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BA ‘Advent Calendar’ Premium cabin sale…many matching (JFK-£1293)

Book by 5 December. Travel by 11 January 2013. London to JFK, for £1293, with availability on the LCY service and some AA Codeshare flights. BA Exec Club Earnings – 420 Tier Points earned if you use LCY service, 280 otherwise. Toronto £1474 Johannesburg £2119 Seoul £1991   Same fares found on Air Canada, Air…

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A surreal day with United

I flew yesterday from San Juan, through Newark to Chicago and had something of a weird day. San Juan to Newark Boarding for the flight was fine, although it does have a very tight turnaround time so everything seemed a little rushed and we arrived at departure time just as the last person sat down.…

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If Lufthansa cancels your flight – DON’T call the number in the text message

Lufthansa is having a strike by its flight attendants and tomorrow, 7 September will be the most disrupted day. It is also the day that I was supposed to fly from Copenhagen, via Frankfurt to San Francisco and Honolulu. The FRA-SFO was on an A380 which I was have never taken on a long flight and so wanted to check out. Knowing that there have been problems for a week or so, I added my mobile number to my LH booking. Just before bed I checked the LH web site and my flight wasn’t on the list of cancellations. In fact, at that point the list was suspiciously short. So when an hour later I got this text I was not suprised: So thinking the number supplied might be a special number for cancellations I had my phone dial the number. “This is neither a landline nor mobile number and you will be charged at £3.50 per minute” . So US$5 per…

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How do you wash an 777?

‘Carefully’ is the proper answer. I was at the United Club at Honolulu last week – and that has to win the nomination for the least friendly United Club staff anywhere in the system – and noticed out the window that several men with mops appear to have surrounded a 777.  

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