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Season 2 of Andor. And MobLand (perhaps this is Bond in retirement).

And the crew have probably been eating at Fatties for most of that time. 1745567330 I remember Elsie when she first started. Lovely lady and always both cheerful, and very efficient.

A warning about power points on aircraft. If you find one in a random spot, not specifically marked for passenger use, it could be for maintenance or cleaner use, and if that’s the case, you’ll put a lot more voltage through your device than you’ll be expecting.

I was in Queenstown a week ago. The weather was pretty poor, which resulted in two ANZ flights, and one QF diverting to Christchurch. What surprised me, was that all three of these aircraft then had their outbound flights from Q’town cancelled, even though the weather improved shortly...

Obviously I can’t comment on whether it’s changed at all, but they were never all that nice in the first place. I always wished that our government would treat their crew the way they treated ours (in particular with regard to requiring a visa, that meant you had to send you passport away for an...

Ah, shrinkflation is everywhere.

We were paxed in F, but that wouldn’t have displaced anyone who had bought a ticket. It would have made an upgrade less likely of course. If we had coughpit crew above the normal number (for instance a check Captain) then he’d have a booked seat in F. He wouldn’t be permitted to use the crew...

Having just read the article, most of the objections seem to relate to points. I’ve just used them to get over to NZ, and they were appreciably better than the airline I used to get back (though perhaps some of that was the MAX factor). Pricing wasn’t all that different from the alternatives...

He was on a staff ticket then, and could have been bumped by almost anyone. If he was working, then nobody could bump him.

Just back from NZ. We had esims for two phones. One was an iphone 11, and the other a 16. The 16 worked perfectly and was happily pulling in 5G, whilst the poor old 11 could barely connect, even in places like the middle of Wanaka. Back home, with normal sim, working perfectly. In the absence of...

Just back from NZ, where we hired a hybrid Toyota Yaris Cross for three weeks. Whist a very basic car, with the most terrible engine note, it did drive quite well, and would make an excellent city vehicle. Overall, its performance was much better than expected, and the EV side of things was very...

Were either of the seats broken? Sometimes a broken seat can be used, but not commercially.

Which most of us get, simply by flying with someone else.

Not at all. The only time I've ever had access to the F lounge was when the Chairman gave me two tickets after QF30. And that was actually a gifted F commercial ticket.

I think it's later in the sequence. Not a cause, simply a consequence. A fuel issue won't make the tail fall off. Very interesting read.

This is probably relevant:

Tails was my instructor for the second half of Pearce on my pilots’ course. Top bloke. I visited the Wigram museum a couple of weeks back. Worth the visit if you’re in Christchurch.

That's the transmission, complete. The mounts are intact, and the roof structure that it bolts to is still present, in part at least.

In many ways the same applies to Boeing. https://www.boeing.com/content/dam/boeing/boeingdotcom/company/key_orgs/boeing-international/pdf/chinabackgrounder_english.pdf

Remember, Trump V1 was going to impose tariffs on A220s that were actually made at the Airbus plant in the USA. I wouldn't expect to see any logic coming from that quarter.