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2010-01-09 China-Japan-Koreas

Nork airline banned from flying to Europe

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Posted by Steve White 2010-01-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 North Korea has an airline? Wow.

I am trying to picture the in-flight food service; what would they serve? "Bark? Grass? A little water with your gravel, running dog lackey sir?"

I got to fly Aeroflot once in the bad old days (my Swiss Air flight was forced to land in central USSR due to maintenance issue, so they switched us over to Aeroflot). Now THAT was a treat. First class box lunches, the totality of in-flight food service, included an apple (of sorts) and a stale-ish sandwich with a thin fish paste filling. Good vodka and caviar though, and lots of it. I remember streaks of a black oily substance running down the cabin walls from the ventilation slits, a mixture of condensed water and cigarette smoke my nose told me. And brother was it cold. The vodka was there for a reason.

North Korea has an airline?

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2010-01-09 07:45|| 2010-01-09 07:45|| Front Page Top

#2 not so much an "airline" as a "future crash" industry

Posted by Frank G 2010-01-09 12:10|| 2010-01-09 12:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Commodore Frank---you're mixing up terms. It is not "future crash" it's "accelerated depreciation."

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-01-09 18:55|| 2010-01-09 18:55|| Front Page Top

#4 "pre-scheduled landing"?

Posted by Frank G 2010-01-09 18:56|| 2010-01-09 18:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Accelerated deceleration.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-09 19:27|| 2010-01-09 19:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Free range landings.

Premature Pyongyang.

Fly by Juche.

Posted by Skunky Glins**** 2010-01-09 21:42|| 2010-01-09 21:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Unscheduled sudden decleration,Premature Decompression and and random non-choice landing fields at random.

Call it Infinity airlines, trips to heaven and hell at random.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-01-09 21:58|| 2010-01-09 21:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Where's that "Mandarin Airlines" picture?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-01-09 21:59|| 2010-01-09 21:59|| Front Page Top

#9 *happy sigh* I just love Rantburg!

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-09 22:31|| 2010-01-09 22:31|| Front Page Top

#10 The fabled Ilyushin-76.

They wish. Try Tu-134s and Tu-154s. Tu134: the only airplane I ever flew that actually rained inside the cabin when flying though rain.

Posted by ed 2010-01-09 22:50|| 2010-01-09 22:50|| Front Page Top

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