African boarding etiquette - comments welcome
 

This pic just in from my traditional source of great African aviation nuances (thanks Stu) - comments, as always on a postcard please & the best effort wins a PPRuNe unlimited access pass, valid for six months.

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Only in Africa bubba.

4HP

I presume this is yer actual SLF. (Don't see any windows.)

"Eish, no roof rack - where to put the goat and the chicken!"

Can't say I blame them. I'd also be biting, scratching, kicking and gouging to get a seat on the first aircraft out of Kisangani.:rolleyes:

Same scenario as any domestic flight from any Nigerian airport too !! Don't you just love it !!

NEO:ok:

NEO,
only too right.
However you forgot DNMM, any weekday
1730local, up to 5 727's, 3 737's with the same mad dash.. would be nice to see that posted, especially a friday:E

Eish (Ja met ys) the fest one ohn gets to drive the fly machien

ah, wimbi airways....say agen p.o.b eendurance....


roge...ah, infact, ah....can be infact ah, kisangani tower, say agen?!

This looks like a picture of the French doing some certification tests on the A380 down at Toulouse.
The people look like residents of Marseilles

Captain to engineer : Jones, couldn't there be a better way testing the replaced oleo leg ? ... :E

"It's always the same when you land at these places where there aren't any toilets."

A mad rush to get to one of only a few window seats.

Reminds me of a bus I was on in Malaysia.

"With the aid of a thirdparty airline, MOL trials new boarding techniques for Ryanair designed to reduce turnaround times to just 10 minutes"

Don't knock it. It was only years of fighting with Fulani market women to get on flights out of Bamako that trained me to the level of being able to get a good seat on an Easyjet flight in the UK.

There was this story about the usual rush to secure a seat on an African Boeing 727 ..... only thing, they only used the rear stairs and the plane was said to tip on its tail... never really thought this was possible .. but then again.. its Africa !

Ah how I miss mother Africa. Reminds me of shortly after I set forth on her hallowed soil. The local airline operated two pristine DC 3s, lovingly polished after each day's work. So much so that you could have thought that that below the windows was chromium plated. After accepting an offer of a day out to see the country, but "you might have to stand on the way home", off I went.

I ended up having to stand, hanging on just aft of the pilots, with 42 pax strapped in behind me, sometimes three to a pair of seats.

A really memorable day out, with the two DC 3s soldering on after nationalisation until someone tried to take-off with one with the rudder lock in place, not the captain's fault, it was the steward's responsibility to remove the lock!

I must have missed something about "full and free"!

I cannot let Nigerian Expat Outlaw's comment go without correcting him.

If you travel with Virgin Nigeria Airways out of Lagos or Abuja their domestic flights operate from the calm of the INTERNATIONAL terminals. So it is possible to avoid the rugby scrum of the Domestic Terminals in ABV and LOS if you fly with the right airline :D :ok: :ok:

I hope we can give everyone a chance to come to terms with Virgin Nigeria as reality and no longer a paper project !

BTW the grapevine says the new domestic terminal 1 (with its 8 aviobridges) at Lagos will be ready come Feb 2006. Given it's essentially a concrete skeleton at this moment in time, I find this amusingly optimistic!

So for now, LOS will still be the proud showcase of "typical African boarding scenarios". :} :} :}

Whoa:D :D :D what a great shot 4HolerPoler. cool

But you know what guys, the great thing about this kind of rush back here, ''though its now out of the question to beat the line here'' ;) is how surprisingly well behaved everybody is when they all get onboard, and throughout the duration of the flight.

It still baffles me compared to our western friends, and the terribly increasing number of air rage now encountered over there, even heard a county police station in the United States actually have built a special cell block for the geezers who have to be offloaded during flights over the pond, saw a program ere the officer called it the british block, presumably taking into consideration the number of brits offloaded for the night, and also how the airport have made this now weekly events a money spinning venture by providing facilities for the aircrafts.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: