First of all, I'm sorry for the selfish post. I was genuinely horrified when I heard about this tragedy.. I'm still in a state of disbelief, even. Hopefully someone can be held to account, but we remember that they should be proven guilty, first.
I'm flying with Malaysian on this exact route in December. While I'm not worried about being shot down and I have every confidence in their service, I am worried about the airline going bust, in light of the two recent disasters on top of an already financially troubled airline (though what airline isn't?). I originally thought I'd be covered on my credit card, but having looked into it further, at appears that because I booked through Expedia, I'd not be covered in the event of bankruptcy. My annual travel insurance policy also doesn't mention anything about scheduled airline failure either.
What are the chances of Malaysian going bust? They're state funded already, and I'm sure the government will want to protect them, but I also understand they might need a pretty substantial bail out. I guess we might find out at the end of this quarter.
http://www.businessinsider.com/malaysia-airlines-refunding-tickets-2014-7
If I were in your shoes I would avail of the refund offer and choose another carrier, solely to avoid any potential hassle further down the line.
I doubt they are going bust anytime soon
http://www.businessinsider.com/malaysia-airlines-refunding-tickets-2014-7
If I were in your shoes I would avail of the refund offer and choose another carrier, solely to avoid any potential hassle further down the line.
LMFAO at those tweets. Didn't realise Joe public were this moronic!
I did see that, however our outward flight is on the 10th of december and the return flight on the 1st of January (one day too late), so I'm not sure we'll be covered. I guess I'd also have to seek the refund through expedia too?
http://www.businessinsider.com/malaysia-airlines-refunding-tickets-2014-7
If I were in your shoes I would avail of the refund offer and choose another carrier, solely to avoid any potential hassle further down the line.
I read that this morning in the paper. They've now revised it down though and reckon it's less than 10.In one of the papers there saying a 100 of the world's leading AID's researchers were onboard that flight.
Which coincidently absolves them from the claims of the US and Ukraine that they are monsters and terrorists. Nope, according to that recording it was a huge mistake and they initially thought it was a valid military target.Lots of people care about what Israel does. There's several threads on it. However that has been going on for 60+years.
It is rare for a passenger plane shot down.
It's also hardly pure speculation.
You have separatists claiming it was them and they took a Ukraine transport plain down, when it came apparent it was a passenger plane, their claims where removed. Not that you can ever remove something from the net.
You then have the supposed communication intercept. Which also squarely puts it at separatists feets and also collaborates the claim, they thought it was a Ukraine transport plane.
You have US Intel saying it was a missile, but can't say which side at.
You have separatists blocking the parts of the site.
You have claims of sam being moved to Russia.
Although nothing proves it out right, that should be enough for any sane person to only have two options off opinions. Wait for more investigation, or think it was separatists who for what ever reason misidentified, unless investigation turns some other info up.
Don't watch the news. They have a hard on for Putin, for sure. And given his approval rating and his conduct in Ukraine, why acting surprised?
He isn't playing by the West's rules (meaning, acting like a responsible, democratically elected head of state). The rebels messed up, he bears some responsibility in the situation in Ukraine by continually providing logistical and political support (after starting off brightly by Annexing Crimea).
Russians think he is a-ok (according to what poll). So yeah, he's gonna get heat. Screw the guy. I don't think he cares about democracy, sovereignty, or what borders mean. Except his.
This on top of the way they've been behaving overall with hindering the investigation just makes them look more and more guilty, whether they are or not. It's as though they want to provoke the outside world.
Looters have robbed the bodies of belongings of victims of the MH17 jet, including fanatical Newcastle United fan John Alder, after the passenger jet was shot down over Ukraine on Thursday.
Freelance journalist Demjen Doroschenko who was at the scene discovered Mr Alder's body outside the village of Grabovo within hours of the disaster and saw that his belongings had been disturbed.
He said: 'I saw John Alder's body and took a picture of a medicine box he had with him. You could see they had been through his things.
'He had a pair of Tesco binoculars with him in a case. They had pulled the binoculars out of the case. But when they say the glass had been broken they threw them back because they weren't any good for them.'
Mr Doroschenko told The Sun: 'They were rifling belongings with torches 50 yards away. Once they'd gone I went over to the body where they had been and found wallets left open, purses empty and papers all over the ground. It's awful.'
Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to the Kiev government, said: 'I have received information that terrorist death-hunters were collecting not only cash and jewellery of the crashed Boeing dead passengers but also the credit cards of the victims.'
Absolute scum.
That is just sickening.
How does it absolve them, it's massive incompetence at best.