Happy 2013

"Ladies and Gentlemen as we make our approach to 2013, fasten your seat belts this might be a bumpy ride or smooth sailing?  Your choice?"

"Sinjuri kif nagħmlu l-approċċ tagħna għall-2013, taqfel ċinturini tas-sigurtà tiegħek dan jista 'jkun ride bumpy jew tbaħħir bla xkiel? Għażla tiegħek!"

2013 ABOUT TO START

The way to travel if you have the money?

1time Airlines

Comair Ltd 737 operating as BA/Comair

BA 747

Does size count? A RR Engine being maintained by BA Teachnical

HS748 (Hawker Sydney) on a highlands flight for BA

BA 747-400

The food!

Amazing what goes onto every 747 for the inflight meal on BA!

Catch ads from British Airways

The good old days of air travel?

Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767

foggy?

Two become 1?

Sadly there is No 1time airlines anymore, but  kalula.com is still flying - a fab airline I have flown kalula.com about 5 or 6 times before.  Great crew!

767 Air Zimbabwe (UM)

Saaf Dakota

Boeing 737 Mango Airlines (South African Airways no frills airline)

Runway ? Restaurant Zurich

This is a pic from a matchbook box, from this Restaurant in Switzerland, that my sister, Helen, took us to in 2006.

Kenya Airways Boeing 777

Qatar Airways was rated Number 1 Airline by passengers in a Sky Trax 2012 survey

LOT Polish Airlines

I have never flown LOT before and I might never but I like this photo of this Boeing 737 connected to the air bridge.  I like the 737 as an aircraft type  (appearance wise) but the Airbus A320  is much more pleasant, from my viewpoint as a passenger on both aircraft types.  Airbus A320's are more spacious than Boeing 737s,

767

Embraer

Embraer

Avia Airlines

This airline, Avia Airlines (South Africa's first real competition to SAA, on its long haul flights, who started and ended operations in 1995) flew a Boeing 747SP leased from SAA on flights from JNB (Johannesburg) to LGW(London Gatwick Airport) but it was only operational for a few months.  Never lease Aircraft from your competition?

Delicious?

An airline I have flown with many times in the past always put ??? Delicious meal stickers on their food,

have they ever tasted their food? On my last two flights with them the food was quite tasty 

though.

ha

Heston Blumenthal 

did a  Series on why aircraft food tastes disgusting.  It is the dryness at altitude which changes the food's flavour.  I know that it is all flash frozen if it is a hot meal item too. so try what you want airline food will always be what it is?  No matter your class of travel.

Airbus A321

ATR

Aeroflot cabin pic Boeing 787

CPT APT

Airline of Italia

We have arrived!

fantastic but not the weather

A340

I love Airbus A340's.  The first one(A340) I ever flew on was an Air Mauritius A340-200 when MK or Air Mauritius first got them in 1994. It was on a flight from Johannesburg (JNB) to Mauritius(MRU) via Harare in Zimbabwe.  I think that they must have been doing crew taining on the new aircraft type, or why did they need such an aircraft type on that flight?  The last time I flew on on an A340 was in 2006 with Swiss International Airlines.

the best way to fly?  Private jet.  you can go when you want, where you want, only downside is the cost!?!

aviaco

I love this photo of the good old days of air travel.

Virgin A340

A photo I took at CPT Airport at mid day on Thursday 22 November 2012

Gone but was good?

In 1997 shortly after this airline had ended operations I flew on this Boeing 747SP(which was leased from SAA) to Perth Australia.  It (this aircraft) still wore African Alliance livery and had African Alliance safety cards.

Fokker?

Air nu

Buda

Etihad

Thomas Cook