Ahmed777

After clarification with Eightblack, I decided it would be fun to get to know everyone on the Emirates Forum. We are quite a small community so I thought it would be nice to know the real people behind the alias names of FlyerTalk members. Don't feel obliged to post any information which you don't want to. Here are some topics to get started

1. Gender

2. Occupation (if it's a job which allows you to travel)

3. Reason for travel

4. Location

5. Favourite destinations (for exploration) or most visited (for job requirements)

6. Where you would like to visit in the future

7. Favourite plane/route

8. Best flight ever

9. Worst flight ever

10. Age (if you really, really want to)

I look forward to hearing from everyone on the EK board

Ahmed777

Ahmed777

This is my own
1. Male
2. Student
3. Private reasons + holiday travel
4. Westville, Durban, South Africa
5. Favourite - Dubai. Most Visited - London
6. Bali and Guam
7. B77W - DUR-DXB (8h:45)

Too much typing for me to do 8 & 9. Maybe another time.

Thats me

Raptor23

Go on then - I'll play.

Ahmed777

Ok great, seems like the thread is coming along. Hopefully it can catch on. I'm told that there is a similar thread in the Community Forum, but I thought it would be nice to post one on our forum

thomastuyaerts

Hello, Ex OW (BA) forum lurker. Used to take club world flights all the time, but since this year decided to give my pennies to EK.

Living in the UK, married and travel every year several times. Can't wait to fly emirates for the first time in April. 777 is the plane to fly with in my opinion. I love the EK forum for the fact that a thread can be on the first page for a good week at a time. On the BA forum you are lucky if it is there for 5 minutes.

I rather like the peace and quit on this forum^

Safe travels everyone

TT

w00t

1. Gender: Male
2. Occupation: IT Security Consultant for Gov's/LEA worldwide
3. Reason for travel: 90% business / 10% holiday
4. Location: DXB
5. Favourite: ... Plenty
6. Future: Fiji would be something.
7. Favourite Plane: EK A380 (Just because of the lovely Bar. )
8. Best flight ever: Can't remember. Were plenty lovely ones
9. Worst flight ever: In ~2011 EK on RUH-DXB in F. Worst FA ever.
10. Age: 29

m3red

tweaked

1. Gender: Male
2. Occupation: VIP Holiday Arrangements. CEO/Co-founder
3. Reason for travel: 100% business, but always pleasure!!
4. Location: PEK
5. Favorite: Spain
6. Future: South American is the place i want to visit
7. Favorite Plane: EK A380
8. Best flight ever: Can't remember. Were plenty lovely ones
9. Worst flight ever: Can't remember. Were plenty of these also.
10. Age: 36

Ahmed777

m3red, Cape Town. I was hoping for someone in my country.. Magical place - hope you enjoy it! Remember to eat at Wembleys (Roadhouse) and Baia (high-end seafood). Best food ever! Oh, also do the Two Oceans Aquarium - amazing! Theres so much to do there, please PM me, I love helping people organise trips and activities!l

Good, now I know alot more about our fellow members. Lets keep it going^

edy4eva

1. Gender: Male
2. Occupation: Researcher
3. Reason for travel: Both business and private
4. Location: CBR
5. Favourite: ZRH
6. Future: EZE
7. Favorite Plane: EK A380
8. Best flight ever: ME218 (FRA-BEY) in Nov 2011 was allowed into the cockpit from top of descent until reaching the gate. Food out of FRA was great, had a whole row of J seats for myself. Plane still smelled like new.
9. Worst flight ever: EY533 (AUH-BEY) Nov 2012, chaos at boarding, longest bus transfer ever, full house in both cabins, got the last row in J right in front of a row full of infants in Y that kept crying throughout the flight (ear piercing cries as well), food was mediocre, rotten fruits at the end that perfectly balanced the taste, neighbouring passenger had flu and kept sneezing/coughing throughout the flight, half of J class passengers were coughing too, flight attendant spilled beer in row 3 on the floor giving us the good ol' beer stink for half of the flight, passenger across the aisle had personal tv on as well as his iPad AND his iPhone, someone from row 1 thought it was OK to stick his butt in my face for 2 frigging hours after the meal service to chat up with that hipster across the aisle from me. So yeah, can't imagine being any worse. I had stepped of from SYD-AUH in F with EY and my fingers were chapped because of an incident with chemicals back home. Being so exhausted, the last thing I needed were these beautiful surprises.
10. Age: 32

