Economy Class & Beyond

MOS Burger and Japan Airlines team up for interesting in-flight food

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Starting tomorrow Japan Airlines and Mos Burger are teaming up for their latest collaboration - with another new menu called AIR MOS Yakiniku Rice Burger★JAL SPECIAL. The tray - Image, Japan Airlines The burger revealed  - Image, Japan Airlines This will be served as a second service in Economy and Premium Economy. It will operated on limited routes from Japan … [Read more...]

Allegiant Air picks Acro Series 3 Seats for linefit

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The world of aircraft seating continues to evolve with Acro Aircraft Seating to supply its Acro Series 3 seats as a line-fit option Allegiant Air will be the first operator to have their Airbus A320 line-fitted with these seats. Acro Series 3 Seats - Image, Acro. So the Acro Series 3 seat is a slimline economy seat, with Alleigent choosing the 'Series 3 Superlight … [Read more...]

British Airways and onboard WiFi

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For those of you addicted to Internet connectivity, it seems British Airways is making its wireless project with GoGo a bit of a Gogo, with  initial pricing released. British Airways Boeing 777-200 taxing and Boeing 747-400s at Heathrow (sans WiFi domes) Image, Economy Class and Beyond Gogo is installing its 2Ku product aboard British Airways long haul fleet, and with … [Read more...]

Airlines: A Reminder – Airplane! is NOT instruction manual

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With everything that's gone on with the US3 over the past few weeks (with American now on the back foot), it was timely that Film4 in the UK played everyone's favourite aviation comedy - Airplane! Just before it went out on air, I tweeted this: Please note airlines. #Airplane is not an instruction manual on how to handle #paxex. #iamserious #dontcallmeshirley — … [Read more...]

Can you buy the Japan Rail Pass WHILST in Japan? On trial basis… YES!

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The Japan Rail Pass if used right can be a real money saver when travelling on routes operates by JR Group companies. However, to get one - normally you needed to buy an exchange order outside Japan to get one, and then exchange it for a rail pass JR Rail Pass, Exchange Order and a letter from JTB - Image, Economy Class and Beyond However, it seems the JR Group have … [Read more...]

Medium Haul Rail Travel done right – The Chiltern Mainline Silver Train

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Trains can be much of a muchness in the UK, with train operators moving away from the ideas of comfort to the point where they  densifying them to a point where an airline executive would thin "Maybe that's a touch tight". Recent express and long haul stock have done not a lot to change this impression. Chiltern Railways some time ago tried to change their game with some … [Read more...]

ATR and Geven to introduce a new seat… and its a major improvement

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ATR have been working with Geven seating (their current major supplier) to introduce a new seat for the ATR42-600 and ATR72-600. And it's an important seat. Why? Let's look at current seat - this is pitched at 30" (although carriers do pitch it lower). This was introduced by Geven in 2011 - a long time ago in seating terms. The current ATR Seat by Geven ATR … [Read more...]