Economy Class & Beyond

AF: Reduce frequency, add an A380… and that’s a service…

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Air France is continuing with it's A380 rollout programme announcing a service to Montreal, with the start of a new service from 9th May 2011.This will form flight AF346 departing Paris CDG at 1610, arriving Montreal 1720 and AF347 departing Montreal 1955 and arriving Paris CDG the next morning at 0830 on the inbound. However, for the extra capacity to head this way, something … [Read more...]

U2: EasyJet can remain slightly Easy about it’s name….

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What is EasyJet without the Easy Brand? We won't discover that as EasyJet has managed to agree a new licence term and revision with it's founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. In return for Stelios agreeing to surrender the right to appoint himself as chairman and end EasyGroup's right to representation on the carrier's board, EasyJet will pay royalties of 0.25% of its revenues, for … [Read more...]

BA: Another new route – Gatwick – San Juan.

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British Airways continues to be busy, with them launching a service to San Juan in Puerto Rica from March next year. The service will operated via Antigua on a Twice a week basis commencing March 2011, operated by a 3 Class Boeing 777 - meaning this will contain Club World, World Traveller Plus and World Traveller. The service will depart LGW flight BA2157 as followsDEP … [Read more...]

Airplane p0rn – Cathay Pacific A330

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It's that time of week once again, and it's time for some more airplane p0rn.This week, its a Cathay Pacific Airbus A330-300 landing and using it's thrust reversers at Hong Kong Airport.More Airplane p0rn of course, next week! … [Read more...]

Yes, the blog has got a little smaller…

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... as the latest trip report epic is now archived off into the ether.Of course you can get to it here or if for some reason you want to read up on some of my other adventures, you can always hit the Trip Reports section of GhettoIFE.com (and of course, it's on FlyerTalk as well!).More importantly, a lot of the photographic content is now being released and will be available at … [Read more...]

Safety Video Saturday – Luxair

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It's Saturday again, so it's time to stow those tray tables and place your seats in the upright position, as we display this week's Safety video, from the small carrier Luxair (the airline of Luxenbourg) More next week! … [Read more...]

UA: Want Brunch in Economy on a UA PS flight? That’s $24.99 please…

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It seems United loves to come up with ways of fleecing out of more money.The latest wheeze is to charge for Economy Meals on their PS Service. Yes - they've got the ghual to charge for something that was free oh so long ago. "between New York Kennedy and Los Angeles or San Francisco - including a selection of sweet and savory brunch items and sparkling wine."Ooh. Sparkling … [Read more...]

America-Japan Anti-Trust immunity firming up for Star and OneWorld…

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News arrives indicting that Department of Transport in the USA are close to giving the green light for OneWorld and Star Alliance carriers, connecting Japan and the USA. Of course, something has to hold up this agreement, and that is the approval of an Open Skies agreement being signed, with the first part of it being the Tokyo Haneda slots being awarded. In this case, the … [Read more...]

BD: BMI Regional to Feed Brussels Airlines, Of course, we are one big happy fleet….

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(Bonus points to those who can guess the reference in the title)BMI Regional (the ERJ flying arm of British Midland) is realigning its timetables, and adding new codeshares to its flights to connect with Brussels Airlines (also owned partially by Lufthansa)Marketing Brussels as an alternative to other busy hubs (or to you and me: London Heathrow), it's planned that you can use … [Read more...]

BA/AA/IB – New Joint Venture Routes announced.

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Hot off the heels of the joint venture annouced, it seems the group is going to quickly consolidate their postion with a bunch of new flights, of which they areNew York JFK-Budapest operated by American AirlinesChicago-Helsinki  operated by American Airlines London Heathrow-San Diego operated by British Airways Madrid-Los Angeles operated by Iberia In … [Read more...]