Economy Class & Beyond

New Section! Safety Video Saturday! Thomsom Airways

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In an attempt to get some different content on the blog, I've decided have a bit of fun, and post safety videos.Why you may ask?It's darn important. When flying in any plane you need to know how to get out, what features are unique to an aircraft and what rules there are to follow.Last week (unintentionally) it was the new Air New Zealand Rugby video.This week, something a bit … [Read more...]

MX: Adios!

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Well Mexicana is heading to oblivion, with the entire airline being grounded (inculding all subsiduaries) from Midday Saturday local time This action includes Mexicana main line, Click and Link. The airline flew 220 routes to 65 destinations including London, Madrid, Montreal, Chicago and cities in Central and South America.To quote the Mexicana front pageMexicana Airlines … [Read more...]

NH: ANA and Boeing Announce delays to 787 entry into service

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In a not totally unexpected announcement, Boeing and ANA have announced that 787 entry into service had been pushed back to March 2011, with international use put back to June 2011. These dates are subject to the aircraft arriving in February 2011. ANA says the delayed entry into service is "regrettable".Issues have emerged with both the horizontal stabilisers and with the … [Read more...]

DL: Makes more moves on LHR thanks to OneWorld….

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From the airline that brought you a flight attendent who wags her finger at you, Delta are hell bent on increasing their capaicty at Heathrow by bidding for the slots that have come up due to the OneWorld Joint Venture.Their proposals are to increase LHR-BOS to 2 flights a day, and LHR-MIA to one flight a day.Delta bleats that it'll benefit SkyTeam as it's the smallest alliance … [Read more...]

Confuseoploies: The UK Rail System – or “When is peak time?”

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The consumer magazine "Which?" have been accused of being masters of the art of confusion with each operator deciding "what is peak time travel". The dfact is every operator in the UK has their own definition of "peak time" (both in the morning and the evening)For example, peak time on the core trunks of the West Coast and East Coast Mainlines (Operated by Virgin Trains and … [Read more...]

BD: A321 Refurbishment, Paint work, Domestic cuts ahead and the long haul dream

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Heer Prock-Schauer has announced a revamp of the A321 fleet and a few other titbits as part of the restructuring of BMI. Speaking to Flight, some announcements have been made which could make for interesting times in BMI land..So whats up for work?A321 going for refurbishment works, with new business class seats and IFE being installed. In addition, they will finally be getting … [Read more...]

Pre Trip Planning: Seoul and Hong Kong

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Well in a few short days I'll be undertaking one of my most intresting runs that I have attempted to do - and that's to Seoul and then onto Hong Kong.I'll be explaining a lot more in my trip report that I'll be knocking together, over the next few weeks, but here's a quick overview - and some of this can be laid at the doors of BMI.Why? With the uncertainty of BMI's Diamond … [Read more...]

It’s new passport time according to IPS…

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Well the Identity and Passport Service has rolled out it's new Passport design. Now we'll do the spin from IPS then we'll rip it apart...The new 10 year passport will be issued from October,The paages of the passport containing well-known UK scenes, including the White Cliffs of Dover, the Gower Peninsula, Ben Nevis and the Giant's Causeway - well lets face it - it's got to … [Read more...]

OFF TOPIC: A Message to all A-Level and GCSE Result people

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Dear Successful Exam Student.On this results day, you've got a mixture of feelings - be it joy, happiness, anger or despair depending how your results have gone today. From someone who has been all four at once (and at 16, I was pretty much written off by my old school), some words of advice:Joy - You've got the result at last. Celebrate - And seriously, I mean that. 2+ years … [Read more...]