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@perpetualcontra @danielbraden18 You’d let AI fly you around the world….? Righty o, be my guest…

@danielbraden18 Flying across the Atlantic in the 1930s, yeah that was hard. Hitting the autopilot button at 400 feet today, not hard. Pilots - AI is coming for your jobs. The unions can only protect your jobs for so long.

If flying was hard, we wouldn’t let kids do it. Just stop! You can fly in some states before you can drive. They will literally let a 21 year old fly commercial jets. But keep telling me how hard it is. 🤦‍♂️

@DFrankcom @NuffSaid1960 Am with you, either it’s service charge or a tip… not both

@NuffSaid1960 Who lives about the bar? I’ve got no qualms with tipping - but when 18.75% is on there already it’s mind blowing

The tipping culture in America never fails to baffle me I won’t lie. A pint is around $9 (just under £7) which includes an 18.75% service charge (so around $7.50 for the actual pint itself, which isn’t too dissimilar to UK prices) and I’m fine with that. But then they give you a pen with the receipt to write an extra tip on and it’s so bloody awkward. So many questions going through my mind every time. What do you want me to do here? What was the 18.75% for? Are you not getting paid by the hour? How much are you getting of that service charge? How much more are you expecting? Do I look a tight bastard if I just do $1 more? I’d say I’m a very generous bloke too with my time and my money but it’s just mind-blowing stuff how this is a normality. Can’t beat just buying 3 pints in the UK (well Europe, let’s be honest) in a pub for around 18quid… and just giving a 20sheet to the barman and letting them keep the change 🍻

@MarvellousSteve @MikeJPretzel But why is the UK allowing them to use the same queues as us? The UK should do the same in return and make them join the non e-gate queues at airports etc…

@MikeJPretzel No. It’s our petty European neighbours. When they come in our country we let them use the epassport line with us. Petty. Selfish. We must never go back

Let’s be absolutely clear about the queues at Dover, Eurotunnel and airports – this is happening because of Brexit. ‘We’ voted for it. This is NOT the EU’s fault. #RejoinEU

@JackDunc1 The costs of tickets to the games is a major part…. I regularly travel to the US for work, I looked up some tickets in Seattle as I was there on a match day… $550 for shitty seat, definitely not paying those prices!

Personally I find US cities and hotels panicking at the lack of the attendance for the world cup a total joy. No one wants to visit your backwards racist Trumpian hellscape.

@Wombat11412 @ATCO51 @xAviation So with all your experience you reckon that TS are always ahead of you? I landed in LHR yesterday and the weather was on all over the perimeter of the airfield but ahead of us (camera angle) was clear both of us even said at least if we go around it’s clear…

@shambock747 @ATCO51 @xAviation Interesting. The video showed no such weather. I guess the thunderstorms were invisible. Prove me wrong then. Provide the date of the video and the current weather at the time of touchdown. I didn’t get to 14,000 hours of flight time by being stupid.

This is what happens when an aircraft landing loses all its lift just before initiating the flare. 📹: aviationin4k258

@Wombat11412 @ATCO51 @xAviation If this was yesterday at LHR there definitely was TS activity all afternoon/evening… must be amazing to be a 14000hr skygod that never gets it wrong… 🤣💪

@ATCO51 @xAviation Only if from behind, but that normally requires a thunderstorm on final. I didn’t see weather like that in the video.

@KGOD1995 @gotravelyourway True 🤣

@gotravelyourway You’ve been saying it’s getting serious for the last six weeks.

Flights being cut… not because of demand,nbut because of fuel shortages. UK airlines now allowed to cancel flights in advance to save fuel. This is getting serious. ✈️

@lewisa95 No, there won’t be another 2020, people have learned and won’t be manipulated like that again

Anyone else worrying this cruise ship virus is gonna reach the UK and we gonna have to go through this 2020 shit all over again

@bitcoinaviator @SteveNomadic @Nomadic_OMD And how many jets are there to move? Be realistic it’s won’t always be possible…

@SteveNomadic @Nomadic_OMD Thought you guys were having spirit crew operate the flights?

OMD211 - shockingly I believe this is the first time I’ve ever operated a flight out of my home airport of PHL in nearly 30 years of flying #Spirit @Nomadic_OMD

@Keir_Starmer You’re definitely not on my side or that one of my family

Tomorrow vote for a party that’s on your side. Vote Labour.

@martinebran @Turbinetraveler Just out of interest why wouldn’t it be best practice?

