Economy Class & Beyond

Airplane Art – Qatar Airways Airbus A330

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It's Sunday, so it's time for some more Airplane Art. This week, it's a Qatar Airways Airbus A330 coming into land at London Heathrow Airport on a sunny summer morning after a long trek over from Doha. 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 with me at … [Read more...]

Safety Video Saturday – Iceland Air

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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, time for something a bit out of the ordinary, with Iceland Air some gorgeous local nature video mixed into the video to … [Read more...]

Automated Passport Control kiosks installed at Newark

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Let's face it, whilst you can make travel as glamorous (or not) in the air, whenever you land on the ground, you have to deal with the joy of border control. Whilst some borders can be reasonably fast to clear (the French and German borders always seem pretty fast), some borders can be a real pain to clear. Whilst the UK is pretty high on my personal list, the USA Border … [Read more...]

British Airways links London City to Dublin, goes after CityJet

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In a broadside shot, British Airways is to open a service between London City Airport and Dublin in the upcoming Winter 2014/2015 timetable. British Airways Embraer 190 taxing at London City Airport - Image GhettoIFE, with thanks to London City Airport for Ramp Access. The service between the two capitals will be operated using a mixture of the London City Airport based … [Read more...]

Trans Atlantic Traffic… visualised.

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NATS have released a great video of the traffic that crosses back and forth from Europe to the Americas and back. And there's a lot of traffic as this video shows.... http://vimeo.com/98941796 Rather amazing to think that many flights with many people crossing in the air each day... … [Read more...]

If my typing and writing seems worse than normal…

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... that's because it is. Regular readers know my grammar and spelling isn't too hot to begin with. However, things at GhettoIFE towers have taken a turn for worse, with the four-year old laptop I use (A 2009 MacBook Pro) suffering a keyboard failure - bizarrely with the letters S and W not responding to commands. So much so, I've got a GhettoMacBook Pro at the moment (and … [Read more...]

Azul get its first long haul aircraft

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Azul has taken delivery of the first of its long haul fleet - an Airbus A330 today. America Azul represents the first of the Azul long haul fleet, initially to be made up of six Airbus A330s, with A350s to follow. The delivery is a bit early, as Azul is not due to ramp up A330 long haul services until December.  This is due to aircraft reconfiguration as well as crew … [Read more...]

Etihad proposes to take a 49% ownership of Alitalia

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And so it comes to pass with Etihad to take a 49% today percent ownership of the Italian carrier Alitalia after protracted negotiations. Etihad Boeing 777 - Image, GhettoIFE Alitalia Airbus A321 - Image GhettoIFE Etihad is proposing to take a 49% equity share of the Italian flag carrier, which is subject to stakeholder approval - as well as EU regulators. Etihad seem … [Read more...]

The Rise of Bring Your Own IFE

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Many moons ago, I starting making and writing about Sickbag based In-Flight Entertainment Systems - or what I called "GhettoIFE Systems". A 2014 GhettoIFE system aboard an Air France Airbus A319 - Image GhettoIFE. The idea being that I could bring entertainment that I wanted to watch inflight, as opposed to IFE that 1) I didn't want to watch or 2) didn't exist. When the … [Read more...]