New Cabin Upgrade
Feb 18, 2015, 6:53 am
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New Cabin Upgrade
Any reviews out there on what people thought of the new cabin? It would be great to hear about Go / Plus & Business if anybody flew them yesterday and last night.
Feb 18, 2015, 11:51 am
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Interesting, the Danish doesn't look like a real language but the pictures are great.
I'm not sure what he says about the new Hästens blankets, but they've been providing them on all long haul flights the past few weeks and they are a massive improvement over the old stuff.
The breakfast still looks terrible, they've also been offering that recently in the planes that haven't gotten a refurb and it is not C-worthy. BA provides a better breakfast on intra-Europe flights. I don't understand in what reality a piece of dry cold Salmon and some lettuce makes a meal.
Brief observations:
It's a pro that you can put your Macbook somewhere while eating, this is a massive shortcoming in the current C, unless the seat next to you is empty (< 20% chance).
The C "buffet" galley looks cleaner, hopefully they replaced the Espresso machines as those are often broken in the old interior.
The new screens look much better with the higher resolution but I'm not spotting any comments wrt to the IFE offering? Are we still stuck with the extremely limited offering of movies like in the non-refurbished planes that everyone has already seen? Or did they take the opportunity to solve that like all grown-up airlines.
I'm not sure what he says about the new Hästens blankets, but they've been providing them on all long haul flights the past few weeks and they are a massive improvement over the old stuff.
The breakfast still looks terrible, they've also been offering that recently in the planes that haven't gotten a refurb and it is not C-worthy. BA provides a better breakfast on intra-Europe flights. I don't understand in what reality a piece of dry cold Salmon and some lettuce makes a meal.
Brief observations:
It's a pro that you can put your Macbook somewhere while eating, this is a massive shortcoming in the current C, unless the seat next to you is empty (< 20% chance).
The C "buffet" galley looks cleaner, hopefully they replaced the Espresso machines as those are often broken in the old interior.
The new screens look much better with the higher resolution but I'm not spotting any comments wrt to the IFE offering? Are we still stuck with the extremely limited offering of movies like in the non-refurbished planes that everyone has already seen? Or did they take the opportunity to solve that like all grown-up airlines.
Feb 18, 2015, 12:00 pm
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Interesting, the Danish doesn't look like a real language but the pictures are great.
I'm not sure what he says about the new Hästens blankets, but they've been providing them on all long haul flights the past few weeks and they are a massive improvement over the old stuff.
The breakfast still looks terrible, they've also been offering that recently in the planes that haven't gotten a refurb and it is not C-worthy. BA provides a better breakfast on intra-Europe flights. I don't understand in what reality a piece of dry cold Salmon and some lettuce makes a meal.
Brief observations:
It's a pro that you can put your Macbook somewhere while eating, this is a massive shortcoming in the current C, unless the seat next to you is empty (< 20% chance).
The C "buffet" galley looks cleaner, hopefully they replaced the Espresso machines as those are often broken in the old interior.
The new screens look much better with the higher resolution but I'm not spotting any comments wrt to the IFE offering? Are we still stuck with the extremely limited offering of movies like in the non-refurbished planes that everyone has already seen? Or did they take the opportunity to solve that like all grown-up airlines.
I'm not sure what he says about the new Hästens blankets, but they've been providing them on all long haul flights the past few weeks and they are a massive improvement over the old stuff.
The breakfast still looks terrible, they've also been offering that recently in the planes that haven't gotten a refurb and it is not C-worthy. BA provides a better breakfast on intra-Europe flights. I don't understand in what reality a piece of dry cold Salmon and some lettuce makes a meal.
Brief observations:
It's a pro that you can put your Macbook somewhere while eating, this is a massive shortcoming in the current C, unless the seat next to you is empty (< 20% chance).
The C "buffet" galley looks cleaner, hopefully they replaced the Espresso machines as those are often broken in the old interior.
