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At 650 per night including breakfast. I'd say grab it. It's a great deal. I eat breakfast there and Bert serves good pub grub. No worries about the noise. BTW I haven't stayed there but I've gone through the rooms and they are good value for the Baht.

EVERETT - Bad news for Boeing. The company is reporting falling profits. Boeing just released its second quarter earnings saying profits fell 21% as revenue dropped off in both its commercial airplane and defense units. Profit for the quarter fell to $787 million, from $998 million a year earlier. Revenue fell more than 9% to just over $15.5 billion. Boeing also says that the first delivery of its new 747-8 may slip into early next year. It has already said the same thing about its new 787. QUOTE

The theater organized its Grand Opening on July 9. The Natayasala Puppet Show is under the patronage of the late H.R.H. Princess Galyani Vadhana Krom Luang Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra, who wished to revive traditional Thai puppetry and preserve this ancient art, as well as making it an important showcase of Thai cultural heritage to Thai and foreign audiences. The Puppet Show features one of Thailand's top puppet masters and the country's last 'Grand Master' of small puppet performers. The puppet theater deceided to set up a project called the “Natayasala Small Puppet Show in Divine Place South Pattaya”, to promote this ancient art in Pattaya City, the world’s best tourist destination. Quote I pulled the above off the internet. Sounds like a fun place to take a BG for an evening out. I'll check it out in September.

I'm a Premier Executive in UA frequent flier program and no availability for my level.

FARNBOROUGH, England – The stream of plane orders continued at the Farnborough International Airshow on Tuesday, taking the tally past $25 billion and underscoring hopes of a resurgence in the aviation sector after a painful two-year downturn. The deals at Farnborough, considered a barometer of the aviation and defense industry along with its sister show at Le Bourget in Paris in alternate years, show demand is reviving globally. "This is a good time to buy aircraft," said Flybe Chief Executive Jim French after unveiling a deal to buy 35 Embraer 175 jets, worth $1.3 billion, from the Brazilian manufacturer. French said the company will use the planes, to be delivered between 2011 and 2017, to fund the regional European carrier's expansion plans. In a further sign of the market's health, Air Lease Corp., which rents planes out to airline clients, ordered 54 Boeing 737-800s — a deal worth $4.1 billion at list prices. ALC also took out an option to buy six more of the aircraft. "We see a lot of demand across the spectrum ... the recovery is starting in Asia," said ALC President John Plueger, adding that capacity reduction in the United States has borne fruit by increasing load factors and yields. In Europe, Plueger saw "fairly robust demand that is developing and building." Another new leasing company, Ireland-based Avolon, which was created just two months ago, ordered 12 Boeing 737-8 jetliners in a deal worth $921 million. "It's amazing how quickly this market is coming back," said Jim Albaugh, Boeing's Commercial Airplanes President, as he signed the deal with Avolon. "Six months ago people were worried about liquidity." Also Tuesday, luxury carrier Vistajet ordered six new aircraft from Canadia's Bombardier in a deal worth $277 million. Bombardier said it had also received firm orders for four Global Express XRS jets from undisclosed customers based in Russia, valued at a total of $213 million. French-Italian regional turboprop manufacturer ATR agreed sales worth $663 million at catalog prices with Brazilian carrier Azul Linhas Aereas and Air Lease Corp. for 30 ATR 72-600 turboprops. ATR also announced a deal for six ATR 72-500s worth $128 million, but did not disclose the buyer. Airbus did not announce any new firm orders on Tuesday, but said Hong Kong Airlines intends to buy fifteen of its A350s and ten A330-200s with a new net value of $2.8 billion. More than 1,000 exhibitors from 38 countries have signed up for Farnborough, with delegations from Egypt, Taiwan and Morocco attending for the first time. Organizers also cited stronger interest from major players China and Russia. Analysts don't expect anything close to the record-breaking $88.7 billion worth of deals announced at Farnborough in 2008, but the gathering has already exceeded the meager $7 billion for commercial planes at Le Bourget last year. The global industry is expected to return to a profit this year after a he huge loss of $9.4 billion in 2009. Asia and North America are expected to lead the recovery, with Europe lagging behind. Strikes at some airlines, the debt crisis and the volcanic ash cloud that caused major disruptions this spring are all hurting Europe's recovery. Airbus chief salesman John Leahy said his company and rival Boeing survived the downturn better than in the past because in anticipation of a slump in demand they let backlogs build up without increasing production. Still, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft President Gary Scott was cautious about the near-term outlook, saying airlines needed to be sure they could sustain recent post-crisis gains before they had the "balance sheet and the courage to order airplanes in significant quantities again." Etihad Airways, a buyer in recent years, said it wasn't planning any new orders this year because it has taken care of its fleet needs through at least 2020. But fellow Middle Eastern airlines Emirates and Qatar did place orders, as did European carrier Aeroflot and plane leasing firms GE Capital Aviation, GECAS and Air Lease Corp. Boeing has notched up a number of sales for its fuel-efficient 787 jetliner, which is making its international debut at Farnborough after a problem-plagued production line delayed the Chicago-based company's delivery schedule. The first 787 is due to be delivered to Japan's ANA later this year, more than two years overdue, and Boeing has said that could slip into the first few weeks of 2011. But optimism in the aviation sector wasn't extending to the defense side of the sector, where massive cuts to Western military budgets were the talk of Farnborough. In the U.S., the world's biggest single defense market, the Pentagon is looking to trim some $100 billion from personnel and procurement costs over the next five years. In Britain, Europe's largest market, the government is considering cuts of up to 20 percent. Airbus' long-delayed A400M military transport plane is providing a high profile symbol of the problems facing the defense sector. Britain has already scaled down its order for the four-engine military transport, which will take part in the daily flying display at Farnborough. "We demand, and the nation expects, that our armed forces are provided with the equipment and support they require to do the jobs that we ask them to do," British Defence Secretary Liam Fox said at the show. "But in addition we demand, and the nation expects, that we can demonstrate value for money on defense expenditure." Airbus expects to start delivering A400Ms sometime after December 2012, around four years behind schedule and 50 percent over budget because of technical glitches. The original seven customer nations — Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey — agreed with Airbus' parent European Aeronautic Defense & Space Co. in March to spend an additional euro3.5 billion to save the project after months of bickering about who should pay for cost overruns. Analysts will also be watching for developments in the bitter Boeing-Airbus battle to win a $35 billion contest to provide aerial tankers to the U.S. Air Force — the World Trade Organization ruled earlier this month that European governments gave Airbus illegal subsidies for the project. The show runs July 19-25 at an airfield about 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of central London. QUOTE

