Category: Travel
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I see that 10 years ago (yikes) I was complaining about the North Satellite Concourse at Hong Kong airport (because the only way to get there was by buses that sometimes had to wait for planes to pass). They did finally link it up to the main terminal (in 2022), using a bridge. And yet……
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Relatives booked flights to Hong Kong on a Very Famous Hong Kong Airline (VFHKA). Next we booked a package (flights and hotels), also with VFHKA – so that we could all go together to another city in Asia. Then last week VFHKA cancelled relative’s flights to Hong Kong, so we have to cancel the package. …
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I received this email after a recent brief hotel stay in China: Firstly, Thanks for your consistently loyalty with our hotel and [group] as a [loyalty program] member! Our management team have paid more attention to your staying experience. If there anything happened on you and makes you feel dissatisfied stay experience. Please do not…
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There’s not too much wrong with Hong Kong International Airport. Apart from the North Satellite Concourse, that is. It was opened more than 5 years ago (for smaller planes such as the Airbus A320 / A321), and yet the only way to get there (or back) is by taking a shuttle bus across the apron….…
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Me: Can I have a cheese omelette? Chef-type man: Yes. [Turns to assistant]. Cheese Omelette Assistant chef: What do you want in it? Me: Onions and tomato [Assistant Chef starts cooking]. Me: What about the cheese? Assistant chef: [ignores question, continues cooking] Me: I want a cheese omelette Chef-type man: He asked for a Cheese…
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Big headline on the front page of the ‘City’ section of the South China Morning Post today, but it turns out to be the usual load of nonsense: Pictures baffle Dragonair workers Three mysterious branding-type photos are raising questions on whether the airline is moving to align its image with parent Cathay Phila Siu and…
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Not a big surprise. It was an interesting concept, but the combination of being known as a budget airline (and one that is owned by a PRC company) and flying to Gatwick (rather than Heathrow) appears not to have been a winner. Hong Kong Airlines abandons Gatwick London's business-class-only link to Hong Kong is to…
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Turns out that if you are a royal princess flying on your country’s national airline you only have to get on board the plane about a minute before the doors close – and the flight takes off on time. And your luggage gets tagged with VVIP and is on the luggage belt super fast. But…
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This advert for “VNAilines” has been on Flyer Talk for weeks and weeks:
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What is with people and their mobile phones? There was a crazy woman in the airport today, chattering away on her phone whilst trying to complete the normally unchallenging business of getting through the automated immigration channel. You might think that putting your thumb on the reader would be easy enough, but this half-wit put…
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