Thread: Airline News

Originally Posted by Troy

Never transited through the ME. I prefer non-stop wherever possible and no more than two flights without a stop over.

I did four in a day once. Sydney-Melbourne-KL-Swampy-CNX.

Fucking nightmare that was.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I did four in a day once. Sydney-Melbourne-KL-Swampy-CNX.

Fucking nightmare that was.

That does sound terrible...

My worst was Aukland to LA, 9 hours transit, LA to KHR, underground to Finsbury Park, change onto the overland to Hertfordshire, no taxis, so a 2 mile walk up a steep hill - pretty tired when I got home...

Flying, especially on the domestic front in Indonesia is quite literally a cattle market. It took me 14 hours and 3 very wearisome flights, with low cost travel, just to cover 1600kms.

Ive fucking had it with Asian budget airlines.

Garuda is at least a decent national carrier, with some semblance of style and good order.

I stopped transiting through ME when they started code sharing with Indian airlines - back to the UK and stopping in ME all of a sudden you are faced with families of 5 and the 3 kids left to run riot on the place with mum trying to placate them whilst dad sleeps - had a little (i estimate 8 YO) shit leaning over his backrest for an hour thinking it was funny to pull faces and fuk around with my TV - i finally had enough and wacked his hands and he started balling and blabbing in wobbly to dad who leant over and looked daggers at me as i leant towards him smiling and giving him the middle finger - last time for me that.

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

I stopped transiting through ME when they started code sharing with Indian airlines - back to the UK and stopping in ME all of a sudden you are faced with families of 5 and the 3 kids left to run riot on the place with mum trying to placate them whilst dad sleeps - had a little (i estimate 8 YO) shit leaning over his backrest for an hour thinking it was funny to pull faces and fuk around with my TV - i finally had enough and wacked his hands and he started balling and blabbing in wobbly to dad who leant over and looked daggers at me as i leant towards him smiling and giving him the middle finger - last time for me that.

Oh you poor economy class passengers.

If you are planning on using Heathrow in the coming weeks you might want to check the dates....

Heathrow Airport could be “shut down” this summer due to a series of strikes over a pay dispute, union Unite said.


More than 4,000 workers including security guards, engineers and drivers will walk out on July 26th and 27th, and August 5th, 6th, 23rd and 24th.

It comes after workers backed strike action in eight ballots.

Unite said the action follows the rejection of an 18-month pay offer amounting to £3.75 (€4.18) extra a day for the lowest paid.

It predicted the walkout “could potentially shut down the airport”.

The union claimed there is growing frustration over pay disparities between workers doing the same job, as well as the “massive” pay package earned by Heathrow chief executive John Holland-Kaye, whose basic remuneration rose from £2.1 million in 2017 to £4.2 million last year.

Unite regional co-ordinating officer Wayne King said: “There is deepening anger over pay among workers who are essential to the smooth running of Heathrow Airport.

“They are fed up of being expected to accept crumbs while the chief executive pockets an eye-popping 103 per cent rise in his pay package and shareholders are handed dividends of over £2 billion in the last two years alone.

“To add insult to injury there are widening pay disparities leading to airport security guards employed after 2014 earning up to £6,000 less than colleagues hired before that date.”

He added: “Bosses at Heathrow Airport need to get their heads out of the sand and start negotiating meaningfully over pay.

“Otherwise there will be significant disruption to flights to and from Heathrow and the potential closure of the airport over the summer months because of industrial action.”

A Heathrow spokesman said: “We are disappointed that Unite will be taking strike action. Following this decision, we will be implementing contingency plans that will ensure the airport remains open and operating safely throughout any co-ordinated action.

“We will be working alongside our airline partners to minimise disruption caused to passengers as they look towards their well-deserved summer holidays.

“We are proud of our record as a good employer and we remain committed to finding a solution.

“We have proposed a progressive pay package giving at least a 4.6 per cent pay rise to over 70 per cent of our frontline colleagues.
“The total package offered is above RPI [Retail Prices Index] and is specifically designed to boost the wages of lower-paid colleagues.

