Some time ago I wrote about changes to the London City to New York service from BA. Specifically that the late flight BA3 was losing pre-clearance of US Immigration during the refueling stop in Shannon. This is confirmed by BA, but what I had missed is that BA1, the earlier departure is being re-timed to…
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Yearly Archives for 2012.
BAA Worldpoints – Only @ LHR after 31 Dec 12
BAA – who have been forced to sell a number of their airports – are changing the way their members earn points toward shopping vouchers – and a number of other products. From 1 January 2013 you will no longer be able to collect points at Southampton, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Stansted. Heathrow airport will be…
London City – Part 2 – Ramp Control – a tale of skis and teams
Whilst it was still dark we went to a small room at the end of the runway, past doors for crew briefings, to one of the places that must impact on almost everyone that works at the airport or travels there – Ramp Control. United Airlines sometimes still has Channel 9 on its planes where…
Win a Seat with Randy Petersen Giveaway…to the Star Alliance MegaDo – CLOSED
The bloggers at Boarding Area are taking part in a giveaway for two people to accompany Randy on the next Star MegaDo in the USA in early November. (Details of the events planned are here.) Quantity and Odds: Two (2) single seat Giveaways on the StarMegaDO4: The seat giveaway gift from Randy Petersen consists of…
London City – Part 1 – Ops Team – waking up a sleeping giant!
It was still dark as Harish, from the web site team and who was my escort for the morning, kitted me out in a very fetching Hi-Viz jacket, and obtained the pass I would need to let me airside – escorted of course. The helpful man at the Information desk exchanged my passport for my…
United IT systems – at it again – check your balances….
I woke up this morning to find that United had deducted just over 8,000 status miles (PQM – Premier Qualifying Miles as United calls them), from my account. What? Well, checking my statement online reveals that my recent LAX-LHR with Air New Zealand, in Business Class has been designated as no longer earning PQM. The…
It’s 5am, and I’m at London City, but not going anywhere !!!
I’m up this morning at 03:39 ready for the taxi to come and take me to the airport. Nothing new you might say, and normally you’d be correct. However, today I’m not flying anywhere! Rather, I have been offered the chance of a behind-the-scenes view of how an airport wakes up to the world, gets…
Death throes of British Midland Diamond Club
Email from British Midland today announcing the closure – pretty much – of Diamond Club: During the past few months, we have been in contact with you regarding a number of changes that have been made to the Diamond Club, following the sale of bmi to IAG, the owner of British Airways. Following a detailed…
Hilton Newport – Norovirus
The BBC is reporting that upwards of 70 people have been taken ill following visiting the Hilton Newport, Wales. An investigation is being carried out after 51 guests and 23 staff were affected by a viral infection, which is probably norovirus, at the Hilton Hotel in Langstone. They started to become ill last Tuesday and…
United co-pays costs non-US members real cash
Some time ago I wrote about how United disadvantages International Members – for example by denying us the chance to search for upgrade space at the time by booking. If your country is set to anything apart from US, then you get an error message. The post is linked above. The latest twist is…
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