the first post here (not worth reading, sorry)
Jun 14, 2000 | 8:00 am
#16
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Edinburgh
Programs: Lowly BA Blue. One of the original easyJet Flight Club members and still am.
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Emirates Code share with BA on Manchester-DXB. According to the BA UK EC members handbook you can olny earn points and miles if flying the route on a BA, not EK, prefix.
Jul 3, 2000 | 6:29 pm
#17
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Des Moines, Iowa & Malmo, Sweden
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I'm considering a trip to Dubai for a holiday, and I would like to give Emirates a try.. but I will be flying from Sweden, and the only flights Emirates seems to offer are a code-share with SriLankan from Stockholm to Dubai... anyone here have any experiences on this airline?
Jul 4, 2000 | 9:25 am
#18
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They now fly direct to Europe from Sydney as well as Mel. The "I Dream Of Jeannie" veiled type headdresses on FA really are a funny sight!
Jul 4, 2000 | 9:33 am
#19
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some cultures find those white westerners with ties a very funny sight
others will never understand how visitors/tourists can walk around just in shorts.
etc. etc. etc.
others will never understand how visitors/tourists can walk around just in shorts.
etc. etc. etc.
Nov 29, 2000 | 3:04 pm
#20
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Portland, Oregon; seat 3A
Programs: UA 1K 2021-22-23-24;Formerly a longtime UA Premier Exec; NW silver (legacy), Alaska Gold (way back)
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Ozstamps' and Rudi's last comments remind me of a passage in a G.K. Chesterton book, "The Napoleon of Notting Hill," to the effect that an Englishman (by extension, a Westerner) thinks an Arab "international" only if he speaks English and understands cricket -- but by that standard an Englishman cannot brag about being "international" unless he can ride a camel and speak Arabic.
I would think the Arabian traditional costume funny myself, unlike my own conervative business attire which is complete only if I have tied 54" of fabric made from worm spit around my neck in one of three permissible knots.
I would think the Arabian traditional costume funny myself, unlike my own conervative business attire which is complete only if I have tied 54" of fabric made from worm spit around my neck in one of three permissible knots.