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London Heathrow and Star Alliance win the World's Airport of the Year award
London Heathrow and Star Alliance have won the World’s Airport of the Year at Air Transport World’s (ATW) 41st Annual Airline Industry Achievement Awards, honored jointly for their collaborative work on the new Terminal 2 at Heathrow. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesBetter than Charles De bloody Gaul, that's for sure.
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 10:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Mind you, Banff aerodrome would probably be a better overall experiance than CDG......
Airport of the year? That's right up there with suppurating lesion of the year.
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 10:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0As far as I'm concerned airports in general are just a very trying way to get on aircraft (and hopefully have your luggage get on the same one). While Heathrow and Hanan International would be my candidates for the two least-bad, it is very much that rather than the best.
What a joke - I avoid the chaos of Heathrow like the plague.
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 11:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0I would rate Singapore as no.1 of airports I have used but that was 10 years ago.
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0The contrast when we got back to Heathrow was shocking. Overcrowded and it looked like a scruffy bus station.
It would be nice to believe that things are sorted out BUT airports in general are hell-holes.
Really? Terminals 2 and 5, that I use most often, are clean and spacious. The business lounges are not overcrowded and offer a good selection of free refreshments.
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0That said, I love tiny little airports where you take 50 steps from the aircraft and your baggage is there waiting.
Airports are an occupational hazard to me; a necessary evil if you will. I am sitting in one right now.
terminal 5 is one of the worst on earth.
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 11:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0it should be on the list of banned terminals and airports, along with that piece of sh*te of gibraltar.
@6
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bless! Don't worry Paul - you will fly somewhere one day.
I flew through T5 yesterday and it was great. The older parts of Heathrow are best avoided though.
@6 How on earth would you know Piggy Pauly? You have never left the slum you were born in.T5 isn't that bad, although like Redrow said, the rest of Heathrow is best avoided lol.
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anyway Pauly stop pretending to be an architect, a surfer and a human being. You know nothing of the world outside Argentina, and any knowledge you do have you got from a state sponsored sticker on the side of a bus. Please stop existing.
#5
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 07:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I agree with you on small airports. The absolute smallest I know is Bird Island in the Seychelles. A grass strip about 200 metres long between the palm trees.
No terminal building. You just hang about on the grass until the aircraft pulls up, the luggage comes on a trailer pulled by a tractor and you board,
I sat by the rear door of the Twin Otter, the pilot turns round and asks me if everyone is aboard and to check that the door was shut !! A thumbs up from me, throttles full on, bumping along the grass and up we go.
A somewhat relaxed attitude !
Currently sitting in Auckland Airport awaiting my connection home.
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 07:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nice, small, efficient. Mind you getting out of LAX was quite painless. As opposed to arriving there.
oh paulie, please just shut up! For your own sake. It is becoming quite embarrassing to know that I post on the same site as some-one as stupid as you.
Mar 04th, 2015 - 01:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are an embarrassment to the human race.
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@9 Clyde15
haha! I know what you say. Merida, Vnzla (now closed due to economic conditions) used be a lot of fun.
A twelve-seater twin turbo-prop on an uphill runway, pointed directly at the mountains. They would leave the little curtain open so you could see through the windscreen, (and watch the co-pilot chatting on his mobile-phone to his mistress in Caracas), as we hurtled forward.
Everytime we seemed to just skim those snowy peaks.
Exhilarating to say the least!
dear inhabitants of the islets:
Mar 04th, 2015 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0how the fuck can you know if T5 is good or bad?
when was the last time you left the islets?
NEVER.
so, shut the fuck up.
terminal 5 is the worst on earth, not only for the lengthy flight delays, which sometimes are understandable, most of all for us pilots, but also, and this is the worst part, for the huge number of lost bags.
my samsonite cosmolite between them.
so, don´t come here to tell ME that that shite is a good airport.
understood?
@12 Wait did I read that correctly? Are you claiming to be a pilot? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG I hope you made a grammatical error because there is no fucking way you are a pilot LOL
Mar 04th, 2015 - 03:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And I was out of the Islands last October you retard. I have been to far worse terminals than T5. Madrid springs to mind, just simply the size of the place and trying to catch connecting flights in time, nice airport though. Miami is a disaster and don't get me started on how many fuck ups I have had in Brussels, in fact now I think about it, airports in general are pretty shitty lol. But you wouldn't know that Piggy Pauly, because you have never been on a plane, in your entire life.
