Economy Class & Beyond

BBC talks about Regional Jets, I fall about laughing.

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Good olde BBC today released an article on Regional Jets and their trip to the Bombardier factory in Canada. It will be like this as we head towards Farnborough Air Show 2010, so expect more claptrap like this over the next few days.Except some of the quotes are instant fall about laughing. Firstly, the strapline. Resembling a space rocket, with its pointed nose and the engines … [Read more...]

Channel 4 Documentary: Concorde’s Last Flight

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Ok, another week, anohter semi reasonable documentary - this time about the Concorde and it's history - including its development, its success, a lot on the investigation and down to the last flight. Should be available on 4OD http://www.channel4.com/programmes/concordes-last-flightRecommended viewing. … [Read more...]

BA: British Airways First 777-300ER – Delivered

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Time for some good news from BA, and that it's had the first of it's 777-300ER series aircraft delivered from Boeing.Now whilst we could go on about the green credentials, lets get down to the messy parts - on board product.The BA 777-300ER's  will be in Four Class configuration (14 First Class 56 Club World, 44 World Traveller Plus  and 183 Economy seats - a total … [Read more...]

Want your APD back if you don’t fly? Good luck…

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Which has gone again on the attack by claiming most airlines are charging too much in administration fees when attempting to reclaim tax elements of the fare.Or to put it blunt from Which?'s Rochelle Turner.:"In some cases it costs at least twice as much to reclaim the tax as the tax itself," Ouch.If you miss a flight from the United Kingdom, you unless you've booked the … [Read more...]

OS: Where Mother Lufthansa goes, it’s children follow – Austrian to install slimline seats too.

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Well it seems Austrian are treading in Lufthansa's footsteps with the installation of slimline seats, in the blind direction of increasing seat capactiy on their planes.The change to the fleet will be made at the same time as Lufthansa reconfigures their planes, and will be reconfigured for the European fleet.The quote that Austrian are throwing around is:"The most important … [Read more...]

Section 44 – Suspended.

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One of my bugbears has been the awful implementation of Section 44 of the Terrorism Act within the United Kingdom.This has been used to chase and hound people, and photographers in particular have felt the long arm of the law when taking pictures, and then being searched and questioned under Section 44. Here are a few classic examples:- City Police still using Terror Act to … [Read more...]

EK: Emirates to do anohter short A380 deployment to Delhi…

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The other master of the publicity stunt, Emirates is going to deploy an A380 for a day to Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport as part of the launch of the airports Terminal 3. The service will be EK516 on July 15, leaving Dubai at 1010 and arriving at 1450, returning as EK517, departing at 1750.India is one of the few places where an A380 has yet to touch down on a … [Read more...]

FR/EI: EU to Ryanair. Hands off the Aer Lingus!

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Well sometimes Ryanair can't have everything it wants. The European Court of Justice has ruled that Ryanair's bid for  Aer Lingus should be blocked on the grounds it would create a monopoly for flights from Dublin airport - both of which have dominant positions in the airport.On Tuesday the court ruled that Ryanair could keep its 29.9% stake, however  Aer Lingus … [Read more...]