We flew to Vietnam on Asia's answer to the Michael O'Leary empire - Tiger Airways. This budget carrier is almost an exact facsimile of that warm, welcoming Irish operation, i.e. they try to charge you for breathing on the plane!
To be fair to Tiger Airways, there was less of a 'herding effect' and the crew were much friendlier (no surprise there!). I haven't heard their CEO spouting off (entertainingly or otherwise) in the media either! The only operational differences between the two penny pinching carriers that I noticed were that they don't try to force you to check in online and they actually assign you a seat at check-in. No argie-bargie in the sprint for a good seat then, which is just as well s I got the emergency exit row with all the legroom on both flights.
Being on that row, we got the standard extra safety spiel about assisting with evacuation in case of an emergency. On the way there, the Chinese attendant gave a largely incomprehensible speech (supposedly in English) while pointing at the emergency door. He then asked at the end "Any questions?". My immediate thought was "Yeah, what in the hell did you just say?"!!!
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
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By the way, in honour of your trip I have put a fiver on Thongchai Jaidee to win the Vietnam Masters which starts tomorrow.
I just noticed that it was on. Pity I missed it by a week.
Good choice - I hope you come up trumps. I was standing beside Mr Jaidee a couple of weeks ago while we both were sheltering from a downpour at the Singapore Open. He's only a wee lad, but he looked confident and was playing well (alongside Harrington as I recall).
I won't expect a portion of any winnings!!
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