Identical Twins get to work on the same flight?

As today I am going to share you a story that I found interesting to see. I have noticed about Delta Airlines, one of the largest airline in the United States that is affiliated in SkyTeam. I must say that Delta is one of the airlines in the world that might have the best employee relations practice. Well, it is neither be an assumption nor a subjective judgment, but in my honest opinion, especially highlighting at the main concept of Delta’s TVCs and features like what I am going to share today is what they call, “an ultimate pride”.

I capture one of Delta Airlines’ TVC which features the uniqueness of its employee relations. Apparently Delta Airlines have lots of videos, features, and everything that promotes about the working environment in the company. A story that delights me most is when two identical people work on the same flight. After 35 years of service, Dan and Daniel were set to serve flights to Narita in March 2012. Dan and Daniel are identical twins who work as flight attendants at the same company but stationed at different base.

If you see that in airlines there are so many brothers, sisters, or family related work at the same field or industry, especially in aviation, two brothers work as pilots, two sisters work as flight attendants, or one work on board, one work on the ground. But I found it is a rare chance that identical twins work in the same profession, same place. Is this inspiring enough? the answer is.. YES.

Singapore Airshow 2012!

I would say I am lucky this time since I finally got a chance to visit one of the largest Airshows in Asia, the 2012 Singapore Airshow. An aviation bi-yearly event was conducted at Changi Exhibition Center from 13 February – 19 February 2012.

I had definitely sacrificed myself to come onto this event. I flew on Friday evening after office hours, attempted to struggle with the bad traffic in Jakarta, not to mention searching for cabs which I first thought simply impossible. The flight was fully booked, and thank god I got a seat on the last flight although the flight was initially delayed and finally delayed for 40 minutes due to aircraft’s late arrival from Singapore due to heavy air traffic at Changi Airport for the airshow which had caused late departures for most outbound and inbound flights.

 
On Saturday morning, I awakened in a simply enthusiastic mood. I took off with an MRT from my friend’s house in Teluk Kurau area which only took like 15 minutes to get to Changi Airport. I alighted at Terminal 3, and met some friends from Indoflyer in which I had made appointment earlier then off we went to the Free Shuttle stop that drove us to Changi Exhibition Center. Changi Airport that day was packed. I bet many people were interested to visit the Airshow especially to spend their weekend with families.

I was actually surprised that lots of people were intended to come to the Airshow. I met some Indonesians friends who flew up to Singapore, wearing Indoflyer attributes, and the others who didn’t but I figured they were all from Indoflyer as well. The location of the Airshow is actually far from the Terminal Area.

I felt excited when I first touched the entrance area was an open air plaza which dedicated for the visitors who wished to watch the acrobatic show. You could sit, stand or even lay-down on your mat while watching the show. I rather toured the aircraft static display which displayed so many interesting aircraft starting from Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400, Bombardier CRJ 1000, Hawker Beechcraft, The F-16, Embraer Lineage 1000, and many more including the all military jets that were displayed by the Singapore Air Force.

In front of the most wanted to see aircraft. Bombardier CRJ-1000 NG. She’s pretty!

I think this one is the best shots. This guy I believe from the Embraer team which I wasn’t sure whether he is the pilot or just the corporate team.

I can’t remember his name. But this British Airways’ captain was not on official duty for this exhibition. He just came on his flight from Sydney, transiting in Singapore for one night before heading back to London. He was with his first officer, and flight purser visited still wearing the uniform. I asked for a picture with him, and I tell you what, there were many other visitors begging for pictures with them. I was like “Oh there you go, You are the celebrities at this event,” he laughed.

Posing with these two young Singaporean air force.

Unfortunately, not all planes can be visited on the public day. Most of them are closed to public hence we could only see them nearby. I should have regretted for not flying on Friday during the trade day where Boeing 787 Dreamliner is still allowed for visit, and the rest of static displays are opened for public. One of my intentions for coming to the airshow is actually visiting the Bombardier CRJ 1000. I have been very curious about this small light jet which Garuda bought recently.

Besides, the best thing to see at the air show is the roulette and F-16 jets attractions that were waited by many visitors, including myself. It’s a rare show to see how these jets were low passing above the Changi Exhibition Center in many aggressive and bold gestures with engines roaring loud that could bare our ears, but we still enjoyed it.

