Economy Class & Beyond

Norway to introduce Air Passenger Tax – starts from 1st June 2016

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It seems Norway is planning to join a list of countries that want to charge you for flying out of them. Your handy map of Norway - Where you'll be charged NOK80 per departing flight - Image, Wikipedia Commons (Public Domain). Norway is adding a 80 Krone charge (around €8.64, £6.59, US$9.67) for departures out of any of their airport from 1st June 2016... … [Read more...]

Android Pay comes to Transport for London Services

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The rise of contactless payment continues, with Android Pay recently launching in the United Kingdom. And straight after its launch - Transport for London began accepting Android Pay for Pay-as-you-go fares. The upshot is if you have an Android powered phone which can utilise the Android Pay application on London Underground, Buses, Trams, London Overground, TfL Rail, … [Read more...]

Opinion: Are British Airways going to start to charge for food on Short Haul?

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There's been a lot of press circulating that British Airways is to abandon offering food and drinks offerings on its short haul network. British Airways Airbus A320 with Sharklets on taxi at Heathrow - Image, Economy Class and Beyond This includes The Guardian, The Telegraph, Metro, BBC News and others. British Airways Short-Haul and UK Domestic supports a catered service … [Read more...]

Lufthansa takes a square aim at English football fans in its new advert

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It's coming up to a period of time where I turn off the TV as 22 grown men kick a ball around a field and is referred by at 30,000 people in a stadium. Yes. It's coming up to UEFA's Euro 2016 European Football championships. And it seems Lufthansa are playing along - with their latest advert... taking aim at the old enemy on the football field. That would be the England … [Read more...]

IAG goes for Gogo – 2KU and high speed internet coming to British Airways and others

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It's taken a long time, but it seems IAG Group (including British Airways) are finally going to press ahead and install WiFi on their planes, provisioned by Gogo. British Airways Boeing 747-400 at New York JFK - Image, Economy Class and Beyond This will be first customer that Gogo has snagged in Europe for the 2KU product. Gogo will be supplying IAG with 2KU to be installed … [Read more...]

Mobile phone roaming becomes a lot cheaper in the EU area

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There is one thing that the European Union is good at regulating at - and its roaming fees on mobile phones when roaming inside the EU/EEA area. The EU have capped roaming fees, and after the 30th April, the roaming charge excesses are reduced further. The new fees are: €0.05 per minute of call made €0.02 per SMS sent €0.05 per MB of data (All prices are … [Read more...]

GoGo’s 2KU takes to the skies with AeroMexico

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GoGo's 2KU today became live aboard AeroMexico's Boeing 737-800 aircraft. This represents the first time GoGo's 2KU has taken flight commercially, and will be operating aboard five of AeroMexico's  Boeing 737-800s. AeroMexico were one of the first airlines to sign for Gogo 2KU - and thus the first to deploy it. To start with, GoGo 2KU will be offered free of charge - … [Read more...]