It’s once again that time of the week where I post a bunch of links, add some witty commentary and try and get ready for the next week on this blog.
Yes, it’s Last Week at Economy Class and Beyond
This week in “Photos from my iPhone that honestly I take more than a few seconds to plan”, all being well – I’m out on a shoot tomorrow. Heck. Most of these might be suitable even for this blog…
HOWTO
- Combine Avios – An easy guide to merge Aer Club and BA Exec Account Balances – A useful guide for those who have random Avios balances elsewhere, and need to merge them into one account.
New Aircraft News
- Air Transat deploys its A321LR to London Gatwick – The LR NEO enters the Gatwick Matrix. Red or Blue Pill time?
- ATR formally launches the ATR42-600S programme – Want an aircraft that can fill upto 42 passengers which can operate on a runway of 800 or greater? ATR has you covered
- Airbus delivers the 1000th A320neo family aircraft to IndiGo – 1000 NEO’s in The Matrix now.
Routes and Networks
- Finnair adds Helsinki – Tokyo Haneda – Finnair adds Haneda to its network. Depending on where you’re staying in the Tokyo region that could be a benefit… or a curse.
- airBaltic expands its network – welcomes Manchester, Yerevan – airBaltic continues to flex it’s Airbus A220-300 fleet in different directions.
- Norwegian plans Transatlantic service increases for Summer 2020 – Good news if you’re wanting to fly Norwegian for Summer 2020 with a lot of routes getting more frequenices.
Trip Report – Summer Premium Adventures
This trip report is speeding up a little with the publishing behind it. We’ve got another couple of weeks with this – so work with me as we should be getting back to QSuites soon enough…
- The Intercontinental Singapore, Bugis
- The National Orchid Garden, Singapore
- To Changi, The Jewel and the Pokemon Centre
- Scoot TR604 Singapore to Bangkok
Trip Report – An Irish Aviation Enthusiasts day out
It’s time to kick off this short and sweet trip report. And yes… I wrote this well in advance of completing the other one. How that works, some let me know please..
- An Irish Aviation Enthusiasts day out – with Dublin Airport, Irish Ferries and Aer Lingus
- Night Train to Holyhead
- Holyhead to Dublin Ferryport aboard M/V Ulysses (Club Class)
- Exploring Dublin Early in the Morning
Pretty Pictures
Next week
I’m in the process of ramping up to my next big US Trip at the moment as well as getting more than a few pressure deadlines in the real world. As such, I’ll be trying to keep the articles flowing over the weekend – but there may be more than a few hiccups depending on what time I get to actually do anything.
I do have some nice preprepared content too (in the form of two on-going trip reports), so there will be some content.
Happy landings!
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