this was something like they had in mind ......but dont expect to see Richard Branson breaking champagne bottles

who is going to make sure that standard repairs are done on schedule?

abc and his merry band of UK drunks

Good one Blu lol.

Come on Blut - you are so full of hot air but you have never flown in a balloon. Branson on the other hand- first met him in a college bar in 1970 - is cool!
Now I will be able to fly Virgin to my second home!
Virgin will soon have the A380 - whole new world.
S.

a380 is not needed from london to pop

Lots of hotels in PP, huge cost savings for Virgin, Nice beds in upper class - just wait.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaCLA-yjvFg&feature=related
Who do you guys mix with?
S.

another piece of good news and Virgin Antlantic is a top airline with a good record of safety and service ..but I do not think $ 300 million is anywhere near enough to put into a Dominican Airline,so would discount the Spanish investment very heavily

they can not afford a380. they have used boeings

Well DR had better get its act together and fast because Cuban-US relations will happen sooner than many are expecting. And when the Cubans can count on American support, watch out! I doubt that many in DR concern themselves with the potential rise of Cuba, but when it happens the cries will be heard all over. A golden opportunity lost for DR? The votes are slowly coming to the magic numbers:

"The House bill to end the travel ban to Cuba has been led by Congressman Bill Delahunt (D-MA) on the Dem side and Arizona Congressman Jeff Flake (R-AZ) who often says that it's supposed to be Communist governments, not Democratic ones, that impose restrictions on their citizen's choices to travel. The House Bill now has 180 cosponsors comprised of both Republicans and Democrats.

The companion Senate bill has 34 Senate cosponsors. Informal whip counts put the House bill at 205 votes -- within striking distance of the 218 needed, and between 61-64 in the Senate."

Dominican airline will be top dog in Carib services. Great news. Air Jamaica has expanded rapidly over the years and benefits from a low cost base. I'm sure investors will find a Dominican airline very attractive.
S.

Yes Air Jamaica is a huge success story bigger than huge.....Year to date, Air Jamaica reported an operating loss of US$63.51 million on revenues of US$293.27 million, considerably better than last year's performance which saw the airline reporting an operating loss of US$162.43 million on revenues of US$350.98 million.

abc,
most people prefer American air companies. No one wants to fly on the chicken cargo air jamaica flights

you can fly air france

Air Jamaica's financial performance is improving. If US airways carries loosing money like it is now it could be out of business in 3 years.
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10....airways-loss-beats-estimates.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKOZ2fJQIQY&feature=fvw
US flight attendants :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge_x1U2rYBo
people prefer....
S.

that is it Target you are getting strapped to the wing on the first flight to the UK ....As soon as the pilot sees the white cliffs its Geronimo for you

this from xwill

No one wants to fly on the chicken cargo air jamaica flights

xwill, you astonish me. for a person who sometimes makes intelligent observations, you have this tendency to lower yourself to the standards of Blutarsky, and say the most asinine things. have you ever flown Air Jamaica? it happens to be a superb airline, with a very high percentage of ontime flights, well maintained, and very clean. in forty yeras, not one crash. superb pilots, many of whom are now flying in the Emirates. yes, there are 160 jamaican pilots fling in places like Dubai, because those guys like their work. so, when you work on an oil rig in the gulf, it is probably a jamaican who is flying the helicopter to the installation. chicken cargo? you mean the airline that gave the world the champagne breakfast? yes, it has its financial woes, like most airlines the world over. but, at least, it is still around , after 40 years. where is yours?

AA has a bad reputation - Virgin Nigeria the Nigerian flag carrier has an excellent reputation.
We have to hope there are not too many snowstorms this winter for the sake of AA.
http://www.virginnigeria.com/en/ng/homepage.shtml
http://davefleet.com/2008/04/american-airlines-reputation-crisis/
S.

Virgin Nigeria the Nigerian flag carrier has an excellent reputation. ....................abc uses their banks exclusively

Here's something for DR artists and the Tourist sector to consider:
"Visitors to a national park in Cancun could soon come face-to-face with life-sized sculptures in human form fixed in the seabed, as plans to create what could be the world's largest underwater museum start to become a reality.On 19 November, four sculptures are due to be submerged in the Caribbean waters, off the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico's south-eastern state of Quintana Roo.
They will be the first of many hundreds of figures, which will be dotted around an area of the region's national park.

Underwater sculptures
The sculptures will be made of PH-neutral concrete, which, it is hoped, will attract algae and marine life and give the local ecosystem a boost. According to the park's director Jaime Gonzalez, one of the aims is to reduce the pressure on the natural habitat in other areas of the park by luring tourists away from existing coral reef, which has suffered damage from hurricanes and human activity.

