It seems Glen Tilton soul aim is to merge United off with someone right now – be it US Airways or Continental to create a giant airline and create “the s word”.
This time United is tarting off with Continental it seems.
It’s being reported by Marketwatch that this is looking positive and Yahoo that a stock exchange ratio has been agreed – and it’s now a matter of discussion between the airline boards.
CNN Has coverage too.
Of course – neither airline has commented.
We’ll see – Tiltons bride has yet to go to the alter no matter how many times she’s been pushed there….
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Tags: United Airlines
Good news everyone! The pictures from the trip report are now live at Photoblog.
They have been split down into inconvenience you further.
The trip report is about 3/4 written, and should be live… Sunday or Monday….
Enjoy!
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Tags: United Airlines
This little video care of ITO World shows what happened when….
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11205494&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1
Airspace Rebooted from ItoWorld on Vimeo.
Will this be the last volcano ash post? Hopefully for some time….
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Ever feel like going around in circles? Well here we go again with Unite and BA.
As negotiations have once again failed to reach positive agreement for both sides, the Unite/BASSA Union said it will “strongly recommend” that its members reject the latest offer from the airline.
Of course, if the cabin crew reject the offer, it’s down the road to strike action – although Unite said it would not announce strike dates “at this stage”.
BA is keeping its cards to its chest to the public, and for now has not released its latest offer publicly.
Of course, there is the usual Trade Union vs Management bitchfight going on, which 1) looks messy and 2) gives a really poor impression of the company.
BA of course hardly needs this strike thanks the the last two strikes, and the Volcano ash incident.
Lets hope both side see sense and settle this… otherwise the BA Staff could find themselves all out of a job…
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It never seems to get better for JAL. In addition to the pain they’ve gone through, they’ve also taken an axe to some more of their international pairs (15 more, taking it to 28), and suspending 30 (taking it to 50) domestic pairs to reduce its network and costs, along with 11 oversees offices and 8 domestic bases
JAL is attempting to push the airline back to profitability within a year, rather than the stated 3.
Meanwhile to shave more costs, JAL will outsource it’s maintenance, putting more workers on the line – however in request to retire staff, it seems people want to jump ship with 3700 people requesting earlier retirement – 1000 more than actually needed.
Lets hope JAL can turn this around. However, one year can be a very short amount of time….
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… Sorry … I’ve been focused on travelling and working out where the hell I went wrong on this run.
But there’s news abound, so I’ll be looking at the issues over the next few days, as well as the inevitable trip report which is coming soon.
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It’s Sunday again, so it must be time for some airplane p0rn.
Today, its the boring side of big planes – Cargo planes – a Jade Cargo Boeing 747-400ERF loading up at Frankfurt am Main Airport.
More airplane p0rn next week and more stuff about the trip later.
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Tags: Airplane Art, airplane p0rn
And with all due respect, some of it was good, some of it was painful… and a lot of it inlovled vodka.
More later!
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Greetings from the Aviance lounge. Flights are on time – so anything is possible!
More from FRA… If I find a wifi spot…
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Really? I mean Really? O’Leary and Ryanair admit to a mistake?
Apparently so!
In a climbdown over yesterdays position to limit the liablity to the cost of the ticket, Ryanair will now cover all “reasonable” expenses.
In the usual tirade, The Odious Little Man described EU261 (the rules for passenger care) as flawed
In quotes…
“The events of the last seven days, under which Europe’s airlines were prevented from flying by the closure of European airspace, highlight how absurd and discriminatory the EU261 regulations are towards Europe’s airlines,”
Diddums. That’s why they’re there!
“While competitor ferry, coach and train operators are obliged to reimburse passengers’ reasonable expenses, this reimbursement is limited to the ticket price paid to those operators.
“Yet the airlines are required by regulation to meet potentially unlimited expenses, in circumstances where there has been a catastrophic closure of European airspace over the past seven days, as EU governments and regulators wrongly applied a blanket ban on flights over European airspace.
Well you could always set up RyanFerries if you want those rules.
“We will continue to work through the European Low Fares Airlines Association and other industry bodies to persuade the European Commission and the European Parliament to alter this regulation to put this reasonable limit on these reimbursement claims.”
Temper temper mon Capitan! The rules whilst may not be ideal are there to protect the consumer in situations that call for it.
This is an “exceptional” situation, and it’s most likely there will be EU Compensation paid out. Like any expense – keep it reasonable and don’t take the peanut – and you’ll get compensated.
However this will put EC261 under pressure in the future…
BBC News
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Tags: Ryanair
