4/10    Does anyone have any information on or experiences with Thai
        Airways Intl? Are they reliable/safe? Thanks.
        \_ Most of their pilots are trained in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.
           Take offs: ok.  Steering: excellent.  Landing: not so good.
        \- helo i have flown thai a number of times. in the last few yrs
           they have more or less consciously modelled themselves after
           singapore airlines, i.e. big focus on in-air service.
           as for safety, you may wish to see:
           http://home.lbl.gov:8080/~psb/Articles/News
           [i missed SQ 006 by a little bit ... switched to SQ 002]
           If you are scared to fly a major airlines like this, you should
           just kill yourself. However, I wouldnt blame you for being a bit
           nervous on say Sita Air [where the pilot's GPS was from Sharper
           Image] and there was more weight in beer in the cabin than people.
                \_ yeah, "major airline". maybe I should just kill myself.
                   \- I hope you have a good flight and then get SARS. --psb
                      \_ but SARS has a low fatality rate.
                      \_ That is quite mean.
                      \_ wow partha that is the most malicious I've ever
                         seen you.
                         \- you all should get together and have a CircleCough
        \_ I've flown Thai Airways several times, as have many of my ex-pat
           friends.  The planes are modern and safe, the pilots fly smoothly,
           and the flight attendants are wonderfully polite and an absolute
           joy to look at. Business class is better than Economy, of course,
           but Thai Air's Economy is better than the steerage you'll find on
           Northwest. --erikred
           \_ Thai girls... mmmm... yummy....
              \_ Ummm... you know those are really guys... right?
                        \_ At least we still have Singapore girls.
                 \_ When guys start looking *that* good I'm going queer.
                    \_ Most of them are post-op, so it's not really that queer.
                       \_ Pre, post, whatever.  Hot is hot.
                          \_ Does retrofit vagina feel as good as real vagina?
                          \_ Pre, post, queer is queer.
                             \_ mesmerized by the pattern. must post.
                                \_ he's just jealous that he'll never be as hot
           Image] --psb
                                   as the other Thai girls.  his surgeon sucks.

        \_ if any more of this stuff is posted directly to the motd instead of
           as a url somewhere it'll be toasted instantly with no further
           warning.  post a link to his site.  if he cant then make one for
           him and post it.  but stop abusing the motd with endless lengthy
           ramblings from this one guy.
        \_ ok, look.  If you're reallly reporting straight from Iraq to the
           motd that's pretty cool, but could you PLEASE provide context for
           these posts?  Are you in the army?  marines?  a contractor? tourist?
           where are you?
           \_ he mentioned Flur in another post, which probably means he's
              constructing infrastructure of some kind (I see mention of water<
              and electrical in central/south iraq) -chialea
           \_ civilian contractor working on iraq reconstruction. (our camp
              -fluor daniel-is located within camp taji)
              http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/taji_m.htm -kinney
        \_ This is the equivelent of political spam.  Instead of posting
           this whole guys blog here, why not just provide a link and let
           us read it ourselves?
        \_ Kinney is a contractor.  This is from one of his emails.  He does
           not have a web site.  Don't delete this. -dans
        \_ 4/11  [ I said, no spam, bitch.  Just post a link ]