Economy Class & Beyond

Breaking apart the order – United orders 25 A350’s and 25 B787’s

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Ok, now I'm not working on real work, its time to do an analysis. With a mixed order of 25 of each type of aircraft (with options for 50 more of each - so a possible 75 aircraft of each class), what is United trying to achive? Fleet Replacement- The 747's and 767's are up for the chop in this case. The 747's are being replaced with Airbus A350-900's (with 11% more … [Read more...]

Airplane p0rn – Air France Boeing 777-200ER

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And it's time of the week again - time for some Airplane p0rn! This week - an Air France Boeing 777-200ER about to take off from LAX on the long route back to Paris (along with an interloping US Airways Express (Mesa) CRJ in the background). More airplane p0rn of course next week! … [Read more...]

What’s in the Matching pack from Continental?

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In the last waning days of Continental in SkyTeam, I found out that status matches were still being offered to all commers. As a BMI Gold with a slim chance of NOT re-qualifying for BMI Gold (it was very close at one point), I decided to make contingency plans "just in case" Taking a punt (and in some seriousness, I am thinking to switching to Continental - least of all … [Read more...]

Korean Air goes for 747-8I – who else to follow(?)

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The 747-8I project received a very small boost today with Korean Air plumping for a grand total of 5 frames. You read that correct. Five. This actually takes KAL up to 12 747-8's (as they have 7 747-8F's on order) KAL say this is to plug the hole between the 777 and the A380, and it's a logical fit for the between the 300 to 500 seat market. I'm not overly convinced … [Read more...]

JAL… will it be Bachelor number 1 or Bachelor Number 2?

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The Battle for JAL's heart is well and truly joined, with Delta offering $1 Billon and now American offering $1.1 Billion. Its fast turning into one heck of a battle for the Far East (as whoever wins gets a very big chuck of the network out there to integrate into their own airline or alliance) American is part of OneWorld (which JAL is part of) whilst Delta would take … [Read more...]

On other Kevin sites…

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... yes I do have a minor web empire. And minor, it's very small - but hey - lets do some shameless self promotion. On Photoblog (you can access the most recent entries on the left hand bar), It's the Christmas season, so it's time for the Advent Calendar that'll be running all December. Have a look - it might put you into the semi festive spirit. On Raven Imaging (It's … [Read more...]

Ryanair’s flights – Pricless (c) – For everything else, there’s Prepaid MasterCard…

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Well after yesterdays announcement that Abbey and Travelex are abandoning Visa Electron, Ryanair is taking advantage of this, and abandoning the Electron platform too. However, to preserve customer choice and wider acceptability, instead of lowering fees for other debit or credit cards, they'll now accept PrePaid MasterCards only as a fee-free form of payment. Avalible as … [Read more...]

Visa Electron starting to dissapear…. what next?

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GhettoIFE.com towers would like to apologise this week - I'm down with a cold... the joy of work. Things could be more odder than normal... It's been reported that Abbey (Santander) and Travelex will be stopping issuing Visa Electron cards. Why is this remotely important? For those who buy tickets on Aer Lingus, BMIbaby, Easyjet, Flybe Jet2, Ryanair and a lot of the … [Read more...]

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