The rain started to fall during the acrobatic show. Some people decided to see the attractions while I decided to get in the auditorium to visit some of aviation related business booths that appeared to showcase some of their products. One of those booths that attracted my attention was Rolls Royce!

This is the model of Rolls Royce Trent 1000 which is installed on Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The model is in quarter scale, though it is clear enough for us to see the details of the engine.

And the second must visited booth is… BOEING!

As you may aware the miniatures photos below showing Boeing 737 MAX and Boeing 747-8 the latest generation of Boeing 747 which currently is being developed. This Boeing 747-8 still adapts a masculine look of Boeing 747-400 only longer and has a stretched upper deck cabin.

The rain had stopped, and we were called to start queuing for Boeing 747-400 visit. Hence, I was getting ready for it, and got really excited.

Singapore Airlines participated at the public day exhibition, displaying the 9V-SPQ Boeing 747-400 which were marking the nearly retirement days of this jumbo. A special tour were arranged for nearly 1,000 visitors for free, and distributed by a boarding pass that will be used for your 10 minutes tour inside the cabin. I found out that many people were enthusiastic to hop on this jumbo, they were willing to queue-up just for getting the boarding pass. For your information, the Boeing 747′s last commercial flight will be conducted on some date in March 2012, to Melbourne. This aircraft will be phased out from Singapore Airlines’ fleet family after serving the airline for nearly 4 decades and will be replaced by the newer modern jumbo aircraft, Airbus A380.

Queuing up before getting the boarding pass and board for a 10 minutes tour.

Check this cute Boarding Pass. It says “Thank you B747″ We definitely have strong attachment with this super jumbo!

Finally on board!

During a special tour on Business Class Cabin

Meanwhile, the commemorative flights will be arranged on Singapore – Hong Kong – Singapore flight on 6 April 2012. To all of you who have a strong attachment with Boeing 747, especially on Singapore Airlines’ MegaTop you guys should join this flight! There will be many commemorations as you could feel the luxury travel on Boeing 747 for the last time. You would make your journey to Hong Kong in a very remarkable style. The tickets are now on sale as you may check its website www.singaporeair.com or www.SIAjourneys.com .

This trip is one of my remarkable trip. I planned for this trip, didn’t make any itinerary of where to go since the main purpose is for the airshow. I had a good time there, and I wish to go back on the 2014 where I believe Airbus A350 would make her performance then. I was exhausted, yes. But when I checked on the pictures I’d taken on my camera, I felt restlessly happy

Happy Graduation My Brother!

This post is a big one. Something that I had been waiting for to actually cover my own brother in every aviation post I make.

There ain’t any words to describe how proud I am towards my brother. I felt thankful that he had finished his pilot education in a satisfying grade despite I couldn’t actually witness the ceremony. The Bali International Flight Academy Batch 5 had just conducted their inauguration ceremonial yesterday. The ceremonial took place at the Garuda City Center Cengkareng and directly inaugurated by Mr. Emirsyah Satar, the President Director Garuda Indonesia.

Dad, Mom, Brother, and His Girlfriend (Gita)

Like Father like Son!

The recent graduates of BIFA Batch 5 has signed work contract agreement with Garuda Indonesia and will be trained at the Garuda Indonesia Training Center prior operating as second officer. Congratulations BIFA Batch 5! Good luck and may success shower each of you!

 

A Meaning of a Passengers Announcement

To all of you who travel a lot with plane must be familiar with a sort of moment where a cabin crew perform through the PA system which mostly known as Passengers Announcement. To some people who might not care about the importance of Passengers Announcement, but to pilots, flight attendants and aviation enthusiasts, this could be accounted as a part of their professionalism that eventually reflects to the communication quality itself.

On the other hand, I completely realise that Passenger Announcement is nothing crucial compared to the main duty of every pilot and flight attendant. But in my opinion, it would a plus point for those who can perform good on this. Because in every aspect, somehow, passengers deserve to know what is going on or having quick updates with the latest condition of their flights.

To every flight attendant, speaking on a PA system could be something that will really get their nerves. In particularly when a PA receiver could turn something into a nightmare, even worse compared to when they are directly dealing with the passengers. Passengers Announcement is very relied on someone’s public speaking capability, and in terms of public speaking capability assessment may relate to some aspects; for example:

1. Voice tones,

2. Pitch Control and Articulation,

3. The substance of particular information,

4. Information simplification.

5. Others related.

According to my air travel experiences, I have moderately notified about this – when a pilot must explain about a flight conditions through a PA system, or when a flight purser introduced him/herself before flight, or during a critical situation announcement, and arrival announcement.

