Economy Class & Beyond

Blog Admin: Keyword Cleanup

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It's winter cleaning time here at GhettoIFE.com towers - so over the next few weeks you might find that certain keywords are being enhanced to increase visibility and user friendliness. Ok. That's the airline spin version - now for the translation ;) I'm cleaning up the blog a bit as the labels/keywords list is getting a bit unmanageable.  It should hopefully slim … [Read more...]

BMI slices more of itself up… what is there left?

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Well even though I go a new Diamond Club Pack, it seems BMI is downsizing itself... With the PR Spin distilled - it's bad news. AMS (Amsterdam) to be suspended from 27 March 2010 TLV (Tel Aviv) suspended from London on 9 January 2010, and the last flight departing Tel Aviv on 10 January 2010 KPB (Kiev) suspended on 10 January 2010 ALP - (Aleppo), with the last … [Read more...]

The New Diamond Club Pack – umm.. Where does it say BMI?

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So a nice black package arrvied in the post for me today... but what's in it? Ah. BMI wishes to communicate with me. Oooh... Airport codes... and subtle bit of BMI Advertising. Oh bugger. Eco credentials down the pan with lots of little advertising things.  Nice idea, but a booklet would had been cuter, and no doubt easier to print. Still - that's our … [Read more...]

And so a peice of history comes to an end… Bye Bye LHR T2!

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The Europa Terminal - or what is these days known as London Heathrow Terminal 2 has sent its last passenger off into the night and has closed down, with the strip-out, demolition and rebuild Flight AF1881 was the last to push back from the Europa Building (An hour late - that's our Heathrow Airport) and thus closed 54 years of history of that low celinged check-in (as that … [Read more...]

Traveling on a Continental 737… Don’t expect any inseat IFE….

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Big news from our newest members of the Star Alliance -  Continental It seems to have issues with their the delivered LiveTV (LTV3) system installed in their Boeing 737-900ERs and 737-800's, after discovery there is an out of specification problem on the units. It looks like fix is simple - however - it will take time to do the fleet. Of course Continental have … [Read more...]

London gets a clue at last – Full Oyster from 2nd Jaunary 2010.

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Well it's taken long enough for the Greater London Assembly and Transport to London to get their heads around the rail companies and knock sense into them and FINALLY delivered Full Oyster for All Transport for London Network services. If you're a visitor to London (or an Oyster PAYG user), you have 3 options at the moment: Buy an Oyster Card any pay up for train … [Read more...]