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Agree with @GRALISTAIR above. Incredibly impressive. My flights are oh so vanilla in comparison. What's it like traveling to Afghanistan now?

Have to agree with @Tetchytyke here, sorry.

Yes, BA, JAL and ANA were all about £1500 or more. Air China £500 (£420 if I'd been willing to fly from Singapore coming back - a £160 detour, but a chance at visiting two places). Amazingly, the Chinese airlines often have competitive flight times despite connections as they fly over Russia (a...

Note that even Southwest Airlines has now moved to allocated seating. People are willing to pay to sit together, to be near the front, for extra legroom seats, for window seats etc etc. and it's a lot of money the airline is leaving behind if they don't charge. easyjet, or indeed any airline...

Just booked my third long-haul trip of the year. Heading to Japan next month which is something to look forward to. Going with Air China via Beijing one way and Shanghai the other. The Chinese airlines are just so much dramatically cheaper than any other option. Just one weekend left to go...

They appeal to very similar markets. They both heavily rely on the transit market for volume. UK <-> India/ Pakistan/ Bangladesh, UK -> Thailand, and UK <-> Australia/ NZ in particular. They both also heavily sell their 'premium' experience - both being highly mixed (middle seat in business on...

Of course captains do have discretion to deviate from SOPs (which the checklists are a part of) if something is in the interests of safety. This was not one of those scenarios. There have been cases where checklists are overly long and complex. When that comes to light, many of those are...

Yes, it's an exceptionally odd comment. Checklists are not supposed to be 'skipped' - in part or in whole.

Which pilots are these? There aren't that many 787 pilots in the UK - Probably about a 1000-1500 between BA, Virgin, Norse and tui. There are about 1250 787s in service and they have been operating commercially coming up to about 15 years now. The 737 Max (and newer NGs) and the 777 family...

Stansted Airport gateline has to be one of the most interesting in the country for the general cluelessness of passengers. Worse than Gatwick or Heathrow by some measure. Before contactless acceptance, every train would have multiple passengers expecting to tap out. The signs at Liverpool...

A blast from the past. Didn't realise they still made it. Old Jamaica I like, but it's not the same since they've cut the sugar and added sweetner.

Welcome to privitisation in the UK. Even that bastion of capitalism, the United States, tends to keep things that make sense in state control under state control. Anyone who has been to New York JFK, Newark, Miami, Atlanta, Orland, Los Angeles LAX or basically any other airport in the States...

I feel like an old fuddy duddy type for saying it, and it didn't help our team was leaderless so to speak, but it was and is a huge issue. At the end of the day, I was quite lucky. Months in, the expectations on me were essentially zero. The whole organisation seemed to float along without...

So much on this thread. So much of it tainted by whether you ideologically support Heathrow expansion or not. I also don't get this silliness on ownership. The UK has privaitsed itself to the highest bidder - generally a foreign company or government. Heathrow, Stansted and Luton are...

My current job pays part of our salary as an 'allowance'. It even appears on our payslip separately from the base salary though it's taxed and NId just like it. One of the things this allowance is supposedly for is a mobile phone. Can't imagine it's the only company to do that. This reminds me...