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2006-04-18 India-Pakistan

'Tourism may not take off with outdated Fokker fleet'

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Posted by Fred 2006-04-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fifty yarns for a flight out - now thats consumer loyalty. The BATTLESTAR is just over there.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-04-18 00:18|| 2006-04-18 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 More useless Paki Fokkers. It just never ends.

Posted by Penguin 2006-04-18 00:42|| 2006-04-18 00:42|| Front Page Top

#3 "It's the landings that'll get ya"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-04-18 00:55|| 2006-04-18 00:55|| Front Page Top

#4 WTF?! A plane with no ILS? It's the airports dumb asses! You can have all the next generation 737s you want, but without a category IIIc airport, you ain't landing. Or at least a category I.

Posted by Fokk U 2006-04-18 02:21|| 2006-04-18 02:21|| Front Page Top

#5 They said that the outdated Fokker planes had been unable to land and take off during inclement weather since 1960 and therefore their replacement with new and modern planes had become imperative if the government was sincere in developing the region for tourism.

I'm not really an avionics expert, but if your economy's survived since 1960 with these planes, what's a few more years between friends? And, I know nothing of Fokkers, but knowing Paki-waki land, I imagine these 1960 Fokkers probably looked like the Orville brother plane at the time (based on old technology even then).

Posted by BA 2006-04-18 09:54|| 2006-04-18 09:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh cant we use em as target practice. Who the fuck would want to go to pakistan on holiday anyway??? I'm stunned if people do for actual pleasure reasons - I cannot imagine a worse place on this rather large planet to go to except maybe somalia or china - nope even china seem more friendly to tourists.

Posted by ShepUK 2006-04-18 13:10|| 2006-04-18 13:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Who the fuck would want to go to pakistan on holiday anyway???
Gulf arabs for some falcon hunting and nikka-nikka with 12 year olds.

Posted by ed 2006-04-18 13:15|| 2006-04-18 13:15|| Front Page Top

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