Economy Class & Beyond

The UK Budget and how it will hit you (in traveller terms)

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Well the UK Budget has been announced today, and at GhettoIFE towers, it's time for a quick look at what Transport related items have come up... Aviation: Air Passenger Duty is confirmed as up from the 1st April 2012. However buried in the Red book this year is an ominous line: 2.158 Aviation tax: rates – Air Passenger Duty (APD) rates will rise from April 2012, … [Read more...]

Three Virgins get together and link programmes…..

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The three big Virgin Airlines have finally seen a bit of sense, and fully linked their Frequent Flyer Programmes together. This includes: Virgin Atlantic Airways (Flying Club) Virgin America  (Elevate ) Virgin Australia (Velocity) This means if you're a member of one of the above programmes, you can earn and redeem miles - and more importantly earn  status points … [Read more...]

AirBerlin formally joins OneWorld

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Amazingly, Oneworld finally has a new airline in it's stables, and it is indeed Air Berlin which takes its place at OneWorld formally today. Air Berlin formally joins as a full member of OneWorld, with all the usual features (Earning/Redeeming miles on Oneworld metal and Oneworld members able to earn on Air Berlin) NIKI will also be joining Oneworld as an affiliate member … [Read more...]

787 – JAL’s turn is coming…

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Well the second customer is lining up to receive their 787's. And step forward Japan Airlines who will be the next Boeing customer to get their birds. The big difference between the ANA 787s and the JAL 787s will be the power-plant - ANA use Roll Royce Trent 1000's engines, whilst JAL will be using General Electric GEnx-1B-engines. For Boeing this is an important step as … [Read more...]

Lufthansa decides the first regions the 747-8i aircraft are visiting

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Lufthansa is slowly moving forward to delivery of it's new Boeing 747-8 Intercontinentals with some interesting titbits of information released today. Firstly, Lufthansa is expecting it's first delivery towards the end of April, at a delivery rate of five 747-8i's a year. For Lufthansa, these new birds will feature a new business class seat which will have a flat bed … [Read more...]

Heathrow Express to go out on strike. Again.

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Well it seems that strike season is well and truly with us, with Heathrow Express drivers walking out on Saturday and Sunday, 24 and 25 March. This is in relation to disciplinary action by Heathrow Express against two workers. The strike action of course is timed to annoy passengers, with the first batch of action between 03.00 to 12.00 on March 24, and the second batch … [Read more...]

BLOG ADMIN: A message to the grammar checkers out there.

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Dear Grammar and English Checkers out there. What you’ll find in this blog is a poor collection of language and execution of the English Language for which I can only apologise. I however ask for moment of silence and some of your understanding as I explain my thoughts… and some issues I have - and have to muddle through most days. For some of us, it is very hard to … [Read more...]