Posts Tagged ‘planes’

Up In The Air


Air travel isn’t what it used to be anymore; I realize that this statement makes me sound like a sixty-year old but it’s the truth.

Fluffy Clouds Almost Home

I’m nostalgic for travels of years past, of how it used to be.
Warm friendly airports, fast cordial check-ins and a relatively safe enjoyable journey.

Clouds

These days whenever I have to travel by air, I have to mentally prepare myself for the worst possible experience.
I’d rate my last travel experience as typical; I was stressed, haggard and humiliated by the time I reached my destination.

Going Home Clouds

Today’s the busiest travel day of the year for our neighbours to the south and I can only imagine what a nightmare it’ll be for some.
Hopefully if you’re like me, being up in the air, the fluffy clouds, the beautiful skies, brings you comfort.

Up in the air

I took these pictures on a flight home with my cellphone.

Posted November 24th, 2010 in Travel. Tagged: , .

On Flying


I can’t believe that it’s been a month already since I got back from vacation.

I barely just got all my pictures uploaded on to flickr.

I got an email about a picture I took of the Aeroflot offices on Piccadilly which got me thinking about airlines from my childhood.

Many of them are now defunct, anyone remembers British Caledonian?

Aeroflot

In its heyday (back in the Soviet Union era) Aeroflot was the largest airline in the world, it’s also one of the oldest airlines.

By the eighties, it was flying to all five continents; Aeroflot was quite affordable back then but had a terrible reputation for having old Russian planes, being noisy and highly unreliable.

At school I was friends with two sisters who lived with their grandparents, occasionally they’d spend summers with their parents who lived somewhere in Europe.

They usually flew Aeroflot.

Engine

The sisters had this nightmarish encounter that really made me fearful of flying when I was a kid.

Basically, while on an Aeroflot flight the younger sister lost her passport, she just couldn’t find it.

They wouldn’t let her off the plane at her destination; the plane took her to Moscow where she spent a day alone being interrogated by “communists”.

Her passport was found the next day wedged somewhere between the old seats.

As an adult I’m not sure how factual this story is, but as a child the whole scenario scared the heck out of me.

Seeing the Aeroflot offices had me reading up on the airline, it has revamp its image – added a modern fleet, and improved customer service.

I think there’s a lesson in there to be learned for life.

Posted November 3rd, 2009 in Places, Travel. Tagged: , , .

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