If you’re traveling to Hong Kong on business or vacation, you’ll need to know the cost saving ways to get around the city without it costing an arm and a leg. This handy guide will show you how to save money when visiting Hong Kong on your next trip.

Airbus Instead of Airport Express

When you arrive in Hong Kong from your long flight, you’ll want to take the Airbus instead of the Airport Express or taxi. While Airport Express is convenient and there are plenty of baggage handling officers to help you, the Airbus is a much cheaper way to commute from the airport to the city.

A taxi will run you about $300 USD from the airport to the city. The Airport Express will cost you anywhere from $60 USD to $100 USD each way, and the Airbus is about $30 USD to $45 USD. It may take you a little longer to get there, but you can definitely save money with the Airbus.

Octopus Card

The Octopus Card is a prepaid rechargeable card that is your ticket to all the public transportation in Hong Kong. Since Hong Kong’s transportation system is so advanced you won’t mind it one bit, and it will save you lots of money getting around Hong Kong.

When you swipe your Octopus card, the cost of the item is automatically deducted from your available balance. Not only is it convenient, you will also get a discount on everything with your Octopus Card, so it’s wise to get your card immediately upon arrival. You can even use it at convenience stores and fast food chains like McDonalds.

An Octopus card costs $150 for a $100 value and a $50 refundable deposit. You can also receive a refund on any funds not used on the card so you never have to worry about ending up with extra once your visit is over.

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Take the double-decker trams in the city for a nice slow ride through the city streets of Hong Kong. It is one of the best ways to see the city on a budget.

Find a Cheap Hotel in Hong Kong

Finding a cheap hotel in Hong Kong can be a challenge, but with the Harbour View International House you get a reasonable room rate with a view of beautiful Victoria Harbour. It is perfectly located, close to the subway, the convention center and within walking distance to the ferry.

Tipping

A 10% tip is usually added to most services like restaurants and hotels, so do not leave a full tip in these cases. Make sure to check how much gratuity is already added to your bill before leaving additional tips. An extra 5% is appreciated in addition to the gratuity already billed.

Shopping

If you are looking for authentic Hong Kong shopping and still get some deals, Kowloon is the place. But beware! These open markets are known for selling to tourists and may sometimes overcharge. Be a discriminating buyer to get the best deals. Bargain as much as you can as some items could be discounted up to 50%.

There are lots of ways to save money when visiting Hong Kong - you just need to know where to look. Keep your eyes open, compare prices, and follow some of these money-saving tips for thrifty travel in Hong Kong.

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Air Transport

The most important manufacturers of civil transport aircraft, taken on a worldwide basis, include the following:

Airbus – It is a subsidiary of EADS, a huge European aerospace corporation, and manufactures aircraft on their behalf. Airbus has its base in Toulouse in France, and it manufactures nearly half of the world’s jet airliners. It has sixteen sites within Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Spain, and employs a total of around 57,000 people across these sites.

Boeing – It is a major defense and aerospace company with a manufacturing function based in Seattle. In terms of revenue, it is the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world, as well as the second-largest aerospace and defense contractor, globally. In fact, it holds the position of being the largest exporter in the United States.

Bombardier – It a major aircraft manufacturer with headquarters in Quebec in Canada. It has a versatile product range including regional aircraft, business jets, mass transportation equipment, recreational equipment, such as snowmobiles, and is a financial services provider. The aerospace division accounts for around 50% of the company’s income. It’s best selling aircraft include the Dash 8 and CRJ lines of regional airliners. The Learjet company is a subsidiary of Bombardier and manufactures jets under the Learjet name.

Embraer – It is a Brazilian aerospace company that manufactures commercial, military, and corporate aircraft, together with associated aerospace services. In respect of worldwide aircraft manufacturers, it has the third largest yearly delivery of commercial aircraft, behind Boeing and Airbus. Its headquarters and principal production facilities are in São Paulo.

Tupolev – It is a renowned Russian aerospace and defence company, with headquarters centred in Moscow. It is understood that the Russian government is planning to merge Tupolev with other famed aircraft manufacturers, including Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Corporation. Development, manufacturing and overhaul of both civil and military aircraft and weapons systems are just some of the aerospace ventures that the company is involved in. It is also involved in the technologies associated with missile and naval aviation.

In terms of individual specialisations, it can be said that:

Boeing, Airbus, and Tupolev concentrate on wide and narrow-bodied jet airliners

Bombardier and Embraer concentrate on regional airliners, which refer to small airliners designed to fly between 35 and 100 passengers from point to point on short-haul flights. Such small airliners are most suitable for the regional divisions of the larger international airlines.

In order that these manufacturers may function efficiently, extensive networks of parts suppliers, from around the globe, specialising in their own niche areas, provide appropriate support. Such backup is all the more necessary since, in some instances, the manufacturer will provide only the initial design, with final assembly in their own plants.

The Chinese ACAC consortium, a subsidiary of Aviation Industries of China I (AVIC I), formed in 2002 by various Chinese aviation companies, will also soon enter the civil transport market with its ACAC ARJ21 regional jet. The ARJ21 is a twin-engined airliner and the first passenger jet to be developed and manufactured by the People’s Republic of China.

