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Top 5 airlines serving from Jordan to Ontario
Emirates 8.3
Egypt Air 7.4
LOT 7.3
British Airways 7.3
Pros: "Just a bad airline all together. They try to rip you off during transit by saying your luggage is over the weight limit and that you must pay for each additional kilograms."
Cons: "Style and comfort"
Pros: "The seats are very uncomfortable. impossible to be comfortable."
Cons: "Love Emirates - would fly it everywhere if I could!"
Pros: "Everything was good and easy"
Pros: "They were very supportive.. Thanks."
Pros: "The seat was comfortable, the crew was nice for the most part."
Cons: "Some of the crew were neglecting, the food was bad and the boarding system was strange, as people in first class and economy were meshed together (Amman - Dubai)"
Pros: "Great value"
Cons: "Emirates could do better!"
Pros: "Hotel stay on your long hold"
Cons: "Needs to improve in all sections"
Pros: "The take off and landing was very good."
Cons: "The entertainments."
Cons: "I made a FaceTime call to my daughter over the Atlantic - nothing better!!! The staff is beautiful, and the ride was smooth."
Pros: "The crew was awesome, seating is never comfortable for a long flight."
Cons: "I do not recall any plane departing the dock on time. All Airlines need to work on boarding quicker and leaving on time."
Pros: "Good like always"
Cons: "All perfect"
Pros: "All the teem all the services"
Cons: "My 2 bags didn't come out to Cairo airport Your employee helps me to report that. He didn't give me the $200 to buy some clothes. Because he told me that my 2 bags coming out in a vew hours. And they give my cell phone # 01114488833 and I give them my wife's cell phone # 01225993535. They never call me they never answer me. 8 days. So I went yesterday 10-11-18 to the Cairo airport I met one of your employees. Asking for my 2 bags they told me that they called my my wife but they didn't. I asked my wife she said they never call me. And she talks to them on phone. They said sorry some mistakes happen they should give me $200 for every single day my bags lait but they didn't ButI received my bags broken an I lost my wife shoes and my candy The chocolate rolled over my clothes And the workers open one of my bags and eat some candy and leave the trash inside the bag"
Pros: "The only good thing was the entertainment"
Pros: "The other services was okey"
Cons: "The checking in at the airport terrible"
Pros: "A good time to board"
Cons: "No offer of free water to drink on a 3.5 hour flight!! Staff didn't smile at all."
Pros: "It was unlike any other flight. It's a luxury in air. Seating was so comfortable, lots of space to move around. Great perks for a 14 hours trip."
Pros: "The service, food and flight entertainment was great."
Cons: "By the time the food cart reaches rear zones , there are not much left to choose from. It should be better managed so all passengers have a chance to pick the food of their choice."
Cons: "I payed for emirates not fly Dubai which was low budget flight. They charged me for a coffee on the plane... not something I would expect after paying 1400 for my tickets. And no where did it say fly Dubai on my tickets, I would have gone with other alternatives if I knew like Turkish. So last time I use kayak and will not be recommending it as well. This a rating for my whole trip to kathmandu not just Dubai to Kathmandu."
Pros: "Nothing really. Packed like sardines in seats which are too narrow."
Cons: "2 hour delay at DFW because other flights de icing Diverted in mid Atlantic to Dublin because of problems with toilets. Waited 2-3 hours there. Missed connecting flight from Dubai to BLR. Only good thing was that Emirates gave me a boarding pass to a later flight and a meal voucher that was accepted with bad grace by the barista at terminal B Costas. Two of the meal voucher choices Cozi & Burger King had gone out of business!"
Pros: "Flight schedule is perfect for a family."
Cons: "Crews are not responsive to my call during the flight."
Pros: "I flew round trip on their flagship Airbus 380 from Toronto to Dubai, about 13-14 hours. Crew was great, plenty of food and drinks, about 3x meals, lost track of how many drink runs, maybe 5x. It was almost too much food & drink! The in-flight entertainment was great, touch screen was fantastic, USB port, even power outlet, on back of seat, plenty of entertainment choices from movies, to video games, to trivia, I even got a kick out of all the camera's mounted on the outside of the plane with all the flight tracking details available on screen, plenty of bathrooms. Its such a big plane it didn't even feel like you are flying. I'm 6'4" so I always choose an aisle seat so i can at least stretch one leg out, the crew was even mindful not to bump my elbow or even my leg when it was extended out into the aisle while i was asleep...which was more than accommodating to something I shouldn't have been doing! Overall Excellent, I wish every airline was like Emirates. They're bringing back the old school service and class airlines used to be like. I know people don't dress up while they air travel anymore, but I'll be dressing up the next time I fly Emirates! ;)"
Cons: "Nothing comes to mind."
Pros: "Seat was really comfortable and leg room was excellent. In flight entertainment will keep you busy."
Cons: "Nothing. Emirates are the best!"
Cons: "Seats very uncomfortable for a transatlantic flight"
Pros: "Flying with Swiss Air instead"
Cons: "Our connecting flight coming in from Crete was delayed and we arrived in Athens too late to make our flight home. The Emirates service desk offered no help in getting us on the next flight home. They were booked full the following day with the exception of business class seats and were going to charge us an additional $4000 which included $600 each for being a no show. They refused to waive any fees so it was drastically cheaper to fly home with another airline. I am most disappointed in their lack of effort to assist us in getting home and they really showed no concern. I will never fly this airline again."
Pros: "I loved the idea that i was considered for an upgrade it felt special and i thank the staff and the airlines for being so considerate and kind."
Cons: "Honestly, i cannot think of anything specific except that it was very chilly inside the business class."
Pros: "The service was wonderful"
Pros: "Entertainment is good."
Cons: "29 passengers were arriving in JFK from MSP, a flight that was delayed due to ground staff issues at JFK (which means that Emirates' partner airline had some issues?). Plane was delayed but we landed just in time to make the connection or so we thought. After running through the terminal, we saw our plane attached to the gate for 53 minutes(I have pictures to show) but Emirates gate staff said the flight is now closed, and didn't let us board the flight. They didn't help us rebook our next flight, or pay for hotel or transportation. And some of us couldn't fly for 2 days because they were overbooked on their future flights. And that's what really happened - Emirates was overbooked for our flight, and conveniently used the excuse that they didn't know our flight had landed in JFK (seriously), and their ground staff was totally non challent about it. They asked us to call the partner airline to rebook, who instead asked us to call Emirates. 4-6 hours of calling for most of us in the middle of the night. Emirates has social media presence on Twitter & Facebook but it's like chatting with a wall. Its 100% useless and waste of time, and I have asked them where I can send my complaint but they won't respond."
Pros: "food"
Pros: "Friendly staff, great selection of entertainment!"
Cons: "There was nothing to not like"
Pros: "I like the crew they were so accommodative"
Cons: "No comments"
Pros: "The crew, airplane"
Pros: "Great hospitality from the crew and quality plane facilities."
Cons: "They changed our seats to 46F 58F and 88B. We already get boarding pass for connecting flight but they did changed them because of flight delayed from Bangkok. It was unfair. They should hold reserved seats for us since they knew that the first flight would arrive on time."
Pros: "Same excellent service and quality as the flight from Boston to Dubai. Flight was on time. Everything went very smoothly."
Cons: "The passenger next to me had a bad cough during the whole flight. Wish I could have moved."
Pros: "The staff was very friendly"
Cons: "food choices and entertainment options could be better"
Pros: "Intertainment,"
Cons: "India to dubai had poor Intertainment system"
Pros: "Spacious Crew Food Ambience"
Cons: "Personal screen did not work"
Cons: "Flights are always good but back office staff is always careless not to bother any complaints or never solved any complaints they do not care of customer bcoz they have business thier is no other airline right now but in future may be they loose customer like me"
Pros: "Kids meals, activity packs, kids headphones, travel backpacks/blankets, all made a great travel experience for the kids (2 and 4 years old). Entertainment system was top notch!"
Pros: "A380"
Cons: "Cabin service"
Cons: "I didn't like the way they were talking to me about the strict rules on luggage weight limit. They asked to pay 30 dollars for one extra kg and even on the carry on bags. The staff who seemed to be a manager in Korea was telling me to leave behind everything as they are only allowing me total of 7kgs to carry on which includes my laptop (3kg already) and a small handbag! They are literally asking you to just carry your laptop, magazine and a toothbrush! Never seen this strict and stinge rules before. And they didn't even check my carry on weight when boarding after...after giving up my gifts to friends which were not worth paying extra 30 dollars! According to their seat allocation people who sat next to me seemed to be a double or triple size of me (No offence to these passengers) and I could not eat my meal properly because I had no room to move my arm. I asked politely to a crew to change my seat but they said it is full and gave me a cup of orange juice! How nice! I will discourage people to spend extra money on Emirates because you might not get the premium service you pay for!!"
Pros: "I cancelled the flight 6 hours after booking. The travel agency changed me $50 per passenger. The agent did not render any service whatsoever, but stole $100 from my visa card."
