#flight review

[thedesignair]

Trip Report: Condor A330-900Neo Business Class 'Prime Seats', March 2023

TheDesignAir was lucky enough to be invited to trial Condor’s brand new A330-900Neo ‘2-litre’ aircraft just a few months after it launched the shiny new plane to the world. Jumping at the chance, we wanted to explore in-depth the reasons why the airline won both best new livery and most improved airline brand 2022 last year. Why 2-litre? Because the A330-900Neo uses less than 2 litres of jet fuel…

[zenovyap]

Unboxing EVA Air B787-9 Business Class from Vienna to Taipei (BR66 VIE-TPE)

Our flight home took us from Vienna to Singapore, via Taipei. The flight was completed on EVA Air and both flights were operated on their Boeing B787-9. As Business Class passengers, we got to experience the Vienna Lounge at Vienna International Airport, as well as EVA Air Lounge at their home ground Taoyuan International Airport in Taipei. Trip Overview Vienna, Austria to Taipei (VIE –…

[salsaworldtraveller]

British Airways A321neo Intra-EU Business Class (Club Europe) - London, England To Rome, Italy

[afabstract]

Flight Review - Lets Logic Crashes in Pieces

Read this quick review of the 2021 Bollywood movie "Flight" starring Mohit Chadda.

⭐⭐ Rating: 1.5 out of 5. “I build planes, not fly them!” Ranveer Malhotra, the hero of the 2021 movie “Flight,” exclaims at one point in the film. However, within a few minutes, he isn’t just flying the plane, but also attempting precision landing on an exact spot, a task even pilots with hours of training would find challenging. Directed by Suraj Joshi, “Flight�� is supposed to be a tense…

[winnistravels]

United Premium Plus Newark EWR to Frankfurt FRA Exposed

[ozhoopsdrek]

Flew Bonza earlier this month- they serve some unusual routes, but if their schedules and destinations suit you, you might find them a welcome (and affordable) alternative to the Big Two.

[shotmrmiller]

re: rugby team ghoap

it'd been a one-off, seize-the-moment kind of thing. casual hookups aren't really for you, plus you distinctly remember your ex prating on about how the team would only be here for the weekend hence the absolute burning need to go, and you've got work monday.

goodbye, great knowing them. you'd traipsed out of the hotel room with your sneakers in hand, soap's used jersey in the other- a memento of sorts, a trophy. mild serial killer behavior but you reckon since you just became another pearl in their long string of conquests, the least you could do is take something with you that won't be gone with a warm epsom salt bath and a couple of days rest.

("would ye believe yer the prettiest we've ever brought back with us?" right. you know where you stand on that scale, and people like you don't typically pull men like them. another cringe-worthy comment like that and you'd mistake their interest with pity.)

you'd put both jerseys in the wash later that day, and the rattling of your washing machine marked the end of your exciting weekend.

or so you'd thought. from your side of things, you'd wiped your hands clean of their sweat, spit and come and went home, once again falling back into semi-familiarity, expecting to go to work feeling completely relaxed and loose, in more ways than one, while ignoring the photos taken of you and the "star players" at the stadium on social media.

(no one caught your face, what bloody luck.)

when you see them again, it's by pure chance. you'd been ordering a sandwich at a deli down the street, hand already reaching for your wallet when an arm curls around your shoulders, dark, coarse hair of a forearm brushing against your cheek.

cedarwood and citrus. it clings to your senses— a sharp, tangy reminder of that time you'd only look back on when the familiar pang of want pooled searing hot between your legs. small world, you suppose.

"didnae leave a note. stole my jersey. 'm surprised ye didnae leave us money on the table, bonnie." warmth flared beneath your cheeks but you didn't cow to his crude joke.

"i suppose i could've left a tip. what do you want?"

the playful lines around his eyes smoothed as his lips straightened into a firm line, his eyes frostbitten. you ignore the way his touch makes you feel trapped, tethered, a cage made of velvet.

"took my shirt and then didn't show up to a single game after tha'. jus' gettin' wha' i'm owed. unless he's yer favorite."

how can he be your favorite when you know nothing about the sport they play and have no interest in knowing?

"too bad. we come as a package. get yer food, we've a place nearby."

(simon had been nowhere near as good-natured as johnny had about you leaving without a word. made you spit out apologies with swollen lips, only accepted the ones that came with a fluttering of your raw pussy around the splitting thickness of him while soap condescendingly cooed in your ear about lessons having to be learned the hard way.)