For those who are granted with a vibrant, and exceptionally colored voice tones, they should have utilized them maximally, because that could be very helpful to attract passengers attentions. When you speak through a PA system that means you speak to the whole passengers on behalf your team, and just treat the PA speaker as if your special ones where you may talk softly, and happily.

A common issue that might be found during Passenger Announcement is language barrier, especially when a flight attendant must repeat similar information after their local language in English. Here is my observation; A good and better result is when some flight attendants might not care about their accent and they just be themselves. Talk in their accents but calmly, not too speedy, and attempted still to watch the pronunciation instead of those who might want to sound like a native, but did it way too overtly from their expectations which may cause a fast-and-furious announcement that eventually make them sound like a joke and not understandable. In addition, the problem is most likely about the pitch control, and the distance between the mouth and the speaker. It shouldn’t be too near.

One of my favorite parts in air travel experience is when we touch down flawlessly, and welcomed by a passenger announcement wherever we land. I have a special admiration to Singapore Airlines that has a good and inspiring template for its flight attendant passenger announcement arriving in Singapore.

“Welcome to Singapore ladies and gentleman, and to all Singaporeans and residence of Singapore, a warm welcome home..”

I am not a Singaporean, but when I hear that ‘warm welcome home’, I could feel how every Singaporean who were on that flight, after flying thousands miles away and finally arrive in their homeland, would be glad to hear that announcement. As I notice, Singapore Airlines has used the same template for a long time and required all the cabin crews to use the template who make the announcement. It is good at some point, that would make every passenger understand easier, and to prevent that ‘language barrier’ as I mentioned earlier.

Besides, I have also admired Garuda Indonesia that had revised their announcement template for every international flights coming into Jakarta or Bali.

“Bapak dan Ibu yang terhormat, kita baru saja mendarat di Bandara udara Soekarno – Hatta Jakarta, selamat datang kembali ke tanah air, dan bagi para wisatawan selamat datang ke Indonesia..”

As I noticed this is a new style of Garuda’s arrival announcement, which is way better unlike the old times when the announcement was mainly only welcoming the passengers to the destination. To every nationalist Indonesians a warm welcome back to homeland shall be considered as an appreciation that we may travel far away overseas, but we are willing to be back.

Indonesian consumers behavior is focusing at their aims to get remarkable experience. Once every consumer goods provider is able to satisfy them with experience, the longer they will remain as a consumer. On a domestic flight with Garuda Indonesia to Jogjakarta several months ago, a friend of mine who flew on that flight told his experience, when the flight purser made a welcome announcement with some polite Javanese dialect to welcome the passengers. Again, in my opinion it is another good way to bring the experience for the passengers, although they haven’t physically stepped on Jogjakarta, they already felt like they were in Jogja.

In terms of critical announcement, I haven’t experienced any of them before. But, I heard some friends shared their air travel stories, when her plane had to go around due to bad weather, and after second attempt, the plane could land but in a bumpy and hard landing. But the Captain was soon speaking on the Passenger Announcement to apologise for the hard landing, and explained the situation caused the inconvenience. As a result, the passengers made applause for the pilots as the appreciation.

Overall, this post is only to provide a picture how every passenger announcement could mean big in every flight, especially in a civil aviation industry, where information stream is very important not only both from the cockpit crew to the cabin crew, but also to the passengers as the customers. Hopefully, this would get you insights for what’s happening within.

A picture myself on a paper.

The continuation of the Friday event’s coverage. I am published in one of Kontan business newspaper today (Monday, 30 January 2012)

Flying inside the Mall

Hello all readers! Trust this thread fine you all well. Sorry for a long pause from the last post. as I finally I have something to write about. So what makes the latest post today...? It's them. Well this post is not (again) too far from aviation industry. I was really excited about the last project for SIA Product Showcase 2012 which is the first Singapore Airlines' product showcase in Indonesia had been run pretty well. Through this exhibition, Singapore Airlines presents all of its premium products to Indonesia, bringing the seats directly from Singapore, such as Suite Class which is only installed on Airbus A380, First Class, Business Class, and Economy Class. SIA First Class SIA Business Class

A380 Suite Class

The event was opened directly by Executive Vice President Marketing Regional Singapore Airlines, Mr. Mak Swee Wah, and Dr. Sapta Nirwandar, Vice Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, as well as His Excellency Ashok Mirpuri, Singapore Ambassador to Indonesia.

