Economy Class & Beyond

Keeping your data safe over the break…

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Sophos' Naked Security has an excellent write-up on keeping safe data whilst travelling over the Christmas period (and in fact - when you're travelling generally), covering fraudulent ticket purchasing, ticketing purchases via Craigslist and keeping your USB Pen Drive/Memory Sticks (etc) secure. Some top tips from muggins (as that's my normal industry) Keep your … [Read more...]

ANA scare the whatsits out of me… and then I can’t assign a seat…

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Today, ANA sent a lovely little e-greeting for the Christmas season. And as usual I occasionally have a nose at the site. As I'm hoping to be travelling aboard an ANA 787 soon as part of my Japan trip. However, I was greeted with this on the ANA site earlier.. Screengrab from ANA - http://www.ana.co.jp/asw/wws/uk/e/ Uh oh. This... is not good. And... it isn't from … [Read more...]

LATAM merger finally approved

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Well here's something that's been on the boil for some time - since 2010 - the merger of Chill's LAN Airlines and Brazil TAM Airlines into the LATAM Entity Brazil's anti-trust authorities have approved the merger, clearing the last major hurdle to the combined airline The combined group - LATAM is valued at a high $14.5bn, and last year carried 45 million passengers and … [Read more...]

Emirates continues London Heathrow expansion.. goes to 4 A380 services daily

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Emriates last month announced it was going to increase A380 services to 3 times daily, with 2 services operated by 777-300ER's. Well a month seems to be a short time in aviation as Emirates announcing they are to 4 times daily with A380's. Flights EK005 and EK006 are the latest conversions on the London route - leaving EK007 and EK008 as the remaining Boeing 777-300ER … [Read more...]

KLM throws in the towel at Liverpool

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KLM has decided to kill off one its feed network endpoints - connecting the City of Liverpool and Amsterdam. Currently, KLM operates the service 3 times a day to and from Amsterdam. This will be reduced to nil. The change in service will take effect from 25th March 2012. KLM state that due to the economic downturn, they're cancelling the route. For those of you … [Read more...]

Holiday Inn offers £20.12 rooms…

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As the office hotel partner to London 2012, Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn, these two brands of the ICGH group are running a promotion on the 20th December 2011. (or for those who don't do DD/MM/YYYY, 20/12... see the tenuous link? Thought not). Anyway,186 Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Expresses will be offering rooms for a total of £20.12 on the 20th December for bookings from … [Read more...]

Luftansa one day sale – £1199 upwards for Business Class…

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Lufthansa is having a one-day sales of business class fares from the UK. Listing up are: Abu Dhabi Beijing Bogotá Caracas Chennai/Madras Delhi Dubai Kolkata Mumbai/Bombay Sao Paulo Seou All starting from £1199. Watch the T&C's though - in particular: Purchase by: 14.12.2011 Departure period: 20.12.2011-29.03.2012 Return period: … [Read more...]

Ethiopian Airlines formally join Star Alliance

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Well it seems it's Star Alliance turn to welcome a new member, with Ethiopian Airlines formally joining the alliance. This marks the 3rd airline in the region who has join Star Alliance - along with South African Airways and Egyptair, opening more markets up for the Star. They will participate in the Star Alliance Conventions Plus and Meetings Plus, Star Alliance Round … [Read more...]