[biglisbonnews]

Flight Review: TAP Air Portugal Airbus A320 From Milan To Lisbon Delayed flights and little legroom. https://simpleflying.com/flight-review-tap-air-portugal-a320-milan-lisbon/

[dire-vulture]

ooooh so the maintenance isn't for a new breed or adventure mode (lol) but it wasn't tagged as boring and now there's a technical review delay..is this finally the cr/pm update we've desperately needed for over a decade omggg. fingers crossed fdsgsfdgfds

[ganondoodle]

*listening to schubert: complete symphonies on low volume*

*LOUD CRUNCHING NOISE OF SOMEONE EATING CHIPS DIRECTLY INTO YOUR EAR AT FULL VOLUME and a guy starting to say 'sorry you missed that solo-* before managing to hit reload, now wide awake

being used to having adblock on everthing unfortunately makes you very vunerable to getting jumpscared by an ad on youtube slipping through

[thedesignair]

Trip Report: Turkish Airlines 777-300ER Business Class, December 2024

After much anticipation, Turkish Airlines has launched its Istanbul-Sydney route, a major milestone connecting Europe and Australasia via one of the world’s largest and most modern transit hubs. While the inaugural service used the older Boeing 777-300ER, the route now operates regularly with the flagship Airbus A350-900 featuring a far superior seat product. With Turkish Airlines’ renowned…

[zenovyap]

Unboxing Turkish Airlines Economy Class (TK1752 & TK1889) OSL-IST-VIE

Imagine being told that your flight back home was cancelled due to a strike just 2 days before departure. What to do? As fate turned out, we ended up flying Turkish Airlines instead. The replacement (by our own means) flight took us to Istanbul via Oslo, before we headed back to Europe to Vienna, Austria. The 3-sector flight was on Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) and Turkish Airlines, via Economy…

[salsaworldtraveller]

A Look At Intra-Europe Business Class - Two Air France Flights Between Paris, France (CDG) And Casablanca, Morocco (CMN)

This post goes back to a trip to Morocco in August 2023. Flights were in business class. Transatlantic travel was courtesy of Delta Air Lines and Air France widebody jets to and from Paris, respectively. Air France provided the transportation to and from Morocco on single-aisle A320s. The distance between Paris and Casablanca is 1,200 miles (1,930 km). Flight time was three hours and five…

[winnistravels]

Delta One Business Class Review: From Atlanta to Frankfurt - Is It Worth...

[rei-ismyname]

X-MEN #12 Review

Alien bounty hunters came for Cyclops last issue. We find out why and wrap that up, learn more about Alpha Flight, and Corsair continues to be a useless motherfucker. I suspect this issue and the last were killing time until X-Manhunt next issue - as both are quite skippable. Let's talk about why and discuss the future.

Alpha Flight were indeed jailed during Fall of X, for supporting the mutant members of the team and mutants in general by subverting the sentinel/camps from the inside. Interesting that they're still prisoners and the team is basically a Thunderbolts program. I would have thought that ORCHIS and their laws would be seen in a different light after they tried to extinguish all life on the planet. Maybe they are, but no pardons for Alpha Flight. Shaman is a conscientious objector to this bullshit, and good for him.

Heather is still in a coma so their handler, Agent Arsenault, is the new Vindicator. Nobody respects her though. It's nice to get a follow up on their bittersweet ending in Fall of X, but this book has enough characters that aren't getting much attention. Having Alpha Flight take up half the issue is a choice. I haven't forgotten that Mac joined ORCHIS briefly either.

On to the X-Men! They're in deep shit, with the bounty hunters, aided by Xanto Starblood, having prepared for Cyke, Magik and Juggernaut well enough to neutralize them. He remembers his time teaching at the Hellfire School run by those infuriating child billionaires, especially Quentin and Idie. Dude has really good intelligence on the team, though I guess he'd just have to check Earth media. They've been acting publicly. Quentin and Idie never find out he's here and thus don't comment on him or anything from Wolverine and the X-Men. He's a war criminal, if I remember correctly, but he doesn't seem especially dangerous here.

Turns out they want Scott for the obvious reason - as a way to manipulate Phoenix. I'm not giving myself points for calling it, what else could it be? Interesting phrasing by Starblood here, that Scott is 'one of the few [Earthers] with Galactic importance.' Not sure how true it is, as Earth seems to produce a lot of people who are galactically important. Nova, Star Lord, Adam Warlock, Carol Danvers, Hulkling and Wiccan, the FF, most Avengers and X-Men. Scott is in a unique position as the concubine of a God, but I'm skeptical how well thought out this plan is. Sounds like a good way to get incinerated or upgrade a Phoenix problem to a Dark Phoenix problem. I suppose Thanos rules the galaxy, so dumb ideas reign.

These idiots don't get to enjoy the fruits of their plan for very long though, as they didn't plan for Canadians. Temper has been holding back to avoid burning the rest of the team, but Vindicator and Guardian can bring finesse to that strategy. They can manipulate electromagnetic fields, apparently. I know someone else who used to be able to do that, but for reasons he's on the sidelines and Alpha Flight save the day.

Feels like hanging a lampshade on it, which irks me. 'Can we get Magneto for dinner?' 'We already have Alpha Flight at home.'

