Economy Class & Beyond

Europe Bans Airport Body Scanners For “Health and Safety” Concerns

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Here's a big news breaking from the European Union, Forbes and The Economist. And it's to do with Nude-o-scopes - or Backscatter/Millimetre Wave Scanners. And to be blunt - the European Union is not happy about them in the least. The big line from the release it is this: In order not to risk jeopardising citizens' health and safety, only security scanners which do not … [Read more...]

Pan Am on tonight!

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For UK people, it's that time where we see the romanticised images of a bygone age on when Pan Am takes to the skies on BBC2 tonight Image - BBC/ABC/Guardian It's on a 21:00 and 21:45, with the first two episodes. For those who missed as well tonight, Come Fly With Me (The Story of Pan Am) with Honor Blackman will be repeated Of course, these are also available on BBC … [Read more...]

Tiger Australia cleared to fly more flights

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Tiger Airways Australia have been beavering away in the background since they were given the all clear to fly again. Well the regulators seem to satisfied over the progress they have made, and have been allowed to operate at total of 32 sectors a day. This is up from the 22 they were operating when the were re-cleared to fly, but way down on the 60 sectors a day that were … [Read more...]

Emirates upscales another service to A380 on Dubai-London run

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The shy and retiring airline that's known as Emirates has decided to upscale it's operations to London again, and have disposed of a 777 and switched it to... an A380. Flight EK29/30 from the 24th of January 2012 will go A380, adding more capacity on the run, and from the timings, perfect connection timings for some of their other Eastbound services For those interested … [Read more...]

Kingfisher – a proposed rescue?

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It seems the torrid time that Kingfisher Airlines is having is just getting worse. Kingfisher is considering proposals to cut it's debt pile by 50% - from $1.3 Billion. This involves: Selling off property Disposal of assets Modifying loans from the parent company (Kingfisher Group) Changing leasing terms on it's aircraft. Cutting non-income making routes and … [Read more...]

BMI… A bucketful of losses….

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The Telegraph has been eyeing what state BMI is in and what it could be worth.. and the losses it could be stemming. And the numbers don't make good reading.... BMI is on target to loose £145 million this year, with the liabilities that remain at a staggering £362 million. It seems that Morgan Stanley did the numbers, and it didn't turn out what they expected with the … [Read more...]

Emirates go and order another 50 planes…

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Emirates have kicked off the Dubai Airshow in style, with an order from Boeing for a grand total of 50 (Yes, 50) Boeing 777-300ER's At list, the order is worth $18 Billion. Knowing Emirates, they probably got a knock-down on that price. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, chairman and CEO of Emirates states "The 777's reliability, performance and operating economics have … [Read more...]

Airplane Art – United Airlines Boeing 757-200

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It's Sunday again so it must be time for some Airplane Art. This week, it's an United Airlines Boeing 757-200 in the "new" colours taxing at Chicago O'Hare International Airport. With the next trip oncomming, I may have more than my fill of 757's soon... More Airplane art of course next week! … [Read more...]

IAG on BMI Miles – We can’t tell you anything yet…

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Simon Calder of The Independent  has been writing about the changes about British Airways and Airmiles are making with the jump to Avios. But there is one nugget of information about BMI Diamond Club and it's future if IAG complete the purchase of BMI. And here it is in completion. "At this stage, IAG has signed a letter of intent to buy BMI and it is hoped that the deal … [Read more...]