I felt honored to attend the opening today (Friday 27th January 2012) where the showcase wasn't yet opened for public, just for the medias and Singapore Airlines PPS Club.

This event was trully amazing. It's like I am dying to stay here for long, and I didn't want to go home! You can enjoy the spacious seat of each class, and it feels like we're flying on a cabin despite we are actually inside the mall.

The hospitality I experienced from the Singapore Girl was trully amazing, and oh! I was also surprised to meet some of my colleague's friends who is also working as a flight attendant for Singapore Airlines, and one senior Indonesian flight attendant whom I met at the Sao Paolo flights launching in March 2011. Hence, we kinda chatted for a bit long.

Overall, this exhibition is very unique. I must say that when I heard about the similar exhibition established years ago in Tokyo, I had hoped that someday Singapore Airlines would bring it to Jakarta, and it came true. As an aviation enthusiasts, this treatment is just very exciting. Not just about to feel and experience the seat itself, but we could get a chance to chat and share experience with the flight attendants, and any other like minded people.

2011′s Thankful

Some people had been rejoicing towards their Christmas presents, and boasting about their New Year’s resolution as looking forward to the best moment of the year. However, the feeling is actually a bit different to me. I have been sort of lost from the spread, and having some self acceptance is kind of difficult as I have been very tough and hard to myself this year.

A good friend of mine got a bit concern towards my situation. Reading my time line that mostly showered with desperation and tackles, she’d pull me and advised me to follow her idea – saying that  Instead of counting many sad moments and downsized feelings, I’d rather go with my friend’s – a good friend advise to count blessings I have got today, tomorrow, and so on. Hence, at least I could be more thankful, and at least being proud of myself.

So I guess, this post would be my ‘count blessings’ thoughts. I would start to list the blessings from January 2011 up til today. I believe it’s not too soon to list all the blessings, as we’re getting closer to the end of December. I might still receive blessings for the two days ahead.

1. I felt thankful to spend my New Years Eve alone, sitting on my room and thankful towards all blessings I’ve had the previous year.

2. I felt thankful that I had a salary raised after 6 month working with the company

3. I felt thankful that I woke up early every morning and not feeling what-so-called morning grumpiness

4. I felt thankful that I met my friends at work, cooperated with them in many projects very well.

5. I felt thankful that I had so many cooperative partners at work.

6. I felt thankful my projects ran very well.

7. I felt thankful that I had had many opportunities to learn something new everyday with my clients.

8. I felt thankful that I could experience a walk-in interview for steward position in our flag carrier company that I had wanted although I didn’t make it.

9. I felt thankful that my company brought all of us for annual outing to Singapore where we could spend lots of fun times together.

10. I felt thankful that I could meet my best friend in Singapore, and also I had a chance to be on Singapore wheel, and flying experience then meet a new like-minded friend.

11. I felt thankful that I had a chance to lead my client’s project and it ran well.

12. I felt thankful that I had nice foods.

13. I felt thankful that I’ve been secured and saved from harm and accidents.

14. I felt thankful that I’d been introduced to start using a commuter line train in which station is near from my home and it now takes only 40 minutes to the office. Less stress.

15. I felt thankful that I had many wonderful friends. A great reunion of my old friends in April was a blast.

16. I felt thankful that I could be – at least – happy that one of my favorite airlines opened recruitment for a flight steward position that I’d been waiting for. I could pass 5 steps until final interview but then i didn’t make it. It was a sadness though, but I still thankful that I could feel excited, and met new friends.

17. I felt thankful that I could complete my working contract and kept the responsibility working with the company.

18. I felt thankful that I could share the happiness with poor people. Not much money I’d given for them, but at least by handing them with small changes or foods that would overcome their hunger for a bit.

19. I felt thankful I rarely missed my Sunday mass at church.

20. I felt thankful that I could travel to Bali again after all this time.

21. I felt thankful that I met new friends that I’d keep in touch until now.

22. I felt thankful that God’s given me time to cry, sad, laugh, and happy which all are in my life learning through disappointment and rejection.

