Economy Class & Beyond

NYC: Trip Update

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Well as you can guess I've made it to my base in New York. Quick trip notes in a line or less: BHX-AMS - Jokey crewAMS - There's a reason why people call it S**tholeAMS Group 4 Security - Bunch of...AMS NudoScopes - GrrAMS-IAD - Probably the best example of a UA Crew I've had in agesIAD-LGA - Two words - Manhattan View!More on the trip as I get time. For now it's time to go out … [Read more...]

Safety Video Saturday – United Airlines 777 (Classic)

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Ok, I dropped the ball with posting this weekend. Call me asleep or in a different time zone. Or both. But here's a video you don't see (as it's manual safety demo for some reason - probably because there's two versions of the UA 777), It's what I didn't see yesterday - The United Airlines 777 Safety Video. And cue Rhapsody in Blue... … [Read more...]

The revenge of the Volcano…

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Reports are indicating that Geologists detected the high risk of a new eruption after evaluating an increased swarm of earthquakes around the island's second largest volcano.This volcanoe - Bárdarbunga - is showing signs of increased activity, which provides "good reason to worry".More at The Telegraph - … [Read more...]

Greetings from AMS

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And after spending the past hour hiking around the airport, I'm in the SQ loungeWhich is a disappoint. Nice coffee though - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone - apologies for the spelling! … [Read more...]

The joy of boarding…

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LCC style. Well it's not as bad as some airlines... For example... Ryanair....Next stop: AMS!- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone - apologies for the spelling! … [Read more...]

Grr buses

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Thanks to the bus network I have a grand total of 45 minutes when my feet touch the ground at BHX, get through security and get to my planeThis is going to be *tight*Greetings from Birmingham New Street!- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone - apologies for the spelling! … [Read more...]

NYC: Positioning in – Which is more stupidly priced… KL or WW?

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I'll be getting onto the meat of the run tommorow, but today, I'm going to discuss how to postion in. And the stupidity of some airlines.To commence this run, I need to haul-ass to Amsterdam. From Birmingham, that boils down to two options - KLM or BMI Baby. Now, I'm a minited AirFrance/KLM Gold. And for fun I popped in a query into their fare engine for a single flight from … [Read more...]

BD: The Road to Miles and More… is on hold – Diamond Club to remain through 2011 at least.

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For those of us who use BMI's Diamond Club as our frequent flyer programme, the ongoing dark cloud of "Will it merge into Miles and More or not" has been a big question.Well after a meeting, the following news is out - and it's good:Now that bmi is a part of the Lufthansa group of airlines, we are evaluating being part of Miles & More in the long term. A final decision has … [Read more...]

BA: Unite vs BA… How many Union reps does it take to organise a strike ballot correctly?

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And no, I don't know either as Unite's team can't seem to organise a ballot either. To the point where British Airways has gone to court to get the strike deemed as illegal.... and it's to the point where Unite is having to re-ballot it's members after what Unite calls "legal blitz" by the airline. BA Retorts that Unite has "nobody to blame but itself".British Airways states: … [Read more...]