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[QUOTE=LukeSkywalker;1583071]Not sure what plane Slippery flew in from Narita to MNL.

PAL has been using fairly new Airbus A321's on that route. Its chief competitor is thethe Boeing 737-900 ER. Both can carry about 185 passengers, with maximum range about 3,100 nautical miles.

I've flown on both planes on routes in Asia. The A321 is slightly bigger, heavier, carries 8 more passengers, burned slightly less fuel, list price about $80 M compared to ($85 M for B737-900). The big difference is A321's are packed with lots of comfort, convenience and entertainment features at every passenger seat, whereas Boeing 737-900's are pretty much a stripped down machine for short hauls that are not equipped with a lot of features for passengers.

A321's also cruise at 542 knots against B737-900 472 knots. A321's are cheaper planes with more cabin features that fly 15% faster. That's why Airbus sold a lot of them all over the world with over 900 in service compared to about 200 for B737-900 ER.

China is producing A321 in Shanghai with deliveries aimed for 2018.[/QUOTE]So much knowledge Luke, but you forgot that each airline orders their aircraft with what they what. For instance, Cebu Pacific maximizes seats with zero comfort. I flew in a brand new A330 from Dubai to Manila on CP and the aircraft had zero comfort, no TV's and seats so small that time you arrived Manila, you feel like you have been packed in a tuna can for 9 hours, but the ticket price was $300 promo. You pay for what you get.

The discount carriers will usually order the cheapest, stripped down planes and configure them to carry the maximum number of passengers so they can make profit. We call them the cattle trucks.

$300 for a 9-hour flight from Dubai to MNL is a very good deal. You should not complain. For incentives, keep thinking of those wet, hairy pussies sitting on your face at the end of the 9-hour flight. Hehe.

On long international flights, I usually drink beers / wines non-stop, as much and as quickly as the flight attendants can bring me hehe. Then I walk around the plane to the boys' rooms and to check out other girls and flight attendants. I would also hang out I the galley pretending to do sit up so I can get down low to check out the young flight attendants' legs and crotches. If they shoo me out I would say I have doctors' order to exercise hehehe.

It is highly recommended for people over 40's to hydrate and do exercises during long flights, to prevent "Deep Vein Thrombosis," which is blood clots in your legs' veins due to long periods of sitting inactivity. Large blood clots don't kill immediately. They just make you feel tired. They are pumped along in the major arteries from your legs back to the heart. A few days later one may block smaller arteries in the heart, lungs or brain ect. And causes a stroke, which may cause permanent disabilities, sometimes fatalities.

I know a bro who died from a stroke 1 day after arriving in Asia 2 months back. He was already taking blood-thinning medicines but still got killed by blood clots. So hydrate and exercise on long flights if you want to stay alive to hump your Pinay honeys. Hehe.

[QUOTE=Robbaf;1583171]So much knowledge Luke, but you forgot that each airline orders their aircraft with what they what. For instance, Cebu Pacific maximizes seats with zero comfort. I flew in a brand new A330 from Dubai to Manila on CP and the aircraft had zero comfort, no TV's and seats so small that time you arrived Manila, you feel like you have been packed in a tuna can for 9 hours, but the ticket price was $300 promo. You pay for what you get.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Robbaf;1583171]So much knowledge Luke, but you forgot that each airline orders their aircraft with what they what. For instance, Cebu Pacific maximizes seats with zero comfort. I flew in a brand new A330 from Dubai to Manila on CP and the aircraft had zero comfort, no TV's and seats so small that time you arrived Manila, you feel like you have been packed in a tuna can for 9 hours, but the ticket price was $300 promo. You pay for what you get.[/QUOTE]Would I be correct in assuming that, even with minimally configured aircraft, they would still carry restraint kits to deal with stupid, drunken, adolescent twits, who annoy passengers and molest or disrupt the duties of crew members?

[QUOTE=Ikksman;1583221]Would I be correct in assuming that, even with minimally configured aircraft, they would still carry restraint kits to deal with stupid, drunken, adolescent twits, who annoy passengers and molest or disrupt the duties of crew members?[/QUOTE]Of course. Plus the mandatory anxiety meds (kidding on the anxiety part.).

All airlines carry plastic restrains, though not officially acknowledged. But not all crew are martial arts trained. LOL.

Plus long haul planes with part of the lower bay configured for crew rest area also have / had a coffin.

Luke. You lost the plot when you said cabin feature as reason for Airbus sales, did you mean like the reading lights and all? LOL.

And among others cockpit familiarity is a reason for airlines to go Air bus. Technically a pilot trained in 320 330 or 340 or 380 is able to fly other planes with minimal conversion,. And that's a plus point for Airbus other than the fact they make planes cheaper.

