Economy Class & Beyond

British Airways makes AA seat assignments a bit easier…

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One of the things that has bugged me for a VERY long time when booking AA code-shares on the British Airways website is the inability to reserve a seat without digging into CheckmyTrip, then digging through the Amadeus Passenger Name Record (PNR) BA issues for a magical AA PNR and finally chucking the details into AA.com to get a result. And that's if I've been good. On … [Read more...]

Safety Video Tuesday – Delta does the 80’s

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It's Tuesday, so please place your luggage in the overhead bins, stow your tray table and place your seat in the uptight position... Ensuring your mobile phone is a brick and thinking digital watches are a near idea as we go to a special Safety Video Tuesday as Delta takes us back... To the Eighties!!! Also play: Spot the cameo! (and the baby Deltalina) Safety video … [Read more...]

Jet Airways adds more routes to Abu Dhabi

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Jet Airways is adding more connections to Abu Dhabi from India, with two new cities to gain routes. The new routes are from. Bangalore and Hyderabad. The new services start on 1st March 2014, with the timings as below: Bangalore – Abu Dhabi 9W504 DEPART BLR 2030 ARRIVE AUH 2330 9W503 DEPART AUH 1030 ARRIVE BLR 1620 Commences 1st March 2014 Operates Daily Booked … [Read more...]

UK – USA/Asia/Australia Sales ending soon

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It's coming to the end of the airline sales season where there are some bargains to be had if you look hard enough. Most of the public sales end tomorrow (28th January), so if you need a flight (like yours truly) it's time to get ones skates on... British Airways end their sale tomorrow (World Traveller, World Traveller Plus and EuroTraveller) Air New Zealand end their … [Read more...]

Air France to use a high capacity 747 to Ajaccio.

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You're probably wondering where the heck is Ajaccio? It's in Corsica, and as such is classed as a French domestic destination. But to shift people to Ajaccio, Air France is needs some serious muscle over the summer months. Therefore, Air France are turning to Corsair to hire a Boeing 747-400 to go between the two destinations over the summer: AF4508 DEPART ORY 1255 … [Read more...]

Airplane Art – British Airways OpenSkies Boeing 757

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It's Sunday again, and it's time for some Airplane Art. This week, it's an Openskies by British Airways Boeing 757-200 at Paris Orly Airport after completing a flight from Newark International Airport 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 … [Read more...]

Safety Video Saturday – ANA Boeing 747

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It's Saturday, so please stow your luggage in the overhead bin or the seat in front of you, ensure your tray table is stowed and put your seat in the upright position as we go to this week's safety video (Well it's better than watching Border Patrol: Australia's front line on PickTV) This week, in celebration that ANA have confirmed final operations of their Boeing 747 … [Read more...]

ANA Prepares to wave goodbye to the Boeing 747-400

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ANA has scheduled in the final flights of the Boeing 747-400 as it prepares to retire them from their fleet completely from its fleet. Already retired from their long haul network, its time for the domestic network to wave sayonara to four engined wonder-machine. ANA Pokemon Jet -  Boeing 747-400  (You can play Who's That Pokemon in the comments ;)!) - Image … [Read more...]

Etihad joins Emirates in going double daily to Dublin

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It seems that Abu Dhabi based Etihad Airways will be joining Emirates in offering double-daily services to the the Irish Capital, with the confirmation a that Etihad will be increasing its flights from 10 per week to 14 The new timetable looks like this: Abu Dhabi to Dublin EY045 DEPART AUH 02:25 ARRIVE DUB 07:30 EY041 DEPART AUH 09:15 ARRIVE DUB 14:25 Dublin to Abu … [Read more...]

Eurostar thoughts

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I'm in the process of putting together the big trip report (look out for it starting in a couple of weeks - mainly as I need to get a lot of things into place, and a heck of a lot writing), but here are some thoughts of a trip on Eurostar Head of a Eurostar Class 373 train set at Paris Nord - Image GhettoIFE. 2 hours and 15 minutes, centre to centre is very tough to … [Read more...]