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You'll appreciate this pdogg, have to brag & boast a bit... At some point in the late 90s, probably '98 or '99, I found a RT JFK - BKK on AA for $249 total! There were no changes allowed, only good on those specific dates 10 days apart, no refunds, I had to buy it at an AA ticket counter... I remember the AA csa looking at it & shaking his head saying "We're giving this away to you!"

I can't remember specifics on how I found it, maybe a thread on Flyertalk lead me to search ITA Matrix, that would be likely.

One one hand it hardly seems worth traveling so far for only 8 days on the ground, otoh I couldn't not go at that price. Best fare I ever got!

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About 5 years ago I got a return from Canada to Tokyo for $640.00 with Air Canada. They upgraded me to Business Class for free because they were oversold in economy. However the onboard entertainment system wasn't working and because of the inconvenience they gave me a voucher for $200.00. So the whole trip cost me $440.00. Can't beat that. Unfortunately those days are gone. Boo Hoo. 

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Some good deals from Etihad all over the world!

 

http://www.asiahotelandtravel.com/index.php?/topic/282-etihad/

 

If you book online directly with Etihad, please use our links on Asia Hotel and Travel.

 

We earn a small commission so it's an easy way to support LBR without costing you anything.

 

http://www.asiahotelandtravel.com/index.php?/topic/282-etihad/

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Not nearly as good as Senor Hefe or Sam, but some years back I lucked into a China Air RT from SFO to BKK for a little over $600...It had some restrictions but all within reason...Cheap trip...........................

 

Yeah, and my deal was in Canadian dollars!!! Which I believe was something like $0.90 to the US$ at the time. Compared to today where I just booked the cheapest available one way trip BKK-YVR (Eva Air) for $1,500.00. It's all a bum-fuck.  :notfair:

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Damn, I am reading that correct Sam...One way for $1500...damn...

 

I am looking for a trip after the first and lately EVA is quoting me RT from LAX for $851 and United is quoting $951 RT from Phoenix......

 

I prefer EVA...Why, cause of this..............

 

EVA flight attendant selfie...Damn if she don't look the clone of Zhang Ziyi...Memoirs Of A Flight...On EVA Air even the ugly ones be pretty.........

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Yeah you're reading correct. But one ways usually tend to be higher that returns. I have no choice to book a one way return since my one way departure to BKK is a freebie. However booking a return to BKK from YVR (Vancouver) ain't like the old days. I doubt if I could get it for much under $1,800 in economy and suffering a middle seat to boot. These are Canadian dollars BTW.

 

And Yup, nothing helps ease the pain of a long economy class flight like pretty flight attendants. 

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Today i got my ticket for the 8th march from Etihad airways...Rhodes Athens,Abu Dhabi,Bkk (return) for only 602 EUROS...waitting time 

maximum about 95min...arriving in bkk on the 9th early morning...for me this price is good ,if you look at the cost of ticket from Rhodes to Athens at the price 170 euros...

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Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan has been discharged from hospital and released without charge from custody by Irish police.

She had been arrested on Monday following an alleged air rage incident on a flight from the United States.

Ms O'Riordan was detained after a stewardess was reportedly attacked on an Aer Lingus flight from New York to Shannon, County Clare.

 

After being examined by a doctor, she was taken to hospital in Limerick.

Police said the singer had been questioned for a period at Shannon police station where it is understood she complained of being ill.

 

Police had boarded the aircraft at Shannon and during the course of the arrest, a policeman was also injured.

The incident occurred in the business section of Aer Lingus flight EI 110 from New York's JFK airport shortly before it came in to land in Shannon.

It is understood the injured Aer Lingus air hostess suffered a suspected fracture in one of her feet and was taken to hospital for X-ray and medical treatment.

The police officer was not seriously hurt and did not require hospital treatment.

A spokesman for Shannon Airport said the flight touched down before 5am.

 

"I can confirm that the incident took place on board Aer Lingus' daily service from New York to Shannon. An arrest was made following arrival at 4.47am," the spokesman said.

Ms O'Riordan, 43, was detained under section four of the Criminal Justice Act and was questioned over allegations of assault.

 

Originally from Limerick in the west of Ireland, the distinctive singer became a multi award-winning musician after securing the role of lead singer of the Cranberries when she was just 18.

She is married with three children and has been living in Dublin.

The Cranberries went on to become one of the biggest bands of the 1990s, selling tens of millions of records.

 

A spokesman for Aer Lingus described the incident as a "security matter".

"An incident took place on board flight EI 110 en route from New York to Shannon today," he said.

"The matter is being investigated by An Garda Siochana [irish police]. As this is a security matter we will not comment any further"

A file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29985596

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This seems above and beyond the norm for acting out passengers. Wonder why no charges were filed?

 

 

A foreigner jumped at a flight attendant on a Bangkok Airways plane yesterday and ripped her shirt off, according to an account by a purported witness.

