Economy Class & Beyond

LH: No plans to ground A380’s.

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Lufthansa, an A380 operater who uses Trent Engines have annouced to Flight that they will not be grounding their A380's.To quote:"We are looking in to data from our engine condition monitoring" Lufthansa are awaiting an advisory from Rolls-Royce on the matter, but airline is not planning to suspend A380 services at this time.Further coverage continues later. … [Read more...]

SQ: Grounds A380 fleet for precautionary checks.

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It's taken a few hours, but Singapore Airlines has reacted and in conjunction with Rolls Royce has taken it's A380's out of service for preacationary checks.Or in Singapore Airline's own words:Our engine manufacturer Rolls Royce and aircraft manufacturer Airbus have advised us to conduct precautionary technical checks on our A380 aircraft, following today's incident involving … [Read more...]

QF/SQ: Singapore Airlines will continue to operate…

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More breaking news from the A380 Incident today, with the announcement that Singapore Airlines (the other A380 operator who uses Rolls Royce Engines) will continue to operate their A380's - having no plans to ground them.Quoting a Singapore Airlines spokesperson:"There are no plans as of now to ground our A380 aircraft, and operations are continuing as normal" "It is … [Read more...]

QF: A380 SIN Incident – ALL A380 Operations Suspended

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From Qantas.com in relation to the A380 engine cowling/containment failure earlier todayQantas has also indicated that, in accordance with its commitment to the highest safety standards, it has suspended scheduled A380 takeoffs until sufficient information has been obtained about what occurred on QF32.Qantas Chief Executive Officer, Alan Joyce said Qantas would suspend A380 … [Read more...]

QF: A380 Engine problems….

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It seems Qantas had a problem with flight QF32 from Singapore to Sydney (from London) where one of the four Trent 900 engine's failed, causing debris from the engine to fall off. No indications yet why the engine failed during take off, or why the damage to the engine has been caused. The main casualty appears to be the engine cowling which has been lost in the incident. The … [Read more...]

BA: BA vs Unite – Unite looses court appeal over crew job cuts.

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Well it's getting entertaining again with British Airways and Unite with Unite loosing its current court appeal to reduce the number of cabin crew staff on its flights.As we're all aware, BA made the changes to working practices, and Unite has been fighting it since, taking it to the High Court, and now to the Court of Appeal.Where they have once again lost. Unite is now … [Read more...]

AK: Tony talks to the BBC….

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The BBC has been talking to Air Asia's Tony Fernandes about how he took a loss making government owned airline brought a one ringgit into $1 Billion turnover/year Low Cost Carrier. It's a reasonable insight into what drives him, and how he's trying to deliver improvements and ideas... as he spends some of the at time on the ground understanding the issues that affect his … [Read more...]

The War Against Toner Cartidges…

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There is a term that states "GIVE ME STRENGTH"... and today the UK Government declared war... on toner cartridges.Yes, that's right. Because some terrorist tried to put a bomb in a toner cartridge, the following advisory has been issued"Suspend the carriage of toner cartridges larger than 500g in passengers' hand baggage on flights departing from UK airports"So even though it … [Read more...]

APD: How to reduce the cost or mitigate it…

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So I've moaned about rise in Air Passenger Duty (APD) today. Lets look at ways of cutting the cost of APD.1) Flying into the UK.APD is not applied flying into the UK. You are liable for airport duties.2) Flying out of the UK. Before getting much further I'd get a calculator out. Or a spreadsheet. Or something you can work your numbers with.  There are good rules to … [Read more...]