FARNBOROUGH, England – Boeing Co. and European arch rival Airbus racked up billions of dollars worth of aircraft sales at the Farnborough International Airshow on Monday, raising hopes that the aviation industry has touched the bottom of a deep two-year downturn. But the horizon remains clouded — major European airlines, which are still haunted by recession, mostly kept their hands in their pockets as Middle Eastern carriers and U.S. plane leasing firms made purchases to build up their fleets. The optimism also isn't extending to the defense side of the sector where massive cuts to Western military budgets were the talk of the industry's premier event. The biennial gathering at an airfield outside London — bringing together plane makers, airlines, government officials and military top brass — is considered by industry watchers a key test of the industry's health. More than 1,000 exhibitors from 38 countries have signed up for Farnborough, with delegations from Egypt, Taiwan and Morocco attending for the first time. Organizers also cited stronger interest from major players China and Russia. "We're gradually starting to see a slow recovery to a new norm," Owen MacFarlane, CEO of CAV Aerospace, told the AP from his exhibition stand at the show. "So maybe it's not the same volumes as we saw in 2007 and 2008, but certainly an increase from where we have been," he said, noting he cut 25 percent of his work force over the past 18 months. "Everybody seems a lot more buoyant." Analysts don't expect anything close to the record-breaking $88.7 billion worth of deals announced in Farnborough in 2008, but the gathering has already exceeded the slow orders for commercial planes at Le Bourget last year, where deals came in at around $7 billion. The International Air Transport Association has forecast that global industry profits will reach $2.5 billion this year, an upturn from the huge $9.4 billion loss in 2009. Asia and North America are expected to lead the recovery, with Europe lagging behind. Strikes at some airlines, the debt crisis and the volcanic ash cloud that caused major disruptions this spring are all hurting Europe's recovery. "There is a renewed enthusiasm to look forward again among the airlines," said Howard Wheeldon, a senior strategist at BGC Partners, who upped his forecast for commercial plane orders at the show to 400 from 300 after the early burst of announcements on Monday morning. Boeing Commercial Airplanes President Jim Albaugh said the market "has come back faster than we expected" and the Chicago-based company has twice raised its internal forecasts for the number of orders at the biennial show. The early orders, worth a total of $17.7 billion, included an Emirates deal to buy 12 Boeing 777-300ER jetliners, worth $3.6 billion at list prices. Boeing also received a $3 billion order from GE Capital Aviation Services for 40 737-800s. EADS-owned Airbus picked up a $4.4 billion order from Air Lease Corp. for 20 A321 aircraft and 31 A320s, a $4.9 billion order from GECAS, General Electric's commercial aircraft leasing arm, for 60 A320s. Russian flag carrier, Aeroflot, the only European airline to buy on Monday, ordered 11 of Airbus' A330-300 aircraft, worth $1.7 billion. Canada's Bombardier, a rising challenger to established giants like Airbus and Boeing, received an order for three business jets from Qatar Airways in a deal worth $122 million. Bombardier Commercial Aircraft President Gary Scott was cautious about the near-term outlook, saying that airlines needed to be sure they could sustain recent post-crisis gains before they had they "balance sheet and the courage to order airplanes in significant quantities again." "2011/12 is when the rising tide will lift all ships," he said. In the U.S., the world's biggest single defense market, the Pentagon is looking to trim some $100 billion of savings from personnel and procurement over the next five years. In Britain, Europe's largest market, the government is considering cuts of up to 20 percent. Wheeldon said that defense "worries are more significant than at any of the other shows I've attended." "Cuts are the order of the day, rightly or wrongly, as Western governments seek to pull back on their expenditure," he said. Giulio La Scala, Business Development Manager at Northrop Grumman Italia S.p.A, said several programs were suffering. "We are living in a period in crisis," La Scala said as he manned the company's display stand at Farnborough. "So many of the major products have been delayed or there has been a restriction on the number of aircraft that they are flying." Airbus' long-delayed A400M military transport plane is providing a high profile symbol of the problems facing the defense sector. Britain has already scaled down its order for the four-engine military transport, which will take part in the daily flying display at Farnborough. Airbus expects to start delivering A400Ms sometime after December 2012 , around four years behind schedule and 50 percent over budget because of technical glitches. The original seven customer nations for the aircraft — Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey — agreed with Airbus' parent European Aeronautic Defense & Space Co. in March to spend an additional euro3.5 billion to save the project after months of bickering about who should pay for cost overruns. Analysts will also be watching for developments in the bitter Boeing-Airbus battle to win a $35 billion contest to provide aerial tankers to the U.S. Air Force — the World Trade Organization ruled earlier this month that European governments gave Airbus illegal subsidies for the project. The show runs July 19-25 at an airfield about 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of central London. QUOTE

FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom (AFP) – Boeing's 787 Dreamliner jet, whose delivery to clients faces fresh delay, landed in Britain on Sunday after its first flight outside of the US ahead of the Farnborough International Airshow. The test plane landed at Farnborough airport at 9:08am (0808 GMT), watched by journalists from around the world, ahead of the major week-long trade show that begins on Monday, where aircraft makers are hoping to secure major orders. "It's such a nice plane," Mike Bryan, the pilot who flew the Dreamliner to Britain from the United States told reporters after landing. "I can't find a pilot who doesn't love it. I'm privileged enough to fly it." Last week, US aircraft maker Boeing said it may be forced to delay the delivery of its first fuel-efficient Dreamliner to 2011 from late this year -- a date that was already more than two years behind schedule. It has secured 860 orders so far. Last month, Boeing said it had detected a "workmanship issue" with the horizontal stabiliser of the aircraft, whose innovative structure and manufacture across more than 100 sites has created many technical problems. The company is hanging its future hopes on the mid-sized plane -- Boeing's first new model in more than a decade -- which draws on huge advances in aviation technology and is capable of flying long-haul routes with up to 20 percent less fuel. The fuel efficiency is largely down to the fact that up to half the twin-aisle Dreamliner is made of lightweight composite materials, such as carbon fibre-reinforced resin, according to the company. Boeing launched the programme in April 2004 and initially had planned to deliver the first plane to Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways in the first half of 2008 -- a deadline which may now be pushed back until the start of 2011. The plane can seat up to 330 passengers. Boeing's fierce European rival Airbus is meanwhile working on a new long-haul plane of its own -- the A350 XWB (Extra Wide Body). Another big project for Airbus is its long-delayed A400M military transport plane. The head of Airbus parent company EADS, Louis Gallois, said on Sunday that he expected contracts with clients for the A400M to be signed in the European autumn later this year. "I expect it will be at fall," Louis Gallois told reporters. The client countries for the Airbus transporter are France, Germany, Spain, Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg and Turkey. The seven states, after tense negotiations in the face of production difficulties with the A400M, reached an agreement in March with EADS on sharing out 5.2 billion euros (6.4 billion dollars) in cost over-runs. The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company plans to deliver the first A400M to France in early 2013. Gallois meanwhile added on Sunday that he expected the military plane market to face a tough few years as governments look to slash their defence spending in a bid to reduce massive state deficits. "We think that we have ahead of us three or four years that will be difficult," said Gallois. On the civilian side, any new orders for aircraft at Farnborough -- one of aerospace's biggest events -- are likely to be dominated by airlines from emerging economies across Asia and the Middle East where air traffic is growing rapidly. Boeing and Airbus meanwhile head to the show facing increased competition for their mid-sized civilian jets from smaller manufacturers, such as Brazil's Embraer and Bombardier of Canada. QUOTE

I just booked my third trip to Pattaya this year. I booked an award ticket with United. They didn't have any seats but their Star Alliance partners did. I arrive BKK on 28 November and leave 14 December. Not many award seats left. So if you looking to book. You'd better do it now.

