The last of a dynasty

its not a great photo but this is the newest Korean Air B747-8i and the last one they had on order. it was delivered in early August 2017 without fanfare but is in fact the last passenger 747 to be built. the B747 has spanned my life time and if I am honest is my favourite aircraft, a design classic of all time. its very sad to think of it not being in production any more and I suppose therefore is only a few years away from dissapearing from the skies. 

WTF

what the hell are Tandori lamb Popsicals......

Lost in Translation

clearly their claim is not true, I can see 7 of the bottles in this photograph and I bet there were more in the stock room

the CAA ... a healthy workplace

This was the counter display at the UK Civil Aviation Authority cafe. clearly they are keen to ensure that there staff have access to as much over the counter medication as is humanly possible

Barra

I took the opportunity to tick an item off my bucket list this summer and took the flight from Glasgow to Barra Beach in the Outer Hebrides with a colleague. It’s the only place in world where a commercial aircraft lands on a beach. I was incredibly lucky insomuch as the weather was good for the flight and the Captain decided to take a decidedly none standard route. after take-off, we flew down Loch Lomond through the national park before turning left down the Great Glen over Arrochar, Tobermory and Oban before crossing the sea to Barra, all at only a 1000 fleet altitude. We had three hours on the island so had arranged for a tour with a local who originated in Birmingham. On the way, back we took a more direct route past Fingal’s cave Oban and down the Holy Loch. It was a fantastic day out and is now up there as my all time number one flight ever having displaced the Singapore Airlines flight where I had an amazing view of Kazakhstan whilst listening to 101 hits from the 1980’s on the IFE to second place.

Free WiFi

on the way back to the airport from the conference I passed this person waiting in a car park on the airport approach,

Lost in translation

I was at an industry conference in Thailand recently. the description on the salad bar possibly has one to many words .... despite a large search of the buffet I was unable to locate the unheathy salad bar. this reminded me of my time with the IATA Standard ground handling contract working group. we had a clause to contrcat suitable equipment until someone pointed out that it was unlikely you would contrcat unsuitable equipment.

Offiice move

We have just moved offcies in Prague, this was a picture taken during the IT fit out. Every desk needed 4 connections,  I have no idea how the IT guys knew what to connect where