Economy Class & Beyond

QF: A380’s to slowly re-enter service

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Well it's taken long enough, but Qantas has annoucned that it's slowly completing it's safetey checks and are planing for their A380 aircraft to reenter service.Services will commence on the 27th November - over 3 weeks since the engine on QF32 decided to uncontain itself and had to return to Singapore, grounding the fleet.Qantas will be restricting the use of the fleet as … [Read more...]

GA: SkyTeam signs another premier airline – Gaurdia Indonesia

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Well SkyTeam is continuing apace with it's "quality" signings, with negoitation in place with Gaurdia Indonesia for it to join the alliace during the next year to 18 months.SkyTeam has been expanding recently, with Vietnam Airlines onboard this year, and China Airlines of Taiwan joinign too.The joining is these memembers SkyTeam will hope meet demands of customers. Other … [Read more...]

BD: Business Traveller Mazagine interviews Herr Prock-Schauer

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For those of you in Diamond Club land wanting to see what the future hold, head to http://www.businesstraveller.com/news/bmi-update where their team has been interviewing Wolfgang Prock-Schauer about some of the changes coming to BMI.I'll be publishing my analysis a bit later on this evening - but there are little titbits of information for those who are worried about the … [Read more...]

D7: Heading off to Paris

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It's confirmed that Air Asia X will serve Paris Orly to Kuala Lumpur Low Cost International AirportThe service will commence on the 14th February 2011, with fare from November 22 (inculding a launch fare with taxes by the bucket load)Scheduldes are loadedWinter to Kuala LumpurDay       Flight No  Depart ORY Arrive … [Read more...]

Saturday Night Live on the TSA….

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With thanks to Lucky, Saturday Night Live take a close look of what can happen if you refuse to go through the Nude-O-Scope/Millimetre Wave Scanner this Thanksgiving weekendAlas and sadly, very close to the truth... … [Read more...]

BD: Wha? You actually *fly* BMI? 10% off sound any good?

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This in from Business Traveller, and it's another 10% off flying BMI.Your magic code is: 10BMIFLIGHTSPECIAL You need to have made your booking before midnight November 25, with your travel completed between January 1-31, 2011.Valid only on BMI metal flights (ie, Flown by BMI for BMI, not Codeshares, Wet leased services or BMI Baby)And of course, it's valid on the BASE FARE only … [Read more...]

JQ: Jetstar to GhettoIFE Lovers – You’re still going to have to make your own for a bit…. (iPad IFE Delayed)

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For those of you who make GhettoIFE units with iPods, iPhones and iPads on Jetstar, and were hoping to use their iPad IFE unit, a bit of bad news as they're delayed for a bit.Originally due for roll-out towards the end of this year, something has fouled up on the way - with contract negotiations with Apple and Media Companies proving to be the sticky point. JetStar will be … [Read more...]

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