Things To Avoid

cocodrilo · Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 494 Location: Western Japan

Things to avoid at the moment are:

1. A travel itinerary that has stopovers/transits at London's Heathrow Airport. Strike going on there at the moment. NOTHING is moving.

2. Travel to Malaysia. Forest fires in Indonesia have all of Kuala Lumpur(the capital) shrouded in smoke. People are donning masks to go outside and schools have been shut down for the duration.

3. Japan Airlines. Once with a spotless record, their maintenance isn't up to par these days. Just last night some parts broke off a plane bound for Fukuoka. (Fortunately, it landed safely and no one was injured.)

August 13, 2005

cocodrilo · Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 494 Location: Western Japan

Correction on the Fukuoka flight-
The plane was taking off from Fukuoka when the incident occurred. Metal fragments fell onto a residential area Friday evening and a boy and a man were injured(not seriously) when they were struck by fragments falling from the plane. JALways flight 58, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 aircraft was manufactured in the late 60's. A bit old, if you ask me...

cocodrilo · Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 494 Location: Western Japan

Perhaps Bangkok at the moment? Sheesh. Hopefully things will settle down soon, but then the elections'll roll 'round in November sometime. Going there in December, and the Australian, British and US Embassies are issuing travel warnings at the moment.
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JPowell · Joined: 22 Jan 2010 Posts: 26

Right now I feel like flying in general is something to avoid!

Two main reasons:

1. Too many terrorist attempts have occurred lately and a few no fly listers were just picked up attempting to board US headed planes.

2. Too many plane wrecks and issues with people in tower screwing up. If I see one more set of planes come close to crashing into each other because of bad tower management I may bang my head on my desk.