We’re past a few more holidays as we now all barrel towards the Christmas and New Year Travel Period. And no, you can’t escape it any more.
However, we’ve got a few headlines to go through. Yes, it’s time for Last Week at Economy Class and Beyond.
Night-time commuters – Solihull Station
New Aircraft, Old Friends
Three more from my recent trip report this week. It might be four next week, as I juggle the publishing schedule around…
- Into the USA… and Dealing with a Credit Card Fraud Call
- Holiday Inn/Staybridge Suites, Rosemont
- Airplane Art Extra from the Holiday Inn/Staybridge Suites, Rosemont
Routes and Networks
- LOT Polish Airlines looks for flowers in its hair – Off to San Francisco – If you’re going to San Francisco…
- Qatar Airways Boosts Winter flights to Kuala Lumpur, Lagos, Shanghai, and Singapore – East is the answer for Qatar.
- Iberia to add Madrid to Newark, NJ route from March 2026 – with an A321XLR
- Emirates to deploy an Airbus A350 to Montréal, Canada – replacing the existing Boeing 777 on the route
- Air Arabia to add Sharjah to London Gatwick – Another connection from Gatwick to the UAE for the budget-minded….
New Aircraft News
Pretty Pictures
- British Airways Boeing 787-9 parked at London Heathrow
- Why have one special livery when you can have a fleet of them – Lufthansa gets the paint buckets out for its 100th anniversary
- Airplane Art Extra from the Holiday Inn/Staybridge Suites, Rosemont
Next Week
We’ve got a semi-busy week at Economy Class and Beyond, as there are a few things that I’m working on in the background for a few weeks. And yes, I’m being that cloak and dagger about it… because it’s fun.
On the blog, we’re going to aim to have four more parts of the trip report out, as I start to pull this trip to a conclusion of some sort (with all the major writing almost done for it). On top of that, we’ll have our mixture of news, views and anything I feel like writing about.
Until then, Happy Landings!
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