EK/KL/CO in Y/C/F from Kuwait to Orlando. Not trouble free!

[Humberside]

Fantastic report

[SR 103]

Hello Mr. Tamboowala. I really enjoyed reading your exclusive report ..
I was amazed by that english accent, I giggled a few times, no wonder why you'll miss it !! thanks for sharing it with us !!

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

one last thing, you must have felt a great feeling when you saw BA777 (G-RAES), following you half around the world !!!

It really was, I was rather surprised.

PS. I m looking forward to your next report whereever it will take you !!

The only way to cross the Pacific: Malaysian Airlines Business Class (w/pics)

http://www.jetphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=20998

[Airfrancefan]

Thank you for the kind words. I am glad you enjoyed my trip reports just as much as I have enjoyed yours on FT.

SR 103

you're welcome i am very happy you enjoyed mine to,
Airfrancefan

PS what is your opinion about the KL 767 WBC seat

[MaxPower]

Hello Mr. Tamboowala. I really enjoyed reading your exclusive report ..
I was amazed by that english accent, I giggled a few times, no wonder why you'll miss it !! thanks for sharing it with us !!

one last thing, you must have felt a great feeling when you saw BA777 (G-RAES), following you half around the world !!!

PS. I m looking forward to your next report whereever it will take you !!

Rgrds
John

[SR 103]

hey SR 103,
i have red this and other Trip reports of you on airliners.net
and i really have to be honest that you have very nice trip reports inculding this one i am not regiserd because it is not free
so i am now very happy to comment your Trip report and i cannot wait until more of your Trip reports come here,

Thank you sincerly,
Airfrancefan

Thank you for the kind words. I am glad you enjoyed my trip reports just as much as I have enjoyed yours on FT.

SR 103

[Airfrancefan]

hey SR 103,
i have red this and other Trip reports of you on airliners.net
and i really have to be honest that you have very nice trip reports inculding this one i am not regiserd because it is not free
so i am now very happy to comment your Trip report and i cannot wait until more of your Trip reports come here,

Thank you sincerly,
Airfrancefan

[cal99]

great report, one of the best I have read.

[SFO]

Your report was outstanding without photos. I can't wait to see what kind of report you will produce with the implication of visuals. Keep up the great work!

[SR 103]

Thanks for the comments. I was not expecting any more replies especially after two years. Since you guys enjoyed it so much I shall do my best to post a report of my Malaysian flights from January this year. This one will include pictures as I now have a camera.

SR 103

[uy707]

Thanks for the report and numerous details making it very enjoyable to read
Alain

[SFO]

Truly a jaw dropping book of a report!

[SR 103]

PrinceAir,

You are from the Orlando area so I am sure you have heard of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach. I am sure you also heard the rumors that float around about who we trained and so on forth prior to 9/11.

Thus I run into my fair share of problems everywhere with the University name attached to my visa and documentation.

To this point !

Sorry what do you mean? I am lost with what you said. Sorry.

SR 103

[sv]

Walking up to a US bound flight with anything written in Arabic gets me questioned extra by the security personal

To this point !

[PrinceAir]

SR 103,

Thanks and fair enough - I wouldn't want you to compromise security at all by posting anything inappropriate. It makes sense now that you say you are a foreign aviation student.... I travel quite a lot through immigration myself and I know what it can be... though I've never been through Houston. I was just curious about the board passes as that is not something I'd have thought of. Thanks...

Thanks again for a good report.

[SR 103]

Thanks for the comments. Glad you guys enjoyed my trip report.

Foxtrot,

Thanks; glad you enjoyed the trip report. Sorry about loosing you there. I was originally booked on the following

NW IAH-MEM (A319)
NW MEM-MCO (A320)

My dad booked the international segments on KL, as his company pays for one trip a year for me to visit them. The domestic flights on NW/CO are all upgrades as I am currently a Gold World Perks member with NW. So I get the complementary upgrades.


NWAirlinkCRJ@ERI,

Have any plans on going back to the subcontinent anytime soon?

In fact I do. I have the following segments booked for December/January.

NW MCO-DTW (752)
NW DTW-AMS (333)
KL AMS-KWI (763)
EK KWI-DXB (332)
EK DXB-BOM (777)
NW BOM-AMS (D10) <<< Praying that will change
KL AMS-IAH (744)
NW IAH-MEM (DC9)
NW MEM-MCO (320)


sv,

KU in fact does serve two US destinations, JFK & ORD. The routes are as follows.

KWI-LHR-JFK (5 times a week)
KWI-JFK (2 times a week)
KWI-AMS-ORD (2 times a week)


PrinceAir,

Can you explain a little more about Immigration? Why'd you request a new non-Arabic boarding pass? We you hassled before and so this time you knew?

Unfortunately I would rather not go into any description about the immigration procedures at Houston simply due to security. Sorry. All I can say is that this is not the first time I have been questioned, nor does it seem like it will be the last. As a foreign student studying aviation here in the US, it raises some eyebrows.

As far as the boarding pass issue, yes I have experienced problems before. I regularly fly between Kuwait and the US and I mostly fly a combination of KL/NW/CO and I know what not to do. Walking up to a US bound flight with anything written in Arabic gets me questioned extra by the security personal. There is a set of security questioning each passenger that is about to board a US bound flight at the gate and from my experience, they do not like the boarding passes issued in the Middle East. So just to save myself any extra trouble, I have them re-issued.

SR 103