23. I felt thankful that my sinusitis and tonsil surgery went well. And now, I barely sneeze or disturbed by runny nose habit.

24. I felt thankful I have many supporting friends that back me up during my sad moments, who would ensure me that everything’s gonna be okay, at least, helping me to think positive.

25. I felt thankful that I could change my old habit, and being more religious than the previous year. I felt thankful that I could be consistent in worshiping several devotions.

26. I felt thankful that I had a chance to visit Jayapura. I was really excited when I knew my parents took me to a place which turned out to be an exotic place such as Biak, Jayapura, and Timika.

27. I felt thankful that I could watch Java Soulnation concert 2011. I was given by 2 free tickets by a friend of mine hence I could take my good friend  to see Sophie Ellis Bextor.

28. I felt thankful that I could watch Westlife concert this year, as the last concert that they might held in Jakarta!

29. I felt thankful I passed some tests for a school that I’d been wanting, although in the end, I didn’t make it. The series of tests namely: medical, talents, psycho-tests, english tests, and interviews. I failed on the psycho-test 2 and interview.

30. Again, I felt thankful that I have supporting relatives that keep me encouraged to try again.

31. I felt thankful that I’d passed my second trial psycho-test.

32. I felt thankful that after 5 months hiatus, I had been accepted again to my old office, and still assigned to handle my previous client of a prominent airline in Asia.

33. I felt thankful that I’d been more enthusiastic to go to work, and doing my task with less complaining, compared to the previous period.

34. I felt thankful that God has made me felt stupid at once, hence it would make me learning to appreciate my capabilities.

35. I felt thankful that my writing skills at least improved for a bit, then I could improve my blogs.

36. I felt thankful that I could see many people happiness which were all spread on twitter or facebook.

37. I felt thankful that our dog, Polar has been growing bigger and smarter in his first year. I was the first in my house to see him swimming and was impressed to it.

38. I felt thankful that my brother had completed his pilot education smoothly.

39. I felt thankful that my parent finally could have a son that they could proud of by becoming a pilot.

40. I felt thankful that I could still celebrate Christmas this year, with my parent, big family, and close friends.

41. I felt thankful that my office colleagues and I were given a long year-end holiday (from 24 – 3rd January 2012) which not done by other offices.

42. I felt thankful that when I felt nobody appreciated me, apparently I had an ‘extra income’ this year, not much though, but still could buy me a new pair of shoes.

43. I felt thankful that I am still fit, healthy, and been blessed with every talent God has trusted me.

These thankfulness are the way of my graceful upon the kindness He has given to me. I may not be someone special in someone’s heart or would likely remarkable by other people. But I believe that in His name, everything is possible, everything is comfort. No matter how devastated I was, but I knew that I could still smile, and share happiness with friends and others. It has been enough for me to help people get through their issues, and seeing them happy, at least those would make myself  ‘special’.

On top of that, my biggest thankful is that I could be more religious and consistently praying. Besides, the other blessings as such my parent and my family are still alive healthily, live happily and getting more successful than the previous year. At least, I could see they still able to smile, laugh, and satisfied with their lives.

I may not find my comfort zone yet and still need extra work to collect every penny from zero, but next year, I hope it would be my year. It’s the year of the dragon!

Happy New Year all! Hopefully everything is better in 2012. Sayonara.

Heads up for New Kids On The Block Concert!

As you guys all know that “New Kids on The Block” will be coming to Jakarta next June 2012. I heard so many rumors that the early bird sale would’ve launched today starting from 1 pm – 3 pm. And that’s true!

I stood by my computer ’til I skipped lunch just for the tickets as I had expected that the traffic would be jamming since the early bird sales was conducted on-line! My purchase went well, and when I thought my purchase was canceled, I thanked god that my order had been recorded!

NKOTB is a phenomenal boyband that consists of Jordan Knight, Joey Mc Intyre, Jonathan Knight, Donnie Wahlberg, and Danny Wood used to hit the world’s teenagers craze during late 80′s and early 90′s. Some of their favorite songs: Please Don’t Go Girl, If you go away, Step by Step, and the most famous love song of “I’ll be Loving You Forever”.

For the upcoming concert, New Kids On The Block (NKOTB) would also collaborate with Backstreet Boys, another phenomenal boyband which used to be popular during the Y generation’s golden era.

