We’re in the final weekend before Christmas, where the world is going quite mad in the run-up to the big day.
But here to inject a little sanity as well as random aviation news headlines, it’s time for Last Week at Economy Class and Beyond.
A rather minimalist wide view, inside The Mailbox, Central Birmingham.
End of Year orders
- Luxair signs for further Embraer E195-E2 – Exercising options for two more aircraft.
- Pegasus Airlines selects further Boeing 737 MAX aircraft – Stealing the show with 100 orders + 100 options.
- Air Canada signs for five further Airbus A220 aircraft – Five More A220-300s.
- Lufthansa adds a further five Airbus A350 aircraft to its backlog – and five more A350-1000s to round out the week.
New Aircraft Deliveries
- Aer Lingus takes delivery of its first Airbus A321XLR – Not one, but two aircraft delivered to the Irish Flag Carrier… and are in service.
Passenger Experience
- Aer Lingus Enables Apple’s Find My “Share Item Location” to help find your lost Baggage – Along with a few others.
- Emirates lines up festive activities on the ground and in the air – Why can’t you celebrate Christmas in the air?
- KLM completes rollout of Premium Comfort Class (Premium economy) – KLM catches up to Delta, Air France and Virgin Atlantic.
Routes and Networks
- Qatar Airways to relaunch services to Canberra, Australia – The return of the Melbourne tag-on flight.
Kevin is annoyed at Adobe
- Adobe does what Adobe does best – Price Hikes Ahoy – If you’re an Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop user, check when your contract ends. Adobe has done and an Adobe. After all, it would be a shame if you couldn’t access your images, wouldn’t it?
Pretty Pictures
Next Week
It’s going to quieten down a lot next week, as we head into Christmas and New Year weeks. I’ll be using the time to take a step back too, as we all need time over the period to stop, reflect and relax.
That’s unless something stupid happens.
I’ll have a couple of bits of work out during this period that might be interesting. Alternatively, I might just post Airplane Art through the quiet news days.
And yes – we’ll have a Review 2024, where I’ll spend some time going through the headlines and seeing what trends I can tease out.
So, until next week – Happy Landings!
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