Economy Class & Beyond

US Airways offers Star Silver on Trial… but there are more strings attached.

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It seems everyones favourite Star Alliance member (not not BMI for once), is once again offering status for anyone who wants it.US Airways is offering in conjunction with Budget a 90 trial of Silver Preferred Status, on condition that your first buy a non refundable ticket for travel within the USA from them. To maintain Star Silver, you'll need to fly 10 US Airways segments or … [Read more...]

Finnair orders some A321’s… with Sharklets!

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Oh Pam Ann would love this (after all, she'll never fly anything that hasn't got a Winglet on it).Finnair has signed up with Airbus for them to provide Five A321's to replace it's 757 leisure fleet.  Whilst this is "small news", this the second order for Airbus A320 series aircraft with Sharklet winglets instead of the standard Airbus A320 series wingtip fences.Bur who … [Read more...]

Welcome to SkyTeam Vietnam Airlines

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Skyteam has formally accepted Vietnam Airlines as a member of it's alliance.The airline has been through a bit, but has modernised with long haul services, and short haul is slowly gaining respected traction - enough for a major alliance to sit up and pay attention to it.This adds 20 more destinations to SkyTeams  network, which is still smaller than Oneworld or Star … [Read more...]

Immigration: How not to do it…

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It seems that the UK is still an entry hotspot, and it's been highlighted in a lovely post on the BBC News site.It seems a 20-year-old Romanian wanted to escape Vienna, and stowed away in the rear wheel compartment of an aircraft, not knowing where it was heading. According to the CAA, there was a varity of way he could had been killed on the journey "If they don't find the … [Read more...]

Guess who wants more strikes? BA vs Unite…

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Well I've gone a few days without mentioning the BA vs Unite strike, so fittingly as the current round of stoppages are coming to the end, Unite has come along acting all big and strong saying it's preparing to ballot its members again on further strike action at BA.Oh LOVELY. The current legal protection to strike will end on the 11th June. For Unite to continue to strike, it … [Read more...]

TAM dances over to Airbus for more aircraft…

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(oh, it's the Internationale Luft- und Raumfahrtausstellung - ILA Berlin 2010 this week, so expect a few more of these..) TAM it seems has a few pennies in it's back pocket, and it aiming to strenghen itself now its a member of Star Alliance by going to Airbus and buying some more aircaft.In this order, TAM are ordering 20 x A320 series aircraft, and 5 x A350-900's. This in … [Read more...]

Please Airbus? Can we have some more? – Emirates to order 32 new A380’s.

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It seems Emirates still has a lot of money flowing around, with today order at the Berlin airshow for a an extra 32 Airbus A380's, taking the total the carrier will have to 90 units, all to be fitted with Engine Alliance GP7200 engines. With 234 units on the order book, and 90 of them Emirates, it's clear to see who wants the capacity there in when the upturn fully hits. … [Read more...]

IATA: Maybe things aren’t so bad after all…

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IATA is out with the latest numbers, and profits are on the way... up.IATA estimates profits of £1.7bn in 2010, with an upturn from last year. This is in comparison with March when they predicted a $2.8bn loss.Director of IATA Giovanni Bisignani said "The global economy is recovering... much more quickly than could have been anticipated," "We thought that it would take … [Read more...]

BA and Unite – Ding ding.. round.. oh what am I saying? FIX IT!

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Yup. We're off on yet another BA Strike, and yes, it's on the weekend has half-term ends in the United Kingdom, and no there's very little progress - even Tony Woodley (Head of Unite) has decided to dissaper off on holiday to Cypress (Not on British Airways as you can guess)Daily Mail has the feed on this one,  but BA are operating flights, check www.ba.com/strikes for the … [Read more...]

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