Last Week at Economy Class and Beyond (16th May)

It’s the end of another busy week, so it must be time for me to corral the news into an easy-to-digest format as I recover from two hours on the M6 Motorway in the rain and spray.

Time for Last Week at Economy Class and Beyond.

Birmingham Canal Old Line, Birmingham City Centre

TRIP REPORT: Still for the Friends

For some reason, I managed to push four parts of this out. Next week, we’re back to the experience of airports and flying.

• Airplane Art Extra from the Hyatt Regency O’Hare
• The Gundam Base, Chicago
• Random Chicago Eats
• Off the Camera Roll – Views and Images of a Windy City

Routes and Networks

• Qatar Airways to add service to Caracas and Bogotá – A new triangle route
• Qatar Airways restores connectivity to Abu Dhabi – and doubles daily to Abu Dhabi
• United Airlines to launch a San Francisco-Sapporo Service – three times a week for the winter

Passenger Experience

• EVA Air to implement Panasonic ARC Maps –  New maps for EVA Air

New Aircraft News

• Lufthansa Group board greenlights the purchase of further Boeing and Airbus Widebody Aircraft – 10 of each

Seating

• A deeper dive into the Mirus Aircraft Seating Kestral – the new easyJet seat – It’s not bad.

The Business of Aviation

• When two finally become one – Korean Air to fully subsume Asiana Airlines by December – Nearly six years in the making

Rail

• Building a new Enterprise – Stadler to build Enterprise Trains for Iarnród Éireann and Translink  – Eight new FLIRTs for the joint Enterprise Service
• Lumo confirms launch date of its new Stirling to London Service – One service to start, then will scale up.

Next Week

We’re going into high gear with another four parts of the trip report coming out, as well as our usual mix of headlines, news and views. I’ll also have a few more bits that caught my eye at AIX this year.

I’m also cooking up the Hamburg trip report, too, which is nearly written, save for one chapter and a lot of image placement. – so plenty of content as we continue on our merry way.

So until next week, Happy landings!

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