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On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:39:32 -0600, Mitchell Holman wrote:



It's amazing the routes that BOAC used to operate. Most were fairly
obvious, being based around the old Empire like this one - Jamaica/New
York/London. Even Tokyo/Hong Kong/Singapore/Seychelles/Johannesburg was
faintly understandable but the one that I never really worked out was
Tokyo/Honolulu/San Francisco.

Then there are all the segments they no longer operate largely because of
higher traffic levels on longer range aircraft. The first time I went to
India the routing was London/Rome/Tehran/Delhi/Tehran/Beirut/Rome/London
and they had traffic rights on all those sectors. These days they're all
non-stop.

Graham Harrison wrote in
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On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:39:32 -0600, Mitchell Holman wrote:



It's amazing the routes that BOAC used to operate. Most were fairly
obvious, being based around the old Empire like this one - Jamaica/New
York/London. Even Tokyo/Hong Kong/Singapore/Seychelles/Johannesburg was
faintly understandable but the one that I never really worked out was
Tokyo/Honolulu/San Francisco.

Then there are all the segments they no longer operate largely because of
higher traffic levels on longer range aircraft. The first time I went
to
India the routing was London/Rome/Tehran/Delhi/Tehran/Beirut/Rome/London
and they had traffic rights on all those sectors. These days they're
all
non-stop.



At least you weren't expected to get and push
once the flight landed.





Passengers Forced to Get Out and Push Broken Airplane Off Runway
Friday, September 26, 2008


A budget Chinese airline took flying pains to a new level
Thursday after it made passengers get out and help push
their broken plane to the gate, the Daily Mail reported.

The CRJ7 plane, with 69 passengers and seven crew members
on board, had just flown from Guilin in the south of China,
to Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province. The plane landed
safely but then died before it could taxi to the arrivals
terminal. The staff could not push the airplane on its own,
so the passengers were asked to pitch in. Even with the added
muscle power, it took the group nearly two hours to get the
plane off the runway.

“Thank God it was only a 20-ton medium-sized airplane,” one
of the airport workers told the Daily Mail. “If it were a
big plane, it would have knocked us out.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,428442,00.html