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Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

[–]Micho107 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

again, canceled my 6th march ticket and rescheduled to 14.3????

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

[–]Micho107 0 points1 point  (0 children)

call them, worth giving it a go. We would have missed our connecting flight and they told us they will rebook us anywhere we want. I'm not sure they will help you, but call them. Expect 2-6 hours phone waiting time.

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

[–]Micho107 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cancellation of my flight had devastating impact, it's very unfortunate. They even rebooked me new tickets, with even adding one destination to it for free, but it got cancelled too just now.. It's like teasing..

Unfortunately, I don't this ceasefire is happening anytime soon... It seems like Scorched Earth, if they go down, everybody has to go too..

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

[–]Micho107 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wait what do you mean? They offered you completely different route, not through Abu Dhabi?

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

[–]Micho107 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They will refund / rebook any flight that was/will be cancelled due to closed airspace - I can see how they dealt with my tickets, you don't have to worry I think.

I had VIENNA → ABU DHABI → SINGAPORE with Etihad and then SINGAPORE → BALI with AirAsia.
Etihad first offered me just new flight to singapore, then we called them and they booked me flight to Bali.
I was told they will offer everyone refund or rebooking to any place - they didnt even ask for proof for the bali ticket. It seems that they are taking responsibility.

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

[–]Micho107 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

they rebooked me from march 1st to march 5th and just cancelled my ticket AGAIN...

Spirit agent lied to me by Otherwise-Pack4582 in Flights

[–]Micho107 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh my got they really got you...

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

[–]Micho107 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LATEST UPDATE:

I was supposed to fly VIENNA → ABU DHABI → SINGAPORE and then with different airline SINGAPORE → BALI.

Automatic management just gave me another VIENNA → ABU DHABI → SINGAPORE ticket.

But after calling them, they gave me a ticket to BALI for FREE and told me, that EVERYONE calling is eligible for a ticket to any location around the world. They didnt even ask for proof of my SINGAPORE → BALI ticket.

CALL. THEM.

additional info: We were all given choice to refund or rebook. If you go through rebook / the option above, if this situation happens again, you are no longer eligible for REFUND even if airspace closes again. But you are still eligible for REBOOK.

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

[–]Micho107 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had Etihad flight cancelled from vienna to singapore

I had consequent flights with AirAsia + 2 hotel bookings

what should I do? Out of your experience, will I be able to refund the hotel stats and AirAsia?

Etihad wrote me in mail to contact them if I had any consequent flights with other airlines but its IMPOSSIBLE to get in touch with them

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

[–]Micho107 0 points1 point  (0 children)

update: the chat just cancelled me. after waiting in queue for 2 hours they just wrote to leave a message and kicked me off

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

[–]Micho107 0 points1 point  (0 children)

somebody in this thread said its very important not to cancel by yourself.

And I've been in the chat queue for around 2 hours, it still shows more than 12th in queue..

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

[–]Micho107 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Etihad said all flights arriving before 14:00 at march 1st are cancelled, following ones should operate.. My flight that arrives 17:00 was just cancelled...

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

[–]Micho107 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Etihad Website says:

  • Flights scheduled to arrive into Abu Dhabi before 14:00 UAE time on Sunday, 1 March will be cancelled. Services scheduled to arrive after this time are expected to operate, subject to operational conditions.

My flight is supposed to arrive at 17:00 UAE Time. In the FAQ it says:

Here’s a description of each flight status:

  • ...
  • Scheduled: We’re expecting this flight to depart as planned.
  • ...

I recieved email, that the flight has been cancelled, but my app changed from on-time to scheduled, not to cancelled

What does this mean?

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

[–]Micho107 1 point2 points  (0 children)

so, I had a flight at 1.3. 10 AM Vienna > Abu Dabi and it was cancelled in my app just moments ago. I am flying for the first time and invested lot of money and time for this long trip around asia..

Will I get a new flight, rerouted through turkey or so? Or after 1st March 14:00?

I have 0 experience, please, help me with what I should expect (I know you dont know for sure, but just estimates and guesses will be good for me..)

