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Search: Posts Made By: daedalus
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Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
24th Oct 2007, 16:43
Replies: 7
Views: 1,593
Posted By daedalus

First class

i just find first class bizarre. What kind of a lunatic would pay the cost of a luxury car for perhaps 8-9 hours of limited cosseting?
Better fly Y class to Bangkok (for example) and check-in at a...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
20th Oct 2007, 08:01
Replies: 2
Views: 658
Posted By daedalus

Flying to Guadeloupe

Ms. Daedalus and I are taking a cruise for the first time (sign of advancing age). Going to the Caribbean - Jamaica...Nah, she wanted to go!

Ship looks lovely and HUGE (86000 tonnes).

We fly...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
11th Sep 2007, 07:28
Replies: 15
Views: 4,958
Posted By daedalus

Airport security vs. seaport security

See my post number 49 on thread "Airport security Fiasco" 2nd page concerning lack of security measures on fast ferry Boulogne-Dover.

:ugh:
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
4th Sep 2007, 07:01
Replies: 53
Views: 6,189
Posted By daedalus

And to put the lid on all this....

The public can be forgiven for being extremely sceptical about the seriousness with which the UK authorities take security. What is happening at airports is ridiculous given the following true...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
25th Aug 2007, 20:55
Replies: 18
Views: 2,100
Posted By daedalus

Priority boarding with Ryanair

If you check in on line with only cabin baggage, then you get priority boarding, according to the paperwork "on the aircraft", BUT beware, if a bus takes you to the aircraft, youll get priority...
Forum: Cabin Crew
21st Aug 2007, 20:40
Replies: 1,224
Views: 1,317,751
Posted By daedalus

The quiet American

Sir,

You are the kind of American that Europeans think of when tempted by the present administration to regard all Americans as ignorant bullies. God bless you, you are the saviours of the...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
18th Jun 2007, 15:36
Replies: 15
Views: 2,344
Posted By daedalus

Brits going to Spain.

Of course the reason the Spanish are tightening up on travellers from the UK could well be that they have had problems with islamic terrorism (remember the Madrid train bombings?) and the UK is now...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
20th May 2007, 10:24
Replies: 6
Views: 1,164
Posted By daedalus

Handbags

To my knowledge, this daft rule is only applied in the UK. Your lady may find that coming back from Nice, there is no problem. Yet another example, alas, of British sheer bloody-mindedness.
:ugh:
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
18th Apr 2007, 08:07
Replies: 12
Views: 1,845
Posted By daedalus

Mea culpa

Brupax,

Thanks for the explanation, I had assumed the question related to the contents of luggage, car etc., not my clothing.

From what you relate, it seems that I am seriously innocent.
...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
17th Apr 2007, 08:04
Replies: 12
Views: 1,845
Posted By daedalus

A confession

Brupax, 'tis true that I left the UK for the elysian fields of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 25 years ago.

However, I'm no innocent. So, what you are suggesting is that I, a lunatic drug addict...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
16th Apr 2007, 13:40
Replies: 12
Views: 1,845
Posted By daedalus

Reply to farmer one.

He asked me as he was patting me down, but I had no sharp objects on me.
Contaminated needles? What kind of twisted lunatic would carry contaminated needles?

It's all so silly. Looking under the...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
10th Apr 2007, 17:23
Replies: 18
Views: 1,786
Posted By daedalus

never stand when you can sit...

Apart from the quotation above which continues...and never sit when you can lie down.....I'm utterly confused as to why so many pax are in such a hurry to go and wait for their luggage.

Even if...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
10th Apr 2007, 17:10
Replies: 12
Views: 1,845
Posted By daedalus

security lunacy spreading

Just back from a trip to UK using car and fast ferry, partly because so fed up with airport foolishness.
On way back from Dover to Boulogne, after ticket and passport check, car was ushered into a...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
15th Jan 2007, 11:01
Replies: 40
Views: 6,111
Posted By daedalus

Daft rules and security goons.

Sad thing about this is that it is the airlines and their employees (including pilots) who will suffer because of all this. With government slapping unjustified extra taxes on fares and the low-cost...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
11th Jan 2007, 18:56
Replies: 17
Views: 1,830
Posted By daedalus

arachnids?

You sure scorpions are arachnids?

Do they spin webs?:confused:
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
11th Jan 2007, 18:52
Replies: 15
Views: 1,771
Posted By daedalus

Bar codes

My experience suggests pigheaded bloody-minded Brit jobsworths.
We waited 1,5 hours at Stn due to utter incompetence by BAA to have my printed online check-in sheet rejected ("paper folded, won't...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
6th Jan 2007, 16:53
Replies: 13
Views: 799
Posted By daedalus

Caps Lock

Does anyone know why this utterly stupid key even exists? Even if some people require it could it not be put somewhere else (a switch on the side of the laptop for example). Who needs the bloody...
Forum: Medical & Health
2nd Jan 2007, 17:56
Replies: 21
Views: 5,064
Posted By daedalus

motion sickness

A ship's officer told me the one sure cure - "Sit under a tree.":\
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
23rd Dec 2006, 15:04
Replies: 9
Views: 1,663
Posted By daedalus

One bag

I know that one person posting on PPRUNE said that he takes a polythene bag with him and if there's trouble with his two or three items he just puts them all into the polythene bin-bag. He then has...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
23rd Dec 2006, 14:53
Replies: 197
Views: 38,066
Posted By daedalus

FOG

Excuse my pathetic ignorance of technical aviation matters, but I always thought fog was a problem for landing and not taking off. This fog was caused by high pressure which keeps pollutants close to...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
21st Dec 2006, 06:47
Replies: 24
Views: 2,899
Posted By daedalus

Carpet!

Following Mike Jenvey's post - just what is it about the UK and its obsession with carpet? Whenever I arrive in a UK airport the first thing that strikes me is the use of fitted carpet everywhere in...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
12th Dec 2006, 10:04
Replies: 1
Views: 1,287
Posted By daedalus

Transferring music from one I-pod to another

Anyone know how to do this?
I thought plug in I-pod, copy content into I-tunes library, plug in new I-pod, transfer content of library to new I-pod.
But there doesn't seem to be a way to transfer...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
19th Nov 2006, 11:05
Replies: 78
Views: 8,430
Posted By daedalus

One-bag rule

At Stansted on October 15th in the appalling chaos caused by BAA's lack of security staff, people were told "Only one bag" before they got to passport control. There were no tables or flat surfaces...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
8th Nov 2006, 14:39
Replies: 5
Views: 1,168
Posted By daedalus

logon to private wi-fi using macbook

Staying at small hotel with wi-fi, protected to prevent neighbours from logging on.
Macbook normally detects wi-fi and asks if I want to log on. In this case, the manager needed to add my laptop...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
21st Oct 2006, 07:49
Replies: 85
Views: 13,134
Posted By daedalus

priority boarding

Priority boarding (after children and disabled) is already available to those with cabin-baggage only who check-in on-line with Ryanair - no extra cost. The A4 print-out boarding pass carries full...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
18th Oct 2006, 13:14
Replies: 29
Views: 2,851
Posted By daedalus

Reply to BOFH

Sorry to have missed your question re how much lead time we allowed. Our flight was at 20.35, boarding at 20.05. We arrived Stansted at 17.00.

As I said, we had enough time, even to queue twice...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
17th Oct 2006, 16:56
Replies: 29
Views: 2,851
Posted By daedalus

And by the way...

Forgot to mention we have used Luxair and VLM, but they are expensive and I'm not sure the experience at Gatwick would have been better - in any case it's in the wrong place for us, as is London City...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
17th Oct 2006, 16:47
Replies: 29
Views: 2,851
Posted By daedalus

Stansted

Thanks all you guys for comments and helpful addresses. Although we travelled Ryanair, I can't blame them - problem was insufficient security staff. Once on the plane we had to wait because at least...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
16th Oct 2006, 12:17
Replies: 29
Views: 2,851
Posted By daedalus

Thumbs down security (again)

Stansted Airport, departures, afternoon, Sunday 15th October
Absolute bloody chaos. Nowhere near enough security checkpoints for weight of pax. I think 4 or 5 passport checks in total.
Massive...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
2nd Oct 2006, 20:34
Replies: 51
Views: 14,279
Posted By daedalus

noise reduction headphones

I got 4 pairs from the US gadget shop "The sharper image". They were normally $67, down to half price.

Find them more than adequate. Even when there is little or no external noise they improve the...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
2nd Oct 2006, 20:29
Replies: 44
Views: 7,782
Posted By daedalus

abusive pax

One assumes they were British.

:*
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
19th Sep 2006, 07:07
Replies: 5
Views: 920
Posted By daedalus

hand baggage on Ryanair

You may be right Globaliser, but the wording is not clear. It could just refer to flights entering the UK from Italy and Poland, which are given special mention, but in that case the permitted...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
18th Sep 2006, 18:01
Replies: 5
Views: 920
Posted By daedalus

now here's a thing!

The Ryanair site has published news concerning carry-on baggage, following the change to UK rules.
You can carry on one bag weighing 10 kilos or less containing no shampoos/toothpaste/gel/liquid...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
3rd Aug 2006, 03:58
Replies: 7
Views: 858
Posted By daedalus

Swimming pools

Don't know about other passengers, but suspect that a large majority would agree - the thing I most want after a long flight, and especially before boarding another flight, is a swim in a pool and...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
30th Jul 2006, 05:32
Replies: 1
Views: 407
Posted By daedalus

New Mac

Just bought a new Macbook laptop with dual Intel processor etc. Fantastic machine from all points of view.
I was surprised to find that the Apple Works suite of word-processor etc. is no longer...
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