Economy Class & Beyond

MBNA offer an American Airlines Credit Card with up to 20,000 miles!

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Hold your horses people - here's a UK credit card with a DECENT SIGNUP BONUS! It's a MBNA Card Co-branded with American Airlines (follow the link on the AA UK Homepage as there's a cookie issue sadly) The offer for new card holders: 10,000 American Airlines AAdvantage bonus miles when you make a card purchase within the first 90 days If you apply by 31st May 2012 … [Read more...]

Thomson Airways updates its 787 plans – announces first destinations and operations dates

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Thomson Airways have today confirmed the first destinations for their batch of 787-8 Dreamliners. Thomson Airways is intending to operate the aircraft from Gatwick, Manchester, East Midlands and Glasgow to Cancun and Florida from 1st May 2013. They will also beat other UK operators to the punch being the first operator of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner in the UK. For those … [Read more...]

Useful Expedia UK voucher of the day… 10% off

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Here's something darn useful... a 10% off voucher for Expeida UK on Hotels. The magic code is: WORLDSAVE10 The code has a £10 minimum spend, and is active from 12.01am GMT, 17/04/2012 to 11:59pm GMT, 22/04/2012. It can be used for travel between 17/04/2012 and 17/10/2012. A big note however, most of the chains are excluded (as well as some of the the Las Vegas Casinos) … [Read more...]

4000th Boeing 737NG… delivered

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Boeing has build and delivered it's 4000th 737-NG series aircraft this week to China Southern Airlines. Now, 4000 737-NG's... that's a lot of frames buzzing around the world in various different configurations (including the  -600 Series, -700, 700ER, -800, -900 and 900ER... and then there's the militarised and business variants... ) The gap between 1000th, 2000th, … [Read more...]

Virgin group attempts an 11th hour change over the BMI sale…

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Well it seems that the Virgin Group are distinctly unhappy at the International Airlines Group takeover of British Midland International, and is to appeal against the European Commission's decision to allow the purchase to go through. Virgin objects in lots of whiny language with Richard Branson said Virgin Group stating: "This deal was agreed with lightning speed and we … [Read more...]

Airplane Repaint Saturday – Horizon Air CRJ

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It's Saturday again, so it must be time to strip a plane out of one set of colours and into new colours. This time, it's a Bombardier CRJ being cleaned of its Frontier Airlines colours and into Washington State University colours for Horizon Air... More of course next week! … [Read more...]