@Turbinetraveler Surprising that he communicated with pax whilst still on the runway 🤔don’t think that’s regarded as best practice these times - aviate, navigate, communicate - in that order

Rare footage of the Concorde aborting takeoff at Heathrow Airport — from a passenger’s perspective, complete with that iconic spool-up. Pilot: “One of the afterburners didn’t light up…” Not something you’d ever hear on a typical commercial flight — even back in Concorde’s era. Also… can we talk about liveries back then? The Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 looked absolutely stunning, and that South African Airways Boeing 747 cameo at the end? Pure nostalgia. ✈️ 📹: u/TranscendentSentinel

@Chris61172903 Just in case what? Idiot

I would like to congratulate the old bloke interviewed on ITV this morning, filling up his car and also filling up a fuel can “just in case”. It’s morons like you that mean there’s no petrol at my two local supermarket filling stations for those of us who have to drive to work.

@armley8640 Same during Covid with people buying toilet rolls, idiots

Lots of people on here talking about “petrol shortages and empty fuel stations”. Lad three doors down works in the Tesco garage and it closed today. He told me they had the exact amount of fuel that they have every week but panic buyers cleared them out. New delivery tomorrow🤦

@LachlanB_ @MikeMedFly Been stores in the UK for years, I bought a pair in 2001 and I still wear them now for work.. they were more affordable back then ;-)

@MikeMedFly Stores in the UK now. Worth the investment. You'll only need to buy one pair ever. rmwilliams.com.au/store-finder/u…

Had the pleasure of flying with a good friend of mine whom I joined the company with and trained with. Fantastic operator and some great stories of her time flying the Q400 for Flybe of days gone by. Perks of the job flying with your friends and having great days out!

@BenGrahamUK Why have so many independent forecourts closed in the last few years….? It’s because the margins are so small that family run businesses can’t make the numbers work, the high petrol prices come mainly for the government imposed duty

Rachel Reeves blaming forecourts is pure deflection. At 160p per litre: Tax: 80p Forecourt profit: 7p The government takes over 50%, which is around 10x more than forecourts. But somehow it’s the petrol stations fault? The public can see straight through this.

@MCCCANM And what about the check pilot giving you a surprise checkride? I hate those training pilots who can’t take a day off on a non training flight especially because you have given him the courtesy of a jumpseat… he can wait for the next flight in the future

Long two days of this trip. 3 of 4 flights so far had jumpseaters…not comfortable in a 737. One of them was a Check Pilot giving me a surprise checkride. Later, Flight Attendants got into it w/ Maintenance. 🤦 But… I’m a fan of boutique hotels & this is good! Fireplace is rare to find, but a butler’s pantry they drop stuff like ice when you call, so you don’t have to open the door? That’s pretty slick! Loaner cruiser bikes, free snacks & a shrine in every room… Apparently each room is themed & I got the Savannah. The ceiling has to be 12’ tall. I approve of “The Inn at 500”.

@Mr_Husky1 Run run run

I’m about to get married, and my fiancé knows I have an inheritance that was left to me by my grandparents. It’s in my name only, and I’ve been saving it for years. Now he’s saying that before we get married, I should put the entire inheritance into a joint account so we can “start fresh together,” or he doesn’t think we should go through with the wedding. I’m 36 already and this is something my family worked hard to leave me. I’m torn between wanting to build a life together and feeling like I’m being pressured to give up something important to me. What do you think I should do? By isitmeaitah

@booker9e1 @MattWallace888 And respectfully why drag the 9/11 events to this accident? Totally unrelated and irrelevant please show some respect to the grieving families in their time of sadness

@MattWallace888 This is the damage caused by a hitting a firetruck at relatively slow speeds. Do you still believe that a plane could bring a metal structure like the Twin Towers??

I slowed down the footage of the Air Canada plane hitting the fire truck 😳 You can see how hard that impact was. It is a miracle that more were not killed.

@not_airspeed @InfantryPilot I had a passenger sadly die on the way to GRU, a Dr was onboard and declared him as deceased however the official death wasn’t recorded until we landed another 6 hours later… the passenger and his family were discreetly and respectfully placed at the back of business

@InfantryPilot I assume there was a doctor onboard in this case, if not cabin crew can declare "presumed dead" after 30mins of CPR.

From what I’ve been told - A pax ain’t dead until a Dr declares that person dead when the aircraft gets back on the ground. No idea what BA policy is when dealing with sick or “dead” pax.

@AnnOlivarius Scum bag!

"Retiring from rugby was the biggest mistake of my life". Telling that abusing his wife and mother of his 5 kids for years isn't his biggest mistake. You might have thought it would be, but no. Happily, Hogg is "finally valuing himself" now. Phew. telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…