On 2011\09\12 14:23, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 12/09/2011 13:56, d wrote:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:23:39 -0700 (PDT)
wrote:
If they loved them that much they wouldn't have relocated to the
other si=
de
of the planet.

B2003

Didn't Boltar use to be vaguely sane? What happened?

Oh come on, its true. If someone really loves their family they don't
move
to the other side of the world to live. For them family ties would be a
stronger bond than moving somewhere new for the sake of it.


You are a simple soul aren't you.

That would explain why his name makes everyone mutter "Aah, soul".

In message , at 13:42:29 on Mon, 12 Sep
2011, d remarked:
My family means a lot more to me than a job and a naff condo in a cultureless
country on the other side of the world. If thats being "simple" then thats
fine by me.

Many of the people who emigrate take their immediate family with them,
and do it because of a promise of a "better life".

Housing is half the price of the UK, so some will then be able to afford
somewhere decent to live, and the culture is still very "British
Colonial" if you emigrate to the right places.

Have you actually been there and experienced it at first hand (I did).

--
Roland Perry

"Roland Perry" wrote in message

In message , at 11:36:29 on Sun,
11 Sep 2011, Clive D. W. Feather remarked:
BA certainly used to have "set-down only" stops. So the flight from
London to Pittsburgh (IIRC) had a set-down stop at Washington Dulles.
Those passengers to Pittsburgh just stayed on the plane while those
to Washington got off, after which the plane continued on its
journey.

20 years ago I recall catching a plane that flew
Gatwick-Houston-Dallas, probably a route BA inherited from BCal. We
didn't have to get off at Houston, but I suspect no-one got on either
(trade barriers) so we could be treated as 100% international
arrivals in Dallas.

Exactly -- if the onward flight can pick up pax, then everyone on the
arriving flight has to get off and go through security before proceeding
further. As BA flights aren't allowed to pick up internal US pax, they
have to be set-down only at the first US port. I think Qantas has a
similar arrangement with the LAX-JFK extension of its flight from
Sydney.

Years ago, I used to have fly regularly to Detroit, and the BA flights
used to go via Montreal for a while. BA were allowed to pick up pax for
the Montreal-Detroit leg, though there seemed to be few takers. As that
was an international leg, the pax from London stayed on-board during the
Montreal stop, and didn't have to deal with Canadian customs and
immigration.

"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote in message

In message , Roland Perry
wrote:
I think they believe the Heathrow Connect/HEx free shuttles fulfil
that need.
I think they do reasonably well, the only downside being the lower
frequency.
Quite a few people use the airside buses, which are rarer in the USA.
I'd like to say "unknown" but they do exist,

Completely OT, but I got to use the airside bus at Stansted last week.

Even more oddly, I once got to use the LHR airside inter-terminal bus
when travelling *from* Heathrow (rather than when in transit). I was
going to Lyon (on BA) and just assumed the flight left from T4, like the
Paris flights. Having got through security, I was puzzled to see no sign
of the flight on the departure boards and then discovered it actually
left from T1. They allowed me to take the airside bus, through the
northern tunnel, to T1. My main recollection of that trip is the number
of times I had to clear security before eventually boarding the flight.

In message , at 15:08:42 on
Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Recliner remarked:

I once got to use the LHR airside inter-terminal bus
when travelling *from* Heathrow (rather than when in transit). I was
going to Lyon (on BA) and just assumed the flight left from T4, like the
Paris flights.

When I flew Lyon-LHR on BA about four years ago it arrived at T4.

Having got through security, I was puzzled to see no sign
of the flight on the departure boards and then discovered it actually
left from T1.

One of the reasons for security examining boarding cards ought to be to
stop that kind of mistake happening.
--
Roland Perry

On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:49:54 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 13:42:29 on Mon, 12 Sep
2011, d remarked:
My family means a lot more to me than a job and a naff condo in a cultureless
country on the other side of the world. If thats being "simple" then thats
fine by me.

Many of the people who emigrate take their immediate family with them,
and do it because of a promise of a "better life".

Thats fine. But that "better life" (ie big house and flash car) obviously
trumps any feelings they have for the rest of their family. A word to describe
it would be "shallow".

Housing is half the price of the UK, so some will then be able to afford

Probably because most of the young locals have buggered off to more interesting
places.

Have you actually been there and experienced it at first hand (I did).

No. Experience what? What can I see there that I can't see in europe apart
from the southern cross?

B2003

"Roland Perry" wrote in message

In message , at 15:08:42 on
Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Recliner remarked:

I once got to use the LHR airside inter-terminal bus
when travelling *from* Heathrow (rather than when in transit). I was
going to Lyon (on BA) and just assumed the flight left from T4, like
the Paris flights.

When I flew Lyon-LHR on BA about four years ago it arrived at T4.

Having got through security, I was puzzled to see no sign
of the flight on the departure boards and then discovered it actually
left from T1.

One of the reasons for security examining boarding cards ought to be
to stop that kind of mistake happening.

Indeed so. I think the automated check in T5 would prevent the problem,
but human inspections are obviously fallible. They were probably more
interested in checking that I had a Club class ticket with the right
date as I entered the Fast track line, than they were checking that I
was at the right terminal.

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 13:42:29 on Mon, 12 Sep
2011, d remarked:
My family means a lot more to me than a job and a naff condo in a cultureless
country on the other side of the world. If thats being "simple" then thats
fine by me.

Many of the people who emigrate take their immediate family with them,
and do it because of a promise of a "better life".

Housing is half the price of the UK, so some will then be able to afford
somewhere decent to live, and the culture is still very "British
Colonial" if you emigrate to the right places.

Have you actually been there and experienced it at first hand (I did).


It really can't have been *that* attractive if you came back.

What is the point of trying to sell an idea that you yourself have so
obviously rejected?

d wrote:

On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:49:54 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 13:42:29 on Mon, 12 Sep
2011, d remarked:
My family means a lot more to me than a job and a naff condo in a cultureless
country on the other side of the world. If thats being "simple" then thats
fine by me.

Many of the people who emigrate take their immediate family with them,
and do it because of a promise of a "better life".

Thats fine. But that "better life" (ie big house and flash car) obviously
trumps any feelings they have for the rest of their family. A word to describe
it would be "shallow".

Housing is half the price of the UK, so some will then be able to afford

Probably because most of the young locals have buggered off to more interesting
places.


It is of course true of both Australia and New Zealand that they have
to encourage immigration because so many of their young people taste
life elsewhere in the world, prefer it and never return.

In message , at 14:27:57 on Mon, 12 Sep
2011, d remarked:
My family means a lot more to me than a job and a naff condo in a cultureless
country on the other side of the world. If thats being "simple" then thats
fine by me.

Many of the people who emigrate take their immediate family with them,
and do it because of a promise of a "better life".

Thats fine. But that "better life" (ie big house and flash car) obviously
trumps any feelings they have for the rest of their family. A word to describe
it would be "shallow".

I don't think you are in any position to make that kind of judgement.
The "rest of their family" might be one second cousin!

Housing is half the price of the UK, so some will then be able to afford

Probably because most of the young locals have buggered off to more interesting
places.

Not at all. The place I went to is what the young locals regard as the
"happening place".

Have you actually been there and experienced it at first hand (I did).

No. Experience what? What can I see there that I can't see in europe apart
from the southern cross?

What it's like to live there, of course.
--
Roland Perry