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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Turning a Boeing 747-8 into the world's largest private jet
Take a look inside one of the world's largest private aircraft – the bespoke Boeing Business Jet 747-8i.
www.executivetraveller.com
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
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I could live there.Turning a Boeing 747-8 into the world's largest private jet
Take a look inside one of the world's largest private aircraft – the bespoke Boeing Business Jet 747-8i.
I like the fact that the article felt the need to point out that the Middle Eastern businessman who has bought the plane and commissioned the conversion is 'wealthy'
BassJunkie
Clams on the half shell, and roller skates.
Turning a Boeing 747-8 into the world's largest private jet
Take a look inside one of the world's largest private aircraft – the bespoke Boeing Business Jet 747-8i.
God, I'd feel like such a loser travelling in one of those "spacious business class standard" seats in the back. <goes back to browsing EasyJet flights>.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
High Voltage
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Uks flag is up-side-down - a sign of being in distress or a warning
bcuster
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Why do airplanes fly? apparently, no onre knows...
getpocket.com
No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air
Do recent explanations solve the mysteries of aerodynamic lift?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
From 2025 Qantas will fly non-stop in an A350-1000, taking ~20 hours.
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Whereas few would yearn for the actual flying time required back in those days, the concept of breaking up such a long journey into a 2.5 day leisurely trip with two overnight stays at exciting cities along the way, rather than a three-hour refuelling stop along the way feels far more civilised to me. It’d probably reduce the jet lag effects a fair deal too.
For what I read on aviation forums, tge Project Sunrise nonstop flights will be significantly more pricey than the existing one stop routes. I guess they’ll be very popular with business & first class pax, but unlikely to be worth the price difference for those in economy for the sake of a few hours saved.
Still an amazing technological achievement though. And to think a few short decades ago the very prospect of crossing the Atlantic for a mere six hours on two engines was unthinkable…
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
The current non-stop to Perth (went to Darwin during The Plague) is more expensive than the one stoppers via the Middle East or Singapore, but you get on at Heathrow and 17 hours later walk off in Oz, for people wanting Perth as their final destination in my experience they are generally happy to pay for it, just yesterday I had a guy pay £8k for a biz seat next month and his daughter (in her mid-20’s) paid £2200 for an eco seat on it, the Qatar Airways option was £5k and £1.2k respectively, that happens regularly, although of course Perth, lovely as it is, isn’t a major destination, would imagine once Sydney comes on line it will be a very busy flight. And if they do the same with Melbourne that will be too, do far more to Melbourne than Sydney…
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Did the tight fucker go Business and put his daughter in Economy?
I've done it twice it's definitely the best way to get the UK from Perth. You end up noticeably less fucked on arrival due to not having to arse about with a stop.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
She is in her mid-20's and has to pay for herself, though naturally her credit card wouldn't work and had to use daddy's card, "I'll pay him back" - 'course you will...
But on that point, parents who fly up the front and stick their child age kids down the back, really shitty behaviour. Famously Gordon Ramsey and Kirstie Allsopp are proud to do so, so you know it's scummy business. BA has an actual published policy about it, as so many parents have done so and the kids have run amok, it says should that happen the parents will be downgraded, even if it means upgrading an economy passenger in to the parent's seat. So if you see a parent turning left and their child turning right, complain that the kid is playing up and get a free upgrade
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
I didn't find the stop-over too bad flying to Adelaide, because in Singapore at least you can get a hotel room in the airport for 4 hours, have a decent nap, have a shower, get changed and generally freshen up. It made it more bearable than another 7 hours of non-stop flight would be.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Still a total dick move. I'd have gone in economy with my daughter.
strung out
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My wife flew in business on our last trip to Malaysia, while I had to go economy. Budget couldn't stretch to both of us....
Lancman
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Some time ago the airline that I worked for, GulfAir in Bahrain, ran a Boeing 747 route to New York with a refueling stop in Cyprus. My daughter was cabin crew on the 747 and I was on the Tristar mainly operating to the Far East. My wife was still in Cyprus awaiting a chance to join me in Bahrain so I took the opportunity to buy her a ticket from Larnaca to New York on a flight on which I knew our daughter was working. As she was boarding in Larnaca she was re-directed to first class, courtesy of the Captain.
She and my daughter had a really great couple of days together in the Big Apple before returning with the same crew, again first class. She was surprised to be invited up onto the flight deck for the final couple of hours as they flew down the Turkish coast approaching Cyprus and the Captain explained that this was a small thank-you to her husband (me) because I had trained him some years before.
She and my daughter had a really great couple of days together in the Big Apple before returning with the same crew, again first class. She was surprised to be invited up onto the flight deck for the final couple of hours as they flew down the Turkish coast approaching Cyprus and the Captain explained that this was a small thank-you to her husband (me) because I had trained him some years before.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
I have a spare ticket for the above next Sunday if anybody is interested. Paper ticket only, so will be reliant on postal service. Not sure if there will even be enough time to send, but if anyone is interested I will try. It is a sold-out event and be a shame to waste a ticket.
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
I went to watch it fly past. I tracked it carefully. It went over bloody Glasgow and came nowhere near here. We had a good day out anyway
