The real world is keeping me a bit too busy at the moment due to the joy of the return to work and my friend's graduation. There should be a post a bit later on - I'll be rounding off the ERJ-170 post a bit later today. … [Read more...]
Trip Report- The BA Y+ And Y Experiance – LHR-BKK-SYD-SIN-LHR AKA Thank You England and Australian Cricket teams!
The The BA Y+ and Y class Long Haul Experience (LHR-BKK/SIN/SYD and back)> AKA Thank you England and Australia (Cricket teams!) == Regular readers of my trip reports may go into shock at this juncture - yes - I'm flying a Non Star Alliance Airline, and it ISN'T a United or US Airways Trip report to the USA! Of course, it's still down the back-ish - some traditions … [Read more...]
BA and Expertflyer… WTF?
Sigh. I'm going to have to stop relying on Expert Flyer for seatmaps. Logged on a day before, and most of the seats were unassigned. Next day at the stroke of check-in - very very few seats unlocked, and not even the ones I wanted down the very very back! NOT Happy! 24 hours in a 777 in a 3 x 3 x 3 isn't my idea of fun. … [Read more...]
Airplane p0rn – BA 757 – Rotate
Time for some airplane p0rn - this time a BA 757 taking off from Heathrow Picture (c) Kevin Marshall, The Raven Archive. More next week from the T4 spotting run.... … [Read more...]
Hello from SYD
Well that was nice 8 and a bit hour flight. Shame someone was sat next to me for most of it... More to come in the trip report later ;) … [Read more...]
Hello from BKK
Yup - made it to BKK ok and have survived duty free and the endless (but polite) security checks. Next stop: SYD.... updates as they come! … [Read more...]
World Traveller Plus – We know you’re weak…
Well there has been a box nagging at me on the BA Manage My Booking page that said in so many words "You're weak and feeble. You won't be able to stomach 24 hours in steerage. Upgrade to World Traveller Plus.. One hit at £125..." Sigh. I am weak and feeble. I ponied up my £125 and instead of sitting in steerage, I'm now sitting in steerage plus... which … [Read more...]
Airplane p0rn Extra – BA A318 taking off
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...]
Branson Makes Noise. Rest of the World Rolls eyes
Time to talk about Tricky Dicky Branson and Virgin Atlantic. Today's subject is: BA and AA - Don't merge! Some readers might be concerned... why am I going after Branson as opposed to O'Leary. Alas, Mr Branson likes to make a lot of noise, and time and again - fails to deliver. - "I'll sponsor the London Eye" - that died a quiet Death - "I'll change the Railways" - Oh … [Read more...]
News Roundup – Loss, Loss, Loss, Cuts, Losses… Profits? and Orders?
Its Friday, so it's time to do the news British Airways - Bleeding Cash. Oh it's been over the wires last week - BA managed to make a £148m loss this quarter. Not as bad as some of it's competitors, but still pretty bad. Of course, the changes they're making have been well documented in this Blog... Air France/KLM Group - Air France/KLM lost 496m euros … [Read more...]