Entebbe Overrun
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: South Africa
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L/H MLG tires blew
Taxing on the Pride of Africa(737-700) on the 26th April for a 00:40 departure from FAJS both L/H MLG tires blew......this was the start of a horrendous trip which took 3 days to get to Lagos.... the worst thing is their terrible customer service and how pax get treated....never again KQ.
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Transferring through NBO is an absolutely nightmare. The lineups for the transfer desk can take up to three hours, as a friend of mine recently experienced. It is an absolutely outdated system that needs to be fixed. I don't know why SkyTeam let KQ join as an associate when their customer service standards are so mediocre.
JT
PS - Plus, of several friends who've recently transferred in NBO, all had their baggage delayed by laziness on the part of KQ rampers. Fortunately nothing was swiped. Its not that big an airport.....there is no excuse for a bag not making a connection with a 6 hour sit in NBO!
JT
PS - Plus, of several friends who've recently transferred in NBO, all had their baggage delayed by laziness on the part of KQ rampers. Fortunately nothing was swiped. Its not that big an airport.....there is no excuse for a bag not making a connection with a 6 hour sit in NBO!
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Sussex UK
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EBB runway water retention
Just to back up NM's comment, that runway has a nasty tendency to retain water. There is no "crowning" of the runway, no fall across the runway, no grooving and no drainage, at least there wasn't when I last visited. Water rapidly builds to a significant depth with the obvious promotion of aquaplaning. As always, everybody (not just posters here) has all sorts of explanations as to what should have been done after the event. I have no comment about the abilities or professionalism of KQ as I don't work for them or know enough about them, but they do not appear to have been enjoying the rub of the green lately. This incident, if such it was, might prompt the authority to do something about providing proper water-borne rescue facilities, bearing in mind that water is pretty close to both runway ends - perhaps not deep enough to cause too much of a problem to a wide-body (relatively speaking), but the smaller stuff could be a different story. Let's hope there never is a significant death toll from a future over-run - how many are needed to promote some improvement, I wonder?
