Well, Ryanair is doing a repeat of last year, cutting services and frequencies at London Stansted, with 22 aircraft based at there for the Winter season, and 135 less servicesIn general, UK Capacity will be down 17%, with Stansted's capacity dropping by 16% over the winter months. However, as usual Ryanair goes on the attack, and a full on rant about Air Passenger Duty (APD - … [Read more...]
Coming soon: Maggots on a plane!
It seems that life is just fun on US Airways, when a discovery of maggots halted and forced a service back to the gate. Let the video do the talking:There's a whole peice on Syracuse.com, but there can be only one word to describe this.EWWWWW!Hat tip: The Register … [Read more...]
JL/NH: JAL and ANA annoucnes it’s Haneda intentions…
Whilst JAL isn't out of the fire when it comes to its financial troubles, it is continue to innovate with the opening up of Tokyo Haneda. And there are some interest routes opening up including:BangkokHonolulu Paris Charles De Gaulle San Francisco.SingaporeTaipei SongshanANA on the other hand has made it's move, which makes it a practical head to head on lots of them. The … [Read more...]
Welcome to Star Alliance Aegean Airlines
So, Star Alliance grows to 28 members now with Agean Airlines confirming it's membership, expanding the influence of Star across Greece now, 12 months since it was announced they were joining up. Aegean Airlines operates a fleet of 30 aircraft covering a total of 54 domestic and international routes on more than 150 daily flights. This is made up of 26 Domestic routes and 28 … [Read more...]
BD: Analysis – Diamond Club upcoming changes.
Well a little PDF of the presentation given by Wolfgang Prock-Schauer - the Chief Executive Officer of bmi, and whilst it takes a little reading, I draw your attention toThe good news to take away is that Lufthansa will be keeping BMI more or less in its current form, however for frequent flyers, the news is not so great with on throwaway line in the presentation.I … [Read more...]
Belfast and Dublin Pictures slowly going live….
The trip picrtures are slowly going live.You can find them if the left hand bar ever refreshes, or at the following links below:BHX-BFS with BMI BabyHotel Ibis, BelfastEnterprise Rail Service, Belfast Central to Dublin Connolly DUB-BHX with Aer LingusIs a trip report coming? Depends. Gotta finish writing it first.... … [Read more...]
Places where not to conceal drugs number 242 – strapped to your body.
It seems that some South African Airways staff are trying slip extra special items past UK Customs when a a member of the crew was been arrested at Heathrow Airport after 3kg of cocaine was allegedly found strapped to her body.The cabin crew member was held during a random body search on Saturday.Drug smuggling seems to be an issue with South African Airways, with staff trying … [Read more...]
Ok.. a little test thingy.
So I've got a new toy, and I thought I'd take it out for a test run - being a trip to Belfast with me.In a laughable attempt to increase content, I've shot some video with it, and the results are heading into the trip report, but I'd thought I'd post the first one to see if it was any good.Comments welcome on this - least of all where I put my finger on the lens.... … [Read more...]
BA and Unite: BA makes new offer, Unite postpones vote, makes non committal noises
British Airways has made a new offer to Unite in an effort to end the strike. Whilst Unite is "allowing" its members to consider the offer, it will recommend against them accepting the offer as it refuses fully reinstate the travel perks that were removed in an earlier strike.Changes includes top up payments and basic rises for the next two years.Mr Tony "Visits Cuba and Cyprus … [Read more...]
Airplane p0rn – Ryanair 737-800
It's Sunday again, which means it's time for Airplane p0rn.This week (and freshly shot), it's a Ryanair 737-800 in final landing configuration about to land at Dublin AirportMore of course next week! … [Read more...]
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