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  1. According to CNN, who are calling it ‘the Uber for airlines’, start-up Poppi is imagining a future of aviation unlike any future we’ve ever seen.


    One where customers can fly “cinema class” and that dreaded middle seat comes with unexpected perks.


    Per CNN, the business hopes to bring the same type of disruption to the airline industry that Uber brought to the taxi business, and Airbnb to hotels.


    “What we wanted to do with Poppi is envision those disruptions now so that airlines operating today can start implementing them,” Poppi’s principal brand strategist Devin Liddell told CNN.


    “The airline business model and how airlines operate both present a lot of opportunities for reinvention.”


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  2. A Dragonair Airbus A330-300, registration B-HLK performing flight KA-691 from Hong Kong (China) to Penang (Malaysia), landed hard on Penang's runway 04 at about 18:45L (10:45Z), rolled out and taxied to the apron. There were no injuries, the aircraft received substantial damage however.

    The aircraft was unable to perform the return flight KA-692 the following morning and is still on the ground in Penang about 106 hours after landing.

    A ground observer reported the aircraft touched down with all gear simultaneously, perhaps nose gear first.

    The Aviation Herald received information confirming a bounced landing followed by a second very hard touch down nose gear first at 2.8G causing substantial damage to the aircraft.

     

    http://avherald.com/h?article=48c9f93e&opt=0


  3. Well I learnt something new! - In Mecca are there different stars of hotels? 5* 4* or all one standard of accomodation?

     

    What i'm trying to say is - can the rich pilgrim pay more to have more comforts, or is it against the spirit of the pilgrimage to be "different" from other pilgrims?

    The one reason the giant clock tower is built is to accommodate more wealthy pilgrims?...

     

    http://www.swissotel.com/hotels/makkah/


  4. If they are going to upgrade the 777 biz class, I assume the old economy seats has to go as well?

     

    However news report only says Biz

     

    Malaysia Airlines will upgrade business class on its Airbus A330 and Boeing 777 jets with an all-new design as part of a wide-ranging overhaul of the troubled airline.

    Fully lie-flat seats will replace the current angled flat beds and "sloping sleepers" on all international jets, promises newly-minted CEO Chris Mueller, who faces the hard task of turning MAS around.

    The new Malaysia Airlines business class seats will be "a world-class leading lie-flat seat", says Mueller, with "very large dimensions, and be positioned above the industry standard for business class."

    While MAS will retain its Airbus A380 service between Kuala Lumpur and London, Mueller would not be drawn on the fate of other routes, although he expected to reveal the scope of its revised network by the end of this month.

    "We will reduce the frequency [of flights] on some routes and in some cases cases abandon the route altogether."

    Mueller also tells Australian Business Traveller that some of the airline's Golden Lounge airport lounges around the world will close, but thoser which remain open – including its flagship lounges at Kuala Lumpur, plus London Heathrow and Melbourne – will receive a much-needed upgrade.

    http://www.ausbt.com.au/malaysia-airlines-all-new-business-class-for-a330s-boeing-777s

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