And China has been assembling 320's for some time.

[QUOTE=LukeSkywalker;1583181]For incentives, keep thinking of those wet, hairy pussies sitting on your face at the end of the 9-hour flight. Hehe. .[/QUOTE]That is not an incentive. Unless they carry a razor or go to waxing parlour prior to seeing me.

[QUOTE=LukeSkywalker;1583181]On long international flights, I usually drink beers / wines non-stop, as much and as quickly as the flight attendants can bring me hehe. Then I walk around the plane to the boys' rooms and to check out other girls and flight attendants. I would also hang out I the galley pretending to do sit up so I can get down low to check out the young flight attendants' legs and crotches. If they shoo me out I would say I have doctors' order to exercise hehehe..[/QUOTE]Ikksman / Robbaf,

This is why all airlines carry restraints.

[QUOTE=LukeSkywalker;1583181]So hydrate and exercise on long flights if you want to stay alive to hump your Pinay honeys. Hehe.[/QUOTE]Agreed, but not how you do it as alcohol is the worst thing you can drink on a flight – the longer the flight the worse it gets.

Am sure you are a wonderful passenger to be with Luke – I can feel my thumbs twitching now as I write LOL.

[QUOTE=Tyrion82;1582378]I heard some great stories about DIA, but I have no idea how it works. Can someone give me the basics of how to obtain a P4 P from the DIA website?

I will be leaving for the Phils in a few days and more than happy to report any information and experiences including any pimpettes I meet.[/QUOTE]Ask who is playing 25 times to 25 hot pics and 5 will say yes, 5 will say maybe but you won't understand, 5 will say fuck off and the other 10 will fuck you but yo you won't know how to close that deal so stick with the 5 that say yes!

P.S. Don't send money, and don't make them travel more than 1 hour!

PP.

They all have reading lights but A321's are wired with video screen at each seat.

While the 2 planes are very close in size and weight, B737-900 ER uses 2 GE turbo fans with about 55,000 lbs thrust, the A321-200 uses 2 Pratt-Whitney / Rolls Royce engines with 66,000 lbs thrust that supposedly burn about 5% less fuel. It's hard to believe Pratt&Whitney can make engines that much better. That extra performance must incur extra costs in either initial price or maintenance. With the same weight and 22% more thrust, the A321 will fly faster.

A321-200 sold 4 times B737-900 must be because they are cheaper to lease and to operate. Governments do give subsidies in development and financing to help sell planes.

Airbus jets are all fly-by-wire. Their cockpits layouts may be somewhat similar but system controls and responses are different from plane to plane. Pilot still have to have type certificate in each plane they fly.

My main beef with Airbus is their structure designs are known to be weaker than Boeing's. With all the weight savings using fly-by-wire system, their tails' designs are not strong enough. There have been Airbuses that lost rudders in turbulence and crashed.

[QUOTE=EconoTech;1583387]Luke. You lost the plot when you said cabin feature as reason for Airbus sales, did you mean like the reading lights and all? LOL.

And among others cockpit familiarity is a reason for airlines to go Air bus. Technically a pilot trained in 320 330 or 340 or 380 is able to fly other planes with minimal conversion,. And that's a plus point for Airbus other than the fact they make planes cheaper.

And China has been assembling 320's for some time.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=WickedRoger;1583488]

[QUOTE]Quote Originally Posted by LukeSkywalker
On long international flights, I usually drink beers / wines non-stop, as much and as quickly as the flight attendants can bring me hehe. Then I walk around the plane to the boys' rooms and to check out other girls and flight attendants. I would also hang out I the galley pretending to do sit up so I can get down low to check out the young flight attendants' legs and crotches. If they shoo me out I would say I have doctors' order to exercise hehehe..
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Ikksman / Robbaf,
This is why all airlines carry restraints.
Am sure you are a wonderful passenger to be with Luke, I can feel my thumbs twitching now as I write LOL.[/QUOTE]LOL. Good to know that I won't have to pack my own duct tape and plastic ties in my carry-on, in case he is a passenger on the same flight.

Cheers.

[QUOTE=LukeSkywalker;1583181]We call them the cattle trucks.

On long international flights, I usually drink beers / wines non-stop, as much and as quickly as the flight attendants can bring me hehe.

It is highly recommended for people over 40's to hydrate and do exercises during long flights, to prevent "Deep Vein Thrombosis," which is blood clots in your legs' veins due to long periods of sitting inactivity. Hehe.[/QUOTE]Those airlines call themselves "no thrills no frills" .

Alcohol doesn't do any good to beat de-hydration so there is a big contradiction. Leave the health recommendations to the professionals, better.

