Economy Class & Beyond

Star Alliance Upgrade Scheme upgrades itself with more carriers….

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Star Alliance has announced more carriers are to join it's upgrade scheme where can you can pay with points for an upgrade.The new joiners to the scheme are Air Canada, TAM and US Airways.Now, before you get excited and consider redeeming your hard-earned miles for upgrades 1) Not all members of Star Alliance participate in the scheme and 2) These are related to High Value … [Read more...]

JQ/LA: 787 deliveries slip and delayed

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As delays to the 787 project continue to mount up, Airlines are beginning to disclose how the 787 delays are affecting themFirst up is LAN who has an outstanding order of 26 ordered frames and 6 leased frames with the first two due this year. As Boeing hasn't got a hope in hell of getting them out of the factory in time, LAN is looking to acquire more 767's in the mean time. … [Read more...]

LH: If you’re going to San Francisco, will you take an A380 with Lufty….

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Lufthansa have announced they are to operate an Airbus A380 to San Fransico from Frankfurt.The equipment change occurs from 10th May 2011, replacing the 747-400 equipment that currently runs on this route. Timings are:LH454 DEPT FRA 09:35 ARRIVE SFO 11:55 LH455 DEPT SFO 14:20 ARRIVE FRA 10:05+1 San Francisco becomes the 5th A380 destination for Lufthansa who currently serve … [Read more...]

A3/OA: Meger Denied

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Aegean Airlines and Olympic Airlines - both of Greece have had their request to merge blocked by the European Commision. The orignal proposal was annouced in 2010 when Aegean was joining Star Alliance, but has now been refused on the grounds it would (create a)"quasi-monopoly on the Greek air transport market"and"would have led to higher fares for four out of six million Greek … [Read more...]

Rail: Wrexham & Shropshire – London direct route to close (Other routes remain open)

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A tiny bit of what some might see inconsequential news today is that Wrexham and Shropshire Trains - who operate a route from Wrexham, through Chester, Shrewsbury, Telford and through to London are to cease operations in the near future.Services will cease on 28th January. Forward booking tickets will be accepted on on Virgin, Arriva Trains Wales, London Midland and Chiltern … [Read more...]

Rail: Wrexham & Shropshire – London direct route to close (Other routes remain open)

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A tiny bit of what some might see inconsequential news today is that Wrexham and Shropshire Trains - who operate a route from Wrexham, through Chester, Shrewsbury, Telford and through to London are to cease operations in the near future.Services will cease on 28th January. Forward booking tickets will be accepted on on Virgin, Arriva Trains Wales, London Midland and Chiltern … [Read more...]

Heads up: US North and East Coast Snow expected – Except disruption.

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British Airways are reporting that Snow and Winter Storms are expected today on the East Coast of the USA.Expect flights TO and FROM the following to be disrupted:New York - JFKNewark - EWRPhiladelphia - PHL Washington - IAD With cancellactions being annouced already. If BA has annouced their services are hit, you can bet your bottom dollar that other carriers will be hit too. … [Read more...]

AS: Alaska Airlines order 13 737-900ER’s, goes for growth

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Alaska Airlines have been busy on the quiet, and has annouced it's buying a new fleet of Boeing 737-900ER's to deploy on it's routes.The order of 2 737-800's (due 2012) and 13 737-900ER's (due 2013-2014) will be deployed on it's current routes, targeting denser runs for trans-continental and mid-continental routes (US East Coast and Midwest from it's Seattle hub in the West … [Read more...]

Fallout: DME Incident

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Time to examine the fallout of Mondays disaterous incident at Moscow Domodedovo (DME) Airport.What has emerged is that the leadership wants to tighten security and have it's pound of flesh over the incident. Proposals have been made to introduce an Israeli-style airport security system Dmitry Medvedev has said, whilst blaming airport officials for security breaches - with a … [Read more...]