Economy Class & Beyond

Back Into Action, Back to the Back – Hyatt Regency O’Hare

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Part 3: Hyatt Regency O'Hare Back into action, Back to the Back - To Chicago with American Airlines, American Eagle and British Airways LHR-ORD, ORD-YYZ-LHR Index: Dodging the Sword of Damocles (The Introduction) To Heathrow, T3 Lounges AA99 London Heathrow T3 to Chicago O'Hare T5 Hyatt Regency O'Hare - THIS SECTION One Time Exception: A Loop Around the … [Read more...]

Back Into Action, Back to the Back – AA and BA – AA99 to Chicago

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AA99 London Heathrow to Chicago, Economy Class.  Back into action, Back to the Back - To Chicago with American Airlines, American Eagle and British Airways LHR-ORD, ORD-YYZ-LHR Index: Dodging the Sword of Damocles (The Introduction) To Heathrow, T3 Lounges AA99 London Heathrow T3 to Chicago O'Hare T5 - THIS SECTION Hyatt Regency O'Hare One Time … [Read more...]

Back Into Action, Back to the Back – To Chicago with AA and BA

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Back into action, Back to the Back - To Chicago with American Airlines, American Eagle and British Airways LHR-ORD, ORD-YYZ-LHR The Introduction! Index: Dodging the Sword of Damocles (The Introduction) - THIS SECTION To Heathrow, T3 Lounges AA99 London Heathrow T3 to Chicago O'Hare T5 Hyatt Regency O'Hare One Time Exception: A Loop Around the Loop To ORD, … [Read more...]

Safety Video Saturday – TAP Portugal

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It's Saturday again, so its time to put some samba on, put your seat in the upright position, fasten your seat belt on and stow your tray table as we go to this week's safety video. This week, TAP seem to doing it on the cheap and getting their own passengers to do their safety video... with interesting results... Another safety video next week! … [Read more...]

Quick review: The new Hyatt bathroom amenities

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Some people loved it… others hated it. I'm of course referring to Hyatt's "White Ginger" range of bathroom smells they used to have. We've all seen the Youtube video of Hyatt plugging their new bathroom stuff… So what are they actually like? The new kit is by KentMD (as opposed to Portico)... and looks like something below: The Bathbar: Very … [Read more...]

Jetstar Hong Kong delayed

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Those of you who were hoping Jetstar Hong Kong would take off will now have to wait a little longer it seems. Jetstar Hong Kong was due to commence services mid 2013 - now it seems this is delayed until the end of the year. This is due to regulatory issues with both the Hong Kong and Chinese Governments which have been in a state of change recently. Jetstar Hong Kong is a … [Read more...]

ANA scrubs May 787 flying, hopeful for June

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All Nippon Airlines have confirmed that they will be keeping their 787 grounded till at least May, with routes inculding Tokyo Narita-Seattle Toyko Narita-San Jose Kansai-Seoul Nagoya-Seoul remaining as cancelled for now due to lack of aircraft availability. Whilst ANA is still waiting clearance from aviation authorities, the airline hasn't decided how it is … [Read more...]

Fallout from the UK budget – APD on the rise again

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There are some things in life that are certain - being born, dieing, suffering from a stinker of a cough/flu, and of course, taxes. The one certainty there has been over the past few years is that Air Passenger Duty (APD) which is levied on flights departing the United Kingdom is going to shoot up. Again. So, how much extra are you going to be spending from Chancellor … [Read more...]

China Airlines to NOT set up an LCC

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Update: retracted according to ATW - http://atwonline.com/airline-finance-data/news/china-airlines-launch-lcc-taiwan-0314 That would been interesting... Very interesting. Oh well. There's still is the question of how Taiwanese airlines will tackle the low cost carriers.... China Airlines of Taiwan (as opposed to Air China which is based in China) is to set up a Low Cost … [Read more...]