Economy Class & Beyond

Safety Video Saturday – British Airways

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It's Saturday again, so it's time to bring your seat into the upright position, stow any luggage in the overhead lockers and ensure your tray table is put away as we go to this week's safety video. This week, it's the British Airways safety videos. A lot on a certain video sharing website are a bit shaky-cam like (like this … [Read more...]

Iceland add Birmingham (UK) to its network

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IcelandAir is adding to its international network, with their next destination to be Birmingham in the United Kingdom IcelandAir Boeing 757-200 - Image, Icelandair  The airline will operate a two-time a week service from Reykjavik to Birmingham based on the following timetable: FI494 DEPART KEF 07:50 ARRIVE BHX 10:25 FI495 DEPART BHX 12:25 ARRIVE KEF 15:10 Commences: 5th … [Read more...]

Air New Zealand 787-9 All-Blacks takes to the air

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With the upcoming test programme for the Boeing 787-9 still in progress, the movement to get the delivery aircraft ready for service takes another step. The first aircraft for Air New Zealand has completed its first test flight after being revealed over a month ago. Air New Zealand Boeing 787-9 taking off on its first flight, Image Air New Zealand. And yes, I still think … [Read more...]

Cold Chicago, Warm Planes – A Walk Around Millennium Park

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Cold Chicago, Warm Planes - To Chicago with AA and BA A Walk Around Millennium Park Let's Play "Stacking Discounts!" (The Introduction) We're going where the air is free (NX210 to LHR), BA Galleries Lounge AA Flagship Lounge AA87 London Heathrow T3 to Chicago O'Hare T5 Crowne Plaza O'Hare Hyatt Regency O'Hare One Time Exception - Millennium Park … [Read more...]

United pulls back from Doha

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United Airlines is to pull back from Doha in Qatar, and will only operate between Washington DC and Dubai. United Boeing 777 taxing at Heathrow - Image GhettoIFE The route operated to Doha via Dubai as a "tag-on" fifth freedom flight, adding an extra hour flight between cities, plus the transit time - a total of 16 hours 15 minutes (comparable for connecting flights with a … [Read more...]

Qantas prepares to pull back A380s from Hong Kong

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As Qantas continues to suffer, it is still attempting to reshape its Asian network, with the big Airbus A380 featuring on the Sydney to Hong Kong route due to be removed from the route, and switched to allow the Dallas route to operate. Qantas Airbus A380 at London Heathrow - Image GhettoIFE. Currently, the route is operated throughout the year, five days a week. This is … [Read more...]

Personal Electronic Devices in all stages of flight coming to Canada

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Earlier last year, US regulators and European regulators began to loosen the rules on the use of Personal Electronic Devices during all stages of flight. It seem Canada will be joining the party according to Transport Canada It seem Canadian regulator will allowed to use devices such as long as they don't make telephone calls or use WiFi. Devices that will be allowed to be … [Read more...]

Airplane Art – Air Canada Airbus A330-300

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It's Sunday again, and if all is well, it's time for some Airplane art. This week, in the morning sunshine is an Air Canada Airbus A330-300 resting at London Heathrow Terminal 3 awaiting its next turn back to Canada. The image is clickable if you want to see a larger version – and yes you can keep them for your desktops! More airplane art next week! Want to keep up … [Read more...]

Video Saturday – Wizz Air low flypast

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It's Saturday again, so it's time to take to the observation places as we go to this week's video. This week, A  Wizz Air Airbus A320 performs a very low pass at the Budapest Air Show on the 1st May this year How low you're asking? Firstly watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUbDBbQkgdk. If you notice, the plane is well below the height of some of the … [Read more...]

Long Term Test Continued: Canon 100D (Featuring the City of Chicago)

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I'm going to continue a few long-term tests - both luggage and technology - with this segment looking at the long-term testing of my little Canon EOS Camera - the Canon 100D Canon 100D in hand with a 50mm f1.4 attached - Image GhettoIFE, Firstly, you might want to catch up with my initial thoughts of the Canon 100D, but in a sentence: It's not the absolute perfect … [Read more...]