Question: Did Ken ever get his PhD?

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Apr 7, 2013, 9:17 am

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Did Ken ever get his PhD?

Is anybody else wondering as well? I keep wondering every time I take an international flight in recent memory...

Apr 7, 2013, 9:21 am

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Is anybody else wondering as well? I keep wondering every time I take an international flight in recent memory...

Who's Ken? And what's he/this got to do with AE or AC?

Apr 7, 2013, 9:23 am

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Who's Ken? And what's he/this got to do with AE or AC?

I think he´s the "wine expert" who supposedly selects the int´l J wines, isn´t he?

Apr 7, 2013, 9:40 am

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He is the scapegoat for the cheap plunk AC serves in overseas J.

But did he ever finish his PhD?

Apr 7, 2013, 9:53 am

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I think he´s the "wine expert" who supposedly selects the int´l J wines, isn´t he?

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He is the scapegoat for the cheap plunk AC serves in overseas J.

But did he ever finish his PhD?

Bingo!

Apr 7, 2013, 11:30 am

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ha ha - i knew where u were going

i must say -great question - ha ha - odd what sticks in someone's head - not certain if he has drank his way to a PHD as of yet, but at least there's some acceptable red wine kicking around based upon his suggestions (now if they could only clean up breakfasts and turf those horrible chicken 'hot dogs' off the plate - grosses me out everytime!)

Apr 7, 2013, 1:22 pm

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I wonder that too, someone should call the University of Melbourne to find out?

Apr 7, 2013, 1:34 pm

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Did Ken ever get his PhD?

AC has such bad wines because AA pays Ken Chase to give AC the bad ones, while keeping the good ones for AA.

Apr 7, 2013, 1:43 pm

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AC has such bad wines because AA pays Ken Chase to give AC the bad ones, while keeping the good ones for AA.

Are the wines in J on AA really any better?

The only airlines on which I recently enjoyed the wines in J were SA and NZ. Wines on NA airlines have always been pretty substandard in my experience.

Apr 8, 2013, 4:16 am

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Are the wines in J on AA really any better?

The only airlines on which I recently enjoyed the wines in J were SA and NZ. Wines on NA airlines have always been pretty substandard in my experience.

+1 ^. I find F wines in NH, CX, SQ and TG to be really good too.

And really.....why would one care if Ken got his PHD?