Economy Class & Beyond

FCO: “Get out of Bahrain”

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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has updated it's advice for people in or considering heading to Bahrain. We advise against all travel to Bahrain until further notice. As of 14:00 Bahrain time on 17 March we continue to recommend that those without a pressing reason to remain should leave. Our assessment remains that, as on 16 March, travel on the main routes on the island … [Read more...]

BA/AA/IB – New TimeTable Annoucuned for LHRJFK/ORD

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As promised by AA and BA, they will be adjusting their timetables shortly, to almost deliver an almost "hourly transatlantic shuttle" service between London and New York JFK, with both BA and AA departures times being changed to be non-competing against each other, but to compliment them instead: The times of the new service and who operates them are and departure times from … [Read more...]

Spanish Airport Workers Cancels Strike, Holiday makers breath a sigh of releif

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For holiday makers, there is a collective sigh of relief as Aena - the operator of Spanish Airports has reached a preliminary agreement with the local trade unions, which was leading to major strike action.Had the strike action gone ahead a total of 22 days with 12,500 staff would had gone out on strike, hitting the critical Easter period. The action was called in protest over … [Read more...]

A3: Does a slot takeover and increases frequencies at LHR and CDG

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It seems that Greeks do like to share, with Aegean Airlines have brought the Olympic Airlines slots at London Heathrow and Paris Charles De Gaul Airports.Aegean are using these slots to expand their services, opening direct services to Larnaca and Heathrow, and increasing it's Heathrow to Athens service to four times daily from two timesNew services commence from March 27th. A … [Read more...]

Minor Apologies

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Dear allThings at GhettoIFE.com towers have been pretty fraught as of late.  Both my normal job and my alternative jobs are keeping me overbusy at the moment - so I'm not able to bring the full coverage as usual.As I'm also in the run-up to a Chicago Trip, things are bonkers as well. As a result, posting are slowing down for a fair bit, and if I'm honest, won't be back to … [Read more...]

Japan Earthquake/Tsunami

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As you're aware by now, there's been one hell of a quake that's hit 80 miles out from Japan (250 miles from Tokyo), and is having devestating shocks and aftershocksBritish Airways have cancelled it's flights to Tokyo Narita and Tokyo Haneda Virgin Atlantic have also cancelled it's flight into Tokyo Narita Tokyo Nartia itself is currently shut, whilst Haneda has reopened. As the … [Read more...]