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| Australia's Virgin Airline's Pacific
Blue will start 11 flights a week from Australia to Bali starting December
1. From Brisbane there will be 5 direct flights, Perth 4, & Adelaide
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2112
Seats Per Week
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| Sydney and Melbourne passengers fly
Virgin Blue to connect with flights from Brisbane, Adelaide or Perth. Pacific
Blue will operate Boeing 737-800's, on new routes. Unusual for a B737 to
fly these long international routes, however the 737-800 model has a range
of 4,934Km and is quite capable of flying the 4,493Km Brisbane-Bali and
the 3,765Km Adelaide-Bali. |
| We checked out Virgin
Blue web and found these fares; |
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A$
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1,070
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1,080
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| JetStar who were asking ~A$1,400
return to Bali have lowered their fare to A$1,079 Rt SYD/MEL-DPS. |
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Garuda Indonesia
Resumes Brisbane Flights Dec. 14
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| Garuda
Indonesia
will resume services from Brisbane to Bali three times a week, from 14
December. |
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| Garuda will operate A330 aircraft
on the route offering 869 seats a week. Flights will depart BNE every Tue,
Fri & Sun morning, arriving in Bali early afternoon. Return flights
leave Bali just before midnight arriving early morning in Brisbane. |
| Poerwoko Soeparyono, senior
general manager Australia and South West Pacific for Garuda Indonesia,
said the airline will make an announcement shortly regarding |
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Poerwoko
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Soeparyono
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| fares and arrangements for passengers,
currently booked on Garuda flights via Sydney. Garuda cancelled flying
to Brisbane after the Bali bomb due to lack of demand. |
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John Gets an Acer
Aspire One Netbook
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| Acer Aspire One, Linux OS mini- netbook
portable computer. |
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Great For Backpacking
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| The model 110 is unique
in that it |
| doesn't have a mechanical
hard disk and instead uses a solid state 6 GB SSD |
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| memory, resulting in an extremely
robust unit, capable of handling the knocks and bumps of on-the-road boots
and all backpacker travelling. |
| It has 2 extra SSD slots 1 for adding
to the SSD Hard Disk memory and another for data. It runs on battery for
3 hours and has WiFi, LAN and 3 USB ports. The Linux OS comes complete
with Firefox, OpenOffice, Paint, Media Player, Acer Mail etc. |
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| The Acer One is tiny & weighs
just under 1kg has an 8½ LCD Screen, and a real size keyboard. The
CPU is is the new Intel Atom processor with Intel 945GSE Express chipset
and Intel 82801GBM I/O controller. Asia price ~A$350 Australia A$550. |
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Check Your Ruler - it's tiny
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John Surfing at Pattaya Beach
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| John just loves his Acer Aspire One.
A more expensive model the 150 is available with a conventional Hard Disk
& Windows XP. But of course not as robust with the conventional Hard
Disk. Read Wikipedia
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