Economy Class & Beyond

Airplane p0rn – SouthWest 737-700

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It's that time of the week again - Airplane p0rn.  To celebrate the mass rollout of WiFi on SouthWest, it's got to be a classic Canyon Blue SouthWest 737-700 at Philadelphia International Airport (Unit N268WN) Might be more next week - might not... depends on the travels.... … [Read more...]

Credit Cards and Miles – The view from the UK

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Whilst there are bountiful offers in the USA for Credit Cards and Current Accounts that give you 25,000 miles on signup, the picture is a little different over here, as in most current accounts tend to be service driven, with the user paying for extra services to be bundled into the account. However, there is a veritable feast of miles for grabs out there in case you're on … [Read more...]

The Aussies… they’re tugging at the heart strings again

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Qantas in the middle of cuts and tourtures have gone out for the heartstrings with this one - the Relaunch of "I Still Call Australia My Home" Just click and watch it. I swear they're punishing me for not booking an A380 seat for next week http://www.qantas.com.au/flash/miniSites/iscah/tvc/QANTAS_2009_TVC.html Youtube linky will appear when I can get it! … [Read more...]

The Friday News Roundup

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It's Friday again, so it must be time for me to look at the news for the week: Ryanair takes its balls away... Ryanair pulls aircraft and services from Manchester - Analysis on here on why O'Liar is talking once again out of his back side. BBC News, GhettoIFE.com Korean Air - Profit! Korean Air posted a net income of 78.5b won ( or about $62.4 million) for Q2/2009 … [Read more...]

Airplane p0rn Extra – BA A318 taking off

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Today, we have some Airplane p0rn extra - and we'd like to welcome one of the pair of British Airways A318's that will be running the London City Airport - New York JFK which completed it's first flight recently. Image from Imageshack - credit unknown, but seeming to be widely published. - Source: http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/4363/pict0009b800.jpg. Additional … [Read more...]

Openskies has another fare sale….

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That wonderful experiment is having yet another fare sale between NYC and ORY (New York Airports - Paris Orly) Dates: 01/10/09 - 31/03/10 Book by: 08/09/09 Valid: from NYC to ORY, not reversible Books into: Biz Seat Cost: $499 each way + taxes Now, whilst good value, if Openskies does it its rug pulled from under it, expect a reroute via LHR in Club World - so if you … [Read more...]

Brown goes Red… does it REALLY matter?

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Our beloved Prime Minister, Gordon Brown (MP for Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath) has decided that a new contract to save the taxpayers money is needed, and is ditching the British Airways contract for a Virgin Atlantic contract. Whilst Virgin might crow until the cows come home about this, lets take a little step back Idle planes don't earn money - therefore slicing 30% off … [Read more...]

Ryanair partially pulls out of MAN…

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However, it isn't the end of the world. Job losses: If there is one thing O'Leary loves, its hyping numbers - in this case the job losses shouldn't be that many (and if anything - it's mostly ground handling crews so they should get redeployed by the handling company) Services: Well well well. Lets look at these hotspots and work out what's happening Barcelona (Girona), … [Read more...]

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