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I don't know about you, but I will be very happy if TG cancel their A380 order. In fact, I will be very happy to never set foot in one. A full 747-400 is bad enough, but imagine as many as 800 passengers passengers boarding the plane, finding overhead space and getting seated. Then it's 800 passengers deplaning, huge queues at immigration and probably the most fun: pushing and crowding around while waiting for literally thousands of bags to hit the baggage carousel. And of course after that, it's the 800 passengers plus hundreds of meeters, greeters, and taxi touts in that wonderful exit area in arrivals at Suvarnabhumi.

But then there is Boeing's 787. Fewer than 300 passengers (some configs with only 220), cabin air from electric compressors with higher humidity (instead of from engine bleed air), cabin pressurisation at 5000 feet (rather than 8000 feet in other aircraft, incuding the A380), a quieter cabin due to advanced insulation and engine ducting design, large (18.5") cabin windows using electrochromic window shading (no window shades), soft "mood lighting" using all LED cabin lighting. It even comes with an Active Gust Elimination System to improve ride quality and smooth out chop.

And there are less than one third as many passengers and bags as the A380!

I am wondering whether Airbus might have a PR backlash after the A380 begins flying and passengers begin moaning about the hordes of people and massive queues. I know already I will avoid any flights using A380 equipment for that simple reason.

Typical no nothing <deleted> !!

Very few Airlines are opting for the 800 seat config this is only for prospective future budget airlines.

Most customers (Thai included) will have a mix of economy, business and economy totalling around

540 passengers.

The 787 is not a competitor in any shape or form except to the A350 !!

By "no nothing" presumably you mean "know nothing." It is true that the A380 will hold "as many as 800", and it is also true that most airlines will opt for a mixed confirguration of classes with as few as 555 passengers (with a typical three class config). Actually, depending on configuration, the aircraft will hold anywhere from 555 up to 853 people. No matter how you count it, that is a lot of passengers - anywhere from double to more than triple the number of passengers in a B787.

Now if you could kindly point out the "no [sic] nothing <deleted>" contained in the post above, I shall stand corrected.

It is uncharacteristic of me to write No nothing when I meant Know nothing and I would have responded in the same way as you have. But the negativity you were and still are invoking about the 800 passengers is biased and irritating. I know of only one airline who is considering a full economy seating configuration and it is highly unlikey that you or I will be travelling on it.

I don't know about you, but I will be very happy if TG cancel their A380 order. In fact, I will be very happy to never set foot in one. A full 747-400 is bad enough, but imagine as many as 800 passengers passengers boarding the plane, finding overhead space and getting seated. Then it's 800 passengers deplaning, huge queues at immigration and probably the most fun: pushing and crowding around while waiting for literally thousands of bags to hit the baggage carousel. And of course after that, it's the 800 passengers plus hundreds of meeters, greeters, and taxi touts in that wonderful exit area in arrivals at Suvarnabhumi.

But then there is Boeing's 787. Fewer than 300 passengers (some configs with only 220), cabin air from electric compressors with higher humidity (instead of from engine bleed air), cabin pressurisation at 5000 feet (rather than 8000 feet in other aircraft, incuding the A380), a quieter cabin due to advanced insulation and engine ducting design, large (18.5") cabin windows using electrochromic window shading (no window shades), soft "mood lighting" using all LED cabin lighting. It even comes with an Active Gust Elimination System to improve ride quality and smooth out chop.

And there are less than one third as many passengers and bags as the A380!

I am wondering whether Airbus might have a PR backlash after the A380 begins flying and passengers begin moaning about the hordes of people and massive queues. I know already I will avoid any flights using A380 equipment for that simple reason.

Typical no nothing <deleted> !!

Very few Airlines are opting for the 800 seat config this is only for prospective future budget airlines.

Most customers (Thai included) will have a mix of economy, business and economy totalling around

540 passengers.

The 787 is not a competitor in any shape or form except to the A350 !!

It all works fine from Germany with the new numbers

I know it is used all over but I always associate whinging as coming from Australia where they refer to us Brits as "Whinging Poms"

Last year , when I was last in LOS , I read of a new procedure

where :

1) ID would have to be produced when purchasing a SIM card.

2) Ditto for existing numbers or service would be suspended.

The procedure wa obviously never implemented because I

bought a SIM in a 7/11 without amy ID.

Today , again , I read of bombs being detonated in the south

using mobile phones.

What happened ?

I registered mine in Carrefour in Pattaya and saw a thread later where someone, who works there, was saying they had a big stack of forms just collecting dust. Not being collected

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I stand corrected, see that’s why you are an English teacher, you must get great satisfaction helping poor people like me getter a better understanding of my mother tongue.... Thanks for that

And may I just add good job sticking up for the racist illiterate probable liar.

Next time I post would it be ok if I e-mailed you first so that you can check my grammar????? Please.

Please correct me if I am wrong again, but aren’t you contradicting yourself by calling me perfect in a post pointing out my slight grammatical error??? Or was that a lame attempt on you behalf at being sarcastic??? you can do better than that surely.

