Economy Class & Beyond

Ash Update. Extended closing times in progress….

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Well, it's getting slowly worse....  ScotlandEdinburgh 1300-1900 (Weds)Glasgow 0700-0100 (Thurs)Prestwick 0700-0100 (Thurs)Inverness 0700-1300 (Thurs)  Scottish Hebrides Stornoway 0700-0000 (Thurs)Benbecula 0700-0000 (Thurs)Tiree 0700-0000 (Thurs)Islay 0700-0000 (Thurs)Barra 0700-0000 (Thurs)Campbeltown 0700-0000 (Thurs)Northern Ireland Derry 0700-0100 … [Read more...]

More Ash fun: Airspaces open and closed.

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What's the term we're looking for? It never rains, but it sure does pour.Scottish, Northern Ireland and some Irish airports are currently closed and are all on odd opening times if they reopen.The current list (Times are local - BST):ScotlandEdinburgh 1300-1800Glasgow 0700-1900Prestwick 0700-1900Inverness 0700-1300Aberdeen is currently open, although this is subject to … [Read more...]

Atlanta or Bust (oh and Frankfurt too)! (BHX-FRA, FRA-ORD-ATL, ATL-IAD-LHR) with Lufthansa and United

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Atlanta or Bust (oh and Frankfurt too)! (BHX-FRA, FRA-ORD-ATL, ATL-IAD-LHR) With Lufthansa and United. If you can't guess the class by now... What happened to the Seoul trip? Umm. Yeah. The matter of re-qualification is more important that Seoul alas. It'll happen. Sooner rather than later. But now the matter of qualification miles takes to the fore. For those who are … [Read more...]

Bad News: Various bits of airspace are being closed tommorow…

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Here we go again - more airspace closures over Scotland and Northern Ireland tomorrow from 07:00BST on 05/05/10, with ash densities increasing in these areas.To quote the Civil Aviation Authorty:Following the latest update to forecasts from the UK Met Office, the CAA has issued guidance to operators announcing that airspace over Scotland and Northern Ireland will be closed … [Read more...]

Good news: Irish Airspace (including Northen Ireland) will reopen at 13:00BST

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From The Irish Aviation Authority:The IAA has cleared Irish Airports to open for full operations from 1300 hrs local time today Tuesday 4th May. Dublin, Shannon, Cork, Knock, Donegal, Waterford, Kerry, Galway and Sligo may resume normal operations.Current Information from the VAAC confirms this information. We expect operations to be normal at all Irish Airports for the rest of … [Read more...]

Oh boy… The Return of Volcanic Ash…

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It seem Irish Airspace is once again under attack by that pesky volcano. From 04/05/2010, Irish Airspace will be closed to aircraft taking off or landing from 07:00BST to 13:00BST.The Irish Aviation Authority have looked at the weather, and to quote them:"Ireland falls within the predicted area of ash concentrations" However, flights flying over Ireland will not be hit. The IAA … [Read more...]

Continetal and United Merge… and It’s an airline!

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Well Continental and United have announced they want to tie the know, and convince and airline called... United.It seems like Tiltons tarting with US Airways and the call off of that merger was impetuous enough for Continental to drag United up the isle.A picture says a 1000 words, so here it is...Both companies are going to merge in the attempt to bring a bit more … [Read more...]

Airplane p0rn – Vietnam Airlines Boeing 777-200ER

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It's that time of the week again to celebrate the different coloured bits of tin can these planes come in, in that wonder that's airplane p0rn!This week - it's a Boeing 777-200ER looking resplendent in Vietnam Airlines colours in the midday sun in Frankfurt as its being towed around. More next week! … [Read more...]

ANA’s 787 confidence in delivery time continues to drop

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It seems that ANA confidence in the 787 delivery is edging away, according to Flight . Whilst the first batch of 787's are due to head to Japan in late 2010, ANA is readying itself to recivie them a full quarter later in 2011.ANA is doing this in case of another slip up with the 787 project - and lets face it, there's been a few of them have happened on this project on the way … [Read more...]

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