Well it looks like someone jumped the gun and thinks today is the 1st May. For those who have BMI Gold or BMI Silver status, you can now do a Tier status match. For those who haven't joined Executive Club, head to http://www.britishairways.com/main/execenrol/?campaignCode=ECBMI1 to enrol. Once you've done that, head to http://www.ba.com/tiermatch and you'll get this … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2012
BA Status Match for BMI Diamond Club holders opens tomorrow – and some reminders…
EDITED: Status match commenced! It's a quick reminder from GhettoIFE towers for of you who are BMI Gold or Silver... the great BA Status Match begins NOW at http:/www.ba.com/tiermatch. Details of the mechanism of how and where to do it have been revealed revealed, and I suggest it would be a good idea to create yourself a British Airways Executive Club account if you … [Read more...]
The bad joke that is UK Immigration
In what airport in the world do you stick 3 Europe Immigration Agents and 1 for the Rest of the World visitors - and have a 2 and a half hour process time? Nope - not the C/D Concourse at Washington Dulles (although it's happened more than once), this time - a Terminal of London Heathrow Airport. Terminal 5 to be precise. Welcome to the world of immigration staff on … [Read more...]
Airplane Art – DragonAir A330
It's Sunday again, so it must be time for some Airplane Art from my photographic collection. This week, it's a DragonAir Airbus A330 taxing at its home base of Hong Kong International Airport The image is clickable if you want to see a larger version! More airplane art of course next week! … [Read more...]
Airplane Repaint Saturday – Alitalia Airbus A321
It's Saturday again, so it must be time to put another plane in the paint shop. This week, an Alitalia Airbus A321 getting a fresh coat in the paintshop. More of course next week! … [Read more...]
Boeing to consider a proper 757 replacement
The Boeing 757. Like it or not, a LOT of us have flown on them. From its origins as a replacement for the 727 series (in which the 757 was "too big" for the job), to its original use of shuttle lots people in a metal tube from one place to another, to it's later life as the aircraft of choice for running long and thin routes (eg Dublin to Newark, Manchester to New York JFK, New … [Read more...]
Talks over BMI Regional continue
In some good news, it seems that talks with Granite Aviation and IAG are in progress over the long term fate of BMI Regional. BMI Regional is the arm of BMI that runs services from some of the UK Regional airports - as well has having a heavy Scottish presence. They operate a fleet of 4 Embraer ERJ-135's and 15 ERJ-145's, focusing on high value traffic, employing 330 … [Read more...]
Worst. Promotion. Ever.
And it goes to Lufthansa for their promotion today to wind €30 of Food vouchers at Berlin Brandenburg Airport when it opens in 36 days time. Yes. I'm quite serious. Head to http://www.ber-countdown.com/index.php?cc=uk&lc=en to laugh. For those who don't wish to waste the bandwidth, look below. Well, about the only good thing is the promised £39 single … [Read more...]
Wild landings at Bilbao
There have been wild winds at Bilbao in Spain that have... well... look at the video below. There's some pilots who flew in there today who have really earned their wages... … [Read more...]
Finnair to introduce lifetime Status
Finnair has thrown an interesting possibility out there - lifetime status. Here are the numbers to make you wince. If you earn over 3,000,000 tier points you're up for lifetime Gold status, If you earn over 5,000,000 tier points will receive lifetime Platinum status. All tier points so far accrued will count towards these massive goals, both on Finnair metal and … [Read more...]
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