Squawk as you see fit (Off Topic Thread)

A bit of amusement for all you fly boys and girls. A BBC radio comedy called 'Cabin Pressure' starring Benedict Cumberbatch (him off Sherlock) and Stephanie Cole (her off Doc Martin)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cb5k4

Treadhead wrote: »

Got me excited there, though ther ewas a new series!

Genius show, Rodger Allam and Anthony Head are fantastic!

Anthony Head? When does he get involved? Any way I thought with this being Series 1, Episode 1 it'd be a good chance to let people who have never caught the series before to hop on from the start.

Seen this on Facebook and thought it was worth a share

Ryanair's Micheal O'Leary arrives in a hotel in Dublin, he goes to the bar and asks for a pint of draught Guinness.
The barman nodded and said, "That will be one Euro please, Mr. O'Leary." Somewhat taken aback, O'Leary replied, "That's very cheap," and handed over his money. "Well, we try to stay ahead of the competition", said the barman. "And we are serving free pints every Wednesday evening from 6 until 8.
We have the cheapest beer in Ireland"
"That is remarkable value" Michael comments "I see you don't seem to have a glass, so you'll probably need one of ours. That will be 3 euro please. O'Leary scowled, but paid up.
He took his drink and walked towards a seat. "Ah, you want to sit down?" said the barman. "That'll be an extra 2 euro. - You could have pre-book the seat, and it would have only cost you a Euro." "I think you may to be too big for the seat sir, can I ask you to sit in this frame please" Michael attempts to sit down but the frame is too small and when he can't squeeze in he complains "Nobody would fit in that little frame". "I'm afraid if you can't fit in the frame you'll have to pay an extra surcharge of €4.00 for your seat sir" O'Leary swore to himself, but paid up. "I see that you have brought your laptop with you" added the barman. "And since that wasn't pre-booked either, that will be another 3 euro." O'Leary was so annoyed that he walked back to the bar, slammed his drink on the counter, and yelled, "This is ridiculous, I want to speak to the manager". "Ah, I see you want to use the counter," says the barman, "that will be 2 euro please." O'Leary's face was red with rage. "Do you know who I am?" "Of course I do Mr. O'Leary," "I've had enough, What sort of Hotel is this? I come in for a quiet drink and you treat me like this. I insist on speaking to a manager!" "Here is his E mail address, or if you wish, you can contact him between 9 and 9.10 every morning, Monday to Tuesday at this free phone number. Calls are free, until they are answered, then there is a talking charge of only 10 cent per second" "I will never use this bar again "OK sir, but remember, we are the only hotel in Ireland selling pints for one Euro"

A little note.

Just booked some flights with Aer Lingus. Dublin to a UK airport and different UK airport to Dublin, 4 days apart.

I used the multi city option and the same combo of times was 6 euro more than booking individually.

A bit mad that.

Regardless of the bugs in booking, looking forward to my first two flights on the ATRs. :-D

In the old hotel at ORK (working nearby tomorrow). Is it bad that I can identify most of the landings by the noise they make on taxiing?

Listening in on the ORK Tower feed, EI715 reporting light turbulence on approach to RWY 17 but got down on first attempt.

Its also the callsign when it leaves Shannon after refueling and CBP clearance and routes onto JFK.

Apparently it's got 36 business class only seats.

Callsign used to be carried by concorde.

flazio wrote: »

I can't believe that a BA flight from LCY to SNN is given the callsign 'Speedbird 1'. Hardly the most prestigious route on BA's portfolio. Cool callsign though.

Its to echo Concorde and their claim that the door-to-door time from a City of London office to a Manhattan office is much the same as it was on Concorde - due to avoiding travel to Heathrow, Heathrow itself and JFK immigration.

Return flight is BA002 and the evening pair is BA003/004.

Aer Lingus seem to be avoiding reusing their "premium" flight codes (EI100-103), think the Dubai flights had them?

I will look forward to seeing how this pans out. December 21st is the date I heard in Dubai. One hour after current flight. Delays and things could see a couple of 777s land one after the other - optimistically speaking.

*waits*