 

Tohteh Rommanee posted an incident he witnessed during his job as a member of the cabin crew on a Bangkok Airways flight Thursday, when a crazy passenger invaded the cabin crew’s gallery in the back of the plane while they were relaxing.

 

The passenger, whose identity was withheld and only described as “farang,” reportedly yanked the curtain open and held the flight purser down on the floor. He then strangled her and ripped her shirt off before proceeding to take off his pants.

The other cabin crew tried to stop him off but could not overcome his rape fugue. Other passengers came to the rescue and tied the crazy man to his seat. He was believed to be drunk.

The man was escorted out by airport security. No charges were reportedly filed, but he was blacklisted from the airline.

Tohteh said he just wants to warn the internet that crazy things like this do happen, but he felt it was not necessary to expose the man’s identity.

http://bangkok.coconuts.co//2014/11/21/drunk-farang-assaults-flight-attendant-bangkok-airways-staff-claims

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Seeing airfares $625 - $675ish through March, for US to Bali return all in. I was able to find one for $625 for 1 month with a 2 week layover in Singapore (to enable trips to nearby territories). There was a similar fare to BKK from LA/SFO last week, hopefully this is the beginning of a trend of cheaper fares for 2015.

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Yeah you're reading correct. But one ways usually tend to be higher that returns. I have no choice to book a one way return since my one way departure to BKK is a freebie. However booking a return to BKK from YVR (Vancouver) ain't like the old days. I doubt if I could get it for much under $1,800 in economy and suffering a middle seat to boot. These are Canadian dollars BTW.

If you really need a one way and are going to throw away the return segment, you might lower the price by booking the return segment as the cheapest flight from Asia to the US. For example, if you are going from Vancouver to Bangkok, you might get a lower price booking Vietnam to Los Angeles as the return flight. Or try DPS-USA or HKG-USA. Most fare calculations do not require you to come back from or to the same place, just the same regions.

And for a cheap one way, a buddy with frequent flyer miles might be useful. :)

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Sam you probably already thought of this but.... book your RT BKK - CAN with a return date at a probable time for your next trip to BKK, say in 6 months or whatever. You can always trash the return or pay the fee to fine tune the date you actually want to return. I found the RTs are always cheaper than OW.

 

It used to be cheaper to book RTs from BKK with a decent travel agency, I used to use one near the Nana Hotel, but that was a long time ago & things probably have changed.

 

(Oops, read your original post & see you booked it already....)

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Bit late to the subject. EVA has some decent one way prices from YVR-BKK but dates are limited to a couple of days a week. Not as good coming back. Looks like around $900 for some reason. I've been finding a lot of stuff lately, from serveral airlines, that isn't showing up on sites like Kayak.

 

This years trip was already booked long ago. In 2016 I will probably use miles for Business class for BKK-DEN and buy OW to BKK in economy. I can't book out that far now but EVA is showing SEA-BKK in the late fall for US$484 OW. Hope that holds up until Jan 2016 but probably only good as long as oild prices stay low.

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A Korean Air Lines Co executive flying from New York to Seoul last week on one of the airline’s planes demanded that a crew member get off the jet prior to takeoff after the executive took issue with the way she was served macadamia nuts, a company spokesman said.

 

Around 250 passengers were aboard Flight KE086, whose takeoff Friday was delayed by about 20 minutes because the plane had to return to the ramp to drop off the crew member, said the spokesman.

 

Cho Hyun-ah, who is a vice president in charge of Korean Air’s in-flight services and hotel business and a daughter of Chairman Cho Yang-ho, was seated in the plane’s first-class cabin when a flight attendant served her an unopened bag of macadamia nuts, the spokesman said. The problem arose after Ms. Cho said the flight attendant should have first asked her if she wanted the nuts, and then served them on a plate, not in the bag, per Korean Air in-flight service rules, according to the spokesman.

 

Ms. Cho “scolded” the flight attendant and asked the purser in charge of in-flight administration and supply about the proper procedure for food service in first class, the spokesman said. Unsatisfied with his response, she demanded that he get off the plane, according to the spokesman. The purser flew to Seoul on another Korean Air flight, the spokesman said.

Korean Air issued an apology late Monday, but said it was Ms. Cho’s obligation to inspect cabin service and monitor aircraft safety.

“Korean Air apologizes to its passengers for the inconvenience caused by the return of the aircraft even though the circumstance was not an emergency,” the carrier said in a statement.

 

It added that the purser had neglected procedure and regulations on inflight services, and so Ms. Cho had called his capability into question.

 

Neither Ms. Cho, the flight attendant nor the purser could be reached for comment.

 

“She was just a passenger. It’s unthinkable for a passenger to return a plane to the ramp, which should be decided by the pilot,” said a local airline official.

