It’s that time of the week again, where I look back at some of the events I’ve covered in Last Week at Economy Class and Beyond.
Do you even lift? – Engineering work on Corporation Street, as the Midland Metro are upgrading their tracks… five years after the first tram rolled down them.
Escape to The Village
Time to wrap up this trip report – with a big highlight of the trip, as well as some lowlights. And I’m not referring to many hours in an Express Sprinter.
- Welcome to Your Village, Portmeirion
- Free to go… home? Trains with Transport for Wales
- Aftermath: Free to Go, Or Free to Stay?
Seating
- Geven Seating unveils their new Economy Seat – Introducing “Elemento” – Part of the new Geven seating family. It’ll be something I need to see in person, rather than see renders of to really get a good impression of it.
New Aircraft News
- SkyWest orders a further 16 Embraer E175 aircraft – More E175s heading to SkyWest
Routes and Networks
- Air France to return to Seattle – Seems the Delta/Air France push is still is resuming
- Virgin Atlantic adds Long Haul services from Edinburgh, adds further Caribbean capacity – Although this could be at the cost of Glasgow
- Norse Atlantic tries to crack North Atlantic Low-Cost Flying – Does Norwegian Long-Haul version 2.0 stand a chance?
- Emirates prepares for a major Dubai network ramp-up, with UK, USA and Africa boosted – All aboard to Dubai, with growth ramping up
- Delta Air Lines partners with Thalys for Air+Rail connections – Letting the train take the strain
- Norwegian Air Shuttle plots Summer 2022 plans – Well, you’ve got to try to plan to succeed for the next big travel seasons.
- JetBlue launched their New York-JFK to London Heathrow service – Could this be the true competition we’ve been waiting for? I’ll find out, once Joe decides when the rest of the world is clean enough to enter the USA.
You like to pay to roam, don’t you?
- Vodafone UK to re-introduce EU Roaming charges – Guess they meant Brexit means paying more to use your phone abroad. But hey! Blue Passports.
Pretty Pictures
Next Week
With a trip report out of my system, we’re back to our usual mix of coverage. And maybe a long term review or two that have been in the pipeline.
But until then, stay safe out there.
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