Thread: Airline News

Sabai Sabai,
Thanks for all the Kan Airline Flight info you provided. My husband and I appreciate your feddback, and we look forward to our vacation in Thailand soon.
Also, Happy New Year 2012 to you and all the other TD forum members.
Cheers and like the say in TH "Sawas Dee Pee Mai."
Amina Christoph

You're Welcome, have a great time

Happy 2012 to you and Chris too

I don't understand, when is the best time to book flight LHR to BKK for August 2012 early or later and best company? had 1000 air miles with Eva seems I have lost them because I didn't use them last year, thought they could be save for use at any time. thanks for any tips

It's always best to book early buddy.

You will see the price go up and up weekly after around March time

Try Ebookers.com.

They guarantee to beat anyone

Originally Posted by oldgit

had 1000 air miles with Eva seems I have lost them because I didn't use them last year, thought they could be save for use at any time

Send them an email, they might be nice, start and end the message with, Happy New Year

Many thanks Sabaii will book today.

Chinese airlines refuse to pay a European levy on carbon under the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), a national aviation industry group said Thursday."China will not cooperate with the European Union on the ETS, so Chinese airlines will not impose surcharges on customers relating to the emissions tax," Cai Haibo, deputy secretary-general of the China Air Transport Association (CATA), told Reuters news agency.

CATA represents the country's four major airlines: flag-carrier Air China, China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines and Hainan Airlines.

Good that China may be able to put a stop to this nonsense.

Originally Posted by BobR

Chinese airlines refuse to pay a European levy on carbon under the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), a national aviation industry group said Thursday."China will not cooperate with the European Union on the ETS, so Chinese airlines will not impose surcharges on customers relating to the emissions tax," Cai Haibo, deputy secretary-general of the China Air Transport Association (CATA), told Reuters news agency.

CATA represents the country's four major airlines: flag-carrier Air China, China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines and Hainan Airlines.

Good that China may be able to put a stop to this nonsense.

There are a few outs by all accounts, but it sounds like China isn't exactly keen to use any of them and are threatening a trade war.

^irrespective of whether or not the ETS carbon tax is a good idea or not these things are only fair and practical if everybody pays the same under the same circumstances. Not doing so distorts the market. It seems that china is bitching that its airlines are not being allowed to complete unfairly against the other airlines flying to and from europe, I cannot see that getting much sympathy at the WTO or anywhere else outside china.

Originally Posted by hazz

I cannot see that getting much sympathy at the WTO or anywhere else outside china.

Yes, if only everyone abided by the WTO rules and the idea of free markets.

Originally Posted by hazz

^irrespective of whether or not the ETS carbon tax is a good idea or not these things are only fair and practical if everybody pays the same under the same circumstances. Not doing so distorts the market. It seems that china is bitching that its airlines are not being allowed to complete unfairly against the other airlines flying to and from europe, I cannot see that getting much sympathy at the WTO or anywhere else outside china.

So the WTF rules against China, who are the Euro-crybabies going to whine to when China stops buying Airbus planes or other European products? Most of the Chinese airlines are at least partially owned by the Government.
When someone has as much money and power as China has, crossing them comes with a price.

^You quite right, the chinese could retaliate like that. The issue is if you back down to chinese posturing over an issue of such little importance to china as this, can you imagine the precedent that this would set for future negotiations. After all all these changes are doing is creating a level playing field for companies flying to and from europe.

The leaders of the african states would do well to watch this as it clearly demonstrates the rather narrow limits of china's doctrine on non interference with the internal policies of foreign countries. At some point in the future they are going to find themselves between a seriously anti chinese population and a rather aggressive china that owns their ass.... and china seems to be making sure that telling them to get stuffed is not going to be an option.

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Originally Posted by hazz

So the WTF rules against China, who are the Euro-crybabies going to whine to when China stops buying Airbus planes or other European products? Most of the Chinese airlines are at least partially owned by the Government.
When someone has as much money and power as China has, crossing them comes with a price.

It's a moot point, China will soon stop buying airbus planes anyway.
They're very busy developing their own aircraft building industry.
Unfortunately the Chinese have a very strange attitude towards things like quality control and preventative maintenance.

^Bollocks. Chinese planes will be fine. I am sure their planes will just as safe as their trains; an integral part of their population control program

Originally Posted by OhOh

Originally Posted by hazz

I am sure their planes will just as safe as their trains

You might discover it was the European supplied signalling system, installed by ex pat "Experts", which caused the crash. But hey it wouldn't be China bashing then would it.

Er.....

China Railway Signal and Communication, the signaling-system provider, sells its technology and services to more than 20 countries, including Pakistan, North Korea, Iran and Zambia. The company’s Web site says it devotes itself first of all to safety.

European?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by OhOh

Originally Posted by hazz

I am sure their planes will just as safe as their trains

You might discover it was the European supplied signalling system, installed by ex pat "Experts", which caused the crash. But hey it wouldn't be China bashing then would it.

Er.....

China Railway Signal and Communication, the signaling-system provider, sells its technology and services to more than 20 countries, including Pakistan, North Korea, Iran and Zambia. The company’s Web site says it devotes itself first of all to safety.

European?

Isn't all chinese technology stolen from the West or Japanese. Again I might be wrong.

What is the safety record of the Chinese railway system, say compared to the US, in numbers of reported accidents, do you know?

Boeing 767 runs out of fuel, makes emergency landing in Kolkata
Saturday, January 07, 2012

Kolkata A Boeing 767 aircraft from Denmark to Thailand, with 292 passengers on board, made an emergency landing at Kolkata's NSC Bose International airport late on Thursday night as it ran out of fuel.

Airport sources said that the aircraft run by Thomson Fly group took off from Billund and was on its way to Phuket, when the air crew noticed some problem in the toilet when the plane was flying over Afghanistan.

The pilot headed toward Delhi but was not given permission for landing due to the fog. With depleting fuel stock, the plane finally made an emergency landing at the Kolkata airport around 6 am on Thursday.

After the refuelling and checking procedure, the aircraft could not take off as the FDTL (flight duty time limit) of its pilot had crossed the stipulated hours. The plane was grounded for over 24 hours for another international pilot to take over.

Procedural delays with another round of check-up resulted in the second pilot taking over at 6 am on Friday. This further delayed the departure to 12:15 pm finally.

mumbaimirror.com

^ Reminiscent of the Gimli Glider!

except there's no mention of it on anything but an Indian news site, so ran low on fuel, rather than out perhaps?

Hmmm Indian news site spouts shit, how unusual.

^^^^^You are too kind harry

Seven passengers were injured and four needed treatment in hospital after a Qantas A380 flight from London to Singapore was rattled by strong turbulence, the Australian airline said on Sunday.
The Airbus superjumbo was three hours from Singapore when it hit a storm over Indian airspace early on Saturday and encountered "severe turbulence", a Qantas spokeswoman said.

"Seven passengers were impacted, four of them were taken to hospital on arrival in Singapore. They've all since been discharged and cleared to fly," she said.

They mostly suffered bruising and had been out of their seats when the air pocket hit, she added.

"The aircraft was assessed, there's no damage and it's scheduled to arrive (in Sydney) at 9 o'clock this evening."