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You can usually choose an exit row seat with huge legroom for a small extra charge. And many airlines offer a Premium Economy or equivalent Economy++ class, e.g. BA's includes more space and a quieter, smaller cabin in theirs for example: https://www.britishairways.com...

If you're going to be wrong, I guess being stubborn about it is one way to approach it. Why don't you tell British Airways they had it wrong all this time?

I'm sure they'll be thrilled to hear from you.

http://www.britishairways.com/...

I guess I'll tell all my friends about my new Owdee that I bought, huh? Or how about my nice new Reno I bought in Paree? Or maybe my new Porch?

You are a special kind of idiot. Who wipes the drool from your keyboard as you mash it with your stubby fingers while breathing heavily through your monkey-like nose?

YOU get a fucking clue! It's a PROPER name and defined as Concorde. Do you think they changed the fucking name on the plane and the tickets when they changed countries? Fucking moron.

Here it is in ENGLISH

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.britishairways.com/...

We really should sterilize people like you. Your special brand of rock-headed stupidity is a detriment to the human race.

How about $2500 and everybody can have some fucking leg room?

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/world-traveller-plus/public/en_us

The submission was of US based carriers.

How about $2500 and everybody can have some fucking leg room?

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/world-traveller-plus/public/en_us

To put the received conebeam CT dose in perspective: The biological dose received from on such CT scan is about as high as a few hrs long haul flight (considering the effective dose received per hour as stated by BA).

Oops, strike that. Mixing up the magnitude orders. It should read a few hundred hrs of long haul flight. :blush:

CT scanning is associated with an increased risk of cancer in children. This development will significantly lower that risk.

As a physics engineer experienced in the field of radiotherapy and familiar with the techniques mentioned in the /. article as well as certified in radiation safety I am sorry to say that although the radiation dose is reduced, it is only reduced in very specific cases, where it is actually not a real benefit. This technique is not used for normal CT scanning, used to diagnose in your average hospital.
This technique is used for radiotherapy (and mainly for position verification of the organ to be irradiated). Lowering CT dose in such cases is a benefit, but compared to the amount of radiation the person undergoing the treatment receives, to treat his' or hers cancer, it is finite. Apart from that the dose for a Conebeam CT in general is already lower than the dose received by a diagnostic CT scan.
The benefit to using the GPU to do the reconstruction of the conebeam CT is also in the fact that reconstruction and therefor the assessment of the scan can be done quicker, making it less likely that the patient has moved, making it more likely to treat the correct spot. It also makes it possible to more accurately deliver dose and thus sparing surrounding healthy organs and tissue.
To put the received conebeam CT dose in perspective: The biological dose received from on such CT scan is about as high as a few hrs long haul flight (considering the effective dose received per hour as stated by BA).
Regarding the cited article of increased risk in cancer in children: Every person receiving radiation has a risk of getting cancer in the future added to the normal risks of getting cancer (for instance by aging or cosmic radiation).
For children this is far more important as induced cancer is a late effect that takes years to decades before it kicks in. Since the bulk of cancer patients is of higher age (due to the fact that cancer is a age deficiency, mainly) they will most of the times not live long enough to experience the side effects. Since children have a longer live span in front of them compared to adults, we have to be more careful, as because of the larger number of years to life, inherently means a higher risk of late effects induced by radiation.

Don't you mean Concorde ?

Well maybe not, since airlines do not offer a Muslim meal AFAIK
 
You don't know very far. The western nation airlines all offer not only Muslim but also Hindu and Kosher meals:
 
  United Airlines religious meal options
  American Airlines special meal options
  British Airways special meals
 
The list goes on. Pretty much every major airline. Oh wait, just checked Emirates. There aren't Kosher or Hindu option there. For some reason their sample menu looks just like the other airlines' Muslim sample menus.

Has nobody thought of checking BA's own website? http://www.britishairways.com/travel/flightops/public/en_gb?p_faqid=3115

I have no idea when you last travelled to the US but all airlines flying to the US are required by *law* to provide advance passenger information. This information must include the passport number. Therefore it has everything to do with the USA.