Cons: "When we landed we had to take the bus"
Cons: "See above comments."
Pros: "Hospitality"
Cons: "Free Internet quota gets vanished without even using it much. This quota should be increased."
Pros: "Not bad"
Cons: "Send notifications"
Pros: "Airport facilities"
Cons: "No entertainment at all in the plane."
Pros: "They had movies to watch"
Cons: "Boarding on time, departing on time and advising passengers of the delay. We sat on the tarmac for 50 minutes without any communication. In addition, we waited an addition 45 minutes for our luggage. Thus, requiring us to change our plans. Well not be traveling Egypt Air again."
Pros: "The business class was nice and comfortable with a decent price"
Cons: "Flight attendant could smile more."
Cons: "75' delay with no info One toilet out of order No safety checks by crew"
Cons: "Food, boarding, carry on bags checks, 1 hr waiting time for baggage claim at destination."
Pros: "The crew was good but the seats werenot comfortable. Almost all passengers were coming from Al-Haj. They were so sick and coughing vigourously all the time."
Cons: "When we book the flight we should be informed that it is mainly for Al-Haj people. At Cairo airport they should check them to know the reason for this cough and people who were not in Haj can be seated in a separate section in the plane to avoid infection."
Cons: "It was all great"
Pros: "Rapidity for delivering the luggage"
Cons: "Verification of visa"
Pros: "All about this trip was excellent"
Cons: "Captain and crew where rude and the captain almost lost control of the plane as we were landing."
Pros: "Crew wasnice"
Cons: "Plane was old, toilet was disgusting no soap, no personal entertainment option. Food was ham and cheese no other options"
Pros: "Nice planes. On time. Very friendly crew."
Pros: "Fast security queue Quick Boarding Luggage claim was quick"
Cons: "In flight entertainment very poor"
Pros: "We had front seats which made the journey comfortable"
Pros: "Service not bad, other then that not good"
Cons: "Straight flight is better then connecting"
Pros: "We managed to upgrade to first class. This made the 12-hour flight very relaxing. Service was excellent. As usual, Egyptian pilots are the best in landing"
Pros: "crew was good and seats was just OK"
Pros: "On time. Hot food."
Cons: "No water bottles available. Food bland."
Cons: "TV screens were blurry and not working."
Cons: "I couldn't get my boarding passes online or at the airport kiosk after already checking in online before getting to the airport. I had to wait over an hour in line at the checkin desk just to get my boarding passes. The boarding process in Cairo was even more chaotic with unnecessary multiple disorganized checkpoints and line ups."
Pros: "Flight was on time and I appreciate that."
Pros: "This flight was on time and I appreciate when Egypt Air flights are on time."
Cons: "45 minutes to get my bag!"
Pros: "Excelent service by crew , boarding did not take long , trip was excellent by all means."
Cons: "Buy it From you by price and checkout by other price more than your price don't know why are you know that"
Cons: "Great services and very clean air plane"
Cons: "Please to repair your seat. Cannot be up right position while takr off or landing. Only recline position"
Pros: "Excellent experience overall, I would definitely fly again with Egypt Air."
Cons: "Only small thing was, I have seen better as far as in flight entertainment. The touchscreen was not responsive and selection not great. I brought my own on a tablet so it wasn't a big deal for me."
Pros: "Delays and lack of coordination during boarding process in cairo"
Pros: "Appreciate the breakfast that was served."
Cons: "Boarding process can be improved."
Pros: "The warm hospitality and care and smooth flight althrough"
Pros: "Boarding was quick although about 10 min. late. We did arrive on time. I was surprised to get breakfast which wasn't bad at all."
Pros: "Inexpensive fair."
Cons: "Little interaction with crew"
Pros: "Great crew, members always welling to help"
Cons: "Thanks it's been a good experience"
Pros: "We had a 10 hour lay-over in Cairo and EgyptAIr shuttled us to an excellent hotel and provided lunch and dinner - all for free. This was most excellent and so much more pleasant than sitting at the airport!"
Cons: "If EgyptAir would distribute a little English sheet how the steps are, where to get the passports back (at the EgyptAir Counter in the main hall at the airport), which lines to go to (we didn't officially immigrate, but still had to go through immigration upon return, which wasn't clear). Maybe a word on legal boundaries of the status in Egypt - EgyptAir had the passport, can we go to the pyramids or not - would be useful, too."
Cons: "Fligjt from Cairo to Toronto was very unorganised and unprofessional. Did not follow appropriate protocol for boarding procedures. Delayed. Unprofessional staff in Cairo."
Cons: "There is long delay fo 4 hours. In first flight from Cairo to madina air condition not worked correctly"
Pros: "atmospher"
Cons: "length of the trip"
Pros: "Great professional and fast"
Cons: "Couldnt take my camera in the hand bag which is unreasonable."
Pros: "For a short hour flight, i say it was just fine, not really enough time for a movie or anything so it makes sense not to have a TV with every seat, and it is no big deal. i slept the whole way and didnt even realize we took off or landed. could be more comfortable but again i was able to sleep the whole way without a problem"
Pros: "Was good trip in terms of timing!"
Pros: "flights were delayed both ways"
Pros: "Pilots are excellent at smooth landing."
Cons: "To most Arabs, broadcasting a prayer before taking off is routine and goes without notice. To foreigners, it could initiate fear about the safety of the plane as it projects a need to rely on a super power to make it. It's cultural and could be misunderstood."
Pros: "I end up upgrading my seats from economy to business class and made a very decision given the length of flight. Service was excellent and food was alright. The best thing were the seats as my whole family got to sleep 5 - 6 hours."
Pros: "Aircraft"
Cons: "Timing."
Pros: "Finally good seats"
Pros: "Crew was fine."
Cons: "Paid for business class on LOT. Somehow this was delivered on a low cost carrier. Not the same business class product at all, ancient plane, worn seats though they claim to be "new" on this 767. Multiple hours delayed departing, no reason given, and no updates, we just sat there for hours. I assume mechanical. Caused me to miss my connection and here I am having to pay huge for a last minute hotel. Not what was advertised to me which was a LOT flight not a codeshare on an old plane. Booked it through Kayak, will not be doing THAT again."
Pros: "Seats were comfortable"
Cons: "Rude crew,delays all the time"
Pros: "Friendly crew, food was actually better on this flight than the flight from Toronto to Warsaw"
Cons: "On the flight I had from Toronto to warsaw the entertainment did not work. Honestly it should he inspected before take off and if nothing could be done then something to compensate"
Pros: "First flight was delayed and we missed flight to Toronto"
Cons: "Departure on time"
Pros: "Punctuality"
Pros: "I loved food and entertainment: they had a lot of alternative film offers (not just same old hollywood, but Korean or Russian films, etc.). We arrived 30 min ahead of schedule too!"
Cons: "The seats were very uncomfortable, but maybe anything would be uncomfortable during a 9 hour flight. Also, I wish the crew were offering water in between meals as well."
Pros: "Cheap fair to Eastern Europe. Many new movies."
Cons: "Crammed seats. Flight delayed. Almost missed the connection flight. My luggage didn't make it to the final destination. Luggage delivered to my hotel in 2 days. Noticed the bags have been opened (I put tapes around the bag, and the tapes were cut/altered). Some stuff were stolen. G.H.E.T.T.O."
Pros: "good entertainment choices"
Cons: "my pre-arranged seat was changed without notice."
Cons: "I had requested a wheelchair upon arrival in Warsaw and in Toronto but it was not provided."
Pros: "Food was good"
Cons: "Plane left 2.5 hours late due to boarding system failure. Took 20 mins to get an assigned gate upon arrival at YYZ. Took one hour to get bags due to electrical failure to power baggage handling equipment."
Pros: "Same as above."
Pros: "The crew was fine and polite, the plane made on time despite 40min delays on the tarmac"
Cons: "going through Warsaw border control took forever, long lines, bad set up for transit passengers."
Cons: "Poor quality of announcements in Warsaw for boarding times."
Cons: "Toronto airport disappointing. We arrived one hour esrly, but the gate the toronto airport told us to go to was broken so we had to wait for over one hour on the plane. Then the plane was moved aside and we walked to the bus that drove us to the airport. No luggage information given airport Toronto"
Pros: "the crew was very good, the seat could be a bit bigger in economy class"
Pros: "Entertainment"
Cons: "Very poor English for rhe crew. Not all of us speak Polish. Unpleasant crew, like they are doing you a favor."
Cons: "They keep the cabin too hot! I was uncomfortably warm for the entire 9hr flight. And there were no personal airvents to mitigate this problem."
Pros: "The new release movies included in the entertainment system were relatively new but not very many System had to reboot a couple of times Food and drinks were par with the industry standards nowadays"
Cons: "Food and drinks standards are lowered every year. Not necessarily LOT's fault"
Pros: "Good service. Food is provided (one hot meal and one sandwich). Selection of entertainment (movies, TV shows...etc) are good."
Cons: "Long flight hours."
