Some of us like them. Some of us hate them. And some of us just want hot caffeine that tastes OK. I'm of course referring to Starbucks coffee. Starbucks, Birmingham Bullring kiosk. Now, we all know it has a loyalty scheme (which does vary from country to country), but the idea is you collect stars when you buy drinks, and eventually you get to a Gold Tier after 50 … [Read more...]
Anyone want an Airbus A380… Anyone?
It seems Skymark Airlines is to pull away from the Airbus A380, abandoning its long haul international plans, with Airbus terminating the order from Skymark. The first Skymark Airbus A380 - now not to be delivered - Image, Airbus. Skymark had six Airbus A380s on their order book, with two already complete and were awaiting cabin-fitout. And this is actually a big problem … [Read more...]
The Rise of Bring Your Own IFE
Many moons ago, I starting making and writing about Sickbag based In-Flight Entertainment Systems - or what I called "GhettoIFE Systems". A 2014 GhettoIFE system aboard an Air France Airbus A319 - Image GhettoIFE. The idea being that I could bring entertainment that I wanted to watch inflight, as opposed to IFE that 1) I didn't want to watch or 2) didn't exist. When the … [Read more...]
Boeing 777 – The 10 Across plane – The configurations, data and some analysis….
Last week I published a post about the Boeing 777 10 across club - those who have ten seats in the back row of economy class of the plane. This week, I'm going to take a deep dive into the data and see what gems we can dig up about these high capacity, high ferrying planes. Firstly, Back to Basics - The Different types of Boeing 777. The Boeing 777 entered service in … [Read more...]