I am not so keen about Backstreet Boys, but New Kids On The Block performance could be the most enjoyable show ever! Well some people were asking about my interest in watching NKOTB’s concert, but I told them that I grew up with their songs haha and it’s not a sin to reunite with their songs right?

I saw some of NKOTB’s live performance that held overseas, I wish the concert would adopt similar concept as what I’d seen on youtube. So we’ll see it later in June 2012.

 

 

Tips to Fly More Efficiently, Comfortably and Safely

Traveling by Airplane must be very exciting to do. Nowadays, many people prefer to use ‘Air Transportation’ wherever they go. Not just in order to save time and energy, moreover, traveling by airplane has been so popularly thought as “Prestigious”. It was seemingly very expensive to fly by an airplane. However, as the varying number of Low Cost Regional Airlines has developed more affordably, ‘Everybody can fly’ today.

What i’m writing today, is specially to all of you who are interested to be a more sophisticated air travelers. Regional or Overseas air travelers might need these tips to make you get more confident during the journey. And I’d like to share some tips that can help you, such as:

Tips to Fly more efficiently:

1) Book the ticket 3 months prior departure. Especially for Overseas destination. Sometimes you’ll get a super saver price. This needs your concern to fix the date of your traveling date appropriately.

2) Traveling Classes always have their the On-Date-Departure Ticket offer. That is excluding the Flexible or Open Ticket. It’s no common for company to set promo fares for the Open Ticket.
You can simply choose to which class you want to be: “J” (First Class) “C” (Business Class) “I” (Economy Premium) “Y” (Economy Class). Those are the current codes for Passenger’s Traveling Classes. But, sometimes every airline may have different regulation according to the ticket you buy. For instance, “V” Class indicates you are in “Y” Class (Economy) but you buy it in a promo fares which means your ticket is not flexible.

3) You must arrive at the airport at least 1,5 hours before STD (Scheduled Time Departure). Proceed to Check-In as soon as you arrive. If you fly regional or overseas, Please Do not bother to be a Stand By Passenger (the code is usually appeared as: HL ; HK is usually confirmed ticket) . It maybe risky when you must go showing on the date you expect to go, but sometimes you might get lucky. If your ticket is already confirmed ( The code is usually appeared as: HK 1) Make sure you RECONFIRM the Ticket at least 48 hours before departure.

Tips to Travel Convenient and Comfortably:

1) Do not bring many stuff inside your trunk when you only travel in several days or even a week. If you traveled more than 2 weeks, or so you must use a bigger suitcase. For the backpacker traveler, please ensure to always list in your baggage. I use suitcase ( cabin-size suitcase, check: Delsey Luggage) when i travel for 1 week or 2 weeks. I am used to save some clothes. I will effort not to bring so many suitcases or bags when i travel. If i travel more than 2 weeks that requires bigger suitcase, i would just put everything in it and register it as my baggage. So i just bring my purse or backpack into the cabin. Make sure your bag size fulfills the standard of cabin luggage size, and not more than 10 kgs.

The thing is, i don’t want to look messy at the airport. I don’t want my appearance got ruined by those useless bags or carton bags that won’t make anyone else judge me as a business traveler or at least a sophisticated one

2) Don’t bring many extra bags (usually your souvenir items bags) or any carried items with you into the cabin will make you look so hurry and unsophisticated. Just make it more convenient by putting it in your suitcase or bag. That’s why i always hate to bring foods or excess carry-on bags.

3) You can bring your cabin size suitcase into the cabin. I always try my best not to list my baggage. I rarely use baggage claim because I never get too patient while waiting the baggage to come out once arrival. Not to mention, the risk of our suitcase might be damaged is high.

*Baggage Claim is the worst thing i experience during my travel. Not only in Indonesia but in some countries i’ve visited. Seeing my suitcase dropped and thrown harshly onto carousel is just hurting me a lot*

4) During long haul flight, you may demand a companion during your travel. Either they are movies, books, snacks, musics. Otherwise you’re bored with the movie, you can turn on your laptop and play your favorite movie. Please make sure to use your headset so won’t bother the others.

5) During long haul flight, you shouldn’t just sit on your couch the whole time. You may spend time to walk around the cabin, or chatting up with cabin crew or other passengers in the cabin. It helps you a lot to rest your legs and bullocks so you won’t suffer a fatigue once you disembark. Another important thing is, you shouldn’t sleep a lot during flight. It will manage you to get a heavy jet lag afterward.

