CheshireTom

Have you got any figures to back up that claim? More informed sources seems to think otherwise .......

Bigchaser, Are you on the same drugs as BigD? I don't object in the least to MrDream pimping the various services that he offers - I only expect to receive what is offered e.g. that the women are older than the vehicle rather than vice versa. If you read carefully and slowly, you'll realise that it is another BM (midlifecrisis) that objects to my use of the word "pimping". So you, like him, can come up with a better word to describe what he does.

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- U.K. holiday company TUI Travel on Tuesday announced measures to help it refinance a 900 million pound ($1.4 billion) shareholder loan as it also said it would cancel ten of the 23 orders its has with Boeing Co. for its 787 Dreamliner.

It makes a nice accompaniment to the 18 year-old whisky. Apparently.

EVA Air's website. But they don't price flights ex UK in USD any more than they price flights ex US in GBP. http://www.evaair.com/html/b2c/english/deals/Promotions/

Not much use to me from the BKK end but seems like good deals from the UK. All bookings through their website ........

Actually, it was specifically rejected. "A WTO panel on Sept. 4 found some loans by European governments for Airbus distorted trade, though it rejected a U.S. argument that loans for Airbus constituted a single program stretching back over decades". "The World Trade Organization (WTO) has in principle accepted that European loans to Airbus did not contradict trade rules, an informed source told the German Press Agency dpa on Sunday. The WTO distributed a much-anticipated, confidential report on Friday on the US government's claim that European Union nations gave over 4 billion dollars in subsidies to the aircraft maker for the development of the A380 Super-Jumbo airliner. But US plane-maker Boeing has not succeeded in its goal of having the interest-bearing loans made in the past to Airbus classified by the WTO as illegal export subsidies, the source said".

Access is free for Mastercard (and a few other CC/DC) holders irrespective of their class of travel (or on payment for anyone else). I've no idea about the rules regarding free access for pax in transit in excess of 5 hours. I would assume that it would be issued with your boarding card in much the same way as a biz class lounge pass is.

Free access is to the Marhaba Lounge, not the Emirates Business Class Lounge.

Advertising your service as including the option to have one, or more, prostitutes supplied along with the car service is pimping by any reasonable definition. Unless you can come up with a better one.

Hub, No, not at all. I've always said that the likely outcome would be that the WTO would find against both Airbus and Boeing. Has there been any other outcome? I can't recall the US suggesting any trade sanctions against the EU which is what they'd be entitled to do. Well, it is ....... until such time as the WTO rule on Boeing's illegal subsidies. Have you any idea of exactly what subsidy (ies) were found to be illegal? I'm not familiar with Fox News. Anyway, they're not subsidies, they're a financial stimulus package.

You've got to bear in mind that BigD is an American ......... That's one .... just one more needed to satisfy the plural.

I'm sure that Mr Obama will remind them next week when he's trying to convince them to prop up GM and Ford.

Hub, As I said a couple of years ago, the WTO case had nothing to do with subsidies and everything to do with attempting to prevent EADS being part of the tanker bidding. No-one seriously expects that any sort of trade sanctions are going to be imposed by the US, or the EU, as a result of the rulings. The only fodder it serves is that dished up to the American public about those nasty French folk subsidising their industries.

Not at all. The WTO has yet to report on Boeing's subsidies. The interim ruling will have zero impact on the development of commercial aircraft, Boeing or Airbus. The whole WTO charade is, and always has been, a political football to justify US nationalistic tendencies. Of course, they are now desperate to award the tanker contract before the WTO reports on Boeing's subsidies. You couldn't have predicted that. Or, maybe you could.

The Marriott is listed as a 2nd Rd property. Just trawling through the facilities and room/hotel descriptions it would appear likely that the 5* is the Dusit and the 4* is the Bayview.

The Bayshore is listed as a South Pattaya hotel, not a Beach Road hotel. Possibly the Bayview?

You can whittle down the options by comparing the individual hotel facilities against those listed for the "mystery" properties. I had a look at the Bangkok Sukhumvit 5* options a couple of weeks back and the facilities matched exactly with the Grand Millennium Sukhumvit. I couldn't find an exact match for the 4* property, so maybe they have a couple to choose from.

I had an Airfix model of a Zero when I was a kid. Unlike today's planes though, it's plastic wings didn't fall off.

They used A340s on the route earlier this year.

Taltos, See the link below. Just select the aircraft you want to view. http://www.thaiair.com/thai-services/in-th...ur-aircraft.htm

Depends on the airline, aircraft type, the IFE system that's installed and whether the seats are part of a "double" or "triple" set.

It's not my legroom chart - it's a published seat pitch chart (seat pitch and legroom are not the same thing). Unfortunately, if you want IFE you're going to get the control boxes under a good proportion of the seats. The Thai A340-600 that you flew on to London has them as well. The seat pitch on the Thai 747 (and A340-600) used on the London route is identical to that offered by Qatar - 32-34 inches, depending on your seat. Maybe you got a seat with a 32" seat pitch on Qatar and 34" on Thai. It could just as easily have been the other way round. I can appreciate your willingness to pay more for what you found suits you. I'm quite happy to pay 800-900 quid more so that I don't fly in Qatar's economy class. Thai's 747 economy class.

Which airline are you going to pay an extra 150 quid to? Or did you mean an extra 1,500 quid?