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Stress less fellas, after your journey you are welcome to indulge in a host of pork dishes at a number of hotels and leisure oulets in Dubai, can you really not survive without pork for 14 hours?
Having lived in both OZ and Dubai, Dubai is FAR more multicultural than OZ. Everybody is from somewhere else. And don't worry, there is plenty of delicious swine once you get here. The pork belly at Safron at Atlantis on the Palm brunch is the best I have ever had.
To counter the thread drift, how much holding gas are Qantas turning up with? With the runway works fast approaching delays will be quite extensive. What are they planning as an alternate? Emirates seem to use OMAL for the 380. Is it the same?
To counter the thread drift, how much holding gas are Qantas turning up with? With the runway works fast approaching delays will be quite extensive. What are they planning as an alternate? Emirates seem to use OMAL for the 380. Is it the same?
The QF fuel policy doesn't carry an alternate for anywhere else under those conditions so I would consider it highly unlikely there is a different policy for Dubai ops. Having said that, they should have enough fuel on arrival for OMAL and OMAA at least but that tends to be a quirk of the policy rather than deliberate planning.
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Just thinking the same thing Ex A380, we held for nearly an hour last night! ( or this morning, depending on how you look at it:
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I think auh is the preferred with an 'arrival allowance' proffered as holding gas, my mate reckoned they had 18ish o/head on his plan and landed with 16ish in good wx
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As to the other 'pork' thread.
The OP, and a lot of posters on Facebook may want to look at QF catering on routes to Jakarta and Bali over many years...
It's called cultural sensitivity and to be honest I think we can all live without bacon for a 6-18hr flight!
Qantas for many years has served different meals and indeed different alcohol (eg sake on Japanese routes) for these very reasons...
The OP, and a lot of posters on Facebook may want to look at QF catering on routes to Jakarta and Bali over many years...
It's called cultural sensitivity and to be honest I think we can all live without bacon for a 6-18hr flight!
Qantas for many years has served different meals and indeed different alcohol (eg sake on Japanese routes) for these very reasons...
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Bacon....I love bacon but on my flights between Oz and Dubai on EK I enjoy, Barramundi, steak, meat pies even....and an awesome collection of Ozzie reds. I would say EK make a "concession" to the Australian culture and no pork is a small price....
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The pies are awsome....and although steak is the best, try the chicken and veg as well...also great!!!!
Cutting pork is probably les about offense and more about logistics.. I would guess there would be way too much red tape involved in 'importing' pork items in aircraft stores as well as its disposal, since pork would render all aircraft waste to be treated and disposed of as mixed...
You can order MOML on QF (and EK, if codesharing) however since EK catering (food wise) is halal those MOML never show up, they get regular meals... I reckon if they could have QF would stick with letting people order the MOML, but is probably just easier to make everything on these flight halal, as others have mentioned they do on CGK flights... the amount of special meals ordered for Muslims probably makes it impractical to cater these (much like they now have an Asian veg option on the N. America flights since so many are ordered)
Back to the main subject... any crew on nightstop been arrested yet??
You can order MOML on QF (and EK, if codesharing) however since EK catering (food wise) is halal those MOML never show up, they get regular meals... I reckon if they could have QF would stick with letting people order the MOML, but is probably just easier to make everything on these flight halal, as others have mentioned they do on CGK flights... the amount of special meals ordered for Muslims probably makes it impractical to cater these (much like they now have an Asian veg option on the N. America flights since so many are ordered)
Back to the main subject... any crew on nightstop been arrested yet??
Yes. One QF mainline 2nd Officer was arrested while out for his morning walk. He made the mistake of pointing with his index finger, this is considered very very offensive in the UAE. The correct protocol is to either point with your thumb or with your whole hand. If you use your whole hand the palm should be facing downwards.
The incident resulted in the return flight being delayed 8 hours until another crew member could replace him. The punishment for pointing with your index finger is to have it chopped off in the town square as a lesson to anyone else contemplating doing the same. As it turns out the 2nd Officer was in charge of transmitting " Yer on guaaaard mate" for the return flight and without his index finger was unable to comply with the QF 0.8 milli second response time SOP.
The law of unintended consequences is coming home to bite Allen big time on this QF/EK tie up.
Framer.
The incident resulted in the return flight being delayed 8 hours until another crew member could replace him. The punishment for pointing with your index finger is to have it chopped off in the town square as a lesson to anyone else contemplating doing the same. As it turns out the 2nd Officer was in charge of transmitting " Yer on guaaaard mate" for the return flight and without his index finger was unable to comply with the QF 0.8 milli second response time SOP.
The law of unintended consequences is coming home to bite Allen big time on this QF/EK tie up.
Framer.