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/ba6.jsp/immin fo/public/en_gb/

lotd

Okay, I'll bite.

From TFA, the guy is a business traveller. Now look what happens if you "need help" logging in to BA's website:

As a member of the British Airways Executive Club, On Business or as a registered customer with britishairways.com, you can now log in to manage your account and access our exclusive online services. You log in by entering your details in the boxes at the top right hand corner of the screen.

Login ID Your login ID is either your: > Executive Club membership number or > On Business membership number or > Username

PIN/Password When logging in with the following: > Executive Club membership number, use your 4-digit PIN or > On Business use your login id and password or > username, use your password

Executive Club members If you need a PIN or have forgotten your PIN, then please click here to apply for one >>

On Business members If you have forgotten your password or login id click here for more information >>

Forgotten your password? Enter your username in both the Login ID and the PIN/Password boxes to receive your password prompt.

From what I can tell, if the reporter is in fact not lying, if the "victim" was an Executive Club member, you need the following if you need a PIN, or have forgotten your PIN:

• Membership number
• First name
• Family/Last name

Hmm. This is printed on the boarding pass already. Oh, and if he's an On Business member, you only need the username to retrieve the password, and the website tells you that it's "2 characters 6 digits"; what's the chance of that being the membership number printed on the boarding pass?

I wouldn't call this complete and utter bullshit yet. There are reasonable explanations for how this was accomplished.

Try
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/managebooking /public/en_gb?prim=manabook
or
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/loghlp/public /en_gb
"Forgotten your password?
Enter your username in both the Login ID and the PIN/Password boxes to receive your password prompt."

Try
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/managebooking /public/en_gb?prim=manabook
or
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/loghlp/public /en_gb
"Forgotten your password?
Enter your username in both the Login ID and the PIN/Password boxes to receive your password prompt."

This whole article sounds like complete and utter bullshit.

First, the writer said he logged into BA's site, using only the supposed victim's frequent flyer number. But if you go to http://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/e n_gb and look on the right side of the screen, you'll see you need a password along with your ID to access the site. So either 1) the person had no password (doubtful, most sites won't permit a blank password), or 2) he's lying. I'll go with #2 and assume he's lying. Since he's lying about how he got the information, it can be safely assume he made up everything else in the article.

As for the rest of the article, it might be accurate, but somehow I doubt that. The whole thing just utterly fails to pass the smell-o-scope test, pegging right between 'horse manure' and 'grade A Kentucky bullshit'.

I may never get onto the world's first commercial supersonic jet, now that it's been retired, but with an initial price of £115,000 I'll certainly hope that (after another 5 years or so, when the price has come down), I'll get into space. Cool. Really cool if it flies over my house :-))

I'd always regretted not doing the quick flight to NY from London (not that I could afford it!), even with tiny seats. I'm told it was just about possible to pop over the pond, do your xmas shopping in a different continent, and pop back the next day (same day was possible but left little time for shopping...) Let's just hope that the space-flights stimulate some competition, unlike Concorde, because then the next goal would quickly become 'lunar city'...

I think that 'Virgin Galactic' is hopelessly optimistic, though, given that it's sub-orbital. I'm guessing people won't really want the 'galactic' version, and a return ticket might be a bit superfluous...

Simon

Considerthe Concorde? So it was envisioned in the early 1960's, however, it does look quite stunning, no?

Oh look, these people are patently under 14</sarcasm>

That in under a minutes googling. Now crawl back under a rock troll.

And for people who STILL believe that Java is slow, download eclipse (the url is above, for those of you can't google for it, or even guess it) and have a play...it's written in Java and *GASP* is not only a)amazingly useful, but b)damn snappy, seriously, those people who said Java would never work on the desktop because its too slow, they can start eating their hats.

Plus, I just did a job search for c++ vs. Java on a uk job site and guess what, the number of results returned was nearly identical, so by the look of things, lots of people and companies use Java. IMHO, for enterprise n-tiered applications its the shiznitz.

