Economy Class & Beyond

Happy New Year!

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Well the server clock as ticked over, so I'm Wishing you all Happy New Year and safe travels over the coming year! May your travels be on time, your miles plentiful, every trip a safe one, and your luggage not lost or destroyed by any security agency. In the year ahead, I'm hoping for more of the usual shenanigans that you've come to expect, as well as (hopefully) a few … [Read more...]

Airplane Art – Two 747-400’s

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Well when this posts it'll be midnight in the United Kingdom and the New Year will be amongst us. The times on this server are bit behind that though ;). Today's airplane art is two 747-400's - A Lufthansa 747-400 in the foreground and a Qantas 747-400 in the background at Frankfurt-am-Main Airport. The week and a bit extra of airplane art will be concluding on Monday … [Read more...]

2011 in Review: Stats and Numbers

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So lets do the end of year stats for my person travel this year in the air. Map - www.gcmap.com Segments Flown: 33 Miles flown: 60,477 Longest Leg: London Heathrow T3 to -Vancouver International Airport, 4708 Miles Shortest Leg: Birmingham Airport UK - Dublin Airport,  200 Miles Airports visited: 20 New Airports: Vancouver International , George Bush … [Read more...]

British Airways 777-200 suffers a Bird Strike at YYZ….

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It seems British Airways is a plane down for bit with one of their Boeing 777-200's suffering a bird strike strike according to The BA Source G-VIIU - A Boeing 777-200ER suffered the strike to the engine nacelle and wing. From the looks of it, the bird itself was not ingested by the engine, but the damage is... enough. Reports indicate the plane made it to the ground … [Read more...]

2011 in Review – What you’ve missed…

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Well, we're closing up on 2011, so it's time to do a mini-retrospective on this years travel. Firstly the trips... Gold Run 2: Blame Canada! It's only a mileage run anyway! With Aer Lingus, BMI, Air Canada and Continental - BHX-DUB, DUB-LHR-YVR, YVR-IAH-LHR (also on FlyerTalk) Re-Creating a Photo - To New York with United, British Airways and BMI Baby -  BHX-AMS, … [Read more...]

Airplane Art – Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-400

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The week of Airplane art continues today with a Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-400 pushing back from London Heathrow Terminal 3, beginning the long journey back to Hong Kong. More during the week, in what was meant to be a quiet week... that's turned into one of the busiest I've had of posting! … [Read more...]

An update on my ethics and how this blog runs…

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A semi-serious blog entry as there's been a bit bounding around about referral fees and affiliates and as such on various other blogs, and how it affects the quality of the blog information (i.e. a blog entry turning into an advert for a product). I've been watching this very carefully and how others are handling the situation, and thought it is best that I state my position … [Read more...]

What happens to you luggage when it leaves your hands?

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Delta answers the question with a Video of what happens when your bag disappears down the luggage belt and off into the blue wild yonder of an airport luggage sorting system Of course, this is to plug their baggage tracking function they have in the Fly Delta App. I swear this is missing something. Like the pile of TSA tape and the free throwing around some bags … [Read more...]