Economy Class & Beyond

British Airways “Upgrade to First” offer returns

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British Airways have returned their "upgrade one segment to first class" promotion, which when you buy semi-flexible/flexible tickets that are coded C, D, J or R, and you can enjoy a segment in First Class. If you're buying Semi-Flexible Tickets, you'll need to get you booking in by 23rd May 2014. Full Flexible tickets have until 25 July 2014.  Travel outbound must be … [Read more...]

American Airlines to get A350s? Why yes!

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The Airbus A350 is making lots of waves as it moves closer from paper plane, to test planes, to rolling out into service (with Qatar Airways being the launch customer). There are a fair few customers in the pipeline for A350s, but then this came out from American Airlines today, who tweeted a picture of an A350 visiting Dallas Fort Worth: Tweet: … [Read more...]

Etihads new planes and destinations

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By now you've seen all the noise over Etihads new Airbus A380 configuration (including the "residence" accommodation), and the news that their Boeing 787-9s will also be joining their fleet. But where are they flying? The Airbus A380 will be touching down at London Heathrow first, operating from Abu Dhabi from the 27th December 2014, operating the EY11/EY12 flight pair. … [Read more...]

Airplane Art – United Airlines “Star Alliance” Boeing 777-200ER

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It's Sunday again, so it time for some more airline art. This week, it's an United Airlines Boeing 777-200ER, in Star Alliance branded paint-work on final approach and in landing configuration of its home base of Chicago O'Hare International Airport. The image is clickable if you want to see a larger version – and yes you can keep them for your desktops! More airplane art … [Read more...]

London Underground strike off – (5th May to 8th May – UPDATE 2)

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UPDATE 2: London Underground and The  Rail, Maritime and Transport Union have agreed to the strike to be suspended and services to continue as normal.  London Underground and Rail, Maritime and Transport union are in last-ditch talks today (Monday 5th May) to try and find a solution to the dispute. I'll try to keep abreast of the situation as the day develop. It seems that … [Read more...]

Safety Video Saturday – Air France Boeing 747

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It's Saturday again, so please stow your luggage in the overhead locked (or the seat in front of you), bring your seat to the upright position and secure your tray table as we go to this week's safety video. This week, its Air France demonstrating safety aboard their Boeing 747 Fleet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2n07MjkyL8 Another video next week! Want to keep up … [Read more...]

Why I’m not jumping aboard the latest Hyatt offer…

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A lot of my fellow bloggers have been going on about the customised offers they've been getting for stays in Hyatt Hotels. These promotions are targeted per account, with different accounts getting anything. As a preface, I'm now a Hyatt nothing again after a few years of platinum, so I was expecting not a lot. I got mine... and lets say whilst there's a perfectly reasonable … [Read more...]

Emirates adds Brussels to its network

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The growing network of Emirates continues to evolve with the announcement of a service to connect Dubai to the Brussels. The timetable looks like this: EK183 DEPART DXB 07:50 ARRIVE BRU 13:15 EK184 DEPART BRU 14:45 ARRIVE DXB 23:25 Commences 5th September 2014 Booked Equipment: Boeing 777-200LR Timings into Brussels should allow time for an afternoon meeting, whilst the … [Read more...]

Sri Lankan Airlines becomes a full oneworld member

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The dance of airlines into partnerships and alliances continues, with Sir Lankan Airlines officially becoming a full member of the Oneworld alliance. For frequent flyers, it's another set of destinations to tick off the map. Oneworld privileges are now extended to members of Sri Lankan Airlines  Flysmiles, whilst facilities will be offered to Oneworld frequent flyers (such … [Read more...]

Tesco ClubCard collection period ending Saturday

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For those of us in United Kingdom shop at Tesco, and collect Tesco Clubcard points - a heads up as the collection period this quarter will end on 2nd May (Saturday). A Tesco Clubcard Keyfob...along with equally used CVS Tags - Image, GhettoIFE. More importantly it does take two days Clubcard spend to hit your  accounts, therefore need to get any spend you wanted counted … [Read more...]