Thanks for your review mate. Touch screens being dirty a common problem. I agree with your seat comments. Fact is most people are price sensitive. XXL people travelling to Europe are probably going to seek out Singapore with their 19 inch width economy seats or Emirates with their excellent A380 service. AIR N.Z. probably know and accept that its still more profitable to simply let those customers go rather than try to be all things to all sized people. Last year was 27 February, posted a link for easy comparison purposes in due course. To the best of my knowledge they haven't announced a fixed date for the result announcement but I'd bet serious money the poor numbers crunchers at AIR are working a lot harder than I am at present :)
https://www.anzsecurities.co.nz/Dire...spx?id=3559374
Skid - I know a lot of airlines flew over that part of eastern Ukraine but a lot have a policy they don't fly over airspace where a country is at war. A lot take a active risk averse approach in the best interests of customer safety. CNN had a piece a while back claiming an alternate deviation route to avoid war zone airspace would only cost an extra $U.S.1,500 in fuel for the average aircraft. Not a lot extra is it to play it safe !!
Secondly I would have thought Malaysian airlines medical checks would have picked up the fact that the pilot in the other crash had major psychological problems ?
I posted the ATR incident (acknowledge its not directly related), but with all the incidents over the last year it seems to me some airlines are cutting little corners with training, medical checks and pax safety.
I'm not superstitious but I don't tempt fate either...there's a good reason Malaysian airlines are offering dirt cheap airfares all around the world, nobody would fly with them if they weren't !!
Malaysian Govt had to take 100% control of the airline as if they hadn't it would have gone broke for sure.