Butch

Looks great, especially on a 747. According to an FB post I saw on another forum, the landor colours were speculated to be on G-CIVB, but I'm not complaining!. It's also a shame it's going West, we live on the Eastern corridor and often see the stuff heading to SEA if they opt for the flight path over N Essex. Rumour is that BA have introduced a "retro interior" across the enitre fleet in economy, consisting of worn seats, 340p IFE, unpalatable food and Cabin crew who look upon anyone in Y,B,H or below with disdain. In order to truly add to the experince, luggage is mishandled and expensive items stolen by baggage handlers, and the toilets have been upgraded to smell of stale vomitus along with a yellow urine stained toilet seat. To avail of the experience, all you have to do is book an economy ticket with BA to any destination.

Here's their latest offering, an A319 in BEA Colour scheme...

Brexit uncertainty is fuelling this. As time goes on and no extension is offered, it might get worse. Thanks for the update Jacko.

Yep a majority of Airlines are routing south of Indian and Pakistan, some now using Dubai as a refuel stop as it has added time to the journey. Mrs Butch is heading out to the RP with Cathay next week, she got a 40 kg allowance in business, so always worth checking. 20kg is a bit mean to be honest, even though I usually come in at 17 kg on my outwards trips in econ, it's always nice to have a few kg spare in case you want to take something extra. This might be a reaction for the EU-Thailand flights which are currently being re routed around India as it adds time and mileage to the journey, considering Thai run flights out of Frankfurt, UK, France and several other cities and in many cases , more than one service a day, just look at FR24 for flights heading into BKK between 0500 ad 0700 and you'll see what I mean. Expect some others to follow suit in the coming weeks.

Yep, I guess it is hit and miss and probably time of day etc. Like many I won't spend a red cent in any bar connected with him.

Baht buses are still 10 baht. Soi Bukhao and LK Metro has expanded exponentially bar - wise. In fact, I tend to stay around that area now as Beach Rd / Second road hotels have lost their lustre, and you can cut through to Sois 7,8 and Central festival from Bukhao in an easy 5 min walk. Sois Chaiyapoon and Lengkhi are also popular for massage parlours and cheap guest houses / restaurants. Soi Honey is also a good massage venue. As mentioned elsewhere, everywhere you walk there is some cunt with a camera, either vlogging on youtube or just taking photo's. WS is terrible for it, LKM getting progressively worse. Speaking of which, Soi diana seems to be dying a very slow and tortured death for some reason. Papagayo still has a massive Gin menu though. JP bar has gone i'm told, late night Ibar and Insomnia nightclubs for off duty girls, but Insomnia seems to be full of vest wearing middle eastern musclemen for some reason. Lucifer, Red Car (gullivers - the one with the Vette on the wall) and 808 above Candyshop offer the nightclub experience, also Miami on WS might be worth a look if FL action is your scene (and at 5k a pop plus BF longtime, why wouldn't it be lol?) Plenty of GGB's, prices covered elsewhere on the forum. Windmill for good fun, hands on as well, Babydolls same same. Beer bars abound, still offering happy hours and many in the Bukhao area offering 2 for 1. Plenty of live music bars around, almost one on every busy Soi. Daytime fun: More Gentlemens Clubs, MC Taxi drivers are now fairly knowledgeable regarding locations, just show them a google maps pic. Soi 6 is still busy but has effectively been ruined in the opinions of some (myself included) as the Nightwish group have opened numerous bars along there with the same kind of approach, loud music, lots of girls rinsing newbies for drinks. Even the managers get in on the act. However, Ruby club and a few select others are still open for naughty, behind closed doors fun. Nighshit are expanding their operation into Chaiyapoon as well apparently. Still numerous daytime bars open along Beach Rd, Tahitian queen A/C still a welcome change from a hot day, PBG offering half decent food but the service sucked big time last I was there, 45 minutes for Tom Ka Gai... Multitiude of massage parlours in the Chaiyapoon, Lengkhi / Honey area, most offering happy endings. not sure on prices though, or quality of the girls. Some decent restaurants in town, Grottinos for a good Italian, plus a few specialist places opennig up (Wine Bistro, craft beer joints). Other stuff: Terminal 21 is a massive shopping centre, but never been there. A few Starbucks / Costas opened if you want a coffee and a read of the paper. Motorcycle hire still available cheap, but make sure you are legal, the fines are getting ridiculous. Loads of Hotels to choose from ranging in price and quality. LK group are very good, Eastiny and flipper are the budget end and look very tired. Sabai group again are mid range but again need updating.

Good review Bazle, Kev in thailand recently visited it as well and did a video. 59 baht for bottled beer (according to the vid) isn't too shabby either. I'm partial to a Madras or Chicken Ceylon, but £7 for a decent Indian with a soft drink is not bad at all. They seem to have a good selection of draft, plus some craft beers. I'll definitely give it a visit in the future.

