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« Reply #60 on: November 27, 2024, 14:36:17 pm » |
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So who do you rate as having the best business class?
For me it would be a toss up between Singapore and Emirates.
I‘m a big fan of virgin- perhaps not the most luxurious but always fun - the absolute worse are Air India |
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« Reply #61 on: November 27, 2024, 14:47:46 pm » |
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I‘m a big fan of virgin- perhaps not the most luxurious but always fun - the absolute worse are Air India
I've been on some right crates and white knuckle rides around the world...  |
“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2009
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« Reply #62 on: November 27, 2024, 15:50:27 pm » |
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I've been on some right crates and white knuckle rides around the world... C/O Crab air? |
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« Reply #63 on: November 27, 2024, 18:27:08 pm » |
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Garuda Indonesia first class was excellent, but when we landed at Gatwick the pilot decided to turn the wrong way on the taxi way and was made to do an almost full circuit of the place before we got to the finger.
Internal flights on Indonesia were and experience to say the least. On the approach to Surabaya the pilot announced we were going to start our decent and promptly sticks it into a nose dive like an effing Stuka dive bomber. Found out later that on internal flights they were using mainly ex airforce pilots who hadn't quite worked out that shedding height and speed on a civilian aircraft was a bit different to that of a military plane.
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Deepcut Cobbler
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« Reply #64 on: November 27, 2024, 18:52:46 pm » |
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C/O Crab air?
No, CrabAir are good compared to some of those I've been in. My first EVER flight was as an 18 year old, nine hours in the back of a C130 Hercules to The Gambia. 80+ of us flying in the back of a flying furniture van, in canvas seats, with no windows and a 'chemical' bucket surrounded by a shower curtain for the toilet. Over the years, I grew to love flying in Hercs... often flying for days on end in them.  |
“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2009
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« Reply #65 on: November 27, 2024, 19:34:39 pm » |
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No, CrabAir are good compared to some of those I've been in. My first EVER flight was as an 18 year old, nine hours in the back of a C130 Hercules to The Gambia. 80+ of us flying in the back of a flying furniture van, in canvas seats, with no windows and a 'chemical' bucket surrounded by a shower curtain for the toilet. Over the years, I grew to love flying in Hercs... often flying for days on end in them. VC10's were quite luxurious, 24 hours to Singapore in 1969, ice cold coke in Bahrain and breakfast on Gan atoll in the Maldives, the first time I saw yellow tomatoes. Stepping off the VC10 into the tropical heat of a Singapore evening was a shocker. Waking up the following morning in a room with a ceiling fan and palm trees outside was amazing........... Best years of my childhood C/O the RAF  |
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Deepcut Cobbler
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« Reply #66 on: November 28, 2024, 08:36:29 am » |
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VC10's were quite luxurious, 24 hours to Singapore in 1969, ice cold coke in Bahrain and breakfast on Gan atoll in the Maldives, the first time I saw yellow tomatoes. Stepping off the VC10 into the tropical heat of a Singapore evening was a shocker. Waking up the following morning in a room with a ceiling fan and palm trees outside was amazing........... Best years of my childhood C/O the RAF With all seats in the safest position, facing backwards... |
“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2009
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guest3706
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« Reply #67 on: November 28, 2024, 09:56:38 am » |
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With all seats in the safest position, facing backwards... Indeed they were, and sweets were given out prior to takeoff and landing to assist with pressure changes in the ears |
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DrillingCobbler
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« Reply #68 on: December 24, 2024, 18:39:38 pm » |
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I've just booked 4 nights in Riga, Latvia in March. To coincide with our sons Spanish Exchange trip. Might be a bit cold but ticks orf a new greynd (country) for us. Was dithering over going somewhere 'hot' for a week, going a bit silly and booking Dubai, looked at a couple of places in the US of A...but thought a random trip to a country we've not been too which is cheap as chips (relative) was the correct choice. Given we've got some big bloody bills to pay early next year!  Any travel suggestions/tips most welcome! |
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Manwork04
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« Reply #69 on: December 25, 2024, 09:24:16 am » |
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I've just booked 4 nights in Riga, Latvia in March. To coincide with our sons Spanish Exchange trip. Might be a bit cold but ticks orf a new greynd (country) for us. Was dithering over going somewhere 'hot' for a week, going a bit silly and booking Dubai, looked at a couple of places in the US of A...but thought a random trip to a country we've not been too which is cheap as chips (relative) was the correct choice. Given we've got some big bloody bills to pay early next year! Any travel suggestions/tips most welcome! I love Dubai it’s a bit of a marmite destination, absolutely no culture, but great restaurants, hotels, beaches and shopping. Australia is awesome if you’ve never been, the flight is an absolute killer, I worked on the commonwealth games in Gold Coast, that part of the world is next level, up to Cairns and do the Barrier Rief scuba, bucket list stuff. |
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therealpattcobb
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« Reply #70 on: January 06, 2025, 12:32:34 pm » |
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I've just booked 4 nights in Riga, Latvia in March. To coincide with our sons Spanish Exchange trip. Might be a bit cold but ticks orf a new greynd (country) for us. Was dithering over going somewhere 'hot' for a week, going a bit silly and booking Dubai, looked at a couple of places in the US of A...but thought a random trip to a country we've not been too which is cheap as chips (relative) was the correct choice. Given we've got some big bloody bills to pay early next year! Any travel suggestions/tips most welcome! I loved Riga although it isn't very big. Four nights might be pushing things a bit that time of year! Be sure to buy a Latvia scarf like I did... claret and white, not made it to a game yet. Lot of street food type eateries in Galerija Centrs shopping centre in the old town. I was having a pizza in there when Mitch silenced St Andrews last year |
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