Economy Class & Beyond

Spanish Airstrike: Continuing

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No traffic is moving in and out of Spain at the moment, with traffic that would go through Spain is avoiding it, adding to delaysA few salient points:British Airways are advising people check their website before departureIberia has cancelled all flights until tomorrow 05:00 LocalRyanair has followed, with all flights to 10:00 Local. EasyJet have cancelled services to 04/12 … [Read more...]

U2: EasyJet targets business travellers, rolls out new packages

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EasyJet are slowly pulling away in certain parts from their Low Cost Carrier routes, and today have "soft launched" a new set of fully flexible fares. The fare will allow:Unlimited changes to ticket details within a four-week window - one week before and up to three weeks after the original booked travel date. Automatic priority boarding No booking fees One … [Read more...]

U2: EasyJet can remain slightly Easy about it’s name….

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What is EasyJet without the Easy Brand? We won't discover that as EasyJet has managed to agree a new licence term and revision with it's founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. In return for Stelios agreeing to surrender the right to appoint himself as chairman and end EasyGroup's right to representation on the carrier's board, EasyJet will pay royalties of 0.25% of its revenues, for … [Read more...]

FR/U2: Ryanair in shock action – Makes an apology.

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When you're going to put an advert out, always make sure your backside isn't going to be sued. Although Ryanair tends to "Shove 'em out, worry about it later" attitude doesn't overly help in this direction. Yesterday Michael O'Leary had apologised "unreservedly" to Easyjet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou.Ryanair decided it would be good for business to run adverts depicting … [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...]

Want your APD back if you don’t fly? Good luck…

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Which has gone again on the attack by claiming most airlines are charging too much in administration fees when attempting to reclaim tax elements of the fare.Or to put it blunt from Which?'s Rochelle Turner.:"In some cases it costs at least twice as much to reclaim the tax as the tax itself," Ouch.If you miss a flight from the United Kingdom, you unless you've booked the … [Read more...]

EasyJet tries to find an easy solution to Volcanic Ash detection….

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Well, easyJet have been busy of late, and they've come up with a new technology for Volanic Ash called "AVOID"  (Airborne Volcanic Object Identifier and Detector), developed by Dr Fred Prata of the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) - or in real terms - a Radar for Volcanic Ash.By placing infrared tech and sensors on an aircraft, that will send images to  … [Read more...]

The Cost of Ash

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It seems ash has once again clamied more victims... in the form of hard cash.EasyJet has report it will be down from £50m to £75mTUI have also suffered to the tune of t£90m, as it reported a six-month loss of £367m.Thats a lot of bread. EasyJet is on target to improve its profits, even in this bad year - including the £21m loss due the mad snow … [Read more...]

The winter of discontent continues – Aer Lingus delays profit announcement on staff rejecting cost cutting

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It seems that EI is in a spot of reconsideration at the moment as its crew have voted against a cost cutting proposals.With the rejection of the cuts, EI will post a trading update instead of profits publishedTo quote EI..."Following the outcome of recent staff ballots it is necessary to revise the provision for restructuring costs and amend the preliminary results … [Read more...]