Farewell Miles - A Mileage Burning Party with All Nippon Airlines, Thai Airways and Asiana Airlines in Business Class (with a BMI Leg) Featuring the ANA International 787-8. Oh BMI *shakes head* (The Introduction) The Off, Birmingham Airport, Birmingham Airport to Frankfurt with BMI for Lufthansa - THIS SECTION Hotel Savigny, Around Frankfurt Frankfurt Airport … [Read more...]
TRIP REPORT: Farewell Miles with ANA, Thai and Asiana featuring the ANA 787
Farewell Miles - A Mileage Burning Party with All Nippon Airlines, Thai Airways and Asiana Airlines in Business Class (with a BMI Leg) Featuring the ANA International 787-8. Oh BMI *shakes head* (The Introduction) - THIS SECTION The Off, Birmingham Airport, Birmingham Airport to Frankfurt with BMI for Lufthansa Hotel Savigny, Around Frankfurt Frankfurt Airport … [Read more...]
Safety Video Saturday – ANA 777-300
It's Saturday again, so it must be time for a last blast of Safety Video Saturday before I revert back to Airplane Repaint Saturday. This week, it's a re-run of ANA demonstrating their 777-300ER Safety Video (as they didn't have one on their 777-300 last Sunday in Regional Config) There will be some more Safety Video Saturday... in a few months. We'll be heading back … [Read more...]
ANA International 787 – Pictures and Videos
I'm in the process of uploading my pictures from my trip in progress. Alas, the ANA 787 portion is dominating the coverage at the moment (like anyone couldn't guess that was going to happen!). And I've got myself into gear and uploaded the first trance of stuff to this trip. PICTURES: Preparing for the off- … [Read more...]
Airplane Art Extra – ANA’s International 787
Ok. I couldn't resist. It's Wednesday here, and it's time for some Airplane Art EXTRA! And for those of you who couldn't guess... it's the ANA 787 at Frankfurt (Blue Sky) and Toyko Haneda At Frankfurt Tokyo Haneda There's a LOT more to come. Well I have a 16gb card is full of images. I'll let you work out what I'm doing later on ;) … [Read more...]
Good morning from the land of the Rising Sun….
And こんにちは! Well I've flown with ANA's Boeing 787 long haul. And I have a few thoughts already. Highlights: The impeccable service LowLights: Those electronic blinds. I'm not a fan. That's all I'm going to say on this for now - keep your eyes open for some pics on the Twitter feed and on Photoblog over the next couple of days.... Tease? Me? No. I haven't … [Read more...]
Another day, another day of strikes at Frankfurt
Oh yes, it shouldn't come as a surprise, but Frankfurt ground staff are still on strike. The news gets worse as it's due to continue until at least Friday according to Lufthansa. Here's the hit list http://www.lufthansa.com/online/portal/lh/de/info_and_services/irregularities/canceled_flights?nodeid=3526064&l=en&cid=18002 Bottom line: Short Haul Domestic programme … [Read more...]
ANA has Teething troubles with Long Haul 787 services…
All Nippon Airlines seems to have some growing pains with it's introductory long haul 787 service, with 2 of the 10 flights operating between Tokyo-Haneda and Frankfurt so far. Whilst ANA has five 787's so far, only one of them is equipped for long haul duties (JA805A), with a failure with the aircraft flap system on the ground at Toyko-Haneda with one incident, and … [Read more...]
