According to the latest statistics of the world’s busiest airports Tokyo/Narita, which is Japans largest international airport does not make it into the top 30. Tokyo/Haneda which is the main domestic hub ranks 7th in this list. I am currently…
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I had the chance to stay in Takayama, a lovely town in mountainous central Japan for three days during a business trip attending a scientific meeting there. Already on the train from Nagoya I noticed that quite a few foreign…
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Yesterday (July 21st, 2011) seemed to be a bad day for bigger airplanes when reading through the incident reports on “The Aviation Herald”. First, a brand new A380 from Korean Air got hit by severe cross winds while landing at…
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A few months ago I had an invited business trip to the US and I got all my expenses reimbursed via a cheque. Thus, about one month ago I went to my Japanese bank here in Tokyo and gave them…
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After quite a lot of trouble one one of my last business trips, and an email to their service center without an answer for weeks I did not expect any further feedback. Thus, I was even more surprised when I…
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Did you regret being booked on a certain airline because of their food? Have you ever been served something in coach class that is barely eatable? Here‘s a nice collection of pictures showing what is served in First, Business and…
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More than three weeks have passed since my unpleasant Austrian airlines flight and I wrote an email to the costumer relations center. As there has been no answer until last week, I contacted the airline again and asked for an…
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After returning from Europe I am suffering from the usual jet-lag. According to several pages like this one needs a day to adjust one time-zone. As I travelled across 7 times zones from the West it will take roughly one…
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Yesterday I was booked on NRT-VIE-CGN (Toky0/Narita – Vienne – Cologne) in order to attend a meeting in Bonn from today. Due to some paranoia of the airline, the first section of the flight was changed to Narita – Beijing…
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One of my next flights will be on Austrian Airlines, but after reading about this incident I have my doubts about the safety of that airline. How careless was the ground maintenance that they even forgot to fix the screws…
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