Warning for all Medallion members traveling to Tokyo HND
Apr 6, 2019, 6:14 am
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Apr 6, 2019, 12:10 pm
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Isn't Rangoon in French Indochina? It's close to Siam but very far from the USSR and even farther from the DDR and of course BRD.
I'm always a bit amused that airport names are still abbreviated as PEK and CAN despite the city names having changed from Peking to Beijing and Canton to Guangzhou so long ago. There are similar examples in India.
I'm always a bit amused that airport names are still abbreviated as PEK and CAN despite the city names having changed from Peking to Beijing and Canton to Guangzhou so long ago. There are similar examples in India.
Apr 6, 2019, 12:16 pm
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Apr 6, 2019, 5:13 pm
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Apr 6, 2019, 6:43 pm
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1. The East India Company sold opium to China in order to procure tea for English people
2. China ended up with a lot of opium addicts, and tried to stop the practice
3. Two wars ensued, and China lost both
4. They ceded HK to England outright, and also offered concessions for foreign countries in Shanghai and Tianjin
5. After England had control of HK, its scholars documented life in China
6. In HK, people speak Cantonese, which is why the older history books used the Cantonese names for cities
7. Mandarin has since taken over
-Beijing
-Nanjing
-Qingdao
-Tianjin
-Chongqing
-Guangzhou
-Shenzhen
etc.
Apr 6, 2019, 9:30 pm
#114
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OTOH, I'm a bit surprised that DL isn't continuing one or two night routes from HND as a way of augmenting their slot allocation for daytime flights there. For some purposes, those schedules worked pretty well. IMO when DL did offer such schedules earlier, the big problem was that they were done as D1lite (similar to the NRT-SIN flights) without genuine D1 catering or wines, so it wasn't a genuine premium TPAC offering.
That would mean that of the 14 slot requests for non-HNL flights to HND, a majority of them can be approved, with perhaps AA and UA losing out on their duplicative LAX requests (although I bet AA would win an evening application).
Apr 8, 2019, 1:11 am
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Yeah, wonder if DL gets a few more what will happen with the lounge access (or lack of!)
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Apr 9, 2019, 11:37 am
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I can confirm from recent personal experience that medallions in PE do not get lounge access at HND. However, HND is an attractive airport (lighter, less congested, a more open feel than NRT) with lots of places to eat and drink. I didn’t find it a hardship to forego a lounge (I feel that way about SIN also). Also, the DL checkin and gate staff (some of the checkin staff came out to the gate near departure time) are some of the pleasantest I have encountered.
My one MSP-HND-MSP trip has made me a fan of HND. I also liked the fact that the airport is so close to the city and well connected by subway and monorail. I was fortunate that a 50-55 minute subway ride, with no transfers necessary, got me from the airport to within four blocks of my hotel.
My one MSP-HND-MSP trip has made me a fan of HND. I also liked the fact that the airport is so close to the city and well connected by subway and monorail. I was fortunate that a 50-55 minute subway ride, with no transfers necessary, got me from the airport to within four blocks of my hotel.
Apr 9, 2019, 1:16 pm
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Apr 9, 2019, 4:00 pm
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Why not go to the local Chinese language/dialect that was traditionally spoken here, before all the people from the mainland arrived?
BTW, what language is used in the education system at various levels? Are a lot of the university level courses conducted in English?
BTW, what language is used in the education system at various levels? Are a lot of the university level courses conducted in English?
Apr 9, 2019, 9:40 pm
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Apr 9, 2019, 10:31 pm
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