Economy Class & Beyond

Good news: Irish Airspace (including Northen Ireland) will reopen at 13:00BST

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From The Irish Aviation Authority:The IAA has cleared Irish Airports to open for full operations from 1300 hrs local time today Tuesday 4th May. Dublin, Shannon, Cork, Knock, Donegal, Waterford, Kerry, Galway and Sligo may resume normal operations.Current Information from the VAAC confirms this information. We expect operations to be normal at all Irish Airports for the rest of … [Read more...]

Oh boy… The Return of Volcanic Ash…

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It seem Irish Airspace is once again under attack by that pesky volcano. From 04/05/2010, Irish Airspace will be closed to aircraft taking off or landing from 07:00BST to 13:00BST.The Irish Aviation Authority have looked at the weather, and to quote them:"Ireland falls within the predicted area of ash concentrations" However, flights flying over Ireland will not be hit. The IAA … [Read more...]

Continetal and United Merge… and It’s an airline!

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Well Continental and United have announced they want to tie the know, and convince and airline called... United.It seems like Tiltons tarting with US Airways and the call off of that merger was impetuous enough for Continental to drag United up the isle.A picture says a 1000 words, so here it is...Both companies are going to merge in the attempt to bring a bit more … [Read more...]

Airplane p0rn – Vietnam Airlines Boeing 777-200ER

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It's that time of the week again to celebrate the different coloured bits of tin can these planes come in, in that wonder that's airplane p0rn!This week - it's a Boeing 777-200ER looking resplendent in Vietnam Airlines colours in the midday sun in Frankfurt as its being towed around. More next week! … [Read more...]

ANA’s 787 confidence in delivery time continues to drop

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It seems that ANA confidence in the 787 delivery is edging away, according to Flight . Whilst the first batch of 787's are due to head to Japan in late 2010, ANA is readying itself to recivie them a full quarter later in 2011.ANA is doing this in case of another slip up with the 787 project - and lets face it, there's been a few of them have happened on this project on the way … [Read more...]

Pictures from ATL or Bust are now live!

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Good news everyone! The pictures from the trip report are now live at Photoblog.They have been split down into inconvenience you further.To BHXBHX-FRA with Lufthansa + Hotel SavoyFRA-ORD with UnitedORD-ATL with UnitedThe Hyatt Regency AtlantaThe Embassy Suites and ATL-IADIAD-LHR Part IIAD-LHR Part II - Night time over London The trip report is about 3/4 written, and should be … [Read more...]

From silence to life – reopening European airspaace

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This little video care of ITO World shows what happened when.... http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11205494&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1Airspace Rebooted from ItoWorld on Vimeo.Will this be the last volcano ash post? Hopefully for some time.... … [Read more...]

Oh dear. UNITE calls for BA Cabin Crew to reject deal…

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Ever feel like going around in circles? Well here we go again with Unite and BA.As negotiations have once again failed to reach positive agreement for both sides, the Unite/BASSA Union said it will "strongly recommend" that its members reject the latest offer from the airline.Of course, if the cabin crew reject the offer, it's down the road to strike action - although Unite … [Read more...]

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