tw25rw

Depending on occasions, First, Business as well as Economy, I have travelled on a "Jump Seat" once, what is your curiousity?

Because I have found the service in economy to be excellent and far far better than often rude business class service (this as been my experience)

Then why not stick to economy and save the dough?

Because then he'd have to sit in economy. You don't fly business just for the service.

I find the service in business class to be worse than economy on thai air. The cabin crew are older and often grumpy compared to economy where there are younger cabin crew and much more willing to serve politely and in friendly manner.

I don't really care about stuff like that. Some people want to be pampered, but I just want to sit there and be left alone. I just need the big seat and quiet cabin. Champagne, cheese platter etc, I can do without.

Good for you there are days when I like to travel Ike this to point A to B ...Air Asia / Lion / Tiger / Nok / Bangkok Airways all for the bill for me ...I'm at Don Mueng waiting for an hour AA flight to Siem Reap

On 20-30 hours flights ...good service and good food does matter

Yes those longer flights are exactly what I'm talking about. Where quality of service is v important.

I expect decent service, but I don't expect the full obsequious first class type service that some people want. I want it as cheap as I can get it (I buy my own ticket), but with a seat I can lie down in and edible food. I also don't think it important that the cabin crew are physically desirable, as long as they are professional .

I find the service in business class to be worse than economy on thai air. The cabin crew are older and often grumpy compared to economy where there are younger cabin crew and much more willing to serve politely and in friendly manner.

I don't really care about stuff like that. Some people want to be pampered, but I just want to sit there and be left alone. I just need the big seat and quiet cabin. Champagne, cheese platter etc, I can do without.

Oh and the seats are 90's style cradle....hahahaha

I can live with the sloping flat seats if it means keeping the price down. I was very disappointed when EVA ditched them and put up their prices. Happily, I got a mixed business/PE ticket for January for £1400 on EVA. If Thai did PE I would consider them for a good price.

I'm flying Royal Jordanian biz class on the new dreamliner next month for £1300.

I would rather pay a bit more and not have to kill time in some airport in the middle of the night.

Who are Royal Thai Airlines?

Forget fines etc. Just deport him with a note in his passport saying why.

tw25rw: As a Hammer you will also be aware that clubs can sometimes listen when fans speak out. El Hadji Diouff didn't join West Ham because the fans were so vocally opposed to the move. He too had served his various sentences and punishments (there were plenty of them, mind you). Interestingly, Neil Warnock; who called Diouff a sewer rat when he managed QPR; went on to sign him at Leeds.

I remember it. He went to Doncaster and scored against us.. We were also linked with someone this season who had a conviction for gang raping someone as a teenager. We also had Ben Thatcher on trial and didn't take him on, possibly because he was booed every touch when he played for us in a friendly. I'm not necessarily personally anti these people, but plenty are.

I am not a lawyer, I know nothing about the the terms and conditions of his release, do you?

Lets be honest, if this was some brickie going back to work on his local building site, it would never have made the back page never mind the front.

As for serving his time, does anyone these days?

See opening sentence.

The PC brigade have jumped all over this, the sad reality is, we no longer have a football team, we have a product to be marketed, in the greed is good league.

How many of the PC brigade have ever stood on the terraces at Derby in the middle of winter as their team was thumped 6-1?

It's nothing to do with the "PC brigade". You anti-PC people are just as tiresome btw.

Football depends heavily on sponsorships and advertising for revenue. It also depends heavily on supporters, many of whom are women, being willing to pay money to attend games and spend money on food/merchandise etc. They won't do this if they don't feel pride in the team and in the sport itself. Sex offenders are some of the most reviled people out there and the powers that be would have to think very carefully about the image of the game as would any club that employed him.

I hope CE is able to get the conviction overturned and think he has a case. If he doesn't, he'll just have to find another job like thousands of other footballers do every year when for some reason they have to give up.

Oh and the seats are 90's style cradle....hahahaha

I can live with the sloping flat seats if it means keeping the price down. I was very disappointed when EVA ditched them and put up their prices. Happily, I got a mixed business/PE ticket for January for £1400 on EVA. If Thai did PE I would consider them for a good price.

Is Chad Evans any good as a footballer, never heard of him before his rape charge, as for Malky he should never manage again he is a complete racist that who maybe in the 70s would be slapped on his back for his comments but not now a days.

He was a good lower division striker before he went down.

There's nothing 'PC' about this by the way. Political correctness is a good thing, it's basically institutionalized politeness. Not being a c*nt to people. This isn't about that.

So why is CE being hung out to dry by the PC liberal left wing types.

He did his crime, he did his time, why aint he allowed to play again?

What next, every ex con cant go back to work?

I hope CE is smart enough to get a bunch of lawyers onto this and sue the ass off everyone involved.

Not being a c*nt to people.

