mike carey

Well, you're set up to be able to conduct your own experiment by flying AA for the first sector, although a shorter sector on JAL may not be strictly comparable to a relatively longer one on AA. That doesn't help you to decide now! I've read that commercial factors may figure in Skytrax ratings and I haven't flown on enough different airlines to judge their accuracy. That said, the ratings will give you some idea, and you've sought confirmation from someone in the industry. With the best of advice, preferences are in part subjective, so you might rate the two differently to someone else. @BenjaminNicholas may have flown both so he may be able to offer an opinion.

@Unicorn that looks good! I assume that the tour company is giving you advice about requirements for Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian visas.

Moderator's Note Please steer clear of political commentary in the thread, and stick to the health aspects, befitting this Forum.

Well that's a new twist on someone having a sharp tongue!

Happy to be of service!

I know this may sound like heresy, but I'm sure if the gentleman is not planning on a trip to the Centre of the Universe, there are reasonable Amtrak fares (or shudder bus fares) and hotels for a night in the Capital. You could even check out the latest exhibitions at the Smithsonian museums while you're there!

'Australia votes 12 points to Ukraine.' I heard a snippet of the song on the BBC this afternoon and quite liked it. I agree that Ukraine is likely to sweep the popular vote. (And yes, Australia does get to vote, we have become a regular non-EBU competitor in Eurovision.)

Yes, the key is recognising that the letters are the initials of the planets. The mathematical bit of it (which happens to coincide with the order of the first four in distance from the sun) is that it is in the order of their size. So the two after Venus are Mars and Mercury, and therefore the two letters are M & M.

Precisely! As they read it out I was contemplating working it out by brute force but when they gave the clue about 2x2 the penny dropped.

Lol, I needed a lift!

And another one, although this one isn't strictly a maths one, although it does have a mathematical, or at least numerical aspect to it. It does require a bit of lateral thinking. What are the next two letters in this sequence? J S U N E V ... Disclaimer:: I have not devised these myself, they come from the ABC Radio National breakfast show's Friday science puzzle segment. (The word science there is actually a hint, now I think about it.)

A maths puzzle to keep you amused. Everyone is more or less familiar with a chess board with its 8x8 pattern of alternating black and white squares. The question is, how many distinct squares can be identified on a chess board? A hint is that there are 64 of the single squares and 49 2x2 squares.

It's all relative.

He may have been referring to this site. https://businessclassconsolidator.com/

https://www.companyofmen.org/providers/

I love it when the owners of private spaces pay for public art in them, whether it be sculpture, paintings, or performative art like this. I hope they are actually paying them.

It's not new. Unless you meant the forum for new music! https://www.companyofmen.org/forum/112-music/

@Unicorn would be better able to comment than I, but I suspect it's not as simple as that, and that there is a grey zone between the two. Some would likely be clear, say a serious injury or a major cardiac event or stroke. Any interaction between those and Covid is less likely. In other cases there could be an interaction. For patients with one of the oft-cited underlying conditions that they had been living with successfully for some time, if Covid is an added factor, which of them is the cause? They may not have died of Covid absent the other condition, but the other condition may not have been fatal if Covid had not come along. What to put on the death certificate?

Flight Radar plot of Airbus F-WMIL's (French registration) flypast over Sydney Harbour this morning (amongst other tracks).

Here's the Qantas media release issued this morning. The A350s will have 238 seats in four classes, rather than the 270 OMAAT had understood to be the case. The release confirms that narrow body jet deliveries will begin next year, with total orders and options for the Qantas group of 299 aircraft. This marks a decisive switch by the airline away from Boeing. https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/qantas-group-announces-major-aircraft-order-to-shape-its-future/

OMAAT is reporting that Qantas will confirm its order for the long awaited Project Sunrise aircraft today (Monday). When they posted the article on-line an Airbus A350-1000 was en route from Toulouse to Perth, apparently for the announcement. They report that Qantas will order 12 A350-1000s, with 270 seats in four classes of service, to be in service in 2025. At present Qantas only has first class in their A-380s, having retired the B747 before the pandemic. A new first class product will no doubt thrill all the aviation and airline mile collecting anoraks out there. For those of us for whom long haul first is more a theoretical than a practical possibility, they will have a 34" seat pitch in economy, which is pretty good. Project Sunrise is the Qantas plan to be able to fly non-stop from Sydney and Melbourne to London and New York. Other destinations have been foreshadowed. OMAAT expect Qantas to also announce firm orders for A320 family aircraft and A220s that will replace their existing fleet of B737 and B717 aircraft for domestic and some short haul international routes. A preliminary announcement of that purchase was made last year. https://onemileatatime.com/news/qantas-airbus-a350/

This was posted in a twitter thread here but it's pretty widely applicable when you're in there. Or here for that matter!

This pun is a bit meta.

And for the denizens of this forum, I could suggest eggplants specifically.

A maths puzzle for you: Puzzle for today. OK, it's a riddle. The (nice) maths puzzles were reducing the nation's productivity: Cindi works at our local fruit and veg shop. She is 165 cm tall, shoe size 7, and has dark hair and brown eyes. What does she weigh? Spoiler: It's not actually a maths puzzle. It's more one of logic.