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Post by Hugh Jorgan on Dec 31, 2023 13:17:25 GMT 12
G030 might help here.
What is China Southern Air like to fly with.
Looking at a month in Vietnam ( on the way to europe) and they are $776 one way from Auckland. By 787-9, 32" leg room.
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Post by GO30 on Jan 1, 2024 8:52:46 GMT 12
G030 might help here. What is China Southern Air like to fly with. Looking at a month in Vietnam ( on the way to europe) and they are $776 one way from Auckland. By 787-9, 32" leg room. Never flown them so don't know sorry. Never heard any bad though.
My Go To airline is China Airlines, which is based is Taiwan and not to be confused with other 'china' airlines which are all Chinese based like Air China.
787-9 are newish so that's good. 776 is bloody good. You'd have to seriously consider it.
Where in Vietnam for what?
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Post by Hugh Jorgan on Jan 1, 2024 9:24:11 GMT 12
Hanoi to start with and to look around. Killing time cheaply before walking the Lycian way in Turkey ( April )
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Post by GO30 on Jan 1, 2024 13:07:39 GMT 12
I am a huge fan of Hanoi, love the place. Go to hotel is the Golden Rice in the old 1/4, tidy as and cheap. The street food is superb, especially the Bun Cha....shit now I'm seriously hungry  I'm trying to organise a visit to a plantation a bit south of Hanoi at the moment. They are being a little cautious, as they should, but it;s looking good so I think we'll make it happen. |
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Post by Hugh Jorgan on Jan 1, 2024 15:23:38 GMT 12
Thanks G030.
Whats your interest in crops?
Are drivers cheap by the day?
We are spendimg a month there chillaxn etc.
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Post by GO30 on Jan 2, 2024 12:22:02 GMT 12
Most things are cheap. Grab a scooter, Vietnamese ones can carry more than a NZ 5t trunk  Suss the local craft beers, they have some goodies and even their mainstream is good. Highway4 restaurants, Catfish rolls if they still make them, yummy! Illicium verum, a splice tree. Trying to grow some here but they are proving hard to propagate. |
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Post by fish on Jan 3, 2024 8:30:19 GMT 12
This wont buff out. Japan Coastguard Dash 8 and JAL A350 collide on runway. Massive fire. 5 dead on the Dash 8, but the pilot escaped. 300 and something escape the A350 - that is freggin amazing in itself - the not so funny bit, that is 300 plus scared and panicked people running around an airfield in the dark while fire trucks charge around in the opposite direction. The Dash 8 was supposed to be delivering supplies to the EQ disaster. PS, the airport has 4 runways. They've re-opened the other 3. Would make you a bit nervous taxing for take-off and passing the burnt out wrecks of two aircraft. www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/301034539/five-dead-hundreds-evacuated-after-planes-collide-and-catch-fire-at-japan-airport |
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Post by GO30 on Jan 3, 2024 12:27:54 GMT 12
Ouch, someone is going to get their arse kicked for those obvious multiple system failures.
When on the ground like that an aircrafts crew do not make positioning or timing decisions, all they do is follow instructions. That suggests someone gave shit instructions or wasn't listening to the read back. When receiving instructions from the tower or ground the flight crew have to 'read back' what they were told as a double check, it is mandatory. Or there was a horrendous piolet error which seems hard considering each cockpit would have to have 2 cocking up at the same time.
Good to see the safety systems kept so many alive though.
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Post by ComfortZone on Jan 3, 2024 12:55:29 GMT 12
Ouch, someone is going to get their arse kicked for those obvious multiple system failures. When on the ground like that an aircrafts crew do not make positioning or timing decisions, all they do is follow instructions. That suggests someone gave shit instructions or wasn't listening to the read back. When receiving instructions from the tower or ground the flight crew have to 'read back' what they were told as a double check, it is mandatory. Or there was a horrendous piolet error which seems hard considering each cockpit would have to have 2 cocking up at the same time. Good to see the safety systems kept so many alive though. when boarding or disembarking I watch other people f..ing around and wonder how on earth a large passenger plane could be fully evacuated in the required 90 seconds. Japanese probably better than average as they are good at following instructions. |
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Post by fish on Jan 3, 2024 13:03:23 GMT 12
Ouch, someone is going to get their arse kicked for those obvious multiple system failures. When on the ground like that an aircrafts crew do not make positioning or timing decisions, all they do is follow instructions. That suggests someone gave shit instructions or wasn't listening to the read back. When receiving instructions from the tower or ground the flight crew have to 'read back' what they were told as a double check, it is mandatory. Or there was a horrendous piolet error which seems hard considering each cockpit would have to have 2 cocking up at the same time. Good to see the safety systems kept so many alive though. when boarding or disembarking I watch other people f..ing around and wonder how on earth a large passenger plane could be fully evacuated in the required 90 seconds. Japanese probably better than average as they are good at following instructions. 379 is the number of people they got off the JAL A-350. That is amazing I reckon. There is no info on how fast the fire spread, but obviously the photos have the plane fully involved and the fire trucks doing feck-all. Shows what happens if people don't stop to get their carry-on luggage. |
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Post by GO30 on Jan 4, 2024 8:52:28 GMT 12
Looks like the CG aircraft fucked up. It'll be interesting to watch the investigation, which will already be happening and will be published as they all are.
One report said 379 passengers off and all check in only 18 minutes. 18 minutes is ages long, I hope that was a case of typical crap journalism not actual timing.
I tend to sit in emergency seats after flying around the pacific so much. The added leg room is a bonus.
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