Economy Class & Beyond

What happens to you luggage when it leaves your hands?

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Delta answers the question with a Video of what happens when your bag disappears down the luggage belt and off into the blue wild yonder of an airport luggage sorting system Of course, this is to plug their baggage tracking function they have in the Fly Delta App. I swear this is missing something. Like the pile of TSA tape and the free throwing around some bags … [Read more...]

IAG pledges to “Grab” BMI according to Bloomberg

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The ongoing saga of who is buying British Midland Airways (owner of British Midland International and BMI Baby) continues to rumble on with International Consolidated Airlines Group (owner of British Airways and Iberia) seemingly wanting BMI according to Bloomberg. IAG concedes that whilst the sales process is taking longer thanks to Virgin Atlantic Airways putting it's … [Read more...]

KLM throws in the towel at Liverpool

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KLM has decided to kill off one its feed network endpoints - connecting the City of Liverpool and Amsterdam. Currently, KLM operates the service 3 times a day to and from Amsterdam. This will be reduced to nil. The change in service will take effect from 25th March 2012. KLM state that due to the economic downturn, they're cancelling the route. For those of you … [Read more...]

Holiday Inn offers £20.12 rooms…

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As the office hotel partner to London 2012, Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn, these two brands of the ICGH group are running a promotion on the 20th December 2011. (or for those who don't do DD/MM/YYYY, 20/12... see the tenuous link? Thought not). Anyway,186 Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Expresses will be offering rooms for a total of £20.12 on the 20th December for bookings from … [Read more...]

Ryanair is at it again – Hikes Baggage and Boarding card costs

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The cowboys of the sky are at it once again. The Low Fares Airline (Note Low Fare - not low Excesses) Ryanair has announced changes to some of their fees. And these are eye-watering. From 15th December 2011, checked luggage bookings made online for “peak travel periods” (which Ryanair determines as June, July, August, September and “Christmas”) will increase by £5 to £25 … [Read more...]

What’s this? A letter? For me?

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Well I came in last night to find this sitting on my doormat from Lufthansa Ooh What wonders lie inside it? Well - not a lot. However, it's nice for an airline to actually use it's customer database to do some "Fuzzy feel good stuff" as opposed to usual hard marketing sell. Two thumbs up Lufthansa! … [Read more...]

EI277

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Off to enjoy some Irish charm on Ireland's better carrier. Next stop: Dublin. Toodle pip! … [Read more...]

** BREAKING ** American Airlines files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection

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Breaking from The Wall Street Journal and American Airlines itself, AMR - the holding company of American Airlines and American Eagle has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection. Quickly reading it, AMR is doing this to restructure its costs and debt to assure it's long term survival, and thus, has filed Chapter 11. AMR intends to operate all services through the … [Read more...]

What’s that skippy? An iPhone ‘exploding’ inflight?

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News from Australia with an iPhone that was being a bit temperamental. Regional Express (REX) were operating a flight Lismore to Sydney, and after landing, the Apple iPhone4 decided to emit what REX calls "significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow" It seems however the flight attendant was on the ball, extinguishing the device before it could do any … [Read more...]