No big deal at all but the whole point of your post was to critisize his spelling for f*** sake !!

As an ex Australian customes official your note your note regarding Austalian cutoms.

how long was you in the job??? Obviously not long enough to learn how to spell customs or smuggle !!!!

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I think you must be a liar.

Hey Mr Perfect I think you mean how long WERE you in the job

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But these excessive amounts have nothing to do with 'normal Customs behaviour' !

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But these were excessive amounts of ciggarettes 10 times the allowance each person is taking the piss !!

I agree with Tim207, I am more concerned with the airport than the tanks. What perfect timimg, I arrive in two days. My partner said the Thai Baht has dropped 31 percent. Hoping to see 45 baht to the U.S.D. or more .

I THINK YOU MEAN 31 sitang ???

cricky's punters,

"FARTING" , now where talking top shelf, king of the road personnal stuff.

this is a subject that needs a real heavy duty 1, 2 , 3 knockout response from my box of life's little experience's.

look,

i'm not going to piss around here and i'll tell you straight up what happened to myself when i really needed to let rip a custard tart .

i was at the surin round up and thought i was going to <deleted> my daks if i did'nt let a ripper out.

anyway,

being the polite fellow i am, i did not want to scare the thai punters, so i thought that i'do it near one of those elephants as they would not give a toss , and there health would be unaffected.

anyway, moving right along punters and please pay close attention here as i am a bit sensitive about what happen'ed next .

i let rip with a cracker fart that would of powered the space shuttle all the way to mars.

anyway, my back bottom was near in frigging flames.

jes-us frigging christ,

i turn around to see if the elephants got a giggle out of it and cricky's mate's, there was 30 of them laying stone dead on the freaking ground.

friends, now i must tell you all,

i <deleted> bricks as the thais where real bloody dark on my good self and started to get hostile.

i bolted out of there quick smart back to safety of rambuttri street and never went back to surin again.

now dont you punters tell anybody what happen'ed at surin.

cheers all punters.

Thanks mate had me holding on to my sides on a dull poxy Monday here in Germany

I have dual nationality.. Can hold 4 passports.. My housemate works offshore and has 2 passports that are rammed with stamps..

Do you really think this is going to work ?? And I can tell you with 100% certainty the passport scanning system cannot in real time tell you whatt is going on with entry amounts of time..

Whatever system is proposed has to be enfoced on the ground.. This isnt feasable as described at airline check in.

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They would not need to find the stamps in your passport(s) ....the should just be able to hit a button on their computer and see how many visits and for how long.

While I agree that this must be more involved than '3 recent stamps you cant come in' can you really see airline chack in staff and the immigration queues going through all of your passports.. Finding all recent stamps (which could tally into 10's on many pages and books).. Tallying them for days incountry.. All before hitting the OK stamp.

I have dual nationality.. Can hold 4 passports.. My housemate works offshore and has 2 passports that are rammed with stamps..

Do you really think this is going to work ?? And I can tell you with 100% certainty the passport scanning system cannot in real time tell you whatt is going on with entry amounts of time..

Whatever system is proposed has to be enfoced on the ground.. This isnt feasable as described at airline check in.

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They would not need to find the stamps in your passport(s) ....the should just be able ti hit a button on their computer and see how many visits and for how long.

"While I agree that this must be more involved than '3 recent stamps you cant come in' can you really see airline chack in staff and the immigration queues going through all of your passports.. Finding all recent stamps (which could tally into 10's on many pages and books).. Tallying them for days incountry.. All before hitting the OK stamp.

I have dual nationality.. Can hold 4 passports.. My housemate works offshore and has 2 passports that are rammed with stamps..

Do you really think this is going to work ?? And I can tell you with 100% certainty the pass-port scanning system cannot in real time tell you whatt is going on with entry amounts of time..

Whatever system is proposed has to be enfoced on the ground.. This isnt feasable as de-scribed at airline check in."

They would not need to find the stamps in your passport(s) ....the should just be able ti hit a button on their computer and see how many visits and for how long.

i wonder how he does that? maybe whips out the connect 4 - if they're <deleted> at it, they've passed.

I have been doing that at Don Muang for years without any problem. The beauty of it is that you

get into a meter taxi set at starting price of 35 baht as opposed to buying a 350 baht voucher from those robbing xxxxxxxs on the ground floor.

Svenivan I don't know if you wrote this yourself but it is the funniest thing I have read for ages !!

Starts fairly tame but by the end I was nearly collapsing !!

Many thanks !!

The opening ceremony was a much played down affair on purpose. Germany cancelled the original planned open ceremony that was to have been held in Berlin on the Thursday. After 2 years of planning and much money already spent they cancelled it to save money.

Be interest to hear of how many people on here have to send the missus in to get a price or a quote for something, i bet im not alone

Whenever my wife (Thai) is looking for shoes or whatever I always amble of in a detached manner.

We have experienced undiguised annoyance by vendors if they later see us together but mostly the see the joke and give a wry smile.

This is my first post just like to say I love Thailand !