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Boing has a long history of aviation excellence compared with the short history of Airbus. By picking Airbus, the pentagon essentialy just transfered 40,000 potential American jobs to Europe. With our economy in reccession, this doesn’t make sense to me.

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Seats 6 ABCDEF are bulkhead seats that are available. I’m in 7D but I wonder if I should swap to aisle 6. Are these really good seats? This is an Airbus 319. Who can give me insight?

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If you are looking for work as an airline pilot, you can’t help but notice that the news is constantly filled with information [mostly negative] about the job situation for the industry as a whole. Unfortunately, newsmakers only get part of the story right as the airline industry is always in a state of flux. Pilot jobs are available, but you must broaden your horizons beyond the conventional ways in which most pilots go about finding work. Let’s take a look at some of the options available to you.

Independence Air’s recent demise has thrown hundreds of Airbus pilots out of work in the US. Press reports have been painting a gloomy picture of this event, which was not unexpected by airline experts. Still, the future isn’t completely gloomy for these very same pilots as Virgin America is expected to take flight in about one year. They plan on operating a fleet consisting of as many as 105 Airbus aircraft.

The legacy carriers have been presenting some of the most challenges for potential pilots as few, if any, are hiring. Most are in the process or have nearly completed the process of extracting “give backs” in the form of wages and benefits from their current pilot ranks. In addition, as pilots retire, available pilot jobs are filled from their lengthy lists of furloughed crewmembers. Certainly, the legacy carriers – American, Continental, United, Delta, Northwest, and USAirways – are currently not worth exploring as a place to look for pilot jobs.

Pilot jobs are available through many of the regional carriers. Some of these carriers include Chautauqua, Republic, Comair, Big Sky, American Eagle, Air Wisconsin, Great Lakes, and others. Pilot pay is very low, but the opportunity to fly can be very good with the regional carriers. These carriers typically fly Embraer, Canadair, or British Aerospace regional jets carrying passenger loads ranging from 50 to 100 seats.

Charter carriers have typically been a fairly good source for pilot jobs. These Part 121 operators consist of a bevy of airlines including World Airways, North American, Miami Air, Sun Country, and Ryan International. From time to time pilot job opportunities are posted directly on each airline’s web site. Check in often for the latest hiring news.

Then there is the assortment of start up airlines that have recently hired or are in the process of hiring. As you know, the failure rate for start ups is very high, but for many crewmembers a seat is a seat especially one that allows you to accumulate valuable and needed flight time. Two recent start ups that have taken flight include EOS Airlines and Maxjet Airways. As mentioned previously, Virgin America Airlines is in the process of passing through all of its regulatory hurdles and Primaris Airlines will be expanding its fleet over the next few years in its quest to become a full fledged airline flying scheduled routes. Other start up carriers worth watching for future pilot jobs include: Fly First Class, Baltia, and Mexus.

Discount carriers typically offer the best chance for finding pilots jobs. Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways lead the pack, but Mesa, Spirit, Alaska, Horizon, Midwest, and USA3000 have all listed pilot jobs within the past year or are planning to do so in the coming months. Pay is an issue, much lower than the legacy carriers, but you can find work.

Beyond contacting the companies directly, there are helpful web sites filled with pilot job opportunities or, at the very least, interview gouges and banter. The internet has a myriad of sites available, so I will start from the top: Aviation Employment Board, Climbto350, Flight International, Fliteinfo, Jet Movements, Landings, Parc Aviation, PPrune, Student Pilot, Thirty Thousand Feet, U.S. Aviation, and Will Fly For Food.

Finally, for the pilot who is willing to look well beyond the U.S., opportunities can exist with carriers based in the Emirates, India, China, Vietnam, and other destinations. If it is flight time you want, many have exactly what you need.

Pilot jobs are available and with a little digging and some sleuthing you can uncover for yourself a good list of companies that are worth a look. As mentioned, the industry is in a constant state of flux but the savvy pilot can work that to his or her advantage by staying on top of industry trends.

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THE HERO SULLY AND THE DITCHING OF THE US AIRWAYS AIRBUS IN THE HUDSON RIVER

BY MICHAEL R. SEARS 1-18-09

Some call the pilot Sully, who miraculously ditched the air bus into the Hudson river last week, a hero. Now let us examine that word and what it means.

The news media has had a fixation, as they often get, on this pilot and the “fact” that he is a hero, no questions asked, no doubts whatsoever.

To me, this pilot is definitely the crème of the crop of pilots, a pilots pilot, with vast experience and skill. He was put into a situation from which there was no choice to make, except where to crash or ditch. To me a hero is someone who has to make a choice to put themselves in harms way to help others or to expose truth or save lives. Sully was doing his job, in which he proved he is probably one of the best pilots alive, but I really think that the hand of Elohim had the biggest hand in this incident. The water was smooth, there was no ice, there was no fog or clouds, there were no boats in the way. It was a perfect day and a perfect glide path to ditch.

