Talking Travel: USD 291,000 Per Year for an Airbus A320 Captain
Greetings from 10,000 meters. Sometimes in order to make deadlines, it's necessary to use inflight Wi-Fi. United Airlines charges USD 16.99 for the entire, 12.5-hour flight from San Francisco to Beijing. Provided you're going to use it for the entire flight, and bearing in mind that it doesn't support streaming or live video, it's not too bad.
Are you an Airbus A320 captain in need of a job? Make USD 291,000 per year flying one for Beijing Capital Airlines, if this ad can be believed.
Travel site Ctrip must be doing well: they're buying a cruise ship. If the ship is anything like their service, then it will be overpriced, paying for it will be impossible, and your choices will be highly limited. Bon voyage!
Our friends at Fairmont Hotels are expanding in China. The Fairmont Zhenghou will join the Fairmont Beijing and three other Fairmonts in 2018. adding 350 rooms to the Henan provincial capital's capacity. Zhengzhou, huh?
The October 1 holiday period might be a rough one for operators in Malaysia and Thailand. The traditional Malaysia-Singapore-Thailand travel package has trouble with three of those triangle sides, with MH370 turning Chinese travelers off to Malaysia, and continued military rule in Thailand, although on the latter reports indicate that as far as travel is concerned almost everything is back to normal. If anyone notices fewer travelers to Thailand during the upcoming holiday, please let us know.
'Til Tuesday, one road flat safe.
Photo: Red Luxury
