Economy Class & Beyond

Emirates adds Brussels to its network

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The growing network of Emirates continues to evolve with the announcement of a service to connect Dubai to the Brussels. The timetable looks like this: EK183 DEPART DXB 07:50 ARRIVE BRU 13:15 EK184 DEPART BRU 14:45 ARRIVE DXB 23:25 Commences 5th September 2014 Booked Equipment: Boeing 777-200LR Timings into Brussels should allow time for an afternoon meeting, whilst the … [Read more...]

Sri Lankan Airlines becomes a full oneworld member

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The dance of airlines into partnerships and alliances continues, with Sir Lankan Airlines officially becoming a full member of the Oneworld alliance. For frequent flyers, it's another set of destinations to tick off the map. Oneworld privileges are now extended to members of Sri Lankan Airlines  Flysmiles, whilst facilities will be offered to Oneworld frequent flyers (such … [Read more...]

Tesco ClubCard collection period ending Saturday

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For those of us in United Kingdom shop at Tesco, and collect Tesco Clubcard points - a heads up as the collection period this quarter will end on 2nd May (Saturday). A Tesco Clubcard Keyfob...along with equally used CVS Tags - Image, GhettoIFE. More importantly it does take two days Clubcard spend to hit your  accounts, therefore need to get any spend you wanted counted … [Read more...]

Heathrow Express/London Undergound Strike: Still in progress

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Unless something magical and peace has broken overnight, both the Heathrow Express and London Underground will be on strike again today. The Heathrow Express strike will continue to the end of service, whilst the London Underground strike will end at about 21:00 local time, with services not expected to return to normal until 1 May. See my post yesterday on frequencies and … [Read more...]

United to add more capacity between Newark and Heathrow

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For those travelling during the winter period between Newark International Airport and London Heathrow, United Airlines will be boosting capacity between the airports by adding an extra service between the two airports a day. United Airlines Boeing 777-200ER at London Heathrow - Image GhettoIFE The new rotation will add a Boeing 767-300ER's worth of capacity, adding UA942 … [Read more...]

Qatar Airways to deploy its first A380 to London Heathrow

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Qatar Airway have been making lots of noises about its upcoming Airbus A380, and have finally confirmed which route will get the aircraft. Unsurprisingly, it is to the slot constrained airport of London Heathrow. The plane will operate on the QR003/QR004 rotation from 17th June on the following times: QR003 DEPART DOH 07:55 ARRIVE LHR 1315 QR004 DEPART LHR 15:05 ARRIVE DOH … [Read more...]

Strike action – both on Heathrow Express and London Underground

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Expect transportation chaos if you're coming into London for the next few days the London Underground and Heathrow Express/Heathrow Connect services will be affected by strike action. Heathrow Express The strike is running from the 29th April to 30th. Trains services will be reduced to 2 trains an hour from/to London: London Paddington To Heathrow T5. First train departs … [Read more...]

Airplane Art – Delta Boeing 737–700

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It's Sunday again so it must be time for some more airplane art. This week taxiing as dusk falls over to New York JFK airport, is a Boeing 737–700. There's also a game to play in this image - can you spot the two Air France aircraft in this photo too? I''ll give you some hints: There's an A380 and Boeing 777 in this picture... all you have to do is find them! The image … [Read more...]

Boeing 777 – The 10 Across plane – The configurations, data and some analysis….

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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...]

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