Economy Class & Beyond

Airplane Art Extra – Airbus A350 first engine run

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Normal Airplane art will resume shortly, but here's something extra tasty for a lot of us. Regular readers know I keep up to date with the development, rollout and first flights of aircraft. Well Airbus shared a great picture on Twitter today with their new Airbus A350-900 having its engines started for the very first time. Image - Airbus via Twitter and YFrog The … [Read more...]

Safety Video Saturday – Delta does Outtakes

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It's Saturday again - so it's time to stow your tray table, ensure your seat is in the fully upright position and check your seatbelt is fastened... but not too tightly today as Delta have got another variation of their safety video... this time the out-takes. You've got to give to Delta that they try to get the message across - in any means possible... and having … [Read more...]

BA762 Incident: Engine Cowling doors were unlatched.

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The UK Air Accident Investigation Branch has confirmed that the fan cowl doors were left unlatched post maintenance on the plane, that lead to the incident of Flight BA762. During take off, the cowls were lost on both engines, resulting in a punctured a fuel pipe in the right-hand engine - as well as the plane landing with the cowling's gone. The plane returned to … [Read more...]

Air Canada to deploy its high density 777-300ER on Vancouver to Hong Kong

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Those of you with a love of space down the back of the plane may choose to reroute after this announcement. Air Canada is to operate it's new high density 777-300ER's on the Vancouver to Hong Kong route, initally 3 days a week, then 5 and finally daily from January 2014. Here's the timetable and the splits: AC007 DEPART YVR 11:40 ARRIVE HKG 1720+1 AC008 DEPART HKG 19:10 … [Read more...]

EU investigates Spain over refusal to accept ECHI Cards

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The ECHI Card (European Health Insurance card) is a very useful bit of plastic if you're an EU citizen travelling to European Union/European Economic Area countries, and you're in need of emergency healthcare. The card allows EU citizens to free healthcare in public hospitals across the 27 EU countries as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, and is intended … [Read more...]

Mmmmm! BAcon! The Omnishambles of a Heathrow Transfer – Off to Denver and Beyond with Aer Lingus and British Airways

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Mmmmm! BAcon! - Off to Denver and Beyond with Aer Lingus and British Airways The Omnishambles of a Heathrow Transfer.... Index: A Conference… why not? Early morning New New Street, Aer Lingus EI263 London to Dublin A Dublin transit, DAA Lounge BA827 Dublin to London Heathrow The Hell of A Heathrow Transit, BA F Lounge - THIS SECTION BA219 – … [Read more...]

Heathrow Rewards to come into existence… With free Wifi at Heathrow

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It seems some sense has finally arrived at London Heathrow Airport, with FREE WiFi Internet Access coming to the airport. Visitors to Heathrow will get 45 minutes of access for nothing. Those who are on the "New" Heathrow Rewards programme (the old BAA WorldPoints programme) will get double that - 90 minutes of WiFi access. Access starts on the 1st June - Saturday, when the … [Read more...]