Travel Forum / Destinations / Asia / December 2003

I don't save my words. I let them spread. Everyone avoiding Aeroflot flights
to Asia and selecting another carrier in belief  to give a better chance to
survive is both a pansy and a fool (and perhaps a yid as well).

It happens to the stock of airborne all over the world to all airlines. A
couple of years ago SAS planes faced several incidents within a short period
of time. Then started joking about SAS and the company sponsoring death.

Yes, but they should be replaced before they reach the minimum
requirements.

Of course, we don't know whether the person who saw this was actually
technically competent to interpret what he saw. Aircraft tyres always
look 'bald' compared to what you would expect to see on a car, but
they're a different type of tyre, and not designed to perform in the
same way as on a car.

I don't know whether the statistic is true or not, but I've heard that
more people are killed by falling coconuts than get killed in aircraft
accidents. I've seen a coconut fall from a tree while I've been lying
on a beach just a few meters away, and when you see how hard it hits
the ground you're certainly glad your head was not underneath it.
That's a danger I would never have even thought about before.

It is not just a few dollars!
On my recent trip back and forth Stockholm - Delhi I think I
saved about 300 dollars flying with Aeroflot. Obviously I would
not take any serios risks with my life for 300 $. But I do not
think I did.

I do take risks sometimes. While driving fast in an old car,
while walking against red lights, skating on natural ice or
trekking on iffy trails near a dangerous drop.
Maybe you don´t?

It would always be safer to stay at home, be in your mothers
kitchen. Never do anything she would not do. And travel only
with the safest airlines. Always use a helmet!

Some of us want more than that. Go further. Push it a bit.

Lars, Stockholm

I flew with Aeroflot from Bangkok to Paris(via Moscow) and back from
Stockholm to Bangkok(via Moscow). Despite what everyone says, I had a
great experience with them. I flew Business Class and I have to say the
seat is pretty much like an Economy Class except you get two seats for
yourself(on Bangkok to Russia and Russia to Bangkok route). However the
planes that they use for Europe flights like Moscow to Paris or
Stockholm to Moscow were awesome and the seats for business class were
as geat as other airlines. The cabin crew were actually calling me
precious...they must have thought I was 15 or something(I'm 23 but
comparing to Westerners, us Asians normally look a lot younger) so they
treated me well. And all the flights were smooth indeed. The only
complaint I have is on the way back, I had 8 hours transit time and it
wasn't fun when everyone around you seemed to smoke. But I did find a
place to take a nap for a few hours so it wasn't too bad. But I also had
a great time talking to some shop workers there. They were very helpful.
I bought a bunch of postcards but there's no post office inside so one
lady offered to send them for me. I sent around 5 postcards and she said
that would be like 2 bucks. I didn't have any 2 bucks banknote, I only
had 5 so I wanted to give her all but she refused to take it. She
insisted on giving me the change. Overall I had a nice experience and
I'm definitely gonna use them again if I have quite a lot of time to
spare for those long transit hours.

For friend of mine, Paris looked similar to New Delphi ... I don`t find
Paris more interesting than Moscow.