Economy Class & Beyond

High Speed 2 to go ahead in the UK

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Well after the government umming and ahhing, it seems that the plans to put High Speed 2 (the second High Speed Rail line) is set to be built. For those of you hoping to do the London to Birmingham run in under 50 minutes though, hold onto your horses for a few years. More like 2026 is when the first train is going to run. The plan for High Speed 2 (HS2) will be to build … [Read more...]

Air India announces 787 configuration

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Air India - like most of the Indian Airlines seem to be having a time of it. The state owned carrier though has announced some juicy information about their incoming 787's. Air India will be operating these birds a bit tighter than ANA has, with 256 seats in total - 18 Business Class seats ,and 238 economy class seats. In addition, to fit the Economy Class seats in, they … [Read more...]

ICHG Cashback at 12%, Accor up to 16% on Quidco

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For those of you who use Quidco, there are some good cashback deals if you need to book hotels right now. InterContinental Hotel Group *** properties cashback rates are up from 7% to 12% Accor Group properties are up depending on the property: 3% for Etap Hotel, HotelF1 and Formule 1 bookings 7.5% for Ibis and All Seasons bookings 12% for Mercure, Novotel, … [Read more...]

Emirates launches Dublin to Dubai service

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It's been coming for some time, but at last Emirates have commenced services between Dublin and Dubai. The service operates as follows: EK0161 DEPART DXB 07:00 ARRIVE DUB 11:30 EK0162 DEPART DUB 12:55 ARRIVE DUB 00:25+1 Operates Daily Booked Equipment - Airbus A330-200 - 3 Class Configuration (First/Business/Economy) Emirates' first flight between Dubai and … [Read more...]

Airplane Art – SAS Airbus A330-300

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It's Sunday again, so it must be time for some airplane art. Today it's a SAS Airbus A330-300 parked up a Newark International Airport after completing its long journey from Oslo. More Airplane art of course next week! … [Read more...]

For those who used to play Microsoft Flight Simulator…

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... or still do for that matter - good news! Microsoft has finally got off it's backside and has released to Beta it's new epic - Microsoft Flight. And the best news is - the startup stuff is going to be Free. As in nothing. Of course - it's taking the classic "Freeium" style that's taken off with In-App purchasing on various platforms. The free download will only allow … [Read more...]

And the winner of the 5% AC code is….

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Running Random.org with the amount of entries I had (3!!!), lead to the following result Congratulations to Stefan who gets the code. I'll be emailing you in a bit. Later next week, I think I've found a United $50 cert near the bottom of inbox... might have to give that away too! … [Read more...]

Tiger Airways Australia continues to get its roar back

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Tiger Airways Australia have been through the mill last year when at one point - the entire airline was grounded for 6 weeks by the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) last year. At the moment Tiger is operating its limit of 32 sectors a day imposed by CASA, operating out of Perth, Sydney, Brisbane and The Gold Coast, using 7 out of it's 10 aircraft. It … [Read more...]