I noticed on FR24 that there's a BR067D (D designates a delayed follow on day flight for EVA planes), seems like EVA will have 2 planes in LHR today, I expect one will take the pax who didn't travel yesterday out this afternoon sometime.

Bloody hell I missed this. That's most concerning, I feel bad for anyone stranded .

Gentleman and a Scholar Bazle, cheer for that mate.

Hi Bazle Mate it was 12/10/2015, I just checked the "properties" on the original. so the "Sale building" is now "Wall of Death" as well ?

Last few for now

Soi 8 in better days The destruction of the bars on Soi 2 - Just sat and reflected on the good times many guys must have had there, how many girls worked there and the drinks drunk and bells rung!. Soi 1 looking like a wasteland back in 2013 I think. several disused buildings including a Thai karaoke joint, back then Soi 1 was considered a bit out of the way... I always liked the design of this small building, never knew what it was or who owned it, there was always some work going on there though. Over to bukhao, "The booze lounge" now long gone. The sad demolition of "The Belgian Embassy"..anyone remember what it was correctly called??

Some more, sorry for multiple posts. A few randoms... Pink Lady ,now gone I think... Soi Honey in 2015

Ok chaps. here's some from the HDD I've had floating around. Not any particular year but a few venues have gone since I took them. They may be alreayd posted elsewhere on the forum in an age old TR, so apoligies if you've already seen them. Infamous Soi 6 Moving down to a quiet Beach Rd Pre improvement days lol. Gullivers Soi 1 end. Again, view from Soi 1 down to BR

Couldn't get into "the Punisher", gave up after S01E05. After I start "Black Earth Rising" as suggested by BM Blackwell (and I'm looking forward to it actually) I'll give "The good Dr" a go. I agree with Forrest Gump, it's an enjoyable family movie and Tom Hanks is great as Tom Hanks playing Tom Hanks. I will always watch it if I'm channel hopping and it's on, regardless of how far through it is. Not seen Green Book, might give that a look this weekend if I get an afternoon free.

Bloody hell when was that early LKM photo taken?. I notice there's not Devils Den (Or Hell Club as it was known in the early days) open, and that's got to have been at least 12 / 13 years ago (unless the old grey matter is getting mor grey). If it's ok with forcebwithyou I'll see if I've got some random pics of Pattaya from a few years ago and chuck them up here.

BA are painting some of their 747's in retro livery to celebrate 100 years. This one rolled out yesterday. Looks pretty good and nice touch of nostalgia there. Looking forward to the BEA one.

Good points KM, I'm thinking EVA are sensitive to bad PR, and they pride themselves on being one of the best Airlines out there, probably aspiring to Cathay's status. I'd also let him sit in his own shit for the duration. This had happened with the same passenger apparently but on another EVA flight where the CC refused, they were all reprimanded and disciplined, which is absolutely shocking behaviour from EVA Managment.

Kudos to the EVA CC on board, but their managment team need their arses kicked. Given their alledged disciplining of CC who refused to wipe clean the same pax on another flight, it is poor managment and unprofessional at best. The CC in question is taking legal action, and rightfully so. As Fiend says, no match on the Passport is no entry on the plane, I think that's a pretty unambiguous rule and adhered to strictly, so maybe some questions need to be asked if indeed he did abuse the system like this. Not sure if the Senior CC or even the Captain can do anything in this situation, apart from perhaps warn the pax he is being disruptive, and the Senior CC should really have stepped up rather than let a junior CC have to do this I think, as she would have certainly been involved in the decision to allow him access to the biz toilet and change of seats, my feeling is that she should have controlled the situation with perhaps a slightly less accomodating approach. But then you have to balance out the bad PR if he was genuine in his issues, which, reading the articles over on Flyertalk and elsewhere, don't seem to be. He was apparently "moaning with pleasure". Saying that, if he was genuine then he would have had a carer with him. On the flight in question he was extended every assistance, as if he knew how to play the game to get what he wanted. One can only hope he is named and shamed and gets a shitstorm of personal abuse for his actions. It also begs the question what would you do if this guy was sat adjacent or in front / behind of you, would you say something to him or let the CC get on with their job?.

Ahh good stuff Jacko, thanks. Didn't know JP had gone...bloody hell what's Hammer going to do after work now?. I'll knock it off the list.

Here's my map. Thanks and credit to you forcebwithu for the instructions. Cheers mate, owe you a beer or two next time i'm in town.

Thanks forcebwithyou, I'll give it a go and see how I get on, they are really clear and very well laid out instructions, thanks for taking the time to post. It might take me a couple of attempts, but I'll tackle it by opening 2 windows and going between the two stage by stage.

That's spot on Forcebwithu!, is it easy to do that or to edit in complexes and locations?.

Fair point, the problem I have is that there are so many beer bar complexes these days it's easy to get confused. I might even add sunee plaza for GE if I can find it...