daniel46211

1. Gender: Male
2. Occupation: Not something that requires travel.
3. Reason for travel: Because I want to.
4. Location: SYD
5. Favourite: I don't have any places that I dislike.
6. Future: I don't plan any of my trips as I like to be as spontaneous as possible.
7. Favourite Plane: EK A380
8. Best flight ever: SYD-DXB in F... Wow, I actually took 2 showers on that flight
9. Worst flight ever: None... yet.
10. Age: 18, but I act like I'm 19

B747-437B

1. Gender : Male

2. Occupation : Airline Management

3. Reason for travel : Business and Personal

4. Location : Exile (expat who hasn't lived at "home" for ~18 years now)

5. Favourite destinations (for exploration) or most visited (for job requirements) : No correlation between favourite and most visited!

6. Where you would like to visit in the future : South America. I've been fortunate enough to visit pretty much everywhere else I have wanted to go to.

7. Favourite plane/route : One that takes me where I need to go safely and comfortably.

8. Best flight ever : Far too many to remember individual ones!

9. Worst flight ever : Close choice between TAAG Angola from Luanda to Johannesburg and Tower Air from Amsterdam to JFK.

10. Age : Somewhere between 30 and 40

Gringuito

1. Gender: Male

2. Occupation (if it's a job which allows you to travel): financial controller

3. Reason for travel: job and personal

4. Location: dxb

5. Favourite destinations (for exploration) or most visited (for job requirements): favorite Colombia, most visited: Algeria

6. Where you would like to visit in the future: Venezuela (Tepui table mountains, check out google images, it is amazing)

7. Favourite plane/route: A380 for the plane. favorite route: GYE - UIO (flight over volcanos, green mountains, just amazing)

8. Best flight ever: GYE - UIO (J KLM) for the sights / upgraded FCO - DXB First class (one and only time until now) on the A380 for the inflight service

9. Worst flight ever: CCS - LIM on Aeropostal: very old plane, nearly empty and severe turbulence from the beginning to the end.

10. Age (if you really, really want to): 27

DYKWIA

1. Gender: Male

2. Occupation (if it's a job which allows you to travel): IT Consultant

3. Reason for travel: Mainly personal these days

4. Location: Manchester (but work in London)

5. Favourite destinations (for exploration) or most visited (for job requirements): favorite Portland, Oregon, most visited: Dubai

6. Where you would like to visit in the future: Kuala Lumpa

7. Favourite plane/route: EK A380

8. Best flight ever: DXB-SYD - Spent all but 2 hours in the bar

9. Worst flight ever: MAN-DUS. Man Utd charter, with a guy behind trying to open a corked bottle of wine on the table catch of my seat

10. Age (if you really, really want to): 45

JTXC

Gender: Male

Occupation: University Professor

Reason for travel: Business (70%) and Personal (30%)

Location: Winnipeg, Canada

Favourite destinations (for exploration) or most visited (for job requirements): in no particular order they are SFO, DXB, BEY, AMM, MCT, DAM (sadly I suspect I shall never go there again).

6. Where you would like to visit in the future: Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Iraq.

Favourite plane/route: 777 First Suite on EK is best; favourite route is any to BEY--I just love the final approach. Had some great times chatting to crew and fellow pax in the 380 lounge also.

Best flight ever : Lots in EK J and F. Crew so often seem glad to be there, esp. when you come across a purser who wants to chat in Arabic.

Worst flight ever: Several mediocre ones on AC. Revenue Js are persona non grata.

Age : About to turn 40! Woo hoo.