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    How to make enemies...! [by weighing carry-on]

    Off topic - why two tablets AND an e-reader? Question is nothing to do with weight, just curiosity :)
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    Trivago in trouble [fined $44.7m for misleading advertising]

    Nice idea, but often the hotels I am booking are in a country and city I may not have traveled to before - and that can trigger some even more colourful accents!
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    Check in hours in advance

    For CMB, your flight is at 08.25 with the flag carrier, & traffic won't be bad earlier that morning so I'd suggest as long as you're at the airport 2 hours + prior to departure, you're fine For Kolkata - no idea, but expect it to be way busier? Hopefully you'll get some anecdotal evidence
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    Check in hours in advance

    Not a regular user, but I did come back from CMB last week. We had a mid-week, 11.10am departure. Everyone told us 3 hours prior for check in except our office manager in Colombo who said 2 hours was plenty We hedged our bets and arrived at the airport at 08.50 In the end it took between...
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    HNL Hurricane Lane - bloody Qantas

    Agreed, unfortunately for the OP, jumping the gun on what may or may not happen with QF's scheduled flight from HNL was pre-empted
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    BA charges Exorbitant for Seat allocation

    Matt - typo in your newsletter article "of any other airline that charges Premium Econmy "
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    Qatari Royal Family Boeing 747-8 For Sale

    Just got back from Sri Lanka. Got a bunch of crisp, new, shiny 20 rupee notes. I'm in too.
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    Qatari Royal Family Boeing 747-8 For Sale

    True and correct thinking, but my thoughts are getting it in the media/on the net gives it more transparency Nobody can come back and say it was kept secret for clandestine reasons
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    Qatari Royal Family Boeing 747-8 For Sale

    ahh you just pipped me then - I offered 245, but they said they had more cashed up interested parties
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    Best reason for an aircraft not to fly

    Myanmar (or Burma if you wish), circa 1999 UB (Myanma Airways, the OLD airline) Fokker 27, all pax on board, RGN-MGZ scheduled flight. Waiting for 2 generals and 3 monks One monk didn't make it, he was the main Sayadaw (head Phongyi/monk) for a blessing ceremony down in Myeik where we were due...
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    Best reason for an aircraft not to fly

    What happened to the computer that informs them of faults with the computer that informs them of faults?
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    Bhutan-Australia travel offer (bit late though)

    Only just spotted this on FT, but posting it out of interest.. Bhutan-Australia Friendship Offer | Tourism Council of Bhutan Says 2017 at the start of the article, but its for June-August 2018
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    Alcohol confiscated at Bangkok Airport in transit - isn't it a scam?

    My post was more on the tongue-in-cheek side, rather than a serious suggestion that everyone gets stuck into their booze from the jetway to their seat....
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    Alcohol confiscated at Bangkok Airport in transit - isn't it a scam?

    I propose that harvyk's grandfather's security guard be in charge of all future regulations regarding the carrying of duty free alcohol on board international flights. Most sense yet
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    International Airports- Best and Worst.

    Mentally flipped him the bird, brilliant. Must remember this for future
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    Priority Pass Warning - wrong card charges

    My thoughts are that unfortunately this will be a USD$162 lesson for you. Lesson here - if you have two different priority passes, make sure you've got the correct one on your app. Doubt you have any avenue to refund or recompense on this.
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    News story of the year

    Present of FIFA has already reached out to the Thailand Football body and has officially extended an invitation to fly the boys and their coach to Russia for the World Cup final next weekend.
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    International Airports- Best and Worst.

    True. But I look at it as exercise nowadays (I don't get out much) Okay, in full disclosure if I can't be Ars*d walking I'll flag down the courtesy buggy and jump on that to get across the Sky Bridge :(
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    International Airports- Best and Worst.

    If you depart one country and transit another - the security systems will vary. The arriving country airport has every right to make you go through an additional security at their airport which adheres to their requirements. Can't see what the issue here is. Just need to accept it as a part...
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    Brand new route. coughet-Yangon starts 25th March 2018

    Well, it didn't last too long. MNA ceased their Yangon-coughet-Yangon flights a couple of weeks back, citing poor sales and the low season as the reason. MNA drops coughet flight | TTR Weekly They have re-applied for the route from October, but oddly enough there is availability showing from...
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