Economy Class & Beyond

Ryanair’s flights – Pricless (c) – For everything else, there’s Prepaid MasterCard…

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Well after yesterdays announcement that Abbey and Travelex are abandoning Visa Electron, Ryanair is taking advantage of this, and abandoning the Electron platform too. However, to preserve customer choice and wider acceptability, instead of lowering fees for other debit or credit cards, they'll now accept PrePaid MasterCards only as a fee-free form of payment. Avalible as … [Read more...]

Visa Electron starting to dissapear…. what next?

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GhettoIFE.com towers would like to apologise this week - I'm down with a cold... the joy of work. Things could be more odder than normal... It's been reported that Abbey (Santander) and Travelex will be stopping issuing Visa Electron cards. Why is this remotely important? For those who buy tickets on Aer Lingus, BMIbaby, Easyjet, Flybe Jet2, Ryanair and a lot of the … [Read more...]

Blog Admin: Keyword Cleanup

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It's winter cleaning time here at GhettoIFE.com towers - so over the next few weeks you might find that certain keywords are being enhanced to increase visibility and user friendliness. Ok. That's the airline spin version - now for the translation ;) I'm cleaning up the blog a bit as the labels/keywords list is getting a bit unmanageable.  It should hopefully slim … [Read more...]

BMI slices more of itself up… what is there left?

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Well even though I go a new Diamond Club Pack, it seems BMI is downsizing itself... With the PR Spin distilled - it's bad news. AMS (Amsterdam) to be suspended from 27 March 2010 TLV (Tel Aviv) suspended from London on 9 January 2010, and the last flight departing Tel Aviv on 10 January 2010 KPB (Kiev) suspended on 10 January 2010 ALP - (Aleppo), with the last … [Read more...]

The New Diamond Club Pack – umm.. Where does it say BMI?

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So a nice black package arrvied in the post for me today... but what's in it? Ah. BMI wishes to communicate with me. Oooh... Airport codes... and subtle bit of BMI Advertising. Oh bugger. Eco credentials down the pan with lots of little advertising things.  Nice idea, but a booklet would had been cuter, and no doubt easier to print. Still - that's our … [Read more...]

And so a peice of history comes to an end… Bye Bye LHR T2!

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The Europa Terminal - or what is these days known as London Heathrow Terminal 2 has sent its last passenger off into the night and has closed down, with the strip-out, demolition and rebuild Flight AF1881 was the last to push back from the Europa Building (An hour late - that's our Heathrow Airport) and thus closed 54 years of history of that low celinged check-in (as that … [Read more...]

Traveling on a Continental 737… Don’t expect any inseat IFE….

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Big news from our newest members of the Star Alliance -  Continental It seems to have issues with their the delivered LiveTV (LTV3) system installed in their Boeing 737-900ERs and 737-800's, after discovery there is an out of specification problem on the units. It looks like fix is simple - however - it will take time to do the fleet. Of course Continental have … [Read more...]

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