“We have invited our union colleagues back to the table and urge them to continue working with us to reach an agreement.” – PA

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/cons...nion-1.3955043

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Oh you poor economy class passengers.

I claim mitigating circumstances your honor, firstly being forced to travel in cattle, second my kids would never have behaved like that little shit and they'd have got the same treatment but after about two minutes or less.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Oh you poor economy class passengers.

Company policy used to be fly business and turn up for work on arrival or fly economy and turn up following day. I always preferred the economy option if possible.

With my own money it's cattle class and decent hotel still. I'll take the upgrade on points ever other year but that's about it. I am knackered whichever hardly sleeping when travelling.

Originally Posted by Troy

With my own money it's cattle class .

EVA or Thai on a Tues or Weds from LHR at c£450 rtn direct and quite often get 4 seats

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

LA to KHR

Air New Zealand eh, great flight in my Gold Member Business Class days

Originally Posted by Troy

Company policy used to be fly business and turn up for work on arrival or fly economy and turn up following day. I always preferred the economy option if possible.

What a horrible, mean company.

Women fly to predominately muslim country, then complain about there being muslims on their flight home.

It didn't end well, stupid bitches.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...errorists.html

^ The word racist was always in quotations...odd.

Originally Posted by happynz

^ The word racist was always in quotations...odd.

It's the Daily Mail. If they called anyone racist they'd lose all those white pensioner readers.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

What a horrible, mean company.

Yes I'm a mean bastard...

Originally Posted by Troy

Yes I'm a mean bastard...

The Turkey that voted for Xmas

Hardy har....

Boeing Co.’s 737 Max may stay grounded until early 2020, the Wall Street Journal reported, months later than the guidance the planemaker is privately providing customers for resolving a software issue that surfaced last month.


The plane is expected to start flying again in January 2020 “under the latest scenario,” the Journal said, citing unidentified sources within the Federal Aviation Administration and pilot-union leaders. The situation is “fluid” and no firm timeline has been established, the newspaper said.

https://skift.com/2019/07/15/faa-sources-say-the-boeing-737-max-may-stay-grounded-until-2020/

Ryanair's cunning plan to hide the fact they are flying the Boeing deathtraps...

In Moscow, a private helicopter Robinson R-22M crashed

Two people were killed. One of the dead was the head of the United Federation of Super-Light Aviation of Russia Igor Nikitin.
This was reported by Kommersant.

He is known for being the instructor of the Russian President Vladimir Putin and accompanied him during the flight on a hang glider with cranes in 2012.

It is known that he was behind a helicopter's helm during an accident.

https://novyny.org/2019/07/15/u-pidm...obinson-r-22m/

Video: Putin flies with rare cranes in an ultralight
2012

Adorned in white overalls - to resemble a bird - Vladimir Putin spent some of Wednesday leading in a different capacity, heading a flock of crane birds in flight from a hand glider. The stunt already has the Russian blogosphere alight

Originally Posted by Klondyke

a flock

snigger

or did the rest of the air sh1tters flock off ?

Chaos at Düsseldorf Airport as passengers forced to leave luggage behind



Passengers at Düsseldorf Airport had to fly without their luggage on board on Wednesday due to a major breakdown in the baggage system.
Around 2,500 suitcases were left stranded in the airport after a technical malfunction hit baggage handling facilities at the airport, local media reported Wednesday.

It came during a busy time for the western German state: the school summer holidays started last week and many people are jetting off.

As our pictures show, suitcases were left standing in the check-in hall on Wednesday morning because staff were not able to load them onto departing planes. Security employees cordoned off the luggage in a hangar in North Rhine-Westphalia's largest airport.

According to an airport spokesman, five out of seven baggage handling systems were out of order between 3.30am and 8.45am. During that time only a limited number of baggage items could pass through the security check and be loaded onto planes.

https://www.thelocal.de/20190717/cha...stem-breakdown