Economy Class & Beyond

Cyprus Airways shut down

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It seems the grim reaper has come for Cyprus Airways at last - with the plug pulled on the airline on Friday Evening. According to the European Union Commission, the government of Cyprus had breached the rules on state aid for struggling companies. The airline had been state aid on multiple occasions - and was ordered to pay back  65 million euros out of a 103 million … [Read more...]

Gogo no longer replacing Digital Certificates on sites? Maybe

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Good morning from US1510 as I'm my next leg to Phoenix, Arizona. Time to update a story that I looked into earlier this week, when Gogo wireless were appearing to do man in the middle attacks by inserting their own certificates to manage traffic to streaming sites - such as Youtube. Well, being at 35,000 fit using GoGo today (But buy it on the ground - $16 vs $30 or so on … [Read more...]

Snapshot: BA CityFlyer Dublin to London City Airport

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Time for another Snapshot whilst I'm in the air elsewhere - this time focusing on British Airways CityFlyer between Dublin and London City Airport British Airways operates Embraer E-Jets - today, an E-190SR was rostered for the flight to City The cabin itself had lots of space... where I was. Yes, I was in row 1A. Galley space Plenty of … [Read more...]

Morning from London City Airport….

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Yes, I'm back at City Airport. Why? Not for the variety of power points. Notes - each bank has a UK, US, EU and a USB Port. Tidy.Nor the shopping. Nor the free use of an iPad. Sponsored by Bloomberg... not that I'm moaning. Rather this little plane. It wants to be a big plane when it grows up! Much more in the snapshot later on ;) Welcome to … [Read more...]

Scottish winds and storms – affecting travel

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For those of you who are setting off on travels today, it could be wise to check before you travel as UK travel will be disrupted today due to high winds in the North of England and Scotland - with reports of 100 mile per hour gusts. At the time of writing (08:00GMT),9th January : ScotRail has suspended the majority of its services - See … [Read more...]

SNAPSHOT: Ryanair – Birmingham to Dublin

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I know a lot of you are waiting for this, and you all like fun at my expense, so here it is - I fly Ryanair. Willing Ryanair Boeing 737-800 at Dublin Airport, Image - Economy Class and Beyond So, how good, bad or indifferent is it? Is the plane a Boeing 737-800? Yes. See the above image. Were they being draconian with the luggage at the gate? Not overly that I … [Read more...]

Ryanair warns… about it’s own fees….

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As some of you are aware, I'm going to be doing something I haven't done since 2005 - and that's willingly fly on a Ryanair service. In the email pile I did get a lovely warning from them... about their own fees. In the first part of the email, they remind you if you've checked in... or not. Now onto the meat of it - where the charges can stack up! So if … [Read more...]