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You can arrange for daily cleaning and linen for a small fee. Since they are apartments with a full kitchen the bedrooms might not be as large as a one room hotel room, but on the other hand, they are a little larger than the bedrooms at the Residence Garden.

"The Onion" is alway good for a laugh.

After having used PCs (IBM clones) for well over 20 years I never thought I would say this, but if you are one of those who doesn't want to know anything more about his computer than necessary, buy a MacBook Pro. The operating system is Unix based. The core reports itself as "Darwin" a variation of BSD, which is similar to and a cousin of, so to speak, Linux. It is stable, not as subject to viruses and malware, and the Mac has always been known as the preferred machine for graphic artists and multimedia professionals. Macs are more expensive, but they are extremely well made and will last longer than a PC before becoming obsolete and/or worn out. The new version of OS X, Snow Leopard, is quite impressive and now completely 64 bit which means, among other things, it can address 4 gigs or more of RAM.

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Send Mr. Wales an e-mail and ask him?

E-mail: Mr. David Wales, thegoldencrab@hotmail.com Some photos here: http://www.pattayatalk.com/forums/index.ph...;hl=golden+crab

From a friend who lives in the Middle East: "Slaves in the fact they are made to work 12 to 14 hours a day, for minimal wages (if they are lucky), with no legal rights. The concept is so far removed from what we understand in the west, unless you actually see it, its difficult to explain. It also happens in Indian, and other Asian countries. In fact, to be honest, its only when you have worked in one of these countries, do you really realize how lucky we are in the west."

Both Federal Express and UPS completely canceled their A380 orders quite a while back. As a result airbust put the whole A380F project on the back shelf. So far this year, Boeing has had fewer cancellations than airbust had last year.

Possible, but it depends on how quickly the economy turns around and business picks up. It if happens sooner than later, and you factor in the lag time in manufacturing and/or leasing new aircraft, British Air may have to return those 747s to passenger service.

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Ah, Pattayatalk Yellow. Much better! BTW, Thanks, MM, for upgrading the software.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/...-two-years.html "Air Transport DATE:03/07/09 SOURCE:Air Transport Intelligence news British Airways pushes back A380 deliveries by up to two years By David Kaminski-Morrow British Airways is pushing back its Airbus A380 delivery schedule, with some later aircraft being postponed by at least two years. The UK flag-carrier is also planning to take six more aircraft in its current fleet out of service during the 2010 season. BA has 12 A380s on order but says it has "extended" the arrival schedule for the first six by an average of five months. It says, however, that the first A380 is still expected to arrive in spring 2012, ahead of the London Olympic Games. But the delivery of the final six has been extended by two years, on average, until autumn 2016. The carrier had originally been expecting to take delivery of four aircraft per year and complete the introduction of all 12 by autumn 2014. BA has also stated today that it will ground its last three 757-200s in summer 2010 and another three Boeing 747-400s in winter 2010. All the fleet changes follow a review of BA's business plan in the "challenging economic conditions". BA is expecting to cut capacity by 3.5% over the summer 2009 season, compared with a previous estimate of 2.5%, and by 5% over winter 2009-10. In May, BA stated that it would ground 16 aircraft for the upcoming winter, a total of eight 757-200s and eight 747-400s."

Does EVA still fly 747-400 Combi-s?

Since you are our resident rocket scientist you will understand that when you click on "add reply" and nothing happens, you click on it again? The second time it happened I actually went and made a cup of coffee and a sandwich and came back to the computer to find it just as I left it. Trouble somewhere along the Internet I imagine.

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And with typical airbust bullshit... excuse me... hype, turned right around and claimed those orders for the previous 4 or 5 versions of the A350 made the "new" A350whatever-it-is-called-this-week the fastest selling new aircraft.

