A quick note about what airlines are doing if you have a flight scheduled to Mumbai:
US carriers have resumed flights to Mumbai, but all are offering to re-accomodate if you have a flight in the next week or so.
Continental:  If you have travel between now and December 2nd, you can change the flight to depart [...]

British Airways is offering Club World tickets to London from New York for just $1996 round trip (plus about $250 in various taxes) if you book by December 1st for travel through March 22. Though it’s twice the price, the $3996 sale they’re offering on First Class tickets is actually a bigger deal, as [...]

British leisure tour (and airline) operator XL Leisure shut down, stranding about 85,000 people around the world (about 10,000 people were flying their airline, XL Airways).
Bookmaker Paddy Power had put out a list on Wednesday of airlines it thought would shut down, and XL wasn’t on the list - but bettors put so much money [...]

Two British women on an XL Airways flight from Kos, Greece, to Manchester were arrested after they attacked a flight attendant with a vodka bottle and tried to open the cabin door while screaming, “I need some fresh air.”  The two were arrested (to the cheers of other passengers) when their plane was diverted to [...]

Bollywood film legend Amitabh Bachchan has learned the hard way about British Airways’ miserable record losing bags (it misplaces 23 bags for every 1000 passengers):  The actor says that his bags were lost on a recent trip with his family to Toronto, marking the 18th time the airline has lost his luggage. There really isn’t [...]

British Airways is having a great sale on their Club World business class from New York to London: They’re calling it a $1776 round trip fare, but with taxes and whatnot, it’ll cost you $2035 - quite a bargain for a lie-flat seat. Other airlines have a similar deal in the summer months, [...]

4 all-business class airlines launched service to Europe in the past 3 years, and now all 4 are gone:  British Airways’ Openskies will purchase L’Avion for about $100 million or so, though that number includes about $50 million in cash L’Avion has on hand.  Openskies gets leases for a couple of 757s (which are difficult [...]

I’m back from my quick trip on OpenSkies and I thought I’d post a very quick review:
The airline, which is a corporate cousin to British Airways (so you can get BA miles), flies 757s outfitted with 82 seats from New York to Paris (Orly). The plane is divided into Economy (nothing special there), Prem+ [...]

If you’re already registered with FlyerTalk (it’s too late if you’re not), they are giving away 2 round trip business class tickets on OpenSkies, the new mostly-business-class airline from British Airways.  The details are here, but the basics are you leave from New York on their inaugural flight on June 19 and return June 22.  [...]

A man who was part of a gang that hijacked an Afghani airplane in 2000 is now working as a janitor at Heathrow airport.  Nazamuddin Mohammidy was one of 9 people who hijacked an Ariana Airlines 727 in Afghanistan and demanded to be flown to England, which they were.  Long story short, the hijackers were [...]