Cons: "1h 15' delayed boarding"
Pros: "The staff were friendly and warm. They did what they could with all they had. I was financially compensated for being put on standby because of over sold tickets resulting in my return flight being changed to the next day."
Cons: "On my flight there my built in tablet didn't work so I didn't have any entertainment for a long flight. My return flight was put on standby and I had to leave the next day instead. Stressful"
Pros: "Good connection experience."
Cons: "Waiting/standing on the bus for the one last guy."
Pros: "Food/drink options"
Cons: "Boarding process. Flight delayed"
Pros: "Comfortable plane"
Cons: "The entertainment did not work for a number of passengers in my area. The system was restarted once, with no results. The crew did not seem to care. The food service was poorly coordinated."
Pros: "Everything was OK exept few things"
Cons: "When plane from Vilnius to Warsaw landed, passengers had to wait for 20 min. inside a plane for a bus. When bus arrived I had only 20 min. remaining till my connecting flight to Toronto.I managed to run to the right gate in time. But when I asked LOT employees to insure that my luggage is on a plane to Toronto too, I received arrogant answer that I have nothing to worry about... In Toronto I found out that there was no my luggage on the plane..."
Pros: "30 minutes late on boarding. No communication for reasons"
Pros: "The Dreamliner is shiny new and comfortable. Good authentic Polish food. Great variety of in-flight entertainment."
Cons: "On-time performance was so-so, take-off was delayed ~1hr because of connections, had to wait on the runway at the destination airport, had to wait an eternity for my bag. Whatever genius who designed the in-flight entertainment controls should be punched in the face. The on-screen buttons are so easily pushed by passengers making their way to and from the aisle that passenger assistance and reading lights always go off on their own throughout the aircraft."
Pros: "Everything was excellent with my flight!Flight crew was very polite and excused about delay.Delay was 30 minut,wich is ok.They helped everyone,who needed help.Food was nice,seats are comfortable.Thanks for everything!"
Cons: "no seat assignment"
Pros: "Poor boarding processs"
Pros: "Arrived to Toronto on time. Flight attendants provided excellent customer service."
Cons: "Nothing to mention."
Pros: "Could check my suitcase earlier (arrived at airport too early). I had a bit off over 23 kg but that did not pose any problem. Boarding was quiet fast and almost with timetable. The food was good and service provided pleasant. I was happy that we landed safely providing bad weather in Toronto that evening."
Pros: "Good seat that becomes a bed. A little short and narrow for me, but about 5000 orders of magnitude better than the seats in the economy torture chamber."
Pros: "crew was very good and friendly"
Cons: "vegetarian meal contained no protein"
Cons: "Very unpleasant and unhelpful staff (apart from the ones in-flight)"
Pros: "Movie selection was decent as well as the service - the crew was more or less nice and professional with me."
Cons: "The fact that we took off 1 hour late and no apologies have been given. No drink service ha been provided while everyone was just sitting there and waiting for takeoff. Normally the plane would catch up the 1 hr delay but not this time. We arrived 1 hour late."
Pros: "The actual flight was fine. The food was decent. The entertainment selection was good. The flight attendants were pleasant. We got plenty to eat and drink."
Cons: "We found out in Poland that my wife was missing an eTA number necessary for her to fly into Canada. With our previous flight delayed, the application did not process in time, and we missed our connecting flight. As a result, we were stuck in Poland for 24 hours, leading to lost sleep, added expense, and much frustration. Customer service in Poland was helpful but extremely slow. Many customers needed help and it took about an hour for each customer. We waited in line for hours. We were not charged for a new flight, but we did spend 10 exhausting hours in the airport before we had everything resolved and were able to leave and get a few hours of sleep."
Pros: "I like the food. Cabbage rolls on our wat back from Warsaw were unexpected. Such an excellent idea to serve Polish meals on the polish airline."
Pros: "The flight was smoothe"
Cons: "Boarding was a mess and is always a mess"
Pros: "Nice new plane (Dreamliner) with a lot of overhead space for hand luggage."
Cons: "There is less leg room than on other international carriers. I am tall and found it quite uncomfortable. I was also surprised by how bad the food was - worst airline food I have ever had on both trips. Sadly, also the most unfriendly air crew as well. Also, unlike international flights with Air Canada, you have to pay for alcohol (though the prices are pretty good)."
Pros: "The entertainment on the plane was great. Large selection of movies, music, and TV shows to keep yourself entertained. The dinner was adequate. It was also nice having the overhead screens continually update our flight progress."
Cons: "The seats are incredibly cramped, by the end I was feeling seriously claustrophobic. It didn't help that we left late. The boarding process was a mess, nobody seemed to know what to do, and the announcements were all mumbled to the point where I was just guessing what to do. The second meal served was inedible as the bread was completely stale. Also, one of the toilets was broken and kept flushing, even when sitting on it. Like the boarding process, disembarking was sloppy and confusing. It took a very long time to open the door, and they only told people at the last minute that they needed to get their passports out."
Pros: "Very helpful staff during boarding very good dinner"
Cons: "breakfast meal - very dry sandwich with only one slice of cheese no internet access during flight inability to use headphones during take off and landing"
Pros: "The 787 Dreamliner was nice, and the business class seats are roomy. And the ticket was priced right!"
Cons: "They lost my luggage in the outbound direction and no-one appeared to care. When I called the number that they provided frequently no-one answered. Even when I finally got through, no-one could provide me ANY information as to the whereabouts of my bag. It finally showed up on the last day of my stay, but it was delivered to another hotel (which I only figured out after about 10 phone calls). Also, they offer perhaps the worst in-flight video selection I have ever seen."
Pros: "Complementary headphones, drinks, and snacks. I flew economy as as a 6'3" guy I was generally comfortable -- though I would recommend you sit in the aisle seat. Food wasn't the worst."
Cons: "Nothing really."
Pros: "nice plane"
Cons: "entertainment system did not work properly,food was worse than fast food,cabin crew was average at best."
Pros: "Got us home to Toronto from Warsaw in one piece and affordable."
Cons: "food was too simple. "Dinner" was so poor after 6 or 7 hours, we only received half a sandwich and a dessert. The seats did not give us a lot of movement. My husband could not even put down his tray table because woman in front pushed her chair back. In general, there was not a lot of English speaking from the stewardesses. Very strong Polish accents made it very hard to understand what they said on the speaker. Not too many choices of English movies."
Pros: "Crew amazing yes. Seat comfortable."
Cons: "None for now!"
Pros: "It's ok"
Cons: "Timing and food"
Pros: "Somewhat"
Cons: "Food"
Pros: "Sarah the Cabin Manager was amazing."
Cons: "The business seats are horrible"
Pros: "The crew were all nice."
Cons: "Aircraft VERY aged--NO charging ports?! Entertainment screens tiny and old touch screen interface, slow to respond. Remote control on arm rest=accidental volume changes and such. Do NOT get the veggie pasta, it's terrible. Overhead bins do not hold large bags correctly."
Pros: "Crew cheerful"
Cons: "Beyond their control. Flight delayed 50 mins"
Cons: "We cancelled this trip months ago, and I didn't book it through Kayak. I don't understand why I've been getting these communications!"
Pros: "Two seats next to me were free!!! Food was good!"
Cons: "Luggage delivery at HFK was extremelly slow!"
Pros: "The movie selection was wonderful, as the amount of time with dim lightening"
Cons: "The temperature in the plane. It was too cold for summer clothing"
Cons: "Flight was diverted for 4 hours due to thunderstorm in Toronto"
Pros: "The flight was delayed prior to leaving the gate, while lined up to take off and during the flight. All delays were promptly explained by members of the flight deck. The cabin crew were outstanding nothing seemed to be too much of a inconvenience to them."
Cons: "I would never book a ticket through BA ever! Paid business class and my luggage got forgotten in Heathrow through transit. No one knows anything about it. I have arrived to san Francisco with no language at all!!!!"
Pros: "Plenty food. Very well looked after by the crew. Lots of good movies."
Cons: "Some of the screens had a scratches on them."
Pros: "Food and service great"
Pros: "British Airways has definitely got their act together it was a brilliant flight and the service was excellent it was a pleasure to see."
Cons: "No ba lounge, only the overcrowded Turkish Lounge."
Pros: "food was excellent ... service is always top notch"
Pros: "Mediocre experience on the ground; much better in the air -- competent, pleasant cabin crew."
Cons: "It seems amazing to me that BA will leave 50 First and Business Class passengers standing in line while they pre-board "families with young children". Some of the families had children who were 7 or 8 years old and certainly had no need for pre-boarding; its just an opportunistic way of jumping the queue. Similarly, some of the "elderly" passengers who claim to need pre-boarding on departure spring to their feet and dash down the aisle on arrival. Air Canada boards Business Class first on this same route; I'm going to migrate back to them, as virtually everything else on the two flights is comparable."
