It's Sunday again, so it's time for some airplane p0rn.This week, its an Air China Airbus A330-200, parked up in the morning sunshine at Frankfurt Airport. More of course next week! … [Read more...]
Little Britain stars to do an Airport Comdey…
Well, as if things aren't as bad enough in Television land, David Walliams and Matt Lucas (of Little Britain fame) are writing and staring in a new comedy called "Come Fly With Me", which allegedly is going to be based in an airport. Six parts of comedy... or six parts of way too close to the home? Guess we'll find out after the six episodes which are due later this year. So … [Read more...]
BA and Unite talks set to reconvine at a secret location… as long as no one tweets it.
So once again, the odd couple head back to the negotiating table to try and reach a settlement. Again Willie Walsh will meet Unite's joint leaders Tony Woodley and Derek SimpsonThanks to the Socialist Workers entering the negotiating centre last time, the talks have been moved to a secret locationOf course, if BA and Unite can't knock their heads together, we've got two … [Read more...]
IATA Numbers are out… and they make bad reading…
... and guess what's to blame? Of course, it's our old friend, Eyjafjallajökull the Icelandic Volcano.Traffic is down 2.4% in April on international traffic, whilst European traffic is down 11.7% (From a 6.2% increase).IATA's director general and CEO Giovanni Bisignani knocked out these quotes:"The ash crisis knocked back the global recovery - impacting carriers in all … [Read more...]
Well if it isn’t BA, it’s AA – Flight attendants move closer to strike action
Oh dear. It seems that American Airlines is running into some of the same issues that it's OneWorld partner British Airways has, and is heading towards a Flight Attendant (not cabin crew) strike by the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA).It's got to the point where American is doing what BA did - and are getting other people trained up "for your safety" To … [Read more...]
UK ID Card owner? Congratulations! Your plastic will be invalid in about 100 Days time
Well it seems the government has confirmed it will be junking the National ID Card project within 100 days, along with the National Identity Register (and on top of that - the next-generation Biometric Passport).For those 15000 fools citizens people victims registraints of the ID card, yes, you have a non refundable £30 lump of plastic that might be a collectors item one … [Read more...]
BA and Unite – Talks to resume on Friday.
Yup. This ongoing palava messup bitch fight disagreement is still go ongoing, and for now have been adjourned until Friday after mroe talks today.Both sides are making nosies that it won't be easy, with concession fighting still going on. Meanwhile, BA has updated it's site to cover next weeks operations - important for quite a few people as next week is the Half Term holiday … [Read more...]
Ryanair expands, taking a position at El Prat….
Well Ryanair is expanding it's airline operations, and is going to base five aircraft at Barcelona El Prat with the launch 20 routes from September.Routes going to open up to 7 flights a week to:Brussels CharleroiDublinMilan BergamoParis Beauvais CiampinoWith lower frequencies it'll operate aircraft from:CagliariDusseldorf Weeze Edinburgh Oslo Rygge Venice TrevisoAnd on … [Read more...]
Branson admits VS Can’t make it on its own, and eyes up… Guess who.
Well someone has finally admitted what the rest of us known for quite some time - that Virgin will have trouble competing if the BA/AA tie up goes ahead, and they'll have to seek a partner.FlightGlobal and ATI have published an interview with the Bearded one during the inaugural flight from Heathrow to Accra, Ghana.And here's the the choice quote"Ultimately we may have to … [Read more...]
KLM release an App….
Unforutnatly, it isn't something useful like timetables and OLCI.But something far more entertaining instead - it's an to track the KLM miniature houses! (Apple ITMS Link) Then this application, which contains all 90 KLM Houses, allows you to track to your hearts content and also to quote KLM- Overview, including image gallery, of all 90 houses;- Maintain your … [Read more...]
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