Economy Class & Beyond

A Darn good reason to keep your system secure – Malware ridden computer fingered in the Spaniair crash…

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In the real world, I'm an Systems Administrator. And I hate it when people don't want to update computer, or not look after their computers downloading crap by the bucketload.Well here's a good enough reason that comes via Graham Cluley's Blog at Sophos (an Enterprise System Protection company), with a report that central computer system than was monitoring aircraft (though not … [Read more...]

AA: American to charge for “Premium” Seats, follows UA, US, CO, etc…

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Late to the game American Airlines has decided to open up the first few rows of coach/econmomy seating to "anyone who pays extra" for it. Bundled in is the right to be the first to board a plane - a good thing in the USA considering the state of the overhead bins and how loaded they are. They are being sold under the Your Choice" product, avalible to American Airlines customers … [Read more...]

The Long Road to Miles and More: German press annouces possible date, more questions than answers

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Globalflight reports that "bmi will terminate its Frequent Flyer Program Diamond Club towards June 2011 and merge it into the program of its new owner Lufthansa, Miles & More." Well we know about that BMI is on the verge of terminating it thanks to the investor speech Herr Prock-Schauer gave a few weeks ago. There is some analysis on the cost of an EU redemption - however … [Read more...]

LAN/TAM/LATAM – Don’t expect an alliance decision for some time to come

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It seems there is still a lot of work to be done at LATAM (the combine LAN and TAM entity), with the big question of "Which airline alliance will they dance with" LATAM is saying "Come back in 2012 when we've got closer to merging".For now, LAN members can redeem away on OneWorld, whilst TAM members will have fun with Star Alliance For TAM, it's been an extra US$60m in … [Read more...]

BAA in possible climbdown – strike action at British Airports suspended.

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It seems that BAA has no fight in it, and has rolled over to Unite with an improved pay offer made it it's members after a day of talks on Monday to attempt to solve the dispute. The impacted strike would had hit all BAA Airports including Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London Heathrow, London Stansted and SouthamptonAfter 9 hours of talks, an agreement was reached, but no news … [Read more...]

** Update ** Aires Airline Flight 8250

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More is now becoming clear about the air crash today.Aries Flight 8250 operating from Bogotá to San Andreas crashed and broke up as it came in to land in the island of San Andres.The Boeing 737-700 with 131 and crew aboard.  It is reported that the aircraft was hit by lighting before crashed. On contact with the ground, the aircraft split in three with the nose part … [Read more...]

*UPDATE* 737-700 Hit By lightening, Crashed, 1 Fatality

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An update of the earlier story, a Aires airline 737-700 was hit by lightnening, with 1 passenger was killed and 34 were injured, causing it to split into at least two parts when landing early Monday on the island of San Andres, Colombia,There were a reported131 people on-board the 737-700 which crashed  around 1:50 a.m. (2:50 a.m. ET), More updates later … [Read more...]

TAM and LAN to merge

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Now here's anohter one that's appeared from nowhere. Brasil's TAM and Chile's LAN Group have announced the intention to merge together into a new group airline. LATAM Airlines Group would combine a bevy of Latin America carriers including all of LAN's and TAM's passenger and cargo activities, whilst still maintaining all the individual brands The merger is subject to both … [Read more...]

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