Pros: "Only wish they would've put me on the direct flight"
Cons: "The transfer was a pain. Signage at Toronto Airport is non existent. I had to stop and ask people which way to go 3 times"
Cons: "No WIFI"
Pros: "Food, Movies Staff Treatment Aircraft: B787...quiet, new and clean Heathrow Terminal 5"
Pros: "Nothing really."
Cons: "Seats, entertainment system. Lounge at Heathrow airport served bad food. Bread had fungus in it. I pointed out to the staff there, and there reaction was "no big deal" !! There is such a big difference in"
Pros: "The crew were friendly, helpful and professional."
Cons: "Those headrests need an upgrade in economy!"
Pros: "Very good Premium Economy service. Comfortable seats and good food."
Cons: "Noise (crying babies) from the Economy section. Delay in departure."
Pros: "Efficient and helpful staff out of Fiumicino. Flight left on time, Arrived early. Seats comfortable and roomy in Economy, which was a real treat. Not my experience on other airlines."
Cons: "Couldn't take the flight because I was not allowed to check a bag. No mention of this was made when I booked."
Pros: "Good documentary films to choose from to pass time."
Pros: "The seats were comfortable and roomy."
Pros: "Nothing. British Airways refused to help us"
Cons: "Took over two hours on the phone to try and get rebooked. Missed the last flight out of the night due to incompetence. British Airways desk check in staff was so rude, wouldn't even talk to us. Thank goodness for the helpful Air Canada grind crew in Toronto."
Pros: "Excellent service and amenities"
Pros: "Every things I always liked to go with you"
Pros: "Flew with partner Aer Lingus. Extremely comfortable, good food, good entertainment, great crew."
Cons: "Food was awful! In a 7:30 hour flight just one small meal and one bar for breakfast! They ran out of tomato juice the first round and there was only one round of drinks in the whole flight!!"
Pros: "The captain kept us aware of the delay and the reasons for the delay."
Cons: "No free food or drink other than water."
Pros: "great service - flight was smooth takeoff and landing"
Pros: "My screen worked and there was a good selection of movies. I also had a window seat which was great. Any seat except the middle, is always great."
Cons: "No vegetarian options."
Pros: "Punctual on time"
Cons: "A measly bar for breakfast, even Michael O Leary would laugh at that."
Pros: "Fabulous experience on every level"
Pros: "Boarded easily plenty of room for bags"
Cons: "All snacks and drinks cost money! Paid for extra legroom row but my knees still touched seat in front of me. Exceptionally poor aircraft configuration - business class had center seats blocked. Remove those rows and make business class 2x2 and I will consider buying it."
Pros: "That you could watch movies and shows from the headrest, very helpful to pass the time. They fed us a lot (very salty) and were very nice."
Cons: "I was in the back in the cheap seats (row 50) with a friend, we are both small to regular size and the guy seated in the aisle seat was very small and it was still difficult to get up and around each other to use the restroom. Oh well I paid $462 for round trip and arrived safely, that's what matters most."
Pros: "Very efficient and speedy service delivering my delayed luggage on the way from Toronto to Amman."
Pros: "I had heard that BA had the best service, configurations and staff in Europe. There wasn't much I liked on this flight. Didn't like concept on business class seats. The crew was cavalier about service. Small item, I was poured a glass of red wine and it was handed to me with spillage on the stem that dripped all over tray and me. No thought to wipe bottom before handing it to me. Everything about them was a lack of attention and asking for assistance was a bother. Food so so. Not impressed. They sold me a legal connection but my bag missed it. Landing disorganized. Busses to terminal took to long given we were 10 minutes late."
Cons: "Good movies. Limited selection. But old British TV shows fun."
Pros: "I got upgraded which was a huge bonus and the staff were great and attentive."
Pros: "Food was ok - rest was terrible."
Cons: "Boarding was troublesome due to the fact the person made an error and changed my seat that I had already reserved. I noticed this while walking to the gate and then informed the person at the desk. After some time they determined the error happened at check in and she then returned me to the original booked seat. While in the flight, the lady behind me kept kicking my seat and complaining that I should not have the seat leaning back. Of course this is a fully acceptable function of flying in that the seat can be tilted back when not having food - the crew did not help at all and I was forced to fly the whole time with soon being rude behind me."
Pros: "The service was great!"
Cons: "Leg room. I'm very tall."
Pros: "AA has domestic US mkt. monopoly - they don't care to improve. People will not stop traveling so take them for suckers!!!"
Cons: "On flight service"
Pros: "This was a simple, smooth flight."
Pros: "Crew was professional"
Cons: "The flight was 45 minutes late ."
Pros: "New airplane,"
Cons: "When I arrive in Madrid, i have to wait more then TWO HOURS in baggage claim for me to get my luggage, miss my rental car office, they charge me $40 euros for after hours pick up, don't know why Iberia took sooo long, the terminal was empty"
Cons: "Need more room. Not enough space. Tv was glitchy and didnt work properly . seat uncomfortable"
Pros: "Food and crew excellent."
Cons: "Boarding process delayed as groups 3-6 all lined up together. No air at seats"
Cons: "There were delays (3 times)"
Pros: "Good Flight"
Cons: "1.5 hr delay in aircraft while waiting for Take off Slot No Coffee (hot drinks) or Alcahol (wine, scotch) on flight"
Cons: "Never made it to the flight..."
Cons: "More drinks, snacks"
Pros: "yes"
Cons: "meal"
Pros: "Great Crew"
Cons: "Slight departure delay - no big deal"
Pros: "There was a problem with the aircraft in the middle of boarding, so the gate agent delayed boarding so that we wouldn't have to stay in the cold."
Cons: "Plane was tight. Over an hour late. Bags didn't arrive."
Cons: "left 40 minutes late"
Pros: "Nice seats fast boarding"
Cons: "Snack can be more richer"
Cons: "Air Canada needs to step up their game and get better in seat technology."
Pros: "The crew at the airport and on the plane were excellent. We were on a family holiday with young ones and the crew really took care of our needs. They were extremely courteous and attentive."
Cons: "The inflight entertainment options could be more current. We found the options limited... it was a good thing that the flight was short."
Pros: "Great food and good space for economy"
Pros: "Space in the aircraft. Good customer service"
Cons: "Not much, if anything."
Cons: "Air canada regularly delayed. It's their trademark"
Pros: "The quick route was good (that's the only reason I *might* consider choosing this Air Canada flight again in the future)."
Cons: "On a flight to India, full of people of Indian origin, Air Canada served TERRIBLE imitation-Indian food. The "naan" bread was like a thick cracker, and the vegetarian curry was unedible. Samosas were soggy (they should be crisp on the outside). The Sikh man next to me complained over and over to the flight attendant. Of all the types of food to serve, leaving Vancouver, why not showcase great Canadian seafood or cooking? Everyone going TO India will soon get to eat amazing local Indian food, so why risk making poor-quality imitation Indian food?"
Cons: "Air Canada declined to accommodate in next available flight even though the originating flight was on a single Ticket."
Pros: "Crew was friendly"
Cons: "Air Canada was a disaster on our vacation. Delays, re bookings, cancellations. Every thing was told to us as an excuse from the weather, flight attendant was running late, not staffed enough, need supplies on the plane, someone died, planes needing de-icing, planes too small, planes overbooked... you name it they said it! New York to Toronto, Toronto to Edmonton and return. Not one single flight was on time! We got put in a Hotel - only nice part of the trip - got Vouchers for $15 each - such a low amount!!! Didn't get our luggage with our clothes and amenities to use at the hotel - had to sleep in our plane clothes. Spend extra money we didn't have... it was awful! We will be staying away from Air Canada for awhile!"
Cons: "My flight from NYC to Montreal was significantly delayed because the plane was late getting to NYC. This caused several passengers to miss our connecting flight to Quebec City. Air Canada put us on another flight that didn't depart until over 24 hours later! Despite our efforts, we were not offered any help in getting on an earlier flight, and the airline was unwilling to give us hotel vouchers or rental car vouchers. We paid for a rental car and drove ourselves from Montreal to Quebec City. Both of our returning flights were delayed as well. I understand things happen when traveling, but I expect some type of help/ reimbursement/ or sympathy (at a minimum) from the airline! This was my first and will be my only time flying Air Canada."
Cons: "Air Canada knew we were going to miss our connection, as the flight was delayed over and over, yet the staff on the ground insisted all connections would be made, there had been no missed connections all day. As soon as we got to Montreal, we were told due to ice in Montreal Air Canada had been cancelling flights and many connections couldn't be made all day. By that time it was too late to call Vancouver and set up alternative plans for the following day, which is when we would finally leave Montreal."
Pros: "No water in washroom No coffee , Coffee machine do not work Food is for purchase and the whole menu is not available except one item only crew are not friendly No head phones for entertainment I will NOT fly with Air Canada again unless I am forecd to do so"
Pros: "Time flight was correct"
Cons: "Delayed flight with no explanation, no WiFi access (it wasn't working), and the service was okay - they weren't stellar or poor."
Pros: "Pretty much nothing, this goddamn company has so little to compensate for the great inconvenience they provide in mismanaging our flights."
