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We will be back to Handea Friday, so will see how the pax are then. Naha seemed to be busy, though, with a lot of aircraft in, even lovely Jetstar!

Flying out of Haneda today for Naha, there was little evidence left of the crash. Everything was tidied up, although there seemed to be a few workers around with a few bitumen trucks. What was a bit different was the JAL safety video and the focus on escape via the air slides. On our guess, it...

Pity its stablemate The Age was a bit better at reporting the topic. After three "PgDn", we found the story after the all-important 5 stories on cricket, the almost standard clickbait travel "best of 10", Domain.com and other pulpy rubbish. Sitting here 5kms from Haneda, we had to go to the NYT...

Photo's from yesterday at Keikyu Kemata Station around 8am. Sorry about the shots, not great, but my daughter noticed it just as the train was coming from the city. It was mostly steam with a bit of other mixed in. (After working in smelters for 45 years, you quickly learn how to distinguish...

Update from Ota; sirens were going all night, until about 3am, both police and fire brigade. We are staying just behind the Police Station. On my bird-watching walk today along the Tama River you can hear the planes taking off from the airport.

My daughter and I are about 4km from Haneda in Ota City, and there were a lot of emergency vehicles flashing past about 5 to 6 pm but all quiet now. We really didn't know what was going on until we got a call from home. It's the second "panic call" from home in the past 48 hours with the...

Having just played "dodge-em" for four hours yesterday on Indian roads to travel 140km in four hours, Chennai to Tirupati, and seeing the smashed cars just left on the side of the road, I think the scare factor changes with time and travel. Years ago, I dreaded/feared these long journeys in...

I'm in this boat too. Years ago, it felt good, now I find it a bit embarrassing when you are in Y. When you're on the window and they lean across two people to thank you it's a bit uncomfortable for the people around you. The other day the CM had a 5 minute discussion. And TG, they often bring...

A lot of the paths are easy to walk, typical of Singapore, so if you have a good-wheeled pram, it should not be an issue. Some of the areas might be a bit hard, but they do sort of have a taxi service there, from memory a minivan-type arrangement so they can drive you around to the main parts. I...

A pleasure. I have been working/consulting with a company in Kuching for the past 25 years, so know it well. It has changed over that time, and Covid certainly knocked it around. They are putting the final touches to a new Sheraton downtown now, so it might help to revitalize the centre. Like...

I've recently been staying at Changi Cove out in Changi. Easy Grab ride and far from the madding crowd. I just refuse to pay some of the prices the hotels are charging in the city now. It really is "old-world" Singapore with local restaurants and bars at normal prices. The other benefit is it...

I've noted before in other posts that I chair two biennial international technical conferences, which was 6 weeks ago in Siem Reap. We have over 1000 pax from 52 countries, and the two main hotels were the Sofitel ($175) and Sohka ($85). And, rooming levels change from country to country...

I recently put two conferences on in Siem Reap with over 1,000 pax. We actually got the main hotel to change their music to ours, which we supplied. My colleague worked for many years with Shangrila/Sheraton/Hyatt and understands that "first hit" when the delegate walks into a venue. The hotel's...

I noticed they did the spray between SIN and KCH two weeks ago on MH. I cannot remember them doing this before. There was no spraying on my other internal East Malaysian flights or from SDK to KUL.

Yes, laziness on my part. Will check it out when I'm there Tuesday, eating at Top Spot, one of the great outdoor eateries. Also known as Cat City.

Yes, Firefly has taken a lot of routes MH had done previously. KUC to BKI in J was a great SC builder as there were some great specials, like RM380 (~AUD130) for 40SC. The MH website doesn't seem to default back to Firefly and quotes you KUC > KUL > BKI.

Writing this from Siem Reap, and it's worth coming for two days. I've been here working for three weeks and can assure you three days is enough. Then off to Kucking/KK. Problems with East Malaysia are the flights. MAS cut their direct flights from KUC to KK a while back, which I find a bit...

Not a mistake, but almost a classic from MU! I have a conference in Northern China starting on 12/9, and they are going to get me there on 17/9!!!! So I had to make the extremely hard decision to stay another week in the Sofitel Angkor Wat. "Dear Mr./Ms.xx_xx_X, we regret to inform you that...

I had the same happen with Pullman in Singapore. Three MC failed. Called Westpac, and they could see nothing wrong. Called the hotel and they blamed their system, so I did it manually.

I used the ATM here in Siem Reap yesterday and scored a nice little jackpot. One of my hobbies is banknote collecting and for years used the machines to get nice pristine notes, (UNC uncirculated). Last night, getting USD scored a UNC USD100 star note, selling at the moment between $125 to $150...