I talked about this a lot yesterday when the BMI Diamond Club to British Airways Tier Match. Well for those of you who haven't done it yet, check you inbox - you might find an invite like this: Text Version: As part of the transition of bmi into British Airways, from today (1 May 2012), British Airways is inviting you, as a Diamond Club member, to also join the … [Read more...]
UK Immigration: We’ll get it right – honest guv!
Time for some more on the saga/joke that is UK Immigration. For a recap, head to the post I wrote about the delays at Heathrow during the weekend. But for an ultraquick version UK Border at full alert so immigration checks are taking longer Not enough staff to enforce it Long queues to get into the United Kingdom - especially for non European Economic Area … [Read more...]
BMI to BA Tier Matching is GO!
Well it looks like someone jumped the gun and thinks today is the 1st May. For those who have BMI Gold or BMI Silver status, you can now do a Tier status match. For those who haven't joined Executive Club, head to http://www.britishairways.com/main/execenrol/?campaignCode=ECBMI1 to enrol. Once you've done that, head to http://www.ba.com/tiermatch and you'll get this … [Read more...]
BA Status Match for BMI Diamond Club holders opens tomorrow – and some reminders…
EDITED: Status match commenced! It's a quick reminder from GhettoIFE towers for of you who are BMI Gold or Silver... the great BA Status Match begins NOW at http:/www.ba.com/tiermatch. Details of the mechanism of how and where to do it have been revealed revealed, and I suggest it would be a good idea to create yourself a British Airways Executive Club account if you … [Read more...]
The bad joke that is UK Immigration
In what airport in the world do you stick 3 Europe Immigration Agents and 1 for the Rest of the World visitors - and have a 2 and a half hour process time? Nope - not the C/D Concourse at Washington Dulles (although it's happened more than once), this time - a Terminal of London Heathrow Airport. Terminal 5 to be precise. Welcome to the world of immigration staff on … [Read more...]
Worst. Promotion. Ever.
And it goes to Lufthansa for their promotion today to wind €30 of Food vouchers at Berlin Brandenburg Airport when it opens in 36 days time. Yes. I'm quite serious. Head to http://www.ber-countdown.com/index.php?cc=uk&lc=en to laugh. For those who don't wish to waste the bandwidth, look below. Well, about the only good thing is the promised £39 single … [Read more...]
Wild landings at Bilbao
There have been wild winds at Bilbao in Spain that have... well... look at the video below. There's some pilots who flew in there today who have really earned their wages... … [Read more...]
Finnair to introduce lifetime Status
Finnair has thrown an interesting possibility out there - lifetime status. Here are the numbers to make you wince. If you earn over 3,000,000 tier points you're up for lifetime Gold status, If you earn over 5,000,000 tier points will receive lifetime Platinum status. All tier points so far accrued will count towards these massive goals, both on Finnair metal and … [Read more...]
FlyBe to scrap Debit Card fees, reduce Credit Card fees
Well here's a turn-up for the books. FlyBe - a UK Regional carrier that plays the low cost carrier game is going to scrap a fee. And it's the Debit card fee that is up for the chop. Additionally, the Credit Card fee is also being reduced: Currently a £8 transaction fee is levied for Debit cards. This will be removed Credit Card fees drop from £13 to £9 The aim of … [Read more...]
IAG doubts it can sell BMI Baby or BMI Regional off
Things are not looking rosey for BMI Baby and BMI Regional at the moment. The two subdivisions of BMI were meant to be sold off before the IAG takeover by Lufthansa, but they failed to be sold. IAG is not interested in owning the two units who operate to very different markets - BMI Regional operating high value regional routes, whilst BMI Baby operates the low cost model … [Read more...]
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