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First non-stop service from Australia to UK begins

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  • #52
    L1011
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    Going to be prayer mats or spaces for same on an Islamic country of origin airine


  • #53
    California Dreamer
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    josip wrote: »
    Anyone know more about these?

    Aer Lingus have these for their older -200s that do the west coast.


  • #54
    irishrover99
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    L1011 wrote: »
    Going to be prayer mats or spaces for same on an Islamic country of origin airine

    Qatar Airlines specifically state that you must remain in your seat while praying.


  • #55
    Fred Swanson
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  • #56
    Peregrinus
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    As long as the cargo area is pressurised, it can be repurposed for other uses by passengers. You don't need a special area for prayer - as Qatar points out, you can pray in your seat perfectly well - but my guess is that the "religious facilities" involved a space for ritual ablutions, which you can't really do in your seat, and that this was in aircraft specially configured to serve the pilgrimage traffic to Mecca.


  • #57
    josip
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    If these ever make it into production, 17 hour flights will be a thing of the past, at least for those who can afford the sub orbital ticket.


  • #58
    plodder
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    josip wrote: »
    If these ever make it into production, 17 hour flights will be a thing of the past, at least for those who can afford the sub orbital ticket.
    ... When that fell through due to technical problems, Bond, along with engineers John Scott-Scott and Richard Varvill, formed REL ...
    I was wondering if that was a typo. Apparently not - not.


  • #59
    zell12
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    Review of the flight currently on Pat Kenny Newstalk.com


  • #60
    smurfjed
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    Image a B777 with the last 4 rows of economy seats removed, this area would then have a partition, curtains and an open carpeted area for praying. This is a "prayer area".

    Manufacturers have realised that there is a lot of unused space in the aircraft ceiling, so rather than use the hold for crew rest facilities, they are using the ceiling above first class and at the back of economy, they usually have 2 seats and 2 bunks in the front and 6-8 beds in the aft. The seats can be used for takeoff and landing, the bunks can't be used.

    I have flown on one B744 that had the cargo compartment configured as sleeping quarters and offices, it had almost zero space for baggage, but the owner would usually have another cargo 747 follow him with the baggage.


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  • #61
    Tabnabs
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    I took a flight from CDG to JNB with Air France back in the late 90s. They had curtains down the back then, and when you opened them it was a load of lads standing around smoking.

    Anything is possible...


  • #62
    Under His Eye
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    Emirates allowed smoking as late as 1998.


  • #63
    California Dreamer
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    Under His Eye wrote: »
    Emirates allowed smoking as late as 1998.

    2000 LDY - STN with Ryanair. Smoked like a trooper with a Spanish Captain that chained smoked the entire flight on the flight deck. Ah them were the days!


  • #64
    JCX BXC
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    Anywhere allow smoking nowadays out of interest? While I'm not a smoker, it would be interesting to see. I have never travelled on an aircraft before the turn of the century.


  • #65
    flas
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    Was on a super long flight like this late last year, dubai to Auckland.. It is down as 16 hours 20 minutes but it took well over 17 hours out, and 17:30 at minimum on the way back due to an electrical storm apparently, that's what came across the intercom anyway, which we could see out the window and was pretty amazing!
    It was on the airbus 380,my god its a comfy plane, the one from Dublin to dubai wasn't as comfy, still nice but the a 380 we didn't want to get off it on the way back!

    We had only 2 hour turn around time way out, so was a run through dubai Airport and straight onto the next flight, then on way back we missed the connection because someone in Auckland Airport decided to open a door they shouldn't have and the whole airside had to be evacuated and made to pass through security again, delaying every single flight out! I would happily fly anywhere any day of the week once it was on a a380... And the booze was free like last time!


  • #66
    Marcusm
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    Under His Eye wrote: »
    Emirates allowed smoking as late as 1998.

    It wasn't that unusual then IIRC. Went to Lanzarote that year, we split into two groups - the ones who wanted a smoking flight (charter) and those who didn't (EI).


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  • #67
    L1011
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    JCX BXC wrote: »
    Anywhere allow smoking nowadays out of interest? While I'm not a smoker, it would be interesting to see. I have never travelled on an aircraft before the turn of the century.

    Think some of the Asian ex-USSR state airlines allowed it until this decade. Illegal for US or EU airlines to do so for decades now.

    Anecdotally it still happens on some Chinese domestic flights but not legally.


  • #68
    smurfjed
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    It still happens on our flights unfortunately but it’s one of the benefits of having your own jet.


  • #69
    Nijmegen
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    L1011 wrote: »
    Think some of the Asian ex-USSR state airlines allowed it until this decade. Illegal for US or EU airlines to do so for decades now.

    Anecdotally it still happens on some Chinese domestic flights but not legally.

    Ditto EgyptAir https://www.economist.com/gulliver/2018/07/14/what-really-happened-to-egyptair-flight-804


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