Economy Class & Beyond

AirBnB – It’s all fine until the cancellations hit…

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In a week or so time, I'll be at the APEX Association's Expo/Aircraft Interiors Expo America in Boston, MA. And amazingly, that has a few issues. Namely the price of hotel stock. This is the price I had for three nights (Saturday, Sunday and Monday). I'll let you be shocked at the prices for rooms. So, yes. This isn't exactly "cheap", I'm sure we can agree. I decided … [Read more...]

Air Peace adds 10 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to its fleet

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Air Peace of Lagos, Nigera have been a bit busy recently - taking delivery of a Boeing 777, and now ordering 10 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft direct from Boeing. Air Peace Boeing 737 MAX - Rendering, The Boeing Company The order was signed in Lagos for 10 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft. The airline currently uses a mixture of Boeing 737-300, Boeing 737-500, Embraer ERJ-145, as well as … [Read more...]

Primera grows its network from Madrid to North America

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Primera continues to plot for 2019 and it's Boeing 737 MAX 9 Fleet - with plans to grow out a long haul network from Madrid. Primera Air Boeing 737-800 at Birmingham Airport - Image, Economy Class and Beyond The new plans call for routes from Madrid to: Boston (MA) (3 times a week) Newark (NJ) (Daily Service) Toronto, Canada (4 times a week) The Newark … [Read more...]

Aer Lingus adds Montreal and Minneapolis-St Paul … and the A321neo

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Aer Lingus came out with an annoucement yesterday, with two new routes on the horizon - Minneapolis-St Paul and Montreal. Aer Lingus Boeing 757-200 taxing at Dublin Airport - Image, Economy Class and Beyond. But that's not the most interesting part. We'll get to that in a shortly. The Minneapolis-St. Paul service will be operated by an ASL Airlines Boeing 757-200 in Aer … [Read more...]

Ryanair prepares to launch routes from Exeter Airport – And Flybe should be scared….

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In "news that made me go hmm", Ryanair is to launch three routes out of Exeter Airport in the south-west of England. Ryanair Boeing 737-800 coming into land at Dublin Airport - Image, Economy Class and Beyond The new routes that will operate out of Exeter will include from 2nd April 2019: Malaga Malta Naples All sun and leisure destinations.  Routes will operate twice … [Read more...]

Two things you need to do post the British Airways Data Breach

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With the British Airways site data breach over 15 days (22:58 BST August 21 2018 until 21:45 BST September 5 2018 inclusive) - there are two things you need to do - or should be at least considering doing over next few days 1) Change your password to the BA site/App. Yes, it's annoying as hell - but change your British Airways site password... especially if you use the … [Read more...]

To Leak, To Breach – British Airways suffers Customer data theft…

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It seems that another airline has fallen to a data breach - this time, it's British Airways. According to the airline, a breach occurred from 22:58 BST August 21 2018 until 21:45 BST September 5 2018 inclusive. According to Sky News over 380,000 transactions are affected. The breach covers personal and financial details of customers making bookings on both the BA … [Read more...]