The uber capable bounty hunters of last issue are gone. In their place are passive and ignorant chumps that are easily defeated. The Alphans take out one heart chamber, which I assume is vital to ship functions. I zoned out a lot in the Brood saga. Storm would know. Captain Fucko isn't bothered, because there's a second heart chamber. I wonder what happens next.

Extreme Zoologist sounds pretty cool, like a space Steve Irwin or something. I remember Starblood being very proud of his doctorates in Xenobiology, Xenozoology etc. It doesn't really matter, he's a smarmy fuck who's tempting fate by pointing out the single point of failure for the space whale they're on. Psylocke is right where she needs to be to cause that failure and it's not guarded at all. Not a lot of tension here. The good guys identify what they need to do and just do it without difficulty or resistance.

Heart chambers destroyed, prisoners easily retrieved by Magik, Acanti crashes into the snow. Ilyana even has time to throw up a shaka and call them losers (which I love.) Problem solved! A little too easily, but it's the price we pay for 4 intro pages of Alpha Flight and their team dynamics. They weren't narratively necessary, and interestingly the letters page has Brevoort say Mackay really wanted to get Alpha Flight into the book but he said no way. As much as anything Tom Brevoort has to say is worth taking at face value, it's pretty strange.

This was a choice, and we know more about what Alpha Flight wants than we do for Glob, Ben Liu, Xorn, Jennifer Starkey, and Magneto (unless you've read the Infinity Comics and that Avengers issue.) This wide focus at the expense of main characters is a problem several books in From The Ashes have, so I have to assume that editorial wants this. Writers only have so much latitude (though that changes depending on who's in charge) and Mackay/Simone have to work around two crossover events within the first 13 issues. I'll come back to this.

As is standard for anyone not from Earth, they think it's a shithole. It's a shithole with a lot of superpowered individuals, though, as Starblood is faced with when crawling out of the wreckage. Poor space whale. Nice to see heroes side by side (and Guardian) without a single punch thrown at each other. Game over for this bozo, crisis averted. The implication is that this crew of dozens came to Earth at someone else's behest to capture Scott to get at Jean. They failed, of course, but the Phoenix is considered an existential crisis by most space empires, especially the Shi'Ar. I wonder if this will be an ongoing thing. Something for Scott and Jean to talk about, and that's 3 times in 11 issues The Phoenix has been mentioned. It's certainly set up, as so many things are, so as ever we'll see where it goes.

Scott is grateful the drama didn't reach Merle, which definitely tracks. Corsair the useless gets to collect the bounty on the bounty hunters, which is probably a lot of money. Yay for him, I guess. He didn't help even a little bit, I'd even say he was a hindrance. It's not clear whether he's sticking around, but it's not likely. I think it would be very interesting to have Scott's bio dad around when having it out with his fallen adopted father. Cyke thanks Mac and offers to break them out but he refuses.

Oh so now Scott's interested in jailbreaks? What if they have a space weapon? Just as I'm thinking how odd it is that so many people want to stay in prison, Scott gets the news that Xavier has broken out. The X-Men have been dealing with back to back problems since Graymalkin. First the O*N*E visit and then this. Last issue he referred to that event as 'earlier' which suggests it's the same day. That can't be right, can it? Chuck refuses a rescue then breaks himself out <24 hours later. I've never heard anyone use 'earlier' for anything but the same 24 hour period, at least not without a qualifier. I guess it doesn't matter.

Would Scott actually care about that? He was pretty emphatic about not allowing him to be freed on the grounds that his freedom reduces everyone else's. The solicit says the X-Men will fight Storm over Xavier, which sounds silly but I put zero faith in solicits these days. I guess we'll find out what the deal is in the, *sigh* second crossover event in what, 8 months? Less? NYX and X-Force are getting cancelled after issue #10, and it wouldn't surprise me if X-Factor and Phoenix followed. Phoenix is confirmed for issue #11, but the scattershot approach to publishing is bearing fruit. I stopped caring about X-Force (though I love the characters) but NYX has been pretty good. Plenty of potential and trying something new, but 10 issues is not a lot of space to build something sustainable especially when there's 17 other X-books on the shelf. 10 came out last Wednesday alone.

Those books aren't this book, but it's the same hand at the wheel and the lack of faith in books/creators makes me concerned for this one. X-Men has had some great issues but it's also had issues you could skip without missing anything, like this and the last issue. That many of the characters are underdeveloped in favour of seeding new threats each issue and navigating events is a problem for me. If those characters aren't really being used, why are they there? We'll only be able to truly judge in retrospect, but after Raid on Graymalkin's deflating resolution it bodes poorly for X-Manhunt. I know what I want out of the event, and I'm being very cautious with my expectations. I'm sure we'll see friends punching each other, but I'm not holding out for character development or earnest engagement with the recent past. That's fine, I guess. I just prefer a little more ambition from my X-books.