Economy Class & Beyond

Finnair increases flights from Helsinki to Heathrow

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Finnair seems to on a roll, with news that they are to add a fifth daily service between Helsink and London Heathrow Airport. The new timings work out nicely for those who want to spend a day in London, and then arrive back in the dead of night in Finland, whilst the inbound timing allows for a reasonable workday before heading to the airport. The new timetable looks like … [Read more...]

Lufthansa to roll out Mobile Phone services on long haul fleet

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As we move to be ever connected in the air with WiFi, some airlines are looking again at mobile communications in the air. Lufthansa is working with Aeromobile to install a system to allow passengers to connect their mobile phones on a roaming basis to Aeromobile's network aboard the plane, and connect out from there. The service branded Lufthansa FlyNet has been in use … [Read more...]

Ryanair to allow personal electronic devices during all stages of flight

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It seems that Ryanair has got approval from aviation authorities regarding the use of personal electronic devices during all flight. This is effective from 6th February 2014 (today). This covers devices such as tablet computers, e-book readers, MP3 players and smartphones. As usual, these devices must be in flight mode at all times. Items such as laptops are not termed … [Read more...]

Korean Air to launch 2nd A380 service to New York-JFK

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Korean Air is set to increase capacity between Seoul Incheon and New York-JFK, as it will be converting all its flight operations between the two airport to operate Airbus A380s. The change goes into effect on 25th May 2014, based on the following timetable Seoul Incheon to New York-JFK KE081 DEPART ICN 10:05 ARRIVE JFK 11:20 KE085 DEPART ICN 19:30 ARRIVE JFK … [Read more...]

How do you get that air-to-air photo?

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I was browsing Youtube just before heading to bed.. when I found this video with Aviation Photographer Jessica Ambats on how she works with the pilots and others to get some (quite frankly) amazing photos. Here's her video: And as a photographer in my remaining minutes of the day, I can see a lot of this and understand the work that goes into these. To paraphrase … [Read more...]

Virgin Atlantic pulls the plug on the Hong Kong – Sydney route

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It seems that Virgin Atlantic is struggling with the London to Sydney via Hong Kong run - and is suspending the route between Hong Kong and Sydney. Virgin Atlantic (the UK arm owned 51% by Virgin Group and 49% by Delta) blame the withdrawal on "increasing costs and a challenging economic environment". The London Heathrow - Hong Kong segment of the route will be retained. … [Read more...]

Norwegian Air Shuttle adds another flight to New York

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Norwegian Air Shuttle has added a nice disruptive piece of colour to the aviation scene since they started their long haul options - whilst scaring a lot of the incumbent airlines (especially the US airlines represented by Airlines for America who are crying foul over its operations). Currently, the airline operates the Stockholm to New York JFK route three times a week. It … [Read more...]

Guess who’s against Etihad buying a part of Alitalia….?

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Of course, it's Deutsche Lufthansa AG. The group has called on European regulators to block plans for Etihad to take a stake in Alitalia, saying it would amount to unfair competition introduced into the European market. The airline states according Reuters "We reject recurrent subsidies and the partial renationalization of European airlines, whether by European states or … [Read more...]