If you travel from Asia to U.S and or opposite that consumes time more than 15 hours with 15 hours late different times may cause you a heavy jet lag if you’re not smart enough to match your sleeping time.

Please note: Overseas Travelers should fill in your declaration and arrival form for immigration needs as soon as it’s distributed by the cabin crew. This is purposed not to make you forget if you’re delaying the filling. You shouldn’t fill the form when you’re lining up at the passport control. It’s hardening for you if the forms demands you to write in a complicated form like: Australia Immigration form, United States (I heard this has the most fucked up ones) and Some European Countries.

6) Traveling on the airplane may disturb your metabolism amid the air pressure. Sometimes you need more liquid in order to prevent the dehydration. You must drink a lot of Mineral Water (not sodas, tea, coffee, juice or liquors) if you fly in more than 5 hours flight.

7) During the descent, your ear pulps might be disturbed. You should chew a candy or gum to retain your mouth moves, unless keep talking with your seat mate, It helps to let the air out to release your ears so long your mouth’s not shut. You can use the headset as you listen to a song that can be set to save your ears from the air pressure.

8) Make yourself comfortable during the landing / touch down. If the plane touch downs roughly you can simply hold still on the arm rest, or holding at your forward headrest, to steady your body from the tension.

Tips To Fly More Safely:

1) Before you choose to buy airlines ticket, make sure that you choose a reliable airlines that you can trust. For Example the one and only: Garuda Indonesia.

2) Pray before Take-Off or Landing.

3) TURN OFF Your MOBILE PHONE or BLACK BERRY. It’s strictly prohibited.
Electronic Devices such as Laptops, Digital Camera and Videos are actually allowed once the air borne, and Mustn’t be used during plane takes off and Landing.

4) PAY ATTENTION to Safety Demonstration made by cabin crew.
Some people has neglected this. But to all of you who never been in a accident must have pay attention. This is the major importance of Flight Attendant’s Job, to direct you with safety procedures.

5) While waiting for take off you should read the safety instruction card thoroughly. This is important to know how to open the emergency door just in case of something happens.

6) Readjust your headrest before take off and landing. It will make you stay awake during both most crucial part in every flight.

7) Don’t put your bag on your lap.

8) DO NOT USE your MOBILE PHONE /BLACK BERRY while you’re on board. It may cause a damage in Airplane’s navigation with some buzzer noise in communication.

9) Always keep your seat belt fastened while you’re seated. (It is major important!) because turbulence comes unexpectedly.

Alrighty, i know it must be a bit long, but i hope it’s useful to Inspire you…
“And this is your captain speaking, We wish you have a pleasant flight with…… “(Fill in your favorite Airlines yourself)

 

International Civil Aviation Day

Hello all!

I guess it’s been months I have left my blogs silent, since I have been busy with work. Throughout this post I wanna talk about a special occasion that I personally celebrate today – the December 7th 2011 – as the international civil aviation day. None of us might familiar about this day, nor this day is well-known among the public, especially here in Indonesia; but I believe it is still valuable to us who might be interested in Aviation. I actually kind of reminded through my friend’s Retweets.

The history of International Civil Aviation Day was first enacted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1966 in accordance with General Assembly Resolution about the International Civil Aviation. However, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) began to celebrate the day since 1994, the 50th Anniversary of the signing the Convention on International Civil Aviation.

So this post is specially dedicated to all Aviation professionals around the world namely pilots, flight attendants, engineers, ground staffs, management, and every party that involve in the development of the World’s Aviation scene. Professional Aviation experts have made World’s Aviation industry notably grown these days, not only by the raising demands in air travel, and the performance of low cost carriers that push passengers traffic but also the rapid growth in technology that triggers the production of many new generation airplanes that will ensure more safety and efficiency for passengers.

Source: Guardian.co.uk

Let’s flash back to the news round-up towards several events that happened throughout year 2010 – 2011. One of the good news from the Aviation Industry is the Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s first delivery in September 26th this year. The latest product from Boeing that had met many problems during its production finally has been solved and made its first delivery to All Nippon Airways (ANA) after three times delay. The futuristic and yet high – efficient  aircraft had been waited by Aviation enthusiasts around the world, and of course, it must have been a pride for ANA to be the first user of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. ANA conducted the first flight of its Boeing 787 Dreamliner on Tokyo (Haneda) – Hong Kong leg. The first flight of Boeing 787 Dreamliner as a commercial airliner made headlines in many world’s publications.