Bring on what? I'm just showing, I have a sense of humor and having a go at what's his name. You know who I'm talking about the old American bar owner geezer who looks like death warmed over.

FLB on party night. It's free all you can eat. Get to the serving table early. Foods still hot and you have the best selection. Ask Moulie to tell you when the foods ready to serve. She'll clue you in. BTW buy one bottle of beer and nurse it till the BG start getting rounds of Tequila bought for them. Theres always a couple of BG that don't like the taste and will slip you theirs for free. Works for me. The above is just little olé me providing a bit of entertainment to mm. To all my peeps, I'm just having a go at the owner. Almost no truth to the above.

Good looking group of girls. See you in September.

Tastes way better then it sounds.

Subway offers a pale imitation of a Philly hoagie.

They were on my last trip which was a couple of months ago.

Philly cheese steaks are in Pattaya. Well I'll be damned. I was born and raised in Philly and I do my cheese steaks and I have the body to prove it. I'll check them out when I'm in town next September. Thanks for the heads up. Now if we could get a shop to sell Philly hoagies................

For the guys who like BBQ. I would suggest you try the Great American Rib Company in Jomtiem. Food is excellent.

No problem on my end.

You should take note of question three. Seems that Airbus sucked the EU into funding a plane that looks to be a loser. Once again this shows the EU taxpayer getting screwed by Airbus.

No you offered to discuss giving my money back that you stole from me. I wasn't interested in discussing anything. I wanted my money back and if you didn't cough it up there would have been a major problem.

Like I said we shall see how it plays out. I never asked her about marriage. Like I said, I thought about it and that's as far as it went. My proof was available in Pattaya. You were in Pattaya at the time. You could have seen them but you didn't.

I like your sensible quantity. i don't waste beer but I've been known to piss it away.

WTO has passed down their ruling. We shall see how it plays out. I never married Wassanna. Only in your own mind have you disproved anything. Like I said, I'm the only forum member who has offered up proof to back up my various claims. Yeah gotta love those original documents. No BS phony baloney photo shopped nonsense you post.

Your such a silly willy fella. I've got a positive attitude toward life and now that the WTO has stopped Airbus from reaching into the EU taxpayer pocket.......... No need for my family to be ashamed of me. I'm not the guy who went home and lied to my family when I told them lies about the Asian prostitute I planned on marrying. My family was proud of the quality women I married. My parents were proud that I attended Cambridge. Then again they were so proud that I started with dollar 1 and invested it so it became many dollars. My family has many reasons to be proud of me. Good war record. Great husband and even better dad to our daughter plus I'm a all around good guy with many friends.

Boeing claims 'sweeping victory' in WTO Airbus ruling WASHINGTON (AFP) – Boeing claimed a "sweeping legal victory" Wednesday following the WTO ruling that some European state subsidies to aircraft giant Airbus are illegal. Boeing said the ruling would require Airbus to repay four billion dollars under the illegal subsidies, a claim disputed by the European aerospace giant. "This is a landmark decision and sweeping legal victory over the launch aid subsidies that fueled the rise of Airbus," said Boeing CEO Jim McNerney. The six-year US complaint had held unfair subsidies from the EU to Airbus worth up to 200 billion dollars (139 billion euros) helped the European maker seize more than half of the market for civil airlines. Under the panel's ruling, Airbus "must repay the four billion dollars in illegal launch aid it received for the A380 or restructure the A380's financing to proven commercial terms," said Boeing general counsel J. Michael Luttig. "Likewise, Airbus must abandon its plans to finance the A350 through the use of illegal subsidies," he said. McNerney said the Office of the US Trade Representative deserves "tremendous credit" for the decision. "We now join the US government in urging full compliance with the ruling and a permanent restoration of fair competition within our industry," he said. US Trade Representative Ron Kirk earlier claimed an "important victory" in the ruling, which he said "will benefit American aerospace workers, who have had to endure watching Airbus receive these massive subsidies for more than 40 years." An industry source has warned the European Union would appeal the ruling. Seventy percent of the US claims "were rejected and wild allegations have been proven wrong," Airbus said in a statement. "Neither jobs nor any profits were lost as a result of reimbursable loans to Airbus," said the European aircraft giant. Quote Looks like the EU taxpayer is in for a big payback from Airbus. Don't spend it all in one place. Airbus WTO

I still have all my teeth. See what good dental care will do for you. As I've always said to our daughter. Take good care of your teeth and they will take good care of you.