Economy Class & Beyond

What? Another Trip in a few days?

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Afraid so.I'm opening up a new travel tag called NYC. And yes, it EXACTLY where you think it is.However, there is a very big ulterior motive to this trip. And yes, it is photography based.But you'll find out what that is soon enough... Over the next few days, I'll be building up to the trip (with of course, live reporting when I find a free hotspot).For now, I'll leave you with … [Read more...]

BD: Updates Earning Tables for BMI Metal flights – expect more changes…

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British Midland International have been busy and are applying new earning rates to their flights.And for those who know, this is another step on the road from Diamond Club to Miles and More with booking codes slowly aligning up with the bigger programme. The new booking classes will be on sale from 8 February 2011, for travel on or after 1 April 2011.Source: BMI.   … [Read more...]

Egypt: FCO Lays on additional charter flight

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With everything that's going on, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has made the following announcement:A charter flight will leave Cairo on Thursday 3 February to enable further British nationals to leave as unrest continues.The flight from Cairo to Gatwick is to supplement commercial flights already being provided by British airlines.This flight is not instead of commercial … [Read more...]

BD: As GLA goes, new destinations are added to SVG, BGO, CMN and RAK

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Well it didn't take long for British Midland International to announce what it was going to do with the slots and aircraft released from the loss making London to Glasgow route.New routes from London to Stavanger (SVG), Bergen (BGO), Casablanca (CMN) and Marrakech (RAK) have been added to the route mapDaily to Bergen and Stavanger and four-times weekly to Casablanca from … [Read more...]

Cairo: BMI and BA update travel advice, FCO advice constant.

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Well, we all know the press are reporting how things are in Egypt.BMI has updated it's booking advice and flight times for BD771/BD772 for the next few days. See http://www.flybmi.com/bmi/en-gb/flight-and-airport-info/flight-information/travel-news.aspx#294 with a stop in Beurit for a crew change. Rebookings are being accepted to the end of March. British Airways in the … [Read more...]

BD: GLA-LHR – AXED

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A lot of rumor has been going around, and alas, it appears to be true with British Midland International axing the Glasgow to London RouteConfirmation comes from the Glasgow Evening Times The route leaves British Airways to run the Glasgow to London route, with BMI pulling out saying it is quitting to focus on more-profitable long haul services.A spokeswoman said: … [Read more...]

Trip Report: Gold Run 2 – Blame Canada – It’s only a mileage run anyway! (To Vancouver with EI, BD, AC and CO)

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Gold Run 2: Blame Canada! It’s only a mileage run anyway!* - Locking in Gold for another year (with BMI, Air Canada, Continental and Aer Lingus) - BHX-DUB, DUB-LHR-YVR-IAH-LHR (*I blame South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut for that) Previous reports are at the back end of this trip report. WARNING: This trip report does contain potty mouth words. It's one of the few … [Read more...]

BD/LX: More Services to Basel from Heathrow and Manchester – with BMI Metal!

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It seems BMI is getting busy with its little family at Lufthansa, and taking on BA with a 3 times a day service from London Heathrow to Basel, as well as a service from Manchester to Basel.This will be operated on BMI Airbus A319 metal, with Swiss Codesharing these flights.There is the loss of the LCY-BSL service operated by Swiss AvroJetsService commences on both routes from … [Read more...]

Gold Run 2 – Good Morning from the Diamond Club Lounge

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And after a night in a Travelodge, it's time to slowly wake up, so it's good morning from the BMI Diamond Club lounge in Dublin.And it reminds me of the old Manchester/LHR Gate 14 lounge. Still - there are minimal nibbling things - which is nice...More from Heathrow later...- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone - apologies for the spelling! … [Read more...]

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