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Apr 15th 2013, 8:26 am

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Re: Emirates summer flights

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Originally Posted by nonthaburi

good for you.

36 years young tomorrow so not exactly a coffin dodger just yet.

I'd be expecting a private jet in the package if it meant living in The Magic Kingdom.

Apr 15th 2013, 8:54 am

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Re: Emirates summer flights

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I'd be expecting a private jet in the package if it meant living in The Magic Kingdom.

I'd back myself to be good enough to not have to work in KSA...

Apr 15th 2013, 9:10 am

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I'd back myself to be good enough to not have to work in KSA...

Apr 15th 2013, 10:05 am

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I'd back myself to be good enough to not have to work in KSA...

Good Mantra to have in your field - pop it in your e-mail sig or even translate it to Latin for that added mystery!!

Apr 15th 2013, 10:10 am

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Re: Emirates summer flights

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Originally Posted by saudiflares

Good Mantra to have in your field - pop it in your e-mail sig or even translate it to Latin for that added mystery!!

Aww come on, I'm not that bad.

Apr 15th 2013, 10:24 am

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Re: Emirates summer flights

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Originally Posted by NorthernLad

I'd be expecting a private jet in the package if it meant living in The Magic Kingdom.

I dunno , each to their own , but I quite like it here . I don't do much and I have a lot of time to spend with my family that I didn't have in other jobs previously . It's what you make of it . If you say to yourself that a place is sh** then it will be .

Apr 15th 2013, 10:25 am

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Re: Emirates summer flights

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Originally Posted by Scamp

I'd back myself to be good enough to not have to work in KSA...

who said anything about working !

Apr 15th 2013, 10:38 am

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Re: Emirates summer flights

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I have a lot of time to spend with my family that I didn't have in other jobs previously.

I hear this one a lot which seems fair enough. If your family are on a decent compound and don't go stir crazy then the time you get with them is pretty valuable (I assume)

Apr 15th 2013, 10:56 am

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I've always assumed that the lot of the married men on single contracts in KSA took the jobs precisely so they don't have to spend time with their families...

Apr 15th 2013, 11:17 am

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Re: Emirates summer flights

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I've always assumed that the lot of the married men on single contracts in KSA took the jobs precisely so they don't have to spend time with their families...

Haha! That's the flipside. At least the wife is more comfortable they can't get loads of brass (I'm assuming hookers are scarce in KSA compared to Dubai for example...)

Apr 15th 2013, 11:50 am

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Re: Emirates summer flights

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Originally Posted by Meow

I've been looking at flights to JFK in July and the prices quoted by both Emirates and Etihad are outrageous. Almost double the cost of four years ago!

Qatar now looking like a much better bet, even with the transit via Doha.

Vegas cost me less than 600 quid via American Airways which is a QR code share to Manchester. Had I of booked QR to Manchester alone direct with them it cost more than flying to Vegas

Apr 15th 2013, 11:56 am

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Re: Emirates summer flights

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Originally Posted by mentalist

From my experience, as an international traveller formerly making up to 50 flights a year but fortunately much less now, Business Class is one of the biggest rip-offs of the modern world. For goodness sake, you are simply sat in a seat for a few hours. Why pay double or triple the price just for slightly more leg room and little else? If they gave you a blow job I could understand it. Maybe they do nowadays,eh?

Your best post yet mentalist. When I flew to BKK in november I booked cattle and my mate booked biz. I checked in at the same desk as him (I always just walk up to the business 1st check in) and I had a whole row to myself flying out. He paid double what I paid for and got the same or worse than me. (I can confirm that even on a BKK flight there are no blow jobs in Biz)

Apr 15th 2013, 11:57 am

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Re: Emirates summer flights

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Vegas cost me less than 600 quid via American Airways which is a QR code share to Manchester. Had I of booked QR to Manchester alone direct with them it cost more than flying to Vegas

Cost me just under a grand in Virgin cattle class DXB-LHR, LGW-Las Vegas; San Fran-LHR-DXB. Crazy that similar money is charged by Emirates just for the trip to Heathrow.

Virgin plane on the Dubai leg was not good mind - ropey stewardesses and pathetic entertainment system. Soooo much better on the US leg on both counts.

Apr 15th 2013, 12:06 pm

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Re: Emirates summer flights

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Originally Posted by saudiflares

I really really shopped around though to get those prices, took me a day or two.

I did, DOH-MAN, MAN-PHL and finally PHL - LAS. I did pay $60 for the extra legroom on the US flights too.

Apr 16th 2013, 1:50 am

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Re: Emirates summer flights

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Originally Posted by Millhouse

How can you tell if someone is on a featherbed package?

They tell you.

They don't moan regularly about such trivial shit like flight prices or rental increases or the cost of cars and petrol, phone Internet, school fees or the ****ing cost of sponsoring the family.

Most guys on Featherbed packages are too busy being important to their company to worry about such trivia

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