Cons: "I was delayed significantly for both flights on my round-trip and all Air Canada can offer is 15% off my next flight with them. What an embarrassment this company is to be the official airline of Canada. They should change their name to Air Rouge and allow some other company earn Canada in the name. What absolute trash honestly, if you like delays because the plane has a technical problem and they can't even sort out a back up plane within 6 hours, at their headquarters with all these hangers and planes at their disposal, then at least you'll get 15% off your next delayed flight with them."
Cons: "I was held back for 'random' security check. Security lost my boarding pass and didn't care. Only found it because my friend asked them to check a table where they had put it. They didn't apologize for any inconvenience and instead security chief kept asking more questions. Truly atrocious customer service."
Cons: "My husband went onto the plane in Toronto bite-free and left the plane in Toyko with over 20+ bites from what we assume were bed bug bites. This left us in a panic about dealing with bed bugs. Apparently, bed bugs on planes are becoming more common place! We've contacted Air Canada via email about a week ago and are waiting to hear back from them. Furthermore, the flight to and from Tokyo did not allow much time for sleeping. The flight attendants were going up and down the aisles very often with meals/snacks, drinks, duty-free, and charity requests. I was expecting a lull after the dinner meal where they would dim the lights and limit services for a few hours, but it did not happen. While impressive how many services were available it was a bit much and would have preferred less to allow for some quiet time. Finally, the return flight from Tokyo to Toronto there was a single flight attendant who was quite rude to the other attendants as well as passengers. While boarding a lady in front of us didn't have her boarding pass when entering the plane but was with her husband. This flight attendant asked her for the pass, and she said she knew where her seat was because her husband was right in front of her and they were sitting together (at this point we had our boarding passed check 3 times before even boarding the plane). The attendant raised her voice at the lady and told her it didn't matter and that she needed the pass. Within a few minutes, she was getting after a few flight attendants for insignificant things. This behavior continued throughout the flight, very unprofessional. This was my first time flying Air Canada and I was not impressed."
Cons: "Our flights were switched twice. Ended up paying for seats on an added interim flight to Chicago. Not good. Do not like surprises."
Pros: "I liked having Nexus get me through air Canada's malfunctioning Website to airport chaotic check-in otherwise may have missed my flight! Actual flight was smooth,quick and comfortable. Flight attendants were friendly and helpful. Airplane interior open and bright. Bathrooms clean and well supplied."
Cons: "Customer's time is valuable too! Air Canada website check-in malfunctioning causes anger, frustration and chaos at home and continues through airport check-in. HUNDREDS of angry, frustrated customers paid for their tickets, tried to check-in online and arrived early all converged into one CHAOTIC crowd. ADDRESS these issues, FIX YOUR WEBSITE, TREAT YOUR HARDWORKING, PAYING CUSTOMERS with DIGNITY and RESPECT they DESERVE. Competing Airlines are waiting for your dissatisfied customers."
Cons: "We were disappointed we couldn't order from the flight menu."
Cons: "Over an hour late."
Pros: "The crew was very helpful. They gave me some medicine when I got a headache."
Cons: "One piece of my chicken tasted weird, chewy, and just not like food should be. The rest of it was ok."
Cons: "The seats and the lack of leg room."
Pros: "AC lost baggage"
Pros: "The crew on board were good."
Cons: "I wasn't able to check in online or through the kiosk to my flight and then had to wait in a 2 hour line to check in at the counter. After I get to the counter the ground staff grumbles and says I'm just going to make it to my flight!!"
Pros: "I liked the fact that my online check in was super easy"
Cons: "More friendly crew"
Pros: "Nice friendly staff in plane, and experienced staff at airport (unlike in Okinawa, Tokyo and Osaka). Nice to be able to recheck bags and clear US customs in Vancouver, BC thanks to the US section of the terminal, so that we didn't have to do that upon arrival in Portland."
Cons: "Not much"
Pros: "Friendly staff. Good entertainment (TV, movies, etc). Good, plentiful food and drink."
Pros: "Ample legroom and very pleasant and helpful onboard staff."
Cons: "Need a bigger seat on a long flight and more leg room."
Cons: "I will never fly Air Canada between Detroit and Toronto again. Both ways the crew looked exhausted and like they were rather be anyplace but working our flight. Both times they took our carry ons without giving us a choice. For our flight out this was a stressful nuisance because we had to catch a connecting overseas flight. This involved my husband and son going to baggage claim and then having to go back through customs and TSA. The whole point of carry ons is to avoid this. Luckily we didn't miss our international flight but not a good way to begin a trip of a lifetime. Flight was completely uncomfortable and it seemed like no one cared. Should have driven"
Pros: "Crew was nice though not very professional."
Cons: "Airplane quality Seat dimensions Food quality Allowing passengers to sit where they pleased Pay for food- embarrassing"
Pros: "I was surprised at how much leg room there was. Also, there were a lot of entertainment choices for such a short flight."
Cons: "They didn't clearly call zones, so I wasn't sure when I could board and ended up being one of the last people to get on the plane."
Cons: "AC373 on 07/23/16 - need I say more? Having an airline background and now the HR mgr of a very large hotel chain, I understand many things that are out of a companies control, ie: weather etc, but....never have I witnessed airline staff YELLING at passengers "it's not our fault and the agents need to leave so they don't go into overtime?" Yes, some passengers were difficult, but it's part of the industry. If you can't handle w/care and service - don't choose as a profession. Very unimpressed with AC's customer service, guest recovery - they made it seem like it was more of an inconvenience for them. Can't imagine "choosing" to fly AC again!"
Cons: "No snack."
Cons: "Flight attendants and customer service were horrible"
Pros: "The food was very good and hot for being served last. We got blankets and pillows that was a plus."
Cons: "I was disappoint that we were not informed that we had to have wifi to use the entertainment system or rent iPads for $10.00. That is not right and your app. sucks to use. Please redo or get a new web person. So overall it was long a trip for people with children because they also had nothing for them to do. Fix this problem soon."
Cons: "The plane was up and down twice when it landfall."
Pros: "Had the good fortune of an under-booked flight, allowing more space to spread out."
Cons: "Flight departed about 75 minutes behind schedule, but if that was necessary to ensure a safe flight, I'm fine with the delay. We still make our connection, thanks to prompt assistance at the airport."
Cons: "Delays!"
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Loved the Lipstick Republicanism, hon. Smooches!
And, I'm glad the boys behaved for you. Due to the shittery of the Irish, they may end up playing in Hton - and Pup actually thinks it might be fun to pay money to see them lose yet another bowl game. Shoot me.
I always get a new DVD for road trips. It always helps! That and lots of snacks. Of course your car will look like hell later but it's worth it to keep the peace!
p.s. Love carcolepsy. So true!
That so happens to me when I get in the car. Even if it is like a 15 minute ride. If someone else is driving, I'm sleeping.
AFF: I've flown to Arizona to see them lose in the Fiesta Bowl.
Saturday, P turned the game off because it was so upsetting to our poor little Shark.
Well done with the car situation! Score one for Mom!
Glad to hear the commute is a little better for everyone! Try getting a splitter so they can both wear headphones- that way when Bear whines, Shark won't have to hear him!


"Trade show and exhibition organisers must embrace digital technology if they want to deliver improved bottom line value for their exhibitors and added benefits for onsite and offsite visitors. The physical world is being disrupted daily by technology and VirtualXpo's mission is to complement and evolve the current norm with an off the shelf digital platform that crosses all verticals. However, "we need an app" is not the solution!
Let me explain. From our own marketing experience trade shows, SEO, email, paper, websites, banners and social are all way less than 10% efficient. The metrics to support this are out there on the Web and denial of these poor returns by marketers is no longer acceptable. It's time to stop, look and listen and take a new path.
So, we have devised a unique strategic approach that will allow anyone concerned with marketing and not just those in the trade show and exhibition world to globalise their reach with 100% accuracy 24/7.
The reason that virtual trade shows have not been widely accepted is that the approach was completely wrong. We're not about clunky 3D and clumsy avatars! Our platform is a sleek multimedia event where everything you could ever want is available in one location.
What we are doing will not impact revenue streams in the real world, quite the opposite in fact. Mixed reality is the future and no one should be afraid of taking the plunge into the VirtualXpo trade show world.
We are not only complementing trade shows and exhibitions, but disrupting and evolving marketing, advertising, communications, apps and virtual trade shows themselves. No matter what industry you are in you have to drive the conversation and build relationships. Digital innovation is fundamental to achieving this.


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Amazon profits from the price gouging it says it's trying to stamp out
Hardware stores' shelves were allegedly emptied to fill orders on Amazon.
Image: AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Jeremy B. Merrill
Juan Aune visited a Lowe's hardware store in Anchorage, Alaska, in late February and bought hundreds of boxes of N95 masks—at $21.98 each, allegedly bragging to an employee that he was flipping the masks and making a huge profit on each box. He also visited a Home Depot and other hardware supply stores.
Aune then went on to sell 477 of the 20 packs of masks on Amazon's online store for about $90 each.
