Economy Class & Beyond

The Cost of Ash

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It seems ash has once again clamied more victims... in the form of hard cash.EasyJet has report it will be down from £50m to £75mTUI have also suffered to the tune of t£90m, as it reported a six-month loss of £367m.Thats a lot of bread. EasyJet is on target to improve its profits, even in this bad year - including the £21m loss due the mad snow … [Read more...]

Ding Ding! Round Three of the BA/Unite spat.

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Well, here we go again. UNITE and British Airways are off to strike. The strike dates are listed below, but for completion: 18 May - 22 May24 May - 28 May30 May - 03 June05 June - 09 JuneThis is going to hit the World Cup, and Half term holidays. Nice work UNITE. Thinking of the people. Tony Woodley said "There can be no industrial peace without meaningful negotiations and … [Read more...]

Twitter users: Be careful what you tweet. Especially on a plane.

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Some Twitter users are - alas - don't tweet, but they sure are twits.Paul Chambers of was stuck on a plane Doncaster Airport, as weather forced the airport to close down on January 6th 2010 when he was due to fly to Ireland. He has been found guilty of sending threatening messages.This was the message which was identified by managers at Doncaster's Robin Hood Airport, who filed … [Read more...]

Off we go again – new BA strike dates set

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Is there really much more to say?Latest dates: (all 5 day strikes)18th May to 22nd May24th May30th May05th JuneThere's not much more to say other than SORT IT OUT!!!More later- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone - apologies for the spelling! … [Read more...]

Volcano Ash: Spanish Edition!

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Hola! Yes, the Ash cloud has hit Spain now.There have been closures through the day, and this is the state of play at publication:Repopened Barcelona, Girona and Sabadell reopen air traffic from 22:00CET 09/05Closed until 02:00CET 10/05 San Sebastián, Asturias, Santander, Bilbao, Vitoria, León, Burgos, Huesca, Pamplona and LogroñoClosed until … [Read more...]

Toyko Haneda… first slots decided.

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.... and the losers are both United and Continental with no slots allocated.Breakdown of everyone's wins thanks to the DoT:Delta - Two slots - LAX (Los Angeles) HND and surprisingly (IMO) DTW (Detroit Wayne County) HNDAmerican Airlines - JFK (New York) HNDand...Hawaiian(!!!) HNL (Honolulu) HNDHawaiin has been selected provide an out-of-alliance cat amongst the pigeon, … [Read more...]

Photoblog, we have a problem

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For those of you who have been browsing some of my Trip reports, I'm sorry but the pictures are varying between up and down.It appears the host (Photoblog.com) has changed all of their servers (i2.photoblog.com is dead and everything has been switched to i4.photoblog.com).I'll be fixing them all on Flyertalk and GhettoIFE over the weekend.  We apologise for the … [Read more...]

** BREAKING ** BA Cabin Crew vote to reject latest pay offer.

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And in really unsurprising news, the latest offer from BA to the Cabin Crew has been once again rejected. With turnout of 71%, the crew have voted and there has an 81% majority against the proposals offered by the airline.Unite of course said reject it, BA has said it's a fair offer as is disappointed. BA is also urging an end to the dispute, citing nothing more could be … [Read more...]

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