A fix is meant to on the way today for access to BMI Diamond Club accounts which have now been on limited access for 6 days. Meanwhile, BMI are getting a free dose of sarcasm from its members on what exactly they think of BMI IT/E-Commerce Departments at http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/bmi-diamond-club/1044881-cannot-log-dc-down-fix-tecnhical-error-8.html. Rather than post … [Read more...]
*** UPDATED *** RC501/Boeing 747-8 Lands Safely, First Flight Complete.
Picture - Boeing Commercial Aircraft - from their live stream. Flight Boeing 501 Experimental landed safely at Panne Field at 16:18PST, with a bounce of a nose. Aircraft has taxied to a stop, and as seen in this image, is being towed so the pilots can disembark and address the press. … [Read more...]
*** BREAKING – Boeing 747-8F heads to first flight *** PICTURES ***
Frame RC501 (Boeing 501 Experimental) took to the air for the first time today, and is currently conducting it's first flight in the Washington State Area. Pictures - Boeing Commercial (from their webcast) More coverage later, but for previous GhettoIFE.com 747-8 Coverage, clicky here to see my analysis here.. … [Read more...]
Diamond Club Problems – To fudge up a database once is careless, to fudge it up multiple times takes class…
It seems BMI's is having one heck of a little SNAFU with the online Diamond Club. When you try and log in, you might see this Not good to see - after a day. Not good to see after two days. Worrying after three days. We're now on FIVE days. There have been rumours of some datacentre issues, and other data issues, but again, the communication from BMI has been … [Read more...]
Airplane p0rn – British Airways 777-200ER
Another Sunday rolls around - so obviously it must be time for some more Airplane p0rn! This week, it's a British Airways Boeing 777-200ER taxing at Chicago O'Hare International More of course - next week! … [Read more...]
British Airway Looses £50 million in 3 months… calls it “Better than expected”
British Airways appears to be doing "better" after a £50 million pre-tax loss. Excuse me, but if they've lost £50 million down the sofa, please send me their sofas. That's still a lot of cash to loose. However, this down from the £122m lost the same time last year. BA has managed to reduce operating costs, whilst working on the pension blackhole that … [Read more...]
Lufthansa: Pay by PayPal or it’s an extra £4…
One of the things that REALLY do annoy me is credit card fees when you book flights. What was a fee for processing a card is rapidly turning into a profit centre. Today's example of this is Lufthansa's £50 single UK-Germany fare. Here's how it's built up: Ok - apart from the fuel surcharge rip off and the fact I want to go to Frankfurt - not somewhere in … [Read more...]
Promos: BA Go Dr Evil, InterContinental twists the knife on HHonors…
British Airways - 1 Meeeillion Miles! British Airways are running a Dr Evil contest, with the chance to win 1,000,000 (1 Million) miles, and also an upgrade to BA Gold Details at www.ba.com/bamillionaire Notes: UK Residents only Must register as a UK Executive Club Member (Euro/World Members excluded this time) Deadline: 9th February 2010 IC Group … [Read more...]
So I try to ticket a flight on United.bomb….
So muggins decided to try to ticket a flight on United for a little trip to Atlanta. Nothing overly magically difficult (Frankfurt - Atlanta - London)... until it comes to ticketing the thing. United.com was showing this ticket for $415. Unitedairlines.co.uk (which is the same site with a UK interface) was charging £387 for the same fare. So of course, I … [Read more...]
Preview: Atlanta or Bust! Coming April 2010!
And the lo - the Great Circle produced... a map! Map by the Great Circle Mapper - http://www.gcmap.com More later - and no United. You haven't escaped my rant yet. … [Read more...]
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