All the news media is showering Sully with accolades of hero, hero, hero. The mayor of New York is even talking of a ticker tape parade and has already given him the key to the city. I know America is desperate for heroes at this time and the news media will grasp at any semblance of valor, since there is so little of it being shown these days. Sully has true grit and is tough and is the best, but a hero?

I even saw a psychiatrist on Fox talking about how he has studied the traits that make up a hero. Some of the traits he listed were strength, skill, and intelligence, saying these are three of the 8 or 9 components listed that make up a heroes character, the news media prolifically agreeing all the way. Boy, I thought, no wonder America is in a moral crisis. This psychiatrist did not even list bravery or valor as one of the traits. Wow, I thought, what about some poor Chinese in some obscure province who has fought against communism and evil oppression? What about all the Christians that have died in Sudan and Ethiopia to stand by their faith and make a choice to suffer the consequences of their stand? Most are ignorant. Most have few skills. Many are weak from starvation and oppression. Some may be on the lower scale of human intelligence, yet they made a choice to stand for truth and against oppression and evil. Are these not the true and real heroes, not some pilot who during the duties of his job finds himself with no other choice but to do as protocol and procedure requires? A hero, to me, is one who voluntarily puts him or herself in harms way to help others, to expose truth, or to save lives. Sully is certainly to be commended for doing a job as perfectly as you can, and he probably could be a hero in the right situation. I believe that we all have the potential to be a hero, given the situation or opportunity, no matter what our intelligence, strength, or skill. It just takes a choice that is made at the very time of crisis.

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The London Heathrow International Airport is located west of London on the M4 highway. Heathrow is the busiest international airport.

If you want to travel through, please, be considered in your travel plans possible delays, especially during peak seasons.

At this airport, disfrutais several options for ground transportation: trains, buses, taxis and subway.

RAIL SERVICE (HEATHROW EXPRESS)

It consists of a system that operates trains between Paddington station in central London and Heathrow. These trains depart every 15 minutes, 365 days a year.

The station is located 15 minutes walk from Terminals 1, 2, 3 and 5 minutes more than 4.

RAIL SERVICE

Operates between Heathrow and railway stations in Feltham, Reading, Woking and Watford Junction.

BUS (AIRBUS)

Airbus A2 service will provide transportation from each of the terminals to central London. Four buses leaving the airport every hour and can buy the tickets in Terminals 1, 2 and 4 or ride on the bus directly.

METRO (LONDON UNDERGROUND)

The airport also has direct link to the subway. So, which is located inside the airport two seasons: a central Terminals 1, 2 and 3 and another at Terminal 4.

Both are stations on the Piccadilly line and take to get to central London an hour long.

TAXIS

As in any airport, London airport taxi are only recommend this if your portfolio repletita tickets that can be spent on a single taxi ride to London, this is going to be if you do.

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Air India is a government owned national airline of India. Administered by the National Aviation Company of India (NACIL), Airline operates a worldwide network of passenger and cargo services. Air India Airlines has its main bases at Indira Gandhi International Airport of Delhi and Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shijavi International Airport. Based on passengers carried stats, Air India is the second biggest airline in India, after Jet Airways. In domestic market, Air India Airlines is the third largest behind Jet Airways (including subsidiary low cost carrier JetLite) and Kingfisher Airways (including subsidiary low cost airline Kingfisher Red).

Established by J.R.D Tata in 1932 as Tata Airlines, a division of Tata Sons Ltd. (now Tata Group), Air India came into existence on 29th July, 1946 as a public limited company. In 1948, the Government of India acquired 49 per cent of the Air India Airlines. The airline was granted the status to operate international service from India under the name Air India International. On 8th June 1962, the name of the airline was officially changed to Air India. Further, on 11 June 1962, Air India Airlines became the world’s first all-jet carrier.

Air India operates flights to 28 international destinations and 11 domestic destinations. Air India Airlines serves 17 international across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East itself, and other 11 international destinations across the globe through code sharing agreement with alliance airlines. Air India airline has codeshare agreements with 12 international airlines, namely Air Mauritius, Austrian Airlines, Egyptair, Emirates Airline, Kuwait Airways, Indian Airlines, Lufthansa, Malaysia Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Swiss International Airlines, Thai Airways International and Turkish Airlines.

Air India has a fleet of 31 flights including Airbus A 310, Airbus A 330, Boeing 747 and Boeing 777 aircraft. Besides these, Air India Express, the low cost subsidiary of Air India Airlines operates a fleet of 20 Boeing 737 – 800 aircraft. Based in Mumbai, Air India Express operates services mainly to the Middle East countries and several domestic destinations. Presently, Air India Express connects 30 destinations including both domestic and international destinations.

Air India Express airline was established in May 2004 and began its operations on 29th April 2005 with an inaugural fright service from Thiruvananthapuram to Abu Dhabi. According to sources, since its inception Air India Express is making huge profits on most of the routes. Air India Express has plans to expand its services to some destinations in Europe and America.

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