@12
Mar 04th, 2015 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“us pilots...”
*weeps*
(shaking with laughter)
brainless
Mar 04th, 2015 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0of course i am a civil pilot, you asshole.
now, it is not a big deal.
clearly it is for you, who have never seen an airplane in your sad fucking life.
an airplane for you is like a UFO for the common person.
lol
and that trip you did, it was only in your imagination.
stop using lsd you twat.
@15 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA YOU ARE NOT A PILOT!!!! OMG this gets better and better, there is no way, no way in hell you are a civil pilot.
Mar 04th, 2015 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have seen more of the world than you ever will you retard. You see, i can fly to Santiago and go anywhere from there, or I can take the military flight to RAF Brize Norton and catch a plane from Heathrow or Gatwick, expensive but simple really.
Do you even know what LSD is? Probably not lol, bet you can't get it in the slum. What was that cheap crack substitute called? I can't remember the name but I imagine that is what you do when you pretend to be a pilot, or an architect, or a surfer. Where do you fly in your fictitious plane? Did you fly to T5 and lose your luggage? lol
Ohhhhh wait you could fly to the mythical Malvinas Islands and land your imaginary plane at the Gumdrop Airport and visit all the sugar candy buildings designed by your favourite architects, or perhaps you imagine your own building into existence......... but then the crack wears off and you still live in a slum.
You are not a pilot, an architect or a surfer, you are not a Polo fan, you have never been abroad, in fact i doubt you are even Argentine. So please please please crawl into a hole, take some cheap crack, or whatever, overdose, and spend your last moments pretending to be something never will be.
brainless fuck you
Mar 04th, 2015 - 04:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it is easy, you kelper.
if you want to say that YOU (LOL X 1 TRILLION) have traveled abroad, well it is okay.
surely you will impress the rest of the illiterate isleters.
how many of you have left pork stanley, at least for 1 day?
none?
zero?
no one?
i imagined that.
like i wisely say, the worst part of you isleters is that islander mentality.
that narrow mentality which is product of the lack of education, lack of travel, isolated geography and most important, the impossibility of getting knowledge.
as for the flight to punta arenas (lol) in a 6 months will be suspended.
no flights from or to the islets will be allowed to pass through our wonderful skies.
a comerla brainless fuck you
#17
Mar 04th, 2015 - 05:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We will take a note of that. By the 4 September 2015, all flights to/from Punta Arenas will be suspended. Isn't P.A . in Chile ?
@17 The worst part about you Argies is your Argentine mentality. That narrow, blinkered mentality, which is a product of indoctrination, poor education and your general nature/stupidity. But most importantly, the only knowledge you have of the Falklands is force fed to you in school and on the sides of buses.
Mar 04th, 2015 - 05:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have internet, so I have access to vast amounts of knowledge, like anyone with the internet.
I doubt the flights will be cancelled, it's Argentinas only bargaining chip, and a poor one at that. Cancelling the flights would only piss off your veterans and harden our resolve and it is simply not important enough to bring Britain to the negotiating table.
grandpa
Mar 04th, 2015 - 05:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0yes it is in chile
but what country have they go through to get to chile?
yes: ARGENTINA.
and no, in 6, let's say 9 months, you will not be able anymore.
16 brianF.I
Mar 04th, 2015 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think the word you want is 'paco'. A deadly cocaine residue, often mixed with brick dust, rat-poison and other nasties...
Pac0-pilot-paulie, the only way he ever flies...
#20
Mar 04th, 2015 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you for that piece of “news”. Is this a Hepatia type of time limit, a guess,or have you privileged information ? HOWEVER, the flights don't HAVE to go through Argentina. We have discussed this on many occasions and shown you how it can be done. Whether it would be financially viable is for LAN and the Falkland's Govt. to discuss.
22
Mar 04th, 2015 - 10:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“We have discussed this on many occasions and shown you how it can be done”
and how it can be done?
@23
Mar 05th, 2015 - 12:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are the pilot (allegedly).
Can you not plot a course yourself?
PMSL!
*weeps gently at the idea of pilot paulie high on paco in his bedroom *
Too funny!
grandpa
Mar 05th, 2015 - 12:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0there is no way to go from the islets to punta arenas without passing by our airspace.
so, go back to school and rent a boat.
i forgot you can't pass by our wonderful mar argentino either.
anyway, why the fuck you isleters want to go to punta arenas, lol?
it is one of the worst places on earth after pork stanley.
oh dear! too much!