So, why are the bleeding heart left wing liberals throwing this guy under the bus?

Political correctness is a good thing,

Thank my budda I live in Thailand.

Personally, I'd like to see anyone use terms like "bleeding heart left wing liberals" tied to a pole and be severely beaten.

The decision as to whether he gets to play again is a football decision made by football people based on what is good for the game. It shouldn't involve the courts. Plenty of lines of work require background checks and block people with a criminal record. It's just tough shit it it stops you doing the job you want to do.

Personally, I think Evans has a case and hope he gets his career back, but I do think he should get the conviction overturned first. If he fails with that, then it's park football for him on principle, even if really didn't do it.

As for Mackay, I think he should have to do some awareness course and some kind of community service, but lose his career as Tan seems to think he deserves. I think Tan is just bitter that someone spoilt his fun by giving Mackay a job.

Sounds like the thing they built at Ekkamai. The food court gets fairly busy but go upstairs and there's no one there.

I've generally found them ok except for one guy who answered the ROP phone number in London and told lies.

But they are insanely overpriced on the LHR-BKK route, especially in their premium classes.

As for keeping you waiting in the queue, I wouldn't be surprised if they were late seeing off the previous flight having checked the boarding passes at the departure lounge. They seem to do that there.

Cricket = Jinglid in Thai.

As Norrad says, you buy them from pet shops who sell them as food for birds/lizards etc.

Welcome to the third world.

So all of Europe is third world also.. beggars in Zurich, Berlin, Paris, Rome.. just to mention few..

Don't think I have seen a begger with leprosy on my travels in Europe. Or one with horrific skin diseases or burns.

There's a guy that begs on the London underground with horrific burn scars. Has no facial features left and only claws for hands. I have heard he was a tank driver in one of the gulf wars.

My friend, a sergeant in the British Transport Police, once arrested him for begging : "he won't get himself a job"..

It says organic molecules, not alien life. The universe is already known to have abundant organic molecules: methane for example.

Just a small private hotel where the owners thought they could try it on. If the review was honest rather than mischievous, I don't see that they had a leg to stand on.

The main benefit from a passenger's point of view is that the air pressure is higher, so you benefit from more humid and more oxygen rich air. Not sure how much you notice that. I'm sure the airlines still cram them in.

I think that they should be treated the same way regardless of what the victim's family thinks. Some victims won't have family and others will have families that will be open to financial restitution in return for requesting a lenient sentence. I didn't say I don't care what happens to him, but I do think being allowed to marry is a minor concession. He's 80 odd, will never get out and lives in a dangerous environment surrounded by younger and more hot headed people. I'd give the guy a break.

Thais don't "nick" things from planes or in general. They are quite civil and polite. Although I have many good Chinese friends and I really enjoy China, one thing that is noticeable and quite irritating (though it has improved by leaps and bounds over just a few years) is the Chinese propensity to take things from aircraft that they shouldn't, including cutlery, maybe even the life jackets, perfume in the bathrooms, even the safety card! Even more annoying are those impatient passengers who unbuckle their seats and are starting to walk around the cabin when the plane has barely come to a stop after landing! That prompts an angry "SIT DOWN!!" from cabin crew, especially on foreign airlines such as Thai (this only applies to flights to/from China, or within China).

As a regular on the THAI Bangkok-Kunming-Bangkok flights, I've noticed things have definitely improved since 2009, the first time I flew to Kunming and indeed my first time to mainland China. Back then it was completely uncivilized, chaos reigned supreme. However, these days it's only a minority of Chinese passengers in my experience that still "act up"; it seems more and more are becoming well travelled these days and with improved manners. Even on Chinese domestic flights same thing, nothing much to report about.

I have a friend who collects the safety cards. Asks me to get them for him, but I always "forget".

There's worse people than her around. At least she is visible to be voted for or derided. There are people behind the scenes of the Liberal party that make her look positively cuddly.

Between fighting cocks and fighting dogs, I think I'd rather my neighbours kept roosters over the pitbulls etc.

The 787 has much more new tech in it. The A380 is relatively conventional. To an extent, I think the 787 is experimental and the lessons learned will be used for future airliners. The thing I always wondered about was why so many obscure airlines were among the initial recipients- Ethiopian, Kenyan, Air India etc. I would have expected Boeing to be pushing to more prestigious airlines first.

I'm surprised anyone really cares. Some old madman in jail gets married.

It's not like he's ever going to live a normal life.

Or any life outside of bars.

The families of the 7 victims care.

He is still alive and the victims are still dead.

It's important to care and to remember. When the next serial killer comes along we use our memories and recordered history to help decide how to deal with that person. Learn from what we did right and we did wrong in the past.

So you think they should have asked the families whether he should be allowed to marry? I don't think they should have any say in it myself. He's been dealt with by the legal system according to the law of the land.