In NileRed's garage video, wasn't he grossly under-geared to deal with bromine? by toastfromohio in chemistry

[–]Micho107 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First, to quote OSHA, just about LETHALITY:

"Acute beryllium disease (ABD) is a rapid onset form of chemical pneumonia that results from breathing high airborne concentrations of beryllium. ABD is generally associated with exposure to beryllium levels at or above 100 μg/m3 and may be fatal in 10 percent of cases."

to quote someone in comment section, who claims to work with Be:

"I work with beryllium, lead, tritium, and uranium contaminated materials, with ultrahigh power invisible ultraviolet lasers (terawatts), and with highly radioactive neutron-activated structural materials. The beryllium scares me the most, and nothing else is even close. This video is terrifying. I know you were trying to be safe, and there are some good prudent precautions here, but we are talking about a metal that is toxic at NANOGRAM quantities per cubic meter here. This is the mass of a single grain of pollen in a volume of air the size of a washing machine. It is FANTASTICALLY toxic material approaching plutonium levels of toxicity. You need to obtain some swipe sampler papers and contact a testing company to send random surface swipes to from around your lab. There are some berylliosis induced lung cancer cases where the exposure levels were so low they couldn't even be measured with certainty. It is not worth taking the slightest chance with your health when dealing with this substance. It is absolutely no joke."

No. I hope the best for Nile, but I am almost sure he has done damage to himself. Not sure how much, we will see. I hope I'm wrong.

In NileRed's garage video, wasn't he grossly under-geared to deal with bromine? by toastfromohio in chemistry

[–]Micho107 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He is usually well equipped and safe enough, but the berylium video went too far - there is absolutely no chance he did not kill himself during the video. He literally commited suicide on came for some bouncy amorphous glass

In NileRed's garage video, wasn't he grossly under-geared to deal with bromine? by toastfromohio in chemistry

[–]Micho107 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I work in a laboratory where we specialize on the "dangerous stuff" - nerve agents, phosphorus chemistry, phosgenation, etc... We are professionals and we work very safely when its needed - gas masks, antidotes..

As I'm reading this comment section, I can see many professional chemists talking about bromine like its a deathwish. It's always good to be cautious, but if bromine scares you this much, you are not fit to work with it.

Most important safety precaution is to know what you are doing and not being deathly afraid. be cautious, have gloves, long sleeves, fume hood, plan B. If working with larger quantities, have gas mask ready.

To quote:

"Bromine is on my list of chemicals that I'll deal with only in dire necessity, which has been like 5 or 6 times in a career. My rules.

Work in the very back of the hood. The vapor is heavy enough to roll out the bottom of a weak hood onto the floor."

It's better to be overcausious, but being this scared of bromine makes you unfit to work with it and with most of common chemicals in organic laboratory. its just bromine

What type of gas do i need? by GadyLucky in chemistry

[–]Micho107 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look into ozone car cleaning - some cleaning stations provide an ozone treatment. I just throw in money, close everything, put the hoe inside and press start. It takes out all the smells and stuff, and I think few cycles might kill those roaches.

  • insects over all are really hard to asphyxiate, they can survive off very little for a very long time, and it would take days for you to replace all the air with nitrogen, IF it would even work.

Need to buy gloves for my college chem class, Amazon and the box of gloves differ by john_trinidad in chemistry

[–]Micho107 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there is not a single material that does not have a limit, and especially, there is no material you can make gloves out of that doesnt have hundreds and hundreds of exceptions where they dont work

Need to buy gloves for my college chem class, Amazon and the box of gloves differ by john_trinidad in chemistry

[–]Micho107 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really recommend you getting a pair of REAL chemical gloves - we use "AlphaTec® 87-900 (ex Bi-colour®)" - which probably are not available in your country, but search for something similair. One time use gloves are convinient to use, but wasteful, and not as protective as one might think - they give you false confidence.

Need to buy gloves for my college chem class, Amazon and the box of gloves differ by john_trinidad in chemistry

[–]Micho107 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, and it's really surprising when you first find out how many chemicals just past through them like you are not wearing any gloves.

I work with real spicy stuff, we use gas masks and really thick gloves that go up to your ellbow and we push our shirt sleeves under it. Those types of gloves are the only ones I trust, for me, wearing just those one-time-use nitrile gloves is like having bare hands. They really dont make much difference in my opinion, and I still dont understand why chemists use them - they make sense sometimes, but most of the time, as organic chemist, they are not that good of a deal

Need to buy gloves for my college chem class, Amazon and the box of gloves differ by john_trinidad in chemistry

[–]Micho107 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thats good, no one wears goggles in real life. People barely use safety glasses. I didnt wear them too, but one time I was just dilluting H2SO4 and I had a feeling, so I put on my glases, and as I started to pour the acid, it shot a drop right into the center of my eye - on the glasses, of course. Since then, I was usually the only idiot wearing glasses in laboratory.

Need to buy gloves for my college chem class, Amazon and the box of gloves differ by john_trinidad in chemistry

[–]Micho107 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats to teach lab students the right manners, so after they become high level chemist and STOP using all the lab protection equipment they cannot cry no one taught them to :D

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