Amazon helped out by, at the very least, directing customers searching for masks to Aune. Amazon collects a fee, too, for every sale it facilitates.
Aune was sued by Alaska's attorney general in April for unfair and deceptive trade practices; Aune's court filings don't dispute the basic facts that Aune bought and re-sold the masks.
Amazon also allegedly helped Brian Gonzalez, of Los Angeles, sell 19 eight-ounce bottles of Purell hand sanitizer for as much $54.90 each. Los Angeles's city attorney charged Gonzalez with violating California's price-gouging laws.
Amazon wasn't charged in either case.
The company reported Aune to the authorities, earning it heaps of praise from Kevin Clarkson, Alaska's attorney general for its "good citizenship." The Los Angeles city attorney cited Amazon's help in a press release about the prosecution. Amazon has bragged that it reported suspected price-gougers to 42 state attorneys general, including California and Alaska.
Because Amazon facilitated the sales, Aune's attorney has argued in court filings Alaska must also sue Amazon, since it had a role in the allegedly illegal sales too. (His court filings also argue the high-priced sales weren't illegal at all and that Alaska's rules don't apply because the customers weren't in Alaska.) Gonzalez couldn't be reached for comment and court records didn't indicate if he has a lawyer.
Amazon's own rules seem to prohibit Gonzalez and Aune's sales. "Setting a price on a product or service that is significantly higher than recent prices offered on or off Amazon," is a "pricing practice that harms customer trust," and can lead to punishment, Amazon's rules say.
The massive, self-contained e-commerce universe called Amazon has expanded steadily over the decades: first, third-party sellers could offer their wares. Later, it offered ads in Amazon's search results and shipping from Amazon's warehouses. Recently, Amazon built its own last-mile delivery network in the US.
But one thing Amazon apparently hasn't gotten to yet? Proactively detecting the supposedly banned sales.
Earlier this month, Amazon asked the US government to explicitly give it immunity from prosecution for facilitating price gouging when it suggested a federal price gouging rules "should apply to the party who actually sets the price of a product"—which, in Amazon's view, would "help law enforcement target the source of the problem."
Paul Rafelson, a Florida attorney who focuses on e-commerce issues disputes Amazon's contention that it's powerless to prevent price gouging on its site.
"This is nothing that Amazon couldn't police," Rafelson says. "They have categories, they know 'masks,' they could have put a categorical limit on price increases above 10% or above 20% and just canceled every listing above that."
Stacy Mitchell, the co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance non-profit and a critic of Amazon's market power, says Amazon already analyzes prices to calculate which sellers to suggest to buyers. "There's a set of factors that determine where sellers show up and you could write into those algorithms parameters around inflated prices. You could remove that seller's listing from showing up anywhere, or at least not make it the default seller. There is a way to do that."
Amazon claims it has "dynamic, automated systems in place that locate and remove unfairly priced items." It's not clear why those systems didn't function here. Aune sold his masks for more than a month, for instance, before Amazon took any apparent action. Amazon wouldn't comment on the record.
Beyond the sellers whom Amazon has reported to law enforcement, it says it has suspended more than 6,000 sellers' accounts for violating pricing rules around the pandemic.
Chris McCabe, a consultant whose company, ecommerceChris, helps Amazon sellers reinstate suspended accounts, suggests Amazon's systems for detecting price gouging after the fact are misbehaving too. "I'm working with sellers and getting them reinstated because their prices weren't gouging at all, but Amazon is saying that they are. There's tons of false positives. Amazon's basically carpet bombing."
Amazon's seemingly spotty ability to detect certain rule violations yet profit from others is akin to how Google and Facebook "banned" ads for over-priced face masks but their automated ad-selling algorithms kept selling them.
Amazon is "profiting from these prices. They know what's going on," Rafelson said. "They're saying, we have this scapegoat, called the seller, we'll just put the blame on them and we'll still make the money."
The price of some products sold by Amazon itself appear to have skyrocketed in early March, like these sanitizing wipes, which went from about $10 to about $30, according to data from price-tracking site CamelCamelCamel cited in a class-action lawsuit brought by law firm Hagens Berman. That was probably an accident, speculates Mitchell. "I don't know if people sat around at Amazon headquarters and said, 'here's our opportunity!' " But a similar sort of accident has led to some third-party sellers being "suspended" by Amazon. McCabe says many outside sellers used automatic-repricing software inexpertly. "You can't just wind it up and let it go, if your prices just keep going up and up then bad news happens," that is, an investigation for suspected price-gouging by Amazon and, perhaps, being kicked off the platform entirely.
Amazon said in a blog post it employs "more than 70 team members focused on identifying and investigating unfairly priced products." Amazon didn't respond to questions about what those team members do and whether they focus solely on suspected price-gouging or, for instance, enforcing Amazon's policies about third-party sellers charging more on Amazon than elsewhere.
Amazon's public-relations strategy for its price-gouging problem is to paint the marketplace as chaotic, Mitchell says.
"They act as though the chaos on the marketplace is something that they're trying to control," she says. "Amazon consistently presents itself as trying to police that but that the scale is just so vast that it can't quite keep up with it. That's it's line: 'We're cooperating with authorities. We're trying to stamp this out. It's hard to do and we can't quite get it all."
In truth, Amazon enforces some of its rules aggressively, Mitchell says. "If a seller violates a rule that matters to Amazon, they hear about it within a matter of hours and the retribution is swift and fatal in many cases. Amazon will just suspend your account and your business is over," she says.
When Amazon pleads helplessness, "I don't buy it," she says with a laugh.

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Grants from USDA, Elevate Ventures will help JUA Technologies International move past research and development
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – JUA Technologies International, a Purdue University-affiliated startup developing solar-powered crop-drying devices, has received federal and state grants worth $150,000 to help further develop the technology.
JUA Technologies International received a $100,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a $50,000 match investment from Elevate Ventures, through the 21st Century Research and Technology Fund. Elevate Ventures is a venture development organization that supports the development and success of entrepreneurs across Indiana.
The company was co-founded by the husband-wife team of Klein Ileleji, a professor in agricultural and biological engineering at Purdue, and Reiko Habuto Ileleji, a Purdue alumna who earned her PhD from Purdue's College of Education.
Klein Ileleji said the money will be used to take JUA Technologies' Dehymeleon, which can serve as a multipurpose solar dryer and a power generator, from the initial research and development stage to advance research in its improved thermal collector and smart control system designs for drying of various crops and multipurpose use.
The grants will enable JUA Technologies to test "proof of concepts" of its multi-crop drying algorithms that would position it to progress toward designing a product for manufacture and commercialization.
Drying crops so they can be stored is essential in developing countries, where farmers often spread crops along the roadside to dry. Ileleji estimates that as much as $20 billion worth of food goes to waste each year in developing countries because it is not dried properly. The National Institutes of Health estimates that a third of food is lost after harvest because of mold, insects and improper drying.
The Dehymeleon will be marketed to small growers in the United States and in developing countries, Ileleji said. It can be used for grains, oilseeds, fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, medicinal plants as well as tea, coffee and cocoa.
In the U.S., the technology is aimed at people who grow products to be sold at farmers markets.
"The Dehymeleon will be used by small and mid-size growers of specialty crops that have added value through drying," Ileleji said.
He is working on developing an advanced solar heat collector that would enable 24-hour drying, even on days when the sun isn't shining. He also is working on an advanced electronic control system that will allow users to set temperatures to optimize the drying for each particular crop category.
"You will be able to use the Dehymeleon to preserve essential nutrients in medicinal plants, tea, coffee and cocoa, which are very sensitive to temperature and ultraviolet light," Ileleji said.
Ileleji also has signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the Agricultural Research Service's Western Regional Research Center in Albany, California. It will enable the testing of prototypes of the Dehymeleon to study the rates of drying, nutrients profiles within the dried crops and other aspects of the drying in California, where a large number of specialty crops are grown in the U.S.
Ileleji believes when he is done with those studies, JUA Technologies will be ready to move ahead with its plans to begin design for manufacture of the Dehymeleon.
JUA Technologies International, which gets its name from the Kiswahili word jua, meaning sun and "to know," also has another product, called the Dehytray. It can dry products faster than the traditional open-sun drying technique by 24 hours under average conditions because temperatures inside are double the conventional drying methods that rely on the sun.
The concepts for the Dehytray and Dehymeleon were developed as part of the Purdue-led U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Feed-the-Future Innovation Lab project for Food Processing and Post-Harvest Handling.
Fast Company magazine in April selected Dehytray as one of a dozen finalists for "World Changing Ideas" in the food category. In February, the Dehytray was awarded the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers AE50 product design award.
The technology used by JUA Technologies International is licensed through the Purdue Office of Technology Commercialization
JUA Technologies received entrepreneurial support from the Purdue Foundry and funding through the Purdue Ag-Celerator Fund and the Elevate Purdue Foundry Fund.
