Economy Class & Beyond

BA/IB/AA JV Tie up – Cleared.

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Final approval has been given for British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia has been given for the upcoming Transatlantic Joint Venture from the European Union, and will allow them to work together more closely.This gives them immunity from anti-trust laws that prevent price and schedule coordination. For this plan to work, there has been one major concession - the removal … [Read more...]

FR: Ryanair gets slapped with another Advertising Standards Authority complaint, FR moans about EasyJet instead

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Well another day, another advertising complaint has been upheld against Ryanair by the UK Advertising Standards Authority.This time, Ryanair has again been reprimanded for misleading customers with low fare offers, in particular two newspaper adverts for the airline offered £10 one-way fares to Gothenburg and Dusseldorf. The small print said that the offer was subject … [Read more...]

LX: Swiss joins the world of Bloggers….

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It seems Swiss is getting all "new media", and has set up a blog at http://blog.swiss.comAnd unlike a certain other airline within the Lufthansa group,  they seem to be making an excellent effort in delivering content, reasonable articles and managing their new media output.Worth a browse... … [Read more...]

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...]