Economy Class & Beyond

FCO – Avoid Thailand unless it’s essential you’re there.

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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has updated their advisory on the Bangkok and Thailand situation.In a nutshell:The overall level of the advice has changed; we advise against all travel to specific parts of Thailand, including Bangkok.  We advise against all but essential travel to other specific parts of Thailand, including Chiang Mai.Oh dear. The breakdown … [Read more...]

Another LCC tries to make USA-STN work… but will it?

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So Sun Country Airlines are going to make a bash of a Summer route, linking Minneapolis St Paul with London Stansted. But who are they, why should you care, and what are they on?Sun Country has been through the mill, and is coming out of Chapter 11 reorganisation, and seems to be in the mood to try something different, namley running an over the pond service. Running through … [Read more...]

Air France – KLM looses more money down the back of the sofa…

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Oh dear. Money seems to be getting tighter at Air France-KLM Group today after their annual numbers have been annouced.And it's not good news with a massive loss of €1.55 Billion Euro.This is blamed on a mixture of things that they could come up with inculdingFalling air traficLow cargo yieldsFuel Prices up, down and everywhereAnd the AF447 incident. The cheichief … [Read more...]

Egypt Air – Eyeing up the Americas…

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It seems EgyptAir is getting a bit ambiguous with it's new fleet of Boeing 777-300ER's, and has eyes for further expansion across the pond next year when the last pair of 77W's arrive.Currently, there is no direct Cairo to Toronto, Washington or Chicago, and EgyptAir want to change that.Deployments of 777-300ER's are starting to happen, with an London route (temporarily until … [Read more...]

Unite vs BA – Your decision has been delayed until Thursday….

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Unite has lodged a request for an appeal of yesterdays court ruling that the strike was illeagle because of a technicality or two.The courts will be making their formal decision on Thursday 09:30.  If this finds in favour of Unite, any appeal hearing could follow immediately.If successful, strikes go ahead later in the month, but if this fails, Unite will once again … [Read more...]

Changing the goals – More ash = Not so bad it seems.

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Well NATS and the CAA have seemed to change the goalposts again.Originally 0.002mg of Ash was considered acceptable. Now subject to limited times, 0.004mg is acceptable subject to approval of engine safety.So now there is three limits - no ash, medium ash and heavy ash.Segmentation - don't you love it? In other ash news, the cloud is slowly blowing away to the north, and … [Read more...]

And now it gets icky. BA win on a technicality, UNITE to appeal.

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So British Airways and UNITE reach the "end" of another tussle, with BA winning on a technicalityThe judge agreed with British Airways on a technicality of the ballot if Unite followed rules in contacting its members with strike result details.Lets get onto the quotes. BA Say.... "We are delighted for our customers that Unite's plans for extreme and unjustified strike action … [Read more...]

Volcanic Ash III – Clear skies from 19:00BST… for now.

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NATS have updated their advisory, and it seems to be clear skies for all UK airports from 19:00 to at least 01:00 BST 18/05/10.Clear skies and open airports - for now..NATS Update:According to the latest information from the CAA and the Met Office the volcanic ash cloud clears the UK for the period 1900 (local time) until 0100 tomorrow (Tuesday) and all airports in … [Read more...]

Volcanic Ash III – The Ebbing Threat…

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NAT's latest update indicates good news - and time for those who want to get out - or get into the country to do their thing.Only the Orkney Islands are now shut, wit the rest of UK Airspace open for now.Latest NATS statement:Update on Monday 17 May, 1300 The CAA has lifted the no-fly zone that has been affecting flights at Heathrow and Gatwick until 1900 (local time) today. … [Read more...]

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