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This is a personal site that reflects my interests in news,
current affairs, aviation and travel.


 

Photo Albums
My photographs are now stored on Picasa.
Please use
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Some Useful links:
Information:
World Time Clock
Exchange Rates

Journalism:
ForeignPolicy

Nationsonline.org
Project Syndicate
Amnesty International
Reporters w/o borders

The Guardian
BBC World News
CNN Asia
Bangkok Post

Daylife.com - news

Gulf News
Arabian Business
World News
WSJ - Asia
SCMP
Good causes:

Sister Joan - Bangkok

Regional Info:

BKK Magazine
HK Magazine
In Singapore Magazine
TimeOut Dubai
Back in the UK:
Newton Ferrers

Bournville News
And for fun:
EarthCam
History

BBC Archive

National Media Museum
The British Library
Imperial War Museum

There are many other links on my AOB blog page.

 

Tai's Travels - Year 11

This page records the seventh year of Tai's travels with Emirates Airline, starting from 1 December 2012. The most recent flight is shown first.
Links

Tai's Travels Year One -  69 trips
Tai's Travels Year Two -  69 trips
Tai's travels Year Three - 87 trips
Tai's travels Year Four
79 trips
Tai's travels Year Five -  72 trips
Tai's Travels Year Six  -  80 trips
Tai's Travels Year Seven - 77 trips
Tai's travels Year Eight - 67 trips (2 months unpaid leave in year)
Tai's Travels Year Nine
- 89 trips

Tai's Travels Year Ten - 71 trips

Emirates Airline - the company's web site
Dubai Airport - the airport's own web site - good arrival/departure information

Tai's Travels - the picture gallery. Pictures from her travels with Emirates are here:

Africa  Europe  Asia and Australia  Americas

Tai's well known passengers

 

 

 

Expand … Emirates' Tim Clark.Tim Clark
President of Emirates Airline

(twice!)

Gordon Ramsay - F word chef and TV person

boomtown ratBob Geldof - Boomtown Rat - and hunger campaigner.

Morgan Richard Tsvangirai is the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. He is President of the Movement for Democratic Change
Muhammad Yunus - founder of Grameen Bank, and 2006 winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Sheikh Rashed Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum

Deepika Padukone - Bollywood actress

Fernando Torres - gbp50 million footballer and once upon a time goalscorer

Hrithik Roshan - grumpy Bollywood actor with family. 12th President of Nigeria; in office from 29 May 1999 – 29 May 2007 - likes coffee with honey and Baileys - (not at the same time)
 
Evander Holyfield - the only 4-time World Heavyweight Champion, winning the WBA, WBC, and IBF titles in 1990, the WBA and IBF titles in 1993 and the WBA title in 1996 and 2000. Famous for his part in "The Bite Fight" in 1997 when Mike Tyson bit both of Holyfield's ears.


First-class Foo Fighters

Trip
No.

New
Destination No.

Destination

Date

Flight Numbers

Layover Nights

Notes and Pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

769

 

Muscat

31 December 2016

864/865

NYE Turnaround

 

768

 

Madrid

26-27 December 2017

141/142 -
A380

2 days away - 1 night layover

 

767

 

Doha

25 December 2016

841/842 -
A380

Turnaround

 

766

 

Amsterdam

20-22 December 2016

149/150 - A380

2 nights away, 1 night layover

 

765

 

London Heathrow

17-19 December 2016

29/30 - A380

2 nights away, 1 night layover

 

764

 

Glasgow

12-14 December 2016

25/26

2 nights away, 1 night layover

 

763

 

Tunis and Mata

9-10 December 2016

749

2 days away, 1 night layover

 

Emirates has 137 passenger destinations (excluding Dubai) now all served from Emirates Terminal 3 at Dubai. New destinations have been visited as follows.

48 cities visited for the first time in year 1 in Blue.
14 cities visited for the first time in year 2 in Green.
14 cities visited for the first time in year 3 in Orange
11cities visited for the first time in year 4 in Purple
 
2 cities visited for the first time in year 5 in Grey
 
9 cities visited for the first time in year 6 in Black
 
8 cities visited for the first time in year 7 in Brown
 
6 cities visited for the first time in year 8 in Light Green
 7 cities visited for the first time in year 9 in Pink
 3 cities visited for the first time in year 10 in Light Blue

123 Total visited.
  18
still to visit in Red

137 in total at end November 2015 (excluding Dubai)

South Asia [19 destinations]: Ahmedabad, Mumbai (Bombay), Bangalore, Chennai (Madras),  Cochin (Kochi), Colombo, Delhi, Dhaka, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Male, Multan, Peshawar, Sialkot, Thiruvananthapuram, Kolkatta and Kozhikode.

Asia and Australasia [26 destinations]: Adelaide, Auckland, Bali, Bangkok, Beijing, Brisbane, Cebu, Clark (Manila), Christchurch, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, MelbourneOsaka, Perth, Phuket, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo (Narita) and Tokyo (Haneda).

Europe [38 destinations]: Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Birmingham, Bologna, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow, Hamburg, Istanbul, Larnaca, Lisbon, Lyon, London Gatwick, London Heathrow, Madrid, Malta, Manchester, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Newcastle, Nice, Paris, Oslo, Prague, St Petersburg, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna, Warsaw, Zurich and Venice.

GCC/Middle East [18 destinations]
: Amman, Bahrain, Basra, Baghdad, Beirut, Damascus, Erbil, Dhahran (Damman), Doha, Jeddah, Kabul, Kuwait, Mashhad, Muscat, Riyadh, Sana’a, Tehran, Medinah.

Africa [23destinations]
: Abuja, Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Algiers, Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Dar es Salaam, Dakar, Durban, Entebbe, Harare, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Lagos, Lusaka, Mauritius, Nairobi, Seychelles, Tripoli, Tunis and Luanda (Laounde).

Americas [15 destinations]: Boston, Dallas, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto and Washington

Cancelled destinations previously flown to:
Nagoya

Cancelled destinations not flown to:
Kiev, Conakry,

Emirates Passenger Destinations:

Region

No of Destinations

Layovers

Turnaround

Visited

Still to visit

South Asia

19

2

17

16

3

Asia and Australasia

24

24

0

20

4

Europe

38

36

2

34

4

GCC/Middle East

18

0

18

17

1

Africa

23

21

2

20

3

Americas

15

15

0

12

3

Total

137

98

39

119

18

Cancelled destinations previously flown to. 1

Cargo Only to:              Gothenburg, Zaragoza, Viracopas (Brazil), Lilongwe, Chittagong, Djibouti, Hanoi, Liege. (8 cargo only) destinations.

Total EK                       146. Agreed to Emirates web site.