Thursday, December 30, 2010
The Worst Airlines in the World
Air Canada
Despite spending a lot of money to upgrade their planes, Air Canada is still very awful. Old planes with one big movie screen dominate their fleet. The food tastes like it was cooked a many years ago and complaints of surly flight attendants are common. There are groups all over the web dedicated to Air Canada’s bad record. The Facebook group “I’d rather walk than fly Air Canada” has 1,900 members.
American Airlines
AA is canceling flights, cutting routes, firing employees, and charging you more money for fewer services. American has had a bad reputation for awhile and recent cost-cutting measures have only made things worse.
Philippines Airlines
Old planes make this airline one to avoid. The service is average and needless to say, no personal screens. The planes look old and feel old. You’ll barely see the screen while you shift around in seats older than the subtitled movie you’re watching. While the seats can be cheap, it’s an uncomfortable ride.
Air China/China Eastern
Chinese airlines have a bad reputation among frequent fliers. I know frequent fliers who will pay triple the price to avoid one of these airlines. Old planes, poor service, and bad maintenance make flying these planes risky. They have awful service records and frequent problems. You can fly on them for cheap but why risk it?
Gulf Air
Gulf Air flights may be cheap but you get what you pay for. Flights are frequently delayed or canceled without reason, the meals are poor, and the staff is unfriendly. Moreover, you won’t be compensated for any lost time and the staff will do nothing to accommodate you. In fact, they probably could care less. Gulf Air needs to take some lessons from Emirates and learn what service is all about.
US Airways
US Airways consistently ranks near the bottom out of all American carriers. The airline now charges for water and snacks. That’s fine and expected on a low cost carrier but not for a full fare flight. Planes are late or delayed, staff unfriendly (you’d be too if you made what they made), and meals nonexistent. Worse yet, rate hikes and route cuts are expected in the near future.
source:http://blog.hotelclub.com
Despite spending a lot of money to upgrade their planes, Air Canada is still very awful. Old planes with one big movie screen dominate their fleet. The food tastes like it was cooked a many years ago and complaints of surly flight attendants are common. There are groups all over the web dedicated to Air Canada’s bad record. The Facebook group “I’d rather walk than fly Air Canada” has 1,900 members.
AA is canceling flights, cutting routes, firing employees, and charging you more money for fewer services. American has had a bad reputation for awhile and recent cost-cutting measures have only made things worse.
Old planes make this airline one to avoid. The service is average and needless to say, no personal screens. The planes look old and feel old. You’ll barely see the screen while you shift around in seats older than the subtitled movie you’re watching. While the seats can be cheap, it’s an uncomfortable ride.
Chinese airlines have a bad reputation among frequent fliers. I know frequent fliers who will pay triple the price to avoid one of these airlines. Old planes, poor service, and bad maintenance make flying these planes risky. They have awful service records and frequent problems. You can fly on them for cheap but why risk it?
Gulf Air flights may be cheap but you get what you pay for. Flights are frequently delayed or canceled without reason, the meals are poor, and the staff is unfriendly. Moreover, you won’t be compensated for any lost time and the staff will do nothing to accommodate you. In fact, they probably could care less. Gulf Air needs to take some lessons from Emirates and learn what service is all about.
US Airways consistently ranks near the bottom out of all American carriers. The airline now charges for water and snacks. That’s fine and expected on a low cost carrier but not for a full fare flight. Planes are late or delayed, staff unfriendly (you’d be too if you made what they made), and meals nonexistent. Worse yet, rate hikes and route cuts are expected in the near future.
source:http://blog.hotelclub.com
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
About diamonds
You can convert graphite into diamond by applying a temperature of 3000 Celsius and pressure of 100,000 atm.
Floods force mass evacuations in Queensland, Australia
North-eastern Australia's worst flooding in decades is continuing to cause chaos across the region.
Around 1,000 people in Queensland have been evacuated, including the entire population of the town of Theodore.
The government has declared Theodore and two other towns in the region to be disaster zones, and forecasters say the floods have not yet peaked.
The cost of the damage is expected to top A$1bn (£650m), including massive losses of sunflower and cotton crops.
Army Black Hawk helicopters evacuated the 300 residents of Theodore, where every building in the town apart from the police station has been flooded, local media reported.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
About the brain
The slowest speed at which information travels between neurons is 416 km/h or 260 mph, thats as "slow" as todays supercar's top speed (the Bugatti EB 16.4 Veyron clocked at 253 mph).
New Zealand releases UFO government files
New Zealand's military has released hundreds of documents detailing claims of sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
The files, dating from 1954 to 2009, include drawings of flying saucers and alleged samples of alien writing.
The files include details of New Zealand's most famous UFO sighting when strange lights were filmed off the South Island town of Kaikoura in 1978.
An official report from the time said natural phenomenon could explain it.
Although the incident made international headlines at the time, the military report suggested it could be lights from boats reflected in clouds or an unusual view of the planet Venus.
Following the release of the files, New Zealand Air Force spokesman Kavae Tamariki said the military did not have the resources to investigate UFO sightings and would not be commenting on the documents' contents.
"We have just been a collection point for the information. We don't investigate or make reports, we haven't substantiated anything in them," he told the Dominion Post newspaper.
The reports have been released under freedom of information laws after officials removed names and other identifying material.
The files - which run to about 2,000 pages - include accounts by members of the public, military personnel and commercial airline pilots describing close encounters, mostly involving moving lights in the sky.
All the original documents on which the reports were based are to remain sealed in the national archive
Monday, December 20, 2010
Who invented The remote TV?
The first TV remote control, called "Lazy Bones," was developed in 1950 by Zenith Electronics Corporation (then known as Zenith Radio Corporation). Lazy Bones used a cable that ran from the TV set to the viewer. In 1956, Zenith's Dr. Robert Adler suggested using "ultrasonic's," that is, high-frequency sound, beyond the range of human hearing. He was assigned to lead a team of engineers to work on the first use of ultrasonic's technology in the home as a new approach for a remote control.
Inveted by:Robert Adler
Snow strands travellers across north Europe
Snow and ice have stranded tens of thousands of would-be travellers across northern Europe.
The UK, France and Germany are among the worst-hit areas, with forecasters warning freezing weather may continue.Hundreds of passengers desperate to return home for Christmas camped
overnight at the world's busiest transport hub, London's Heathrow.
More than 1,000 flights were cancelled at German airports in Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin.
In France, Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport had three of its four runways open though most of the short-haul flights had been cancelled to enable longer-haul passengers to fly.
At the capital's smaller Orly airport although both runways were in operations, many flights had delays of more than three hours, according to French newspaper, Le Monde.
In Germany airlines encouraged their passengers to take the train while train operators - whose services are already overcrowded urged passengers to stay at home, Reuters reports.
At Germany's Frankfurt airport where many spent the night on camp-beds authorities brought in four brightly coloured clowns to try and lift the mood in the terminals.
But some of the most dramatic scenes took place in the British capital where, more than 48 hours after the last heavy snowfall in London, angry passengers with tickets turned up at Heathrow Airport only to be turned away from the already overcrowded hub.
All short-haul flights had been cancelled.
Indonesia likely to miss inflation target this year
The Indonesian government said it will be hard to meet this year's inflation target of 5.3 percent, explaining that extreme weather had resulted in soaring food prices, the Jakarta Post reported on Monday.
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