Economy Class & Beyond

Gulf Air takes an axe to some of its services

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Following hot on the heels of Royal Jordanian, Gulf Air is now getting ready to wield the axe on some of its services. Up for the chop are: Athens (Ceases 12th March 2012) Damascus  (Ceases 2nd March 2012) Milan (Ceases 12th March 2012) Kuala Lumpur (Ceases 25th March 2012) Entebbe and Geneva have also been cut too. Gulf Air cites issues with the Bahrain … [Read more...]

Lion Air confirms itself as the 737-9MAX launch customer

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Well it seems Lion Air is on the march, with another order lodged at Boeing's front door at the Singapore Air Show. Lion Air of Indonesia has confirmed with Boeing and placed a firm order for 201 of the re-engineered Boeing 737-9 (MAX) series, with an additional order 29 Boeing 737-900ER's. Lion Air were first to launch the 737-900ER, so it seems fitting they're first to … [Read more...]

British Airways launch a new Ad Campaign.. and I like it…

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Well, here's the new advert from British Airways in the run-up to London 2012, telling the stories of 5 bags and who gets to the luggage collection belt first. Now if we can put aside the luggage issues that Heathrow T5 suffered on opening (and lets hope they don't suffer the same), it's not a bad advert, with the sentimental build-up for the London 2012 Olympics - least … [Read more...]

Emirates to go daily to Lisbon

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That small and retiring carrier - Emirates - is expanding its sphere of influence and flights, this time expanding operations to Lisbon in Portugal. Operating as below: EK191  DEPART DXB  09:15 ARRIVE LIS 14:45 EK192 DEPART LIS 17:55  ARRIVE DXB 04:35+1 Commences 09/07/2012 Equipment Booked: Boeing 777-200ER The interesting thing is the launch of this … [Read more...]

Safety Video Saturday – Volaris

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How do you turn a safety video into a drama of daytime TV epic proportions? Well we can thank Volaris for this... drama? Oh well, at least it's original in comparison to some safety videos out there... More safety next week! … [Read more...]

Uhoh. The Sale of BMI Regional is taking a little longer than some like….

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Well, firstly we have a name at last for the buyers of BMI Regional - Granite Aviation according to Flight International. And there's a bit of a snag in the sale due the company taking over as Granite is an investment group - not an airline and thus has no airline infrastructure in place. This means things like lack of support for planes is currently lacking. An agreement … [Read more...]

Peach Aviation confirms first international routes

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Remember I said that the Low Cost Carrier market is hotting up in Japan? Well Peach Aviation (ANA's "sort of by itself" offshoot) has announced it's first international routes. Based in Osaka, Peach will offer International services to Seoul, Hong Kong and Taipei shortly after launching domestic services to Sapporo and Fukuoka. The aggressive rollout seems to be rather … [Read more...]

The fall of Malev – Good for… Shannon Airport?

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As we all know, Malev spectacularly collapsed last week. As a result, people have been moving quickly to recover assets - such as aircraft. International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) was quick to repossess their equipment. But then a question appears... where to park it? Keeping it on Hungarian soil was not an option due to a possibility that the Hungarian Government may … [Read more...]