Economy Class & Beyond

Emirates to upscale Newcastle to Dubai route

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It seems there is demand from the North of England to the Middle East and beyond within announcement that Emirates is to upscale the route from an Airbus A330-200 to a Boeing 777-300ER This will be one of Emirates's Two Class 777-300ER's, with 42 Business Class Seats and 385 Economy class seats. This adds an extra 2000 seats a week (from the 278 seater Airbus … [Read more...]

In … Russia. TransAero and British Airways FIGHT!

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All is not good in Russia it seems as British Airways ramps up its planned Russia Expansion. As it's been reported, British Airways will be ramping up it's flights to Moscow with a Boeing 747-400 from the WorldWide Fleet, upgrading it from a 767-300/A320 Operation. An Application which British Airways has sent seems to have been lost to run the service. Oops. Others say … [Read more...]

Gulf Air takes an axe to some of its services

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Following hot on the heels of Royal Jordanian, Gulf Air is now getting ready to wield the axe on some of its services. Up for the chop are: Athens (Ceases 12th March 2012) Damascus  (Ceases 2nd March 2012) Milan (Ceases 12th March 2012) Kuala Lumpur (Ceases 25th March 2012) Entebbe and Geneva have also been cut too. Gulf Air cites issues with the Bahrain … [Read more...]

Safety Video Saturday – Volaris

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How do you turn a safety video into a drama of daytime TV epic proportions? Well we can thank Volaris for this... drama? Oh well, at least it's original in comparison to some safety videos out there... More safety next week! … [Read more...]

Uhoh. The Sale of BMI Regional is taking a little longer than some like….

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Well, firstly we have a name at last for the buyers of BMI Regional - Granite Aviation according to Flight International. And there's a bit of a snag in the sale due the company taking over as Granite is an investment group - not an airline and thus has no airline infrastructure in place. This means things like lack of support for planes is currently lacking. An agreement … [Read more...]

Safety Video Saturday – American Airlines – 767-300

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Safety Video Saturday is back again for another Saturday, and it's time to put your seat into the upright position as American Airlines have released a new video for their fleet, and this is the 767-300 version. More safety ... soon! (although I get this feeling we'll be back to paint jobs in a few weeks...) … [Read more...]

Germanwings grows up a little – now will earn Miles and More miles…

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Well here's a turn up for the books with Germanwings, with them allowing passengers to earn Miles and More STATUS miles. Miles and More of course, is the "Integrated" mileage programme of Lufthansa, Swiss, Brussels Airlines, Austrian and other Lufthansa companies. Germanwings runs its own little club called "Boomerang Club", but for those who are chasing every single … [Read more...]