Earlier this week Lufthansa won a Skytrax 5-star award. One of the things that Skytrax looks at most when evaluating an airline is consistency, and airlines lose points if more than 80% of their fleet doesn't feature that consistent experience. A key factor in Lufthansa being awarded a 5-star rating was also their plans to…
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An awesome read for Friday afternoon (also went through the one Lucky posted previously, as one does).
Looks like they need to hire a graphic designer, and figure out where Guangzhou is.
Apparently I now live in Dakar. I am so glad as I was not looking forward to another Washington DC winter. Nice of them to move DC to Minnesota where it belongs.
Can't believe people here never went to the incredible city of Guangzhou-China in Iraq.
Friendly people everywhere, awesome General Bomb Chicken and they also get very excited when see people wearing anything with a US flag.
So is the Caribbean hub going to be in Banjul-Gambia, Bahamas or in Conakry-Guinea, Dominica?
Hahaha given so much future promise I am amazed Skytrax hasn’t given them 5 stars already. Perhaps not enough funding....
And I’ve been nominated for the Man Booker prize for the finest work of fiction in 2017 although I’ve not written a book
“The award scheme is a prestigious annual scheme”
Classic!
Truer words never spoken.
It’s quite the scheme
@JRMW, that's cute, but for anyone who might be interested, in British English, "scheme" doesn't carry a negative connotation as it does in American English. It just means "program." I once did some archival research on trade talks between Canada and the U.S. concerning the automobile industry, which eventually led to the Auto Pact between them in 1965. The original talks were due to a crisis when Canada adopted a "duty drawback scheme" in 1963. In the Canadian files, there was actually a memo telling their negotiators not to use the term "scheme" when talking to the Americans, because of the negative connotation it has in the U.S. but not in Canada.
End of history lesson. As George Bernard Shaw said, Britain and the U.S. are two countries divided by a common language. And of course the same is true of the other users of British English.
@KRS Two:
Scheme can mean either of those in American vernacular based on the context. It doesn't always carry the negative connotation. Likewise, I've heard many of my British friends use the term to mean "scam", as well.