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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp.../250807/1/.html Some interesting part from the above news release: the main focus has shifted to areas south of Manado, the plane's original destination, after Manado's Sam Ratulangi Airport reported detecting a signal from the plane. The signal was detected on Monday around the coastal village of Nuangan in Bolaang Mongondow district, some 110 kilometres (68 miles) southwest of Manado but only reported on Thursday. "We have received a new lead based on the emergency locator beacon aircraft (ELBA), which was detected by the air traffic control at Sam Ratalungi," Air Marshal Eddy Suyanto, commander of the Hasanuddin Air Base at Makassar in South Sulawesi, was quoted as saying in the Republika newspaper. Suyanto is also the official spokesman for the search and rescue team. He said the signal was detected when the plane disappeared from radar but the airport only reported it on Thursday. It was not clear why there was such a long delay.

the anti DVT sock might be useful. Not sure still available in the market or since the DVT issues has cold down and most people has forgotten about DVT already.

Both Mel & Syd can be categorised as SouthEastern Cities in Australia. Hope they will fly to both cities.

Afterall with all these competitions, consumer is the biggest winner. Can't wait for Feb to come when AirAsia X released all the details & airfares for booking .

Abstract from channelnewsasia: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp.../250293/1/.html MAKASSAR, Indonesia : Search and rescue teams have not found the wreckage of a plane carrying 102 people which was reported to have crashed into a mountain on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, the regional military commander said Tuesday, contradicting earlier reports. Major General Arif Budi Sampurno told MetroTV that after checking the reported location they had not found any plane wreck. "News from the village head reporting 12 survivors was also not true, the village head said that he never made that report," said Sampurno, whose area of command includes Sulawesi island. Reports early Tuesday said the crash site had been identified from an aerial photograph and that local residents had reported finding bodies and survivors in the jungle of West Sulawesi. Search and rescue teams were dispatched to the area but found no sign of a plane wreck, Sampurno said. "The local commander, the police chief and the governor went to the location and they found nothing, so earlier reports about the location, number of survivors are all untrue. We don't know where that information originates from," he told AFP.

Hi Robert, may I ask what Virgin Gold Team is?

This is the service history of PK-LIJ (total service life = 16 years)

Airasia is not flying to Shanghai & Beijing but to 2 destination that close with shanghai & Beijing. According to the news these 2 cities one of it is a popular holiday destination while the other is a port city. My bet for Shanghai will be Nanjing, Suzhou or Hangzhou (both popular holiday destination and pretty close to Shanghai). For Beijing my bet will be Tianjin since it was pretty close with Beijing and it's a port city, another holiday spot as well.

First flight be cancelled due to technical issues with the aircraft. http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23...875-462,00.html

Missed the old Skywest with Ansett logo.

Honestly speaking I don't think it's a good idea to charge double on foreign tourist, they will definitely felt unfair and being ripped off. RM38 for foreigner RM19 for senior citizen & kids RM19 for Malaysian with mycard Compared with the SIA Hop On Bus : SIA/Silkair passanger - SGD3 others - SGD6 SIA passanger on Singapore stopover holiday - free Honestly speaking I prefered SIA Hop On Bus, not only it's cheaper but it's more colourful, look nicer and unbias towards foreigner. http://www.visitsingapore.com/publish/stbp...hop-on_bus.html

Read through all the posts in Page 3 and you'll get the answer you want.

It will definitely remained open as long as there are no serious safety issues on this new airport. The question mark will be on turning the old DM into LCC airport for Bangkok.

Don't like the black colour in the 2nd pic, makes the plane look old. White + red combination looks fresher and younger for me.

You can get special promo fare to London at around RM1800-2200 returned (exclude taxes & surcharge). Gulf Air is currently having promotion for London at RM1880 returns while TG is having the promo for London at RM2040 returns (both excluding taxes and surcharge). These fares as usual have lots of restriction + availability is limited.

Latest update from Flightglobal.com United Airlines unitentional foam salute that damaged Boeing 777 meant as water salute, says Dulles fire crew By Justin Wastnage Flight has learnt further details of the bungled foam salute for a retiring United Airlines captain that led to the temporary withdrawl of a Boeing 777-200 from service last week. An insider close to the planned water cannon salute informs Flight that the chief pilot had informed the fire department at Washington DC's Dulles airport of the retirement of the 777's pilot, who was completing his last scheduled flight. The fire department logged it as a routine training exercise. However, fire crews onboard the truck decided to swap the water for foam, to give the impression of snow, ahead of the Christmas vaction period. Onboard the flightdeck of N772UA, the crew were not concerned, our source informs us, until both exhaust gas temperature gauges spiked to maximum after the foam shower. Folloiwng an engineering inspection, the aircraft has been taken out of service for repairs to the Pratt & Whitney PW4077 engines. for extensive anti-corrosion treatment. United is understood to have permanently ended the tradition of foam salutes as a result. This tradition is now likely to end at Dulles, if not everywhere else. Spontaneity will have to be planned in future..

It's just another Silly post, sorry to say that.

Yes, besides that, 19 A330 on special lease agreement also being confirmed at the sametime and the 20+20 A350XWB will be confirm by end of the next month.

Well the above news are pure rumour as SIA has just annouced on today to firm up the order for 9 A380 + 6 options. Singapore Airlines to buy another 9 Airbus A380s The Associated Press Wednesday, December 20, 2006 SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines said Wednesday it will buy another nine Airbus A380s, with an option for a further six of the superjumbos. The carrier is also planning to lease 19 Airbus A330s and its regional airline, Silk Air, is ordering 20 Airbus A320s, the airline announced at a press conference. Singapore Airlines already has 10 A380s on firm order — a deal reached in 2001 — and is expecting delivery of its much-delayed first in the fourth quarter of 2007. "We are very pleased today to reach agreement with Airbus for a second tranche of A380s. We are looking forward now to delivery in October and commencing services very soon after," said Singapore Airlines Chief Executive Chew Choon Seng. The order of up to 20 Airbus A320s for Silk Air has a list value of US$1.33 billion and the aircraft are to be delivered between 2009 and 2012. Eleven of the A320s are on firm order and nine are on option. Singapore Airlines will be the first carrier to fly paying passengers aboard the A380, the world's largest passenger jet. But the October delivery is a year later than originally planned. Subsequent deliveries have suffered longer delays, averaging two years. Singapore Airlines has said the Toulouse, France-based aircraft maker would provide compensation for the delays but that the terms of the settlement were confidential. Airbus and parent company European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. have blamed wiring problems for delays that are set to wipe 4.8 billion euros ($6.3 billion) off EADS profits over the next four years and complicate plans for the mid-size A350 jet, meant to compete with Boeing Co.'s upcoming 787. Airbus Chief Executive and President Louis Gallios told a press conference he expects more "good news" about orders from existing customers of the A380

MH A330 inccident happended during landing, not during take off like what AK733 suffered in KBR.

Plane usually ran into grass during landing, how could it happended during take off? I don't get it!

Love the pic where 8 MH golden girls under the airbus belly taking pics and wondering what went wrong! Any ex. maintainaice engineer amongst them? Guess none.

Since the 4 passangers didn't show up after checking in their luggage, I guess they'll need to repurchase their air tickets. Wondering what they were doing till they totally missed/forgotten/ignored their flight, that's really silly.

SAS does fly to Asia - Bangkok, Beijing, Shanghai & Tokyo Here's their route map: http://www.flysas.com/en/Generic/Services/Route-map/

I think everyone want to be in the limelight and appear in the paper's front page, thats why everyone trying to show they are the smart a*s/boss.