Economy Class & Beyond

It’s confirmed: Air France to run A380’s on LHR- CDG route!

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Business Traveller have confirmed the madness of Air France, and that they will be running a CDG-LHR-CDG Airbus A380 service.Fares start from £80 (or €80) in econony, and business class seats are for sale too. A question mark if they're selling First Class ticket exists at this time (or if they decide to run it empty)So before you go off and book that ticket, be … [Read more...]

Got one of those new fangled ID Cards? Who’s a silly person then?

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Well, Day 1 of a new government - and we have something called positive progress. The National ID Card system, along with the National Identity Register has in so many words - been scrapped. The new administration has argued it has cost far too much, expensive, intrusive and have done little to tackle the most serious threats to society such as terrorism and organised crime.Or … [Read more...]

So what is a new goverment doing for aviation?

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Well for those beyond the UK borders will be looking wondering why it's taken 5 days for us to make a collation government. But the fact is now - we have one. First up, 3rd Runway at Heathrow and Extension to runways. In three words forget about it. Plans for the 3rd runway have been shelved, and a quick read of the new policies indicate that plans for extensions are under … [Read more...]

Another bad day: Air Afriqiyah A330 crashes at Tripoli

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Oh dear. Not a good day at all. An Air Afriqiyah A330 has crashed at Tripoli airport, killing more than 100 people on board the plane.The service which departed Johannesburg as Flight 8U771 attempted to land at 06:00 local time, and crashed on landing within the airport perimeters.The manifests indicate that 93 passengers and 11 crew were on board the aircraft of various … [Read more...]

Air France considers loosing its marbles… and considers a CDG-LHR A380 deployment

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Ok. WHAT is Air France on THIS time?It seems Air France is considering becoming Lemming Airlines en France with the latest news that they're seriously considering deploying an A380 to serve the London to Paris market.Umm. April was last month kids.Anyhoo according to Flight, the carrier is looking at other options to exploit the capacity of the 538-seat jet.The full details are … [Read more...]

The Cost of Ash

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It seems ash has once again clamied more victims... in the form of hard cash.EasyJet has report it will be down from £50m to £75mTUI have also suffered to the tune of t£90m, as it reported a six-month loss of £367m.Thats a lot of bread. EasyJet is on target to improve its profits, even in this bad year - including the £21m loss due the mad snow … [Read more...]

Ding Ding! Round Three of the BA/Unite spat.

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Well, here we go again. UNITE and British Airways are off to strike. The strike dates are listed below, but for completion: 18 May - 22 May24 May - 28 May30 May - 03 June05 June - 09 JuneThis is going to hit the World Cup, and Half term holidays. Nice work UNITE. Thinking of the people. Tony Woodley said "There can be no industrial peace without meaningful negotiations and … [Read more...]

Twitter users: Be careful what you tweet. Especially on a plane.

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Some Twitter users are - alas - don't tweet, but they sure are twits.Paul Chambers of was stuck on a plane Doncaster Airport, as weather forced the airport to close down on January 6th 2010 when he was due to fly to Ireland. He has been found guilty of sending threatening messages.This was the message which was identified by managers at Doncaster's Robin Hood Airport, who filed … [Read more...]

Off we go again – new BA strike dates set

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Is there really much more to say?Latest dates: (all 5 day strikes)18th May to 22nd May24th May30th May05th JuneThere's not much more to say other than SORT IT OUT!!!More later- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone - apologies for the spelling! … [Read more...]

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