Some more additions to this anualuas horriblas for the commercial aviation sector British Airways - Slides... Deploy! On Sunday, a BA 757 landed at BCN, and reports of smoke in the cabin appeared. Not to run any risks, the slides were deployed, and the plane evacuated safely. All passengers (176) made it safely off with only minor injuries. Continental 128 - Hits … [Read more...]
Airline news Roundup
Well it's near the end of the week (and it's been awful here) so lets do some news that might affect you.. or not BA's food Debcale Need I say much more? No signs of climbdown or anything alas. Qatar Wuss out - I mean "reassured by Boeing" over 787 Showing that indeed airlines are slaves to airframe makers sometimes, it seems Qatar are happy with the "reassurance" … [Read more...]
BMI sticks knife in BA – BMI Diamond Club members fall about laughing.
Well if you're going to stick the boot in, you might as well try and do it in some style. BMI has responded to BA's cuts with some choice quotes Source: http://www.ftnnews.com/content/view/6595/27/lang,english/ Following BA’s announcement this week that it will no longer offer meals on short-haul flights, bmi, the number one airline out of London Heathrow’s … [Read more...]
BA cuts food in Shorthaul travel, takes one step closer to the race to the bottom
BA. The worlds cash-strapped airline seems to be going for broke on the savings front. As well as getting staff to work for nothing or on sabbatical, a pay cut from the flight deck of 2.6%, and of course WeeWhille working for nothing in July seems to be finally looking to its onboard product... and is promptly making cuts to food. Now this has been murmuring around the net, … [Read more...]
Cricket – It CAN be intresting when it’s tied to Air fares…
Leather ball on wood. Nothing like the sound of it. Actually, it bores the hell out of me (that it can be painful if you miss the ball, and it lands somewhere else, but that's another blog entirely.) However, BA and Qantas decided in the spirit of "The Ashes" (an age old Cricket Series between England and the Australians) to have a little fun with this to drive sales, … [Read more...]
Psst? Wanna buy an Airline?
It seems that one of the great experiments is heading to fall flat on its face shortly, with the (majority) sale of BA's OpenSkies operation. Picture - BA Openskies is an airline set-up to take advantage of the "Open Skies" agreement between the USA and Europe (and originally to take on SilverJet and MaxJet), so BA set up this "side" airline with a different set-up to … [Read more...]
The BA PHX Incident – Analysis
So during the weekend there was a big hoopla over an incident that lead to the emergency slides being delpoyed at Phoenix AZ before take off. Picture from BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8145686.stm) But what happened exactly? Lets look at the events from a point by point. Aircraft was a 747, Registration: G-CIVB Flight BA288 Started … [Read more...]
News: Meanwhile…
Airline updates: British Airways Oh BA. Dearie me :( There's not much else to say other than good luck to those involved. Alas, a smaller BA might emerge after this dip and bust is done and dusted. All we can hope is that the minimum of jobs are hit - because no matter what goes on - in each one of those companies... there are people still. Singapore Airlines … [Read more...]
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Welcome to GhettoIFE.com! I'm your host - Kevin - and I'll be here to guide you through the maze of modern travel, and hopefully add some insightful comment and humour. With GhettoIFE getting on for 2 years old, I've had a bit of a design refresh, and tidied up, so for older viewers who make it here - yes, it's the same content will all the usual sarcasm as always. As … [Read more...]
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