This technology aligns with Purdue's Giant Leaps celebration, celebrating the university's global advancements made in sustainability as part of Purdue's 150th anniversary. It is one of the four themes of the yearlong celebration's Ideas Festival, designed to showcase Purdue as an intellectual center solving real-world issues.
About Purdue Research Foundation
The Purdue Research Foundation is a private, nonprofit foundation created to advance the mission of Purdue University. Established in 1930, the foundation accepts gifts; administers trusts; funds scholarships and grants; acquires property; protects Purdue's intellectual property; and promotes entrepreneurial activities on behalf of Purdue. The foundation manages the Purdue Foundry, Purdue Office of Technology Commercialization, Purdue Research Park and Purdue Technology Centers. The foundation received the 2016 Innovation and Economic Prosperity Universities Award for Innovation from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.For more information about funding and investment opportunities in startups based on a Purdue innovation, contact the Purdue Foundry at [email protected] For more information on licensing a Purdue innovation, contact the Office of Technology Commercialization at [email protected]
Purdue Research Foundation contact: Chris Adam, 765-588-3341, [email protected]
Source: Klein E. Ileleji, [email protected], [email protected]
Chris Adam
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Its been a busy time in Burleigh of late and there is no sign of slowing down before Christmas.
Highlights this past month include the opening of the newly resurfaced Burleigh Heads Ocean View Walking Track in the Burleigh Headland National Park, just in time for Spring. The national park is the centrepiece of our electorate where else can you take a bushwalk with ocean views in the heart of a City? The resurfacing and the widening in some parts has made the track much safer for the heavy traffic it sees daily.
Light Rail Stage 3a Broadbeach to Burleigh continues to be a major local issue with businesses and residents alike. I was glad to participate in the Chamber's Burleigh networking event focusing on the light rail, it was valuable opportunity to hear from stakeholders. As I have stated consistently for many years, I support light rail but I am opposed to light rail through Burleigh and on to Palm Beach. I believe light rail needs to track West to Varsity Lakes Station from West Burleigh Road and then head down to Coolangatta airport via the already allocated heavy rail corridor. I see this as the best option to service locals and tourists and to preserve the uniqueness of the Southern Gold Coast. Contact my office if you wish to have a copy of my submission to the Mayor opposing Stage 3a on behalf of 1553 petitioners.
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Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV Success in Japan
Melissa Buranen July 20, 2016 Film/TV
For those who might be unaware. Kingsglaive is computer-animated film created by Square Enix and Visual Works. The story and setting of film is based on the 2016 video game Final Fantasy XV. Thematically this is also connected to the Fabula Nova Crystallis subseries. The events of the film take place alongside the events of the game. The focus of this film is around Regis Lucis Caelum CXIII, the father of FFXV lead character Noctis. The film was created along side another multimedia to take away the need for more games.
Kingsglaive released on the July 9th in Japan and will be making its way to North America on August 19th.
Square Enix announced in a press release that after 10 days in theaters the CGI movie has grossed 105, 611,860 yen. Converting that in US dollars would $994,584. While not huge when comparing it to the lastest Hollywood hits in the US, it is still an achievement. Considering that the film was only available at 44 theaters nationwide of Japan. It pulled in 70,133 fans within only the first 10 days.
Feedback of the film is also very positive.
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 Городищенська волость — Заславського повіту Волинської губернії;
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Often considered a fringe topic in the realm of the paranormal, automatic writing was popular in the Victorian age when mysticism was all the rage.
Learn how to do automatic writing and about the fascinating history behind this intriguing skill.
You might just trigger a great work from beyond the veil!
1 What is Automatic Writing?
Automatic writing is believed to be writing that is channeled – much like a medium channels spirits – which is produced by supposedly occult or spiritual means, in place of the writer's own conscious intentions. It is also believed by some to be the subconscious thoughts of the writer.
After entering a meditative state or trance, the writer puts pen to paper and records whatever streams through.
There are other methods that have been employed, such as the writer blindfolding themselves or even going to extremes such as putting themselves under the extreme influence of alcohol, which is not advisable!
Not to be confused with stream of consciousness, where the writer or artist consciously produces work unfettered by rules or self-censorship, automatic writing appears to be spiritual intervention, where other "agencies" or entities come through the writer in order to convey their messages or to tell their own stories.
The writer is merely a vehicle, conduit or channel used by the disembodied spirit. Once the writing is done, it is then deciphered or interpreted by the writer and others who might be involved in the experiment.
Also called "psychography", automatic writing has been used as a spiritual practice since the late 1800's, with practitioners reporting seeing visions and feeling like external entities had taken over their bodies.
Sometimes related to occult activities such as the use of Ouija boards, it has been reported that the writer's arm is taken over by supposed spirits, with the sensation of lightness being felt during the process.
Spiritualists in the early 1900's used automatic writing in order to produce letters, messages and even books, after entering a trance. Investigators have advised that it's the subconscious coming through rather than external spirits, which is still debated to this day.
Create a quiet space where you won't be interrupted. Keep your desk or table clear of clutter, which is apparently a good way to make sure the spirits won't be distracted. If you prefer to believe that what comes through will be from your subconscious – having a clear and uncluttered space will be conducive to making sure that you can focus.
Using a pen may be a better option, seeing as pencils can either break or wear down. A large sheet of paper will allow an uninterrupted flow of the writing, but if you think you'd prefer a notebook and can trust yourself to keep turning the pages and not writing on the surface underneath, then that will work fine.
Try not to have a candle or anything flammable nearby, in case you accidentally knock it over. The same goes for drinks, vases filled with water and flowers or other objects which could get in the way or destroy your work. Wear comfortable clothing and try not to have any music or the TV on in the background, so you won't be distracted.
Take the pen in your hand and place the nib at the beginning or top of the page. Go into a meditative state by focusing on your breathing. Take at least a few minutes to get into the right frame of mind – by clearing or ignoring all random thoughts that will appear in the screen of your mind.
The idea is to suppress your own ideas and thinking so that there will be a clear space for the spirit (or your own subconscious) to come through. When your hand starts writing, do your best to either keep your eyes closed or focused on a spot on the wall, etc. Continue trying to keep your mind clear throughout the process.
If it feels as though your hand is straying away from the paper, pull back without looking at the page. Continue as long as it feels natural. When you feel that the time has come, put the pen down and take a look at what you've produced. Is it decipherable or a mish-mash of scribbles? You might only find a few words that make sense.
The idea is to try and interpret what was written without using your own personal filters, in case you muddle the message with your biased opinions or thoughts. If someone tried to use you as a conduit for their message, what are they trying to tell you? If it's from your own subconscious, what secrets have been divulged?
The following video is an effective guided meditation for using automatic writing, to contact your spirit guide and receive messages from them.
The art of automatic writing can be a fun way to discover secrets about yourself and the world, but you can also use the same techniques for automatic drawing.
Play around and see what comes out.
Whether you receive messages from your spirit guides, important alerts from the dearly departed or insights into your own spirituality, you'll be amazed with what you find!


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WATCH: "She Was My Pumpkin" - VB Shooting Victim's Father Speaks
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Laquita Brown's father, Dwight, was over his friend's house Friday night to celebrate his birthday.
He and his friend turned on the television and watched the tragic events of the Virginia Beach Municipal Center shooting that left 12 people dead unfold.
It wasn't until Dwight's son called him that he knew just how tragic the massacre was.
"Pops I got some bad news for you, ahh Laquita…she's been shot," his son said on the phone.
Dwight thought he could find her at a nearby hospital. "I don't know a lot of details, but she was never there or at any hospital. She never left the building."
His 39-year-old daughter was shot and killed in Building 2 at the center by the gunman who police say killed 11 others on that horrific day.
"She was my pumpkin. She hated when I called her pumpkin in these older years. That's my everything. My hands were the first hands to ever touch her at birth," said Dwight.
He says Laquita was a reincarnated Mother Theresa. She was fluent in three languages. She made it her mission to help others, particularly in times of devastation — an irony not lost on the loved ones she has left behind.
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So it's time for a bit of nail art, hand painted Disney nail art to be precise. JJ loves it when I do designs that she can just sit and look at for hours. We had just watched the trailer for the new Dumbo movie which is coming out and I suggested that we do a cute little Dumbo design.
Now, this is the animated Dumbo, I know the new film is live action but I prefer the animated version, it's just such a cute little elephant. Now the only things you really need to remember when hand painting with acrylic paint, is to matte off the nail, meaning that once you have chosen your color and applied it plus a top coat, just buff over the area on which you want to paint, this will help the paint to stick as it is applied instead of just sliding everywhere like it would on top coat.
Secondly, make sure you map out your designs, I never used to but when I discovered mapping out, my life became infinitely easier. get your shape right and then paint over the top, it will also make your art more pigmented as you have given it a base in the colour you are using which blocks the background colour even more.
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Leadership is a matter of influence.
I first realised this in a profound way when I was growing up in Nigeria. I am the eldest child in our family (as was my father) and come from a high-achieving Nigerian background. Anyone from a similar background will fully appreciate the weight of responsibility that goes with being the eldest child – and my father certainly drummed into me (almost on a daily basis) the importance of not only leading my younger siblings, but also being a 'positive influence' on them.
