Air bags in passenger jets

ScottM

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I flew to Hong Kong today on a Cathay Pacific 777. I was really surprised to see that they had airbags for each seat attached to the safety belt. I had not seen that before. I know in first class on UA 747s they had shoulder restraints but not airbags. Something new I guess and I wonder how prevalent that will become.

BTW Cathay Pacific Biz class suites are nicer than AA and UAL first class suites!!! More room, great entertainment system, super comfy full flat bed. Made the 16 hour flight really nice. Too bad HKIA took me two hours to get out off!!
 
Thought for a minute you were discussing fellow passengers.

I'm glad (and slightly envious) you don't fly in the back like I get to do on business.
 
I've noticed that recently. They're uncomfortable too when you're trying to stretch out and sleep across a few seats.
 
I wonder if they have done any crash tests at the velocity of aircraft crashes (Both GA and Commercial) to determine how effective airbags would be. Always thought is would be like wearing sunscreen near a nuclear blast. I suspect it would help in lower velocity impacts.
 
I wonder how often Maintenance accidenally sets them off? Lets see, between the slide, O2 Masks and the airbags, one bad overnight and they are screwed.

I've never seen a line hangar guy get the O2 mask repacked properly after an incident. Sometimes they look like hell.
 
Cathy Pacific is a good airline. Even in coach (cattle car). Glad you had a good trip to Hong Kong. I've got United (coach) tomorrow - SEA-NRT-ICN. Two weeks of meetings. Coming home on the 21st.
 
Ghery said:
Cathy Pacific is a good airline. Even in coach (cattle car). Glad you had a good trip to Hong Kong. I've got United (coach) tomorrow - SEA-NRT-ICN. Two weeks of meetings. Coming home on the 21st.
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Chicago to Hong Kong was the easy part. Just got to my final destination a few moments ago.

From HKIA I had to head to Kowloon and catch the Jet boat to Zhu Hai port. That took about 70 minutes to cross after about a 20 minute cab ride. From there I took a 45 minute cab ride to this resort. It is in the middle of freaking nowhere. Meetings are split between two hotels and there is no town nearby so we are stuck on the property. It is not even a western style hotel. It is Chinese. No WiFi, no English TV, two restaurants. SIGH!!! It is gonna be one of those trying weeks as a biz traveler.

I really, REALLY hate when meeting organizer put us on resorts. These are not places to do business, they are places to play. Biz travelers wanna get in, do their stuff and get out. Convenience to airports in a must and this place took three days to get to from the US. As it turns out, and isn't almost always the case, that the owner of the resort is also the sponsor of the meeting. :mad2::mad2:

OH and the Great Firewall of China is in full effect here, so one cannot even get to some useful stuff on the Internet!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
ScottM said:
Chicago to Hong Kong was the easy part. Just got to my final destination a few moments ago.

From HKIA I had to head to Kowloon and catch the Jet boat to Zhu Hai port. That took about 70 minutes to cross after about a 20 minute cab ride. From there I took a 45 minute cab ride to this resort. It is in the middle of freaking nowhere. Meetings are split between two hotels and there is no town nearby so we are stuck on the property. It is not even a western style hotel. It is Chinese. No WiFi, no English TV, two restaurants. SIGH!!! It is gonna be one of those trying weeks as a biz traveler.

I really, REALLY hate when meeting organizer put us on resorts. These are not places to do business, they are places to play. Biz travelers wanna get in, do their stuff and get out. Convenience to airports in a must and this place took three days to get to from the US. As it turns out, and isn't almost always the case, that the owner of the resort is also the sponsor of the meeting. :mad2::mad2:

OH and the Great Firewall of China is in full effect here, so one cannot even get to some useful stuff on the Internet!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
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Joy, oh, joy. I agree, convenient access to the airport is a must. My meetings in Seoul are simple, there's a bus from ICN that drops me at the door and picks me up to return to the airport when it is time to go home. And WiFi is a given. Haven't been to China in a number of years, but I seem to recall that VPN allowed me to access about anything I wanted. Not the same anymore?
 
Ghery said:
Joy, oh, joy. I agree, convenient access to the airport is a must. My meetings in Seoul are simple, there's a bus from ICN that drops me at the door and picks me up to return to the airport when it is time to go home. And WiFi is a given. Haven't been to China in a number of years, but I seem to recall that VPN allowed me to access about anything I wanted. Not the same anymore?
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I rarely run VPN and when I do it is to my school account. It halves the already slow speed on the Internet here. The company does not allow VPN except in extraordinary circumstances. But they make up for that with a very nice way to get email and other things without VPN. I actually prefer the way they are doing it.

China is very inconsistent in its hotel features. It is like a bunch of mom and pop motel operators here except the mom and pops tend to be large Chinese companies. In the big cities like Beijing, Shanghai, etc. there are better services, but I am really out in BFC! I am about 120 miles west of Hong Kong sort of near Macua but on the other side of the boarder. When I left the port area I passed by a bunch of biotech and pharma companies and that seems to be the local economy. But we kept going west until we got to the sea and there is a psuedo-Disney land resort that our meeting is at. The hotel has one restaurant. They have buffet three times a day. It is going to be a sucky week to be sure. My a/c is also inop and there is no duty engineer nor other rooms. This is one of those glamorous trips that we all love and happen about once a year.
 
Just the opposite ruling about VPN where I work. I can't get into the corporate network remotely without it. And, you are right, it does slow things down.

I hope the week passes quickly for you and the trip home works well.
 
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