Reality of Risks you take flying the no frills Asian airlines
"Although it’s too early to determine the cause of the crash, news reports first raised questions about Orient Thai’s safety a decade ago, although they were vigorously disputed by Udom. In 1997, Aviation Department director-general Srisuk Chantrangsu said Orient Thai did not keep clear flight records and failed to conduct emergency training sessions for its pilots, which are required every six months.
Either way, One-Two-Go’s safety record was never specifically questioned, even though reports have surfaced concerning the safety of Thailand’s budget airlines as a whole. Indeed, at the time it was very easy to set up an airline in Thailand as investors needed just 50 million baht in registered capital and the country did not mandate stringent safety requirements adopted in other countries. Moreover, politicians were known to peddle influence to get an aviation license approved.
By mid-2004, the government had issued 23 licenses for scheduled and charter-service airlines, although only nine were in use. The proliferation of airlines led to calls for reform. The required registered capital for an airline company jumped to 200 million baht, but no other serious safety precautions were taken.
Safety concerns came to the fore in 2005 when budget airline Phuket Air faced a slew of troubles. It was banned from flying in England, France, the Netherlands and eventually all of Europe due to serious mechanical flaws with its planes. In Thailand, it had five twin-engine prop planes grounded after one skidded off the runway in Mae Sot, stopping just before it plowed into a nearby gas station.
A Bangkok Post report in 2005 blamed the problems with Phuket Air and other airlines on lax enforcement of regulations by the Transport Ministry and Aviation Department. About 60% of the work on annual aircraft inspections is based on documents sent by the airlines instead of onsite observance, the report said, and the limited staff focused only on planes suspected of having serious problems.
[quote]The department is seriously understaffed, with only seven or eight officials responsible for aircraft safety,” said the Post, quoting a source in the Civil Aviation department.
Moreover, the report said, politicians sometimes urged regulators to bend the rules on inspections, putting officials in an “awkward position.” Unnamed airline executives were quoted saying that many minor safety incidents often go unreported.
The weeks to come will likely shed more light on the reasons for Sunday’s One-Two-Go crash, and the Thai press will surely grill the Aviation Department on any shortcuts it might be taking. For the past year, safety questions swirled around the runway of Bangkok’s newly opened Suvarnabhumi airport, but the airplanes themselves had been largely given a pass.[/quote][url]http://asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=704&Itemid=32[/url]
Cheap Thai and Flip girls in HK
[QUOTE=Rob Uk]So what! Do you not read the stats! You nutjob! You have better chances of getting run over by a bus than a plane crashing! Read the bloody stats!
Anyway you can also get a flight to thai or philipines from Cathay pacific for $2600 HKD which is so god damn cheap! So get it up you HK Dog! Keep on paying $2000 for cheap philipino and thai girls then! Its prob takes then over a month to earn $2000 HKD in their country so thats why I said that they are not worth paying that much for a shag! So get it up too! I'll think of going to Thailand for the weekend with cathay pacific now! LOL
Fare Details Total fare Passenger Fare Tax/Surcharge
HKD 2,610.00 Adult x 1 2,110.00 500.00
Total fare HKD 2,610.00[/QUOTE]
I am not attempting to take sides on this flight issue, I just would like to add that there are tons of Thai and Flip girls for cheap in HK. In fact, check out 161s_x.com and do a search on Thai, several girls will appear for cheap, less than 300 and they provide good service (based on my experience).
Also, note that the YS places in Mong Kok and Prince Edward provide Thai and Flip girls for less than 360, most cost about 260. These are young girls, some of which look hot. About 3 months ago, I want to try something different so I went to a YS in Mong Kok that had a yellow sign with different prices, the Thai girl was only 260. She was about 25, and about a 7.5, she provide BBBJ, CIM, ML, and anal, all for 260. I wondered if she knew about the tourist sections of HK where guys will pay 1,500 plus for the same service I received for 260. Of course, I did not inform her of her lost revenue.
The bottom line is, in HK, the vast majority of Chinese guys DO NOT pay the tourist prices on HK island and in Tsim Sha Tsui. This is why you rarely see any HK Chinese guys in bars on Lockhart or Jaffe. These are tourist spots, thus the higher prices. The only reason the Flip and Thai girls charge 1,000, 2,000 or more in these areas are because they know they can get it from the tourist.
If a guy wants to overpay, that is his choice and non of my business. Hell, I did the same thing 12 years ago when I came to HK and I was a newbie. After a while of living here, you learn where to go for good cheap sex from young girls, just like the HK Chinese do.