Blutarsky you are obviously not a well travelled educated man. Virgin has an excellent reputation throughout the world and I am happy to see they are now starting in the US. The American travellers will soon see a tremendous improvement in service. A toiletry bag filled with toothbrush, toothpaste, ear plugs, foot socks, etc, free newspapers, all drinks, food with choice of menu and wine, free movies AND all included in a much lesser price than those crooks Always Awful and other American airlines charge AND you do not pay for your luggage. You Americans have been cheated for years and you do nothing about it. The Europeans would never accept it. When Brits fly from UK to the US with AA, they are charged half the price you guys pay from the US to UK and the Brits do not pay for food, drinks, luggage, movies, pillows, blankets etc. DUH! my dear, DUH!

another refugee and excessive spam eater from " Bundles for Britain " unable to forget and forgive how we saved their butts on so many occasions..............probably another Labour party swine ....or worse a Canadian .......nothing could be worse than a canuck from Poutinville ....and as far as Bransons various products are concerned aside from Necker where I used to sell him Classified Bordeaux his stuff is decidedly down market....Just like Eurotrash abc .....you can put lipstick on a pig etc. ....I personally do Europe on SAS business

SAS, you will learn, with time, that Blutarsky is an immensely opinionated fellow who does not permit logic and information to pollute his insights. if he does not like the people involved, their product is worthless and futile, as declared by him. so, a little forbearance is in order in his case, as he is continuously browbeating people who have little tolerance for his antics

Please be polite and to the point Blut is a total idiot in his land of broken down TV,s.Uprates that disaster country the US and downrates everywhere else. Somday one can envisage him huddling outside and air-con vent in the down town of an american city singing to the asembled crowd:
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self the country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine

When everyone know US is about povery, destitution, drugs, crime, dispair, hopelessness, destruction of the planet without remorse - and what characters it exports that rove the World!
S.

ABC, we have had many disagreements in the past regarding some ideas you embrace. but, in this case, i must agree with you whole heartedly when you refer to the pestilence that the USA unleashes upon the world in the form of its people, who constitute a menace and odium to decent people the world over.

Pleased we agree. Blut claims to be Canadian - but really I don's smell any beavers just New Your sewer rat.
S.

Dread quit sucking up to the honky cracker from Blackpool it was his ancestors that brought you here with the mongoose ......just because he is British who you all slavishly mimic in de islands mon does not mean you would not put him in the pot if he turns his back Dread What!

Was that a little squeak we heard there Dread?
For those without good English such as Blut I include pronunciation guide.
Rule Britannia (with pronuciation singing guide)

When Britain first, at heaven's command,
Aro-o-o-ose from out the a-a-a-zure main,
Arose, arose, arose from out the a-azure main,
This was the charter, the charter of the land,
And guardian A-a-angels sang this strain:

Rule Britannia!
Britannia rule the waves. Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.

Rule Britannia!
Britannia rule the waves.
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.

The nations, no-o-o-o-ot so blest as thee,
Must i-i-i-i-in their turn, to ty-y--yrants fall,
Must in ,must in, must in their turn, to ty-y-rants fall,
While thou shalt flourish, shalt flourish great and free,
The dread and e-e-e-e-nvy of them all.
(Chorus)
Rule Britannia!
Britannia rule the waves.
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.

Rule Britannia!
Britannia rule the waves.
Britons never, n

Unfortunately this is not Blut's favorite song. His hero Goebbels did not like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH6zRAJ8ziY&feature=related
S.

I can hear Dread singing along aping the habits of his colonial rulers....yes Rule Britannia a song that is gone from the Charts but not from dreads Heart.....RULE BRITANNIA .....it sounds so 1800s so Queen Vicky the fat German Queen as opposed to the Goofball English Queen Steverino of Samana .........not that there is anything wrong with that

When Dominicans have planes and submarines they will never be slaves again! American Tee shirt manufacturers paying 5 dollars a day can stay away!
S.

the Old Loco Queen babbles on .....nonsense about submarines ...the only thing that goes down is him

Fassbinder's star and your favourite song.........
http://vodpod.com/watch/626050-hanna-schygulla-lili-marleen
Planes are a start.
the Japanese attacked Australia using midget submarines.
Even Barbados has submarines - used for tourism but could be rapidly used by the military.
Come on Blut enhanced air force submarines and a national airline!
Perhaps the People's Liberation Army o China could help. Or India?
S.

break the medication in half like you were told to do ......stop taking the whole thing

Planes are a start first 8 then possible a couple of squadrons...... Blut got sunk in the atlantic by a sub so he doesn't like them now he gives his anti sub sea mine a little kiss in the morning.
The Tamil tigers could help with sea mines for DR - they managed to sink a navy fast attack boat.
Mines ae excellent for defense - they can be moved and just a narrow clear channel left. The position of this channel can only be given to friendly shipping.
S.