AA refurbishes 737's

[vertisol]

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The 'Written Off' numbers make interesting reading.

 

[markis10]

I was suprised to read last night (QF mag) that QF still have 24 737-400s in their fleet.

They dont, they have 17 and QNZ have 4.

 

[matty744]

AA media release on the 738 order here
Good to see that all 737's will have Gogo inflight internet service installed

 

[Skyring]

yes, i thought that was a lot too - guess they can be handy for some of the routes that are still strong enough for the QF brand, but a 738 has too many seats. Thinking some of the Nth Qld routes, CBR etc.

If you were a taxi driver waiting at Canberra airport, you'd be hoping for bigger planes with more passengers. Spent 100 minutes idle last night moving up on the airport rank. The last plane (Virgin from the Gold Coast) came in and when the last passengers had walked out and away, I was second on the rank.

B*ugger.

 

[NM]

If you were a taxi driver waiting at Canberra airport, you'd be hoping for bigger planes with more passengers. Spent 100 minutes idle last night moving up on the airport rank. The last plane (Virgin from the Gold Coast) came in and when the last passengers had walked out and away, I was second on the rank.

B*ugger.

Could have carried a pillow and been in pole position ready for the first arriving flight of the morning :shock:

 

[Skyring]

Could have carried a pillow and been in pole position ready for the first arriving flight of the morning :shock:

That thought did strike me at the time, but my day driver would not be amused!

Besides, I probably would have run out of gas or frozen solid by that stage!

Getting further off topic, i know, but the reason I was there at all was because while I was moving into a scoring position in Kingston the phone rang.

It was not my phone.

I pulled off the road and hunted it down. A 32Gig iPhone down beside the passenger seat, under my computer which I stow there. Obviously been there for a while.

I rang back the "Missed Call" number and got an ecstatic young lady who had been worrying all day about her phone. I reassured her that it would be returned, and when I found she lived in Pialligo, not far from Canberra International Airport, I figured I might as well kill two birds with one stone.

She was glad to get it back, and though I didn't ask for any tip or reward or even a reasonable fare to return the phone, that was good, as she didn't offer any.

No worry. Making somebody happy is a rich reward in itself.

I looked in on the taxi rank. I could see that two planes had just landed, so I tailed onto the back, with about thirty cabs ahead. Unfortunately one of the planes was a Virgin flight, and the next to land (and last for the night) was another Virgin and as every cabbie knows, Virgin passengers ring up their rels to come collect them at the airport!

So i dipped out. Luck of the draw.

 

[docjames]

That thought did strike me at the time, but my day driver would not be amused!

Besides, I probably would have run out of gas or frozen solid by that stage!

Getting further off topic, i know, but the reason I was there at all was because while I was moving into a scoring position in Kingston the phone rang.

It was not my phone.

I pulled off the road and hunted it down. A 32Gig iPhone down beside the passenger seat, under my computer which I stow there. Obviously been there for a while.

I rang back the "Missed Call" number and got an ecstatic young lady who had been worrying all day about her phone. I reassured her that it would be returned, and when I found she lived in Pialligo, not far from Canberra International Airport, I figured I might as well kill two birds with one stone.

She was glad to get it back, and though I didn't ask for any tip or reward or even a reasonable fare to return the phone, that was good, as she didn't offer any.

No worry. Making somebody happy is a rich reward in itself.

I looked in on the taxi rank. I could see that two planes had just landed, so I tailed onto the back, with about thirty cabs ahead. Unfortunately one of the planes was a Virgin flight, and the next to land (and last for the night) was another Virgin and as every cabbie knows, Virgin passengers ring up their rels to come collect them at the airport!

So i dipped out. Luck of the draw.

Sheesh, she could have at least paid you a meter rate to come drop it off! :evil:

FWIW a mate left his iPhone in a taxi in BNE a week ago - called it to see where he had left it, driver answered (my mate's iPhone) and denied he had it! Liar!

Unfortunately mate didnt get the taxi number and taxi was hailed in the street so no tracking down the theiving *&^%*&^. :evil:

 

[codash1099]

Info from Boeing here