tso310

Bangkok, the hub of all best cities.

Thought I'd get that in first.

The last plane has landed, a Kuwait A340 Manila-Kuwait. Live on TGN.

My fondest memories of DM were back in the early eighties. Got in 45 minutes early from Dhahran and then had to wait 90 minutes for my luggage to appear as the hold was full of tv, videos etc. Couldn't believe how much was cargo the DC10 had been carrying. On another occassion just about to board a flight back to Dhahran and this drunken Scotsman comes up and says "is this the Dubai flight", "no its for Saudi" I replied. Never seen anyone sober up so quick.

Is that a rocket in your pocket ? No its my 155mm recoiless rifle.

This is an old favourite which comes up year after year. Wasn't Khon Kaen going to be the Airbus maintenance hub for Asia last year. Forget who Airbus finally decided on, Singapore I think.

Probably popping up to Bolton tomorrow to help big Sam with his bung allegations.

I believe has landed.

BBC also reported it as a Thai aircraft from JFK. I just picked it up on a flight tracker looking at what was enroute between the 2 airports.

Well he's currently due in at Gatwick at 17:43 BST on a chartered Thai A340-600, flight number THA8847. Anybody going to offer him a lift or his going to have to use the Gatwick Express.

It's been a couple of years but... PB Air were excellent and their Embrarers are super aircraft. We stayed at the River View and thoroughly enjoyed it. Had river view rooms as well.

We fly back end of June midweek £412 WestEast travel. 1 week later and we were looking at £200 more. Luckily our youngest finishe here GCSE's then and saved me a packet. UK universities finish start of July and loads of Thais are students here. Mid late July you're looking at families with kids between 5 and 15.

If memory serves me right the airport opened in about 88. Remember seeing a big advert in Thai Rath advertising the opening of the route. The cheap fare everyone is quoting was infact subsidised by the Thai Government to about half of the economic rate. This I think lasted for about 3 years and then Thai replaced the 737s with the more economic ATRs. But with their overblown structure the service still lost millions of Baht but the government refused to let them withdraw from the root.

Not sure how upto date this site is

http://satellite.information.in.th/

Graham Parker - The Heat in Harlem

Interesting,

I've passed this along, and, ah, may have intimated bodies were recovered and are being keep in a hanger ...

Hanger haa sib et I presume.

Don't forget its songkran 13-15 April.

It's the ghost of Phuket Air !

According to the rankings of the table above, the most free (the "all-green") countries are (in alphabetical order):

Canada

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

Iceland

Republic of Ireland

Netherlands

New Zealand

Sweden

Switzerland

United Kingdom

Norway ? Belgium ?? Luxembourg ???

Well I enjoyed it and understood it.

I don't think there are any whispering giants flying any more. Shame ! Always prefered the DC-10 to the L1011 but I suppose I'm being a bit of an anorak.

DJ Pathaann's Indian Sunset

If you're in BKK there's a shop across the road from Pantip selling the gear. They should have some info on clubs.

Fuel surcharges, other taxes - yes, thats about 100 pounds on top of a ticket price. Airlines are reticent about quoting an all-in price as it makes them look expensive.

Absolutely correct Moog

Just out of interest here's the add on for a flight Luton to Budapest I've just booked with Wizz. They are the only airline I've seen to actually state what goes into the tax addon

Fare £19.99

Tax £22.47 (£5.68 passenger surcharge, £0.56 Security Tax, £5.00 departure tax, £3.53 Insurane and facility charge, £7.70 Fuel Surcharge)

The return is worse, fare £9.99 tax £20.38.

They are using the E145s. I've enjoyed using PBs E145s but its been a couple of years. I hope the level of service hasn't slipped.

Just another piece falling of a Phuket Air aircraft.

Watched it with the wife. It does look like its a well coordinated effort by all the governments concerned. Amazing to think that they will probably be able to identify the vast majority of bodies a long time after the event although it has unfortunately taken the events of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia to develope the techniques demonstrated.

2 people for 40k is very good value. They did go to Singapore some time back but pulled out. Not sure why they think Bangkok would be more profitable. Becoming a popular place for eco-tourism, I've seem a few tv holiday progs about it.

A/c B767-300

departs Antanavrio Mon Fri 0805 arr Bangkok 2100

Departs Bangkok Tue Sat 0130 arr Antanavario 0600