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A good friend spent 21 years flying jumbo jets before he retired, including the Boeing 747 and the airbust A340. It was just a job to him (I don't think he has any idea how lucky he was) and he really didn't care for it, which is why, IMHO, he preferred airbust products, but he did say that Boeing aircraft do have a smoother ride than airbust airliners. He would also readily admit when flying the A340 he was a "systems manager" or "computer operator" not really a pilot. He spent 60% of his time in the cockpit monitoring the LCD screens and when practicing emergency maneuvers in the simulators they weren't practicing how to fly the plane, but what to tell the computer to do in a given situation. Does sound like a computer operator, doesn't it?

Well, I didn't know quite how to get down to your level, but I gave it a go.

After the Qantas cancellation there are still 850 on order not counting options. "Qantas cancels 15 787s, defers 15 others Posted at 6/26/2009 5:21 AM CDT Qantas, the biggest airline customer for the Boeing 787, has cancelled 15 of the 65 units had on order and has deferred deliveries of its first 15, blaming economic weakness but not the latest program delay..... ....The latest 787 program delay, a first-flight deferral announced on June 23, did not influence the decision, Qantas says, implying that it had already made up its mind. http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/comme...de-ac241507ddc2

airbust had 119 cancellations last year (2008).

They should ask the Australian government for information on a incident which injured.. what was it... 70 passengers? ********** "DATE:25/06/09 SOURCE:Air Transport Intelligence news Two A330 airspeed and altitude incidents under NTSB scrutiny By Lori Ranson The US National Transportation Safety Board today said it is investigating two recent incidents involving possible malfunctioning of airspeed and altitude indications in the cockpits of Airbus A330 aircraft. Four days after the 1 June crash of an Air France Airbus A330 off the coast of Brazil, French investigators confirmed automatic messages transmitted by the aircraft show the jet was experiencing conflicting airspeed information from onboard sensors. The first incident under NTSB scrutiny occurred on 21 May, and involved a TAM A330 operating from Miami to Sao Paulo, Brazil. The A330 experienced a loss of primary speed altitude in cruise. Initial reports indicate the crew observed an abrupt drop in indicated outside air temperature followed by the loss of the air data reference system. Both the autopilot and autothrust disconnected, and speed and altitude information were lost. NTSB says the TAM flight crew used backup instruments, and primary data was restored in five minutes. The flight landed in Sao Paulo with no further incidents. "The safety board has become aware of another possibly similar incident that occurred on June 23 on a Northwest Airlines A330 flying between Hong Kong and Tokyo," says NTSB. "The aircraft landed safely in Tokyo; no injuries or damage was reported." Investigators are collecting data recorder information, aircraft condition monitoring system messages, and weather information from the flight." http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/...under-ntsb.html

Of course, I have to disagree. In light of the recent Air France A330 crash and the other airbust crashes over the last couple of years there has been some discussion on the aviation sites as to whether or not the airbust fly-by-wire system depends entirely too much on the computers vs the Boeing system that allows the pilot to have the last say. We will probably never know exactly what caused the various accidents. Some of the stuff I read on the Internet reminds me of that old saying about bars, i.e., "Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see." With that in mind, there is one guy who claims the Air France pilots were polled and the majority said they preferred Boeing to airbust because they were actually flying the Boeing aircraft, but were little more than "system managers" on the airbust aircraft.

Not really, but I guess it does depend on a passenger's knowledge of, and interest in, aircraft. The "average" passenger probably doesn't know or care what type of aircraft they are on as long as they arrive safely at their destination. There was an interesting post on airliners.net a few days ago. The poster said he mother had taken a recent trip and she just couldn't say enough, positive, about the new A380 she had flown on. The poster, being an aviation geek, was pretty sure his mother had not flown on an A380 and looked it up. She had been on a Boeing 747 and didn't know the difference. To me it does make a difference.

That saying has been around a lot longer than you have. The 777 is a very comfortable aircraft. Sorry, I don't care for airbust aircraft, but the A340 is a nice looking plane. Looks like the old Boeing 707, just larger. Actually, airbust makes a good product, but my dislike of airbust goes back to their way of doing business, but that subject was beaten to death a long time ago.