It's Saturday again, so it's time to place your seat in the upright position, stow your tray tables, leg rests and fasten your seat belt as it is time for Safety Video Saturday. This week, it's Swiss International Airlines giving the briefing More safety videos next week.. well... maybe not. It depends on something completely non aviation related. … [Read more...]
Vodka, Check. Diet Coke, Check. Boarding Pass and Passport… Check!
And good evening from Birmingham Airport, where you join me in the beginnings of my mad last trip of the year. As I'm on a rucksack (and that's about it) and an Avois run after another day of hell in my office, I'm relaxing in the Servisair lounge at Birmingham Airport... which seems to has gone through and Ikea plus makeover. I'll just nurse my drink until my flight … [Read more...]
Dot to Dot…
Map: Great Circle Mapper - www.gcmap.com What's this all about I hear you cry? You'll find out soon enough. ;) Although if you remember The Beginnings of Something Quite Mad (well BCN), you should be able to put to 2 and 2 together and get something near enough 4. Right now, I wish to throttle Lufthansa... and the Senator Hotline... Jobs for the morning I … [Read more...]
Swiss to re-commence Zurich – Singapore route
Swiss is to relaunch a direct service from Zurich and Singapore from 12th May 2013. This comes four years after the Zurich to Singapore route via Bangkok was dropped due to various reasons. Services will run direct on the following timetable: LX178 DEPART ZRH 22:45 ARRIVE SIN 17:00+1 LX179 DEPART SIN 23:05 ARRIVE ZRH 06:10+1 Commences: 12th May 2013, Booking … [Read more...]
Uhoh. The Sale of BMI Regional is taking a little longer than some like….
Well, firstly we have a name at last for the buyers of BMI Regional - Granite Aviation according to Flight International. And there's a bit of a snag in the sale due the company taking over as Granite is an investment group - not an airline and thus has no airline infrastructure in place. This means things like lack of support for planes is currently lacking. An agreement … [Read more...]
Swiss replaces BMI on BSL-LON Route, Returns to LCY
Well it seems the leases of British Midland International planes doing turns for Lufthansa group airlines is beginning to draw to a close. Swiss have announced they are going to be switching from BMI's Aircraft to Brussels Airlines AvroJets. Consequently, the Basel<>London Heathrow route will be killed off, and replaced with a Basel <> London City Airport route. … [Read more...]
BMI and IAG – Announcement due tomorrow.
According to Bloomberg, it is closing in on game over for British Midland International and International Airlines Group (owner of British Airways). It is understood according to Bloomberg that final negotiations of the deal are under way, and a memorandum of understanding has been signed, with the announcement due tomorrow when IAG declares its earnings tomorrow. If … [Read more...]
Airplan p0rn – Swiss International Airlines BAe 146/Avro 100.
It's Sunday again, so it must be time for some more airplane p0rn. This week, it's another Swiss Avro 100/BAe 146 queued up for takeoff at Zurich Airport More of course next week! … [Read more...]
What does it take to run a flight from ZRH to JFK?
For those of us who are interested in such things like what is going through and what happens when you get in that metal tube and head into the sky NZZ Folio has an excellent article http://www.nzzfolio.ch/www/d80bd71b-b264-4db4-afd0-277884b93470/showarticle/a30b6288-f01e-405a-9663-21d6d8a28d50.aspx Highly worth a read. … [Read more...]
Paris Air Show Update Day 3
Sorry - no fancy graphic today as it's been a day from hell (and when I find the ****** who wrote the Conflicker virus, I will rip them to bits - then leave them to the rest of the office) Order update Royal Air Maroc - 6 ATR's of sorts. IFE Update - Panasonic have been mentioning that their iPod merging equipment is going nicely... on the following airlines: Singapore, … [Read more...]
