Economy Class & Beyond

Credit Cards and Miles – The view from the UK

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Whilst there are bountiful offers in the USA for Credit Cards and Current Accounts that give you 25,000 miles on signup, the picture is a little different over here, as in most current accounts tend to be service driven, with the user paying for extra services to be bundled into the account. However, there is a veritable feast of miles for grabs out there in case you're on … [Read more...]

The Aussies… they’re tugging at the heart strings again

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Qantas in the middle of cuts and tourtures have gone out for the heartstrings with this one - the Relaunch of "I Still Call Australia My Home" Just click and watch it. I swear they're punishing me for not booking an A380 seat for next week http://www.qantas.com.au/flash/miniSites/iscah/tvc/QANTAS_2009_TVC.html Youtube linky will appear when I can get it! … [Read more...]

The Friday News Roundup

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It's Friday again, so it must be time for me to look at the news for the week: Ryanair takes its balls away... Ryanair pulls aircraft and services from Manchester - Analysis on here on why O'Liar is talking once again out of his back side. BBC News, GhettoIFE.com Korean Air - Profit! Korean Air posted a net income of 78.5b won ( or about $62.4 million) for Q2/2009 … [Read more...]

Airplane p0rn Extra – BA A318 taking off

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Today, we have some Airplane p0rn extra - and we'd like to welcome one of the pair of British Airways A318's that will be running the London City Airport - New York JFK which completed it's first flight recently. Image from Imageshack - credit unknown, but seeming to be widely published. - Source: http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/4363/pict0009b800.jpg. Additional … [Read more...]

Openskies has another fare sale….

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That wonderful experiment is having yet another fare sale between NYC and ORY (New York Airports - Paris Orly) Dates: 01/10/09 - 31/03/10 Book by: 08/09/09 Valid: from NYC to ORY, not reversible Books into: Biz Seat Cost: $499 each way + taxes Now, whilst good value, if Openskies does it its rug pulled from under it, expect a reroute via LHR in Club World - so if you … [Read more...]

Brown goes Red… does it REALLY matter?

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Our beloved Prime Minister, Gordon Brown (MP for Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath) has decided that a new contract to save the taxpayers money is needed, and is ditching the British Airways contract for a Virgin Atlantic contract. Whilst Virgin might crow until the cows come home about this, lets take a little step back Idle planes don't earn money - therefore slicing 30% off … [Read more...]

Ryanair partially pulls out of MAN…

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However, it isn't the end of the world. Job losses: If there is one thing O'Leary loves, its hyping numbers - in this case the job losses shouldn't be that many (and if anything - it's mostly ground handling crews so they should get redeployed by the handling company) Services: Well well well. Lets look at these hotspots and work out what's happening Barcelona (Girona), … [Read more...]

The News: A New base, Cuts, Profits causing trouble…

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Continental: Joins Star Alliance 27th October (Official) Continental have confirmed they are to leave SkyTeam on the 24th October and formally join Star Alliance on the 27th October. Expect trouble if things go wrong - and knowing how other airlines have handled integrations before - trouble isn't fare off. (Continental) Ryanair Opens a new base a Jimmy Savile … [Read more...]

I’m a photographer – not a terroist!

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Time to divert from planes and trains... and move back to photography. It seems the photographer (professional, armature or anywhere in between) is now the thought "If you have a Digital SLR you logicly must be a terrorist in police thoughts. Lets remember a key tenant of the law: "the law does not restrict the right to photograph in the UK." Lets examine some … [Read more...]

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