Mar 05th, 2015 - 02:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0*crying with laughter*
*helpless*
“mar argentino ” really!!! says who? Is that the one with the British Nuclear Sub lurking beneath? Or the one with a UK Type-45 Destroyer cruising about on?
paulie, you are hysterical!!!
Thank you so much for the laughs, you ridiculous little man.
Time for a song...
“ Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars...”
Damn, that paco must be some strong ol' shit!
lol!
#26
Mar 05th, 2015 - 09:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Here beginneth the lesson for the terminally stupid.
Santiago to Punta Arenas for refuelling if needed. I believe that this journey can be accomplished ALL within Chilean airspace.
Then head South to about 55° 45”S/67°W turn east , skirting Argentina's 12 mile limit and take a course for the Falklands. Not difficult for anyone - except you- to understand.
If Chile has a corridor through the Estrecho de Magallanes, then that is the most direct route.
Argentina's jurisdiction ceases 12 miles from it's coast except for it's economic control.
Please read up before you post any more stupid and unsubstantiated remarks.
I SEE THAT NAVIGATION IS NOT YOUR STRONG POINT !
27
Mar 05th, 2015 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you are not the brightest of the bunch, are you?
must be oldness.
and where the fuck is a commercial route from the islets to punta arenas that does not pass through argentine soil?
do you know what commercial routes are?
have you ever seen a map?
i strongly doubt it.
@28 poorcedron
Mar 05th, 2015 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“and where the fuck is a commercial route from the islets to punta arenas that does not pass through argentine soil?”
You have planes that pass through soil? Makes sense I suppose. Every other country has planes that pass through the air.
Some “pilot” you are hahaha.
#28
Mar 05th, 2015 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Dimwit. If you could comprehend English instead shooting off your mouth MAYBE you would understand.
You said at #25 ....quote:- “there is no way to go from the islets to punta arenas without passing by our airspace.”
I have shown you how it could be done if Argentina refused permission to use their airspace.
NOWHERE DID I SAY THAT THIS WAS THE COMMERCIAL ROUTE !!!!!!!
I answered your question correctly by pointing out that it could be done.
Do you still say that it would be impossible to fly to the Falklands without flying over Argentina OR does your map show that Chilean airspace is actually in Argentina and that you have control of the airspace in the whole S.Atlantic.
As to ” not the brightest of the bunch, are you?
It depends on the bunch. As for you, old as I am, I have not seen any sign of intelligence in any of your posts. All you can do is shout opinions as if they are facts, if anyone challenges them resort to foul language, refuse to answer the question and change the subject.
Again, as to my map reading skills, I passed the basic RAF AIR NAVIGATION course with a 92% score when I was 17. So I am familiar with map reading, great circle routes, rhumb lines, magnetic variation, compass deviation, triangle of velocities calculations and haversines. I have even done some astronavigation with a sextant
So would you care to admit that I answered your question exactly as you worded it.
For once, man up and admit that you were wrong.
Unsurprisingly, peruvian-cedron, (for it is true), has slithered off back under the bridge where all the trolls live, to lick his wounds.
Mar 07th, 2015 - 02:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well Done Clyde15!
grandpa
Mar 07th, 2015 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Again, as to my map reading skills, I passed the basic RAF AIR NAVIGATION course with a 92% score when I was 17.”
when you were 17?
but who made those maps?
claudius ptolemaeus?
#32
Mar 07th, 2015 - 03:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ordnance survey who are probably the best map makers and RAF Navigation charts. Guess what, the topography of the British Isles has hardly changed in that time and the theory of navigation is the same whatever chart you use.
I even used Euclidian geometry at school and learned Pythagoras theorem using the same right angled triangle that he used . It hasn't even changed in 2015 !!
And your qualifications being ?
When you are faced with the truth, insert a snide comment, that's all you can do .
So you still squirm and change the subject. You obviously haven't a clue when it comes to maps....or anything apart from a colourful vocabulary of expletives.
After all, your country produce maps showing a mythical land called the Malvinas which exists ONLY in their imagination.
So, back to the original at #30. I have explained to you the folly of your post and how I answered it correctly.
Have you the guts to admit you were wrong or will you dodge the question again and confirm to all that you are a one-trick pony ?
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