 

The incident, which was first reported by local media without identifying sources, was the most searched news topic Monday on Naver, South Korea’s most-used search engine. The Korean Air spokesman declined to say how the news outlets found out about the incident.

 

Lee Chang-hee, director at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said the agency would investigate the incident.

According to South Korean aviation regulations, a plane preparing for takeoff should return to the ramp only if the pilot determines there is an emergency situation, such as one involving the safety of the aircraft or its passengers. Violators can face up to 10 years in prison.

 

The ministry director said, however, that an official letter of warning could be issued to Korean Air if the incident was judged inappropriate but not serious enough to warrant punishment.

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An Air Asia flight was forced to return to Don Mueang airport due to outrageous and violent behavior from two passengers.

In a post since removed on the Chinese web board Weibo, users who said they were on flight FD91010 said the plane was halfway to Nanjing, China, when a young Chinese couple assaulted a flight attendant and threatened to “jump out of the plane.”

 

It all started, according to those accounts, when a Nanjng woman in her 20s, who was seated separately from her boyfriend, threw a hot cup of water in which her instant noodles were steeping at a flight attendant, according to the original report on Weibo.

 

That wasn’t all. Her boyfriend subsequently said he would kill himself while the woman threatened to jump out of the aircraft.

 

The flight returned to Don Mueang, at which point police boarded the plane to take the two into custody. The woman complained of depression and would not stand up from the floor, where she was lying. Her boyfriend also refused to go.

 

They were removed forcefully from the plane. While the incident remains unconfirmed, a number of photos posted to Weibo suggest something happened involving police, noodles and a lot of drama.

http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2014/12/12/instant-noodle-attack-and-other-weirdness-forces-air-asia-flight-back-bangkok

 

Below is a video taken in mid-air but it's the aftermath and does not show the noodle throwing:

 

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A Korean Air Lines Co executive flying from New York to Seoul last week on one of the airline’s planes demanded that a crew member get off the jet prior to takeoff after the executive took issue with the way she was served macadamia nuts, a company spokesman said.

 

Around 250 passengers were aboard Flight KE086, whose takeoff Friday was delayed by about 20 minutes because the plane had to return to the ramp to drop off the crew member, said the spokesman.

 

Cho Hyun-ah, who is a vice president in charge of Korean Air’s in-flight services and hotel business and a daughter of Chairman Cho Yang-ho, was seated in the plane’s first-class cabin when a flight attendant served her an unopened bag of macadamia nuts, the spokesman said. The problem arose after Ms. Cho said the flight attendant should have first asked her if she wanted the nuts, and then served them on a plate, not in the bag, per Korean Air in-flight service rules, according to the spokesman.

 

Ms. Cho “scolded” the flight attendant and asked the purser in charge of in-flight administration and supply about the proper procedure for food service in first class, the spokesman said. Unsatisfied with his response, she demanded that he get off the plane, according to the spokesman. The purser flew to Seoul on another Korean Air flight, the spokesman said.

Korean Air issued an apology late Monday, but said it was Ms. Cho’s obligation to inspect cabin service and monitor aircraft safety.

“Korean Air apologizes to its passengers for the inconvenience caused by the return of the aircraft even though the circumstance was not an emergency,” the carrier said in a statement.

 

It added that the purser had neglected procedure and regulations on inflight services, and so Ms. Cho had called his capability into question.

 

Neither Ms. Cho, the flight attendant nor the purser could be reached for comment.

 

“She was just a passenger. It’s unthinkable for a passenger to return a plane to the ramp, which should be decided by the pilot,” said a local airline official.

 

The incident, which was first reported by local media without identifying sources, was the most searched news topic Monday on Naver, South Korea’s most-used search engine. The Korean Air spokesman declined to say how the news outlets found out about the incident.

 

Lee Chang-hee, director at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said the agency would investigate the incident.

According to South Korean aviation regulations, a plane preparing for takeoff should return to the ramp only if the pilot determines there is an emergency situation, such as one involving the safety of the aircraft or its passengers. Violators can face up to 10 years in prison.

 

The ministry director said, however, that an official letter of warning could be issued to Korean Air if the incident was judged inappropriate but not serious enough to warrant punishment.

 

 

She has now been relieved of all vice president titles at Korean Air, further more the senior flight attendant said he was asked by airline management to lie about the incident and down play what happened.

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An airline passenger on board an internal flight in China sparked a safety scare by yanking open an emergency exit just before a plane was due to take off to "get some fresh air", according to reports.

 

The passenger, on board the Xiamen Air flight from Hangzhou to Chengdu, caused amazed fellow travellers to take a series of snaps on their mobile phones, which were later posted on social media.

 

The airline’s maintenance team rushed to fix the safety door and the flight took off on time, Hangzhou airport staff told the Southern Metropolis Daily.

