[quote="seahawk"Until you run into a demonstration in which people tell you that Europe needs to wake up and the end the awful oppression of the people of Catalunya by Spain.[/quote] I always find this part funny, what sort of oppression exactly? Catalunya has one of the greatest levels of...

Re: Protests in Barcelona

I live in Barcelona, currently the riots are clustered in areas near the city center, thankfully where I live, life goes on as usual, but can´t help but feel hopeless for the other residents enduring such chaos and the damage to the image of Barcelona around the world, but hey, that´s what the indep...

Re: Flying Europe: Vueling A320 LPA-AGP Y

Great read! glad you´ve enjoyed your flight on Vueling. Sometimes they get a bad rep and most of the time they´ve earned it (a couple of years ago, they sold a lot of flights and then they found out they didn´t have enough airplanes to operate the flights) but I have taken a total of 41 segments wit...

Re: To the Oil Rigs of Venezuela: Closing an Oil Rig!

Interesting report, shame about the whoel situation that brought you here, hopefully soon things improve in the nation and we can welcome foreign talent to work alongside in helping us rebuild the country.

(I am a Venezuelan living in Spain)

MIAspotter.

Re: Your first...

...European airport: Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) ...N-American airport: Miami Intl (MIA) ...S-American airport: Maiquetia (CCS) ...Asian airport: Singapore Changi (SIN) ...African airport: Casablanca (CMN) ...Aircraft: Can´t remember since I was little, but for stats sake let´s list the ones I can...

Re: Mahan Air Launches IKA-CCS...First Flight Already in the Air!

10th of April and as per FR24, EP-MMR hasn´t left CCS yet.

No need to clarify then what´s going on.

MIAspotter.

Re: Mahan Air Launches IKA-CCS...First Flight Already in the Air!

Yes you are right, and even then, just 2 of the A343s are ex-Lufthansa, the others are a mix of ex Olympic (not that I would buy one of their planes lol) Singapore, Gulf Air and Virgin Atlantic.

MIAspotter.

Re: Mahan Air Launches IKA-CCS...First Flight Already in the Air!

Operating on A340-600, first flight has already landed, and surprise-surprise it parked on Rampa 4 (which is the military/presidential/drug trafficking) ramp. So pretty obvious what´s the purpose of this flight. MIAspotter. Where do you get that info, if I may ask? :) Checked FR24 and after landing...

Re: Mahan Air Launches IKA-CCS...First Flight Already in the Air!

Operating on A340-600, first flight has already landed, and surprise-surprise it parked on Rampa 4 (which is the military/presidential/drug trafficking) ramp.

So pretty obvious what´s the purpose of this flight.

MIAspotter.

Re: How many countries have you visited?

Americas -Venezuela (Former home Country) -Colombia (As a child, can´t remember much tho) -USA Europe Austria Andorra Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Italy Ireland Malta Monaco Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain (Current home) Slovakia Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom Vatican C...

Re: Venezuela suffers country-wide power outage, (4 days and counting)

[quote="casinterest"][/quote] Unlikely at least in Venezuela, in an interview, a former employee stated that a cyber attack was unlikely since the electrical system in Venezuela is analog, he said it would be like trying to hack a refrigerator. Now there are also claims that the outage was...

Re: Air Europa Crew (UX) attack in CCS

How sad this is. To my knowledge TP doesn't stop in CUR anymore. Maybe they have cancelled their flights to CCS indefinitely? I assume you mean that the Air Europa crew lay over in Santo Domingo and not Punta Cana. Air Europa doesn't fly to Punta Cana but to Santo Domingo as far as I know. A388 TP ...

Air Europa Crew (UX) attack in CCS

An Air Europa crew was attacked in Caracas as they were being transported to their layover hotel following the arrival of their flight into CCS. Link in Spanish sorry. https://cincodias.elpais.com/cincodias/2019/03/10/companias/1552243075_381920.html Rough summary: The crew was being transported to ...

Venezuela suffers country-wide power outage, (4 days and counting)

A massive country-wide power outage have been affecting Venezuela since thursday last week, there are no confirmations as to when power will be normally restored. The power outage originated at the main power plant located in the State of Bolivar in the south of the country, many believe is due to l...

Re: Any tips on getting the crew to let you in the cockpit?

Yeah, just ask nicely, sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don´t. I´ve had a few cockpit visits on some flights, (DY 787, LAN 787, LH A380, BA767) and the crew have been very welcoming. I avoid asking for cockpit visits on short european flights since I know their turnarounds are quick and they n...

Re: Confirmed: British Airways to paint 4 aircraft in retro livery