The reason that Java can be faster is because you can do some really nifty optimisations during runtime with the latest JIT compilers that are impossible (or at least monumentally difficult) to do with compile c/c++ code.

In closing: Here is another benchmark...maybe because he has a domain name you'll trust him more?

Since we were referring to Concorde earlier, I used the calculator at British Airways for flights London (UK) to Sydney (Australia). That's a long flight, pretty much half way around the globe.

The cheapest economy fare is GBP 511-848 (return);, Business class is GBP 1,927-2,570; 1st class is GBP 2,891-3,220. That's a huge difference, yet people are willing to pay it, just for more leg room.

You don't think those same people would pay business class rates for cattle class seating---but get there in a few hours?

You can always leave....

I just hope that the seats they have in these easy cinemas are more comfortable than the seats in EastJet planes. If you've ever flow EasyJet you'll know that they have the most horribly uncomfortable seats.

I have, and have also flown on pretty much every shorthaul airline flying in UK airspace. Easyjet fly 737-700s, the same as BA and BMI, and the seats are generally standard seats (although BA & BMI do some customised improvements for business class). Where you will find differences is in seat pitch (ie legroom) and the amount of wear that the seat has endured. Doing very well in filling capacity is naturally going to have an impact on the number of bums that have sat on each seat...

Also to fly easyjet you have to get both a train and a bus from central london all the way out to luton - adds a heap to the ticket price.

Compared to the free transfer to Stansted, Gatwick, Heathrow and City? (not) With the exception of City, they're all miles out. The Thameslink up to Luton is fast and not too expensive (compare: Heathrow or Gatwick express). The bus is a wee shuttle bus from the off-airport station. It takes 5 mins and it's free.

then there is no allocated seating so you just have to scramble for a seat, with entry order based on the order you arrive at the airport and check in.

You want allocated seating? Fly BA and pay for the priviledge. Or show up in time. Or remember that compared to BMI/BA etc, few of EJ's passengers are regular flyers, so don't know which seats are the better seats.

they often delay and cancel flights at the very last minute because there are not enough seats filled.

No, they can't do this. They can't voluntarily delay because then they'd lose slots (actually, they're under a lot of timetable pressure to get the planes turned round in much less than traditional timeframes), and if your aircraft is needed in Luton to take a plane full to Barcelona, there's damn all use in it being still in Glasgow because they haven't sold enough seats. Scheduling airlines is a complex business, which is why bad weather or strike action in one location can screw the entire network for quite a long time.

BA's eTicketing is very smart, though, and they don't arse about with the 'You must have govt issued photo id to get on a domestic flight' crap. Although this didn't stop someone making it all the way through Luton security right onto the plane without so much as a ticket last week (fortunately, EJ's on-plane headcount didn't tally so they found him/her before takeoff).

I can't beleive that Lufthansa, one of the crappiest airlines i've ever flown on...

All airlines have shitty airplanes. They put the really nices ones on the high-profit routes. I've flown on Lufthansa, KLM, United Airlines, Delta, Southwest, and some others that don't come to mind immediately. They all have stellar planes like the one you flew on British Airways. Also, they all have crappier, older planes. You just got unlucky on your Lufthansa flight(s).

It seems that you don't fly much...

At least service between the U.S. East Coast and Tokyo would be cut from the current 11 hours on ANA down to a much more tolerable 6 hours.

Talk about avoiding awkward subjects! The quite impressive Concorde website manages to not once mention the crash! Even the extensive sections on safety enhancements and the plane's history refer only vaguely to the "August 2000 suspension of service".

Flyer Beware!

Talk about avoiding awkward subjects! The quite impressive Concorde website manages to not once mention the crash! Even the extensive sections on safety enhancements and the plane's history refer only vaguely to the "August 2000 suspension of service".

Flyer Beware!

Talk about avoiding awkward subjects! The quite impressive Concorde website manages to not once mention the crash! Even the extensive sections on safety enhancements and the plane's history refer only vaguely to the "August 2000 suspension of service".

Flyer Beware!