Economy Class & Beyond

U2: Tax Planes Not People….

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Easyjet have launched a new campaign to "Tax Planes, Not People". And yes, It's a Petition site. It covers why Air Passenger Duty is a bad idea, and why it going up is even worse. Whilst I won't say sign the petition, I have signed it myself. Worth a think about.http://www.taxplanesnotpeople.com/ is the link. … [Read more...]

JS: Air Koryo Annouces a new route

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For those who want to get into North Korea, it seems a new route is opening up from the Middle East.Operating once a week it has the stellar schedudle of:JS161 FNJ1800 – 0110+1KWI JS162 KWI1400 – 0500+1FNJ Operated using a Tupelov TU-204. Well. It could be interest to someone. This is the second route announcement this year with a route to Kuala Lumpar. … [Read more...]

MH: A380’s to head to London Baby Yeah!

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Time for some more A380 news with Mayalsian Airlines annoucing one of the first destinations for their soon to be delivered A380 fleet will be... London. In additional, they will also be serving Amsterdam too. Deliveries of the A380 fleet are due next year when they take five of the fleet of six on order, with the final frame due in 2013. Malaysian will be operating on the high … [Read more...]

SEN for £128.20? -BHX-ZRH-BCN-ZRH-BHX with Swiss and Helvetic

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SEN for £128.20? -BHX-ZRH-BCN-ZRH-BHX with Swiss and Helvetic Hello all - Told you I had something on the boil... and welcome to rare GhettoIFE trip report - an intra-European Trip report. Normally, I wouldn’t bother with an intra-European trip report, but this seemed to be a good reason - in fact one purpose only... and it’s the express purpose of getting … [Read more...]

Strike Action: Heathrow Express/Heathrow Connect – In progress

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As management and the RMT have failed to come to an agreement over pay, there's a strike on the Heathrow Express and Heathrow Connect routes over today and tomorrow.Heathrow Express is on a limited daytime and evening timetableHeathrow Connect is suspended. Use First Great Western services insteadSee http://www.heathrowexpress.com/amendedtimetable Otherwise, if you're … [Read more...]

Southern Railways – Advanced Purchase sale – up to 90% off!

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Southern Railways are having an advanced purchase sale of fare, with prices slashed by up to 90%.If you need cheap tickets to and from Gatwick, this could be the chance to snap them up for a song. Shame the site is crawling along though...Head to: http://www.southernrailway.com/offers/birthday-ticket-fiesta/And yes, it's Advanced Tickets only - with all the restrictions they … [Read more...]

Volcano Ash II: It’s all a bit of steamy…

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The wonderful Volcano known as Grimsvotn seems to have taken a rest, and is just spewing white smoke.Flights have been resumed to whatever can be classed as normal, Meanwhile, the ash cloud itself is clearing, with NATS saying UK airspace was expected to remain clear until 1900 BST on Wednesday.Forecasters said that if eruptions from the Grimsvotn volcano continued at "current … [Read more...]

SEN Run: Pictures Uploading, Videos Uploaded, Trip Report – In Progress

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Well you unlucky people, I'm still writing the Trip report of my travels last weekend. But for your sublime entertainment, some of the pictures are up, and the Videos are up on my Youtube Channel (Alas the videos from the last Chicago trip are lost along with that dratted phone...)Videos:Take off from BHX - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zEH1ycssFcLanding at ZRH at night - … [Read more...]

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