Besides, Qantas, the flag carrier of Australia has been mentioned in many publications throughout the year. The news that reported many technical mishaps, and light accidents occurred to the airline which had to disturb flights, especially the latest biggest news they carried is when the company agreed to stop its operation for more 24 hours worldwide that cause 13,000 passengers stranded. Meanwhile, at that time the Australian government called for an emergency arbitration hearing, which was ajourned on the following Sunday after hearing evidence from the airline and unions, who are protesting planned job cuts. The airline, however, resumed operation in Sunday afternoon when the government had argued that the airline be ordered to fly in Australia’s economic interests.

The similar incident also happened to Indonesia’s flag carrier – Garuda Indonesia in which calling all pilots that gathered in the union of Garuda Pilots Association to strike for ex Jakarta flights for nearly 12 hours. The argumentation between Garuda Management and Garuda Pilots Association met deadlocked where the Association accused the implementation of foreign pilots’ salary contracts conveying discrimination towards the local pilots, and the management couldn’t fulfill all the lists of demands that issued by the Pilot unions.

This year seemingly becomes the year where Aviation experts’ human resources being concern about their ‘pride’. Let’s say there must be a news highlighting at dispute between Pilots or workers union towards some flag carriers’ management. As we read from the two samples in which 2 big flag carriers from Australia and Indonesia had dispute between managements and each employee union that insists to look after their ‘employee benefits’ instead of only focusing on the salary.I can’t say much about this, the case should be ended internally, it’s enough already for me to hear and know what happens, the rest, is upon each party.

Source: CAPA

In regards to the airline management, aviation experts see that a domino effect towards the global crisis and the increasing fuel prices have affected airlines’ operating costs and revenues. As a matter of fact, many airlines in the world are struggling through this situation. Since the global economic began and hitting the world, air travel providers must feel the impact as many companies decided to cut on air travels. Despite the surge in jet fuel prices that weighed the air ticket fares where airline companies can’t compromise on the fuel cost hence must be charged to passengers through fuel surcharges, has slightly cut airlines’ profits. The western countries seemingly got affected by the crisis, despite some Asian countries, including Indonesia that are seemingly being in an ‘stable’ position or unaffected by the global crisis.

The number of domestic passengers in Indonesia are increasing year by year. Many people now commute by air transportation, supported by the appearance of many Low Cost Carrier / Budget Airlines operating in the country. Moreover, some new airlines will appear next year to compete with the existing airlines. Most airlines in the region are now planning for the expansion that proving airlines business – in particular Aviation Industry – in Indonesia is still quiet promising. As an archipelago country that separated by seas, and consist more than 13,000 islands make transportation business is very reliable, and speaking of time efficiency, people prefer to commute by Air transportation.

Talking about expansion; many airlines in the world now competing in plane orders. The bright future of this industry makes many airlines bidding for expansion by purchasing new planes. Emirates, for example, the airline had signed its deal with Boeing for the purchase of 50 Boeing 777-300ERs, and Singapore Airlines announced its latest firm order of 8 more Boeing 777-300ERs, Garuda Indonesia still waiting for its 10 Boeing 777-300ERs and Airbus A 330-200s to support its international network

Source: Obamanews.com

Last topic that made headlines last month was the signing deal between Lion Air and Boeing Corporation which was directly witnessed by President Obama. Lion Air has announced its order agreement with Boeing Corporation to order 230 planes that consist of the 201 Boeing 737-900ER and 29 Boeing 737 MAX orders. The media seems to be aggressively exposing this massive orders, although nobody knows the exact number of firm orders and optional orders that made by the airline, but the news value of this massive order is extraordinary. However, Boeing and US especially welcomed Lion Air’s massive orders that might open 10,000 jobs in the US relating to the plane production, and Airbus sees that Obama interferes on Lion Air’s decision to sign the agreement.

Aviation industry is indeed interesting to talk about, knowing that Aviation Industry as a high capital and high risk businesses would work together with many other sectors and related to many aspects. Aviation Industry provides the most different experience to people around the world. Why? because flying is amazing, and it makes us close to God. (Read: Convocation).