Economy Class & Beyond

Heathrow East – The New T2

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Well it seems BAA is going to press ahead with the new Heathrow East Project to increase capacity. T2 is old for those in the know. Those low celings and dankness hark back to the 1960's when it first opened as the Europa Building in 1955. This along with the Queens Building are being swept aside sometime this year and will be replaced with this: Picture - … [Read more...]

Money Saving Expert on LCCs – A few ideas to save you a few more pennies.

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Note - this article is now heading to "Out of date" with the recent happenings. Check here and here. Martin Lewis Smiths Money Saving Expert is a semi regular read of mine when I have 5 minutes to catch up. He published a very good article on trying to save money when flying some of the Low Cost Carriers (Ryanair, BMI Baby, EasyJet, WizzAir, Aer Lingus Short Haul, … [Read more...]

News Roundup – Loss, Loss, Loss, Cuts, Losses… Profits? and Orders?

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Its Friday, so it's time to do the news British Airways - Bleeding Cash. Oh it's been over the wires last week - BA managed to make a £148m loss this quarter. Not as bad as some of it's competitors, but still pretty bad. Of course, the changes they're making have been well documented in this Blog... Air France/KLM Group - Air France/KLM lost 496m euros (£425m) loss … [Read more...]

Lufthansa catches a bit of sun: Takes responsibility for the weather!

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Lufthansa is going to try an new idea, and offer travellers compensation if their holidays are washed-out, with a claim of up 20€ a day, up to a max of 200€ per trip. The airline defines a rainy day as one having at least five millimeters of rain per square metre based on results at www.wetteronline.de. “If the sunny stay hoped for by many is spoiled by rain, maybe 20 euros … [Read more...]

What does it take to run a flight from ZRH to JFK?

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For those of us who are interested in such things like what is going through and what happens when you get in that metal tube and head into the sky NZZ Folio has an excellent article http://www.nzzfolio.ch/www/d80bd71b-b264-4db4-afd0-277884b93470/showarticle/a30b6288-f01e-405a-9663-21d6d8a28d50.aspx Highly worth a read. … [Read more...]

Incidents, Crashes and Bird Strikes

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Some more additions to this anualuas horriblas for the commercial aviation sector British Airways - Slides... Deploy! On Sunday, a BA 757 landed at BCN, and reports of smoke in the cabin appeared. Not to run any risks, the slides were deployed, and the plane evacuated safely. All passengers (176) made it safely off with only minor injuries. Continental 128 - Hits … [Read more...]

The state of rail transportation in the UK – a mini-report

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I'd thought I'd stick to the "travel" theme a bit more and look back at this weekend in terms of rail travel. Yes. Rail. Don't worry - I won't do too much of this. Well maybe a bit more. This weekend, I went to visit the parentals - and also to do a model shoot. Here are a few observations from the weekend: Bar one train - everything was on time (and that train was … [Read more...]

Hyatt Status Promotion.

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Hyatt hotels - lovely as they are - are very overpriced except when on conference rates or when you've got them via alternative means. However, Hyatt are trying to ween us in with a Status Match (which has been going on since July) where you can do the following: Enroll online - get upgraded to Platinum for 120 days (4 months) 5 stays/nights to keep Platinum until Feb … [Read more...]

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