Tips, Tricks, and Travel with Lucky
The New York Times reports:
American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia Airlines said Thursday that they had signed a joint business agreement for flights between the United States and Europe.
The airlines said they planned to apply for antitrust approval from the United States Department of Transportation and would notify European Union authorities. The step comes a [...]
Posted on August 14th, 2008 by lucky
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It appears as if we have our first airborne trip report of the Emirates A380, at least as far as I know. While it doesn’t have the “wow” factor that SQ had at first, it’s nice to see the bird in a different configuration, and I sure as heck wouldn’t mind flying up front on [...]
Posted on August 6th, 2008 by lucky
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We finally got some more details about the Emirates A380 yesterday, and my feelings are pretty mixed.
First, let’s get some links out of the way:
Great plane overview with pictures
Pictures of the long awaited showers in first class
More interior pictures
Hmmm, not sure what to think anymore. It certainly doesn’t seem to have the “wow!” factor that [...]
Posted on July 29th, 2008 by lucky
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View from the Wing posted about Alaska Airlines discontinuing the US to Australia via Europe and Asia on BA award starting August 31. It now appears like the fate of Air France awards from the US to Asia are the same for Mileage Plan members, as that option is also being discontinued starting August 31.
While [...]
Posted on July 16th, 2008 by lucky
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PARIS (Reuters) - British Airways (BAY.L: Quote, Profile, Research) has agreed to buy small French business airline l’Avion for 68 million euros (52 million pounds) and it will become part of its new OpenSkies unit, they said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
(full article)
Jared from Online Travel Review says:
Openskies gets leases for a couple of [...]
Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by lucky
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I got an email from Qantas last night which is pretty exciting:
The new Qantas A380 is now on sale with the first passenger flight from Melbourne to Los Angeles taking off on 20 October 2008.
The Qantas A380 is on sale for selected flights from Sydney and Melbourne to Los Angeles for travel from late October [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2008 by lucky
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From alaskaair.com:
Effective July 1, 2008:
Passengers may check their first bag free of charge. A second bag may be checked for $25. Each bag can be a maximum of 62 linear inches (length + width + height) and may weigh up to 50 pounds. Additional fees apply if there are 3 or more bags being checked, [...]
Posted on June 7th, 2008 by lucky
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Per The Flying Critic, yet another one of the all business class transatlantic airlines, Silverjet, has ceased operations. I’ve predicted all three would fail since day one (especially Maxjet), and the main reason I thought so was because they never formed any real alliances with other carriers.
While I’ve heard excellent reviews of EOS and Silverjet, and even [...]
Posted on May 30th, 2008 by lucky
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I figured I’d make a consolidated post with some of the stories/news I’ve seen in the industry this week.
Many airlines are raising the price for liquor/food onboard. AirTran is raising the price of alcoholic beverages by a dollar to $6. Starting June 1, United is raising the price of their “fresh food” items to $7, [...]
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by lucky
Filed under: American, Delta, JetBlue, Northwest, Other Airlines, United | 2 Comments »
Swiss just revealed their new business class product on a dedicated webpage which does a good job of showing all of the features. It’s very nice, and looks like it’s the same design as the new DL BusinessElite, a Thompson Solutions seat. The seat looks basically flat to me (and they do say it’s horizontal), so [...]
Posted on May 21st, 2008 by lucky
Filed under: Other Airlines | 1 Comment »
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