The good say "don't drink and drive" sometime should apply in a different way to those having difficulties to drive: "just drink don't drive", but that is another story.

I thought the original post was a bit funny. Hope the two of you can figure out how to stop the name calling. X.

[QUOTE=Ikksman;1583221]Would I be correct in assuming that, even with minimally configured aircraft, they would still carry restraint kits to deal with stupid, drunken, adolescent twits, who annoy passengers and molest or disrupt the duties of crew members?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=LukeSkywalker;1583603]They all have reading lights but A321's are wired with video screen at each seat. [/QUOTE]Amazing advantage for Airbus. Wonder why my Philippine Airlines flights on 321 didn't have such screens. I am sad now.

[QUOTE]While the 2 planes are very close in size and weight, B737-900 ER uses 2 GE turbo fans with about 55,000 lbs thrust, the A321-200 uses 2 Pratt-Whitney / Rolls Royce engines with 66,000 lbs thrust that supposedly burn about 5% less fuel. It's hard to believe Pratt&Whitney can make engines that much better. That extra performance must incur extra costs in either initial price or maintenance. With the same weight and 22% more thrust, the A321 will fly faster. [/QUOTE]Amazing stuff. No wonder Boeing is shutting down soon. I guess.

[QUOTE]My main beef with Airbus is their structure designs are known to be weaker than Boeing's. With all the weight savings using fly-by-wire system, their tails' designs are not strong enough. There have been Airbuses that lost rudders in turbulence and crashed.[/QUOTE]Unsafe planes are deadly. Now I am Philippines and all flight back to Singapore are on one or another version of Airbus. Including SIA. Can you save me?

Or do I have to swim back to Singapore?

[QUOTE=XMan;1583754]I thought the original post was a bit funny. Hope the two of you can figure out how to stop the name calling. X.[/QUOTE]Agreed. Temporary blackout on my part!

Cheers X.

Hard liquours may have chemicals that may poison your body if taken in large amount, but major-brand beers are mostly water with not much chemicals.

It's all about how your body adapt to various chemicals used in brewing or distilling.

I have drunk so much beers of so many crazy brands all over the world, that my body developed resistance to adverse reactions to any chemicals used in beers brewing process. For me nothing quenches my thirst better than a few cold beers. The beers' minerals just help hydrating all my organs and muscles faster and in the most satisfying ways.

I was sitting in the afternoon heat at a grimy table at a chicken BBQ place on Fields Ave in AC, eating their broiled chicken, washing down with cold San Miguels, thinking foods and drinks just would not get any better than that.

But I am 100% against drinking and driving, or much worse, piloting planes. High altitudes can make alcohol effects far more severe than at ground level. Paramount Pictures recently distributed a movie "Flight," wherein the captain, played by Denzel Washington, allegedly took cocaine hits and downed 4 small Vodka bottles in the cockpit before he managed to save his wildly out-of-control plane.

That's a lot of stupid bullshit, bordering on criminal intent for box office money, on the part of Paramount Pictures. Any airlines' accidents in the future can make Paramount Pictures partially liable of losses.

[QUOTE=BionicMan;1583721] Alcohol doesn't do any good to beat de-hydration so there is a big contradiction. Leave the health recommendations to the professionals, better.

The good say "don't drink and drive" sometime should apply in a different way to those having difficulties to drive: "just drink don't drive", but that is another story.[/QUOTE]

On my last arrival into T3 with Cebu Air Pacific the arrival hall was loaded with people tagged "us embassy". They went around scoping for something and with first eye contact they "how are you sir". Felt kind of creepy as I was amongst the first into the rather empty baggaclaim area (except from 20 or so US Embassy tagged persons). While waiting for luggage on the belt these gauy and girls mixed in with the crowd and just kept eyebowling their "victims". What was all this about, I am not a US citizen, but still felt kreeped up by all the looks. Do the US have authority on phil soil as well? I was lucky to get my bag rather early and no questions were beeing asked but they were also present infront of the custom booths. They were on the look for something. I got the hell out of there as I don't feel connected to the US (great country and everything) and I atleast not feel I have to answer to the US gvmnt in anyway as I carry a diff citizenship.

If you are flying PAL into terminal 2, do not take just any taxi. My usual practice is to go out the door, up the stairs to the departure area, and take a metered taxi that just dropped off passengers. This time the stairway was barricaded, and security was standing there. WTF?? While looking for metered taxi, some guy approached me and offered his services. I followed him to a stand where he showed me the "official" price of P1600 to Makati. I said no thanks, and found the yellow metered taxi stand. Instead of "flagdrop" price of P40, the yellow airport taxis start at P70. Not bad.