Coming from a strong medical background, the full expectation (and, indeed, assumption) was that I would become a doctor like my father, mother and several other family members. My father ran a successful private hospital and maternity home in Lagos, was himself a talented, German-trained doctor and saw his investment in my private British education as being a worthwhile one, very much with a view to me following suit – returning to Nigeria as a British-trained doctor to, one day, run his hospital with my siblings. When I 'rebelled' and decided against a career in medicine, opting for law instead, my father's reaction was that of any loving father who feared that I might, in fact, prove to be a 'bad influence' on his other children. Thankfully, this fear was not realised as my brother and sister both decided to become doctors despite my decision to become a solicitor!
So to me, leadership is all about influence – whether positive or negative. The word 'influence' does, unfortunately, tend to have negative connotations, implying that someone is being forced (or, even, hypnotised or brain-washed) into doing something against their free will. Looking to one of the most reliable sources for the true meaning of 'influence', I consulted the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary to find that influence is described as being "the effect that somebody/something has on the way a person thinks or behaves or on the way that something works or develops". Clearly, this can be both positive and negative: as a leader, you can have both a positive and a negative influence on others. But essentially, to be an effective leader, you need to have an impact on how people behave or think. Leadership without impact is not effective leadership.
Do you have to be loved or respected to be an effective leader – or can simply being feared be enough for effective leadership? To me, leadership is certainly not a popularity contest. As a leader, I have had to make unpopular decisions which were in fact the right decision. Machiavelli may have felt that it was better to be feared than loved but whilst being feared as a leader may be effective in influencing others, this is not necessarily a positive influence – the basis of effective leadership must, at the very least, be respect. Without respect, leadership becomes about forcing those looking to you for leadership to think and behave in a certain way. I have certainly experienced that leadership style myself, including the damaging impact that had on morale within the team at the time. Yes, business goals were reached but at what cost? We had no respect for our leader, only fear, and it was this fear that made us do what our leader demanded of us. To me, that is bad leadership and certainly not the type of leadership style that I would ever want to emulate.
Because of some of the bad examples of leadership that I have experienced throughout my career, I have come to appreciate good leadership all the more and have gone to great efforts to improve my own leadership style. I believe that the desire to constantly strive for excellence is at the heart of effective leadership – I will never stop learning or developing. Every leader should strive for excellence and should hope to not only be described as a 'good leader', an 'effective leader', a 'talented leader' or a 'natural leader' but, ultimately, an 'inspiring leader'.
When I asked my 13-year-old son to tell me honestly what he thought of me as a leader, he summarised my leadership style succinctly and said: "Mummy, you are kind, you know what's what but you are very feisty". So there we have it!
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Hue Rhodes is every professor's dream. He may have arrived at NYU to study film rather late compared to his peers, but his drive to succeed and passion for the art made him a model student. During a roundtable interview, the first time writer/director gushed about all he learned at school and how it made him the filmmaker he is today.
His mentors should be proud because his feature debut, Saint John of Las Vegas, makes its way into theaters in New York and Los Angeles on January 29th with a wider release planned for February 12th. What's even more impressive is the brilliant minds he attracted to join the project. Not only does the film star Steve Buscemi, Romany Malco, Sarah Silverman, Peter Dinklage, Tim Blake Nelson, John Cho and Emmanuelle Chriqui, but it's executive produced by Buscemi, Wren Arthur, Stanley Tucci and Spike Lee.
The film boasts a unique charm, just like its creator. Saint John is Rhodes' first feature film, but it certainly won't be his last. Check out what Rhodes says about his journey to the director's chair and lessons he's learned for the future.
As a first time writer/director, what was the thing that surprised you the most about filmmaking?
The whole experience is pretty surprising. The first day of production there's tents and trucks! Huge tents for food and it looks like, it actually looked bigger than the Law & Order shoots in the city because here in New York they spread the trailers out just for traffic, but in New Mexico we took over a huge Target parking lot. That first day the kind of enormity of all of these people running around I think was the most surprising.
You've been very busy in other industries before getting into filmmaking. How'd the transition come about?
I had no art background. I went to undergrad and grad school for engineering and I worked in software for six years. I was the manager for online music and DVDs for bluelight.com, which was Kmart online and I got invited to a big conference where the retailers make the advanced buys on the DVDs. So several years ago, let's say, Wal-Mart committed to buying five million copies of Avatar before it had finished and the studios would use that advanced buys leverage to finance the movie. I had no idea that this happened, but watching this sale happen it got demystified a little bit, just enough I could sort of see how a movie might get made. I didn't know what any of the people did at the end of the credits. I like to say, you can eat your whole life and not know how to cook. But seeing that money flow, just enough, it was like a little crack, I go, 'Maybe I could do that.' But I didn't even know what that was.
I took a bunch of community college classes at San Francisco on anything that was under their film category just to see what the different jobs were and I loved all of them. I made a couple of short films and they were not particularly good. [Laughs] I shot a documentary, I sent it to NYU and they liked it. Not because you would like it but I think because I made some, what they thought were smart decisions. The documentary was 20 minutes long and I put the tragic stuff at minute 13 or 14 and when I as interviewing with NYU they said, 'You know, that's not the intuitive thing to do. Most people, if they try to break your heart, they try to break it upfront.' To know that the heartbreak will only come if you give 13 minutes of time and then heartbreak, they appreciated that and they liked that and that was enough for them. And once I started film school that was my new vocation. I was a little older when I went. I was 31 when I started and I just treated it like a professional school. I was definitely all in and I threw myself in and I threw my wife.
You've got an impressive group of people backing you up on this project. How'd they get involved.
I met Spike [Lee] at NYU. He had offered to help as a faculty member. He'd help people with their short films and I met with him and I said, 'I've got a feature script. Will you read it?' and he said, 'No.' But he said, 'Do you have a summary? I'll read that.' So I made an appointment two weeks later and I came back and he goes, 'This is good. Is the script this good?' And I said, 'Yeah it is.' He goes, 'Gimmie the script.' So then I had it in the bag because I'd read that Spike expects you to like, 'Why aren't you carrying you're movies, why aren't you carrying your scripts?' He is so hustle oriented. He was glad that I had it and then he read it and two weeks later he talked to me about it and he was so insightful.
The part that was not in the movie when he read it was the part in the minimart where he's all beat up. And [Spike] said, 'Look, you've basically got a gambling addict who gets assigned to Vegas. That is not enough to make dramatic tension because you could gamble yourself to death online.' He said, 'I need to know the kind of things that happen to John in Vegas.' He did have the 1,000 bucks in the car and I thought – I love Vegas. Love it, love it – but I think that if you were weak enough to take 1,000 bucks and go to the strip and blow it all on the roll of the dice and if Vegas smelled that in you, it would take your money in a minimart. That's what happens in Vegas, loss of dignity and control. In John's mind, when he had that money he was headed to the strip, he was picking up the girl who worked there and he was just going to go out in a blaze of glory, but he gets his dignity taken and that's the pain, that's the reason that he has to stay away. Not because he has a gambling problem, but for loss of dignity. That's when the script really came alive, when I got to write that last scene and then [Spike] agreed to also be an executive producer, which he vouched for me and that meant a lot. At first it was just NYU film student, hey I've got a script and then Spike agreed to be executive producer, a lot of people would give it a second look.
How'd Steve get the script?
We had been hustling other people and trying to exploit ever connect we had. I had given the script to somebody who gave it to a friend who gave it to a friend who gave it to Steve's agent who gave it to Steve. So we found out that he had it kind of indirectly while we were busy begging and pleading somewhere else. And he read it and he liked it. We had a great talk. I think Steve and I resonated and he liked my shorts films. And then that's where Stanley [Tucci] came in because Steve and Stanley and Wren Arthur had started a production company called Olive and they said, 'Not only does Steve want to be in this movie, but we'd like to make this our first production.' I've heard that sometimes celebrities will take a producer credit to be in that end of it, but they were extremely active. They were active in pre-production, they were active in casting, production design. I definitely owe a lot to Steve and Olive Productions.
What'd you learn while making this film that you'll consider for your next?
It's hard to point to a specific, but certainly as I'm writing now I have a clearer sense of how this might end up in the end. I'd made some short films but a feature is just different in terms of its scope. The thing that I'm very happy about what we did was I think we took the constraints that we were given, that any independent film is given, and our mantra on set was let's pretend like we wanted it this way. For example, we didn't have a lot of shooting time. So we decided always to shoot square to the plain, make all the singles clean. There are no dirty over-the-shoulders in the movie. There are no faces. Everything is clean, square. So we set up this structure for shooting, always square to the plain, always clean. It makes it feel wonderfully designed, but it also became a great shorthand. Once things get geometric that way, you can skip a lot of other steps. I think that kind of decision and that kind of spirit would be extremely important to take on because there will always constraints and limitations.