VIEW MY HONGKONG AND SINGAPORE TRIP REPORT

Greetings dear all flyers!

I am happy to announce that the new "Trip Reports"  and "Various spotting" tabs at this blog are now fully functioning. At the same time, I also have added two trip reports by me.

My first trip report is with China Airlines on my vacation to HongKong.
Click the links to view the report: Part 1 and Part 2

By the end of last year I also mad another new trip report. This time I flew with Garuda Indonesia on my new year vacation to Singapore.
Click this link to view the trip report: Singapore


View my previous trip reports on the "trip reports" page of my blog. More trip reports are coming! So stay tuned! :)

Spotting at HKIA

Some photos shot at Hong Kong International Airport on 24th August 2011. Enjoy!

United Airlines Boeing 747-400

EVA Air Airbus A330-200

Emirates Airbus A380-800 (1)

Emirates Airbus A380-800 (2)

Emirates Airbus A380-800 (3)

Dragon Air Airbus A330-200

Cathay Pacific Airbus A340-300

Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-200 (1)

Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-200 (2)

Qantas Boeing 747-400 Special Livery

Singapore Airlines Airbus A330-300 (1)

Singapore Airlines Airbus A330-300 (2)

Air China Boeing 757

INNOVATIVE BOARDING PASS?

Hello dear passengers!

Have you ever observed your boarding pass every time you travel? Well, I'm a kind of person who like to see at my boarding pass and compare it with the boarding passes of other airlines.

A while ago I noticed that most of the airlines seem not to care about the design of their boarding passes. Say, there is an airline which uses only a piece of thin paper to print its black-and-white colored boarding pass! There is even one airline which hand write its flight information on the boarding pass!

So I started to take an initiative to make a design of "my dream boarding pass". In my design of the new boarding pass, I am imagining that I am travelling with GIA, flying from Jakarta to Singapore. (I'm not saying that GIA is one of the above stated airlines with their screwed boarding passes).

Take a look at my design:

Problems looking at it? Maybe because my design of boarding pass is a potrait one, instead of the common landscape page setup.

Here what it looks like when I turn by design 90 degrees:

Well, I'm not an expert user of Photoshop and so that is all what I can do. Somehow, I really hope that airlines can begin to pay an attention to their design of boarding pass, because boarding pass reflects the identity of the airline itself before the flight.

What do you guys think?

WORLD AIRLINE AWARDS 2011

Congratulations to all winners announced on June 22nd, 2011, at Paris Air Show.


Here is a complete and accurate list of the winners, extracted from Skytrax:


BEST AIRLINES BY ONBOARD CATERING:
ECONOMY CLASS  - Thai Airways International
PREMIUM ECONOMY - Air New Zealand
BUSINESS CLASS  - Austrian Airlines
FIRST CLASS  - Etihad Airways


BEST AIRLINE BY SEATS:
FIRST CLASS - Cathay Pacific Airways
BUSINESS CLASS - Oman Air
PREMIUM ECONOMY CLASS - Turkish Airlines
ECONOMY CLASS - Thai Airways International

BEST AIRLINES BY REGION:
AFRICA -South African Airways
ASIA - Singapore Airlines
CHINA - Hainan Airlines
SOUTHERN EUROPE - Turkish Airlines
NORTHERN EUROPE - Finnair
EASTERN EUROPE - Aeroflot Russian Airlines
WESTERN EUROPE - Swiss International Air Lines
AUSTRALIA / PACIFIC - Air New Zealand
MIDDLE EAST - Qatar Airways
NORTH AMERICA - Air Canada
SOUTH AMERICA - TAM Linhas Aéreas
CENTRAL AMERICA / CARIBBEAN - TACA Airlines
CENTRAL ASIA / INDIA - Kingfisher Airlines
EUROPE - Turkish Airlines
TRANSATLANTIC - Lufthansa
TRANSPACIFIC - Cathay Pacific Airways

BEST AIRLINES BY CLASSES:
FIRST CLASS - Etihad Airways
BUSINESS CLASS - Singapore Airlines
PREMIUM ECONOMY CLASS - Air New Zealand
ECONOMY CLASS - Asiana Airlines


BEST LOW COST AIRLINES BY REGIONS:

NORTH AMERICA - Virgin America
SOUTH AMERICA - Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras
AUSTRALIA / PACIFIC - JetStar Airways
ASIA - AirAsia
CENTRAL ASIA / INDIA - IndiGo Airlines
EUROPE - EasyJet

BEST REGIONAL AIRLINES BY REGIONS:
ASIA - Dragonair
EUROPE - Aegean Airlines
CHINA - Tianjin Airlines
NORTH AMERICA - American Eagle Airlines
SOUTH AMERICA - TRIP Linhas Aéreas

BEST AIRLINES BY STAFF SERVICE EXCELLENCE BY REGIONS:
ASIA - ANA All Nippon Airways
AFRICA - South African Airways
AUSTRALIA/PACIFIC - V Australia 
CHINA - Hainan Airlines
CENTRAL ASIA/INDIA - Kingfisher Airlines
EUROPE - Austrian Airlines
MIDDLE EAST - Oman Air
NORTH AMERICA - Virgin America
CENTRAL AMERICA/CARIBBEAN - TACA Airlines
SOUTH AMERICA - TAM Linhas Aéreas

WORLD'S BESTS:
WORLD'S BEST REGIONAL AIRLINE - Dragonair
WORLD'S BEST AIRPORT SERVICES - ANA All Nippon Airways
WORLD'S BEST AIRLINE ALLIANCE - Star Alliance
WORLD'S BEST LEISURE AIRLINE - Thomson Airways
WORLD'S BEST LOW-COST AIRLINE - AirAsia
WORLD'S MOST IMPROVED AIRLINE - China Southern Airlines
WORLD'S BEST CABIN STAFF - Asiana Airlines
WORLD'S BEST INFLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT - Emirates
WORLD'S BEST BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE - British Airways
WORLD'S BEST FIRST CLASS LOUNGE - Qatar Airways

And Finally, this is the final top ten rankings for 2011:

1. Qatar Airways
2. Singapore Airlines
3. Asiana Airlines
4. Cathay Pacific
5. Thai Airways
6. Etihad Airways
7. Air New Zealand
8. Qantas Airways
9. Turkish Airlines
10. Emirates

Once again, Congratulations to all winners! All the best for 2012!