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Vertical city dubai

Forget the 3,280 feet-high 200-floor Nakheel Tower because it's no longer going to be the highest skyscraper in the world. The new upcoming beast is this amazing 1.55-mile-high skyscraper planned for the Jumeirah City project in Dubai. The building is so tall that its main elevator is in fact a vertical 125mph bullet train. This city-in-a-skyscraper will consume 37,000MWH/year, with a 15MW peak usage, but as the plans show, it has been designed to generate most of it using wind, thermal, and solar power:

it's reasons like this that dubai & the rest of the arab states are a place we should all take in in our lifetime. Well unless we're grooverider.

That's pretty fucking impressive

My cousin lives in Dubai. I gotta trek it out there sooner or later.

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Originally posted by bas My cousin lives in Dubai. I gotta trek it out there sooner or later.

Is your cousin an oil baron, or a sheik?

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Originally posted by bas I gotta trek it out there sooner or later.

i always stop off in dubai going to malta... next time i might have to stay for a few days (depending on how much money it burns in my pocket)

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Originally posted by bas My cousin lives in Dubai. I gotta trek it out there sooner or later.

my uncle is lucky enough to visit every 2-3 months on business. I wanna jump in his case sometime and see some of the beaches & the lovely hot climate

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Originally posted by narcism i always stop off in dubai going to malta... next time i might have to stay for a few days (depending on how much money it burns in my pocket)

Do you fly emirates? Because they're meant to be the 3rd best airline in the world and way above anything we experience on the western ones.

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Originally posted by Ian Do you fly emirates?

of course, its the cheapest and the best
and they fly direct from dubai to malta

This is just a proposal for a building, made in a forum for architects. I don't think any engineer team yet would be good enough to make calculations and build something like that yet. It defies the laws of physics.

Singapore Airlines still holds the airline award for best airline though.

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Originally posted by TranceOwnsLol This is just a proposal for a building, made in a forum for architects. I don't think any engineer team yet would be good enough to make calculations and build something like that yet. It defies the laws of physics.

The ambition of those with the money in Dubai means that they'll give it a try at least. Nobody thought they'd be able to do some of their previous works. Only time will tell if this works or not obviously but If anybody can make it happen, these guys can.

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Originally posted by TranceOwnsLol Singapore Airlines still holds the airline award for best airline though.

the general consensus in the press here is that the order is

Qatar
Emirates
Iraqi (or Iranian) i forget which one
Singapore
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bmi baby
british airways
qantas
ryanair

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Originally posted by Ian the general consensus in the press here is that the order is Qatar Emirates Iraqi (or Iranian) i forget which one Singapore ... .... ..... ...... ....... ...... ..... .... ... bmi baby british airways qantas ryanair

QANTAS isn't anywhere near that bad! Quite good I thought

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Originally posted by Sushipunk QANTAS isn't anywhere near that bad! Quite good I thought

perfect moment for me to insert julian's chasers sketch in their depature lounge ? I'm just going by the general opinion of those guys, and the fact they had that hole in the plane this year! We don't really slaughter BA on the same level you do the Qantas.

Where are the cupholders?

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Originally posted by Ian perfect moment for me to insert julian's chasers sketch in their depature lounge ? I'm just going by the general opinion of those guys, and the fact they had that hole in the plane this year! We don't really slaughter BA on the same level you do the Qantas.

LMFAO, you can't rate an airline (or anything!) on what the Chasers say

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Originally posted by Sushipunk LMFAO, you can't rate an airline (or anything!) on what the Chasers say

but it's great to do it that way. I miss their show, the humour is as edgy and funny as the UK was 10 years ago, insulting, non-politically correct and pure funny. Now we're stuck with gervais, catherine tate, little britain type shows when we had the fast show, league of gentlemen, bottom etc.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk QANTAS isn't anywhere near that bad! Quite good I thought

they have had a shit year this year, heaps of things are wrong with their planes, so many have been grounded..... i guess thats what happens when you try to cut costs... i never fly qantas

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Originally posted by narcism they have had a shit year this year, heaps of things are wrong with their planes, so many have been grounded..... i guess thats what happens when you try to cut costs... i never fly qantas

Yeah, obviously it was a good idea to move most of their maintenance stuff to Asia. Good thinking!

BAM!

"What's that noise?"

Have you guys been hit by the price of oil for fuel surcharges & shit the same as we have?

sadly the last 12 months has seen the end of the 2 best trans-atlantic services, simply because they were running at such a low profit margin and once fuel rocketed, they couldn't pay the bills. these were EOS and Silverjet, both business class services that cost only a tiny bit more than economy, and less than some cheap ones from like BA

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Originally posted by Ian Have you guys been hit by the price of oil for fuel surcharges & shit the same as we have?

of course

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Yeah, obviously it was a good idea to move most of their maintenance stuff to Asia. Good thinking!

They moved it to Malaysia Airline's maintenance facility. Their planes haven't exactly been dropping out of the sky have they?

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Originally posted by narcism they have had a shit year this year, heaps of things are wrong with their planes, so many have been grounded..... i guess thats what happens when you try to cut costs... i never fly qantas

The maintenance isn't the reason you shouldn't fly Qantas. The shithouse customer service however............





And most of the stuff thats been happening with Qantas recently is stuff that happens to other airlines every day. They just don't beat it up like they do with Qantas.



Having said that, their on-time performance dropped from something like 85% to 65% in one month



I don't fly Qantas overseas (AirNZ or Singapore) and I don't have any preferences domestic, I fly whoever is cheapest and has the schedule that fits.

http://www.worldairlineawards.com/

I've never flew on Emirates but if you ever get a chance to fly business class with Singapore Airlines, it's worth it. The Singapore Airlines First Class/Business Class lounge in Singapore's airport here is heaven. Large lounge with a free buffet and bar that beats even some of the best hotels i've been to.

Fuck me that looks sweet. Dubai is where it's at, seriously.

It's still ploughing through strong as an emerging market and is only going to get stronger. That prince who started making these "tourism" based decisions certainly knew what he was doing.

looks like something out of Sim City

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