The Daily Mail reports that UKBA is quietly killing off IRIS claiming that it too slow. My experience is that IRIS may not be as fast as a swipe of a passport, it is certainly a hundred times faster to get in the IRIS queue than in the usual UKBA massive queues at Heathrow for…
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Yearly Archives for 2012.
25% discount on BA Club Europe to Eastern Europe – Exec Club members – book this weekend only!
BA are offering their Exec Club members a discount of 25% off Club Europe flights from Fly Club Europe (business class) from London Gatwick to Tirana or Pristina. From London Heathrow the offer is valid on flights to Warsaw, Prague, Sofia, Budapest, Bucharest, Kiev and St Petersburg. Voucher “UK-EASTCE12” Booking period: 10 February – 13 February 2012 Travel…
BA explains ‘Evicted by Emin’ – her deal guarantees special treatment!
As some of you may know my seat was moved between check-in and boarding to allow Tracey Emin to have two seats on a busy flight from London to New York. My initial report is here. After a few email exchanges with BA, when they stuck to the position that ‘we can move your seat…
Hyatt Summerfield Suites becomes a Hyatt House – LAX/El Segundo
I have been a periodic stayer at the Hyatt Summerfield Suites near LAX. They do not operate a shuttle bus to LAX, but a short journey on the Green Connections bus, and a three stop journey Green Line, get you to the hotel. It is only a 5 minute walk to the hotel from the…
Back to a Freezing Blighty
After a few hours on BA4 from JFK to London City: As we came over Wales there was snow on the hills: And we flew in to City Airport very close to my house – top left of image:
Did you get your MfB Swag at the MegaDO?
Hyatt Place – new hot morning items seen in Orlando
I stayed at the Hyatt Place Orlando (near Universal Studios) for the past two nights. The location is excellent for Universal, in fact you could walk. (The hotel runs two shuttles in the morning and two in the afternoon). I did find that the Hyatt Place breakfast now features hot items – which do not…
oneworld MEGADO 2012 – last day – Hotel/Check-in/Plane(s) – A travellers typical day (not!)
The last Day of the MegaDO was neatly split between three activities – a tour of the Hyatt, a visit to the new and very exclusive check-in for American’s best passengers at LAX and a visit to the LAX Museum and on board two aircraft. Tour of Hyatt Century Plaza A much larger group than…
More pics from Boeing 737 plant
I was asked yesterday whether I could post the balance of my pictures from the B737 production line as most MegaDO’ers could not take pictures. I cannot but say sorry for some of the quality!
The delAAy that became a pAArty! – oneworld MEGADO 2012 – Seattle to LAX
After arriving at Sea-Tac airport we were ushered up to a special TSA checkpoint for processing. This was the most amazing experience – helpful, friendly, even jokey TSA agents help us through their process. One held my bin whilst I got myself ready for X-ray (no back scatter machines here!). Although I know a couple…
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