Economy Class & Beyond

Malaysia Airlines on target for end of year membership of Oneworld

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Malaysia Airlines are forging ahead with its membership of Oneworld, and is due to join the alliance towards the end of the year. Already readying for their first Airbus A380 to be delivered, and have been creating codeshares with fellow Oneworld partners such as Cathay Pacific, Dragonair and Royal Jordanian. For passengers, there is a new benifit - increased hand luggage … [Read more...]

UK Border Agency: More Manpower due soon. Honest!

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Immigration minister Damian Green has had it rough recently, with the chaos at the UK Border at various ports of entry - and rightly so after not ensuring enough manpower was available to process the visitors into the United Kingdom. As the UK ramps up its border inspections thanks to a lack policy and a will from the Government to do deeper inspections, delays into the UK … [Read more...]

Want some cheapish Avios? Buy them via BMI…

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BMI is currently running a 20% bonus Destination Miles promotion on purchases of miles. Whilst in the past this was reasonably exciting, there is an interesting wrinkle on the horizon - the creation of a transfer tool from BMI Diamond Club to British Airways Avios. So the idea is this: Buy your miles Wait till the 3rd July Convert them to Avios So why is this … [Read more...]

Ryanair demonstrates its love of customers… and closes its website for upgrade maintenance during the coming weekend

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In another bid to love its customers, Ryanair is to close its website for upgrade maintenance during the upcoming weekend. The downtime will be for the following: Online check-in will be "offline" between 1600 on Friday May 18 and 1200 on Sunday May 20, Bookings and Flight Changes will not be allowed for hours between 2200 on Friday and 2200 on Sunday As Ryanair is … [Read more...]

Star Alliance turns 15… Some promotions and competitions…

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15 years ago, a group of airlines formally came together. Those airlines - Air Canada, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines System and United Airlines formed Star Alliance. Fifteen years in, the alliance has had its ups and downs, adding members with other members leaving due to various reasons. But it's time to party with three promotions from Star Alliance: Are you in the … [Read more...]

Virgin set to destroy any sense of quiet in the sky with the introduction of mobile phone use inflight

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One of the things I love about flying is that for a set amount of time, you're disconnected from the greater outside world. Well Virgin Atlantic wish to fully smash my desire for quiet with the announcement today that the new Airbus A330 aircraft will have Mobile Phone Call Reception installed. Unlike the service offered on the British Airways Club World City Service which … [Read more...]

Train Repaint Saturday – First Great Western HST Power Car

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It's Saturday, and it is time for something a bit different (and as this is is a TRAVEL blog, trains are fair game. Buses are not - even I have limits). As we close in on the Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee, it's First Great Western (a train operator who operates out of London Paddington to the South West and West of the United Kingdom  as well as the Thames … [Read more...]

EU to force mobile operators to cut roaming charges

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Some news you can actually use... if you have a Mobile phone SIM card in the European Union. The EU has noticed over time that roaming fees within the area have been stupidly high and since 2007 have forced operators to cap how much they charge with a lot of success despite their whining (Yes O2 UK, Orange UK, T-Mobile, Three UK and Vodafone UK, I'm looking squarely at you … [Read more...]

Malaysia Airlines prepares to receive it’s first A380

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Lets have some nice A380 news - well it is the nearly the weekend after all. Malaysia Airlines first Airbus A380 is edging ever closer after the bird being flown back from Hamburg - where the interiors, furnishings and cabin tests were conducted to the Airbus factory in Toulouse. Here's a pic of the plane returning to Toulouse... and someone really spent money on the … [Read more...]