Economy Class & Beyond

Project 787.. Possibly delayed?

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And here's a clanger you don't want to drop the week before Farnborough.Boeing has issued a "cautionary note" that the first 787 delivery could slip into early 2011, citing slower than anticipated instrumentation configuration changes and inspections of the horizontal stabiliser.It seems the test programme has ran into little issues and they have stacked up, which could see … [Read more...]

JQ: What’s that Skippy? JetStar are getting 787-8’s early? Down by Renton you say?

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It seems that JetStar is getting an early gift - 8 new Boeing 787's that will be delivered from the middle of 2012 onwards.This is part of the Qantas order, that has been brought forward some two years as some delivery slots have been made available of which 25 are going to Qantas itself, whilst the 25 are going off to JetStar. The first 8 will be assigned to Jetstar which … [Read more...]

International Airlines Group: Cleared for Business!

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It's a continuing good day from British Airways it seems today with the European Commission green-lighting the proposed BA and Iberia Merger to form International Airlines Group.As usual, the deal is to cut costs, with both BA and Iberia bleeding money.The new company will be called International Airlines Group (based in Spain) with the classic British Airways& and Iberia … [Read more...]

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...]