The new screens look much better with the higher resolution but I'm not spotting any comments wrt to the IFE offering? Are we still stuck with the extremely limited offering of movies like in the non-refurbished planes that everyone has already seen? Or did they take the opportunity to solve that like all grown-up airlines.
- The illy expresso machine are still in place
- The new IFE is showing 200+ movies and series and have VOD for everyone. It is HD screens and the provider is Zodiac and thier RAVE solution.. So SAS grew up.
/Henrik
Feb 18, 2015, 1:47 pm
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I take it they where replaced though? Have had various flights lately where they where out of order.
Wonderful news, perhaps I'll have a SK flight this year for the first time in years that has stuff on-board I haven't already seen!
Only thing that needs fixing now is the food.
- The new IFE is showing 200+ movies and series and have VOD for everyone. It is HD screens and the provider is Zodiac and thier RAVE solution.. So SAS grew up.
Only thing that needs fixing now is the food.
Feb 19, 2015, 12:31 am
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Feb 19, 2015, 2:42 am
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Feb 19, 2015, 3:11 am
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This statement is not entirely true. They are both part of the Indo-European languages, in which they share membership of one common larger language family, which is the Germanic languages. From there, the languages actually grow apart. Where Danish is part of the North Germanic and specifically Norse languages within the family tree, English is actually from the Anglo-Frysian branch (part of the West Germanic branch). The language English has most in common with is therefore Scots. Frisian, something spoken in the north of the Netherlands and parts of northwest Germany, is the other language closest to English. Third in line would be a Saxon language, I think, which is still spoken in parts of Holland and Germany.
Technically Danish is closest to Swedish, as both are considered east-Norse languages. Norwegian, on the other hand, is like Faroese and Icelandic, considered more or less West-Norse, where east-Norse influences are large and recognized as such.
So much for an update on natural languages.
Technically Danish is closest to Swedish, as both are considered east-Norse languages. Norwegian, on the other hand, is like Faroese and Icelandic, considered more or less West-Norse, where east-Norse influences are large and recognized as such.
So much for an update on natural languages.
Feb 20, 2015, 12:21 am
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low Saxon German / Plattdeutsch is very close to Netherlands and Danish. We share so many words you probably can talk to each other.
Anyway, there are just a handful Germans left who use it or are fluent. Learned enough to had some basic understanding of Netherlandish and got an easy start in Danish while I feel Swedish to be a total different beast and not closely related. Sure, I see the similarities between Danish and Swedish but learning both as a foreign language I find they are quite different - mostly in the spoken language
Modern Friesisch as spoken on the islands is more a dialect of normal German. Not even a difficult one like east Saxon or Bavarian.
Anyway... We are drifting off
Anyway, there are just a handful Germans left who use it or are fluent. Learned enough to had some basic understanding of Netherlandish and got an easy start in Danish while I feel Swedish to be a total different beast and not closely related. Sure, I see the similarities between Danish and Swedish but learning both as a foreign language I find they are quite different - mostly in the spoken language
Modern Friesisch as spoken on the islands is more a dialect of normal German. Not even a difficult one like east Saxon or Bavarian.
Anyway... We are drifting off
Last edited by fassy; Feb 20, 2015 at 12:31 am
Feb 20, 2015, 1:29 am
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I didn't make the taxonomy of natural languages. Other people did.
Anyway, you're right, we're drifting off. New cabin interior is the topic here. I guess that is 'neues Kabineninnraum' in German, 'nieuw cabineinterieur' in Dutch and 'ny kabineinteriør' in Danish and Norwegian. And 'ny bork! bork! bork! interiör' in Swedish. I have no clue of what it would be in Scots or Plattdeutsch.
Anyway, you're right, we're drifting off. New cabin interior is the topic here. I guess that is 'neues Kabineninnraum' in German, 'nieuw cabineinterieur' in Dutch and 'ny kabineinteriør' in Danish and Norwegian. And 'ny bork! bork! bork! interiör' in Swedish. I have no clue of what it would be in Scots or Plattdeutsch.