Japan Airlines and British Airways have tied the knot over a Joint Ticketing Agreement/Code Share Agreement between London Heathrow and Tokyo Narita/Tokyo Haneda routes. Reciprocal coding and the JTA commences on the 1st October 2012. Combined, JAL and BA will offer 19 return flights a week on a combined frequency: Tokyo NRT/HND to London Heathrow BA006/JL7081 DEPART … [Read more...]
Lufthansa Strike… Round 2
Well the 2nd round of strike action by the UFO union is under way with Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich all hit this time with cancellations, running at the following times: 05:00 to 13:00 CET at Berlin-Tegel, 06:00 to 14:00 CET at Frankfurt 13:00CET to 00:00+1CET (midnight Wednesday) at Munich airport Again, the domestic programme is hit hard, whilst the short haul … [Read more...]
Creating a Photo: Back to New York with British Airways – Part 7 – JFK T7, Terraces Club and Pre-Flight Dining
Creating a Photo: Back to New York with British Airways – Part 7 – JFK T7, Terraces Club and Pre-Flight Dining Featuring the British Airways Airbus A318E. Or – “World. Enough now. Stop it. Please. Pretty Please…” The Introduction To London BA 1 – London City Airport – Shannon – New York JFK One Time … [Read more...]
Bye Bye (BMI) Baby….
It's getting close to closing time for the Low Cost Carrier offshoot of BMI - BMI Baby. With the final flights set for the 9th September (Sunday this week), they've put a little ditty out on their website: BMI Baby was create out of the spare Boeing 737's BMI mainline had leftover after mainline switched to Airbus operations. Based out of different airport during its … [Read more...]
Boeing delivers LAN’s first 787
On Friday, LAN Chille had its first Boeing 787 Dreamliner handed over and delivered by Boeing, making it the 4th operator of the 787 family. LAN 787-8 - Image - The Boeing Company Whilst LAN have order 32 of the 787 type (spit into 22 787-8's and 10 787-9's), the airline will be receiving three of the batch this year, with the balance of the two aircraft to be … [Read more...]
Airplane Art – Air France A320
It's Sunday again, so it must be time for some more Airplane Art. This week - taxing in the morning sunshine is an Air France Airbus A320 at Birmingham 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 of course next week! … [Read more...]
Safety Video Saturday – United Airlines 767 IPTE Edition
It's time to pop your seat in the upright position, stow your tray table and footrest whilst ensuring your seatbelt is fastened as we turn to this week's Safety Video. And if you've been aboard an United flight from London to Chicago, this will be very familiar. It's even worse when when you can do the introduction off by heart - Its the United Airlines Boeing 767 IPTE … [Read more...]
BREAKING: US Airways Agrees With AMR to Evaluate Possible Merger, Exchanges Financial Documents
A bit of breaking news from Bloomberg, with the headline that US Airways and AMR (owner of American Airlines) are to evaluate a possible merger. As a prelude to such work, both have signed Non-disclosure Agreements (NDA's) to allow exchange of confidential financial and operational data to evaluate a potential merger of the two carriers. Both airlines will also work in … [Read more...]
Lufthansa cabin crew strike – first phase over… more to come.
Frankfurt bore the brunt of strike action today, with Lufthansa cabin crew aligned with the UFO Union walking out from 05:00CET to 13:00CET today. Flights to and from Frankfurt airport have been hit due to planes already stuck at the airport with little parking space left, causing major cancellations. Out of the 840 flights that Lufthansa operates out of Frankfurt, 360 of … [Read more...]
Biritsh Airways pushes “A Fair Tax on Flying”
It seems British Airways is finally pushing "A Fair Tax on Flying" with a message that was sent out yesterday to UK BA Executive Club members: Text: As a frequent flyer, you will know as well as anyone that taxes on air travel are higher in the UK than anywhere else in the world - so I wanted to tell you about a campaign aimed at changing that. In the last six years, … [Read more...]
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