 

Passengers' photos showed the middle-aged man wearing a blue hooded coat - a first-time flier - poke his head out of the open door, as a stewaress looked on.

 

“It’s my first time seeing a passenger open the safety door,” one photo circulated online was captioned. “He told the attendants he just wanted some fresh air … hope our flight won’t be delayed for too long.”

 

Sunday’s flight saga triggered heated debate on social media, with many microbloggers saying the man should have been fined for posing a safety risk to other passengers.

 

But the airline said it did not plan to penalise the passenger as he had not meant any harm.

 

“It was his first travel by air,” an airline staff member told the paper. “He did not cause delay or any other direct loss to the airline.”

 

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1663201/chinese-man-opens-planes-emergency-door-fresh-air-take

 

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A Bangkok Airways flight from Chiang Mai to Bangkok was cancelled after pieces of a paper lantern were found stuck to an engine turbine fan, a senior official at Chiang Mai airport said yesterday.

Wisut Chanthana, director of the Chiang Mai International Airport, said the foreign objects were found during an inspection on Thursday night before the plane took off and the flight had to be cancelled for safety reasons. Passengers were transferred to other flights.

Wisut said that on New Year's Day alone, more than 200 flying lanterns fell in the aviation area, far more than during Loy Krathong in November.

Releasing lit paper lanterns is popular in the North during celebrations and locals have been warned against doing this near airports.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Flight-cancelled-after-lantern-pieces-found-blocki-30251122.html

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Lady Giew is not happy with Air Asia and other low cost airlines.

 

But these airlines do bring happiness to the people who don't like 12 hour bus trips.

 

 

Govt Wants To Raise Fares of 'Low-Cost' Airlines

 

BANGKOK – Thailand’s military government is asking domestic “low-cost” airlines to raise their ticket prices to prevent stealing market share from inter-provincial bus companies.

 

Thailand's Minister of Transport, Air Chief Marshal Prajin Janthong, said the cheap fares for domestic flights offered by low-cost airlines are hampering the business of public bus companies in Thailand.

 

"We cannot set the fares of low-cost airlines, but we will seek cooperation from these airlines to refrain from setting fares that are too low, because they may affect other types of public transportation," said ACM Prajin, who also sits in the ruling military junta.

 

His comment came after Suchinda Cherdchai, the owner of several major bus companies, filed a complaint with the government claiming that her business has been affected by domestic airlines, some of which offer prices cheaper than bus tickets.

 

Suchinda, aka Lady Giew, is believed to have strong ties with Thai authorities. According to Isra News, Suchinda's companies have secured over 1.9 billion baht worth of contracts with at least eight state agencies in the past ten years.

 

After a meeting with operators of several bus companies last month, ACM Prajin told reporters that he was concerned to see a decrease in the number of passengers using buses to travel domestically.  

 

"There are fewer passengers in routes to important provinces like Chiang Mai and Phuket, and some provinces in northeastern region," ACM Prajin said. "The major reason behind this is the cheap promotions offered by low-cost airlines."

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1420782999

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For passengers flying into La Guardia Airport, the majestic New York City skyline cannot help but command attention.

But for pilots, especially pilots landing planes on Runway 13, it is the Flushing Bay that looms large.

 

That runway, one of two at La Guardia, is a 7,000-foot stretch of asphalt and concrete, partially laid on steel piers that extend out over the water. The runway can freeze fast in winter, but even in good weather, there is little room for error.

 

On Thursday, at the height of a snowstorm, Delta Air Lines Flight 1086 touched down on Runway 13 shortly after 11 a.m., veering out of control almost instantly.

 

It skidded off to the left and then careened up an earthen berm, crashed through a fence, and came to a stop just moments before plunging into the frigid bay.

 

None of the 127 passengers and five crew members were seriously injured, but many passengers described a few harrowing minutes.

Steve Blazejewski, who was in a window seat on the left side, said the plane felt “out of control” almost as soon as it touched down. He said it seemed to veer at an angle of about 20 degrees as it bumped along the runway.

 

“We were skidding forward but veering off to the left,” said Mr. Blazejewski, 39, a real estate executive with Prudential who was traveling on business from his home in Georgia. He said he began to worry as the bay quickly got closer.

 

“I said to myself that we were going to go into the water,” he recounted in a phone interview.

 

He said he recalled the US Airways flight that landed in the Hudson River six years ago. Then, because he was sitting next to an emergency exit door, he said, “My next thought was: How do I get this door open?”

 

Mr. Blazejewski, a veteran of the United States Navy, never had to answer that question because the wing beside him was damaged. Flight attendants guided him and the other passengers to exit onto the right wing, which also was damaged, as were the plane’s nose and tail, he said.

 

Several other passengers took to social media even before they had escaped the plane.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/nyregion/delta-plane-skids-off-the-runway-at-la-guardia-airport.html

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