tso310

World usage is around 85 million barrels a day. The range given in the article would equal a world supply of anywhere between 2 - 9 days. A drop in the bucket.

After the production expenses and Chevron's take, I don't see that there will be such a huge sum of money that allows the Cambodian government to be any more corrupt than it already is.

how could you say there isnt much money involved?

say they were able to take 500 million barrels from it... (concidering its estimated there are anywhere from 200 - 700 million barrel's there)

the average price for a barrel of oil is currently $63 a barrel... thats about $31,500,000,000..

now, take chevrons take and production costs i think they are looking at maybe anywhere from 10 - 30% of that money to cambodia....

also, take into fact that oil is rising at a rapid rate.

30% of 31 and a half billion is $9,450,000,000..

which is 333,573,369,453.70 baht. (333 and a half BILLION baht)

if thats not a lot of money then what is?

Both of you are right. 500 million barrels is nothing in world terms but to a pittifully poor country like Cambodia it might have a positive effect. However I have my doubts as to whether enough will trickle down to the average person to make any real difference. There'll probably be a boom in high end houses and cars.

Thailand, the hub of full employment.

TG ordered the A380 primarliy for the LHR and FRA routes. The competitor for the A380 will be the smaller B747-800. Lufthansa has just ordered the passenger variant, the first airline to do so. Already quite a few freighter orders. Due for delivery in 2010 the 800 is 12 feet longer than the existing 400.

Need to take a bus to the plane??? I thought this was going to be one of the advantages of the new airport--eliminating those bus rides. Why would someone design an airport that required bus rides. I would think the cost overhead would be more expensive than not having them not to mention they are an unwelcome addition to passengers trip.

Its actually cheaper to park remotely and have passengers bussed to that location rather than at a gate. Don't ask me why. I saw a program on Ryanair and how they tried to cut costs and this was one of them. Of course if it was an ATR then you can't use the gate.

Quantic - Apricot Morning

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.